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A martial art is something special for the individual and should be a vital component in anyone seeking perfection of character and a clearer mind.
“ The search for linkages between martial arts training and the liberal arts holds promise for educators.
The arts of budo, taught as they were originally intended
-as Vehicles for personal growth and spiritual enlightenment –
Provide a formidable exemplar of education for human excellence at it’s purest.”
Don Levine 1931 -2015
Sociologist and former Dean of the University of Chicago, and proponent of martial arts in liberal education. (4th Dan Aikido)
Yamanashi Gakuin University, Japan, June 2017.
Darren Ashmore (Shogun) ceremoniously presents Shogun Awards on behalf of Ronnie Watt OBE ORS (9th dan) to Michael Laktorin and William Reed.
© Ronnie Watt OBE ORS - 2014
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Cameroon Population: 24,360,803
French Cameroon became independent in 1960 as the Republic of Cameroon. The following year the southern portion of neighboring British Cameroon voted to merge with the new country to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. In 1972, a new constitution replaced the federation with a unitary state, the United Republic of Cameroon. The country has generally enjoyed stability, which has enabled the development of agriculture, roads, and railways, as well as a petroleum industry. Despite slow movement toward democratic reform, political power remains firmly in the hands of President Paul BIYA.
Sometimes referred to as the hinge of Africa; throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano
Location: Central Africa, bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria
Geographic coordinates: 6 00 N, 12 00 E
Land Boundaries: total: 5,018 km border countries (6): Central African Republic 901 km, Chad 1,116 km, Republic of the Congo 494 km, Equatorial Guinea 183 km, Gabon 349 km, Nigeria 1,975 km
Climate: varies with terrain, from tropical along coast to semiarid and hot in north
Terrain: diverse, with coastal plain in southwest, dissected plateau in center, mountains in west, plains in north
Natural resources: petroleum, bauxite, iron ore, timber, hydropower
Land use: agricultural land: 20.6% arable land 13.1%; permanent crops 3.3%; permanent pasture 4.2% forest: 41.7%
Natural hazards: volcanic activity with periodic releases of poisonous gases from Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun volcanoes volcanism: Mt. Cameroon (elev. 4,095 m), which last erupted in 2000, is the most frequently active volcano in West Africa; lakes in Oku volcanic field have released fatal levels of gas on occasion, killing some 1,700 people in 1986
Current Environment Issues: waterborne diseases are prevalent; deforestation; overgrazing; desertification; poaching; overfishing
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
Nationality: noun: Cameroonian(s)
adjective: Cameroonian
Ethnic groups: Cameroon Highlanders 31%, Equatorial Bantu 19%, Kirdi 11%, Fulani 10%, Northwestern Bantu 8%, Eastern Nigritic 7%, other African 13%, non-African less than 1%
Languages: 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official)
Religions: Catholic 38.4%, Protestant 26.3%, other Christian 4.5%, Muslim 20.9%, animist 5.6%, other 1%, non-believer 3.2% (2005 est.)
Population: 24,360,803 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2016 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 42.6% (male 5,228,047/female 5,149,228)
rate of urbanization: 3.6% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major urban areas - population: YAOUNDE (capital) 3.066 million; Douala 2.943 million (2015)
Total fertility rate: 4.7 children born/woman (2016 est.)
Education expenditures: 3% of GDP (2013)
Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Cameroon
conventional short form: Cameroon
local long form: Republique du Cameroun/Republic of Cameroon
local short form: Cameroun/Cameroon
former: French Cameroon, British Cameroon, Federal Republic of Cameroon, United Republic of Cameroon
etymology: in the 15th century, Portuguese explorers named the area near the mouth of the Wouri River the Rio dos Camaroes (River of Prawns) after the abundant shrimp in the water; over time the designation became Cameroon in English; this is the only instance where a country is named afer a crustacean
Capital: name: Yaounde
Administrative divisions: 10 regions (regions, singular - region); Adamaoua, Centre, East (Est), Far North (Extreme-Nord), Littoral, North (Nord), North-West (Nord-Ouest), West (Ouest), South (Sud), South-West (Sud-Ouest)
Independence: 1 January 1960 (from French-administered UN trusteeship)
National holiday: State Unification Day (National Day), 20 May (1972)
Constitution: several previous; latest effective 18 January 1996; amended 2008 (2016)
Legal system: mixed legal system of English common law, French civil law, and customary law
Executive branch: chief of state: President Paul BIYA (since 6 November 1982)
head of government: Prime Minister Philemon YANG (since 30 June 2009)
cabinet: Cabinet proposed by the prime minister, appointed by the president elections/appointments: president directly elected by simple majority popular vote for a 7-year term (no term limits); election last held on 9 October 2011 (next to be held in October 2018); prime minister appointed by the president
election results: Paul BIYA reelected president; percent of vote - Paul BIYA (CPDM) 78.0%, John FRU NDI (SDF) 10.7%, Garga Haman ADJI 3.2%, other 8.1%
Legislative branch: description: bicameral Parliament or Parlement consists of the Senate or Senat (100 seats; 70 members indirectly elected by regional councils and 30 appointed by the president; members serve 5-year terms) and the National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (180 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by simple majority vote to serve 5-year terms); note - the 100-member Senate was formed at the time of the April 2013 election
elections: Senate last held on 14 April 2013 (next to be held in 2018); National Assembly last held on 30 September 2013 (next to be held in 2018)
election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - CPDM 56, SDF 14; National Assembly - percent of vote by party - CPDM 73.1%, SDF 17.6%, UNDP 6.1%, UDC 2.5%, other 0.7%; seats by party - CPDM 148, SDF 18, UNDP 5, UDC 4, UPC 3, other 2
Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Court of Cameroon (consists of 9 titular and 6 surrogate judges and organized into judicial, administrative, and audit chambers); Constitutional Council (consists of 11 members) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court judges appointed by the president with the advice of the Higher Judicial Council of Cameroon, a body chaired by the president and includes the minister of justice, selected magistrates, and representatives of the National Assembly; judge term NA; Constitutional Council members appointed by the president for single 9-year terms
subordinate courts: Parliamentary Court of Justice (jurisdiction limited to cases involving the president and prime minister); appellate and first instance courts; circuit and magistrate's courts
Political parties and leaders: Cameroon People's Democratic Movement or CPDM [Paul BIYA] Cameroon People's Party or CPP [Edith Kah WALLA] Cameroon Renaissance Movement or MRC [Maurice KAMTO] Cameroonian Democratic Union or UDC [Adamou Ndam NJOYA] Movement for the Defense of the Republic or MDR [Dakole DAISSALA] Movement for the Liberation and Development of Cameroon or MLDC [Marcel YONDO] National Union for Democracy and Progress or UNDP [Maigari BELLO BOUBA] Progressive Movement or MP [Jean-Jacques EKINDI] Social Democratic Front or SDF [John FRU NDI] Union of Peoples of Cameroon or UPC [Provisionary Management Bureau]
Political pressure groups and leaders: Network of Human Rights Defenders in Central Africa or REDHAC [Maximilliene Ngo MBE] Tribunal 53 [Patrice NGANANG]
International organization participation: ACP, AfDB, AU, BDEAC, C, CEMAC, EITI (compliant country), FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MONUSCO, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): lion; national colors: green, red, yellow
National anthem: name: "O Cameroun, Berceau de nos Ancetres" (O Cameroon, Cradle of Our Forefathers)
lyrics/music: Rene Djam AFAME, Samuel Minkio BAMBA, Moise Nyatte NKO'O [French], Benard Nsokika FONLON [English]/Rene Djam AFAME
note: adopted 1957; Cameroon's anthem, also known as "Chant de Ralliement" (The Rallying Song), has been used unofficially since 1948 and officially adopted in 1957; the anthem has French and English versions whose lyrics differ
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Essomba ETOUNDI (since 27 June 2016)
chancery: 2349 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008; current temporary address - 3400 International Drive NW, Washington, DC 20008
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Michael Stephen HOZA (since 19 September 2014)
embassy: Avenue Rosa Parks, Yaounde
mailing address: P.O. Box 817, Yaounde; pouch: American Embassy, US Department of State, Washington, DC 20521-2520
telephone: [237] 22220 1500; Consular: [237] 22220 1603
FAX: [237] 22220 1500 Ext. 4531; Consular FAX: [237] 22220 1752 branch office(s): Douala
Modest oil resources and favorable agricultural conditions provide Cameroon with one of the best-endowed primary commodity economies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Oil remains Cameroon’s main export commodity, and despite falling global oil prices, still accounts for nearly 40% of export earnings. Cameroon’s economy suffers from factors that often impact underdeveloped countries, such as stagnant per capita income, a relatively inequitable distribution of income, a top-heavy civil service, endemic corruption, continuing inefficiencies of a large parastatal system in key sectors, and a generally unfavorable climate for business enterprise. Since 1990, the government has embarked on various IMF and World Bank programs designed to spur business investment, increase efficiency in agriculture, improve trade, and recapitalize the nation's banks. The IMF continues to press for economic reforms, including increased budget transparency, privatization, and poverty reduction programs. The Government of Cameroon provides subsidies for electricity, food, and fuel that have strained the federal budget and diverted funds from education, healthcare, and infrastructure projects, especially in 2015, as low oil prices have led to lower revenues. Cameroon devotes significant resources to several large infrastructure projects currently under construction, including a deep sea port in Kribi and the Lom Pangar Hydropower Project. Cameroon’s energy sector continues to diversify, recently opening a natural gas powered electricity generating plant. Cameroon continues to seek foreign investment to improve its inadequate infrastructure, create jobs, and improve its economic footprint, but its unfavorable business environment remains a significant deterrent to foreign investment.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (purchasing power parity): $77.24 billion (2016 est.) $73.7 billion (2015 est.) $69.66 billion (2014 est.)
Agriculture - products: coffee, cocoa, cotton, rubber, bananas, oilseed, grains, cassava (manioc, tapioca); livestock; timber
Industries: petroleum production and refining, aluminum production, food processing, light consumer goods, textiles, lumber, ship repair
Unemployment rate: 30% (2001 est.)
Budget: revenues: $4.765 billion
expenditures: $6.497 billion (2016 est.)
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
Exports: $5.559 billion (2016 est.) $5.756 billion (2015 est.)
Exports - commodities: crude oil and petroleum products, lumber, cocoa beans, aluminum, coffee, cotton
Exports - partners: China 16.7%, India 15.7%, Spain 6.2%, Belgium 6.1%, France 6.1%, Portugal 5.6%, Netherlands 5%, Italy 5% (2015)
Imports: $6.63 billion (2016 est.) $6.5 billion (2015 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery, electrical equipment, transport equipment, fuel, food
Imports - partners: China 27.9%, Nigeria 13.9%, France 10.9%, Belgium 4.1% (2015)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $2.416 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $2.714 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Debt - external: $7.375 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $6.3 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $230 million (31 December 2012 est.)
Exchange rates: Cooperation Financiere en Afrique Centrale francs (XAF) per dollar - 605.7 (2016 est.) 591.45 (2015 est.) 591.45 (2014 est.) 494.42 (2013 est.) 510.53 (2012 est.)
Refined petroleum products - imports: 4,134 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 6.5 million Mt (2013 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: system includes cable, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter; Camtel, the monopoly provider of fixed-line service, provides connections for only about 4 per 100 persons; equipment is old and outdated, and connections with many parts of the count
domestic: mobile-cellular usage, in part a reflection of the poor condition and general inadequacy of the fixed-line network, has increased sharply, reaching a subscribership base of 70 per 100 persons
international: country code - 237; landing point for the SAT-3/WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015)
Broadcast media: government maintains tight control over broadcast media; state-owned Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV), broadcasting on both a TV and radio network, was the only officially recognized and fully licensed broadcaster until August 2007, when the government fi (2007)
Internet country code: .cm
Pipelines: gas 53 km; liquid petroleum gas 5 km; oil 1,107 km; water 35 km (2013)
Railways: total 987 km
narrow gauge: 987 km 1.000-m gauge
note: railway connections generally efficient but limited; rail lines connect major cities of Douala, Yaounde, Ngaoundere, and Garoua; passenger and freight service provided by CAMRAIL (2014)
unpaved: 47,242 km
note: there are 28,857 km of national roads (2011)
Waterways: (major rivers in the south, such as the Wouri and the Sanaga, are largely non-navigable; in the north, the Benue, which connects through Nigeria to the Niger River, is navigable in the rainy season only to the port of Garoua) (2010)
river port(s): Douala (Wouri); Garoua (Benoue) oil terminal(s): Limboh Terminal
Military branches: Cameroon Armed Forces (Forces Armees Camerounaises, FAC): Army (L'Armee de Terre), Navy (Marine Nationale Republique (MNR), includes naval infantry), Air Force (Armee de l'Air du Cameroun, AAC), Rapid Intervention Brigade, Fire Fighter Corps, Gendarmerie (2015)
Military service age and obligation: 18-23 years of age for male and female voluntary military service; no conscription; high school graduation required; service obligation 4 years; periodic government calls for volunteers (2012)
Military expenditures: 1.42% of GDP (2012) 1.37% of GDP (2011) 1.42% of GDP (2010)
Disputes - International: Joint Border Commission with Nigeria reviewed 2002 ICJ ruling on the entire boundary and bilaterally resolved differences, including June 2006 Greentree Agreement that immediately ceded sovereignty of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon with a full phase-out of Nigerian control and patriation of residents in 2008; Cameroon and Nigeria agreed on maritime delimitation in March 2008; sovereignty dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River; only Nigeria and Cameroon have heeded the Lake Chad Commission's admonition to ratify the delimitation treaty, which also includes the Chad-Niger and Niger-Nigeria boundaries
Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 259,145 (Central African Republic); 87,112 (Nigeria) (2017) IDPs: 198,889 (2016)
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[Sir Hugh Casson, architect and writer.] Three Autograph Letters (one 'Hugh Casson', one 'Hugh', the other unsigned) to playwright Christopher Fry, intimate letters, two with crude drawings ('The Toft' and an owl).
Sir Hugh Casson [Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson] (1910-1999), architect, interior designer, artist and writer [Christopher Fry (1907-2005), playwright]
Two on his letterhead, 6 Hereford Mansions, Hereford Road, London W2. All undated (one circa 1995).
All three in good condition, and written in a hurried, untidy hand. The first two on letterheads, the third on the back of a card. ONE: To 'Christopher!' 1p, landscape 12mo. Unsigned. With crude humorous drawing of Fry's house 'THE TOFT' (in East Dene, Sussex) on the crest of a hill, with a line of 'Fry Pilgrims' (depicted as dots) wending their way to it. He thanks him for his 'lovely birthday poem A great honour & pleasure to receive'. Conclusion of letter illegible. TWO: Signed 'Hugh Casson'. 1p, landscape 12mo. Begins: 'So sorry to hear from C. C.
CASSON
['Max Wall' [Maxwell George Lorimer), comedian and actor.] Autograph Signature: 'Good luck to Enid! | Max Wall | 1951'.
'Max Wall' [Maxwell George Lorimer (1908-1990)], comedian and actor in music hall, theatre, film and television
No place. 1951.
On one side of 8 x 13.5 cm leaf of cream paper. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with slight creasing to one corner. A good, firm underlined signature. Reads: 'Good luck to Enid! | Max Wall | 1951'. On the reverse is the autograph of an unknown signatory: 'To Enid | [Sister? Lister?] [J?] Ferguson'.
LORIMER
[Lord Beaverbrook responds to Collin Brooks's appeal for a job.] Two telegrams ('Maxwell Beaverbrook' and 'Max'), one in reply to Brooks's appeal on loss of editorship of Truth, with copy letter from publisher Ronald Staples.
Lord Beaverbrook [Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook] (1879-1964), Fleet Street press baron [Collin Brooks, journalist and editor; Ronald Staples, publisher of the magazine 'Truth']
Four items from 1952, the other from 1950.
Five documents. The two telegrams are in fair condition, lightly aged and worn; the other items are in good condition. A photocopy of a typed page from Brooks's diary explains the context in entertaining fashion: '”Staggerer number one,” whispered Dick Swiveller over my shoulder this morning when on my office desk I found a letter from Ronald Staples giving me a twelve month's statutory notice of dismissal from the editorship of Truth.' He explains that the magazine is losing money, and criticises Staples's plans. 'However – here's a how-de-do!
[ Field Marshal William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt. ] Autograph Signature ('Harcourt') to a secretarial letter to 'Mr Simpson', soliciting his vote for Captain Sir Murray Maxwell's candidacy in the Westminster election.
Field Marshal William Harcourt (1743-1830), 3rd Earl Harcourt, army officer, Master of the Horse to Queen Charlotte, Colonel of the 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons [ Captain Sir Murray Maxwell ]
St. Leonard's. 10 June 1818.
1p., 4to. Bifolium. Addressed with postmarks, on reverse of second leaf, to 'Mr. Simpson, | Clothiere, | St. Martin's Lane | London.' In fair condition, on aged paper. Docketted with Harcourt's dates. The letter reads: 'Sir, | Captain Sir Murray Maxwell having signified his intention of offering himself as a Candidate for Westminster at the ensuing Election; I shall be much obliged to you if you will give him Your Vote upon that occasion.' In the 1818 general election Maxwell (1775-1831) was defeated by less than 400 votes, losing to Sir Samuel Romilly and Sir Francis Burdett.
[ The British Army in Egypt (Suez Canal), First World War. ] Three typed duplicated documents, including a typed four-page 'Disposition of Troops in the Canal Defences, 15th January, 1915.', and a list of 'British Force in Egypt in August, 1914.'
[ The British Army in Egypt and at the Suez Canal during the First World War; Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener [ Lord Kitchener ]; General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell [ General Maxwell ]]
Without place or date, but the quoted documents dating from 1914 and 1915. ]
Three documents, all in fair condition, lightly aged and worn, each of the total of six leaves with three (later?) punch holes to the inner margins of the leaves. On the same browned thin wove paper. The source of these items is uncertain, but they appear to date from the first decades of the twentieth century. ONE: 'Disposition of Troops in the Canal Defences, 15th January, 1915.' 4pp., folio. Beginning with: 'G.O.C., Canal Defences. - Major-General A. Wilson. | Chief Staff Officer, Canal Defences. - Br.-General A. H.
RONEO
[ Benchara Branford (see ODNB) annotations; book ] Branford's copy of Cargill Gilston Knott's 'Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait', heavily annotated by him, mostly with references to 'this genius' James Clerk Maxwell.
Benchara Branford [Benchara Bertrand Patrick Branford] (1867-1944), Scottish mathematician, Professor of Mathematics in the University of London [P.G.Tait; James Clerk Maxwell]
Book published in 1911 (Cambridge: at the University Press). Annotations dated by Branford between 1934 and 1943.
4to: x + 379 pp. Frontispiece and plates. Tight copy on aged paper, in worn binding. Annotated throughout, with the endpapers and almost every page of the first 146 in particular crammed with notes by Branford in pencil and pen. On the front free endpaper Branford writes 'Finished (fairly thoroughly) on Feb. 26th 1934', and on the title-page, 'B. B. Sep. 3d. 1943'. On the same page he has added to the title 'and many notes (additional to those in text) on his intimate & great friend James Clerk Maxwell [...] the notes being taken from his Life by Campbell & Garnett'.
AUTOCAT
BENCHARA
[ M. E. Braddon, Victorian novelist. ] Autograph Note Signed ('M. E Braddon') expressing thanks for a gift.
M. E. Braddon [ Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 'Mrs. John Maxwell' ] (1835-1915), Victorian novelist, author of 'Lady Audley's Secret'
On letterhead of Lichfield House, Richmond. 1 January 1878.
1p., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Reads: 'With Mary Maxwell's love & best wishes, & many thanks for the charmingly illustrated Xmas book of The Children in the Wood | M. E Braddon | January 1. 1878.'
BRADDON
[Lichfield House, Richmond upon Thames.] Nine indentures, deeds, and other property documents, including one signed by novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon and her son, another by her husband William Babbington Maxwell, and one by Sir Henry George Norris.
Lichfield House, Richmond upon Thames, owned by novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon [Mrs Maxwell] (1835-1915), Sir Henry George Norris (1865-1934), MP, Henry Lascelles (1690-1753), MP and slave owner
[Relating to Lichfield House, Sheen Road, Richmond upon Thames.] London; between 1914 and 1933.
Lascelles bought Lichfield House in 1729, and committed suicide there in 1753. The enormous success of Braddon's novels 'Lady Audley's Secret' (1862) and 'Aurora Floyd' (1863) allowed her to buy Lichfield House, where she too died. It was demolished in the 1930s. ONE: Manuscript indenture on vellum. 'Mrs. M. E. Maxwell to G. M. Maxwell Esq | Conveyance of freehold property known as "The Homestead" Sheen Road Richmond Surrey'. 10 June 1914. 4pp., 8vo, with covering page. Laid out in usual fashion, bound with green ribbon with tax stamps, Land Registry stamp, and two seals in red wax.
LASCELLES
[Lauren R. Stevens.] Autograph Letter Signed and Typed Letter Signed (both 'Lauren') to English literary critic A. Alvarez ('Al'), discussing his decision to leave Harvard and his first novel, 'The Double Axe', an inscribed copy of which is included.
Lauren R. Stevens (b.1938) [A. Alvarez [Al Alvarez] (b.1929), English literary critic; H. C. Baker [Herschel Clay Baker] (1914-1990), Professor of English Literature at Harvard University]
TLS: 430 W. Allen's Lane, Philadelphia 19, Pennsylvania. 5 October 1960. ALS: on his (cancelled) letterhead 1717 Cambridge Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. 31 January 1961. Book: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961.
TLS: 2pp., 12mo. In good condition. The letter begins: 'Dear Al: | Last Thursday morning, while sitting in a barbar chair, I asked myself a question which a number of people have been asking me recently, namely, What are you doing at Harvard? I couldn't come up with a very satisfactory answer, so I went to a friend's house on Cape Cod for the weekend. Monday I saw the head of the English Department at Harvard, H. C. Baker. He said, "Follow your star," which seemed to me a little romantic, but all the same good advice.
EVARTS
[Printed booklet.] A History of Lumsden's Battery C.S.A. Written by Dr. George Little and Mr. James R. Maxwell.
Dr. George Little and James R. Maxwell [Lumsden's Battery; R. E. Rhodes Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Tuskaloosa, Alabama; American Civil War]
Published by R. E. Rhodes Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Tuskaloosa, Alabama. [1905.]
70pp., 8vo, with additional four-page 'Insert' between pp.56-57. Frontispiece photograph of nine members of the battery in old age, with 'Rufus Jones or "Rube," T. A. Dearing's servant.' Stapled. In grey wraps with title also on front cover. Internally in fair condition, on lightly-aged and dog-eared paper, with staples slightly rusted; in worn wraps. Bookplate of Patrick C. Courtney on reverse of front wrap. Printed note on reverse of title-page: 'This History of Lumsden's Battery was written from memory in 1905 by Dr. Maxwell and Dr. Little, with the help of a diary kept by Dr. James T.
LUMSDEN'S
TUSKALOOSA
Typed Letter Signed ('Beaverbrook') from the press baron Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, proprietor of the Daily Express, to the London bookseller Charles J. Sawyer, regarding 'the United States Tariff Act'.
William Maxwell "Max" Aitken (1879-1964), 1st Baron Beaverbrook [Lord Beaverbrook], Anglo-Canadian press baron, proprietor of the Daily Express [Charles J. Sawyer, London bookseller]
On letterhead of Lord Beaverbrook's Office, 29 Bury Street, St James', SW1 [London]. 14 July 1930.
1p., 4to. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with strip from mount adhering at head of blank reverse. He thanks Sawyer for his letter: 'I am obliged to you for sending me the front page of the United States Tariff Act'. 'The Americans are out for their own prosperity all the time. I only wish our own Government would show the same propensity.' He addresses the letter to 'Chas. J. Sawyer, Esq., 12 & 13, Grafton Street, New Bond Street, W.1.
Typed Letter Signed ('Kilmuir') from the Lord Chancellor David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir [Lord Kilmuir], to the Labour peer Lord Chorley, in 'expansion' of his 'somewhat cryptic remarks' in the previous night's House of Lords debate.
David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe (1900-1967), 1st Earl of Kilmuir [Lord Kilmuir], Conservative Home Secretary (1951-4); Lord Chancellor (1954-62) [Robert Samuel Theodore Chorley, 1st Baron Chorley]
On House of Lords letterhead; 3 July 1956.
2pp., 4to. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. The first paragraph reads: 'In expansion of my somewhat cryptic remarks reported in col. 241 of the Official Report of last night's debate you may care to have the following note about the point which you raised.' There follow quotations relating to 'The summary offence [...] under subsection (1) of section 9 of the Vehicles (Excise) Act, 1949' and 'The indictable offence [...] under section 5 of the Perjury Act, 1911'. From the Chorley papers.
KILMUIR
Manuscript 'Blue Paper' certificate addressed to George, Earl of Leicester, proposing Edward Wedlake Brayley for election to the Society of Antiquaries of London, signed by Maxwell Garthshore, J. P. Malcolm, Rev. Mark Noble and Samuel Foart Simmon.
Maxwell Garthshore; James Peller Malcolm; Rev. Mark Noble; Samuel Foart Simmons, all four Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London [Edward Wedlake Brayley, English topographer]
[Undated, watermark 1806]
1p., foolscap 8vo. On wove paper watermarked 'G R | 1806'. Aged, and with fraying to extremities, with closed tears through three of the signatures, unobtrusively repaired on the reverse with archival tape. Presumably a draft or second copy, as the original must be among the papers of the Society of Antiquaries. The document reads: 'To the Right Hon. George Earl of Leicester, | President of the Society of Antiquaries. | My Lord, | We whose names are hereunto subscribed request leave to signify to your lordship that Edward-Wedlake [sic] Brayley, Esq.
ANTIQUARIES
BRAYLEY
F.S.A.
FOART
GARTHSHORE
WEDLAKE
Six manuscript bills and one letter from Edinburgh and Dumfries tradesmen, relating to the 1839 marriage in Buittle Parish of Janet, daughter of John Herries Maxwell of Munches, to William Maxwell of Carruchan.
John Herries Maxwell (1784-1843) of Munches, of Buittle Parish, Kirkcudbright [Descendant of friend of Burns; William Maxwell of Carruchan]
Edinburgh and Dumfries; 1839.
Janet Maxwell married William Maxwell in Buittle Parish on 3 September 1839, and died three years later. The nine items, in good condition on lightly-aged paper, provide a fascinating insight into the requisites and cost of an early Victorian Scottish middle-class wedding, from the wedding 'pelisse' to the 'bride's cake'. ONE. Covering packet with manuscript note by J. H. Maxwell reading 'Vouchers | My Daughters marriage - clothes jewellery pocket money &c | 3d Sep 1839 | £439. 5. 4'. TWO. Autograph itemised account by J. H. Maxwell. 12mo, 1 p.
BUITTLE
HERRIES
MUNCHES
[unopened Victorian 'penny dreadful'] No. 64 in 'The London Library', in illustrated yellow wraps: 'Sue Munday, The Guerrilla Spy [Guerilla Spy]'
[Henry C. Magruder ('Sue Munday') of Kentucky; The London Library; penny dreadfuls; Victorian railway fiction; American Civil War]
[The London Library. Office: 4, Shoe Lane. E.C.] London: J. & R. Maxwell; George Vickers. [1860s?]
12mo, 32 pp. In original yellow printed wraps, with engraving on front. Front wrap gives title as 'Guerilla [sic] Spy', with full title on p. 1. Unopened. Very good, with slight fraying to wrap and at foot of first leaf. American Civil War story, beginning in 1861. Back cover advertises 'Cheap New Edition of the London Library. In Penny Numbers, every Number a Complete Story, and every Number containing Thirty-two Pages of well-printed matter, in book size, folded into an Illustrated Wrapper.' Excessively scarce: no copy on COPAC or WorldCat.
DREADFUL
MAGRUDER
MUNDAY
YELLOWBACK
Autograph Letter Signed from the physician and writer John Aikin to the botanist Richard Pulteney.
John Aikin (1747-1822), English physician and writer, son of John Aikin (1730-1780), Scottish theologian, and brother of Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825) [Richard Pulteney (1730-1801), botanist]
19 January 1776; Warrington.
8vo, 2 pp. Bifolium. Thirty-five lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Second leaf addressed, with postmarks, to 'Dr. Pultenely | Blandford | Dorset', and docketed by Pulteney. Signed 'John Aikin'. He thanks him for 'the offer of assistance'. He only has 'one of the three books you mentioned, & should be very glad of the perusal of Anthony's apology, & Jones on Buxton baths'. The books willl be 'carefully returned, with my best acknowledgments to the gentleman who favours me with the loand of them'.
DISSENTERS
PULTENEY
Manuscript Letter, in a secretarial hand, signed by Evarts ('Wm M. Evarts'), to E. R. Robinson of the Union Club, New York City.
William M. Evarts [William Maxwell Evarts] (1818-1901), US Secretary of State, Attorney General and Senator from New York [Henry Arthur Bright (1830-1884) of Liverpool, English traveller in America]
12 November 1879; on letterhead of the Department of State, Washington.
12mo, 2 pp. Bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. He is sending 'some autograph letters, which I hope may not be without interest to your friend Mr. Henry Bright'. Bright, Hawthorne's closest English friend, toured America in 1852.
W.M.
Autograph Note Signed ('Geo W McCrary') to Evarts.
George Washington McCrary (1835-1890), United States Secretary of War, Iowa Republican Congressman and judge [William Maxwell Evarts (1818-1901), US Secretary of State]
16 December 1878. On letterhead of the War Department, Washington.
12mo, 1 p. Good, on ruled paper. A note of introduction for the bearer, Miss Ward [Genevieve Ward, actress]..
CONGRESSMAN
MCCRARY
Autograph Letter Signed ('Bill') to Astor ('Max'), on the death of his father Lord Beaverbrook.
William Waldorf Astor (1907-1966), 3rd Viscount Astor [Sir John William Maxwell Aitken (1910-1985), 2nd Baronet; Max Aitken
9 June 1964; on Cliveden House letterhead.
4to, 2 pp. Very good. Small ink tick at head of first page (not affecting text).
Autograph Letter Signed ('R. Bruce Lockhart') to 'Max', on the death of his father Lord Beaverbrook.
Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart [Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart] (1887-1970), Scottish diplomat and writer [William Maxwell Aitken (1879-1964), 1st Baron Beaverbrook; his son Max Aitken (1910-1985)]
10 June 1964; on letterhead of the Gyllyngdune Hotel Ltd., Falmouth.
12mo, 2 pp. Twenty-eight lines of text. Good, on lightly-creased paper. Lockhart's signature has been docketed in ink (by Aitken?) 'Sir Robert'. A letter of condolence on the death of Aitken's father. Reminisces about the 'moment I came into his life', a 'luncheon at Charkley' soon after the First World War: 'The only other guest was Augustus John. [...] as you know, I learnt much from him. Indeed, it was he who taught me how to write, and in his house I met numerous people whom, but for him, I should never have known.' He considers that Beaverbrook treated him 'nobly'.
Two Autograph Letters Signed to "[J. Arthur ?Hutton", [of the British Cotton Growing Association?]
Herbert Maxwell, author, politican and fisherman
Monreith, Whauphill, Wigtownshire, 13 Sept. and 4 Oct. 1927.
Total four pages, 8vo, dusted but text clear and complete. (Sept.) He is sorry to have missed him and has to go to Dumfries the following day "on Territorial Force business". He looks forward to luncheon during the subsequent week. "If you care to put a fly over Loch Elrig, pray do so, and tell Hannan you require the boat. There are good trout up to 3lb in the loch. | I hope you are not going to allow the Wye to be polutted. That would indeed be an inhuman outrage." (Oct.) He appreciates the three photograpsh Hutton has sent of the "House of Elrig.
Black and white original publicity photograph: signed, dated, and inscribed to 'Peggy'.
Max Wall [Maxwell George Lorimer] (1908-1990), English music-hall comedian and actor
Dimensions of paper 23 x 17 cm. White border of 0.25 cm. A little grubby and with slight silvering at base, but overall a very good impression. A striking head and shoulders shot, with a clean shaven young Wall, neatly dressed in evening wear with black bow tie, and wearing a white sailor's hat at an angle, staring straight at the camera, with glossy lips, eyebrows raised and deadpan expression. The words 'Max Wall' printed in bottom left-hand corner. The inscription reads 'To Peggy | Sincere good wishes | [signed] Max Wall | 1932'.
Two Autograph Letters Signed to 'Mr. Perry'[, Secretary?, Royal Society of Arts].
Maxwell Ashby Armfield
22 March and 2 April 1931; the first on letterhead '8 Roland Gardens, London, S.W.7', the second on letterhead of the Greenleaf Theatre
British stage designer (died 1971), painter, writer and lecturer. Both items one page, octavo, and very good, though lightly creased. Both signed 'Maxwell Armfield'. LETTER ONE (docketed and bearing R.S.A. stamp): He has read the lecture by 'Mr. Davis', 'with great interest [...] our opinions on the subject seem to be identical! I should like to meet him some time if he is an accessible sort of person. [...] a series of such lectures issued as pamphlets with attractive titles would do a great deal towards a better understanding of the problem'.
Science, Medicine and Technology
ARMFIELD
2 Typed Letters Signed and one Typed Letter Unsigned to Mary Delane, and a collection related material.
Robert Maxwell
1962 to 1964; Oxford and London.
Politician, publisher and one of the greatest crooks of the twentieth century (1923-91). The recipient, Mary Delane, is described as 'sometime woman's editor for The Times'. A collection of drafts and letters mainly relating to negotiations for the publication by Maxwell's Pergamon Press of a series of cookery books. A fine example of his Maxwell's questionable business practices. Mainly consisting of typed correspondence and draft replies, mostly in 8vo, some creased and torn but generally in good condition.
BETJEMAN
MAGDALEN
WAYNFLETE
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Portage 1985 - Third Section
In Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, we enjoyed a particularly authentic ride.
The locomotive was powered by real coal.
The Prairie Dog
Unless we visited during a time of year when it wasn't running, it would be a safe bet that we rode on the Prairie Dog Central train every single time we visited my aunt and uncle in Portage. Until preparing this post, I had never really understood the local features of former Canadian Northern line at the PDC's southern terminal.
This shot was intended to depict a working (i.e. coal and grease stained) locomotive ready to be off. Except for the wooden pilot beam the man is touching, virtually every metal surface would be radiating heat.
Above the man's hand, at the horizon, is probably one of the elements which caused the eventual move of the PDC from its downtown location - a steel railway bridge ...
from: GoogleEarth
Above (upper blue marker) is the former location of the St James CN station from which the loaded trains ran to the north. A little to the south, where the Oak Point Sub connected to the Rivers Sub, there was a handy wye for turning the engine and/or the train. Between those two points was a bridge over the Assiniboine River. It was likely the Canadian Northern's original bridge.
The central pier, being circular and having no water cutter, suggests that the central spans of the bridge might once have swung for water traffic on the Assiniboine.
Since its building in Glasgow, and its original use on the CPR near today's Kenora, this locomotive has been rebuilt so many times that it is a poor historical 'artifact'. That is to say that very little of the original century-old metal has survived through the use of replacement parts of second-hand or custom-forged origin. Who knows how many times the flues have been replaced?
Upgrades such as superheaters may have changed the hardware configuration within the boiler and increased the engine's efficiency a little. The dynamo and air pump have added sounds which the 'original' didn't make. Sulphurous coal smoke has replaced the the aroma of locally sourced wood - probably the fuel of necessity during the first few years. The smells of hot tallow, and burning whale oil and coal oil are gone.
Yet ...
The perfect, balanced - as it has been called with diesel-age hindsight - wheel arrangement of the 4-4-0 remains. The distinctive Stephenson valve gear still shuttles back and forth. Someone must still load all the fuel to be consumed onto the grates by hand.
The wooden coaches with their 'watch the ties pass' quick-limed, dry toilets (in 1985) harken back to interminable, slow-speed rail journeys through the Canadian bush and over the prairies.
The lightness of the coaches and the modest tractive effort used to pull them cause one to wonder how trains could be run through the lightest of snowfalls, or how enough tonnage could ever be moved to supply even the most modest of pioneer villages and farms along the way.
When you reflect on the technological simplicity, scale, and speed of this train - the historical artifact is perfect.
Above, my uncle appears at the left margin with his camera. To re-enact history, he has opened the throttles of steam traction engines - the off-rail source of any big power needed on the prairies during the first few decades which followed the building of the CPR.
Behind the south-facing PDC train is a CN diesel - a switcher I am guessing. I don't know enough about PDC operations to say whether it is here to remove the consist - or just waiting for the train to clear to the south.
from: CN Prairie Region timetable 27; Oct 27 1985.
During our visit in 1985, the Prairie Dog was running from St James to Grosse Isle.
From St James, the train would operate north along my added yellow line. Sounds of grade crossing whistling, locomotive bell, and exhausts reflecting off buildings were reminiscent of main line steam locomotives hauling CRHA and CNR excursion trains through towns along Quebec's secondary lines in the 1960s.
Exiting the industrial park, the former Canadian Northern line would parallel the CPR main line for a while, then the wheels would hammer across the diamond (crossing the CP Carberry Sub) which carries the Oak Point Sub north to Grosse Isle.
At Grosse Isle, the time-honoured practice of leaning to peer down the track is seen. The locomotive and first car have be turned on the wye for the return to St James. A rail-mounted mower is probably used to make the trip around the wye less of an adventure.
I remember the Grosse Isle wye move (during a subsequent visit) as being deep in soft grass with a great deal of flange squealing.
With the benefit of GoogleEarth, we can see that the (former) wye is not equilateral and that it seems to employ the greatest curvature possible. The Oak Point Sub continued to Gypsumville via the north-west leg of the wye. Heading due north at the wye was the Inwood Sub to Fisher Branch and Hodgson.
"Trains, except work trains under direction of roadmasters and caboose hops, must not be operated on the Inwood Subdivision when temperature exceeds 27 degrees Celsius, 80 degrees Fahrenheit unless authorized by chief train dispatcher .." [thermometers are provided, etc.]
from: Symington Division Special Instructions. SY 2. October 27, 1985.
During a particular bout of my 'railway archaeology' one afternoon, we dragged my uncle in search of ancient lines and found some very light rail on bare ties. Photos of this and other Prairie Dog trips will follow in additional posts.
Somewhere near Delta on Lake Manitoba you can see a fairly typical backroad view for this part of Manitoba.
On a summer afternoon, a clear blue sky would sometimes be broken only by clouds towering over Lake Manitoba. On this spectacularly flat area of the prairies, items on the horizon are visible long before you finally reach them.
In the east end of the CN yard a Browning crane from 1957 and its idler car are seen.
Notice the step at the left side of the switch stand.
During the main line bolted rail era when local maintenance of way staff lived and worked on the 'section' each switch stand had its own kerosene switch lamp (replaced by today's round reflectors) and the step enabled the maintenance of way staff to reach the lamp for lighting, lens cleaning, refilling and wick trimming.
Near East Tower, the camera is looking west along the CNR main tracks.
The CN station view is blocked by cars, but it is short of the Tupper Street overpass and to the left.
The track to the right holds anhydrous ammonia tank cars for Bloom.
The roof of the CP station can be seen to the right of the brown hopper cars to the right.
I had thought that back when I was young, that all main track rails were properly lined and surfaced.
I guess I was wrong.
Perhaps I'm wrong about yesterday's wheels having fewer flat spots too.
The main lines of the CPR (Carberry Sub) and the CNR (Rivers Sub) cross at Portage.
A rough map of local features.
Portage la Prairie (red) is CP.
P la Prairie (blue) is CN.
Because of my vacation proclivity for taking every photo possible with grainy film into the sun, bringing some of the equipment out of the shadow has required some unnatural stretching of colours.
To the right, it is perhaps the Portage operator who is preparing to hoop up a clearance and orders to the extra 1006 west and its consist of grain empties.
The extra 1006 west approaches its signals for the Gladstone Sub.
With the CN station visible to the left of the maintenance of way cars,
VIA No 2, The Canadian, approaches East Tower with red CP Rail paint
indicating the lead unit's heritage under the peeling VIA black.
Hot, dusty, itchy work late on a Portage afternoon.
An elevator worker fills a covered hopper from the UGG elevator.
If you watch a similar operation and hear a cover slam, it is not carelessness.
The covers are lifted to the top of their arc, then released to fall open or closed.
To carefully and silently lower them would risk over-balancing and a possible fall from the top of the car.
The extra 5010 west arrives in Portage - its consist is seen curling around the curve to the south-west.
Probably photographing from the old piggy-back ramp,
my zoom finds the CP switcher conductor checking for handbrakes etc before switching.
The 6569 is taking these four mechanical refrigerator cars to the McCain plant.
Having completed the morning's switching,
the 6569 runs down the yard ladder track toward the CP station.
Probably zooming in from 18th Street towards West Tower.
While CN, as the 'junior' railway at Portage probably bears the costs of the diamond and interlocking ... consider the other railway systems also at this location.
... Keeping the wayside wire lines clear of each other as they cross must take some co-ordination.
Nearing the station the CP extra 5755 west arrives with (probably) grain empties.
During this era, CN and CP both seemed to operate these unit coal trains.
They were likely headed for Ontario Hydro thermal plants .
With its tailend called clear of the diamond,
extra 5731 east is working its way up to track speed as it approaches Stephens Avenue.
Posted by David J Gagnon at 16:45
Labels: #cdnhistory, 54, Alco, Canadian National Railways, Canadian Northern Railway, Canadian Pacific Railway, diesel, GMD1, Manitoba, Portage la Prairie, Prairie Dog Central, railroad, railway, The Canadian, Winnipeg
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Spanish cult films from 2013
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It has something of the glossy, epic feel of earlier European crime films (Romanzo Criminale, El Lobo) while at the same time playing up to the conventions of the likes of Mission Impossible [..]
The Last Days
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Directed with some panache by Alex and David Pastor (who made the effective 2008 post-apocalypse film Carriers), this is a gripping and effective entry in what’s a rather crowded arena [..]
Mindscape
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Mark Strong plays John, a memory detective, in other words someone who can enter people’s memories and notice details that have otherwise been forgotten. [..]
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Elijah Wood plays a concert pianist who is making a high-profile comeback after suffering a crippling attack of stage-fright [..]
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Select other Blue Jays Biagini, Joe Biggio, Cavan Drury, Brandon Galvis, Freddy Gaviglio, Sam Giles, Ken Grichuk, Randal Guerrero Jr., Vladimir Gurriel Jr., Lourdes Hernández, Teoscar Hudson, Daniel Jackson, Edwin Jansen, Danny Kingham, Nick Law, Derek Maile, Luke Mayza, Tim Phelps, David Sanchez, Aaron Shafer, Justin Smoak, Justin Sogard, Eric Stroman, Marcus Thornton, Trent Blue Jays Roster
ERA W-L K
6.57 0-2 12
Team: Toronto Ht / Wt: 6-3 / 190
Position: SP Born: 8/14/1984 Birthplace: Nederland, Texas
Bats/Throws: L/R Draft: Supplemental Round by Red Sox (2005)
May 5 3:02 PM PT4:02 PM MT5:02 PM CT6:02 PM ET18:02 ET22:02 GMT6:02 3:02 PM MST5:02 PM EST4:02 PM CST5:32 PM VEN2:02 UAE (+1)5:02 PM CT-Clay Buchholz fell to 0-2, allowing seven runs on eight hits and one walk in 4.0 innings, as the Toronto Blue Jays lost to the Texas Rangers 10-2 on Sunday. Buchholz struck out one, ending the game with a 6.57 ERA and 1.54 WHIP on the season.
May 1 10:07 PM PT11:07 PM MT12:07 AM CT1:07 AM ET1:07 ET5:07 GMT13:07 10:07 PM MST12:07 AM EST11:07 PM CST12:37 AM VEN9:07 UAE12:07 AM CT-Clay Buchholz allowed three runs on six hits and two walks in 5.0 innings as the Toronto Blue Jays lost to the Los Angeles Angels 4-3 on Tuesday. Buchholz struck out three, ending the game with a 4.79 ERA and 1.40 WHIP on the season.
Apr. 24 3:54 PM PT4:54 PM MT5:54 PM CT6:54 PM ET18:54 ET22:54 GMT6:54 3:54 PM MST5:54 PM EST4:54 PM CST6:24 PM VEN2:54 UAE (+1)5:54 PM CT-Clay Buchholz fell to 0-1, allowing four runs on six hits in 5.0 innings, as the Toronto Blue Jays lost to the San Francisco Giants 4-0 on Wednesday. Buchholz struck out two, ending the game with a 4.60 ERA and 1.34 WHIP on the season.
Apr. 18 1:15 PM PT2:15 PM MT3:15 PM CT4:15 PM ET16:15 ET20:15 GMT4:15 1:15 PM MST3:15 PM EST2:15 PM CST3:45 PM VEN0:15 UAE (+1)3:15 PM CT-Clay Buchholz allowed three runs on six hits and three walks in 4.2 innings as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Minnesota Twins 7-4 on Thursday. Buchholz struck out four, ending the game with a 3.38 ERA and 1.41 WHIP on the season.
Apr. 13 2:56 PM PT3:56 PM MT4:56 PM CT5:56 PM ET17:56 ET21:56 GMT5:56 2:56 PM MST4:56 PM EST3:56 PM CST5:26 PM VEN1:56 UAE (+1)4:56 PM CT-Clay Buchholz allowed one run on six hits in 6.0 innings as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 on Saturday. Buchholz struck out two, ending the game with a 1.50 ERA and 1.00 WHIP on the season.
Mar. 28 11:46 AM PT12:46 PM MT1:46 PM CT2:46 PM ET14:46 ET18:46 GMT2:46 11:46 AM MST1:46 PM EST12:46 PM CST2:16 PM VEN22:46 UAE12:46 PM CT-Buchholz (elbow) is scheduled to be activated Saturday and start the Blue Jays' game against the Rays.
Analysis: Buchholz may not be in top form for his debut, as he allowed four homers and five runs in four innings in Sunday's rehab start for Triple-A Buffalo. The veteran righty posted an excellent 2.01 ERA in 16 starts with Arizona last year, though he'll once again be a risky fantasy pick due to his extensive injury history and a return to the tough AL East.
Pitching Statistics
Year Team W L Sv-Op G GS CG IP H R ER HR BB IBB K WHIP ERA
2007 Bos 3 1 0 - 0 4 3 1 22.2 14 6 4 0 10 0 22 1.06 1.59
2008 Bos 2 9 0 - 0 16 15 1 76.0 93 63 57 11 41 1 72 1.76 6.75
2010 Bos 17 7 0 - 0 28 28 1 173.2 142 55 45 9 67 1 120 1.20 2.33
2012 Bos 11 8 0 - 0 29 29 2 189.1 187 104 96 25 64 2 129 1.33 4.56
2013 Bos 12 1 0 - 0 16 16 1 108.1 75 23 21 4 36 0 96 1.02 1.74
2014 Bos 8 11 0 - 0 28 28 2 170.1 182 108 101 17 54 2 132 1.39 5.34
2015 Bos 7 7 0 - 0 18 18 1 113.1 114 48 41 6 23 0 107 1.21 3.26
2016 Bos 8 10 0 - 0 37 21 0 139.1 130 80 74 21 55 1 93 1.33 4.78
2017 Phi 0 1 0 - 0 2 2 0 7.1 16 10 10 1 3 0 5 2.59 12.27
2018 Ari 7 2 0 - 0 16 16 1 98.1 80 25 22 9 22 1 81 1.04 2.01
2019 Tor 0 2 0 - 0 5 5 0 24.2 32 18 18 5 6 1 12 1.54 6.57
Career 88 66 0 - 0 229 211 10 1298.0 1232 618 564 131 448 11 997 1.29 3.91
2010 Bos 28 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000
2012 Bos 29 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2017 Phi 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 .000 .000 .000
2018 Ari 16 31 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 17 0 0 .065 .094 .097
Career 230 46 0 4 1 0 0 1 2 24 0 0 .087 .125 .109
Year Team Round W L Sv-Op G GS CG IP H R ER HR BB IBB K ERA
2009 Bos Total 0 0 0 - 0 1 1 0 5.0 6 2 2 1 1 0 3 3.60
LDS 0 0 0 - 0 1 1 0 5.0 6 2 2 1 1 0 3 3.60
2013 Bos Total 0 0 0 - 0 4 4 0 20.2 22 11 10 3 8 1 17 4.35
LCS 0 0 0 - 0 2 2 0 10.2 12 7 7 2 2 0 10 5.91
WS 0 0 0 - 0 1 1 0 4.0 3 1 0 0 3 1 2 0.00
Career 0 1 0 - 0 6 6 0 29.2 34 15 14 4 10 1 24 4.25
Year Team Round G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG
2013 Bos Total 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 .000 .000
WS 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 .000 .000
Career 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 .000 .000
Pitching Velocity
Pitch Type Pitches Max Min Avg Pct
Fastball 127 91 87 88.4 32.23
Curveball 69 77 72 74.4 17.51
Changeup 79 78 73 75.7 20.05
Cut Fastball 119 87 81 83.9 30.2
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Water, Water, Everywhere...
While most Singaporeans defended SG against "threats" by Mahathir to review the water agreement or "suggestions" by the Chief Minister of Johor to re-price water, there were some Singaporeans who tried to be ... "reasonable" (to be generous) or were downright "disloyal" (from their comments).
This post addresses the implied question from the reasonable, or faithless, Singaporeans:
Why is Singapore such an arsehole when it comes to the water agreement with Malaysia?
There is so much uninformed comments on FB regarding this. But then again, that's one of the two things the internet is for - Uninformed comment. (The other thing of course is Porn, but that's another story).
Before you comment on anything related to the water agreements, first know your history. A quick primer would be Water Talks.
If you have not read it, I GUARANTEE you at some point you will make an ass of yourself. Those who do not know history, will inevitably make an ass of themselves when they try to be clever or original. Or think they have a solution that no one else had ever thought of.
Yes, you might dismiss it as pure propaganda on the part of Singapore (cos, faithless Singaporeans), but know that Malaysia NEVER rebutted the facts within the booklet. Mahathir was of course discombobulated, and said something about Singapore not being "nice" to publicised his "love letters".
Know also that recently, the Crown Prince of Johor has called SG a good neighbour and friend. Why? This article shows how we have been friends. And it shows that accusations that we were profiteering from supplying water to Johor is patently false. If the price were too high, would they buy more than they had contracted to? If the price is too high, shouldn't they find alternative options?
And for a summary (if I may toot my own horn or blogpost), I would suggest this blogpost. "Sui Pian" also has my speculation as to why MY kept shifting the goal posts, and why MY is losing money on the water agreement.
It also answers the first question-cluster:
Why don't Malaysia treat its own water so they don't have to depend on SG to provide treated water? Water Treatment is not difficult. Johor can do it themselves. SG can stop making a big deal about it and stop being smug about it like we discovered the cure for cancer or something.
Yes. Treating river water is not rocket science. In Aug 2011, the first water agreement (1961) expired. And SG handed over our water treatment facilities to Johor's PUB equivalent, Bakaj. We were drawing 100 mgd from the Tebrau-Skudai catchment. It was operational when we handed it over. Which means than Johor should have an additional 100 mgd capacity from Sept 2011. And would not need to buy water from SG...
They are still buying treated water, and buying more than contractually provided for.
So... are they using the Tebrau-Skudai water treatment facilities we handed over?
I dunno for sure. But before we speculate, let's see the facts.
FACT: In 2008, 14 out of 21 rivers in the Iskandar Malaysia zone had moderate pollution levels while five rivers in the Tebrau catchment exhibited more serious pollution. One river in the Pasir Gudang catchment experienced severe pollution caused by industrial and development activities. That was in 2008. Has the situation improved since then? Or more likely deteriorated? To the point where it is not possible to treat the water to potability?
FACT: SG handed over the Skudai and Gunung Pulai water treatment plants and two pump houses in Pontian and Tebrau. Presumably they are still in use, but it is NOT CLEAR. The Water and Sanitation system in Malaysia is poorly documented. I could not even find a list of water treatment plants in Johor, or any mention of the Skudai and Gunung Pulai water treatment plants after 2011 in English. If someone has information of a website in Malay, please help translate the information and share it here in the comments. Or at the very least confirm that the Tebrau-Skudai facilities are being used, and are those facilities still providing up to 100 mgd of treated water.
FACT: In 2003, it costs RM2.40 to treat 1000 gallons of river water. Johor can buy treated water from Singapore at 50 sen per 1000 gallons. And can buy up to 5 mgd contractually. And SG has agreed to allow them (on a goodwill basis) to draw (buy) up to 16 mgd on a permanent basis. And,
FACT: Every now and then, Johor (Bakaj) will ask to temporarily increase the water provision by 6 mgd on a temporary basis over and above the 16 mgd (permanent ongoing increase) for reasons such as drought in other parts of Johor, pollution (in the Johor or other rivers), and so on. Bakaj seems to treat SG (or PUB water works) as an emergency supply of water. So, what is more rational? Treat your own water for RM2.40, or buy treated water for 50 sen? You do the math.
FACT: The Crown Prince of Johor no less, had thanked SG for our help whenever Johor has had water shortages. That suggests that SG's provision of the extra water had been essential if not critical to overcoming the water supply problems.
FACT: Malaysia has a problem with "non-revenue water".
Malaysia announced that RM13 billion worth of investment in water distribution systems is required to reduce the share of non-revenue water to 25 per cent by 2020...
What is "non-revenue water"? Leakage. Or theft. So... MORE than 25% of water is "non-revenue"? That is... it would be shocking, except you have to remember, this is Malaysia. Malaysia Boleh!
AND... they are going to spend RM13 billion just to REDUCE the non-revenue water and bring it down to 25%. They don't even DARE to tell you what is the current leakage/theft. (If I had to guess, a conservative answer would be "MORE than 25%"?)
So it is not just water treatment, it is the whole process of securing and preserving the resources (keeping your water source protected from pollution, drought, natural attrition etc), treating the water, and distributing the water efficiently.
Which brings me to a "side" question. It is an unthinking question.
Singapore buys water from Johor for 3 sen and sells it to Singaporeans for $1.20 per cubic metre (1000 litre). They are sucking money from Singaporeans, man!
I chose to let Phua Chu Kang reply:
"You want 3 sen water? Go drink lilect (direct) from the Johor river lah! You blardy goondu! Water no need to treat one ah? People work in the treatment plant work for free issit? No need to feed himself? No need to feed his family? No need to pay mortgage? And then what? The water just magically appear when you turn on the tap? No need to install pipes? No need to install water tanks? No need to install water pumps? No need to maintain pipes, water tanks and pumps issit? Next time it rains, just run outside, look up in the sky and open your mouth. FREE WATER!"
I actually used the above in reply to that specific stupid question. The questioner doubled down on his stupid question: "Pipes, pumps, water tanks all paid for by me, the tax-payer, what!"
Even PCK gave up on someone that stupid. I told him he won the argument, and he should take his water pipes with him as he leaves.
If you see him (or someone like him), please also assure him that his taxes also paid for trains and buses, so he need not pay fares, also his HDB flat, so he can stop paying his mortgage, and any other services provided by the ministries or statutory boards. And inform him that subsequently he will be invited to stay in the big house. Free of charge. As a guest of the state. Because his taxes already paid for it all.
[As an aside, usually if someone claims that he is a taxpayer, you should ask him how much tax he paid last year. Usually, the amount is really really low. Maybe even zero. It's the same as rich people. Really rich people don't go around telling people that they are rich. Similarly, people who pay tax don't go around telling people that they pay tax. Only those who have just started paying tax would say that they are a tax-payer, and because they are a new tax-payer, the sum the pay is usually very small.]
But Singaporeans generally have a sense of fair play and justice, and we want to be fair and reasonable. So some of us asked questions along these lines:
Just let them review the water agreement lah! It was agreed over 50 years ago, and really what is 3 sen? Why is SG being so legalistic and forcing Malaysia to sell us cheap water. We are so rich, MY is... not so rich ("so poor" is kinda condescending), must learn to give and take. Otherwise how to make friends? Forcing Malaysia to sell us water at a low price using an outdated (ancient) agreement is really no class!
This is... such a nice Singaporean fair-play question, that it is hard to take offence at it. So are we being overly legalistic and using an outdated agreement ("Ancient document") to hold poor Malaysia hostage?
First, let us agree that water is a necessity for life. We are not talking about a luxury or a privilege.
Even cacti and camels need water now and then.
Therefore it is not about forcing another to sell us water at a low price, but securing water for our basic needs. In fact, from our perspective it is not exactly "nice" for Mahathir to use water as a leverage or to profiteer from our basic needs (more on this later). Mahathir will toss up the example that HK pays China RM8 for water, but ignores the fact that China built the infrastructure, laid the pipes and and the pumps to do so. In our situation we paid for the infrastructure, and for the 1990 Linggiu Dam agreement, we build the dam at our expense, and instead of running a pipe from the dam to our water treatment plants (which would be the most efficient way of using the water from the dam - which we PAID FOR), we actually use the Linggiu reservoir water to flush the Johor River. Why? And in 2061, when the lease expires, everything we built will be handed over to Johor.
And from this link (about SG providing water to Johor at crucial times), the arrangement SG has with Johor is mutually beneficial.
We get raw water, and we provide Johor with subsidised treated water. And when there is a drought or other water crisis, Johor can depend on SG to provide water on an emergency basis.
It's win-win.
Second, from this news article:
"Malaysia has the highest per capita water usage in South-east Asia, with a daily water consumption of 280 litres, compared with 155 litres in Singapore, 175 litres in the Philippines and 130 litres in Indonesia."
Of course, about 25% of that "usage" is non-revenue water.
Actually, this is irrelevant to the point. I just needed a place where I could point out that Malaysia is water rich. That at 280 litres per person per day they use twice as much as Indonesia, and 80% more than Singapore.
But let's just say that Malaysia is not happy. And wants a review.
The water agreements provided for a review of each agreement at the 25th year of the agreement. That would be in 1986 (for the 1961 agreement) and 1987 (for the 1962 agreement). Malaysia (or more specifically, Johor), let the review year pass because they rightly concluded that a review of the price for raw water would also mean a revision of the price for treated water.
They knew better than to rock the boat. They knew they had a good thing going.They knew they could get good cheap water for 50 sen.
But Mahathir wanted a review in 1998. Even though there was no provision in the agreement to do so after 1986/7. We agreed to a review. Because we thought, we can sit down and discuss this like civilised people.
No need to be so legalistic and hold to the letter of the agreement, right? Show some class. Friend-friend, right? So LKY went to talk to Mahathir.
In brief, LKY and Mahathir agreed to an immediate increase to 45 sen for raw water in Aug 2000. AGREED. Not "suggested for consideration". Not "considering the proposal". AGREED. Yea! Game over! That was quick and easy! Talking like civilised people works! Win-win!
Six months later (Feb 2001), Mahathir backtracked and asked for 60 sen. This surprised us, but ok, still can talk right?
We offered a compromise: 45 sen immediately, 60 sen after 2011. MY mulled over it for a long while.
One year later (Mar 2002) MY asked for 60 sen, and also to backdate the price to 1986/7 until 2007. Then RM3 from 2007 to 2011. And after 2011, price would be adjusted yearly for inflation.
Their latest "demands" shocked us and we thought, we should talk face to face. In Sept 2002, we met. They again had a new proposal: RM6.25
At that point, we decided that Mahathir was not negotiating in good faith. And being unreasonable. And trying to take advantage of SG. For RM6, we could desalinate seawater and it would be cheaper.
The back and forth of the review was eventually published in Water Talks, which is why it is essential reading. If Singaporeans read it, they would know that SG had tried to be... reasonable.
And Mahathir took advantage of it.
So the short answer to "why not just review lah? After all 3 sen is really nothing today!" is, because Mahathir would take advantage of the negotiations to "stir shit". And he is a professional shit-stirrer.
Jayakumar the Foreign Minister then, recounts:
We became even more concerned when Dr Mahathir and several Malaysian politicians stoked up ground feelings by making serious allegations about the Water Agreements. These included:
That the Water Agreements had been drawn up by the British in favour of Singapore when it was about to join Malaysia in the 1960s;
That Singapore buys water from Malaysia at 3 sen and sells to ships at S$20 or RM40, thus making enormous profits of up to RM700 million annually;
That Singapore profits by buying water from Malaysia at 3 sen and selling it back to Johor at 50 sen;
That Hong Kong buys water from Mainland China at RM8 per thousand gallons;
That the Water Agreement is only 'an ancient piece of paper' and Malaysia can raise the price anytime it wants;
That Malaysia can pass its own laws to make the Water Agreements null and void.
This barrage of statements seemed intended to make the public case that the Water Agreements had been foisted on Malaysia by the British and were intrinsically unfair to Malaysia and that Singapore had profiteered at Malaysia's expense.
They appeared to be laying the ground for unilateral action.
In December 2002, FM Syed Hamid even said publicly that 'Singapore has two choices. If it refuses to compromise, go to war'.
That was then.
So now they want a review (AGAIN!) and some Singaporeans are swayed by the argument of the low price of 3 sen, and say, let them review lah.
Of course we could agree to a review and waste our time trying to deal with demagogue not treating in good faith and who just wants an opportunity to rile the nation or rally the people by scapegoating Singapore.
Our time is valuable. We got things to do, money to make. Lists to be number 1 of.
Mahathir's time is cheap... and running out.
Mahathir is a football team trying to play out the time. We've got goals to score.
If they want a review, perhaps we will have to set clear parameters.
First, we should set the corresponding price for treated water. Say the cost of treating river water is say RM3 per 1000 gallons. Whatever the price decided for raw water, Treated water will be RM3 more to account for the cost of treating river water. So if raw water is raised to 10 sen, treated water will be RM3.10 to correctly reflect the cost of treating the water. i.e. no more 50 sen treated water.
If we DON'T agree on a new price, then the current water agreement with 3 sen and 50 sen for raw and treated water stands, until the end of the agreement in 2061.This is not a bad deal. Malaysia still gets treated water at a subsidised rate.
Second, say the cost of NEWater for SG is RM3.60. Less the cost of treating river water of RM3, raw water cannot be higher than 60 sen, otherwise river water would be more expensive than NEWater. Nor can it be 60 sen, otherwise it is no different from NEWater. There should be a significant discount, say no more than 50 sen.
Malaysia will therefore have two options.
1) leave the agreement as it is - 3 sen and 50 sen for raw and treated water respectively.
2) Revise the prices up to 50 sen for raw water and RM3.50 for treated water. This option is very variable. Malaysia can decide on 4 sen and RM3.04 up to 50 sen and RM3.50.
Any proposal for raw water over 50 sen will not be acceptable to SG, and if both parties cannot agree on a revised price, then the agreement defaults to the original terms as written in 1962.
Other terms of the agreement can also be negotiated. The water agreement could be extended beyond 2061. However based on the dwindling water levels in Linggiu Reservoir, the frequent need to flush the Johor River, I personally doubt that there is any point in extending the agreement beyond 2061.
In 2000, LKY offered to carry out works to improve the water yield for Johor River and even offered to pay the investment costs. When talks broke down it took that offer with it. Since then we have invested in water treatment in SG to renew water. This makes more sense than building infrastructure for Johor (IMHO).
And while I met quite a few faithless Singaporeans, I also found some gems of Singaporeans. One of them pointed out that
It's unislamic and haram to sell raw water (e.g. profiting directly from riverwater rainwater...) in of itself, let alone unreasonably inflate it.
This was a Singaporean Muslim responding the Johor's Chief Minister's suggestion to increase the price of raw water by 16 times.
Another Singaporean pointed out that in a commercial contract that would extend over decades, it would be the norm to peg the price to some comparable commodity to account for inflation or price fluctuations due to changes in demand or value.
But the water agreement does not have such price pegging, regular reviews, or deflator.
That suggests that either a) the drafters of the agreement were legal and commercial idiots; or b) it was never intended to be a commercial agreement.
This was my response to the Singapore Muslim pointing out that it was haram to sell river water:
I believe, it was the intent for the water to be given. As you noted, it is riverwater, rainwater from nature or God. But because the agreement was made by lawyers (or people with legal training) it was written as a contract and to make it binding they included a very low consideration - 3 sen per 1000 gallons. And it was intended that the beneficiary (SG) should reciprocate by providing MY with treated water at a reasonable rate (50 sen).
If your point is that this should be a humane and friendly transaction, and was not intended to be crass commercial transaction, I believe you are correct. Otherwise, the contract should include inflation, or price adjustments regularly or regular review.
Instead there was just one provision for review after 25 years.
And the review (as provided for in the agreement) MUST be based on "the rise or fall in the purchasing power of money". I'm not sure what that means, but from Jayakumar's memoir:
We pointed out that, according to the provisions of the Water Agreements, the review of the price of raw water must be based on the rise or fall in the purchasing power of money.
This would result in a price of not more than 12 sen for raw water in 2002.
This suggests that the agreement was not for commercial purpose, that the price of water was not intended to reflect the commercial value, that the agreement and water was invaluable and that Malaysia and Singapore knew that. At that time. That Malaysia (or rather Johor) was being reasonable and had good intentions for Singapore to survive and understood that water is a necessity and not to be profited from.
Fast forward to present day, and we have abandoned common decency and common sense. Mostly.
Singapore continues to provide treated water way in excess of what was agreed, without reservation, terms or conditions. It is the implicit understanding that water is life, water is a necessity, and should not be profited from, nor be used as political or commercial leverage.
Mahathir, that paragon of Islamic virtue, does not seem to understand that.
Nevertheless if it were just an agreement for Johor to GIVE the water to SG, it is not a contract. And if it is not a contract, Malaysia can stop giving at any time. But if it is a contract, neither party can stop it without legal repercussions. Thus the law-trained administrators (British) drafted the agreement as a contract with consideration (i.e. payment).
Thus it is clear that the honourable Mahathir is shamelessly using all means moral or immoral to pursue his agenda, which seems to include some sort of vendetta against Singapore.
As Ng Eng Hen said recently, we don't need to respond to every media statement and interview. Most of the time, they are just talking. Malaysians, especially Malaysian politicians are good at that. It makes them thirsty. Then they drink our 50 sen water.
We just have to say to them, "This is the water agreement. Please show us the basis for your proposal to review the water agreement."
And if they choose to respond militarily, we have two choices.
1) React rapidly giving them NO TIME to counter our gambit, or
2) Sit back and watch Johor secede from the Federation.
We can do (2) because we have sufficient water production capacity to withstand a "water siege".
NEWater production can provide 170 mgd. Desalination capacity is 130 mgd. Our daily requirement is about 430 mgd. Local catchment can easily meet the the other 130 mgd required, even if Johor vacillates and takes time to decide if they will secede.
However, our intelligence analysis MUST be quite clear as to whether Johor will secede. If there is a good chance that it will, then it behooves us to treat them as a potential ally, and not invade them.
War is the last resort. If we can help Johor to secede, if we can secure our water by other means, it may be a better option.
However, this is an outside fantasy and speculation. I would LIKE to see Johor secede from the Federation, and begin negotiations to join with SG. But there will be implications (which is another long post, so I'll just stop here.)
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Written by J. Riis Jepsen, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III
30.2 STD’s among the global seafarers
Historical and epidemiological background
History has shown that seafarers have always been vulnerable to STD’s3. During the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to America in 1492, his sailors had sex with Haitian women and they got infected with syphilis, which they later brought to Europe4. In the UK, as early as 1665, Admiralty laws gave a bonus to surgeons for any venereal disease they treated while the patient-seafarer was fined.5 During the third voyage (1776-9) of Captain James Cook, half of his crew got infected with venereal diseases causing concern on their possible spread.6
Early researches have shown similar trends. In 1943, Hutchison found 542 cases (10.1 %) of venereal infections among merchant seamen in the Clyde anchorages in a period of two years.7 In Finland, from 1946-1949, Putkonen8 found that seafarers comprised 10.5% of the total male population with gonorrhoea. The incidence in seafarers increased from 9.7% to 13.3% and was 11 and 16 times greater than the rest of the male population in 1947 and 1948, respectively. 27.8% of the seafarers’ STD’s were contracted abroad compared to 3% among the rest of the male population. Most cases were due to paid sexual intercourse. 7% of females with STD’s had their infection transmitted from seafarers.
In 1948, a study on merchant seamen admitted with primary and secondary syphilis9 showed evidence of the potential global spread of STD’s by a small occupational group of seamen who were possibly exposed in every continent except Australia. A detailed analysis of 80 men showed that they have had sexual intercourse with a total of 615 individuals in 112 different ports in 45 different countries. There was an average of 1.3 contacts per port of call per seaman. In one instance, a seaman reported intercourse with 90 different individuals during the probable period of his infection. Another seaman reported intercourse with individuals in six different ports. The total group of 149 seamen reported having had sexual relations with 1,098 different persons, or an average of 7.3 contacts per seafarer, during the period of possible infectiousness.9
As early as mid-20th century, a high number of venereal diseases were documented in many ports in the UK.10 Syphilis was prevalent in the busy ports of Liverpool and Merseyside, Manchester and district, Hull, Bristol, Tyneside and Southampton and the trade was at its peak during this period. The study reported an incidence of 2,375 males and 1,336 females with syphilis in the ports compared to 1,010 males and 661 females in inland towns attesting to the vulnerability of port populations to STD’s. In 1955 a serological study of 9,140 Norwegian seafarers (8,189 men and 951 women) for syphilis demonstrated positive reactions in 132 men and 24 women.11
An investigation by Schofield in 196510 (later presented by Cross and Harris12) described the vulnerability of seafarers and some of the issues encountered by those who got infected with STD’s:
Over a 3-year period, 429 mariners with symptoms of urethritis attended two port clinics in the northeast of England. Of these, 107 (25%) admitted to prior treatment, 84 having been treated on board ship. It was notable that by the end of the 3-year survey the number of mariners treated at sea had increased, and that 94 had received various doses of anti-treponemal drugs. Another significant finding was that the younger the seafarer the more likely he was to have sought and obtained prior treatment.
124 of the men got infected within the UK and 71 outside Europe.
The recognition of the vulnerability of seafarers led to many prevention programs and interventions since the very start. For example, there has been an international agreement in terms of STD control measures in ports. In Denmark, free treatment has been provided since 1802 to seafarers with venereal diseases irrespective of their nationality. An important paper entitled ‘The Frequency of Venereal Disease among Seafarers’ provided a comprehensive picture of the workers’ vulnerability to STD’s. This paper highlighted the rise in their incidence at the global level during and after the First World War. This rise led to the establishment of the Brussels Agreement of 1924 where seafarers got the opportunity to have free examination and treatment of venereal diseases in each principal port.2 In spite of acknowledged difficulties in practice, the ILO has encouraged contact tracing and treatment of infected contacts.13 The special provisions for venereal disorders remained until the ILO Maritime Labour Convention 2006, which now provides for treatment on board and ashore for all disorders irrespective of their character.
Emerging HIV problem in the seafaring industry
Recently published studies of STD’s in seafarers as a mobile population show a high risk to HIV/AIDS3, 14-19 and makes seafaring, already considered a risky profession, even more at risk. A European study in 1991 showed that STD’s (mainly gonorrhoea) were reported to be 5-20 times more frequent among merchant seafarers, deep-sea fishermen and navy staff than among the male population living on land.20 Data reflecting the current situation, however, are limited. General trends show an increased risk among young seafarers starting a maritime career. It has also been shown that there is a gradient according to the position on board with seafarers of lower rank acquiring STD less often than officers and other senior staff. Furthermore, it has been reported that seafarers from developing and less economically favoured countries contract STD rarer than seafarers from countries where they are better paid.20 While this finding may apply to foreign crews employed in vessels from developed countries, the situation in a global context may be quite different with disadvantaged seafarers and fishermen in developing countries at more risk.
The first two identified cases of AIDS in history happened to be seafarers who got infected years prior to the identification of the virus among the gay population in San Francisco in 1978.21 The first was a 25 year-old former naval seaman from Manchester, UK who died in 1959.22, 23 This, however, was contested by Connor24 and Hooper and Hamilton25 who argued that exposure in Africa (which had supposedly the highest rate of AIDS at that time) was unlikely because he only went to the low-prevalence country of Morocco while his ship was docked in Gibraltar.
The second case was a Norwegian seafarer who contracted HIV in Cameroon between 1961-62.26 He visited several ports in Africa where he was diagnosed twice with gonorrhoea. He died in 1976 at the age of 29. His wife and youngest daughter born in 1967 also died. The blood specimen frozen was later identified positive for HIV in 1988 when laboratory tools had become available. Before his death, this seafarer became a truck driver who travelled around Europe. Virus of the subtype he was infected with has been seen around his travel route providing early evidence of mobility as a factor that promotes the spread. It also sheds light on the development of the virus as it passed from one person to another and the impact of the disease on the immediate family.
The current rate of infection in the international maritime population has not been much studied though many countries have documented positive cases of HIV among its seafaring population.
Some early studies already revealed seafarers with HIV/AIDS in Europe.20, 27-29 0.5% of 60-80-year-old Hamburg seafaring outpatients were HIV-positive.20 In 1991, Dhar and Timmins quoted a high prevalence of HIV-positivity among seafarers tested in Valencia (2.4%) and Belgium (5.4%) that far exceeded the prevalence in the background population.29 In 1994, Hansen et al. identified 33 Danish HIV-infected seafarers most of whom were probably infected heterosexually in high-endemic areas early in the AIDS era. He estimated the risk of seafarers as eight times greater than that of the general population.19 Towianska et al. detected 14 HIV-infected Polish seafarers and fishermen (0.05%) in 1996.30 An analysis of the central register of HIV/AIDS from Montenegro indicated that 15% of the overall 68 notified HIV infected persons in Montenegro were seafarers by profession.31
In a study conducted by the Occupational Safety and Health Center in the Philippines in 1998, 59% of seafarer respondents confirmed to have contracted STD.32 A 2005 report of the Department of Health of the Philippines, which supplies the largest number of seafarers of any country globally, analysed 2250 HIV positive cases. 745 were overseas Filipino workers, of which 36% were seafarers. The main mode of transmission was sexual.33 Seafarers in the Philippines contribute approximately 10% of the total HIV seropositive cases in the country.34 There is evidence that the vulnerability of Filipino seafarers may increase consequent to an observed threefold increase in the rate of HIV in the Philippines between 2003 and 2008.35 This rising number of seafarers contracting HIV has alarmed the government of the Philippines. It is believed that underreporting is most likely due to stigma and low reporting by the clinics conducting the annual medical examination of seafarers (before signing a contract). Some manning agencies do not require HIV testing, and HIV-positive seafarers may be undetected until the development of AIDS symptoms.36 Seafarers identified as positive while on board may go home without the authorities knowing. For example, a Filipino seafarer remained undetected for many years until developing respiratory problems while on board. He was eventually diagnosed in the port of Rotterdam with advanced pulmonary tuberculosis and AIDS and died three days later.37
In Pakistan, the first AIDS case was an African seafarer who died in 1986.38 At present, seafarers are surmised to make up a sizeable portion of recognized HIV/AIDS cases in Pakistan.39 In Denmark, seafarers were infected in high-endemic areas and were identified as a risk group carrying the infection into the heterosexual population in non-endemic areas.19 The link between seafarers and HIV was further drawn into international attention when HIV-positive Thai seafarers were reported in various islands of Indonesia in 1992 thus alarming the latter country.40 In South Korea it has been estimated that there is a prevalence of 0.007-0.071% among its seafarers.41
In Mumbai, a doctor reported 25-30 cases of seafarers infected with HIV under his treatment in 2001. In 2000, the city reported at least 10 to 12 new HIV infections among seafarers.42 In Vietnam, a rapid assessment of seafarer vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and drug abuse revealed seropositive individuals in the ports of Hai Phong, Da Nang, Rach Gia and Can Tho.43 Similar findings were seen by others in Vietnam44 and in Thailand.45 An Ethiopian study showed an alarming prevalence of HIV-1 infection among seafarers at 9.6% with the prevalence inverse proportional with increasing level of education. Fourteen percent of the studied Ethiopian sailors reported to use condoms irregularly.46
In the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati fifteen seafarers affected with HIV were documented from 1999-2000. It also noted five wives of seafarers who contracted the virus.47. Croatia has been documenting HIV/AIDS among its seafarers.17 Between 1985-2009, out of 784 Croatians diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, 79 were seafarers (9.4%) making it 0.25% of the seafaring population.48 Seafarers infected with HIV have also been reported from Iran,49 Mauritius,50 Malaysia,51 Myanmar,52 Poland,18 Bangladesh,53 and Spain54 An increasing trend of HIV infection in the fishing sector has been observed in Malaysia with 7.8% of AIDS cases.51
The issue of HIV/AIDS and seafarers is not confined to international seafaring. Regional or cross-border movement of seafarers is also seen as a problem.55 This was shown by the movement of undocumented workers from Myanmar, of which 80% are seafarers, operating off the coast of Thailand in dirty, dangerous, low-paid jobs. When they are in port, a combination of homesickness, isolation and a lack of AIDS awareness lead to high-risk behaviour. These seafarers frequent the port of Ranong, in which 20% of commercial sex workers (CSW) are HIV-positive.
Determinants of seafarers’ vulnerability to STD’s
The world’s seafarers have been tagged as a population at risk to the virus since the beginning of the epidemic. Though they do not command the stature of the universally accepted high-risk populations such as CSW’s, men having sex with men and injecting drug users, the seafaring population is of special interest because of their mobility and status as potential major clients of many CSW’s in the world’s ports.56
Giacomo and Rion in 1948 recorded high frequency of sexual intercourse of 80 seafarers with prostitutes – 615 women at 112 ports of 45 countries.9 Based on studies on HIV infection among Filipino seafarers, heterosexual transmission is still the predominant mode.57 In this context, we look at the engagement of seafarers with CSW’s as risk behaviour in itself together with the non-use of condoms during the sexual encounters. This vulnerability is fuelled by spending a long time away from home, providing opportunities for casual sex, often in areas with a known high prevalence of STD’s. In some places condoms may not be available or are of bad quality thus increasing the seafarer’s risk. Evidently, the seafarer is mostly more likely to contract a STD in port away from home because the social structures that constrain sexual behaviour at home may not apply in foreign ports. The limited possibilities for going ashore may be compensated for by inviting sex workers on board the ship while it is moored off the quay.
Working in a risk-taking occupation may extend a culture of risk denial to displays of risk-taking in the social and sexual arena. Marginalization and low status may cause exaggerated masculinity that challenge mainstream norms such as expectation of multiple sexual partners.56 The use of alcohol for coping with the dangers and stress of the occupation may further compound the vulnerability of seafarers.58
The number of CSW’s in various parts of the world and their rate of infection run roughly parallel. The proportion in the population ranges from more than 6% in Africa to less than 0.15% in Central Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Their HIV prevalence ranges from more than 40% to close to zero59 and their general prevalence of STD’s may well exceed 50%.60
An epidemiological study of sick or injured seamen from all over the world attending the outpatient ward of Hamburg from 1967-1987 indicated 3.1% with a STD.20 Interviews with the seafarers showed a poor knowledge on HIV27 and that most did not use condom protection. The same was seen in a Croatian questionnaire survey in 1989 to 1990 that demonstrated the inadequate knowledge among seafarers about the routes of HIV transmission and the limited use of condoms for protection.17 Thirty percent of Thai fishermen reported a history of STD and of self-treatment in 31% of their last STD.61 The situation was comparable for seafarers.62 In some developing countries, condoms are rarely if ever used, e.g. in Indonesia.63
In Nigeria, the knowledge of HIV was limited and 41% of Nigerian naval staff did not use a condom during the most recent contact with a sex worker.64 Bangladeshi boatmen had even lower knowledge of HIV risk and almost none used condom.65 The situation for a sample of Croatian migrant workers was not much better.66 Reaching these vulnerable groups, e.g. with antiviral therapy for HIV infection, remains a challenge.67 Viewed at the global level, fishermen are regarded among groups most at risk of HIV.58 Findings such as these suggest high exposure and disease rates in many developing countries.
Whether, in fact, there is now less STD among seafarers in global service than previously has not been studied in detail. While several previous studies have dealt with the transmission and prevalence of STD in seafarers2, 12 most current studies tend to rather focus on knowledge, perceptions and attitudes toward STD’s. There are, however, a number of indications that STD’s may be a less severe problem in global maritime transport workers today than in the past. Due to shorter transit time in ports and high work-activity among crews during loading and unloading, there is a reduced option for commercial sex. Many seafarers, nowadays, have better awareness of risk of STD’s and in particular HIV transmission. They show a more cautious behaviour and provide adequate precautions such as the use of condoms or abstinence.
This is supported by a study in Rotterdam where the yearly number of outpatients with STD was reduced from 300 to 110 cases of urethritis and from 51 to 15 cases of gonorrhoea from 1984 – 1995. The number of syphilis patients, however, was largely unaltered (3 and 5, respectively).68 Current data with regard to the prevalence of HIV infection in seafarers are limited, and the frequency of infection with traditionally significant STD’s such as gonorrhoea, syphilis, Chlamydia urethritis, and genital herpes have been even less studied.
1Preface
11 Introduction to Maritime Medicine
1 The development of maritime medicine
112 The Sea as a Working Place
2.2 Ship Types, Basic Familiarisation and Procedures
2.3 Overview of Ships’ Routines
2.4 Certification
2.5 Accommodation
2.6 Leisure, entertainment, exercise
2.7 Working at sea
2.8 Multinational crews & Communication
2.9 Leave, shore leave during voyage - problems
2.10 Travel to vessel, repatriation, abandonment.
2.11 Appendix: coastal and artisanal fishing
143 The Shipping Industry
3.1 A global industry
3.2 Diversity of ship size and ship types
3.3 Sailing areas
3.4 Major ports – cargo handling and turnaround time
3.5 Short sea shipping
3.6 Manning and recruitment
3.7 Manning and work environment on board
3.8 Regulation and international agreements
3.9 Classification and insurance
3.10 Flag nation control and flags of convenience
3.11 Port or coastal nation control
3.12 International conventions (IMO)
3.13 Global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS) and SAR regions
3.14 References
64 Organisations of importance to Maritime Medicine
4.2 International governmental organisations
4.3 Non governmental organisations
4.4 Flag state control – the classification societies
4.5 Port state control organisations
4.6 National organizations with international impact
75 International conventions of importance to maritime medicine
5.2 Overview of regulatory framework
5.3 Maritime organizations issuing conventions – different focus and main responsibilities
5.4 Fields of interest to maritime health covered by the conventions
5.5. Removal of wrecks
5.6 Ship dismantling and recycling
5.7 IMO guidelines on ship recycling
76 Ship Control
6.1 Port State Control
6.2 Flag State Control
6.3 Classification Societies
6.4 European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)
6.5 P&I Clubs
6.6 General conclusion
87 Health requirements and the fitness examination
7.2 Requirements for work at sea
7.3 Rationale and criteria for selection
7.4 The right person for the right job – practical and ethical limitations
7.5 Frameworks for seafarer medical examinations
7.6 Common conditions with complex fitness decisions
7.7 Medication
98 Medical care on board
8.2 Elements of medical care: legislation, problems
8.3 Telemedical advice – Telemedical assistance services TMAS
8.4 Evacuation for Medical reasons at sea (Medevac)
8.5 Medical Indications and contraindications for evacuation
8.6 Medical facilities along the coastlines of the world
8.7 Repatriation
8.8 The U.S. Coastguard Instructions for medevac
8.9 Conclusions
8 9 Cruise Medicine
9.2 Staff
9.3 Medical staff – general
9.4 The ship’s medical centre
9.5 Some special conditions/special considerations
9.6 Public health issues
9.7 Author’s background - conflict of interest
9.8 Appendices
510 Seafarer’s welfare
10.2 Welfare on board in general
10.3 Welfare on Board – Particular Issues
10.5 References
811 Port Medicine
11.2 Medical Records
11.3 Services and management
11.4 The patient
11.5 Social Aspects
11.6 Cooperation with Port Health Authorities
11.7 The port medicine clinic
11.8 The port maritime physician
812 Medical aspects of piracy and violent crime
12.2 Medical aspects of piracy and violent crime
12.3 The Assault Phase
12.4 The ‘Static’ Phase
12.5 Resolution Phase
12.8 Appendix: A global vision of piracy
913 Crisis intervention
13.2 Definitions of Terms
13.3 Risk factors and protective factors
13.4 Methods and instruments of crisis intervention
13.5 Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
13.6 Criticism against CISM
13.7 Implementation of Crisis Intervention in the Maritime Setting and Shipboard Environment
13.8 Trauma Therapy
614 Health, environment and safety risk management
14.2 Risk assessment in the shipping industry
14.3 Terminology and the different stages in HSE risk management
14.4 Roles and responsibilities
14.5 Injury risks at work and environmental harm
14.6 Management of agents harmful to health in the Shipping Industry
615 Accidents and injuries at sea
15.2 Sources of data on injuries in seafarers and their limitations
15.3 Injury causation
15.4 Problems of injury prevention and management on board ship
15.5 Common types of maritime injuries to individuals and their prevention
916. Chemical hazards and radiation
16.2 Exposure to substances hazardous to health
16.3 Health risks from cargo
16.4 Health risks from exposures during work at sea
16.5 Precautions to reduce risks from exposure to substances
16.6 Ionizing electromagnetic fields
16. 7 Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) in oil & gas shipping
16. 8 Non-ionizing electromagnetic fields
317 Conditions caused by heat or cold
17.1 Acclimatization
17.2 Conditions caused by heat
17.3 Hypothermia
518 Noise
18.1 Main noise sources on board ships
18.2 Noise levels on board ships
18.3 Effects on seafarers’ hearing
18.4 Non-hearing effects of noise on seafarers
419 Vibration
19.1 Mechanical vibration
19.2 Vibration on board ships
19.3 Effects of ship vibration on humans
720 Motion sickness
20.2 Epidemiology of seasickness
20.3 Etiology and pathogenesis
20.4 Clinical symptoms
20.5 Impact on co-morbidities and drug absorption
621 Ship building and repair
21.2 An accident prone sector
21.3 Physical risks
21.4 Chemical risks
622 Shipwreck and Survival at Sea
22.2 Lifejackets and Flotation Devices
22.3 Sea-Survival: General Physiological Remarks
22.4 Distress and Abandoning Ship
22.5 Other Common Problems in Sea-Survival
22,6 References
523 Cardiovascular diseases
23.1 Introduction and Epidemiology
23.2 Heart Diseases
23.3 Circulatory Diseases
23.4 Cardiovascular Diseases: Conclusions
124 Eye conditions
24 Diseases and Injuries of the Eyes
825 Disorders of the skin
25.1 Skin disorders in general
25.2 The most common skin disorders
25.3 Cold-related injuries
25.4 Skin conditions caused by microorganisms
25.5 Infestations
25.6 Tumours
25.7 Other skin conditions that may affect seafarers
626 Gastrointestinal disaeases
26.1 Epidemiology of GI disorders
26.2 Studies of morbidity and mortality
26.3 Telemedical contacts for abdominal complaints
26.4 Gastrointestinal diseases on passenger ships and oil rigs – with physicians aboard
26.5 Acute abdomen and ‘surgical’ gastrointestinal emergencies at Sea
127 Oral health
27 Oral Health
1128 Psychosocial and organisational aspects
28.2 Organisational Culture
28.3 Crew Resource Management
28.4 Stress & Fatigue
28.5 Crew Endurance
28.6 Occupational hazards
28.7 Cultural differences
28.8 Psychosocial maritime health
28.9 Detection of psychosocial health problems
28.10 Acknowledgments
28.11 References
429 Soft tissue and joint diseases
29.2 The diagnosis
29.3 Return-to-work
930 Sexually transmitted diseases
30.3 STD transmission
30.4 Prevention of STD’s
30.5 Bacterial STD’s
30.6 Viral STD’s
30.7 Fungal, parasitic and protozoan STD’s
30.8 Sexually transmitted enteric infections
831 Infectious diseases - maritime aspects
31.2 Skin Blood Cluster
31.3 Faeces-Food-Water Cluster
31.4 Droplet-Air-Cluster
31.5 Zoonotic – Environmental Cluster
31.7 Vaccinations in Maritime Medicine
132 Death at sea
32 Death at sea
733 Expertise in maritime health
33.2 The role of the maritime physician in decision-taking and collaboration.
33.3 Education and experience
33.4 Conflicting roles and Ethical practice in maritime health
33.5 The legal aspect. Liability / Insurance
33.6 Accreditation, audit and quality assurance
1034 Research in Maritime Medicine
34.2 Science and research in maritime medicine
34.3 Scientific literature in maritime medicine and research methodology
34.4 Financing research in maritime medicine
34.5 Research methods
34.6 Research tools for maritime medicine
34.7 Ethical concerns and research standards in maritime medicine
34.8 Presentation and publication of maritime medicine topics
34.9 Research collaboration and research institutions for maritime medicine
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Tuesday, 16, July, 2019
UzbekNeftegaz held talk with Total E&P Activités Pétrolières, NOVATEK
At Uzbekneftegaz building were held talks between the Uzbekneftegaz Chairman B. Ashrafkhanov and the officials of Total E&P Activités Pétrolières and PJSC NOVATEK, Uzbekneftegaz said.
The parties reportedly discussed in detail the possibilities of multilateral partnership. The guests expressed interest in obtaining information on Uzbekistan’s current investment legislation, studying geological and geophysical data and the existing infrastructure near investment blocks for drafting an action plan.
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Lebanon will not allow itself to serve as a crossing point for arms and gunmen across its border,says Sleiman
Created on Saturday, 16 March 2013 18:05 | Published Date | | Hits: 395
President Michel Sleiman, who is on an official tour of African states, said Friday night that the Lebanese should refrain from sending fighters to Syria.
“To overcome tensions surrounding Lebanon we should all be committed to the Baabda Declaration and not send gunmen to Syria or receive them. We should remain neutral,” Sleiman said during a ceremony at the Lebanese Embassy in Ivory Coast.
“The Lebanese Army has been commissioned to repress and arrest any gunmen [in Lebanon] to fight, whether they are with the opposition or not,” he added.
Earlier that day, Sleiman said: “The Syrian Foreign Ministry’s statement is being studied and we will take the appropriate stance on it. Lebanon has adopted a disassociation policy on the Syrian events. This position was translated into the Baabda Declaration."
“Lebanon, according to this [Baabda] Declaration, will not allow itself to serve as a crossing point for arms and gunmen across its border,” Sleiman said.
“It will not allow the establishment of military bases or security centers for gunmen on its territory,” he added.
We will no longer accept attacks from Lebanon,says Abdel-Karim
Syria will no longer accept attacks on its territory from across the border with Lebanon, Syria’s Ambassador Ali Abdel-Karim Ali said in remarks published Saturday and Prime Minister Najib Mikati reiterated his call for Lebanon to uphold its dissociation policy.
“What is required of the Lebanese government is that it carry out its duty on the border with Syria,” Ali told As-Safir newspaper.
“We have no interest whatsoever in creating tensions with Lebanon but at the same time we can never compromise on Syria's security and sovereignty. We are being attacked and we are no longer willing to accept that - ever,” he said.
Damascus, in a letter sent to the Foreign Ministry Thursday, warned Beirut it would attack terrorists in Lebanon, reiterating its stance that arms and gunmen were being smuggled from the border.
The letter said Syrian forces were still exercising self-restraint by not striking “concentrations of armed gangs inside Lebanese territory in order to prevent them from crossing into Syrian territory.”
“But this will not last indefinitely,” the letter warned.
Separately, Mikati told the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat in remarks published Saturday that he would try to seek clarification on the contents of the letter through diplomatic channels.
“We will get more clarification about the letter via diplomatic means,” the prime minister said.
“I urge the Lebanese to continue [upholding] the policy of disassociation,” he added.
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The new US Secretary of State announced during his recent visit to Saudi Arabia that the U.S. will continue to support the opposition until it is able to attain a peaceful solution. He also ignored and didn't comment on the Saudi minister's call for keeping arms supply to the armed terrorist groups in Syria. This means that the Syrian bloodshed will continue as it isn't among the United States’ priorities to order its agents and tools in the region to stop this bloodbath.
Those, who claim keenness to help the Syrian people, mainly in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States, are sending non lethal gifts, “peaceful” terrorists who will bring “peace” to Syria according to the American way!!
Statements by Western officials including the British, about their countries' intention to send “non lethal” weapons to terrorists and on easing the European Union’s arm embargo on the terrorists, are but a farce. What kind of embargo are they talking about and what sort of softhearted weapons are they sending? Does this mean that the stuffing of the explosive devices to be used in the coming terrorist bombings will be reduced or will children at the bombing site be excluded from death?!!!
In fact, neither a peaceful solution is possible in Syria nor bloodshed will stop unless the non stopped flow of trained terrorists and arms into Syria, mainly across the Turkish borders, is halted.
It seems that the U.S. is adopting a self distancing policy as regards the issue of indirect armament by ordering those who keep US weapons in their stores to send the arms to the terrorist groups in Syria and by providing secret training to terrorists in Jordan.
Thus, the US government eludes its electors, by adopting the evidently contradicted policy of supporting terrorism while claiming in the media that it is fighting it.
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Int'l understanding of events in Syria backs dialogue, says al-Haqi
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DAMASCUS,(ST)_The Syrian government continues holding talks with all parties to pave the ground for launching the national dialogue to solve the crisis in the country.
Today (Thursday), the ministerial committee tasked with implementing the endorsed political plan met the Syrian Family Forum's Board of Trustees which includes representatives from different Syrian components.
Dr.Wael al-Halqi, who chairs the committee, stressed that the Syrian people are able to surpass the crisis thanks for their steadfastness, unity, and patience and the Syrian Arab Army's staunch defense of the homeland's stability and security.
"Creation of an international public opinion that understands the events in Syria well would support the national dialogue conference," a-Halqi said.
He briefed the Trustees' council on guarantees given to those who determine to return home to take part in the national dialogue, clarifying that government has also taken several measures to ensure aid and shelters to the displaced citizens who return home.
Cultural awareness
Members of the Trustees' council suggested re-forming new cultural awareness to identify the concept of national culture, belongings, freedom, citizenship, and rule of law.
They also underlined need for re-formulating scientific curriculums to cope with comprehensive development process.
"The Syrian Family Forum has offered aid to a number of Syrian families despite the difficulty of reaching all areas as a result of highway robbery by terrorist groups," Ahed Sharefa, the forum's chairwoman told reporters after the meeting.
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In a symposium held in Tishreen University in Lattakia province, Ali Haidar said: "The real political process is based on the political plan for resolving the crisis in Syria because it sees the Syrian people as authority and reference."
He underscored that Syria would achieve victory and the solution to the crisis would be Syrian and in the homeland.
"Since the foundation of the Zionist entity in the region in 1948, Syria has faced conspiracy due to its geographical position and its rejection for recognizing the entity," the minister said, citing sacrifices being offered by the Syrian Arab Army to restore stability and security all over the country.
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“Considering that the most battle worthy force standing up to Syria’s regular army is admittedly Jabhat al Nusra, a terrorist group, it is easy to see who will become the ‘end user’ of that assistance,” Lukashevich said.
He claimed there was still a chance for talks between the Syrian government and the disparate opposition groups.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday Russia is taking no sides in the Syrian conflict and hopes the Syrian opposition will soon form a team to negotiate with government representatives. Moscow has previously said it is ready to provide a venue for negotiations between the Syrian opposition and Syrian authorities.
Earlier this week, during a visit to London with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Lavrov warned Britain against arming the terrorists in Syria, saying this would breach international law, The Independent reported. Britain said last week it was ready to supply light armored vehicles to the rebels.
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Efforts to Boost Iran-Iraq Economic Ties
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"Grounds are prepared for strengthening and promoting bilateral economic and political ties between Iran and Iraq" Iran's vice-President for International Affairs Ali Saeedlou said Tuesday, according to IRNA.
Saeedlou made the remarks in a meeting with Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Rosh Nori Shawis in the city of Erbil, capital of Iraq’s Regional Government of Kurdistan in north of that country.
The Iranian official voiced Tehran’s readiness to participate in Iraq’s reconstruction projects; stressing that Tehran-Baghdad cooperation would play an influential role in the region.
The Iraqi official hailed Iran’s support for Iraq, calling for further economic and trade cooperation between the two neighboring countries.
The two sides discussed issues of mutual interests.
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Macmillan’s salute to Cornish park’s charity champs
Making a big splash for charity: From the left are Hendra Holiday park director Jon Hyatt; park manager Chris North; directors Bob and Janine Hyatt, Will Dexter, Emma Wright for Macmillan Cancer Support, and director Rebecca May
STAFF at Hendra Holiday Park in Newquay have drawn praise from a major cancer charity for their “amazing efforts” to raise funds for the cause.
A staggering total of over £13,000 was handed over to Macmillan Cancer Support this February following twelve months of hard work by the staff team.
Throughout 2019, a raft of different fun activities on the park helped to swell the kitty, and which both youngsters and grown-ups joined in enthusiastically.
Customers also played their part by making voluntary donations when booking their holidays.
Park facilities include a large pool with flumes and other fun features
Every year, family-owned Hendra adopts a different charity to support – and their latest crusade has created a new high watermark in the business’s long history.
Park director Janine Hyatt said that everyone was amazed and delighted when the final amount raised was totted-up – and came to an astonishing £13,398.
“We chose Macmillan Cancer Support as we want to help them continue their very important work of helping people who suffer from the disease,” said Janine.
“This is the largest single amount we have ever raised, and the lion’s share of the credit must to our park’s team members for their amazing dedication and energy.
“The bar has now been set higher than ever, so everyone is looking forward to tackling this coming year’s fundraising challenge!” she added.
A former winner of the Holiday Park of the Year title for both Cornwall and for South West England, Hendra has also won many other awards for its quality standards and environmental care.
The park provides a raft of different activities and entertainment, and its accommodation options include caravan holiday homes and glamping units to let, plus touring pitches.
There is more information about Hendra, which is a member of the Best of British group of leading independent parks, on its website at www.hendra-holidays.com
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BioHiTech Global (BHTG) Updates on Launch of New Revolution Series Digesters
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CHESTNUT RIDGE, N.Y., June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — BioHiTech Global, Inc. (“BioHiTech” or the “Company”) (BHTG), a green technology company that develops and deploys innovative and disruptive waste management technologies, provides an update on the initial launch of its new Revolution Series Digesters.
The Company received an extremely favorable response to the launch of its Revolution Series Digesters at the RFMA tradeshow in early March and has already received numerous requests for pilots from new and existing customers including several national restaurant and grocery store chains. As a result of the initial market response to the Revolution Series Digesters the Company has scheduled an initial order for 100 units that it expects to roll out in the coming quarters. The new digester series targets a large market segment of the food services industry that represents more than 1.5 million potential customers including full and quick service restaurants, coffee shops, hospitality companies and other specialty food service providers. The Company intends to expand its 30-day pilot programs and expects this will lead to a sharp increase in unit rentals that will impact revenue beginning in the second half of 2017.
Frank E. Celli, CEO of BioHiTech Global, stated, “We have received an overwhelmingly positive response to the launch of our new Revolution Series Digesters that has far exceeded even our own expectations. Our initial pilot units were deployed within the first two weeks of launch and we are building additional units to deploy with our growing backlog of customers who have requested pilot programs. Based on the initial response, we have brought an environmentally friendly solution to food waste disposal that is compact, easy to install, and cost effective that so many commercial markets were looking for. Additionally, the performance of our units currently in pilot testing has outperformed our expectations from an equipment throughput standpoint and we welcome a new breed of customers to our install base as a result.”
The new Revolution Series Digesters are designed to cost effectively meet the needs of not only the restaurant market segment but also any small volume waste generator by leveraging the same regulatory compliant digestive technologies as the Company’s successful line of Eco-Safe Digesters that service the mid-to-large volume organic waste markets. The Revolution Series Digester units have a compact design requiring minimal floor space and eliminate the odors, leaks, and pests associated with the use of dumpsters and bins. They operate on standard 115 Volt power and can be easily connected to existing plumbing in about two hours. The rapid throughput of the units will enable BioHiTech to offer this sustainable solution at a cost that is competitive with or lower than traditional waste disposal.
The BioHiTech Revolution Series also offers BioHiTech Cirrus™, the Company’s proprietary cloud-based mobile app, that can turn each unit into a “Smart” device that provides a wealth of actionable real-time data analytics to improve supply chain management and operational efficiency. With over a million restaurants in the U.S. alone, the BioHiTech Revolution Series opens a vast untapped market segment for BioHiTech Global. The Company intends to aggressively market the product through its current distribution channels and sees those efforts having a positive impact on revenues beginning in the second half of 2017.
About BioHiTech Global
BioHiTech Global (BHTG), “The Company” headquartered in Chestnut Ridge NY, develops and deploys innovative and disruptive waste management technologies. The combined offerings of BioHiTech Global offer our customers a full suite of technology based disposal options capable of having a significant impact on waste generation while providing a true zero landfill environment. With options for both on and off site biological treatment of waste, BioHiTech Global is a leader in zero waste solutions for businesses and municipalities. For more information, please visit www.biohitechglobal.com.
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PAPA GOTTA BRAND NEW BAG
David Tait
19 OCT 2017: When one ponders the greatest ever influencers on the travel world, the name Bernard D. Sadow may not be among the first to spring to mind. He’s certainly not up there with the likes of, the Wright Brothers, William Boeing, or Thomas Cook. That’s a shame, as looking at the way people travel today, the late Mr. Sadow really deserves to be recognized as a a major contibutor.
It was in 1970 that Bernie Sadow had what he modestly referred to as “one of my better ideas” - at the time he was vice president of a Massachusetts company that manufactured luggage and coats. His eureka moment came when, returning from a vacation, the Sadow family was making a connection in San Juan. Bernie had just struggled to drag two huge overweight suitcases across the busy airport when he spied a worker effortlessly rolling a heavy piece of equipment on a wheeled skid. As Mr. Sadow told the story, he said to his wife, “You know, that’s exactly what we need for luggage.”
Returning to the office, he immediately started experimenting: His first prototype featured four steel trunk coasters mounted under a suitcase with an attached dog leash so the bag could be rolled with ease. It worked! A few tweaks and refinements later he took his new product to New York to try and sell it to the major department stores - but nobody was buying. "Everybody I took it to, threw me out" Sadow said. "Pulling a piece of luggage? They thought I was crazy.” He was frequently told, “Men will never accept suitcases with wheels - It was a very macho thing” he said.
Finally, a vice president at Macy’s saw the bag and had the foresight to realize its potential. The first order was placed and a few months later a Macy's window mannequin became the first sighting of ‘someone’ pulling luggage on wheels. No dummy for sure! Macy’s ads soon began promoting, “The Luggage That Glides” and the rest, as they say, is history.
In 1972 Mr. Sadow’s invention was granted US Patent # 3,653,474 for ‘Rolling Luggage’. The patent’s copy stated, “Whereas formerly, luggage would be handled by porters and be loaded or unloaded at points convenient to the street, the large terminals of today, particularly air terminals, have increased the difficulty of baggage-handling which has become perhaps the biggest single difficulty encountered by an air passenger.” Boy. If only they’d known!
It would be almost another 20 years before Mr. Sadow’s wheeled suitcase was overtaken by the now ubiquitous ‘wheelie’. In 1987 the ‘Rollaboard’, as it was first known, was invented by Captain Robert Plath: A Northwest Airlines 747 pilot and inveterate ‘tinkerer’, Plath affixed two wheels and a long telescopic handle to suitcases that rolled upright, rather than being towed on their side like Mr. Sadow’s four-wheeled, pull-strap model.
Initially Plath only sold his Rollaboards to fellow flight-crew members but as soon as airline passengers began seeing flight attendants traversing airports with their ‘wheeliemajigs’ in tow, a whole new market was instantly created. Seizing the opportunity, Captain Plath soon hung up his peaked cap and became plain Mister Plath in order to form Travelpro - now a major luggage company.
In an interesting ‘back to the future’ evolution, today’s most popular wheelies have regressed to being upright four-wheelers supplanting the Rollaboard two-wheelers that ousted the original Sadow model. Of course, if you really want to be cool, backpack wheelies are now the only way to go. You can for example acquire a ‘Samsonite Modern Utility Double Shot Rolling Backpack’ at most luggage stores.
Talking of Samsonite, the really incredible thing about the evolution of luggage is why on earth it took so long for someone to think of putting wheels on there? Clearing out my late mother’s attic a few months ago, my brother and I struggled to move a big old heavy, hard-sided, brown Samsonite suitcase that had been a staple part of our family’s vacations for as long as we could remember. It was a brute and putting wheels on there - now - just seemed such an obvious thing to do!
So very obvious, that not once in all the years of dragging that brown monster in and out of the family car did my brother or I ever have a Bernard D. Sadow-like, “Wow, I’ve just had an amazing idea!” moment.
Had we done so, I would almost certainly not be sitting here writing about it right now.
Here’s to ya Bernie!
David Tait's insight and irrepressible humour give us an insider's take on the airlines and the industry in general. He doesn't pull his punches, and readers find his columns thoughtful, informative, amusing and infuriating – regardless, David's views on our industry are always original.
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1 Philosophy & Geography Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: A vindication of the rights of brutes Peder Anker a a Center for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway Online publication date: 19 August 2010 To cite this Article Anker, Peder(2004) 'A vindication of the rights of brutes', Philosophy & Geography, 7: 2, To link to this Article: DOI: / URL: PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Full terms and conditions of use: This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan or sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently verified with primary sources. The publisher shall not be liable for any loss, actions, claims, proceedings, demand or costs or damages whatsoever or howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly in connection with or arising out of the use of this material.
2 PHILOSOPHY & GEOGRAPHY, VOL. 7, NO. 2, AUGUST 2004 COMMENTARY A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes PEDER ANKER Center for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway The first defense of animal rights came in the form of a joke on human rights. As a reaction against the new ethics of the Enlightenment, a conservative aristocrat ridiculed rights for men and women by arguing that these would eventually lead to the laughable and absurd idea of giving rights to brutes, and perhaps even plants and things. The idea of human rights should thus be abandoned. After two hundred years it is worth revisiting this old argument to address the question of whether granting moral status to animals, plants, and even landscapes eventually makes hard-won human rights into a joke. In 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft ( ) published Vindication of the Rights of Men in response to Edmund Burke s conservative view of the French revolution. She argued that every man has an equal right to education because of his equal intrinsic capability to reason. Soon Thomas Paine ( ) followed suit with a similar line of argument in his Rights of Man (1791). A year later Wollstonecraft enlarged her argument to also include women in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). 1 These celebrated books stand today as examples of Enlightenment philosophies that also embody key values of today s world. In their own time, they created much debate and were ill received by the conservative establishment. One particularly critical response, which will be the focus of the following pages, came in the pamphlet Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, published anonymously in This little booklet, largely ignored by historians of animal rights, 3 suggested that animals were entitled to rights because of their intrinsic capabilities to reason, speak, and have emotions. Animals were entitled to rights because of these inherent characteristics and not because of human obligations or sympathies towards them. The booklet thus represents one of the first biocentric arguments in favor of animal rights. These arguments countered those of the Enlightenment thinkers concerned about the moral status of animals, plants, and things. The most important one was Immanuel Kant ( ), who argued that even though only humans had rights, they ought not to treat animals badly, or destroy plants and other beautiful things. Such acts of the spiritus destructionis could corrupt the human sense of morality: A propensity to wanton destruction of what is beautiful in inanimate nature ISSN print/issn online/04/ Taylor & Francis Ltd DOI: /
3 260 COMMENTARY (spiritus destructionis) is opposed to man s duty to himself; for it weakens or uproots that feeling in man which, though not of itself moral, is still a disposition of sensibility that greatly promotes morality or at least prepares the way for it: the disposition, namely, to love something (e.g. beautiful crystal formations, the indescribable beauty of plants) even apart from any intention to use it. 4 Kant would in his lectures talk about duties to animals and spirits along a similar line of argument. His point was that humans had a duty toward themselves not to harm animals because such acts would be harmful to human sensibility. In Britain, this reasoning came to dominate early protests against vivisection of dogs in scientific experiments. 5 The horse breeder John Lawrence, for example, published a treatise in 1796 in which he argued that animals should have rights to secure human sensibility. 6 One of those who also took the Kantian argument seriously was Herman Daggett, a priest at Providence College in the United States. In 1792 he published a lecture entitled The Rights of Animals where he argued that human duties towards animals were ultimately a question of caring for your own sense of morality. 7 The views in Vindication of the Rights of Brutes contrasted with the Enlightenment defenders of animal protection. The pamphlet was written by Thomas Taylor ( ), who wrote under a pseudonym to distinguish its content from his scholarly work. He was born in London of a noble family who over the years had lost much of their power and fortune due to the rise of the new industrialist class. Taylor came to view with skepticism the idea that all citizens were entitled to equal rights, because he saw such thinking as a threat to the aristocracy. Educated at the St. Paul s school for gifted children, he graduated at the age of fifteen with fluent knowledge of Greek and Latin, and familiarity with Greek culture. After graduation, he spent his youth studying speculative philosophy, theology, and the Greek heritage. He was soon known as the Platonist who over the years wrote or translated nearly a hundred books about classical philosophy and culture. 8 Among his numerous publications are the first translation of Plato s collected works into English, as well as textbook exercises in Greek for children. For this work, he enjoyed a reputation as one of the leading intellectuals of his time. His academic bravura was also associated with a good sense of humor. For example, he rejected a professorship at Oxford because he thought the University to be too dull. Though he was a frequent visitor at the New College where he enjoyed free access to the Bodleian Library, he much preferred to live in the more lively streets of London where he nurtured a circle of academic friends. Among them was Wollstonecraft, whose children lived in Taylor s home for a short period. Besides books and guests, his home also included numerous pets that he cared for. His Vindication of the Rights of Brutes was construed as a joke on Wollstonecraft s defense of rights for men and women. Taylor took her argument into absurdity by the following strategy: If one accepts A, one has to accept B, which unfortunately leads to the absurd conclusion C, which proves that the initial thesis about A must be wrong. In other words, if one accepts that all men have equal rights, one also has to accept that all women have rights, which unfortunately leads to the conclusion that all brutes have rights, which proves that the initial argument about the rights of men must be wrong. He turned this reasoning into a satire by using obviously outdated but nevertheless entertaining evidence from his arsenal of classical sources. Making the argument in favor of human rights laughable was his rhetorical strategy for making them less dangerous to his aristocratic privileges. His line of argumentation and sense of humor was clearly
4 COMMENTARY 261 inspired by Blaise Pascal s famous Provincial Letters (1660), which claimed that extensional ethics based on a case by case argumentation eventually would lead to an unbound corrupt morality. Taylor s point of departure was Wollstonecraft s thesis about the rights of men. [I]n such an enlightened age as the present, he argued, God has made all Things equal with respect to their intrinsic and real dignity and worth. 9 Only human ignorance, he continued, can explain why people have not noticed That Brutes possess Reason in common with Men. 10 As evidence he pointed to several classical natural histories and to the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, Empedocles, Democritus, and Porphyry, among others, who all argued that animals could reason, only with a gradual difference to humans. It follows, he argued, That in consequence of Brutes possessing Reason, we ought to abstain from Animal Food; and that this was the Practice of the most ancient Greeks. 11 This defense of vegetarianism was evidentially held in the writings of Porphyry, Pythagoras, and Hesiod, and was likewise the Practice of the Egyptian Priests, 12 who in religious sermons restrained from animal food and mimicked gods with brutes. The same Abstinence [from animal food can be] exemplified in the History of the Persians and Indians, he also claimed. 13 From all this evidence it followed that one was underestimating the Importance of understanding the Language of Brutes, and restoring them to their natural equality with mankind. 14 Moreover, Taylor continued, Plutarch proved that elephants could talk, fall in love, observe human decency, and heed a very courtly kind of conversation. With scientific decoding of animal language, he predicted, animals would soon take an active part in society. A medically skilled elephant may become the king s principal surgeon, for example. 15 All of this confirmed Plutarch s thesis which showed That Magpies are naturally Musicians Oxen Arithmeticians; and Dogs Actors. 16 What remains to be proven, he concluded, was that also vegetables and minerals should be included in this sublime theory of the equality of all things. 17 In this fashion, Taylor used his knowledge of emblematic natural history to show that animals deserved the same rights as humans. 18 The argument took the idea of exclusive human rights down the slippery slope of the great chain of being from humans (men and women), to animals (elephants, apes, dragons), arriving at the possible rights of vegetables and minerals. The booklet contains page after page of entertaining quotes from ancient sources about elephants conversing with one another and wild dragons having the right to marry and settle in society. It also includes numerous comparisons of women to brutes. Writing under a pseudonym allowed him to play rather freely with the sources. This creative use of evidence permitted laughter, apparently on the idea of granting animal rights, though the target of his joke was Paine and Wollstonecraft s defense of human rights. This sarcasm was spelled out in the first page of the book. After the wonderful productions of Mr. Paine and Mrs. Wollstonecraft, such a theory as the present, seems to be necessary, in order to give perfection to our researches into the rights of things. 19 Taylor s rhetorical strategy allowed him to attack the idea of human rights, while at the same time retreat by making it clear that he was only joking. Today the idea of animal rights or liberation is not a joke anymore, and few will find Taylor amusing. His humor was that of an old-fashioned aristocrat failing to see that the world was changing. This at least has been the opinion of Peter Singer and Tom Regan, both who have argued that Taylor s joke was anything but funny. Indeed Singer began his famous Animal Liberation (1975) by challenging Taylor s implicit claim that granting rights to brutes was manifestly absurd. 20 Instead of Taylor s satirical use of dated evidence, Singer and Regan used serious zoological research into the cognitive and emotional life of animals to make the claim that animals did indeed deserve rights.
5 262 COMMENTARY Regan s deontological and Singer s utilitarian defense of animals have, in effect, been re-rehearsals of Taylor s philosophical reduction, though without his sense of humor. From a historical perspective Taylor s reductio ad absurdum of human rights is not absurd, at least if one is to believe Roderick Nash s history of The Rights of Nature (1989). Nash argues that the evolution of rights of tyrants, Kings, aristocrats, men, women, and blacks is a process which will continue with rights for animals, species, and perhaps whole landscapes. To many activists of the 1970s this gradual historical evolution of rights was a matter of personal experience emerging from their involvement in the Civil Rights and feminist movements. This modern and progressive view of history as a linear development of moral standings from humans, to animals, birds, fish, insects, plants, and ecological communities has prevailed in much environmental philosophy. As a result, arguments in favor of exclusive human rights have been portrayed, at least in the writings of Nash, as backward looking. 21 Progressive environmental ethicists have consequently been struggling with the problem of trying to draw boundaries of inclusion and exclusion in the fortunate group of beings in the moral community. One solution, once proposed by the South African statesman and philosopher Jan Christian Smuts ( ), was to take a holistic perspective which grants everything moral standing according to its status in the hierarchy of beings in the natural world. Following this line of argument Smuts wrote the first draft for the United Nation Charter of 1945 about human rights, only to be dismissed by human rights activists, such as W. E. B. DuBois, who argued that his holism was a defense of the apartheid regime. 22 To create a gradualist hierarchy of rights among people and species would inevitably lead to a hierarchy of power and dominance, they argued, in a pointed critique of how Smuts communitarian eco-philosophy legitimized racial segregation. The role of scientific evidence supporting individualistic as well as holistic environmental ethics has often been as controversial as the philosophical argumentation. The satirical use of evidence in Taylor s pamphlet was as much a play on science as it was on human rights. All the classic sources he referred to were authorities of knowledge of their time, and his use of them thus came to illustrate the temporality of science and therefore its unsuitability as a ground for philosophical reflection. Smuts theory about holism in South Africa, for example, illustrates that science can be an unfaithful partner for environmental ethicists. Smuts built his argument on the work of some of the best ecologists of his time. Yet as science changed, his holism-inspired racism became outdated. The struggle to deal with the temporality of science also came to the forefront in an article from 1989 defending rights of whales. By the time the article appeared in print, it turned out that the zoological evidence for the claim that whales could make conversation, reason, predict the future, talk about history, and enjoy a rich emotional life were dated or proven incorrect. 23 Scientific evidence is often one step ahead of environmental philosophy. New discoveries or theories in biology may thus cause a change or modification in ethical theories built upon its foundation. The aim of Taylor s satirical defense of animal rights on biocentric grounds was to undermine the emerging notion of human rights and thus secure his own aristocratic privileges. The aim of current biocentric environmental ethics is also to undermine the anthropocentrism of the Enlightenment, which raises the question of whose human interest this ethic will serve. In the aristocratic world of Taylor, it was up to the King, Prince or Duke to determine the hierarchy of rights in society. In the world imagined by animal rights groups and environmental ethicists, rights will ultimately be determined by expert zoologists and ecologists with intimate knowledge of species and landscapes.
6 COMMENTARY 263 Scientists will be the ones settling rights and privileges within the biotic community. In the case of Deep Ecology, for example, the ecologists will in effect be nature s aristocrats laying out the rules of the game. 24 Taylor s old pamphlet also provokes the question of whether or not animal rights, and by extension, rights of the rest of the natural world, may turn human rights into a joke. It is not clear how one is supposed to defend hard-won human rights in a world where moral status is a privilege of every species. If everything is entitled to rights then no one will end up respecting them, since breaking these rights would be inevitable in order to survive. A vindication of the rights of brutes risks vindicating human brutes. A world without boundaries would allow any type of action, since there would be no demarcation between right and wrong. A return to anthropocentrism, on the other hand, does not imply an endorsement of cruelty to animals or environmental destruction. As indicated above, to damage anything beautiful would undermine the human moral sensibility Kant thought was of paramount importance. The defense of human rights implied a moral duty to not harm nature because that would undermine human dignity. Notes 1. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (London: J. Johnson, 1790). Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (London: H.D. Symonds, 1792). Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London: J. Johnson, 1792). 2. Quid Rides? [PSEUDONYM], A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes (London: Edward Jeffery, 1792). Reprinted in Boston by Benjamin Sweetser in rd reprint (Gainesville, Florida: Scholars Facsimiles & Reprints, 1966), with an introduction by Louise S. Boas. A copy at British Museum has an inscription by J. R. saying By Thomas Taylor, the Platonist as he himself informed me. 3. Richard Sorabji, Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate (London: Duckworth, 1993). Hilda Kean, Animal Rights: Political and Social Change in Britain Since 1800 (London: Reaktion Books, 1998). 4. Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, trans. M. Gregor (Cambridge University Press, 1991 [1797]), 237. Immanuel Kant, Duties to Animals and Spirits, (1780) in Lectures on Ethics, trans. Louis Infield (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), MacDonald Daly, Quasi-Anti-Vivisection in the Eighteenth Century, Durham University Journal, 82 (July 1990): Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World (New York: Pantheon Books, 1983). Richard Sorabji, Animal Minds and Human Morals: The Origins of the Western Debate (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993). 6. John Lawrence, A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on Horses, and the Moral Duties of Man Towards the Brutes of Creation, vol. 1. (London: T. N. Longman, 1796), Herman Daggett, The Rights of Animals (Sagg-Harbour: Frothingham, 1792). 8. William E. Axon and James Jacob Welsh, A Bibliography of the Works of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist (Westwood: The Kindle Press, 1970). Ruth Balch, Thomas Taylor the Platonist (Chicago: Newberry Library, 1917). Orlin Sanford, Catalogue of Good Books: Exceptionally Full Set of the Works of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist (New York: Bangs & Co., 1888). Christine Kenyon-Jones, Kindered Brutes (Burlington: Ashgate, 2001), Taylor, Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, Taylor s emphasis. 10. Taylor, Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, 18. Taylor s emphasis. 11. Taylor, Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, 34. Taylor s emphasis. 12. Taylor, Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, 43. Taylor s emphasis. 13. Taylor, Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, 59. Taylor s emphasis. 14. Taylor, Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, 75. Taylor s emphasis. 15. Taylor, Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, Taylor, Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, 91. Taylor s emphasis. 17. Taylor, Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, William Ashworth, Natural History and the Emblematic World View, in Reappraisal of the Scientific
7 264 COMMENTARY Revolution, ed. Daniel C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), Taylor, Vindication of the Rights of Brutes, iii iv. Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), Peter Singer, Animal Liberation (New York: Random House, 1975), 1. Also, Tom Regan, Animal Rights (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Roderick Nash, The Rights of Nature (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989). 22. Peder Anker, Imperial Ecology (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), Sudhir K. Chopra, Whales: Towards Developing Right of Survival as Part of an Ecosystem, Denver Journal of International Law and Policy, 17(1989): Peder Anker and Nina Witoszek, The Dream of the Biocentric Community, Worldviews, 2(1998): Arne Næss, Ecology, Community and Lifestyle, trans. David Rothenberg (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Notes on Contributor Peder Anker is Research Fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment at University of Oslo, Norway. His latest work is Imperial Ecology: Environmental Order in the British Empire, (Harvard University Press, 2001)
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Mauro Senatore: Germs of Death: The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida
David Maruzzella
Title: Germs of Death: The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
Author: Mauro Senatore
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Reviewed by: David Maruzzella (DePaul University)
Mauro Senatore’s first book in English, Germs of Death: The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida, is a compact and ambitious reading of a significant portion of Jacques Derrida’s philosophical work from his earliest writings on Husserl to unpublished seminars from the 1970s and 1980s. Divided into 5 chapters (2 on Platonism and 3 on Hegelianism), Senatore’s book aims to provide “a systematic elaboration of how Derrida develops the Husserlian concept of genesis through a critical engagement with Plato’s and Hegel’s legacies as well as with the biological thought of his time” (xii). Indeed, if the chapters’ explicit focus are on Derrida’s on-going engagement with Platonic and Hegelian accounts of genesis, life, transmission and inheritance, the book’s toile de fond is no doubt the place of Derrida’s thought in larger debates and developments in contemporary biology and the life sciences more generally. By reading Derrida in light of the transformations that took place in these scientific fields—a shift, broadly speaking, from the genetic paradigm to the post-genetic or epigenetic paradigm—Senatore makes a convincing case that Derrida’s writings constitute nothing less than a significant contribution, “nonphilosophical and nonpreformationist,” to a “post-genetic interrogation of life” (xii). The stakes of this reading are high, since, if Senatore is correct, it would perhaps make Catharine Malabou’s abandonment of the Derridean language of writing premature and unnecessary. What Derrida will have meant by writing and programme, for example, as early as 1967 in De la grammatologie where he already speaks of biological writing and the biological pro-gramme[i], would in fact be quite close to what Malabou will call plasticity in reference to contemporary neuroscience.[ii]
In many ways, the center of gravity around which Senatore’s book turns is the recent wave of interest that Derrida scholars[iii] have taken in Derrida’s unpublished 1975-76 seminar La vie la mort[iv], which in turn makes clear the connection between deconstruction and the life sciences proposed by Senatore, since Derrida devotes a substantial portion of his seminar to discussing the French biologist François Jacob’s book La Logique du vivant[v] as well as the work of Georges Canguilhem. Senatore, with this seminar in mind, reads the Derridean notions of writing, dissemination, trace, etc. as responding to the latent teleological and metaphysical presuppositions that still structured the philosophical musings of biologists such as Jacob. But if Derrida shows how the then recent discoveries in genetics seem only to be a repetition of biological preformationism, this time without a divine creator—and thus of philosophical teleology more generally—, he also attempts to show how the contradictions and aporias in the biological text point necessarily beyond themselves to a new thinking of life, one more in line with the work of the biophysicist Henri Atlan who emphasizes the necessity of living beings not to simply repeat pre-inscribed genetic instructions, but to be submitted to the “aleatory perturbations” of the organism’s environment (xii).
Though a fair amount of attention has been recently given to Derrida’s engagement with mathematics and the formal sciences[vi], Senatore’s book opens up new debates and will certainly path the way for future research trajectories that seek to re-inscribe Derrida’s thought in larger historical and scientific contexts, thus avoiding the typical readings of Derrida that made his work a staple in English and Comparative Literature departments. It is perhaps not even an exaggeration to say that we are in the midst of a paradigm shift—if not at least a renaissance (to which Senatore’s book no doubt belongs)—in critical studies on the work of Jacques Derrida. Beginning with Martin Hägglund’s influential Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Stanford, 2008) and even continuing into the field of intellectual history with Edward Baring’s The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968 (Cambridge, 2011), as commentators have come to insist more and more upon the authentically philosophical nature of Derrida’s project.
Indispensable to this philosophical revival of Derrida is of course the meticulous editing and translation of Derrida’s seminars of which Senatore avails himself. This in turn has given scholars access to Derrida’s teaching as a philosophy instructor where he was often tasked with preparing young students for the competitive agrégation de philosophie. This meant that it was Derrida’s job to prepare students to work through the major philosophical problems of the Western tradition as treated by this tradition’s classical figures. Deconstruction was, it must be said, indebted to these close-readings of canonical texts that are to this day central to French philosophical training. In other words, Derrida is being read more widely as making original contributions to philosophy and no longer merely to literary theory[vii], where deconstruction was seen as one possible grid of literary analysis among others (psychoanalytic criticism, historicism, etc.), or, more generally, as an interpretive method applicable to any field whatsoever (i.e. deconstruction and architecture, deconstruction and legal theory, etc.). Indeed, this new turn in Derrida scholarship is making it quite clear that deconstruction does not consist simply in one possible hermeneutic strategy or analytic framework, nor is it a purely negative or critical project, but rather it uncovers and names in some sense the very movement of Being itself, the quasi-ontological conditions of possibility of all beings, the minimal and necessary structure of meaning and experience as such.
Senatore, rightly, does not shy away from such bold claims and asserts this at the outset: “I argue that Derrida conceives of the inscription-seed as the minimal structure of genesis in general, from biological to cultural genesis. This structure constitutes the element of a geneticism of sense in general—that is, of an analysis that accounts for the genesis of the discourse as well as of the living” (2). But this is not all. Derrida’s originality, according to Senatore’s account, is that this account of genesis in general is strictly “post-genetic,” by which he means that it is a thinking of genesis that is non-teleological and therefore breaks with the model wherein arche and telos coincide, the latter being simply an outgrowth of a potentiality present in the former. If the philosophical tradition from Aristotle to Hegel and beyond—albeit a particular reading of Hegel that has been largely discredited today[viii]—conceived of genesis as essentially the internal playing-out of instructions or a programme present already at the origin (a conception that is mirrored in the biological discourses from preformationism to modern geneticism whereby an organism is nothing other than the result of a set of pre-determined instructions transmitted from one generation to another), a post-genetic theory of genesis that takes seriously the irreducibility of the movement of necessary externalization that defines all beings. Indeed, it is Derrida’s contention that a kind of spontaneous Hegelianism was present throughout Jacob’s book La Logique du vivant. Yet Derrida’s engagement with the life sciences is not simply critical and destructive, but also seeks to to elaborate another thinking of life beyond the opposition life/death. Derrida in turn prepares the ground for the elaboration of a post-genetic thinking of life or what Derrida will come to call “life death”, one that anticipates more recent developments in biological epigenesis.
And yet while reading Senatore’s book, as well as Derrida’s seminar itself[ix], it is unclear how Derrida conceives of the relationship between philosophy and science. At certain moments, one gets the impression that Derrida is suggesting that philosophy, in particular deconstruction, can itself theorize certain objects and structures before the biological and life sciences, that is, that it anticipates discoveries and theoretical developments in various scientific fields. This would appear to make deconstruction a kind of science[x]—or a non-philosophical science? At other moments, it appears that the textual structure that necessarily conditions the life sciences as well as any being whatsoever, renders scientific objectivity both possible and impossible. Deconstruction, insofar as it is attuned to the particularities of the trace structure of beings in general, would be a paradoxical non-science of this most general condition of scientificity as such. Or put differently, and this is Senatore’s claim, it is indeed possible to generalize the notion of dissemination that unconsciously guides the text of biology into a quasi-transcendental structure that accounts for all genesis, “from biological to cultural genesis” (2). And in other moments still, Derrida’s position seems to be close to Althusser’s position in his 1967 lecture course Philosophie et philosophie spontanée des savants, where he explicitly takes up the biological theories of Jacob’s partner, Jacques Monod, in order to argue that there is a salvageable materialist tendency in Monod’s otherwise idealist discourse and that it is the text of philosophy to intervene politically within the scientists to help eliminate unquestioned ideological intrusions that hinder the practice of scientists. But what Althusser takes issue with is precisely Monod’s attempt to generalize his biological findings in order to explain genesis in general. Derrida, for his part, writes in the sixth session of his seminar:
The activity of the scientist, science, the text of genetic science as a whole are determined as products of their object, if you will, products of the life they are studying, textual products of the text they are translating or deciphering or whose procedures of deciphering they are deciphering. And this, which appears as a limit to objectivity, is also—by virtue of the structural law according to which a message can only be translated by the very products of its own translation—the condition of scientificity, in this domain, of the effectuation of science (and of all the sciences).[xi]
Not surprisingly, this session begins with a reference to Gödel, since once we see textuality as a general structure, a paradox of self-reference immediately arises wherein the biological text studied by the life sciences (the genetic code or inscriptions) necessarily refers to other texts, to a text without a non-textual outside. And it is the paradoxical structure of textuality all the way down, so to speak, that seems to legitimate deconstruction’s capacity to outstrip the sciences, if not at the very least, guide their future researches into the textuality that they necessarily study, and which moreover conditions their object of study, but which the science’s fail to thematize. All of this by way of introduction not to delegitimate Derrida’s project, or Senatore’s remarkable interpretation of it, but rather as serious questions and challenges to attempting to think the relationship between philosophy and science from within a transcendental or post-phenomenological framework.
Senatore’s book begins with an introductory chapter that proposes a reading of Derrida’s 1963 essay “Force and Signification”, in particular, a passage where Derrida refers to the Leibnizian scene of divine creation wherein God necessarily brings about the existence of the best possible world. This will then be linked to the more or less contemporaneous translation and commentary that Derrida published on Husserl’s late manuscript The Origin of Geometry. What Derrida develops across both works is a rethinking of genesis that is fundamentally different from what Senatore, following Derrida, calls the logos spermatikos whose biological analog is preformationism, the doctrine according to which an organism develops out of an initial germ which contains already in itself that which it will only later become. Derrida argues, as is now well-known, that meaning or sense cannot be seen as pre-existing the act of inscription, and, in turn, that the moment of inscription should not merely be seen as an external, secondary, and empirical accident, but rather, as an essential condition of possibility for meaning in general. It is in Husserl’s late writings where Derrida finds the basic structure of a rigorously non-theological and non-classical thinking of genesis. Here, meaning must await its inscription, and does not precede the act of writing. Ideality is thus a result of the process that writing names, “only writing permits the full accomplishment of the ideal objectivity of ideality by unbinding the latter from an actual subjectivity in general” (9). And so if ideality is only produced in some sense retrospectively after the event of writing, genesis must be conceived of as a fundamentally creative and productive, and not as an act of revelation of some pre-existing meaning or essence. Since nothing precedes inscription, there is strictly speaking no ideality without writing. This understanding of a generalized writing, as Derrida will later call it, is what Senatore calls “the most general geneticism” whereby writing is conceived as “the structure of genesis in general, from biological to cultural genesis” (14). With Husserl’s account of writing in mind, Senatore turns to the structuralism espoused by Jean Rousset in his reading of Proust, the main subject of Derrida’s “Force and Signification.” It is clear in what way structuralism will necessarily presuppose and repeat the classical scene of Leibnizian creation, which is itself analogous to biological preformationism. The structure of which the work is an expression seems to suggest that literary work is nothing but the fully developed form of what was once a germ latent in the structure itself. In the same way, Leibniz’s God moves from essence to existence, inscribing the former in the latter, and in so doing avoids what Derrida calls the anguish of writing, that is, the necessity of essence being produced not before the act of creation, but only in and by way of the genesis of existence itself. Derrida writes, “the metaphysics implicit in all structuralism, or in every structuralist proposition…always presupposes and appeals to the theological simultaneity of the book, and considers itself deprived of the essential when this simultaneity is not accessible” (19-20). Put differently, the classical notion of genesis makes meaning the result of internal transmission, rather than meaning having to necessarily be constituted as the result of passing through an essential moment of exteriority in the act of writing taken in a general sense, a movement that in turn erases the “externality” of this process of exteriorization.
Senatore then turns to Derrida’s “Plato’s Pharmacy” in the first of two chapters on Platonism in order to differentiate Derrida’s notion of dissemination from the Platonic theory of genesis. Like Leibniz’s scene of divine creation, Platonism “tends to annihilate what Derrida identifies as its anagrammatic structure—namely, the site of the concatenation of forms, of the tropic and syntactical movements, which precede and render possible the concatenation or movement of Platonism itself as well as of philosophy in general” (26). Reading Derrida’s famous essay alongside the recently published seminar on Heidegger from 1964-65 Senatore insists upon the necessity of refusing to “tell stories”, that is, to assimilate being and Beings and to nominate one particular being to be the cause or ontic explanation of the origin of beings. Indeed, the early sessions of Derrida’s lecture course are devoted to investigating what he calls “ontic metaphors” and the necessity to think with them—what is needed most of all is not that we simply abandon these metaphors, as if that were possible, but rather think their necessity and introduce new ones into philosophical discourse. The discussion of metaphoricity brings Senatore to a discussion of the notion of a living logos in Plato’s text. Despite Plato’s attempt to describe the genesis of the logos without recourse to an ontic metaphor, the origin of logos is nevertheless inscribed in the zoological and biological metaphor of generation—Plato is necessarily forced to think speech’s difference from writing as the result of the former’s having a father, that is, its being accompanied or even chaperoned by the direct source of its emission. Whereas writing is orphaned, a dead letter left to circulate without the possibility of response and responsibility, the voice is a living logos that can answer directly and respond to all inquiries addressed to it. Senatore writes, “This suggests once more that the structure of the logos constitutes a metaphor borrowed from a certain understanding of the living and thus that the relation to its father (the noble birth, the body proper, etc.) hinges on a genetic and zoological explanation” (34). But Derrida’s argument is stronger: it is not simply that Plato appeals to the metaphor of paternity and biological generation to explain the origin of the logos in the voice of the speaker, but rather that the casual order of determination is precisely relational. The existence of logos produces the familial relation and not the other way around such that “the concepts of the living and of the zoological process of generation are grounded on the concept of logos and on the relationship between the logos and its subject respectively” (35). Now this conception wherein the logos is the logic of the living is precisely what Derrida seeks to rethink. Indeed, the problem is less that metaphors were imported into the text of philosophy whereas they should be ideally left out of it, but rather that the chosen metaphor makes the production of living logos in speech into a general theory of genesis. Turning to later sections of “Plato’s Pharmacy,” Senatore convincingly shows that what Derrida sought to uncover was the irreducibility of writing or the anagrammatic structure of the text is itself an even more general geneticism. This is how we should understand Derrida’s famous interpretation of the signifier pharmakon: its inscription in Plato’s text makes it the untranslatable site of a condensation of multiple, contradictory meanings that are necessarily obscured in the moment of translation. Senatore quoting Derrida writes, “The effect of such a translation is most importantly to destroy what we will later call Plato’s anagrammatic writing…and, in the end, quit simply of the very textuality of the translated text” (37). Platonism is then the attempt to suppress the effects of the written trace, which necessarily carries with it these possible deviations and disseminations, “the irreducible synthesis of grammatical concatenations and stories that make up the grapheme pharmakon constitues the very element of Platonism, the vigil from which it wishes to dissociate itself” (37). We see again that writing, the process of inscription itself, cannot be seen as a derivative or secondary moment in the production of meaning, as if we passed simply from intention to expression in language, but rather meaning is the effect produced by writing. And since writing is taken as the general condition of the production of meaning this means that it necessarily carries within itself, from the very start, the irreducible possibility of its going astray as its essential possibility. Logos spermatikos and logos-zoon are then both attempts by Platonism to neutralize the necessary and aleatory effects of writing, which are in fact the minimal conditions of possibility of all beings: “…the grapheme-seed is the element of linguistics, zoology, politics, and thus of all regional discourses” (44).
Senatore’s second chapter on Platonism turns to a reading of the Derridean notion of khora as developed in Derrida’s reading of Plato’s Timaeus. Senatore here makes extensive use of Derrida’s unpublished seminars from 1970-71 (Theory of Philosophical Discourse: Conditions for the Inscription of the Text of Political Philosophy—The Example of Materialism) and 1985-86 (Comparative Literature and Philosophy: Nationality and Philosophical Nationalism). What is at stake is pushing this previously elaborated thinking of writing to its extreme by considering its implications for the notion of origin. It is a question of going beyond the opposition of paradigm/copy or father/son to what precedes and makes possible oppositionality as such. Philosophy, as Derrida suggests in the 1970-71 seminar, deals exclusively with the oppositional, but is not able to think what makes oppositions possible in the first instance. But khora names the very condition of these oppositions in general, the very possibility or opening for beings. Quoting Derrida’s unpublished seminar we read, “Being absolutely figurable, the receptacle escapes all figures, it does not let itself be captured by any figure and necessarily exceeds the trope or the representation that are intended for it [qu’on lui destine]” (60). Senatore will then connect this to Derrida’s final essay on khora wherein the originary opening and receptivity that this Platonic notion is meant to designate is thematized as the minimal condition for understanding history: history is possible only on the basis of the originary openness that khora names, that is, the empirical succession of events that we call history, wherein all thing come to be called historical, presupposes precisely this originary opening and condition of possibility, this formlessness that gives form. And it is here that Senatore suggests that Derrida discovers in Plato’s text a thinking of history irreducible to Platonism. We are no longer thinking in terms of generational succession, of direct and risk-free intergenerational transmission, but rather thinking on the basis of something—though certainly not a being— pre-originary, or as Derrida writes “before and outside all generation” (67). This thinking of the pre-originary, as Derrida understands it, is both the unthought of philosophy, what cannot be thought in the discourse of philosophy, but also philosophy’s necessary excessiveness: “Khora withdraws from the field of philosophy, as meta-philosophical necessity that remains unheard-of or is removed, that bears within itself another thinking of history, the only thinking of the concept and historicity of history” (68).
In the final three chapters Senatore moves on to discuss Hegelianism, that is, Hegel’s philosophical considered as the most radical attempt to think through the textuality of philosophical language that Platonism had denied in order to constitute itself as philosophical discourse (69). Now, according to Derrida in his 1969-70 seminar, his goal is to call “into question what constitutes the essence and telos of philosophy, that is, holding [tenir] the most general discourse, and thus the most independent one, in relation to which particular discourses (determinate domains) would be hierarchically ordered” (70). In other words, it will be an attempt to show the impossibility of philosophy constituting itself as a completely originary and independent discourse, that is to say, one which makes no recourse to metaphoricity or language imported from other discourses. This will in turn make possible a criticism of philosophy as the most general discourse whose task it is to order regional discourses and produce “the sense of sciences” (73). In this way, the concept of life and life of the concept in Hegel repeat the Platonic logos-zoon, which makes not biological reproduction the foundation of all transmission and generation, but rather biological reproduction is understood on the basis of the philosophical logos spermatikos wherein life is understood as “the generation of consciousness and thus as the nonmetaphorical and originary relation between the father and the logos-zoon, as the removal of the mother, self-reproduction, etc.” (73-4). To affirm against this position the Derridean thinking of dissemination or the anagrammatic structure of writing is tantamount to “pointing to a minimal structure (or an element) that would be diffracted into the transcendental signification and the natural one, and thus would remain behind their difference” (79). To think the textuality of the text is thus what Hegel gets closest to doing—after all Hegel is declared in De la grammatologie the last thinker of the book and the first thinker of writing[xii]—when reflecting upon the speculative nature of the German language, that is, its ability to think with words whose meanings are antithetical. Hegel would then be the first philosopher to consciously accept and affirm the anagrammatic structure that Plato repressed when faced with signifiers such as pharmakon. Aufhebung, for example, is the metaphorical hinge that binds the concept of life and life of the concept together, but what Hegel precisely risks is reducing the generation of life to the generation of the concept and consciousness, in turn repeating the Platonic structure: “the process of Aufhebung, which he [Derrida] understands as the scheme of the organization as well as the development of the Hegelian system, accounts for the solution of the equivocity of philosophical language” (88). In other words, the speculative identity that the signifier Aufhebung establishes between life, concept, and consciousness reduces the irreducible equivocity of language as inscription, of the anagrammatic structure of writing, or the textuality of the text.
Turning to Hegel’s explicit usage of the term germ (der Same), from which the book gets it title, Senatore focuses on Derrida’s reading of Hegel’s natural images and metaphors. It is again the speculative identity between life and concept that allows Hegel to see the movement of the concept as analogous to the development of life from seed to organism that then goes onto produce more seeds. The seed alienates itself in the process of its very development only to return to itself. Hegel’s system functions by building larger and more comprehensive accounts of this same developmental process since spirit too is self-reproducing and returns to itself as shown in the Phenomenology of Spirit. This discussion continues to include Hegel’s image of the family tree and the book of life, in various texts such as The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate and Reason in History. Again, what is at stake is the apparent covering-over by Hegel of his discovery of an irreducible difference, a remainder or excess, that cannot be included into the movement of the concept-life. Senatore goes on to discuss Derrida’s treatment of this issue in the opening text of Dissemination, which questions the role of the preface as traditionally understood. Derrida’s most experimental writing practices were developed in this period as the unorthodox opening “preface” of Dissemination bears many relations to the form and content of Derrida’s Glas that would be published two year later following the contemporaneous seminar La Famille de Hegel. If the traditional preface is intended to prepare the reader for what is to come, to make the future present at the outset, Derrida’s text is meant to draw attention to the work of dissemination as an irreducible or minimal structure as such. Senatore writes: “Dissemination is the name given to a project that he [Derrida] has started elaborating in “Force and Signification…and further developed in Of Grammatology, where he thinks of writing as the general structure of genesis and thus as the element [or minimal structure] of history and life” (132-33). Dissemination is thus what cannot be appropriated in the self-movement of the concept or life since it is the latter’s irreducible condition of possibility. Meaning, as Derrida discovered in Husserl, thus cannot be signaled or indicated in advance (by a preface or pre-text), but must awaits its moment of empirical inscription or embodiment as an “irreducible delay” that Hegel describes as an “external necessity” (121). The preface is then the attempt made by philosopher’s to suture this originary structure of delay that is immanent and necessary to the unfolding of the concept, an attempt to reduce this essential “out-of-jointness” by making the sense of what is to come present in the present, that is, at the origin.
The preface to Hegel’s Science of Logic perfectly encapsulates this tension: it both does not proclaim in advance what is to come, since logic, for Hegel, can only emerge at the end of the text and cannot be seen as an empty formal method that is discovered at the outset and applied throughout. Yet this admission makes the preface itself superfluous in some sense since it is external to the work itself and is excluded from the immanent unfolding of the concept, that is, from the logic itself. But Derrida wants to read this double status of the preface as being itself a figure of the structure of genesis in general, as that element that resists being folded into the logic of the text itself, and yet is structurally necessarily. This discussion leads Senatore to directly address Derrida’s reading of François Jacob’s La Logique du vivant from the unpublished seminar La Vie la mort. Indeed, Derrida’s “Outworking, Prefacing” is thus the “protocol for a non-Hegelian and non-genetic understanding of genesis” (135). Jacob addresses directly, by way of Claude Bernard, the way in which modern biology has reconciled the contradiction between scientific explanation and teleology: the notion of “genetic programme” allows Jacob and other modern biologists to think the developmental logic of an organism as it follows out genetic instructions inscribed in itself. Heredity viewed as a coded program in chemical sequences dissolves the paradox. But for Derrida, this is not the problem. Whether divine creator or genetic inscriptions, both appeal to and are determined by the logos spermatikos insofar as modern biology posits a preformationism without intention. In other words, dissemination, inscription, anagrammatic writing and textuality are once again repressed.
Senatore’s book then quickly concludes by turning to Derrida’s writings on philosophy, philosophical education, and teaching, which were written during a time when educational and pedagogical reforms were being proposed in France. But in the provocative final pages, Senatore analyses Derrida’s reading of Marx in an unpublished GREPH seminar where it is suggested that ideology is produced necessarily as a result of the originality of sexual difference and thus belongs to the “space of biological and natural life” and not to the superstructure as Marxists have typically held (144).
I began this review by suggesting that what makes Senatore’s book so valuable is its insistence on Derrida’s thinking of a general or minimal structure of genesis, and that recent scholarship on Derrida, which is of a very high quality, also has been seeking to reclaim Derrida as an authentic philosopher against the many decades he was appropriated as a literary theorist and critic, a post-modern or post-structuralist thinker of the insuppressible play of meaning and language or who celebrates the absence of universals or essences. Indeed, I think these new readings are not only correct, but necessary. They find in Derrida a strong and essential thinking of what is necessary, or, a thought of the necessary minimal structures and conditions for the existence and experience of beings as such. Senatore’s claim is that Derrida thinks a general or minimal theory of genesis as such, one that accounts for the genesis of anything whatsoever, from cultural products to biological organisms. Yet throughout Senatore insists on the “nonphilosophical”[xiii] nature of Derrida’s deconstruction insofar as it is non-genetic or breaks with the classical idealist conception of the logos spermatikos. But what precisely is nonphilosophical about uncovering an absolutely general condition to which all beings are necessarily submitted? Or making clear this minimal element that is presupposed not only in all previous philosophical discourses, but also in all scientific discourses? Even if this condition is paradoxical, self-effacing, or never fully present. This strikes me as a quite typical gesture of transcendental philosophy, which is constantly seeking more and more minimal, but absolutely necessary structures, that all beings (cultural, biological, or otherwise) conform to in all cases. Recent French thinkers have even pushed this further, for example, Michel Henry, who claims that the supposedly originary difference of someone like Derrida or Deleuze in fact presupposes an even more originary identity or presence that he calls “life.” At the same time, however, Senatore quotes from unpublished seminars where Derrida seems acutely aware of this problem and criticizes philosophers for attempting to organize and hierarchize all other discourses in an attempt to theorize the meaning of sciences in general. Indeed, this was the general problematic of phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger that Derrida was steeped in and in many way ways continues and radicalizes. This, as I understand it, is Derrida’s insight in his La via la mort seminar, namely, that the biological sciences must come to terms with a necessary condition-obstacle, namely writing, that they at once unknowingly theorize (since they had just begun to speak of a “genetic code”) and yet fail to thematize as such for if they were to do so their investigations would have to be fundamentally altered to account for the irreducibility of the trace structure. Only deconstruction provides such an insight and can think science’s unthought conditions of possibility-impossibility.
But there is another philosophical tradition that runs counter to the one that Derrida deconstructs most often, namely, materialism. Rarely does Derrida engage in-depth with Machiavelli, Spinoza, Althusser[xiv], not to mention Marx, Engels, and Lenin and other canonical “Marxist philosophers.” Derrida himself admitted to not understanding Spinoza[xv] and Warren Montag has argued that this supposed distance covers what is in fact an extreme proximity.[xvi] In other words, my hunch is that precisely what Senatore calls the “nonphilosophical” is what, in other circles, simply gets called materialism or to be more precise, and borrowing an expression from Althusser, aleatory materialism. Indeed, Althusser had proposed, in his innovative reading of Marx and Spinoza, as early as 1966 (if not earlier), a renewed materialist conception of the “encounter” [“théorie de la rencontre”] or of “conjunction” [théorie de la “conjunction”] that is fundamentally different from the genetic theory of genesis.[xvii] This thought of a non-genetic genesis was also at work in Machiavelli and Spinoza, Freud too, when he theorized the overdetermination of dream elements. And Althusser will later seek to establish an entire “underground current” of thinkers who belong to this materialist tradition.
None of this is to suggest that Senatore is unaware of these issues. On the contrary, I take it that Senatore is in fact pushing Derrida in the direction of productive encounter with thinkers like Althusser and philosophical materialism more generally. And this potential encounter to come is perhaps the one best suited for re-thinking the relationship between philosophy and science, that is, to break with the tradition that Derrida has identified according to which it is the task of philosophy to make sense of the sciences for them or to assign to them their ultimate meaning. But to what extent does this effort in Derrida remain restricted, if not stifled, by his Husserlian inheritance? Or by transcendental philosophy more generally? These are questions that I hope will spur further consideration and future philosophical inquiry and Derrida’s inclusion in these debates is highly anticipated.
[i] De la grammatologie (Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1967), pg. 19
[ii] See in particular Malabou’s 2005 book La plasticité au soir de l’écriture (Éditions Léo Scheer) as well as her 2004 Que faire de notre cerveau? (Bayard) and more recently Ontologie de l’accident: Essai sur la plasticité destructrice (Léo Scheer, 2009), Avant demain. Épigenèse et rationalité (PUF, 2009) and Métamorphoses de l’intelligence: Que faire de leur cerveau bleu? (PUF, 2017).
[iii] I have in mind not only Senatore himself, but also Francesco Vitale, whose 2018 book Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences (SUNY) was translated by Senatore, but also the work of Dawne McCance who is preparing a book on this seminar and has been publicly lecturing on it for some time now.
[iv] The Derrida Seminars Translation Project, consisting mainly of Peggy Kamuf, Geoffrey Bennington, Elizabeth Rottenberg, David Wills, Michael Naas, and Pascale-Anne Brault, has published translations of Derrida’s final two seminars The Beast and the Sovereign and The Death Penalty, as well as an early seminar on Heidegger and an 1970s seminar Theory and Practice. The English language translation team is also now in charge of preparing the French manuscripts for publication, which will mean a faster rate of publication in both French and English. The La vie la mort seminar will soon be published in French by Éditions du Seuil in the new series “Bibliothèque Derrida”, having been edited scrupulously by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf. The English translation has already been completed by Brault and Michael Naas and is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.
[v] François Jacob, it will be remembered, along with Jacques Monod and André Lwoff, won the nobel prize for medicine in 1965 and wrote La Logique du vivant as a kind of vulgarisation of his award-winning discoveries. Monod will do the same in his book Le Hasard et la Nécessité: Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de la biologie moderne.
[vi] See, most recently, Paul M. Livingston’s excellent book The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism (Routledge, 2012) or Christopher Norris’ Derrida, Badiou, and the Formal Imperative (Bloomsbury, 2014).
[vii] The major early philosophical reading is no doubt Rudolph Gasché’s The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection. Gasché explicitly writes in the opening pages, “Indeed, Derrida’s inquiry into the limits philosophy is an investigation into the conditions of possibility and impossibility of a type of discourse and questioning that he recognizes as absolutely indispensable” (2).
[viii] For example, in the work of Slavoj Zizek, Adrian Johnston, Frank Ruda, Rebecca Comay, and others.
[ix] The author of the present review had the honor of working on the translation of the first half of this seminar with the Derrida Seminars Translation Project in July 2017.
[x] Indeed, this paradoxical quasi-scientific character, or non-philosophical scientific character of deconstruction was precisely Derrida’s discovery in reading Husserl, namely, that phenomenology is necessarily led to posit writing as the most minimal condition for the historical transmission of ideal meaning, but in so doing, is forced to study a non-present “object”, that is to say, one that puts into question the very notion of objectivity as such. Derrida reiterates this logic in the beginning of the section “De la grammatologie comme une science positive”, where he suggests that the possibility of grammatology being a science, a science of writing or traces, rests upon its own impossibility since it would shake or make tremble (ébranler) the very concept of science itself (see page 109).
[xi] My translation.
[xii] De la grammatologie, pg. 41. This quotation is preceded by the claim that Hegel, despite appearing as, in some sense, the metaphysical teleological thinker par excellence, he is “also the thinker of irreducible difference.”
[xiii] Senatore uses this language on pages xii, 57, 63, 69, and 143.
[xiv] The recent publication in French and forthcoming translation of Derrida’s 1976-77 Théorie et pratique seminar certainly changes this. But for as much as Derrida engages with Althusser here, the seminar ultimately turns on a reading of Heidegger and the question of techne.
[xv] “Dialogue entre Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe et Jean-Luc Nancy.” Rue Descartes 2006/2 (no. 52), pg. 95.
[xvi] “Immanence, Transcendence, and the Trace: Derrida Between Levinas and Spinoza.” Badmidbar: a Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2, Autumn 2011.
[xvii] See Althusser’s text from September 1966 “Sur la genèse”, where he explicitly attacks the genetic theory of genesis where the result is contained “en germe” in the origin. Available through décalages:
https://scholar.oxy.edu/decalages/vol1/iss2/
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Winds of change: Britain now generates twice as much electricity from wind as coal
January 5, 2018 10.27am EST
Grant Wilson, University of Sheffield, Iain Staffell, Imperial College London
Grant Wilson
Teaching and Research Fellow, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield
Iain Staffell
Lecturer in Sustainable Energy, Imperial College London
Grant Wilson receives funding from the UK Energy Research Centre.
Iain Staffell works with Drax Group to produce the Electric Insights website, and received funding from EPSRC to work in this area.
Just six years ago, more than 40% of Britain’s electricity was generated by burning coal. Today, that figure is just 7%. Yet if the story of 2016 was the dramatic demise of coal and its replacement by natural gas, then 2017 was most definitely about the growth of wind power.
Wind provided 15% of electricity in Britain last year (Northern Ireland shares an electricity system with the Republic and is calculated separately), up from 10% in 2016. This increase, a result of both more wind farms coming online and a windier year, helped further reduce coal use and also put a stop to the rise in natural gas generation.
Great Britain’s annual electrical energy mix 2017. Author calculations from data sources: National Grid and Elexon
In October 2017, the combination of wind, solar and hydro generated a quarter of Britain’s electricity over the entire month, a new record helped by ex-hurricane Ophelia and storm Brian.
Great Britain’s annual electrical energy mix 2017 per month (note: nuclear and gas not shown) Author calculations from data sources: National Grid and Elexon
Since that record month, large new offshore wind farms have started to come online. Dudgeon began generating off the Norfolk coast, as did Rampion, which can be seen from Brighton town centre.
In all, Britain’s wind output increased by 14 terawatt hours between 2016 and 2017 – enough to power 4.5m homes. To give a sense of scale, this increase alone is more than the expected annual output from one of the two new nuclear reactors being built at Hinkley Point C.
Not only is offshore wind growing fast, it is also getting much cheaper. When the latest round of government auctions for low-carbon electricity were awarded last year, two of the winning bids from offshore wind developers had a “strike price” of £57.50 per megawatt hour (MWh). This is considerably cheaper than the equivalent contract for Hinkley Point of £92.50/MWh (in 2012 prices).
Rampion wind farm begins about 13km offshore from Brighton. Dominic Alves / flickr, CC BY-SA
Although these wind farms won’t be built for another five years, this puts competitive pressure on other forms of low-carbon electricity. If there is to be a nuclear renaissance, or if fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage are to become a reality, these industries will have to adjust to the new economic reality of renewable energy.
Britain is using less electricity
Overall demand for electricity also continued its 12-year downward trend. More of the electricity “embedded” in the products and services used in the UK is now imported rather than produced at home, and energy efficiency measures mean the country can do more with less. This meant Britain in 2017 used about as much electricity as it did way back in 1987 – despite the considerable population growth.
At some point this trend will reverse though, as electric vehicles and heat pumps become more common and electricity partly replaces liquid fuels for transport and natural gas for heating respectively. One major challenge this brings is how to accommodate greater seasonal and daily variation in the electricity system, without resorting to the benefits of fossil fuels, which can be pretty cheaply stored until required.
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Electricity generated in Britain is now the cleanest it’s ever been. Coal and natural gas together produced less than half of the total generated. Britain’s electricity was completely “coal free” for 613 hours last year, up from 200 hours in 2016. This position would be wholly unthinkable in many countries including Germany, India, China and the US, which still rely heavily on coal generation throughout the year.
Great Britain’s annual electrical energy mix - fossil fuels drop below 50% for first time. Author calculations from data sources: National Grid and Elexon
However, the low level of coal generation over 2017 masks its continued importance in providing capacity during hours of peak demand. During the top 10% hours of highest electrical demand, coal provided a sixth of Britain’s electricity. When it matters most, coal is relied on more than nuclear, and more than the combined output from wind + solar + hydro. Additional energy storage could help wind and solar meet more of this peak demand with greater certainty.
Looking forward to 2018, we would be surprised if wind generation dropped much from its current levels. Last year wasn’t even particularly windy compared to the longer-term average, and more capacity will be coming online. Equally, it would be surprising if solar and hydro combined produced significantly less than they did last year.
It is therefore inevitable that another significant milestone will be reached this year. At some point, for several hours, wind, solar and hydro will together, for the first time, provide more than half of Britain’s electricity generation. This goes to show just how much a major power system can be reworked within a decade.
The data used in this article is based on the Energy Charts and Electric Insights websites, which allow readers to visualise and explore data on generation and consumption from Elexon and National Grid. Data from other analyses (such as BEIS or DUKES) will differ due to their methodology, particularly by including combined heat and power, and other on-site generation which is not monitored by National Grid and Elexon. Our estimated carbon emissions are based on Iain Staffell’s research published in Energy Policy, and account for foreign emissions due to electricity imports and biomass fuel processing.
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David Bowie Retrospective Coming to Berlin
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Exhibition David Bowie from May 20 until August 10, 2014 at Martin-Gropius-Building
Los Angeles / Berlin, February 28, 2014 — David Bowie is back in Berlin: from May 20 until August 10, 2014, some 300 artifacts, including handwritten lyrics, original costumes, set designs and Bowie’s instruments will give insight into the wide-ranging work and eventful life of the pop and style icon. The multi-media show offers a comprehensive audio-visual exhibition experience and aims to show the visionary strength of one of the most pioneering and influential performers in recent music history.
“The exhibition David Bowie is a major highlight for Berlin,” says Burkhard Kieker, visitBerlin CEO. “The retrospective is especially exciting because David Bowie and Berlin are bound by a very special relationship.”
After premiering in London and stopovers in Toronto and São Paolo, the Berlin show is one of the highlights of the international exhibition tour due to the intimate relationship between Bowie and the German capital. Bowie’s years in Berlin from 1976–78 were among his musically most productive. It was in Berlin, where he wrote music history with his three ground-breaking albums Low (1977), Lodger (1979) and Heroes (1977), all of which were inspired by 1970s West Berlin subculture, as well as by the city’s rich cultural history.
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Kyoto 6 – Heian-ji shrine and Garden
View Over the Pond to the Taiheikaku (Covered Bridge)
The Heian-ji is something of an oddity on two accounts, firstly being a Shinto shrine of the late 19th century Meiji period and one of the newest shrines in Japan, but also (and unusually for a shrine) having a stroll garden.
Hein-ji Shrine
When the 17 year old emperor Meiji instigated a coup d’etat in 1868 supported by a group of young visionary samurai, he overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate ‘stuffed with wooden monkeys,’ and moved the capital from Kyoto to Edo (Tokyo). Over the next forty years Japan went through the rapid and at times painful transition from a closed feudal society to an industrialised world power with colonies in Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria. As one Tokyo resident put it, he felt ‘he had been alive for 400 years.’ The status of the educated aristocratic samurai class, that made up two of Japan’s thirty million population was abolished and national conscription and the adoption of western military technology meant rebellions were easily crushed. Many samurai found employment in the new centralised state bureaucracy and the military, and the customs and traditions that stood in the way of Japan becoming a modern nation were discarded.
Naka shin’en Garden – Pond
It had been the psychological shock of the ‘black ships’ in 1853 that spelt the end of the shogunate, when the American Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Tokyo Bay in his steel warships and demanded that Japan open up to western trade. He was prepared to back up his demands with advanced firepower. Many believed that to resist foreign colonisation they must revive the ‘unique spirit of the Japanese people.’ An early slogan of the Meiji government was fukoku kyohei (rich country, strong army) and the emperor was made sovereign and Shinto high priest of an autocratic militaristic state.
‘Dragon’s Tail’ Stepping Stones
Shinto (the way of the gods) is the ethnic religion of the Japanese people, pre-dating Buddhism, and centres on ritual practices to establish a connection between present day Japan and its ancient roots. Believing that divinity manifests itself in many forms (rocks, trees, animals, places and people), it sits comfortably with Japan’s Zen Buddhist traditions.
Pebbled Stream Inflow
It was against the background of this nationalistic revival of Shinto that the Heian shrine was dedicated in 1895, to coincide with the industrial exposition and fair held in Kyoto in that year, and the 1100th anniversary of the establishment of the capital in Kyoto (the Heian-yo). The shrine with its vermilion coloured woodwork and green tiled roof is approached through a magnificent torii gate opening up into a very grand courtyard and is one of the most important shrines in Japan. The style and features closely resemble the 11th and 12th century Kyoto Imperial Palace, although somewhat oddly it has been built to 5/8ths scale of the original size. Heian-ji is a popular shrine especially for weddings held in a special hall to the east of the courtyard, but also to ask for blessings for new borns, for children at the ages of 3,5 and 7 years of age and for young couples.
Sculpted Tree
The stroll garden by Ogawa Jihei, Kyoto’s foremost 19th century garden designer, is a not entirely successful blend of contemporary and ancient aesthetics, using large quantities of flowering plants and trees in a traditional setting.
On entering the garden from the courtyard, paths first wind through the large Drooping Cherry Tree Garden (Minami shin’en), which in April has a stunning display of deep pink blossom, and then through to the first pond garden (Nishi shin’em) past azaleas and long-stemmed iris flowering in May and early June.
Taiheikaku (Covered Bridge)
This leads in turn to the second pond garden (Naka shin’em) where late flowering azaleas and mass planting of iris laevigata (Japanese or rabbit-eared iris) are at their best in June. Circular ‘tail of the dragon’ stepping stones cross over to a small island past water lilies and the path continues around the edge of the pond to the Taihei-kaku, a beautiful covered wooden bridge that was moved to this location from a former Imperial palace. Views over the pond are to the guest house and this particular garden area (Higashi shin’en) is renowned for the autumn colour of its maples.
After visiting many 17th century strongly structured Japanese gardens, the informality and looseness of the planting at Heian-ji comes as something of a surprise and a disappointment as the sequential planting means that a succession of areas of the garden are spectacularly beautiful for comparatively short periods of time throughout the year. However, the disappointment of the planting was largely offset by the wonderful and at times breath-taking attention to detail such as the carefully composed pebble-strewn inflow stream to the second pond, and the wonderful traditional pruning of the trees.
Heian-ji’s stroll garden is an important transition to modernity in Japanese design, and celebrates the fleeting impermanence of all things in its transitory planting, but to the Western eye lacks the unique qualities that make Japanese gardens so memorable.
17 December 2017 **
Where: Heian-ji, 97 Okazaki-Nish-tenno-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
Website: www.heianjingu.or.jp
Setting 5/10 Interest for Children 4/10
Concept 4/10 Accessibility 7/10
Design Execution 6/10 Café None
Hard Landscaping 8/10
Planting 4/10 Dogs No
Maintenance 9/10
Garden 36/60 Facilities 11/30
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Women Of Marvel Event Recap
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A view from the crowd at the Women Of Marvel event. Source: Clement Bryant
Recently I had the chance to attend the Women Of Marvel event at Santa Monica Public Library to celebrate the release of Margaret Stohl’s Black Widow: Forever Red young adult novel. I felt inspired by the talented women who are making a fun, positive impact in the world of comics, television, social media, and cinema.
Ann Foley, Judy Stephens, Marguerite Bennett & Lorraine Cink joined Stohl on a panel, to talk about everything Marvel, covering comics and more. A special guest also showed up, but more on that later. If you don’t know these names, here’s a quick brief:
Marguerite Bennett – Writer, Marvel’s A-Force, DC’s Bombshells
Lorraine Cink – Host/Writer, Marvel’s The Watcher & event coverage
Ann Foley – Costume Designer, Agents Of Shield (Season 1 -Present)
Judy Stephens – Producer, Marvel.com
And that special guest? Agents of Shield’s Jemma Simmons herself, Elizabeth Henstridge showed up in the audience! Topics of the panel (moderated by Cink) included how they got into comics, breaking into & dealing with the male dominated industry, cosplaying, Stohl’s book Forever Red and more. All of the talent above came from all walks of life but one thing is clear – they LOVE comics and respect the medium.
#Repost @margaret_stohl ❤️❤️❤️ fun to see @ann.foley & @lil_henstridge repping #WomenofMarvel at our #BlackWidow #ForeverRed Santa Monica event tonight #agentsofshield #simmons #WomenofMargaret 💋
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Here are some quotes from the event:
Breaking into with the industry:
“Things worth achieving don’t come easy so you have to work for them. Dreams do come true if you work your butt off.” – Margaret Stohl
Role models & dealing with male dominated industries:
“My mother decided she wanted to go into computer science in the 1960s. She was one of the few women in the science world, so I was never worried that in photography, comics, film/tv working in these predominately male communities I was going to have a problem because I saw my mother first and foremost.” – Judy Stephens
“My mom basically taught me to have no fear, listen to my instincts, follow my heart – which is why I moved to Los Angeles after college with $500.” – Ann Foley
“As much as I love Disney and aspirational heroines, it becomes a detriment when aspirational figures are all little girls see but there’s nothing that acknowledges that it’s okay to screw up or not be perfect.” – Marguerite Bennett
Getting into & writing comics/novels:
“I wrote a 70 page treatment and threw it out, I read 100 spy books, I wrote the treatment again, I spoke with two Russian professors, I consulted with online video games guys on weapons munitions and the history and really got into it.” – Margaret Stohl on writing Forever Red
“How I got into comics and superheroes in general was through Batman: The Animated Series when I was five years old. It caught my attention because it was this dark, noir series and so much of children’s entertainment is bright, colorful and hyper-sanitized.” – Marguerite Bennett
“I grew up as a fan and made weird videos with a friend in New York City. I wrote a song called “Talk Nerdy to Me” that got passed around at Marvel when they were looking for someone new to write and host their web content.” – Lorraine Cink
After the panel the audience got to participate in a Q&A which included a series of contests & giveaways (Alien Universe or Cheese), where yours truly won a New York Comic Con exclusive Agents of Shield/Agent Carter double sided poster, later signed by Ms. Henstridge herself.
Overall, this was a great event for a casual and die-hard Marvel fans. It was inspiring, fun and displayed great insights into the future of women in comics — a future that looks very bright indeed.
Click the links to learn more about Margaret Stohl’s new book Black Widow Forever Red and the Women of Marvel Podcast.
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Iran protests: Reply to the WSWS response to my critique
16978 Views January 07, 2018 55 Comments Guest Analyses, Southfront The Saker
by Ramin Mazaheri for the Saker blog
I would like extend my thanks and appreciation to the World Socialist Web Site for publishing a response to my critical analysis of their coverage of the recent economic protests in Iran.
I think readers appreciate open dialogue between journalists. Open dialogue is the foundation of diplomacy, and thus also the foundation of politics. Dialogue means increasing understanding – not bickering – and I think we all agree that increased leftist unity is certainly lacking in the post-Soviet world.
The WSWS is a deservedly-appreciated site around the world, but their work in the English language is especially needed: true leftism is extremely difficult to find in the language of Shakespeare. I am not here to complain or make a laundry list of contradictions to their response: The WSWS is a group of professional journalists and/or committed activists, and readers will determine for themselves both the overall and the point-by-point validity of their response to my critique.
Calling me an apologist of a regime (Headline: The working class unrest in Iran: The WSWS replies to an apologist of the regime) does not invalidate my criticisms. Perhaps this calls into question my reputation or integrity, but I assume readers are unconcerned with either, and are more concerned with the analysis of much larger issues.
What is certain is that the WSWS is an entire organ which acts as an apologist for Trotskyism – the last paragraph of every article expressly declares that. I do not criticise this defense of an idea, and this open propagation of an ideology.
Indeed, I appreciate the openness. I think my support for an idea and ideology (more than one, of course) is self-evident in my journalism as well.
What I believe with certainty is that neither of our biases – declared or not – are unclear to our readers. Indeed, readers SHOULD be looking with a somewhat-jaundiced eye at all journalism which claim to be totally unbiased.
But pejoratively calling it the Iranian “regime” shows a fundamental rejection of the democratic, popular nature of the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution, and this is something which should be remedied on the WSWS. Fox News, the Economist, The New York Times, etc. – I do not expect them to stop calling us a “regime”, but the WSWS is doing great damage by misleading so many interested, learning, growing leftists about Iran. This not only more disharmony and damage – worldwide, and not just for Iranians – but it also makes non-Iranian leftists poorer and less able to wage their leftist struggles because the WSWS are encouraging them to dismiss one of the very, very few working socialist-inspired countries in the world.
Practically, this means they cannot implement some of our innovative policies steeped in the economics and democratic ideas of socialism: countries in earthquake-prone regions will not discover our democratic, highly-developed and highly effective approach to earthquakes, one of our major curses; or they must wait very long to find out about our leftist policies, such as rural health care, and thus denying their own societies an effective solution.
I can list other such positive policies, but instead I am often slowed down by the fight to disprove the false notion that Iran is a “regime”.
I stand by my fundamental criticism of the WSWS’s coverage of the recent economic protests, which I feel the WSWS did not address: At a time when the imperialist world was salivating at the prospect of regaining imperial control over Iran, the WSWS also adopted an anti-Iranian line because they seemingly believed that the economic protests were but a hair’s breadth away from turning into a Trotskyist revolution.
I will not list the many reasons why that is an incorrect view, and why such an editorial line was rather short-sighted, as that would be tedious to the reader. The reality was that the counter-revolution of a popular revolution was far more likely than a victory of any of the various 4th Internationals.
I believe the WSWS generally extends conditional support to Iran; I think they should extend far more support overall, but certainly when the forces of imperialism are making political and covert manoeuvres to implement the long-awaited neo-colonialization of Iran.
This led to the second, related key critique which the WSWS also did not address: why they did not engage in the socialist practice of “auto critique” instead of piling on Iran during the recent protests.
This point on criticism – and the time and place to do it – is something which I hope the WSWS discusses because there will certainly be other opportunities around the world to either “pile on along with the capitalists for not being Trotskyists”, or alternatively to “defend a socialist-inspired country under attack”. Because what is certain is that the imperialists adhere to this practice: one such prominent example is Nikki Haley, the obviously reactionary American ambassador to the United Nations. However, she at least shows the ability to effectively practice auto-critique, as she never criticises the US on the largest global political stage; the problem is, of course, that her ideas are not based on democracy, facts or international cooperation.
Readers must judge if my two main criticisms are valid, and if the WSWS disproved them.
Shariati is as Iranian as ghormeh sabzi
A WSWS phrase which requires a bit of correction is “Paris-educated sociologist Ali Shariati”.
Shariati and his political thinking was as fundamentally Iranian as ghormeh sabzi, perhaps our national dish. Yes, he did do graduate work in Paris, but he is a product of Iranian lower and higher education, of Iranian religious culture and especially of his own father, who was an Islamic cleric and intellectual. Shariati proudly stated his father was his foremost intellectual influence, and there is absolutely no disavowal of any of these influences in his work. Therefore, I ask that Iran can please not inaccurately lose Shariati to France or the West in a “posthumous brain drain”.
Shariati is a popular leftist name to drop, but I think that if many Western leftists would actually read his work…he might no longer be so popular with many of them!
The reason for that is because to read Shariati is to read far more about Islam than anything else. Certainly, reading Shariati is to find that he was 100% in favor of Islamic governance. How could anyone believe otherwise, if they had read this passage from “Martydom and Martydom”:
“Therefore, certainly the Imam must militarily or politically arise against the usurping government and destroy the powerful ignorance, govern through their revolutionary power, and establish truth in the community and keep leadership in his own possession.” (emphasis added)
And for Western leftists who favourably bring up Shariati, it’s almost as if they think that because his economic view was against capitalism and in favor of socialism…that he was somehow also in favor of Western secularism and their separation between church and state? (Also from “Martyrdom and Martyrdom”)
“Let me add – not for the reason that, as some people say, it is a defect for Imam Husayn to attend to politics and undertake a political revolution. No. This is the duty of an Imam.”
I don’t think Shariati could have been much clearer on either issue: the role of religion in government, and the role of religious leadership in Iranian society?
In my original critique I mentioned a poll regarding the view of Iranians on essentially the same issue: they agree with Shariati in a overwhelmingly democratic fashion. The only dispute is over “how much”, but that is an ongoing, shifting set of issues which Iran resolves democratically or with the aid of a religiously-inspired vanguard party explicitly promoted by Shariati himself.
I bring up Shariati because – now 41 years after his death – Western leftists still often cannot even comprehend the idea of a person being a devout Muslim and a devout socialist/leftist? This is not a problem just for the Iranian Islamic Revolution: this is a huge problem for nearly 2 billion Muslims. This is thus also a problem for the entire world, our peaceful coexistence and certainly the success of leftist economics.
Please, continue to popularise Iranian political thinkers like Shariati! But make no mistake that he would undoubtedly be supporting Iran in 2017.
I feel about Shariati the same way that Iranians tell foreigners about our beloved poets Rumi and Hafez (who makes Shakespeare look like a bucket of junk): You know, we have hundreds of other poets who write in the same style and are nearly as good?
Shariati is just one exceptional Iranian revolutionary thinker; for the WSWS and others to elevate him while denouncing wholesale his fellow revolutionaries Khomeini or Khamenei, as they did in their reply…appears a bit inconsistent to me, because they are all the same style: Islamic Socialism.
What Western leftists should finally learn from modern Iran is that that a Muslim society has not (and probably cannot) swallow European socialism without modifying it to the national tastes…but this is not appreciated by Trotskyism in general and perhaps the WSWS specifically. However, this is appreciated by Maoism, Stalinism, what I term “Iranian Islamic Socialism” and other schools of leftist political ideologies.
But beyond Shariati, Khomeini & Khamenei, there are many many other Iranian Islamic Socialist thinkers, millions of intelligent tea-house thinkers and many, many millions of Iranian people who democratically made and preserve their Islamic Revolution. Elevation of Shariati over the everyday Iranian is anti-socialist, and I denounced Lenin-worship (Trotsky too) in this article.
The only role of non-Iranians is to support the democratic will of the Iranian people… this is not very Trotskyist, but in a crisis the WSWS should make an exception.
‘The Iranian regime is not anti-imperialist.’
That is a quote from the response of the WSWS.
If I may be frank: No one in the Muslim world agrees with that. (And that is just one region of the world.)
In my visits, reporting and discussions with people of all religions living in the Muslim-majority states of the Middle East-North Africa region (and beyond, too), I am repeatedly told of their admiration for Iran’s hard line against American and Zionist imperialism. They are perfectly aware that Iran is extending moral, economic, military and political solidarity to places like Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan, and not without sacrifices from everyday Iranians.
And yet the WSWS continues: “Rather, from the beginning its aim has been to establish greater freedom of action for the Iranian bourgeoisie within world capitalism, including by seeking closer economic ties to European and Japanese imperialism.”
I think we can all rather easily list key proofs that Iran has does not have this aim or seek these goals…certainly, the reality of the blockade campaign would suggest that if they are indeed doing that, then they have been terribly ineffective, LOL! I think such a claim is as easily ignored as the claim that Iran is “not anti-imperialist”; I also think that such claims are accepted only by devoted Trotskyists who subsequently get ignored for being so ideologically pure that they are out out touch with the masses.
To use an American phrase: such claims “won’t play in Peoria”. Or Palestine, or anywhere else.
Frankly, I found that entire section to be so rife with faulty claims, poor analysis, allegations of conspiracies, untrue accusations of racism and other errors that it would be mundane for readers to read a point-by-point rebuttal. However, may I add that if the WSWS wants to have any chance of winning over Iranian readers, I rather emphatically suggest that they not accuse Iran of starting the Western-foisted, -supported, (chemically) -armed and altogether horrific Iran-Iraq War. I think that is a rather enormous tactical error (and a factual/analytical error as well).
As far as my “intimidating the working class” – I had no idea I had such power! I imagine working class people worldwide quite disagree that I have that ability. Nor did I “slander the Iranian working class” – firstly because slander is spoken while libel is written – but I would like to publicly reject the assertion of such a libel. Regardless of my feelings, every journalist must ultimately rely on one’s work to prove or disprove an assertion that he or she is an opponent of the People.
But supporting the democratic will when it takes a nationalist turn – i.e. Iran looking out for Iran – is not Trotskyism. This is why one reason why I am not an apologist for Trotskyism. Nor will I apologise for openly defending the Iranian Islamic Revolution and trying to explain it to non-Iranians in my journalism: Iran has real, not theoretical, work to be done, and I hope my small contributions push that work forward a bit.
May I conclude with a return to Shariati: He was primarily a philosopher. That can make him occasionally a bit difficult to pin down, but it certainly freed him from the burden we journalists all share (and which we share with politicians): the need to suggest and defend policies which must be made right now.
Making policies right now – while under blockade, sanctions and Cold War – is the challenge faced by all Iranians. Iran’s economic decisions have clearly been primarily based on Islamic morals and obviously-socialist ideology, but they may not meet the strict ideals of what non-Iranians think is possible (often quite mistakenly) or should have been done.
What admirable leftists like those at the World Socialist Web Site can do is to support Iranian society during those rare times of crisis when seemingly all other English-language media is, unexaggeratedly, fomenting a counter-revolution.
Now that the protests have stopped – and their message obviously made – all of us will be reporting on Iran’s democratic response to the economic issues.
Again, I sincerely thank the WSWS, and also their reporter Keith Jones, for work that I have often found insightful and inspirational. I thank the anti-imperialist website The Saker and the resolutely leftist The Greanville Post for hosting my editorials.
Ramin Mazaheri is the chief correspondent in Paris for Press TV and has lived in France since 2009. He has been a daily newspaper reporter in the US, and has reported from Iran, Cuba, Egypt, Tunisia, South Korea and elsewhere. His work has appeared in various journals, magazines and websites, as well as on radio and television. He can be reached on Facebook.
Ramin Mazaheri
Anonymous on January 07, 2018 · at 11:36 pm EST/EDT
Sir, I tip my hat to your excellent writing style; respectful and to the point. It certainly furthered my understanding of the (much-maligned) Iran. For many of us in the West, including me, Iran remains essentially a quaint black box. Therefore, it is refreshing to hear an educated and eloquently written opinion.
Considering these, may I please request that you write more about Iran? I would be especially grateful about an introduction to its political system, in a style accessible to laymen in the political field? I would also propose another introduction about the life of the middle class (access to goods, education, and job opportunities).
And, please, continue your writing in the same prose; it is refreshing to read cultured English.
Paranam Kid on January 08, 2018 · at 4:43 am EST/EDT
I second that fully. I would like to add that Mr. Mazaheri should refer to the U.S. government as a “reg too for the simple reason that it is not any more democratic, open, transparent than the government in Iran. Furthermore, a government that decides on “regime change” in other countries & attacks them willy-nilly, something Iran does not do, cannot be called anything other than a “regime”.
RMM on January 08, 2018 · at 12:27 pm EST/EDT
For an introduction to Iran’s political system, begin with the link provided above:
https://thesaker.is/iran-socialisms-ignored-success-story/
orm on January 07, 2018 · at 11:48 pm EST/EDT
Thank you Ramin for, once again, a balanced view.
The name Bronstein gives a clue to the religion of Trotsky. Naturally that religion considers itself to be the chosen one, and has no regard to any other. This is why the FUKUS nations considers themselves to be the chosen ones also as, they have been infected with the same disease as Bronstein.
Anonymous on January 08, 2018 · at 7:17 am EST/EDT
Its too bad that whenever someone goes to a right-wing site that one has to deal with racist comments about Jews. It really does discredit to the site. Hmmm, maybe that’s the idea? Take any thoughtful site that has right-wing views and readers and then try to discredit them with comments that have a lot of racist nonsense about Jews?
Does any thoughtful person really believe that you can tell about a person because of his name, or by asking the question “Who’s their daddy?”
дулебг on January 08, 2018 · at 12:02 pm EST/EDT
Explain to us: where is the right wing? What makes the site – a right wing one? Is it allowed to criticize Jews, knowing how much they suffered during WW2? Or it maybe makes anybody, who criticizes them – a Nazi?
Laika von old Monkshusen on January 08, 2018 · at 3:19 pm EST/EDT
Besides, Nazism (the Hitler Project) was a provisory project of the Rothschild Zionists, set up by them after their pseudo-communist Trotskyite revolution, which still is their main project, to a great extent failed.
That the WSWS is an apologist of Trotskyism (i.e. Rothschild Zionist fascism-totalitarianism, as much as Trump or Hitlery) really ought to say enough.
Wikispooks on January 08, 2018 · at 2:05 pm EST/EDT
Your frivolous “Who’s their Daddy?” comment provides insight into your anonymous persona.
That Trotsky, along with 80+% of the rest of the original Bolshevik leadership, was Jewish and that he changed his name from Bronstein for no obvious reason other than to hide his Jewish ethnicity from a gullible public are, in fact, of major historical importance, though both the WSWS and the Zionist Establishment go to great lengths to obfuscate such facts.
I had the temerity to engage this subject in he WSWS comments to one of their op-eds in January last year. My original comment was replied to in scathing terms by a ‘regular’. It was a classic illustration of the point I was making so I replied in scrupulously polite terms to say so. My original comment was left in place but the rest of the thread was removed. IOW WSWS are as blind and censorious as any other orthodoxy when it comes to unpalatable facts about their ‘Heroes’.
And to the article’s author. I enjoyed it and go along with pretty much all you say. Just a minor point though: Majestic and sublime as the works of your quoted Iranian Bards may be, you devalue them by your pejorative comparison with Shakespeare I’m afraid.
mundanomaniac on January 08, 2018 · at 5:20 pm EST/EDT
“the chosen one” – is this phrase racist or the reality it denotes?
Are you so ignorant or are you hunting ignorants, anon?
Please close down this conversation it is not only going off-topic but turning personal. Any further comments will go to trash. Mod
Rastislav on January 08, 2018 · at 12:25 am EST/EDT
The Trotskyists absolutely cannot accept a socialist system or a system working towards socialism, with a nationalist and patriotic emphasis of self reliance, that takes precedence.
They are after permanent revolution in order to spread it internationally, to enable them to rule as the 1%, ruling over 99% of the world’s proletariat.
Trotskyism (was) is deep cover Zionism to rule over the Goy.
Anonius on January 08, 2018 · at 9:14 am EST/EDT
I agree with your statement.
To Ramin, In support of what you wrote I would like to add that it is a very old trick of the communists and not only to simply step over and bypass any inconvenient subject of the discussion which would undermine and expose particular side’s fake position. Or simply put, the argument they can not argue with. Keep in mind the basic rule “the dictatorship of …” it reminds me of someone else’s rule “surrender to our religion or die”
Nussiminen on January 09, 2018 · at 6:07 am EST/EDT
Rastislav,
Today, unlike in the 20th century, Trotskyism isn’t primarily about Zionist plotting. Zionism’s hard-core adherents have switched from Trot “Leftists” to Neocon “Rightists”, leaving the sorry Trots to their well-known pastimes of parroting the imperialist bourgeoisie. Doesn’t do much harm — only remains 100% despicable and repugnant.
Ann on January 08, 2018 · at 12:49 am EST/EDT
Hi Ramin, I also have really got alot of education from this article – and I totally agree with Anon #1 comment that I would appreciate learning alot more about Iran and its political system and even history about the 1979 revolution from your perspective – everything to do with Iran would be great – its a big hero in today’s world –
I would just love also to ‘pipe up’ with this remark – agreeing with you about Iran’s so called (by MSM & WSWS) imperialist tendencies
– well, what defines imperialist ? a nation that is constantly getting more land and people under its control –
Iran isn’t doing this – its protecting countries from the reach of imperialists – and so therefore gets the name of imperialist –
A long time ago I read that the philosophy or ideology of the imperialist is IMPOSED on its enemies by the media and ideologues –
That is such a truth in today’s dialogues – especially by the most horrible thing that has EVER existed on this planet – the American government
Peter Antonsen on January 08, 2018 · at 2:34 pm EST/EDT
Ann,
“especially by the most horrible thing that has EVER existed on this planet – the American government”
It would help if we-(meaning myself & other American citizens), Patriotic Americans, restored our Democratic Republic, that was destroyed-in a hail of gunfire, along with our last Constitutional President – John F. Kennedy, on November 22, 1963. That is our required task, before God, and our consciences. We may restore Sovereignty, along with Honor, to America, and a constructive Peace to the World.
“The WSWS is a deservedly-appreciated site around the world” writes Mazaheri, in an otherwise excellent intellectual exposé of one of the remnants of Leon Trotsky, (Lev Bronstein), and his 4th International.
I am unaware of just who has “appreciated this site.” Mazaheri, the WSWS, and the rest of the various bits and pieces of the Hollywood Marxists, are Agents. Agents… Did I write Agents? MOSSAD, their junior puppets-CIA, MI-6, add the French agencies, and even the Russian and Chinese may dabble in these Marxist Lemonists.
*Trotsky was a specially fascinating, and even charismatic Leftist. In 1905, he was one of the leaders of the St Petersburg Soviet, a prolific writer, as was with Rosa Luxemburg. Fast forward… In 1940, Trotsky was assassinated (after an earlier attempt by Siquieros and the Mexican Communist Party). The reason for the murder of Trotsky, and the authors of his assassination, remain unconfirmed.
**note to website: It would be nice if we were able to -Bold- some portions of our replies.
Durruti
vot tak on January 08, 2018 · at 12:53 am EST/EDT
Very diplomatic reply to the critter. ;-D much more so than I have responded to the smears and obfuscating distortions of “keith jones” over the years. Besides his writing at, and speaking stints for, wsws, he patrols the web, as “keith”, spouting pretty much the same sort of nonsense he did in his article, using the same holier than thou writing style common with zionist fake leftists (he is an infrequent commenter on this site, and probably monitors this site regularly, which maybe why he targeted you for a smear job).
Partisan of Ali on January 08, 2018 · at 1:09 am EST/EDT
Hi Ramin,
Someone once asked me, a Christian lady, is the Islamic republic of Iran a utopian Islamic state? As in, in my opinion, is the Islamic republic God’s kingdom on earth? My simple answer was no. That in the Shia faith only the Mahdi will rule in the name of God.
For 1400 years the Shia clergy steered clear of politics. The 1979 revolution was the first time that a clerical government was formed. The Iranian government will succeed in putting down this unrest, I have no doubt. It does, as you point in so many articles, do a lot of good. But no matter how much good it does or how many people approve of it, inside and outside Iran, it will never be the right thing to have done: For clergy to rule. Perhaps even Shariati, if he were here today, in hindsight, would reconsider what he wrote earlier. You may argue that the clergy is not ruling. But there is a fundamental difference in the extent of interference or political involvement of Sistani in Iraq and Khamenei in Iran. And it stands out starkly.
Just to point out something from our history, until recently, none of the ulemas (scholars) of Shiaism were called ayatollahs (signs of God), that was a title for the divinely guided imams. And I have not read of any Ayatollah (before khomaini and Khamenei) referred to as imam (and i know that the meaning implied by those calling them so is not the same). Over centuries, there has been an increase in the role of the clergy in political life of the Shia population. But it has never been as extensive as it is in Iran after the revolution.
The system of taqleed (emulation) that we shias follow, was set up by the 10th, 11th, and 12th imam (during the lesser occultation). But an Islamic system of government was never left for the Shias to create, run, or establish.
For centuries, the clergy in Iran advised the Shahs and things were just fine. Yes there was injustice, but no Ayatollah was involved in it. Now, suppression of any dissent, the miscarriage of justice, the corruption by the clergy, all take people away from, rather than towards faith.
I have heard and read the arguments for clerical rule. They are just that, arguments. They are not sanctioned in faith. Yes there is voting in Iran, but it is a controlled exercise. And the Iranians (government) have no choice. They have to control it. They are forever stuck between a rock and a hard place, and nobody but they themselves put them there.
It may seem that this is off topic to your rebuttal. But it’s relevant in many ways.
Sal on January 08, 2018 · at 10:14 am EST/EDT
Wonderful, wonderful comment.
The fate of Iran is in the hands of Iranians. External interference can have impact only if Iranian society is sufficiently divided and does a poor job at managing its problems. Can the Iranian government self-assess and make the necessary changes – maybe even fundamental changes as suggested here – required for the good of Iran and the sovereignty of the country? Ramin, your opinion on this would be appreciated.
Anonius on January 08, 2018 · at 10:54 am EST/EDT
Hmm, I am not arguing the point you made. I believe it reflects reality. But show me any political system where voting is not controlled some force. And, if you insist that such force does not exist, I’ll say you do not know what you are talking about .
Let’s start with the so called communist states, which they were not. Communists used to say: popular socialism is a stepping stone to the communism. All elections were tightly controlled by the party, in your vote your were voting for one of many apartchiks. Does that look any different than in the so called Free World? No it does not. Each party is controlled by the invisible controlling power, which funds them. Money rules. Just because you do not see it it does not mean it does not exist. Do you think it was any different in ancient Athens? No, Oligarchy ruled (the wealthy families).
So to come back to your argument, and I am an Orthodox Christian and not Iranian, I say if Khomeni or Khameni can keep the monster out the door, so be it, let them rule.
Anonius on January 08, 2018 · at 12:15 pm EST/EDT
Actually, I had a second thought. They (the ayatolas) came to power with the help of the Iranian people on the wave revolution. Does the revolution need to be left leaning-socialist, or fake neo-liberal Iranian-Spring? No. It was a very conservative religious one. Nothing wrong with that. Vast majority of Iranians supported and still do the results of this revolution. And you are asking them to just relinquish the power because you say so? Oh, because according to you their power is not “Democratic”. Well I have a surprise for you. (mod-to note: deleted line – inflammatory and unnecessary to the discussion). In Greek the word Demos means people or the populus. You are asking the Iranian Demos to hand you the power just because you are invisible minority and you think the power should be yours? Iranian people say tough, live with it.
Yk on January 08, 2018 · at 3:22 pm EST/EDT
Partisan of Ali
Maybe you need to broaden your horizon about Islam, sincerely I do not mean it as an insult because you’re my brethren. We Muslim ( this include you) believe Islam can address any situations in every era till the end of time, from your assertion it appears you’ve not taken on the full meaning of this. Islam is flexible, pragmatic and logical, Islam will never tell us to fold our hands and not organise ourselves till the return of Mahdi and this will mean organising ourselve as a powerful force to reckon with such that we can give our Imam the needed supportsupport as followers to carryout his mission. Oh! Maybe you think we should only prepare our heart alone? What of having our own powerful and secure base or should we content ourselves with living under the governments of the corrupt GCC countries led by Saudi Arabia who will sell us all into slavery. In Islam we cannot separate politics from religion, and Islam does not leave us without a leader in every epoch.
In the case of Ayatollahs Sistani and Khamenei it has more to do with their environment than differences of opinion, even though the Shia are the majority in Iraq you cannot have Islamic governance along the line of Iran in Iraq without using force to implement it because other sectarian groups will kick against it as they also have large representation on ground and their outcry will be backed by the international community, in fact, through the Islamic revolution of Iran we are made to understand that it is the masses that called for Islamic governance not the other way round. So this negate your point.
James on January 08, 2018 · at 1:46 am EST/EDT
Whilst the WSWS analysis of the United-States-engineered colour revolution in Iran is clearly flawed and potentially harmful, just over one hundred years ago, after the criminal slaughter in which 18 million died, humanity’s best hope of preventing a recurrence of that war lay with others who would have proudly worn the label ‘Trotskyist’ or ‘communist’.
Several times before August 1914, socialists prevented the outbreak of war by organising mass protests. In 1905, Swedish socialist Zeth Höglund prevented a war to stop Norway’s secession from Sweden. Popular protests organised by socialists prevented the 1911 Agadir crisis triggering a war. Popular protests organised by socialists also prevented the Balkan wars of 1912-13 from becoming a wider European war.
Whilst they were unable to prevent war starting in August 1914, they succeeded in November 1917 overthrowing one of the perpetrators of that war, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
On a number of occasions between November 1918 and November 1923 German communists attempted to emulate the example of the Russian Revolution. Had they succeeded, Hitler would have become a small footnote in history.
Instead, humanity paid for their failure with the rise of Hitler, the Jewish Holocaust and the Second World War in which an estimated 60 million died, the theft of Palestine, all the wars started by Israel, the Korean war, the Vietnam War, the Iraq Wars, the invasion of Libya, the war against Syria, etc.
Astrid Nova on January 08, 2018 · at 2:13 am EST/EDT
James, consider what has become of the Trotskyist movement under any of its names – and of just about every communist or socialist organisation today. The elites learned their lesson from a near miss and they simply infiltrated the entire movement, with paid organisers who recruit youth and then teach them to go round in circles, until they grow up figuring that revolt is not possible. One thing I don’t understand is how the ‘cell’ concept failed to prevent this. Any ideas?
The Euro-American “Left” is one thing: the left wing of the Euro-American Empire.
That’s all they are.
The sooner one realizes this reality and treats this so-called Left as such, the better.
vot tak on January 08, 2018 · at 2:25 am EST/EDT
One of the tasks pursued by the zio-“left” is to discredit the real left by mimicing the right. This discourages people from getting involved and also provides the right with ammunition for their anti left propaganda.
Well put. And Trotskyism is the most pathetic expression of this reactionary outlook. As if peoples, countries, and national leaders fighting imperialism were asking for any help and/or advice whatsoever from minuscule, arrogant, deluded Western self-worshipping sects whose second-guessing is endless, LOL.
Lee Francis on January 08, 2018 · at 3:08 am EST/EDT
A number of points need to be raised regarding the politics of the Trotskyist movement, although whole books have been written in this respect.
The first is the endemic sectarianism of these movements. Splits began almost as soon as the 4th International was founded. Not just splits, but reunifications followed by further splits. Secondly was the characterization of the Soviet Union: was it socialist, capitalist, deformed workers state, degenerate workers’ state – they couldn’t seem to make their minds up. The whole thing was like a Jesuitical sabbatical, and particularly vicious. Third, there were the internal political regimes of these organizations and the cult of the individual Messiah and show trials, speak from some experience having once been a member of one of these organizations. It would be true to say that political sects took on the features of a religious cult. And here was the great anomaly within these movements, namely, that they mimicked the worst practices of Stalnism; if anything could be characterised as a regime it was the internal politics of these organizations.
Mostly their position of the Soviet Union as a deformed/degenerate workers’ state was correct. There was at least the recognition the anti-colonial revolution would not have been possible, or at least more difficult without the existence of the Soviet Union. Moreover, the existence of a non-capitalist economic system offering an alternative to capitalism put a little backbone into western social-democratic parties.
There was one exception, however. The Socialist Workers Party in both the UK and the US took the position of writing of the Soviet Union as another capitalist country; moreover a particularly noxious capitalist country worse than the West. The ‘state-caps’ as we called them drifted into anti-Communism and many into neo-conservatism. In the US in particular a groupd of New York intellecutals including Sidney Hook, Iriving Kristol and lately Christopher Hitchens went over on mass to US imperialism.
RM, the “MEK” came up recently on a kindred blog.
I followed the link provided and was interested in the cult claims and connections to the KSA.
https://www.sott.net/article/373185-MEK-Terrorist-Death-Cult-Meet-Washingtons-Iranian-Opposition
What are your thoughts and how much relevance (if any) does it have today (a) in Iran; and (b) in global geopolitics (e.g. with the usual suspects etc)?
Castellio on January 08, 2018 · at 5:16 am EST/EDT
Excellent set of clarifications. I agree with the important emphasis on Shariati, and the interpretation given.
I’m surpised the Evil Iranian Regime hasn’t renamed Shariati Street in Tehran to something more acceptable.
I guess WSWS has been co-opted like all other ‘opposition’ outfits.
In terms of ‘co-option’, I think many underestimate both the power of money and how much of it is available to suppress opinions and movements viewed as unfavorable to those who have the money.
Lets just imagine a young and committed activists who wants real change. They of course have to live in a capitalist society, so they must have money to pay rent, buy food, etc. Someone comes along and offers them, lets say $100,000 as an upfront payment and a stipend of $50,000 a year if they only do their bidding while still pretending to be a committed activist?
My point is with these numbers are that…..
1) Its a very large amount of money to the young activist.
2) Its chicken feed to the large corporations and the very wealthy who want to continue to control and dominate a society. If an organization is making billions of dollars a year from the existing system, do you think that paying out $0.0001 billion is going to seem like an outrageous expense to keep the billions flowing?
Not everyone may take the offered money. But some will. And those some will then have resources in order to take over small organizations that rely on a lot of volunteer effort. So, even those that do not take the money will find themselves opposed by others within the organization who do take the money.
C I eh? on January 08, 2018 · at 5:48 am EST/EDT
Ali Shariati wiki
His articles from this period for the Mashhad daily newspaper, Khorasan, display his developing eclecticism and acquaintance with the ideas of modernist thinkers such as Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Sir Allama Muhammad Iqbal of Pakistan, among Muslims, and Sigmund Freud and Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel wiki
Alexis Carrel (French: [alɛksi kaʁɛl]; 28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques. He invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation. Like many intellectuals of his time, he promoted eugenics.
Ruhollah Khomeini wiki
On 17 January 1979, the Shah left the country (ostensibly “on vacation”), never to return. Two weeks later, on Thursday, 1 February 1979, Khomeini returned in triumph to Iran, welcomed by a joyous crowd estimated (by BBC) to be of up to five million people.[96] On his chartered Air France flight back to Tehran 120 journalists accompanied him,[97][98] including three women.[98] One of the journalists, Peter Jennings, asked: “Ayatollah, would you be so kind as to tell us how you feel about being back in Iran?”[99] Khomeini answered via his aide Sadegh Ghotbzadeh: “Hichi” (Nothing)
I’m sure most readers can make the connections themselves.
Please see what has actually become of modern Iran, at the highest levels, via the pictures at the link below.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/the-extravagant-lives-of-the-rich-kids-of-tehran-are-fueling-irans-protests-%E2%80%94-take-a-look.600284/
Obviously these carefully selected images were meant to foment discord within Iran. Business Insider had an article which included these and several other provocative pictures but after the government of Iran ordered Instagram be blocked inside of Iran, for some reason, Instagram decided to make these images unavailable to the rest of the world.
Here is the original article from Business Insider:
http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-protests-rich-kids-of-tehran-2018-1?r=UK&IR=T/#the-wealthy-of-iran-have-no-problem-flaunting-their-money-around-1
How is it the revolutionary government of Iran can order the removal of pictures from Instagram unless the Iranian government is not itself a Masonic project created to mould Iranian society according a long running Zionist plan?
None of the people presented to us a heroes are any such thing, although it did seem as though at least one Iranian politician, Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, was never made a party to the plan.
Ahmadinejad arrested for ‘inciting violence’ in Iran: report
https://nypost.com/2018/01/07/ahmadinejad-arrested-for-inciting-violence-in-iran-report/
The question of religion and socialism is a complicated one that arises from history.
Russia, at the time of the early 20th century revolutions, was a European feudal state. And, like the rest of the European feudal states, their was a close working alliance between the King/Czar and the official state church. The preachers of the state church, because of their close alliance to the King/Czar, preached against anyone or any group trying to organize for political change.
Thus, the priests of the state church were often seen as a large part of the system that was oppressing the people. And as such, as a revolution rejected the rule of the feudal state, at the same time it rejected the role of the state church’s priests to tell the people what to do.
Of course, this got locked into dogma on both sides. It became routine for the bankers and the industrialists who wanted submissive slaves to attack the revolutionaries as ‘Godless’. And it became dogma that the revolutionaries were opposed to these conservative churches that demanded that everyone remain slaves to the King/Czar and of course to the Church itself.
To my eye, when the Church decides to take on the role of helping to keep the people oppressed by an oppressive government, they should not be surprised that when there is a rebellion against that government that it is also a rebellion against the church that supported the repressive government.
But it is fascinating how sites like the WSWS ignore the many instances where leftist change has taken place in places without seperating from a conservative church that opposes change. In South and Central America, it took the form of ‘Liberation Theology’ whereby the local priests caused anger both within the represive government but also within the conservative Papal church by preaching doctrines that were closer what Jesus actualy taught.
J.L.Seagull on January 08, 2018 · at 12:32 pm EST/EDT
Socialism could have gotten a lot farther on Planet Earth if it hadn’t been tied up with the German-Marxist obsession with “replacing religion.”
Recently I feel much more sympathetic towards Islam than Christianity…
Rutger Börjesson on January 08, 2018 · at 8:21 am EST/EDT
Wsws have a cultrual marxist retoric, because they are cultrual marxist. I think it is better to make that clear instead of writing a very long article without that conclusion.
Elten on January 08, 2018 · at 10:39 am EST/EDT
Thanks Mr Ramin for your articles, first on these reckless protests which may pose a serious danger to Iran’s sovereignty, next for your justified criticism of the WSWS’ trostkyist stance, based on their ‘holier than the pope’ sense of socialism, in support of these protests against the interest of the majority of the Iranian people, and thirdly for your justified rebuttal of their response. Thanks also for the various insightful comments from the Saker community, as usual on this site.
If I understand it right the core of WSWS’ animosity against Iran is their rejection of what you brand as ‘Islamic socialism’, which they consider against the interests of the ‘working class’, apparently because of ‘hybrid’ capitalist elements in the Iranian economy. I agree fully with your arguments concerning the necessity of Iran’s economic policies under the circumstance of decennia of economic and financial warfare against the country waged by the US and their vassal cronies.
I quote from your second piece: ‘ Do Trotskyists realize that a key step is ‘preserving’ actual socialist gains?’ You mentioned the positive scores of Iran UN HDI index, for instance, ignored by WSWS. For the interest of your readers I would like to refer also to Iran’s outstanding policy on Social Protection and Safety Nets. Readers may kindly refer to a detailed IDS study from December 2015 which is available at http://www.ids.ac.uk/publication/social-protection-and-safety-nets-in-iran
The study notes that there are 10 articles on SP in Iran’s Constitution. About 10 million Iranian citizens benefit from ‘non-contributary’ welfare services, paid for by about 20% of the State budget (only 0,7% of the population are below the ‘poverty line’ of 1,25 USD / daily. About 22 million citizens benefit from various ‘contributary’ social insurance and safety net provisions which are coordinated by the State Management and Planning Organisation in collaboration with sectoral departments and NGO’s. In addition, the state provides for energy and fuel subsidies to the population.
My point is simply: the protests which appear to be economic but are kindled from outside (including WSWS) to trigger ‘regime change’ do not only put at risk Iran’s sovereignty, but do also threaten to destroy the actual socialist gains which were achieved over the last 40 years.
Anonymous on January 08, 2018 · at 11:12 am EST/EDT
Hello, Ramin: there are no doubt several approaches to forming a reply to a critique, such as the one of the WSWS to your article. By using facts that the WSWS can not deny, that support your case, you have grounds for an insurmountable presentation. e.g., facts such as the nature of Iranian banking, and other industry details, that proves the soundness of your claims – the following lines from wackypedia, although known as a propaganda source, provide ample grounds for the soundness of Iranian socialism:
“Following the Islamic Revolution, Iran’s banking system was transformed to be run on an Islamic interest-free basis. As of 2010 there were seven large government-run commercial banks.” (references given there)
Anyone with economics background will be able to see that this is not an exploitative capitalist system, nor some crack pot regime of despots.
WSWS is parroting American regime Newspeak when it describes the Iranian government as a “regime.”
In general, the Anglophone nations like the American Empire specialize in using weasel word phrases for their CIA-style “perception management” campaigns.
It works like this:
-Governments of nations on the American Empire’s hitlist are to be demonized as a “regime.”
-Governments of nations that are vassals …I mean… allies of the American Empire are to be described with more neutral terms like “administration”, “government”, etc.
-The government of the American Empire should be described as the Leader of the Free World.
Everyone here should be sure to follow these helpful guidelines for American DoubleSpeak in the future. Thank you. ;-)
paul on January 08, 2018 · at 12:33 pm EST/EDT
What we are seeing on the Left today is socialism against socialism and I think there is something either mad or something very deeply cynical about it. As imperfect as leaders like Gaddafi and Assad and Khameini may be, or maybe much worse than imperfect, they seem to lead quasi socialist systems that make some significant effort to care for their peoples, in ways that put the supposedly enlightened West to shame. And lets not even talk about the evils committed by Western regimes and the ways those regimes are dominated by oligarchies to the exclusion of real democracy, or the way the Western Hegemony puts into power and supports some of the most vicious regimes in the world (eg. Honduras). Never mind all that, because it seems that socialists can always find a way to attack other socialisms. John Cleese, not a very nice human being politically, nailed it in Life of Brian where he spoofs lefty groups as oblivious to the carnage in the world around them while they mainly focus on attacking each other.
teranam13 on January 08, 2018 · at 2:09 pm EST/EDT
Well, if you want self criticism from WSWS, you will be waiting for H-ll to freeze over, but your demand for it was in the tradition of polemical retort for their labeling the current dictatorship of the Mullatariat a “regime”. It is how they see it. You would think that they could support Iran versus a world imperialist attack while they call for a dictatorship of the proletariat. Give Conditional support at least. That they gave to Russia even with Stalin running things as ruthlessly and I daresay incompetently as he did. So this gap in their analysis as they pride themselves as “internationalists” is what irritates me about the WSWS position.
As for Westerners liking Rumi or Hafez and not going deep into Persian culture: chill! Guilty as charged. My job ( of a scholarly non scholar) this lifetime does not involve learning Farsi or specializing in Persian literature. My bad ( self criticism here). Your growling side issues while understandable merely are a self indulgence which distracts from your otherwise admirable points.i.e. go deeper into Shariati and deepen your understanding at least of the question at hand.
No system is immune to incompetence and corruption ( Mullahs or technocrats or deep state bureaucrats). From what I understand in Iran there are several power bases which work together to run the country in a rather unique way. Certainly Iran is not immune from corruption. Is Ahmadinajad the Steve Bannon of Iran? ( sloppy comparison, I admit) I think not–he has always had popular support of the poorest of the poor. So he was arrested. Let us see if we have a Stalin-like show trial of the man or if he just “disappears” into the bowels of some dank prison.
This economic protest was not a “green revolution” much to the disappointment of the neocon elites: The Iranian urban middle class which is doing reasonably well and has a more direct interest in national stability was profoundly disinterested in joining it and so they did not. Let us see if the reformists among them speak to the economic issues and issues of corruption in the next elections to the political body which represents their interests.
Maybe you could delve ,if you are so interested , into the movement of liberation theology that swept the Catholic Church during the 1970’s and 1980’s and why that attempt at the union of religion and politics of socialism ( at a local grass roots organizing level) failed. And why it is presumably succeeding in Iran.
C I eh? on January 08, 2018 · at 3:54 pm EST/EDT
Here is another article on the arrest of Mahmoud Ahmadinajad, from the Daily Telegraph.
Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ‘arrested for inciting unrest against the government’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5243667/Former-Iranian-president-Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-arrested.html#ixzz53cP9Wdof
Given the extraordinary context of the arrest of a popular former President of Iran, who was in no way directly tied to the initial protests organized by pro government ‘conservatives’ in Mashad, and futher which came as a direct result of what appears to be an intentional provocation made by current President Hassan Rouhani, who specifically attacked conservative/’Principalist’ sources of financing in a budget statement one day before protests errupted, and further that it occurred on the heels of so much US rhetoric aimed at destabilizing the Islamic Republic, including threats to fully renounce the nuclear agreement, the situation inside Iran can only be described as the work of people who are themselves determined to overthrow the currect Iranian system of government from within.
Is it any wonder Russian leadership has such mistrust for the government of Hassan Rouhani?
I want everyone to do some very serious thinking about the implications of such a move, arresting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, by the supposedly beseiged ‘regime’ of Hassan Rouhani. For my money the only reasonable explanation is that Rouhani and the people behind the Reformist camp he leads has purposely instigated these protests with the objective of using the ensuing crisis as an excuse to destroy their anti Imperialist political opponents, including perhaps even the power of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, just at the moment when victory in Syria and Iraq seems assured.
If so, what extraordinary treachary this would represent!
The conclusion stated above is pratically the only one available when you consider the original ‘surprise’ election of Hassan Rouhani, made possible with outside and specifically Western Zionist support and also in that instance using social media, including the infamous ‘happy dance’ psyop that went viral again using social media, and which galvanized support amongst youthful Iranians for the most pro Western of all candidates.
There can be no question: Hassan Rouhani is in league with the supposed enemies of Iran, and this has always been the case.
Hammering home the case, various individuals tied to the current Iranian ‘regime’ have laundered huge sums of their stolen monies in the West over the last several decades, this even while sanctions have reigned, which they partly aquired as war profiteers during the Iran-Iraq war which killed perhaps 700 000 of their countrymen, including children forced to make World War style charges at entrenched Iraqi military positions, and all this accomplished in concert with the main players involved in the weapons-for-oil-for-drugs and for murderous Nicaraguan rebels during the Iran-Contra Affair, is it not sufficiently clear to everyone that Hassan Rouhani is a pure psychopath and satrap of Western Zionists?
Please read the information below to confirm what I have said regarding Iranian money specifically invested in Canada.
RE: Mullah Rafsanjani and his family’s foreign investment in Canada
http://iranzamin2500.blogspot.ca/2007/01/re-mullah-rafsanjani-and-his-familys.html
And these very same individuals in charge of Iran signed an agreement with the United States which effectively cost the Iranian people close to 100 billion US dollars, which the people of Iran will never get back, while they made a killing for themselves.
We can discuss socialism and revolution for the ‘workers’ until the cows come home but the current Iranian ‘regime,’ the absolutely correct name for the so-called ‘Reformist’ government fronted by Hassan Rouhani, is a monumentally corrupted party of kleptocrats, and also unfortunately pure collaborators with the very people who claim they will destroy Iran if it does not comply with their demands.
Further, using these intially economic protests as an excuse to arrest Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the main political enemy of Zionist Imperialism not just inside Iran, but possibly in the whole world today, does this not demonstrate the possiblility that Reformists have intentionally over-played their hand and by arresting a popular man of the people they will cause the current round of protests to be reignited? Perhaps then leading to a replay of the events of 1979 and a new Iranian revolution, or counter-revolution in this instance, only this time with a view to bringing in a new and 100% neoliberal Zionist regime to Iran, in line with the demands of the Trump Administration and of Israel?
No offense Rahmin but I haven’t the slightest regard for, or interest in, what the Trotskyte filth rag known as WSWS has to say about anything regarding Iran and the fate of it’s impoverished working people. To me it seems like classic misdirection at the precise moment one of the great scams of history is attempted, and as ever, on the backs of impoverished and working people.
Anonymous on January 08, 2018 · at 4:55 pm EST/EDT
For me it looks like the WSWS is just the typical far-left “idk why communism failed every single time it got tried”-propaganda outlet.
They are just making things up at this point.
I bet that it is just as simple as:
“Iran supports Assad and Assad does not want Rojava, therefor Iran is against Rojava and therefor Iran is evil”
Just ignore them. Even the alt-right is a better source than them.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/01/04/while-pundits-condemn-iran-honduran-police-kill-street-demonstrators
Here it is folks, the terrifying thought process of an average neocon:
And who, pray tell, trains and equips said Honduran police and army? Oh yes, the USA . well then it is OK that the people get killed but in the case of Iran it is because the police are bad, bad, bad to the the bone .
Why? is killing people protesting any “better” in Honduras? well, ummm because , because the CIA intervened in the Honduran election because the Russian favored candidate was about to win so it’s OK that ummm the police are shooting people protesting a ..wait a minute it’s the Mexican elections that the Russians fixed so ummm people should be shot for not protesting the outcome in the streets.
http://news.antiwar.com/2018/01/07/mcmaster-russia-meddling-in-mexicos-election/
Jason M on January 08, 2018 · at 7:27 pm EST/EDT
Who will win? A bunch western intellectual snobs with syrupy liberal internationalist ideas or the centuries long process to create a patriotic Islamic Iran, a process that started roughly a thousand years ago with the Shuubiya movement and which was aided by the Safavid dynasty? I know where I’m putting my money guys.
‘Islamic socialism’ lol. The governance of the Iranian government go is based on Islamic Ideals. If some ideas of socialism match with some ideas of Islam, this doesn’t mean that it should be called ‘Islamic socialism’. If certain ideas of communism match with certain ideas of Islam, will you call it ‘Islamic communism’?
TMWNS on January 08, 2018 · at 8:51 pm EST/EDT
Dear Ramin … I got little further than this phrase and decided to take up cudgels in defence of your right to be at odds with people accusing you of being an apologist. Your article and the libellous WSWS response are too long for me to read to do either of you justice fully. To give WSWS some credit, we can have our doubts about the sincerity and the patriotism of the comprador class in Tehran. On the other hand the WSWS use of the smear term régime when talking about Iran’s sovereign government is suspicious. That said, I’d need to broaden drastically my knowledege of Iran to be able to write intelligibly about the deeper issues.
It seems the bone of contention is more cultural than political. You and them are using different prisms and your inside knowledge of your native country puts you at an advantage regarding outsiders who appear willing to sacrifice national concerns to make them fit into a procrustean bed compatible with their westernised idealogy.
Iran isn’t an Islamic Republic for nothing. I enclose links (Cf. infra) to two documents on Hezbollah which will give Saker readers some insghts into the sympathy Hassan Nasrallah commands among Maronite Christians and Sunni Moslems and I suspect that some parallels can be drawn with the hope that first Iranian and then Russian interventions in Syria offered to religious minorities throughout Western and Central Assia.
You write as a patriot. By definition Trotskyists and their offshoots, Neoconservative Globalists, have no grasp of a need for patriotism.
Trotsky’s miguided Utopianism (and I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt regarding his driving motives) has led to the Dystopia which assails humankind the world over. Stalin for all his faults remained a patriot and I believe I am right in saying that Russia’s working classes, who suffered terrible hardship under Yeltsin before Vladimir Putin came to the rescue, look back with nostalgia to the Soviet Era.
Meanwhile don’t bash the language of Shakespeare. Thanks to Edward I, nicknamed Longshanks and Malleus Scottorum, «le Marteau des Écossais» – who kicked out the Jewish usurers brought to England by William of Normandy, Edward II, poets Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower, Henry IV and his son Henry V – les premiers rois anglais à baragouiner le français – yonder archipelago isn’t having to get its knickers in a twist to master an Anglo-Norman dialect. But I jest.
I don’t always agree with your analyses. But such abysmal ad hominen attacks on you are shameful. I’m surprised they didn’t put the boot in by accusing you of being a ‘conspiracy theorist’.
PS “But we will not allow the Iranian bourgeoisie and political flunkies like Mazaheri to intimidate the working class, and those wide sections of the middle class who would be inclined to support it, by labeling the emergence of working-class opposition to the Islamic Republic as “sedition.” We will instead fight to arm this movement with an understanding of its political tasks the working class must oppose imperialism, forge its independence from all factions of the Iranian bourgeoisie, and rally the toilers behind it in the fight for a Workers’ Republic and, in unity with Arab, Jewish, Kurdish and Turkish workers, a Socialist Federation of the Middle East”. WSWS
What crap … Class warfare : just what the doctor ordered as Iran struggles to survive a blockade. Possibly next WSWS will be suggesting the people of Gaza should rise up against Hamas (admittedly initially favoured by Israel to weaken Arafat and the PLO) to free them of their tyranny and embrace Zionism ?
How can the WSWS not see the ‘invisible’ handiwork of Soros, NED, USAID who are ‘fishing in troubled waters’ ?
Ramin a political flunky ? Sticks and stones may break your bones but names will never hurt you. All the best TMWNS
Le mystère Hezbollah Un film de Jean-François Boyer et Alain Gresh https://blog.mondediplo.net/2008-03-12-Le-mystere-Hezbollah
Durée : 52:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdaZ_Jqa5Bo
Published on Jan 12, 2017 Documentaire réalisé après 2006, l’année de la guerre d’Israel contre le Liban Documentaire sur le Hezbollah
Syrie-Hezbollah, cauchemar de l’impérialisme Bruno Guigue mercredi 27 décembre 2017
https://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr/Syrie-Hezbollah-cauchemar-de-l-imperialisme-49112.html.
Parlement : Mot former de deux verbes “parler” et “mentir” …
PPS Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is ‘arrested for inciting unrest against the government’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5243667/Former-Iranian-president-Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-arrested.html#ixzz53cP9Wdof
I look forward to hearing your take on this recent development … TMWNS
guest on January 08, 2018 · at 9:40 pm EST/EDT
There is a multi-pronged pincer attack on Iran from the West.
The right wing and Western Governments attack Iran in the name of “human rights” (which they love to bring by missiles, drones, and bombers), hate its “Mullahs” (successful revolutionary leaders earlier, democratically elected politicians now), and generally view Iran as a dishevelled, distasteful, and “extremist” country (will they dare to speak the truth that the extremism of Iran is simply an extreme will for independence?).
From the left, the Western socialists (mostly Trotsky followers like the WSWS) disdain the Iranian revolution because it was not carried out under the banner of their brand of socialism. They will gladly feed to the imperialists any movement or country that lacks socialist virtue as defined by them. Are they not the useful idiots of empire?
And from the progressive centre come attacks from the “liberals” (always liberal with other peoples’ lives and money), the avant-garde progressives who mock Iran for its religiosity and its intolerance of gays and identity politics, and shrieks of pure hatred from the liberal media, calling for the destruction of Iran and/or its “regime”.
It is quite pointless to reason or talk with any of these. Iran (and the so many other countries in a similar predicament) have to see through these “Tweedledums” and “Tweedledees” of empire, for, in essence, they are all cut out of the same cloth and are all out to destroy Iranian freedom.
There are always ‘the Good Germans’ who willingly join in while things are going good, then when it finally collapses, they pretend they had no idea what crimes they were so happily cheering on.
I guess one thing this shows is that the outbreak in Germany in the 1930’s didn’t have anything to do with the German race. Now we are seeing it again in America. Or, as American novelist Sinclair Lewis warned in the 1930’s, “It Can Happen Here”.
Nussiminen on January 09, 2018 · at 12:30 am EST/EDT
Nazi Germany was essentially an act of plagiarizing successful Anglo-American imperialism, with the aim of creating social cohesion at home by plunder and genocide abroad. Sadly, Stalin and the USSR that he led would not have it. The Trots and their glorious Western fourth internationals are in a state of permanent madness ever since.
Its funny how political language changes over time.
In my political lifetime, there were ‘the liberals’. This was back in the 1960’s, when many of them took risks to try to stop the murderous attrocity known as the Vietnam War. They marched for civil rights in the south.
By the 1990’s, the Clintons had changed the term ‘liberal’ such that it then meant their turning the economy and the government over to Wall Street, and that they were pro-war in helping the Pentagon and the Deep State search for the next big enemy that justified the huge piles of money they took every year. Clinton was so pro-war he was willing to launch air strikes to try to push the story of Monica’s blue dress off the front page. Who cares how many people die, as long as the country isn’t talking about that dress tommorrow.
As the corporate Democrats and the Clintons changed the word ‘liberal’ so far from its original meanings that it was virtually the opposite of what it was before, what Sen. Wellstone called ‘the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party’ started calling themselves the older term of ‘progressives’. Harkening back to the turn of the century and that earlier populous movement for change.
Obama and Hillary then adopted the term ‘progressives’ for themselves, and like before they twisted the meaning so that it meant something far different and almost opposite of what it originally meant. Under Obama and Hillary, it meant more rule and by now complete subservience to Wall Street. It mean killer drone strikes that killed many civilians. It meant supporting ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Libya and Syria. It meant bringing back fascism to the European continent. And finally it meant the return of Red Baiting and McCarthyism in the 2016 election and its aftermath.
I’m old enough to have once liked the original liberals and progressives. What the terms originally meant. Back when it meant large crowds protesting to try to stop a horrible war. Back when it meant equal rights, where each person is judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. So, I object to some of your slurs against liberals and progressives. But I also have to admit that you are right in the people you are denouncing. Its just when I hear those terms I think of the protesters trying to stop the Vietnam War and Senators like Paul Wellstone. But those people aren’t around any more. And these days the terms ‘liberal’ and ‘progressive’ now refer to pro-war, anti-democracy, pro-banker shills like Obama and Hillary. And them I’m with you in opposing.
More from WSWS on this, and no better than before.
They only focus on the number of deaths. They ignore the fact that some of this body count were IIRC police killed by protesters. Or that a number of the deaths occured when protesters tried to storm a police station to get weapons. Of course, try that in almost any country, you are likely to end up dead. Especially in the US where the police kill over a thousand people a year who aren’t involved with trying to attack the police and their police stations.
They ignore the pro-governments completely.
And all of this to make the claim that the only reason the protests have abated is mass repression by the government. They claim hundreds have been arrested. In other words, roughly the same number that were arrested for protesting the inaguration of President Trump.
Sometimes in the past, I’ve noticed that when talking about Trump they sometimes fall back on just regurgitating Democrat and Deep State propaganda. And in this case, they again seem fixated on promoting the version of events favored and created by the Deep State. I can understand that somewhat. When living in a heavy propaganda barrage, sometimes it takes some real mental discipline to keep it out of one’s thinging. But still, its a bit disappointing to go to the WSWS website and feel like you’ve mistakenly wandered into CNN.
In general, one thing I try to do is to remember which writers and which outlets turned out to be correct. In a world of fake-news, its a good thing to try to remember who’s been correct in the past. Of course, that does not mean they’ll always be correct in the future. But it does tend to separate those who at least try to be right and who have the competence to succeed in that occaisionally from those who just regularly propagadize and don’t really worry about facts and being correct. The people who let their ideaology set their opinions will only be correct as often as a broken clock.
From that point of view, I’d say its score one for Mr. Mazaheri. It turns out that what he’s said about the Iranian protests was largely correct. From reading Mr. Mazaheri fine work here on The Saker, what’s happened in Iran over the last week or so has seemed relatively predictable. Especially the mass crowds of protesters supporting their revolutionary nation in its time of crisis.
As to the WSWS’ predicted rise of the workers united in the next stage of world revolution, well, that doesn’t look like such a great prediction these days. They are now whining that a few deaths and a few hundred arrests is a wave of mass repression that defeated their incipit revolution. But, most of the successful revolutions in the world have faced far stronger repression and struggled through it to succeed. I’m sure the British tyrants in their American colonies killed more than 20 dissidents, and arrested more than a few hundred, and that doesn’t seem to have stopped George Washington.
Its one way to sort through all the fake news and decide whom to give your attention. Pay attention to those who are occiasionally correct, and who help you understand and anticipate what’s about to happen in a place on the other side of the world about which you realize that you don’t really know all that much about. Those people who are able to do that, those are the ones to pay attention to in the future.
Thank you Ramin Mazaheri! :)
Even at their height, the protests were small, the largest around 2000 people.
Iran’s Protests & Why They Failed
A short summary of six days of protests
A detailed article on the protests, their numbers and the social media put to use by the zionazis in their attempt to exploit them. One of the interesting results of the zionazi interference was when they got their proxies and dupes out projecting regime change and engaging in violence, and western colonial regimes proclaiming their support of the protests, their usual routine, the numbers of people protesting began to decline.
Sam on January 09, 2018 · at 2:34 pm EST/EDT
Well, I find the rather cultish attitude to Iran to be a bit much. Here is some realism from Philip Giraldi, at Unz.com: “The fact is that Iran is being targeted because Israel sees it as its prime enemy in the region and has corrupted many “opinion makers” in the U.S., to include Stephens, to hammer home that point. To be sure, Iran is a very corrupt place run by people who should not be running a hot dog stand, but the same applies to the United States and Israel. And there are lots of places that are not being targeted like Iran that are far worse, including good friend and ally of both Jerusalem and Washington, Saudi Arabia.”
Also, saying that compared with Persian Sufi poets Shakespeare is a “bucket of junk” says volumes about the author’s intellectual acumen and personal refinement.
Eric on January 14, 2018 · at 12:17 am EST/EDT
Someone just told me about a book which I am now reading online, The Great Conspiracy Against Russia.
https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/great-conspiracy-against-russia.pdf
It is one of the most shocking books I ever read, almost as much as the Unauthorized Biography of George Bush (the father of Dubya), which goes into the Nazi ties between the US government and the Nazis. For example, Prescott Bush, financer of the Nazis, and the Dulles brothers, who collaborated with Nazi before, during and after WWII. That was my first real wake up call to the real state of affairs.
This book, written in 1946, goes into tremendous detail about the efforts by Trotsky to destroy the USSR, going so far as to collaborate with the Nazis, to destroy the USSR, in order to take over Russia. Reading this book and seeing how destructive Trotsky was, I am totally mystified why the World Socialist Website lionizes Trotsky, and demonizes Stalin, especially since many of the charges against Stalin have been shown to be as factual as the charges against Assad, Chavez, and other leaders who have resisted Western Hegemony.That is, they were false charges.
And on the other hand, how Russian opponents of the Soviets were willing to do anything to prevent or to destroy the Revolution. The book points out that White Russians essentially invited an invasion of USA, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, etc. And the intent of the invaders was to carve up Russia, a project that has been ongoing for at least 100 years. Shocking.
I haven’t finished the book but the fact that so many people were working to sabotage Russia as the USSR, for basically either ideological or flat out selfish purposes–to maintain their position or get rich at the expense of the Russian people tells a lot about the events happening now. The same tactics used 70 and even 100 years ago, being replayed now.
I now have less sympathetic view of WSWS, which does seem to act in a divisive way against any other form of social movement. Ramin Mazaheri has been highly diplomatic in the face of the same slash and burn language that wsws uses. Copy and paste the link above to see what the book is talking about. What is more revealing is that it was written by Americans with a forward by a long time serving Senator, when apparently Senators had some integrity.
Lana on March 24, 2018 · at 7:34 am EST/EDT
The interactions between Keith Jones at the WSWS and Mazaheri have been very interesting. I understand where Jones is coming from. But it’s easy to criticize the Iranian government when you’re a leftist living in the West and don’t have to worry about sanctions and regime change. Mazaheri also makes a valid point about secular Western democracy. It’s simply unreasonable to expect people to abandon their own religion and culture. The atheist left is always snubbing their nose at American Christans, especially at poor whites in the South. This is condescending enough but it becomes grossly elitist when they also direct it towards poor Muslims in countries affected by US imperialism. This attitude does not win people over.
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HomeUncategorizedComprehending What is Absinthe alcohol?
Comprehending What is Absinthe alcohol?
A lot of people around the world are asking “What is Absinthe alcohol?” because we appear to be encountering an Absinthe revival at this time. Absinthe can be regarded as a stylish and mysterious drink which is connected with Bohemian artists and writers, films just like “From Hell” and “Moulin Rouge” and celebrities just like Johnny Depp and also Marilyn Manson. Manson has even had his very own Absinthe created called “Mansinthe”!
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas, Pablo Picasso, Oscar Wilde and also Ernest Hemingway talked of Absinthe providing them with their inspiration and genius. They even called the Green Fairy their muse. Absinthe features in numerous creative works – The Absinthe drinker by Picasso, The Absinthe Drinker by Manet as well as L’Absinthe by Degas. The writer Charles Baudelaire also wrote about it within his poetry too. Absinthe has certainly influenced great works and has had an amazing influence on history.
What is Absinthe Alcohol?
Absinthe is usually an anise flavoured, high proof alcohol. It is usually served with iced water to dilute it also to allow it to louche. Henri-Louis Pernod distilled it in the early nineteenth century by using a wine alcohol base flavored with natural herbs and plants. Conventional herbs employed in Absinthe production comprise wormwood, aniseed, fennel, star anise, hyssop and lemon balm, as well as many others. Spanish Absenta, the Spanish name for Absinthe, is commonly a little sweeter than French or Swiss Absinthe as it works with a distinct kind of anise, Alicante anise.
Legend has it that Absinthe was made while in the late eighteenth century by Dr Pierre Ordinaire as being an elixir for his patients in Couvet, Switzerland. The recipe subsequently got into the hands of two sisters who began selling it as a a drink in the town and eventually sold it into a Major Dubied whose daughter married into the Pernod family – all the rest is, as it were, history!
By 1805, Pernod had started out a distillery in Pontarlier, France and started producing Absinthe as “Pernod Fils” and, through the middle of the 19th century, the Pernod company was generating more than 30,000 liters of Absinthe per day! Absinthe even grew to be more well-known than wine in France.
Absinthe had its heyday while in the Golden Age of La Belle Epoque in France. Sad to say, it became linked to drugs such as heroin, cocain and cannabis and was accused of having psychedelic results. Prohibitionists, doctors and wine suppliers, who had been upset with Absinthe’s recognition, all ganged up in opposition to Absinthe and were able to persuade the French Government to exclude the beverage in 1915.
The good news is, Absinthe has since been used. Studies and tests have demostrated that Absinthe is no more harmful than any other strong liquor and therefore no induce hallucinations or ruin people’s health. The claims of the early 20th century are now seen as mass hysteria and falsehoods. It had become legalized in the EU in 1988 and also the USA have allowed various brands of Absinthe to be marketed in the US from 2007.
You can read a little more about its past and interesting facts on absinthebuyersguide.com and the Buyer’s Guide and forum at lafeeverte.net. The forum is advantageous because there are reviews on various Absinthes. You can buy Absinthe essences, which make real wormwood Absinthe, in addition to replica Absinthe glasses and spoons at AbsintheKit.com.
So, what is Absinthe alcohol? It is a mythical, mysterious drink with an incredible history.
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HC orders 196 ‘grace marks’ in Tamil NEET, stays admissions
PUBLISH DATE 11th July 2018
http://tinyurl.com/y67epqpa
n a ruling that will disrupt the ongoing MBBS and BDS admission process, the Madras high court has ordered that 196 “grace marks” be awarded to the more than 24,000 students who wrote the NEET-2018 in Tamil for MBBS admissions. The court stayed ongoing MBBS admissions based on the present merit list and gave CBSE two weeks to come up with a fresh list of qualified candidates.
Lambasting CBSE for framing inaccurate and wrong translations in 49 questions, each carrying four marks and totalling 196, a division bench of Justice C T Selvam and Justice A M Basheer Ahmed said: “The list of qualified candidates shall be kept in abeyance, as would the counselling, pending publishing details of the qualified candidates afresh.”
The order divided parents and students eyeing MBBS seats. While more than 24,000 students who wrote the exam in Tamil were excited as almost all of them will now automatically qualify for MBBS/BDS admissions even if their original score was zero, or even -100, smiles fell off the faces of those students who had already bagged MBBS seats.
“My son spent a year after Class 12 studying hard to get a high score. It would be unfair to snatch the seat that was given to him,” said S Maheshwari, whose son has been placed in a government medical college.
Judges reject CBSE’s response
On the contrary, E Manikantan, a parent, said: “There is some justice finally. Our son wrote the exam in Tamil and had scored 182. But he was unable to get an MBBS seat as the cut-off for the BC category in all colleges in state counselling was 344. Now, with 378 marks, he will get a seat in a government college.”
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court was passing orders on a PIL filed by CPM MP T K Rangarajan who claimed there were translation errors in the Tamil NEET question paper and sought grace marks for all the students. For instance, the word “cheetah” was translated literally as “Seetha” while technical words like “multiple allele” and “ureter” were translated incorrectly, he said. The judges, observing that students who took the exam in Tamil should be given a level playing field, directed CBSE to grant four marks each for the 49 erroneous questions — in all, a total of 196 marks — for those who took the exams in Tamil.
They also rejected the CBSE’s response, submitted to the court on July 6, that subject experts in the regional languages concerned had been requested to translate the NEET question paper from English, and that since they were already teaching the subjects in the regional medium they were aware of the technical terms and so were the students. “We are unable to accept the response given by CBSE,” the judges said, adding that assuming students’ knowledge of technical terms because their teachers knew them was presumptuous. They also questioned the board on how they could determine the marks of Tamil-medium students based on their knowledge of English.
“We are left wondering whether the CBSE, a board entrusted with the conduct of examinations at the national level, can be so uncertain about the answers to questions raised by it,” the order said, pointing out that such ambiguity could be acceptable in the civil services, but not in NEET which was meant for students in the age group of 17 to 18. Stating that there are tens and thousands of students who pursue private study because they have to work to support their families financially, the court said the board should allow such students in future. “At the end of the day, our constitutional scheme is inclusive, not exclusive. We trust the issue will engage the attention of the authorities,” the order said.
While officials at CBSE said they were seeking legal opinion to go in appeal, the Tamil Nadu state selection committee secretary, Dr G Selvarajan, said he was awaiting further instructions from the government. The Tamil Nadu government is unlikely to appeal as the order is in favour of students who had written NEET in Tamil.
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What’s in a name? : USS Clamagore SS 343
by Mister Mac - What’s in a name? : USS Clamagore SS 343 It’s been hard the last few years seeing the struggle of the Clamagore. There are so few submarines from her era still afloat and even the thought of losing one is hard for those of us who know their place in history. These articles are from […] Read more of this post
Editorial: Saving the Clamagore would be fitting tribute to Charleston area’s naval past
Jun 11, 2019 Updated Jun 11, 2019
By Grace Beahm Alford gbeahm@postandcourier.com
It’s cheaper to save it than to sink it. That’s the short argument for preserving the Cold War-era
submarine Clamagore as a museum ship rather sinking it off the coast as a fishing reef.
Read the full Editorial HERE
WHY SHOULD WE SAVE THE USS CLAMAGORE IN CHARLESTON
Submariners are Suing South Carolina to Save Cold War-Era Attack Boat
By: Ben Werner, USNI News
A group of retired submariners is fighting the State of South Carolina to keep what is believed to be the last World War II and Cold War-era GUPPY III submarine from forever becoming an underwater playground for fish and SCUBA divers.
Citing the high cost of preserving the 75-year-old former USS Clamagore (SS-343) at a pier across the Cooper River from Charleston, S.C., the sub’s operator, the Patriots Point Development Authority, wants to turn it into an artificial reef off the South Carolina coast, according to court documents obtained by USNI News.
The all-volunteer USS Clamagore SS-343 Restoration and Maintenance Association say, according to a 1979 agreement transferring Clamagore to the state, the sub can’t be sunk without approval from the Secretary of the Navy. Plus, the volunteers are arguing in court they have a better plan to preserve the sub.
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To save, relocate and restore the USS CLAMAGORE SS 343. To relocate the submarine from Patriot's Point, Mount Pleasant, SC to a land berth communal with the H.L. HUNLEY museum in North Charleston, SC. To preserve the last of her kind of World War II GUPPY III submarines to a condition suitable to serve as a submarine museum and memorial for future generations.
CRAMA, PO Box 60388, N. Charleston, SC 29419
The USS Clamagore SS-343 currently sits at a pier near the Patroits Point Maritime Museum, Mt. Pleasant, SC. The superstructure has extensive corrosion but the ballast tanks and pressure hull are still intact. None of the maintenance Patriots Point agreed to perform after signing the donation contract has been performed. The Executive Director of Patriots Point, Mac Burdette, has been actively pursuing a way to remove the boat from the Museum. This action was required by the condition he found the submarine in when he took over as Executive Director.
When a group of Charleston area submarine veterans heard that the submarine was going to be sent to Florida to be sunk as a diving reef we banded together to form the USS Clamagore SS-343 Restoration and Maintenance Association, Inc. (CRAMA) . We are incorporated in South Carolina and are a Section 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Charity under the Internal Revenue Service Code. We hope to move the Clamagore to a land berth in order to reduce the maintenance required to keep it open for the public to visit. We hoped to have it in the vicinity of the H. L. Hunley Museum in North Charleston, SC so that after viewing the Hunley visitors could go on board and see modern submarine conditions.
We estimate placing it in a land berth to cost between $1.6M and $2.3M depending on what an initial drydocking shows. Part of this cost could be raised by selling materials not required with the sub in a land berth.
Due to actions taken by Patriots Point after receiving the USS Clamagore, removing the deck hatches and main ballast tank blow piping, the ship is not seaworthy. The only way it can leave the Charleston harbor is on a barge or onboard another ship.
The USS Clamagore SS 343 is the last Balao-class GUPPY III submarine left afloat. Although she did not see service in World War Two she is a representative of the submarines that fought so effectively in the Pacific theater in the war. The submarine did participate in many missions during the Cold War period. She is an example of modern submarine design in that the compartmentation and construction is similar to submarines serving the US Navy today. Since all current US Navy submarines are nuclear powered the possibility of getting a more modern submarine in Charleston for a memorial is negligible.
But why keep it in the Charleston area?
The USS Clamagore can effectively show the development of the modern submarine from the H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a warship.
The USS Clamagore was stationed in Charleston and was overhauled at Charleston Naval Shipyard.
Charleston was a very important Navy installation during the Cold War era with the first deterrent patrol of a Fleet Ballistic Submarine, USS George Washington SSBN 598, leaving from Naval Weapons Station, Charleston. Many submarines were station in the Charleston area and many millions of dollars came into the economy each from the families and sailors stationed on those ships and the support commands.
Properly done the USS Clamagore and a submarine museum dedicated to the history of all submarines could be an international attraction bringing much more into the Charleston area economy than the cost of the museum.
More information is available on the CRAMA website, www.ussclamagore.org .
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UPDATE for 2012 cenla christmas day tornadoes
UPDATE for 2009: 63% of continental united states covered in an average of five inches [13 centimeters] of snow. [noaa.gov screen grab]
reposted 29 december 2012
originally posted 25 december 2008
rpso: sufficient probable cause established arrest in rigolette bridge & serial arsonist case
For Release to the Media
FM: Lt. T. Carnline RPSO
DTD: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:59
SUBJ:Arson Arrest in Rigolette Bridge Fire of Last Year
During the early morning hours of March 26th 2011, the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office received a complaint that the bridge spanning Rigolette Bayou located on Rigolette Road in Tioga was on fire.
Local fire personnel were able to put out the fire, but due to extensive damage it created, the bridge was closed for public safety.
R.P.S.O. Detectives in conjunction with investigators of the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office immediately began an investigation into the incident as it was believed the fire was the result of an arsonist.
Various leads were followed up, but none led to an arrest up until now.
In November of this year, R.P.S.O. Detectives received information relating to multiple structure fires in the Tioga area, which included the Rigolette Bridge and two uninhabited residences located on Hollowdale Drive.
Detectives re-opened the original investigations and were able to establish sufficient probable cause that twenty-three year old Trenton Lloyd Malone was the main suspect in each of the fires.
As a result, warrants were granted for Malone’s arrest for Three Counts of Simple Arson Over $500.
On December 27th 2012, Deputies located Malone at a residence in the Alexandria area.
He was advised of the warrants and taken into custody without incident.
Trenton Lloyd Malone of 144 Hollowdale Drive, Tioga, LA, was booked into the Rapides Parish Jail, where he is currently being held in lieu of a $300,000.00 bond.
Detectives say their investigation is still ongoing and additional arrests may be forth coming.
If you or someone you know has any information relating to these fires please contact Detective Jonathan Treadway at the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office Tioga Sub Station (318) 640-6000, R.P.S.O. Main Office (318) 473-6700, or Crime Stoppers (318) 443-7867.
"Whenever a case goes cold, you always keep it in the back of your mind and then one day, one piece of evidence or information comes up and our detectives got right back on this case and solved it with an arrest" said Sheriff William Earl Hilton.
in light of the recent christmas day 2012 tornadoes which wrought much devastation to parts of central louisiana such as the garden district in alexandria and parts of tioga, ball & rigolette that after reading the press release a couple of questions came to mind.
is this bridge reopened?
what role if any did this bridge arson mischief play in hampering the responders getting to this neighborhood?
so we emailed lieutenant carnline to ask if the bridge was reopened (we figured he would know if the sheriff's office was able to patrol this area) and was he aware of any reports linking this 2011 mischief with hampering this storm's first responders and clean up crews?
I checked with the Police Jury and the bridge was re-opened in the spring of this [2012] year. The only thing that hampered response to the devastation by the tornado’s were the trees in the roadway.
UPDATED kalb special report cenla christmas day 2012 severe weather
kalb, tom konvicka, special report cenla christmas day 2012 severe weather
ball, tioga & rigolette
UPDATE: kalb christmas day severe weather slideshow
kalb tioga area storm damage
gannett/the alexandria daily town talk: strong storms push through cenla, damaging homes, businesses
8 a.m. update: Some traffic lights out in Alexandria; 1,205 without power in Central La~ gannett/the alexandria daily town talk 26 december 2012
DATE: Wednesday 26 December 2012, 0956
Christmas Storm Update
Yesterday at approximately 12:05 pm, the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office received its first of over 20 calls for storm related incidents that occurred in the Parish.
The hardest hit areas, according to Sonya Wiley, Rapides Parish Director of Homeland Security, was in the Tioga area around Lafayette Lane, Aspen Court areas.
Overall, approximately 40 homes, 8 businesses, 2 churches and the roof of a school sustained damage in what was thought to be a tornado.
No injuries or fatalities were reported.
"We want to urge the citizens to exercise caution in the operation of chain saws, generators and any other equipment used to remove limbs or debris from the storm" Director Wiley said.
"The Sheriff's Office wants to remind the public to be cautious when dealing with people wanting to fix damage from the storm.
Use reputable people to do this and not someone who just drives up and says they can fix it" said Lt. Tommy Carnline, Public Information Officer.
"Be careful driving because there is still a lot of debris in the area."
Lt. Tommy Carnline
Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office
the story of the birth of christ
As told through Luke and Matthew
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and giuen him a Name which is aboue euery name:
That at the Name of Iesus euery knee should bow, of things in heauen, and things in earth, and things vnder the earth:
And that euery tongue should confesse, that Iesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:9-11 (King James Version 1611)
a very private miracle
audio page
a christmas themed production of the cbs radio mystery theater that originally aired 23 december 1978.
the story of how a young lass named jennifer soileau and the christmas miracle of regeneration she brought to the life of the curmudgeonly old capitalist, jasper crown (howard da silva) ... but will it last?
reposted 25 december 2012====
cbs radio mystery theater presents "a christmas carol"
there were 1399 cbs radio mystery theater programs and you can probably find them all for download online. the internet archive has quite a few.
It's ominous theme music and longtime host E.G. Marshall's invitation to "return next time for another adventure in the macabre" cast spells across the airwaves for loyal listeners - myself included. Those voices (usually in some form of distress or conflict) echoing through my ears were all too real.
CBSRMT programs, including commercials, were an hour long on the air. Most mp3 files have been edited to remove the commercials and the length is 40 to 45 minutes - although, some contain the entire program complete with commercials and a newscast at the end or whatever programming surrounded the program. This can be quite interesting listening as well and I consider that to be a bonus.
I am willing to share these programs free of charge and I ask for nothing in return. Feel free to ask for programs in the forum. ~ cbsrmt.info a fan site.
Starring host E.G.Marshall as Scrooge, aired every Christmas Eve except 1974 and 1982
Presented exactly as aired on WBBM, Chicago on Christmas Eve, 1978 complete with original commercials, news and even weather reports!
click here to download from google books a free copy of the 1908 edition of "a christmas carol" by charles dickens (1812-1870).
or click here to download our copy 121 page .pdf [3.22 mb]
"a very private miracle" the cbs radio mystery theater
lets hear it for the teamsters
happened across this sight yesterday at libuse and the dollar general store. apparently, the architect, engineer and the rapides area planning commission didnt take into account this retail establishment's need for large truck freight deliveries.
nontheless, this trucker who must have ice water for blood managed to back his truck and trailor to the store using a narrow lane.
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military bearing
observing the jarheads carrying on and as expected, carrying on quite smartly too, whilst capturing our marine one - air force one - potus video, we couldnt help but be carried back to ol' virginny [sic semper tyrannis] and the spit and polish navy.
there is a reason why the united states marine exemplifies superior military bearing compared to in this case the air force. notice how the marine makes even the scrambled egg who escorted the president between rides and his side-kick seem sloppy. the marine is standing at parade rest we dont know what the general and his aide are displaying.
anyway that reason may be found cast into the usmc official seal.
see also 11 general orders of a sentry usmc version
usn version
video: president obama arrives/departs andrews afb to connecticut
president obama arrives at andrews air force base on sunday 16 december 2012 on marine one to depart aboard air force one to connecticut to meet newtown massacre survivors and mourners
from 1459 est
credits for the cam are at the end of the vid - leave intact
us public domain: video content documents an official us government evolution
psychotropic and pharmaceutical drugs help facilitate random & mass shootings and violence
updated and edited 17 december 2012
UPDATED arrest made: remains of missing woman dorothy rosier found
Sheriff William Earl Hilton announced this morning that an arrest has been made in the Dorothy Eyvonne Rosier homicide case.
Last night, Sheriff’s Detectives arrested Paul Jackson, 61 of 1125-A Jim Meyer Dr, Alexandria. Jackson was taken into custody and booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center for 2nd Degree Murder and Obstruction of Justice and is currently being held without bond.
The investigation is still ongoing.
"Finally the family will have a little more closure to this case. In a cold case, you go back to zero, start over and run down every lead and that’s what our Detectives did. They have put in a lot of man hours and worked long into the night last night to make this arrest.” said Sheriff Hilton.
"I would also like to thank Sheriff Scott Franklin and the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office for their ongoing assistance in this case."
As the investigation is still ongoing, there is no further information at this time as to cause of death or motive.
Rapides Parish Sheriff William Earl Hilton announced today that Sheriff’s Office Investigators have positively identified the remains found in the woods in LaSalle Parish as that of Dorothy Eyvonne Rosier.
Ms. Rosier went missing almost 3 years ago on January 11, 2010.
Hunters, hunting near Trout, LA in LaSalle Parish, discovered the remains on November 21st.
While a presumptive identification was made based on dental records, preliminary results were leading investigators to believe that the remains may be the missing Rosier woman.
Positive identification was not received until last week with assistance of the Louisiana Repository for Unidentified and Missing People FACES Lab.
Based on these findings, investigators conclude that the remains are those of Ms. Rosier. Ms. Rosier was twenty five years old at the time of her disappearance.
The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office along with the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office will continue their joint investigation into this homicide and how the remains got into the woods at that location, who might have put them there and the events surrounding the death of Ms. Rosier.
Sheriff Hilton would like to thank Sheriff Scott Franklin and his department for their assistance and continued cooperation in the ongoing investigation of this case.
At this time, Sheriff’s Detectives would not speculate on any suspects or cause of death as this might hinder their investigation.
"This family needs closure to what happened to their daughter, their sister, their mother. We have been working diligently on this case since we came into office and we are looking into other unsolved cold cases. This is the one we need help on now. Someone knows something and we want you to do the right thing and come forward so this family will not have to spend another Christmas knowing the suspect in Dorothy’s murder is still out there" said Sheriff Hilton.
Anyone having information on the disappearance of Dorothy Eyvonne Rosier in January of 2010 is urged to contact the Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office or the LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office 318 473 6700
Criminal Investigations 318 473 6727
LaSalle Parish Sheriff’s Office 318 992 2151
Crime Stoppers 318 443 7867
www.rpso.org
Labels: 2012_necrology
faith ford; alexis crew productions announce 1st casting call for actors and extras
www.alexiscrewproductions.com
- Friday, December 7, 2012 at 3:00 P.M. - 8:00P.M.
- Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. - 6:00P.M.
Location: 1501-A Wimbledon Boulevard
please send your resume and head shot to the following:
ALEXIS CREW PRODUCTIONS
1501A WIMBLEDON BLVD
ALEXANDRIA LA 71301-3384
faith ford & alexis crew productions before the alexandria, la., city council
UPDATED possible film school to locate in alexandria's district 3
former alexandria, la. mayor carroll lanier dead
via: twitter @kalbtv5
former alexandria, louisiana mayor (1977-1982) carroll lanier has died reportedly from congestive heart failure. lanier was aged 86.
Carroll E. Lanier
(November 5, 1926 - December 4, 2012)
Services for Mr. Carroll E. Lanier will be held at 1:00 p.m., Friday, December 7, 2012 in the Chapel of Hixson Brothers, Alexandria with Reverend Clifton Stewart officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
The family requests that visitation be observed Thursday, December 6, 2012 at Hixson Brothers, Alexandria from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and will continue on Friday from 8:00 a.m. until time of service.
Mr. Lanier, 86, of Alexandria passed away Tuesday, December 04, 2012 at Grace Home.
He was born in Hamburg, Arkansas and moved to Alexandria at the age of eleven.
He attended Bolton High School and before graduation he joined the U. S. Navy.
After his time in the Navy he worked as an electrician in Alexandria.
In June of 1969 until June of 1973 he was the Commissioner of Finance and Utilities.
After Mr. Lanier’s term was over he and his brother started Lanier Electric.
In 1977 Mr. Lanier became Mayor of Alexandria for a 5 year term. Then in 1988 he worked as Executive Director of the Housing Authority until his retirement in 2000.
He was preceded in death by his son, Brian Lanier; parents, M. B. and Effie Sivals Lanier; one brother and three sisters.
Those left to cherish his memory include his wife of 64 years, Winifred “ Wendy” Lanier; daughters, Kathy Lanier Miller and husband, Ronald, Theresa Lanier Massey; son, Steve Lanier and wife, Amber; grandchildren, Josh, Brian, Ryan, Shelby, Anthony, and Jody; seven great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Grace Home, 3330 Masonic Drive, Alexandria, LA 71301.
~ source: hixson brothers funeral home
attorney jimmy faircloth phones ksyl to "correct the record on what the [schools voucher] ruling really accomplishes"
link to audio download page
attorney jimmy faircloth phoned in to the ksyl talkback 970 preshow program this morning to clear up some misconceptions about the recent district court ruling that found the school voucher funding mechanism to be unconstitutional.
mr. faircloth said that the ruling is suspended pending the appeals process and that no one remembers a district court ruling anyway.
lee rubin "it was my turn" to be next alexandria, la., city councilman at-large
link to audio file download page
prescient? refreshingly candid? a freudian slip? -- "it was my turn" was the answer alexandria, la. city council at-large candidate, lee rubin chose to give to the question put to him by fred rosenfeld on why is he running for the alexandria city council at-large seat.
source: louisiana sec'y of state elections website
mr. rubin was in studio at ksyl am 970, friday, 30 november 2012, to appear on the talkback 970 preshow with fred and bob program. the primary was on 06 november. mr. rubin finished second with 32.12% of the vote out of a six man field.
the runoff is on saturday, 08 december 2012, when he will face the incumbent -- roosevelt johnson. councilman johnson received 39.94% of the primary vote.
here's the thing, we dont want either one of 'em. neither would have been our first choice in the primary.
councilman johnson wouldnt be so bad if he would grow a backbone and stop being a puppet. dude you're not crafty at plotting and deceit. so stop.
it's obvious that the mayor and the silk stocking gang have a lot at stake in this election. they've poured tons of money into mr. rubin's coffers in an effort to solidify the control by the mayor and his gang over the majority city council votes and by extension the public fisc and governmental power.
the results of their massive psyop arent all that impressive. although, at least one person as late as monday, 05 november 2012, election eve, was on ksyl radio predicting that councilman johnson wouldnt even make the runoff.
one glaring omission in this interview that we noticed which mostly speaks to the ethics and integrity or lack thereof of cenla broadcasting -- in that they didnt require the interviewer/show cohost fred rosenfeld to disclose that a local company he owns, the parc england boutique hotel, contribute to the lee rubin campaign.
that was an especially egregious oversight when seeing how it was reported by steve coco from his cenla news blog back on 07 october 2012.
anyway, this race has many fascinating dynamics -- one being how many of the non-johnson votes were more anti-roy than anti-johnson votes? mr. rubin was seen from the start of the race as being the mayor's boy; as far as we know the only one who could be considered outright pro-roy. the only other candidate might be milton gordon who probably looks at the mayor's plans favorably.
so even though mr. rubin was correct when he pointed out to the gannett/alexandria daily town talk that 60% of the electorate voted against the incumbent -- with this whole pro and anti-roy dynamic vibrating through the city the numbers still dont add up to an inevitable rubin victory.
one the other hand the mayor and the silk stocking gang did manage to finally get rid of myron lawson and that was an at-large election too. albeit a few years or in a political sense an eternity ago.
but -- around the same time, charles fredrick "droopy draws" smith was defeated for reelection to the city council despite the mayor and his gangs support.
wst... disclosure: as we pointed out here, we have a wager on the outcome of this race.
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FOLLOWUP: Why King County wants to open a White Center shelter for people experiencing homelessness, how it will work, and who it’s for
September 13th, 2016 at 1:11 am Posted in housing, King County, White Center news | 36 Comments »
(WCN/WSB photo)
By Tracy Record
White Center Now editor
At least 100 people are sleeping outside in White Center on any given night, it’s estimated.
But there’s no official shelter anywhere nearby.
King County hopes to change that before winter, by converting the former Public Health building at 8th SW/SW 108th into a shelter for 70 people.
We first reported this after finding out about it while covering the September 1st North Highline Unincorporated Area Council meeting, where president Liz Giba mentioned an upcoming community meeting to discuss it. We subsequently obtained and published notice of the meeting, which is set for this Thursday night (September 15th).
When we contacted the King County division in charge of the project, Housing and Community Development, we were offered the chance to talk with its manager Mark Ellerbrook about the project.
Here’s what we learned in a conversation with him on Monday:
Ellerbrook reiterated that County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray declared homelessness to be “an emergency” as of last November. The annual countywide One Night Count two months later found more than 300 people sleeping outside in Southwest King County alone, the “highest number of unsheltered homeless people outside Seattle,” according to Ellerbrook, with at least 100 of them estimated to be in White Center. The three zip codes that include parts of White Center, meantime, had 1,300 calls last year for homelessness-related assistance.
That indicates a high “level of need,” Ellerbrook observed, not that the county needed the numbers to be aware, since they’ve long been hearing at community meetings about people camping and/or sleeping in doorways and along streets.
But the White Center area has had no shelter to address the need – nothing between an 8-person shelter for women at a West Seattle church and a 9-person shelter for women in Burien. “A pretty high level of need, with almost no shelter services.”
So as the county assessed its resources, with the mission of deploying them toward helping with the homelessness emergency, this building came up. It also was transferred between county departments, making it more easily available for this new use.
It will operate as an “enhanced shelter,” Ellerbrook said, noting that this type of shelter was recommended by some of the reports released last week focusing on the regional crisis, one that operates without some of the restrictions that “are often barriers to people seeking shelter.”
He confirmed that the Salvation Army will operate the shelter, as part of an existing contract with the county, offering case management and other services. We asked about the cost, and he said that hadn’t been finalized yet. (We will check back.) The SA already operates some shelters in county buildings, according to Ellerbrook, and does “a really good job of managing a challenging population”; in addition, it already is involved in the area, with a facility in South Delridge.
The shelter will accept single adults and couples, 18 and over – no children.
The hours will be longer than many “overnight” shelters – opening at 5 pm, offering dinner and breakfast, and closing at 8 am, “so that folks will have more time indoors, with case management connecting in the evening and the morning.” Extra “transportation services” will be offered too, Ellerbrook said; while the location is close to three bus routes serving downtown, “the Salvation Army is going to work to provide van transportation services” so that shelter users can get to appointments, interviews, doctors, something “not typically offered.”
One question asked at this month’s NHUAC meeting – will the shelter be serving just people found to be unsheltered in this area? Ellerbrook says “all of our shelters operate regionally” – so that, for example, someone can show up at a shelter in Bellevue and say they’re from Seattle, and they will still be allowed in.
But, he added, “we’re going to actively do outreach with the Salvation Army and Sound Mental Health to the folks who are homeless in White Center, to make sure they are aware of the shelter, that they can bring their belongings and leave them (at the shelter) even when it’s closed during the day, that it’s OK for couples and pets.” The county already has outreach “in this community,” he said, including at the White Center Food Bank next to the planned shelter site, and at areas where people experiencing homelessness are known to be camping, such as along Myers Way.
Shelter users will not be screened for criminal backgrounds. “These are people who are in the community now – whether they are a felon, or someone just down on their luck, they’re camping in green spaces … our hope is to bring them into a known location like (this) so we can get them connected to services and housing and make them more of a known quantity to all the service providers.”
Also: Alcohol and drug use will not be allowed in the shelter, but if people are under the influence when they arrive, that will not keep them out. “What we find is that most folks who come in are quite tired,” Ellerbrook said.
There will be no limit on nights that people can stay in this shelter. “We often find people might come in for a short period of time, some for a long time … we really hope to move people through the system” and get them into housing, says Ellerbrook.
We asked if the building will be undergoing any major alterations to transform it into a shelter. No, said Ellerbrook, but after the community meeting, they will be applying for a permit that he says is required for “change of building use.” They hope to be able to open by November 1st, while realizing that’s a “tight timeline.”
The meeting notice also promises a discussion of the site’s future, potentially a mixed-use project with affordable housing and offices for service providers. Steve Daschle of West Seattle-based Southwest Youth and Family Services talked about this at last xx’s NHUAC meeting, and he and White Center Community Development Association executive director Sili Savusa will be at this Thursday’s meeting to discuss it.
In the meantime, Ellerbrook says the shelter could be in operation for three years.
Is the county looking at any additional potential shelter sites in White Center?
“We’re not planning anything beyond this right now,” Ellerbrook replied. “Our hope is that we will be able to get people connected and move them out” into real housing. “We hope we can move the needle on homelessness in this particular region.”
And if they can … “we might be able to re-evaluate the need for this facility.”
The community meeting on Thursday (September 15th) is at the Bethaday Community Learning Space in Dick Thurnau Memorial Park (635 SW 108th), 6:30 pm.
36 Responses to “FOLLOWUP: Why King County wants to open a White Center shelter for people experiencing homelessness, how it will work, and who it’s for”
Stephanie Palmquist Says:
I sincerely hope that all concerned neighbors will attend the meeting to present a unified voice that this location is NOT appropriate for the use they are proposing! This building is right in the middle of four schools, and students from kindergarten through high school have to walk past this building on their way to and from school! There is a wooded park adjacent to the building on a dead end street. Who will be held accountable when our children are harassed and/or possibly dragged into the woods and attacked or raped on their way to school? Will King County’s already overtaxed sherif provide an escort to the thousand some students enrolled at these four neighborhood schools? The Salvation Army already says it won’t screen anyone for criminal records or arrest warrents or even turn them away if they are under the influence of drugs! Who will keep our children safe?
sarah Cooke Says:
I think this is an amazing idea. It makes use of space that is already there and not in use. Also it is next to the food bank, close to bus lines and for the most part is fairly wooded around it.
Liz Giba Says:
James Pelland Says:
This whole thing makes me sick. We have become a magnet for homeless all across this country. We need to find solutions, but not in a place children are because of schools and park. What is wrong with these politicians? I think when they declared homelessness “an emergency” it was to do three things: 1. Raise taxes 2. Get federal money 3. Pressure White Center to become Seattle.
Jerry Robison Says:
I have serious concerns about placing this shelter so far from the business district, in the middle of a residential neighborhood and right next to a park that abuts two public schools. Will anything be done to avoid turning Dick Thurnau Park into a daytime hangout and nighttime campout site for people drawn from downtown White Center and other areas?
Was the extensive vacant space under the DSHS office (the old Safeway building) even considered? It does not sit in the middle of a residential neighborhood, does not abut a park or schools, and has much better access to bus routes and services.
Does the county own that building? (I don’t have time to dive into Parcel Viewer right this sec. I vaguely recall it being for sale some time back?) Please note that one impetus for all this is the county trying to maximize its facilities (as they’ve done downtown). But also note that the invitation to the meeting does say that citizens are invited to bring their ideas for where shelter could be found, and Mark Ellerbrook reiterated that during our conversation.
Gwen Elliott Woodruff Says:
I was aggressively verbally harassed by two men in a gold SUV by the bus stop at 8th and 108th. I was so shaken up I actually reported it to the police. The police officer who followed up with me said a high concentration of sex offenders live in the area (don’t take my word for it, just look it up. It’s also common hearsay I’ve heard volunteering at the food bank). White Center is one of the last places in the Seattle area where most people can afford to live, and most do, in homes they’ve long owned. With homelessness not much of a problem here (though we have our share of other problems), seems to me this is a way to exploit an already troubled area in the hopes that no one will put up much of a fight (like so many “incorporated” Seattle residents have done about the homeless in their backyards) and relocate a lot of Seattle’s downtown homeless here.
Jerry, that’s a great idea!
AmandaKH Says:
Wow Stephanie. +1 on the hysteria. “…our children harassed and/or possibly dragged into the woods and attacked or raped on their way to school?” You are way out of line here. People are homeless everywhere, especially in White Center and West Seattle. Just look at ANY park or open green space right now. I am 100% for this to help folks out there. I just wish we could also get one for homeless families as well. Shame on you and your fear mongering.
Danielle Slota Says:
I fully support this! Especially when you read the facts about how many homeless neighbors we have in White Center. If executed properly, this would not bring homeless neighbors into White Center (as some of the replies are suggesting) but rather take the folks who are already there, sleeping on the street, and bring them inside. If anything, I think this has the potential for making the neighborhood safer.
Are there alternatives on the other side of Roxbury?
Mark Ellerbrook’s explanation of why they chose this location is very interesting. I wonder if this an example of how King County uses its “Equity Impact Tool.
Does it go like this?
(1) There are only two shelters between somewhere in Burien and somewhere in West Seattle.
(2) Both are women’s shelters.
(3) Together they can shelter 17 women.
So, let’s:
[1] Put a homeless shelter for 70 adult men and women in White Center (aka Top Hat, Lake Hicks, etc.)
Next to a park,
which is next to Cascade Middle School,
which is next to Evergreen High School and a short walk to:
Mt. View Elementary School,
Technology Access Foundation (TAF) and
the Head Start at Seola Gardens.
[2] Because it is one of the poorest communities in King County.
(North Highline’s area median income is nearly $30,000 a year BELOW King County’s. White Center’s poverty rate is almost 25%. Beverly Park’s is even higher.)
[3] Because it is one of the most unhealthy communities in King County.
(If in doubt, King County Public Health’s community profiles are very informational about things ranging from levels of education to lifespans.)
[4] Because it’s an area of “concentrated poverty,” felons and druggies are already here.
[5] So…what’s a few more? No screening necessary.
[6] So…we’ll accept people who are under the influence of whatever, but not their drugs. They’ll have to be stashed somewhere in the neighborhood, but there are plenty of places in the parks.
[7] The list goes on and on…
Equity? Social Justice? Not in North Highline. The politicians and bureaucrats who are trying to push this shelter on this neighborhood need to reassess the location. Homeless people need safe lodgings in neighborhoods with opportunities to offer. That’s not North Highline.
I am seriously disappointed in some of my White Center neighbors. You are assuming that because these people are homeless that they are all on drugs, are crazy or are criminals. My family was homeless for about 5 years. We were just not able to afford a home and our credit sucked. Luckily we had some great family that we could stay with for a while and then we were able to “live” in a motel along the Aurora Corridor. Not one of us were on drugs nor are we alcoholics or criminals. And as some of you say “we shouldn’t relocate homeless to North Highline”. Are you kidding me? There are already homeless in North Highline. That is part of the problem. I live just up the street from the tent city on Myers Way. You are saying that they should put the homeless in Downtown WC. If they did that you would complain just as much. Children and familys walk through that area too. You don’t think that just because they are in a more urban setting doesn’t make them any more or any less dangerous.And don’t you think it is already dangerous to have that building sitting empty? At least this way there are going to be people on site making sure that crime is kept at a minimum. Please think about your fellow human beings.
Liz, thank you for breaking down the points so concisely. Gwen, I’m sorry for your experience. Jerry, thank you for your suggestions for alternative locations.
I’m glad that so many are now aware of the county plans and will hopefully attend the meeting. My goal was to raise awareness of this plan, which I was never notified of by the county, despite living nearby. If one reads the full article above, the Salvation Army has already stated that the shelter is for adults only, it will not screen the adults, that it will not turn them away if they are under the influence of drugs / alcohol, and it will provide transportation to White Center from downtown as far as Bellevue. That means those lical homeless who coukd benefit from this shelter will have to compete for spaces with those being bussed in. Those who say I’m scare mongering, I invite you to volunteer to walk with the kids to and from school every day. Good night all, see you at the meeting.
Correction, local homeless
Correction, could benefit
Do you honestly believe you are the only person walking your child to school encountering homeless folks? There is No Shelter for people in this area. And when you are homeless, there is no city boarder. Only the struggle for a safe place to sleep and your next meal.
Homeless people already live close to you, they are everywhere. So this hysteria is almost laughable if the conditions humans are living in weren’t so deplorable. If there was a place on the “other side of Roxbury” I’m sure it’s been discussed. This is a reasonable use of this building for the greater good.
Rod Clark Says:
The first floor of the DSHS building houses the Sea-Mar clinic and an eye clinic, but other spaces in there have been vacant for many years. It would be a good place for more services.
Metro could help this a lot, too. By moving about half of the local bus route endpoints back to the former Metro bus hub near the old Safeway, people who need services could be connected with them more effectively. The former bus hub has lots of space, ever since nearly all of the buses went to Westwood.
The express buses that now park alongside Roxhill Park are the routes that should be moved back to the White Center bus hub. Those are the buses that offload the bulk of the people who need services, when those bus runs end at the park, coming directly from downtown. But no services are available there, and realistically the service providers can’t operate effectively in the park itself.
The other smaller and more local bus routes, and the Sound Transit 560 bus, that park along 25th (the street alongside the Staples store) seem to have much less of an effect on the park and could stay where they are.
In addition to making it more feasible to help those who need it, people around Roxhill Elementary would thank you and Metro for helping to make Roxhill Park back into a safer environment for the neighborhood’s kids.
September 14th, 2016 at 9:17 am
Metro’s current C Line routing is controversial for a number of reasons. Modifying the C Line route, so that it would run both northbound and southbound along the same route that it now uses northbound (on Roxbury), and end up at the White Center bus hub, could have some beneficial results for Westwood and vicinity, as well as better connecting White Center. Here’s what I proposed on the West Seattle Blog, in case anyone here wants to discuss it:
The southbound C Line buses could turn south on 35th at Barton (the same route that the northbound C Line buses use now), and stop eastbound on Roxbury at the Safeway (they now stop there westbound), but then continue on their way to 15th and Roxbury to end their route at the bus hub there.
This would take the C Line off the residential street on 26th. The 120 could continue to run on 26th, for local people who need to shuttle between the Safeway and Westwood Village, which most express riders to downtown probably don’t need to do. The C Line already connects with the 120 at the Safeway, for those commuters who need to get to Westwood Village. And it would connect with the 120 again at 15th and Roxbury.
Maybe this would mean a few other minor routing changes for local bus lines that connect with the C Line, too, along its route or at the White Center bus hub. But overall this could be an improvement for the Westwood area.
In other words, move Seattle’s homeless people to unincorporated King County.
Oh, you’ll be Seattle soon enough Liz.
Question Mark Says:
The devil is certainly in the details on this proposal. There are many problems with how King County makes decisions for the communities it governs. It seems clear in this case that our local government is pandering to its political interests rather than involving the community in local decisions.
Certainly maligning the homeless population with fears that they will bring a greater danger of sex offenses or a greater degree of drug use in White Center is off-base.
However, questions remain about the operation of this shelter, if it comes to pass. Will it be available for clients 24 hours a day? If not, what will its hours be? What other services will be available to homeless residents? What is the intended geographical service area for the shelter? Does King County intend to open other shelters in the same time frame (and where if so)? What are the sources of funding, and how sustainable is that funding in the coming years? What does the county estimate is the size of the population that needs this service in the region this shelter is intended to serve? Who will operate the shelter and who will they be accountable to? How frequently will the need for services at this location be re-evaluated and what resources will exist to add additional services should more services turn out to be necessary?
For example, many shelters are open for bedding down only in the evening to early morning. For example, Union Gospel Mission in Seattle allows overnight occupancy between 8 PM with wake-up at 6 AM. The same space is used for meals during the day. Each persons belongings must be moved out every morning. What other amenities and services exist near the proposed shelter to handle daytime occupancy?
Given the county’s current budget squeeze, where the county is facing $50 million in budget cuts to services funded through its general fund, the fund that covers local government services, local residents are being completely rational to question whether a regional emergency shelter with limited opening hours and few additional services in the area is the right plan for the greater White Center community.
The size of the population is already mentioned in this story. And it’s not SW Seattle – it’s SW King County. They promised maps at the meeting.
So Seattle can move more of its problems here? Unrestrained segregation and discrimination. Homeless people need homes, dumping them in an already struggling neighborhood is EVIL, imo.
I hopped on here this morning hoping to have heard from more neighbors in support of this shelter. I, along with Ms. Cooke, am sad to see that our neighborhood is AGAINST GIVING PEOPLE A WARM PLACE TO SLEEP. 100 (approximately) of our neighbors sleep outdoors in White Center every single night. 100 of our neighbors are sleeping in tents, cars, shelter made from boxes, under the awnings of local businesses, at bus stops, on park benches. 100 of our neighbors feel unsafe every night of the week. For the life of me I can’t understand why any of you would chose that for them, which is exactly what you are doing. By not supporting this shelter, you are saying that you would rather our neighbors be cold and in danger. It breaks my heart.
Mr. Ellerbrook’s comment that 100 people sleep on the streets of White Center was an “estimate.” By whom? Based on what? He was clearly trying to make SW Seattle’s problem ours. It isn’t – yet. Seattle’s homeless should be treated like people IN Seattle.
I know what you’re saying, and I’d be concerned about it too, if things would happen the way you fear they would.
But back when all the Metro routes went to the bus hub at the old Safeway store, and many of the buses laid over near there, there were far fewer problems there of the kind that have cropped up at Roxhill Park.
That was because it’s a business distict with the King County Sheriff’s office within a couple of blocks, well lighted streets, foot and car traffic at all hours – really not at all like the Park. The Park atracts people that the White Center bus hub did not attract and won’t attract, basically because the Park is a wildland, unlit, unwatched wooded area.
The Park is highly attractive to people who want to hide in the trees and bushes, away from lighted areas, out of public view. The 15th and Roxbury bus hub doesn’t attract them now, and it won’t be any more attractive than it is now if some of the bus routes return to that location.
The problem is the siren pull of the out-of-view, hidden, unpoliced woodland environment of Roxhill Park, coupled with the lack of Transit Police attention to it. Transit Police SUVs frequently guard the shiny new Burien Transit Center against a few ragged characters that turn up there, but they don’t give the same kind of attention to Roxhill Park.
Part of what needs to happen, along with restoring Roxhill Park to being a civilized place again, is for the Transit Police to make sure that the 15th and Roxbury bus hub stays civilized, too. But that would be a lot easier than in Roxhill Park.
Most of those who now hop off at the Park probably aren’t going to consider beautiful downtown White Center to be equivalently atractive. There are always a few homeless people around there, but it doesn’t provide a better substitute for Victor Steinbrueck Park or other such places downtown, which Roxhill Park does.
There probably will be some more people coming to White Center, if there’s a shelter built there. The DSHS building would be a good place for it, better than some other possible nearby locations, if a shelter is going to be built in White Center somewhere.
But I don’t expect a big deluge, if Roxhill Park is cleaned up and stops being an easy C-Line destination like it is now. The reroute that I suggested likely would lead to a return to the previous state of things at 15th and Roxbury, and that actually wasn’t so bad.
It sure would be nice to know the zip codes before the meeting. Tracy? Please and thank you.
Sounds like some people are not reading the article and just posting there fears.
Here are some facts that are in the article
It will be operated by the salvation army
It will be a overnight shelter 5pm to 8am
The shelter will accept single adults and couples, 18 and over – no children
Yes they will not turn away someone for being drunk or high on drugs ( I would take a guess if someone causes a problem they leave in hand cuffs )
They are also not be doing crimal background checks
Which worries some people but these homeless people are already here now if there in this location at night in bed. Then if they happen to be a criminal there not out breaking in to things at night.
Also most of these same homeless people most likely use the foodbank nextdoor. So right now the only places for them to sleep is in parks or along myers way.
Also for the people wondering about the sex offender population in the area look at any low income area across the country. Some of these people maybe criminal’s but they are trying to rebuild there life’s. For the amount of them in the area there has not really been anything in the news or blogs about any crime activity related to them.
Soup Ninja Says:
Isn’t it bad enough we have freed psychopaths wandering in and out of Share and Care House, making the 131 Metro route one of the most harrowing and dangerous rides in the entire system? We have kids using the walks unaccompanied to and from school, largely because their parents are too busy (or poor) to escort them themselves. You REALLY think this is a good idea? I’m all for ending homelessness, but this is a TERRIBLE idea. All these junkies and their smelly mutts are going to be piling on Metro in droves, and nobody had thought yet about how this is going to impact the neighborhood. This will just bring more crime, more pain to the area, and I’m sick to death of it. The homophobic Salvation Army can kiss me where the sun doesn’t shine, too.
Mark Ufkes Says:
Three years ago, A group of churches and Chamber members held several meetings on homelessness in downtown White Center. Participants included service providers, White Center business owners, law enforcement and other community members. What was clear is that White Center has had a serious homeless problem for years, and many of the homeless here, are here to avoid the pressures they feel in downtown Seattle to use homeless services there. Me Giba’s claim that Seattle is dumping homeless in White Center is nonsense. The discussion tonight is a King Couny iniative. From the work that we did previously, it is clear that we need a facility here and coordinated services to help get these folks back on track. The homeless are already here and have been for years. Figuring out how to give them a hand up is the right thing to do.
The concentration of poverty in North Highline is well documented. 25% of us live in poverty. Our median income is about $30,000 a year LESS than that of the county as a whole. Our schools are struggling, we have to beg the county to help clean our streets, graffiti is never-ending, We have many problems, but homelessness is not one of them.
Seattle has a homeless problem. The Top Hat neighborhood has been suffering for months because Seattle’s homeless problem has been pushed to Myers Way. (In Seattle, just north of the border.) The drug use and crime are also documented.
Ours is a vulnerable community. Before King County directs any more vulnerable people here, it has a moral responsibility to conduct a Fair Housing analysis. It will be required by HUD in a few years anyway, why not do it now?
Today’s Seattle Times (front page, above the fold) reads: “INCOME GAIN IN SEATTLE FAR OUTPACES OTHER CITIES…If your household earns less than $80,000 per year, you’re now in the minority in Seattle.”
Meanwhile, our median income is about $40,000. Why should North Highline subsidize Seattle?
Just a reminder, KING County is working on this project, not Seattle. Homeless people live in White Center, have been for many many years.
Liz, as the chair of NHUAC (the area’s community council), I would hope you would be a bit more pragmatic and forward thinking in helping North Highline residents start the work it will take to make Seattle annexation successful. Your questions about Seattle and it’s policies are completely valid. However, the only way to make things better is to do the work to make things better. Your animosity towards Seattle is breathtaking.
People on the Seattle side of the line want to work with NHUAC, but I am starting to doubt that’s possible.
Westwood res Says:
AmandaKH –
As someone who has attempted to run for public office in the past, and who may do so again in the future, I would give you a reminder that our elected representatives represent ALL the people and should refrain from calling their concerns “laughable” just because they do not align with your own.
One Evergreen Says:
I am with Stephanie Palmquist worrying about the location of the proposed homeless shelter in the center of student walking zones of four schools, White Center Heights Elementary, Mount View Elementary, Cascade Middle School and Evergreen high schools. In addition, the proposed shelter is next to Lakewood Park and the Evergreen/Cascade athletic fields where certainly groups of homeless using the shelter would congregate during hours they are not allowed inside the shelter.
After nearly 20 years of fantastic Lakewood Park renovations, the Bethaday Community Center, the Disc golf course and a playground, students can walk through these open spaces now without encountering thugs and drug deals to and from school. As a parent with kids who walked to these schools, the idea of children having to navigate past groups of homeless individuals leaving the shelter while walking to school every morning makes me uneasy.
Yes, homeless individuals need shelter and support, but this is a school and child centric location. Some of you are calling folks who disagree with this shelter proposal selfish, yet White Center parents would have to take on the burden of worrying about the safety of their children walking to and from school.
To quote Ms Giba “We don’t have a homeless problem in White Center”. Really Liz? Walk the back alley between 15th and 16th downtown. What about the camps along the ponds or at North Shorewood Park. What about the vacant lot that is now the new library (ironically, the new library that you fought to move into Burien instead of keeping it in White Center) I have been talking homeless people from White Center to shelters during our coldest weather for years and years.
You have done some good work here, but it does not give you the right to make known false statements about our community and make your blanket declarations and be so caustic towards people who have a differing opinion. The same arguments that are being made about the homeless, are the same statements you have made about our low income housing.
Westwood res: Cute, but not accurate.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India could prevent foreign firms monopolising the market for genetically modified (GM) seeds by allowing the sale of only locally developed varieties, a government think-tank has said, in a boost for transgenic mustard produced by a Delhi group.
The Policy Commission said in recommendations this week to the government, and seen by Reuters, that adopting new technology is one of the most important drivers of farm productivity.
Cotton is the only GM crop currently allowed to be sold in the world's second most populous country where arable land is shrinking. U.S. company Monsanto Co dominates the cotton seed market in India, and often faces resistance from local companies over its dominant position.
"There is some concern that GM seeds can be monopolised by multinationals, which may then exploit farmers," the commission said in its report to the government. "But this concern is readily addressed by limiting GM seeds to those varieties discovered by our own institution and companies."
A panel of government and independent experts gave its technical clearance in August last year for GM mustard, which is in the same plant family as rapeseed, and developed by a group of Delhi scientists following multiple reviews of crop trial data generated over almost a decade.
The national government has been sitting on the fence since August largely because of stiff opposition from social and environmental activists who see GM food as harmful for humans and animals alike.
India's biggest rapeseed-producing state, Rajasthan, has decided not to allow the commercial use of GM mustard even if New Delhi approves the lab-altered variety, its farm minister Prabhulal Saini told Reuters.
The government has said it will take a call on GM mustard after taking all views on board, though experts say allowing its cultivation is critical to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal of attaining self-sufficiency in vegetable oils.
India spends around $10 billion annually on vegetable oil imports. GM mustard - with yields up to 30 percent higher than normal varieties - could give Modi a chance to slash this bill.
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2013| October-December | Volume 10 | Issue 4
Online since January 23, 2014
Surgical outcome and complications following cleft lip and palate repair in a teaching hospital in Nigeria
Taiwo O Abdurrazaq, Adeyemi O Micheal, Adeyemo W Lanre, Ogunlewe M Olugbenga, Ladeinde L Akin
October-December 2013, 10(4):345-357
Background: Measurement of treatment outcome is important in estimating the success of cleft management. The aim of this study was to assess the surgical outcome of cleft lip and palate surgery. Patients and Methods: The surgical outcome of 131 consecutive patients with cleft lip and palate surgeries between October 2008 and December 2010 were prospectively evaluated at least 4 weeks postoperatively. Data collected included information about the age, sex, type of cleft defects, and type of surgery performed as well as postoperative complications. For cleft lip repair, the Pennsylvania lip and nose (PLAN) score was used to assess the surgical outcome, while the integrity of the closure was used for cleft palate repair. Results: A total of 92 patients had cleft lip repair and 64 had palate repair. Overall, 68.8% cases of cleft lip and palate repair had good outcomes; 67.9% of lip repairs had good lip and nose scores, while 70.2% of palatal repair had a good surgical outcome. Oro-fistula was observed in 29.8% of cleft palate repairs Inter-rater reliability coefficient was substantially significant. Conclusions: The fact that 25.7% of those treated were aged >1 year suggests a continued need to enlighten the public on the availability of cleft lip and palate expertise and treatment. Although an overall good treatment outcome was demonstrated in this study, the nasal score was poorer than the lip score. Complication rate of about 14% following surgical repair is consistent with previous reports in the literature.
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Epidemiology and management of head injury in paediatric age group in North-Eastern Nigeria
JY Chinda, AM Abubakar, Habila Umaru, Chubado Tahir, S Adamu, S Wabada
Background: Paediatric head injury (HI) is the single most common cause of death and permanent disability in children world over, and this is increasingly becoming worrisome in our society because of increased risks and proneness to road traffic accidents on our highways and streets. The study set to determine causes and management of HI among children in our society. Patients and Methods: A retrospective review of all children aged 0-15 years with traumatic head injury (THIs) who were managed at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital between July, 2006 and August, 2008. Results: A total of 45 children with THIs presented to the casualty unit of the hospital; 30 (66.7%) were boys and 15 (33.3%) were girls. Three (6.7%) children were less than 1 year of age, 21 (46.7%) were between 1 years and 6 years while 16 (35.6%) and 5 (11.0%) were aged 7-11 years and 12-15 years respectively. Thirty six (80.0%) of the children were pedestrians, 6 (13.4%) fell from a height, while 2 (4.4%) and 1 (2.2% were as a result of home accident and assault, respectively. Twenty one patients (46.7%) had mild HI, while 53.3% had moderate to severe category. Forty one (91.1%) of children were managed as in-patients, mostly (95.1%) by conservative non-operative management, while 4 (8.9%) were treated on the out-patient basis. The mortality rate was 17.8%. Conclusion: H1 among children is of a great concern, because of its incremental magnitude, due to increasing child labour and interstate religious discipleship among children, with attendant high mortality and permanent disabilities. Necessary laws and legislations should be formulated and implemented with organized campaigns and public enlightenment to prevent and mitigate this menace.
An evaluation of surgical outcome of bilateral cleft lip surgery using a modified Millard's (Fork Flap) technique
WL Adeyemo, O James, MO Adeyemi, MO Ogunlewe, AL Ladeinde, A Butali, OA Taiwo, CI Emeka, A. O. S Ayodele, CU Ugwumba
Background: The central third of the face is distorted by the bilateral cleft of the lip and palate and restoring the normal facial form is one of the primary goals for the reconstructive surgeons. The history of bilateral cleft lip repair has evolved from discarding the premaxilla and prolabium and approximating the lateral lip elements to a definitive lip and primary cleft nasal repair utilising the underlying musculature. The aim of this study was to review surgical outcome of bilateral cleft lip surgery (BCLS) done at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Materials and Methods: A review of all cases of BCLS done between January 2007 and December 2012 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital was done. Data analysis included age and sex of patients, type of cleft deformity and type of surgery (primary or secondary) and whether the cleft deformity was syndromic and non-syndromic. Techniques of repair, surgical outcome and complications were also recorded. Results: A total of 39 cases of BCLS involving 21 males and 18 females were done during the period. This constituted 10% (39/390) of all cases of cleft surgery done during the period. There were 5 syndromic and 34 non-syndromic cases. Age of patients at time of surgery ranged between 3 months and 32 years. There were 24 bilateral cleft lip and palate deformities and 15 bilateral cleft lip deformities. Thirty-one of the cases were primary surgery, while 8 were secondary (revision) surgery. The most common surgical technique employed was modified Fork flap (Millard) technique, which was employed in 37 (95%) cases. Conclusion: Bilateral cleft lip deformity is a common cleft deformity seen in clinical practice, surgical repair of which can be a challenge to an experienced surgeon. A modified Fork flap technique for repair of bilateral cleft lip is a reliable and versatile technique associated with excellent surgical outcome.
Ultrasound diagnosis of varicocele in the adolescent: Our experience from Benin
Michel A Fiogbe, Maroufou J Alao, Olivier Biaou, Séraphin A Gbenou, Patricia Yekpe, Roger Sossou, Serge C Metchihoungbe
Background: The diagnosis of varicocèle is clinical. In order to improve diagnosis of varicocele, we compared the clinical with the ultrasound findings in schoolboys with the condition. This is because the conditions can affect testicular growth. Patients and Methods: It was a cross-sectional, descriptive study of schoolboys aged from 10 to 19 years who had varicocele. Among 2724 boys examined, 149 had varicocele and only 81 had scrotal (18 with Doppler) and renal ultrasound examination. Results: Among the 81 adolescents who were clinically diagnosed with varicocele and also with the aid of ultrasound scan, 25, 36 and 20 had grade 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Testicular hypotrophy (TH) was clinically noticed in 17 cases. At ultrasonography, varicocele was bilateral in 87.66% and unilateral in 12.34% (P = 0.01) with 32 adolescents (39.51%) showing TH compared with 20.99% being diagnosed with TH using clinical examination alone (P = 0.01). In 50 schoolboys (61.73%) with unilateral varicocele, a subclinical type was discovered at other side. Renal ultrasound revealed abnormalities in 4.93% of cases. Doppler ultrasound helped in finding varicoceles along the top edge of the testis (n = 15) and under tunica albuginea (n = 3). Conclusion: TH due to varicocele is better studied by ultrasound.
Recurrent intussusception in children and infants
Amine Ksia, Sana Mosbahi, Mohamed Ben Brahim, Lassaad Sahnoun, Besma Haggui, Sabrine Ben Youssef, Kais Maazoun, Imed Krichene, Mongi Mekki, Mohsen Belghith, Abdellatif Nouri
Background: Recurrent intussusceptions in child and infants are problematic and there are controversies about its management. The aim of this study is to determine the details of the clinical diagnosis of recurrent intussusception and to determine the aetiology of recurrent intussusceptions. Patients and Methods: It's a retrospective study of 28 cases of recurrent intussusception treated in the paediatric surgery department of Monastir (Tunisia) between January 1998 and December 2011. Results: During the study period, 505 patients were treated for 544 episodes of intussusception; there were 39 episodes of recurrent intussusceptions in 28 patients; the rate of patients with recurrence was 5.5%. With comparison to the initial episode, clinical features were similar to the recurrent episode, except bloody stool that was absent in the recurrent group (P = 0,016). Only one patient had a pathologic local point. Conclusion: In recurrent intussusception, patients are less symptomatic and consult quickly. Systematic surgical exploration is not needed as recurrent intussusceptions are easily reduced by air or hydrostatic enema and are not associated with a high rate of pathologic leading points.
The hidden mortality of imperforate anus
Nikki Beudeker, Emily Broadis, Eric Borgstein, Hugo A Heij
Background: Anorectal malformations (ARMs) affect 1 in 4000-5000 births and are a big challenge in western countries. However, little is known about ARMs in Africa. The aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence, treatment and outcome of ARMs in Malawi. Materials and Methods: Over a 4-year period (2006-2009), data was extracted from patients up to and including the age of 5 years or less who underwent a colostomy, posterior sagittal anorectoplasty or colostomy closure. Results: Of the data that could be retrieved 46 patients met the criteria of congenital ARMs; 65.2% were female (N = 30) and 34.8% were male (N = 16). The median distance from patient to the hospital was 79 km and the median age at presentation was 24 days. In female patients: The most common ARM was the vestibular fistula (N = 21; 70%), a recto-vaginal fistula was found four times, a cloaca was found three times and a perineal fistula or no fistula were both found once each. The most common ARM among boys was the recto-urethral fistula (N = 10). Two boys had no fistula. A perineal fistula and a recto-vesical fistula were both found once each. Nearly, half of the patients (N = 22) had complications. Complications occurred less often in the group, which lived closest to the Surgical Unit (25%). Associated anomalies were found in one patient. Conclusion: This study shows a skewed distribution of age at presentation and type of ARM. The most likely explanations are (1) the distance to the hospital: Because none of the male patients presented after 4 weeks and many may have passed away before arriving at the tertiary care centre; (2) lack of knowledge among primary caregivers since very few patients with rectoperineal fistulas were seen. The rate of complications was high, probably also related to advance age at presentation. Therefore, Malawi needs more awareness for earlier detection and quicker intervention.
Paediatric acute retropharyngeal abscesses: An experience
Khan A Nazir, Patigaroo Amin Fozia, Mudasir ul Islam, Ahmed Shakil, Suhail Amin Patigaroo
Background: To describe our experience of paediatric patients with acute retropharyngeal abscess in terms of clinical presentation, diagnosis, management and complications. Materials and Methods: A prospective study was done for a period of 4 years (Jan 2009 to Jan 2013) on paediatric patients (< 15 years) with acute retropharyngeal abscess at two tertiary hospitals in Srinagar. Diagnosis was made on the basis of X-ray, CECT scan findings and confirmed on incision and drainage. Pus was aspirated from all patients and sent for culture and sensitivity. Data for clinical presentation, X-ray, CECT scan findings, causes, complications, bacteriology and management were collected. Thirty-five abscesses were drained while 5 with small abscesses on CECT were managed conservatively. Results: A total of 40 patients were diagnosed as acute retropharyngeal abscesses. Males were commonly affected, and most of the patients were less than 6 years of age. Most common symptom at presentation was fever (35) followed by neck pain (30) Dysphagia/odynophagia (22), swelling in neck (19). Most common clinical sign observed was oropharyngeal swelling and limitation of neck movements (30), cervical swelling/lymphadenopathy in 22 patients. Torticollosis and drooling were seen in 15 patients. Complications were seen in 8 patients. Most common X-ray finding was pre-vertebral thickening. Success rate with primary surgical drainage was 95% while 3 patients in conservative group failed. Conclusion: Children with RPA most commonly present with restricted neck movements, fever and cervical lymphadenopathy, and rarely with respiratory distress or stridor. Surgical intervention is necessary for most of these patients.
Octreotide treatment in a neonate with non-chylous pleural effusion
Salih Kalay, Osman Oztekin, Gonul Tezel, Burak Emre Demir, Mustafa Akcakuş, Nihal Oygur
Fetal pleural effusion is a rare condition. While it may regress spontaneously, it may also continue up to the post-natal period. This condition may be treated by thoracentesis, thoracoabdominal shunt application and pleurodesis in the intrauterine period while thoracentesis or tube thoracostomy may be used in the post-natal period. In cases where the fluid is defined to represent chylothorax, octreotide, a somatostatin analogue, may be administered for treatment. In this case report, we discussed the outcomes of treatment with octreotide administered in a neonatal case under follow-up due to fetal pleural effusion and with non-chylous ascites detected in the post-natal period.
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Post appendectomy acalculus bilateral ureteric obstruction: A rare entity in children
Vipul Gupta, Sunil Kumar Yadav, Abdulnaser Al Said
Bilateral acalculus ureteric obstruction is described as rare sequelae of acute appendicitis in two paediatric patients aged 6 and 11 years presented with features of anuria. Imaging and endoscopic evaluation confirmed bilateral ureteric obstruction secondary to bladder wall oedema as an inflammatory reaction to appendix. Both cases recovered following bilateral ureteric stenting and are doing well.
Oesophageal elongation with traction sutures (FOKER procedure) in a newborn baby with long-gap oesophageal atresia (LGEA): Maybe too early, maybe too dangerous?
Holger Till, Ina Sorge, Robin Wachowiak
In children with long gap oesophageal atresia (LGEA), the FOKER technique (oesophageal elongation with traction sutures) has been criticized for its high complication rate. We advocate analysing such problems to increase the safety in the future. The present case report will focus on timing. A female newborn (3000 g) with LGEA (gap of 5 cm) was delivered in an outward hospital. On day two of life, she received traction sutures on both pouches. By day five, all sutures had torn out, and a primary anastomosis was attempted. However, it leaked severely. Thus, on day ten, the oesophagus was approached from the neck converting the proximal end into a spit fistula and closing the distal end blindly. Furthermore, the gastro-oesophageal (GE-) junction was wrapped with a Teflon sling. When the baby arrived in our institution, she suffered from cavernous oesophageal masses extending from the thoracic inlet down to the diaphragm and fistulas draining them into the neck as well as into the right lung. Moreover, the Teflon sling had dislodged allowing for GE-reflux. In several stages, the oesophageal remnants were resected without any complications. Finally, Prof. Alaa Hamza performed a colonic interposition, which is working well today. In conclusion, the present case aims to caution paediatric surgeons to apply traction sutures for oesophageal elongation in newborns with LGEA.
A rare complication of small bowel intussusception: Report of a case and review of literature
Impellizzeri Pietro, Borruto Francesca Astra, Montalto Angela Simona, Romeo Carmelo
Volvulus and intussusception are rare conditions in children. We describe an unusual case of intussusception due to a solitary Peutz-Jeghers type hamartomatous polyp complicated by volvulus, which occurred in an 11-year-old girl. A laparotomy allows to successfully treat the pathology. The postoperative course was favourable. We discuss the clinical findings and the values of the preoperative instrumental diagnosis. The literature is reviewed. Identifying a midgut volvulus, as complication of a small bowel intussusception, during the diagnostic phase could help in choosing the most appropriate surgical approach.
An unusual complication of ischemic injury to upper pole ureter during lower pole heminephroureterectomy
Katherine Victoria Hurst, Ashok Daya Ram, Dragan Milanovic, Swe Lynn
Lower pole heminephroureterectomy is a common paediatric urology procedure with few reported complications. We report a case of possible vascular ischemic injury to the normal remaining ureter following a lower pole heminephroureterectomy, probably due to both ureters sharing a common blood supply. Extra caution in such procedures is therefore warranted.
Massive de-gloving thigh injury treated by vacuum therapy, dermal regeneration matrix and lipografting
Mario Cherubino, Stefano Scamoni, Igor Pellegatta, Francesca Maggiulli, Anna Minuti, Luigi Valdatta
Frequently lower limb injuries are caused by road and work accidents. The young age of those affected coupled with the anatomical and functional peculiarities of this part of the body with regards to social life during adolescence make the treatment of the leg wound complex and challenging. We present two cases of young girls, victims of serious road accidents who were treated initially with frequent wound washings, vacuum therapy to stimulate granulation tissue, then dermal regeneration matrix (INTEGRA ® ) and split-thickness skin grafts. After one year, both patients treated with lipofilling have shown improved cosmetic results allowing a new social life.
Sigmoid volvulus in a neonate: Case report and review of literature
Valentina Pastore, Angela Basile, Raffaella Cocomazzi, Marlena Pastore, Fabio Bartoli
Sigmoid volvulus (SV) is an extremely rare cause of bowel obstruction in the newborn period. We report a neonatal case of SV misdiagnosed as small bowel volvulus. At laparotomy, the classical findings of SV were observed without gangrene. The operative procedure consisted of simple detorsion without sigmoidopexy.
Imaging to diagnose acute appendicitis
Viroj Wiwanitkit
Total bilirubin in nasogastric aspirate
Hai Err, Viroj Wiwanitkit
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Acute typhic cholecystitis
Sora Yasri, Virolj Wiwanitkit
Abdominal neuroblastoma in children
Beuy Joob, Viroj Wiwanitkit
Omentopexy for patch repair of diaphragmatic defect
Mehrdad Hosseinpour, Mohadese Hamsaie, Abasat Mirzaei
Background: There are many techniques in the reconstructive of congenital diaphragmatic hernia defect. In this study, we present our results from a prospective, randomised trial of using the omentum (omentopexy) for repair of large diaphragmatic defects. Materials and Methods: Twenty white, male, New Zealand rabbits were used to compare incidence and severity of adhesion bands formation in abdominal cavity with/without of omentopexy after repair of diaphragm defect with the non-absorbable patch (Dacron). They were divided in to two groups, GI (10 animals with omentopexy and repair) and GII (10 animals with repair, without omentopexy). On the 60 th day, animals were re-operated. In each case, adhesion band formation and its severity were recorded. Results: The difference between the incidence of adhesion band formation among the two group was statistically significant (P = 0.019).The majority of rabbits in GII (60%) had substantial adhesion bands (Grade >2 or severe score), whereas, in GI, none of rabbits had substantial adhesion bands (P = 0.019). Conclusion: Our study showed that the use of omentopexy as a cover in repair of diaphragmatic defect is versatile technique with a good success for decreasing of adhesion band formations at short-term follow-up.
Childhood unintentional injuries: Supervision and first aid provided
Annabel Jonkheijm, Jenny Johanna Hendrijntje Zuidgeest, Monique van Dijk, Àrjan Bastiaan van As
Background : The aim of this study was to investigate the circumstances surrounding unintentional injuries of children and the appropriateness of the first aid provided by caregivers. Materials and Methods : This prospective study included children with aged range 0-12 years, who presented with an unintentional injury at the Trauma Unit of a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, over a 3 month period. Caregivers were interviewed about the circumstances of the injury and the first aid provided. Experts classified the first aid as appropriate, appropriate but incomplete, or inappropriate. Results: A total of 313 children were included with a median age of 3.75 years. The most common causes of injury were falls (39.6%, n = 124), burns (23.9%, n = 75) and motor vehicle crashes (10.5%, n = 33). More than a quarter of the children (27.2%, n = 81) had been left under the supervision of another child below the age of 12. When the injury occurred, 7.1% (n = 22) of the children were unattended. First aid was provided in 43.1% (n = 134) of the cases. More than half of these interventions (53%, n = 72) were inappropriate or appropriate but incomplete. Conclusions: Especially young children are at risk for unintentional injuries. Lack of appropriate supervision increases this risk. Prevention education of parents and children may help to protect children from injuries. First-aid training should also be more accessible to civilians as both the providing of as well as the quality of first-aid provided lacked in the majority of cases.
Tunica vaginalis flap cover in repair of recurrent proximal urethrocutaneous fistula: A final solution
Nitin Sharma, Minu Bajpai, Shasanka Shekhar Panda, Amit Singh
Background: The objective of this study was to assess the significance of tunica vaginalis flap cover in cases of recurrent proximal penile fistula. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included complicated cases of proximal penile hypospadias with recurrent fistula. Recurrent fistula was defined as fistula after at least two previous attempts of closure. Group 1 included cases with tunica vaginalis flap and Group 2 included cases with local flap. Outcome was assessed at day 10 after stent removal and at first follow-up. Fistula closure was considered successful in case with no leak. Results: Out of 39 cases of recurrent fistulas, 20 cases in Group 1 and 18 cases in Group 2 formed the study group. The mean age at fistula repair was 7.2 ± 0.9 years (range: 2.1-12 years) and 7.1 ± 0.7 years (range: 2.3-12 years) in Group 1 and 2 respectively. Leak at the time of stent removal was present in 1/20 (5%) and 3/18 (16.67%) cases in Group 1 and 2 respectively (P = 0.04). Leak at the time of first follow-up was present in 2/20 (10%) and 4/18 (22.22%) cases in Group 1 and 2 respectively (P = 0.03). Complete disruption of fistula closure was present in 1/20 (5%) and 2/18 (11.11%) cases in Group 1 and Group 2 respectively (P = 0.1). The overall success rate in Group 1 and 2 was 16/20 (80%) and 9/18 (50%) respectively (P = 0.01). Conclusions: Tunica vaginalis flap reinforcement is a viable and reliable option. With proper use cases of recurrent fistula can be managed successfully.
Role of damage control enterostomy in management of children with peritonitis from acute intestinal disease
Emmanuel A Ameh, Michael A Ayeni, Stephen A Kache, Philip M Mshelbwala
Background: Intestinal anastomosis in severely ill children with peritonitis from intestinal perforation, intestinal gangrene or anastomotic dehiscence (acute intestinal disease) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Enterostomy as a damage control measure may be an option to minimize the high morbidity and mortality. This report evaluates the role of damage control enterostomy in the treatment of these patients. Materials and Methods: A retrospective review of 52 children with acute intestinal disease who had enterostomy as a damage control measure in 12 years. Results: There were 34 (65.4%) boys and 18 (34.6%) girls aged 3 days-13 years (median 9 months), comprising 27 (51.9%) neonates and infants and 25 (48.1%) older children. The primary indication for enterostomy in neonates and infants was intestinal gangrene 25 (92.6%) and perforated typhoid ileitis 22 (88%) in older children. Enterostomy was performed as the initial surgery in 33 (63.5%) patients and as a salvage procedure following anastomotic dehiscence in 19 (36.5%) patients. Enterostomy-related complications occurred in 19 (36.5%) patients, including 11 (21.2%) patients with skin excoriations and eight (15.4%) with hypokalaemia. There were four (7.7%) deaths (aged 19 days, 3 months, 3½ years and 10 years, respectively) directly related to the enterostomy, from hypokalaemia at 4, 12, 20 and 28 days postoperatively, respectively. Twenty other patients died shortly after surgery from their primary disease. Twenty of 28 surviving patients have had their enterostomy closed without complications, while eight are awaiting enterostomy closure. Conclusion: Damage-control enterostomy is useful in management of severely ill children with intestinal perforation or gangrene. Careful and meticulous attention to fluid and electrolyte balance, and stoma care, especially in the first several days following surgery, are important in preventing morbidity and mortality.
Effect of number of associated anomalies on outcome in oesophageal atresia with or without tracheoesophageal fistula patient
Amit Singh, Minu Bajpai, V Bhatnagar, Sandeep Agarwala, M Srinivas, Nitin Sharma
Background: The objective of this study was to assess effect of number of associated anomalies on outcome in oesophageal atresia with or without tracheoesophageal fistula patients. Materials and Methods: Retrospective analysis of records of neonates admitted with a diagnosis of oesophageal atresia (EA) with or without tracheoesophageal fistula during January 2005 to May 2011. Preoperative investigation included chest X-Ray, ultrasonography of abdomen and echocardiography. Associated anomalies were grouped as minor or major depending on whether life threatening or not. Major anomalies were further sub grouped according to the involvement of single, two or > 2 organ systems. Survival was correlated with the presence of anomalies and the number of systems involved. Results: Out of 301 patients with EA, 240 survived (79.7%). Of these 301, 117 (38.9%) had no associated anomalies. Of the total 61 deaths, 59% (36/61) were in patients with cardiac anomalies and 44% (27/61) were in those with >2 associated anomalies. The mortality rate was highest in those with >2 anomalies 27/34 (79.4%), whereas survival was best in those without any associated anomalies 104/117 (88.9%). Conclusions: Apart from other factors, an association of more than two system anomalies influence the mortality in oesophageal atresia.
Outcome of management of complicated extragonadal teratoma in a resource poor setting
LO Abdur-Rahman, Suleiman Baba, KT Bamigbola, I Olaoye, AO Oyinloye, AA Nasir, JO Adeniran
Background: Extragonadal teratomas (EXGTs) are ubiquitous in the human body; hence, they have varied presentation. In underdeveloped areas presentation and management are affected by socio-economic, cultural and health facilities factors. The aim of this study was to review the outcome of management of complicated EXGT in a tertiary health centre. Materials and Methods: A review data of paediatric patients with EXGT was done between January 1999 and December 2012. Variables reviewed were bio-data, mode of presentation and site of tumour, comorbidity, treatments and outcome. The data was analysed with Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS (R)) version 16.0. Results: There were 21 complicated EXGT (77.8%) among 27 children, age ranges from 4 days to 16 years (median = 2 years). Male:Female ratio of 1:2. The complications per region of the body at presentation were cervical 4 (66.7%), mediastinal 2 (100%), abdominal 3 (75%) and sacrococcygeal 12 (75%). The complications were respiratory distress 6, intestinal obstruction 5, faecal incontinence 2, bladder outlet obstruction 3, malignant transformation 5, ruptured sacrococcygeal teratoma 2, ulcerated tumour 2, anaemia 3 and malnutrition 3. There were 5 (23.8%) progressive disease post-excision outside our facility. Excision biopsy was successful in 19 (85%) patients two of which had neoadjuvant cytotoxic therapy. Overall mortality was 5 (23.8%) (septicaemia, anaemia, respiratory distress, renal failure) and post-excision mortality was 11.8% (endotracheal tube blockage and progressive disease). Conclusion: Delay presentation (due to local belief, ignorance and poverty) malnutrition, sepsis, malignant transformation characterised presentation of children in this study and the lack of paediatric intensive care unit facility and intensivists compromised survival of children with EXGT.
Soave transanal one-stage endorectal pull-through in the treatment of Hirschsprung's disease of the child above two-year-old: A report of 20 cases
Amine Ksia, Houssem Yengui, Manel Ben Saad, Lassaad Sahnoun, Kais Maazoun, Laamiri Rachida, Imed Krichene, Mongi Mekki, Mohsen Belguith, Abdellatif Nouri
Background: The definitive treatment of Hirschsprung's disease is the removal of the aganglionic bowel by a pull-through surgery. In most cases, this surgery is performed in infancy or in the neonatal period as presentation in older children and adulthood is uncommon. Materials and Methods: It is a retrospective study of 20 patients above two-year-old who underwent a transanal Soave one-stage endorectal pull-through procedure for Hirschsprung's disease between January 2002 and December 2010. Results: Twenty patients were recruited in this study. Fourteen were males and six were females. Patient ages ranged from 2 to 14 years (median age: five years and three months). All patients presented with persistent constipation and abdominal distension. Two of them had an intestinal obstruction that required colostomy. Ten patients (50%) had a recto-sigmoid Hirschsprung's disease. All patients were operated on using a Soave one-stage endorectal pull-through procedure. The laparoscopy was necessary during the pull-through in three cases. The average duration of the intervention was 240 minutes. That represents almost the double of the duration of the same procedure in newborns and infants in our department (130 minutes). Early postoperative complications included one case of anastomosis leakage and one case of intussusception. Late postoperative complications were perineum irritation in five cases (25%), anal stenosis in four cases (20%) and enterocolitis in one case (5%). None of our patients developed fecal incontinence. Soiling was reported in four cases (20%). There was no death. Conclusion: Soave transanal one-stage endorectal pull-through is safely feasible in children of more than two years of age. Laparoscopy may be necessary whenever there are difficulties in the pull-through.
Childhood injuries in a tertiary institution in north east Nigeria
Issa Abdul Razaq Esin, Sikiru Alabi, Oluwagbemiga Abdul Razzaq Lawal
Background: Injury has been recognised as a preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in children. The aim of this study was to determine the aetiology, pattern and location of childhood injuries in north east Nigeria. Materials and Methods: This is a 3-year retrospective hospital-based descriptive study. The study included 114 children (77 boys, 37 girls; mean age 6.4 ± 3.2 years; range 2 months to 15 years) who were admitted for various injuries in the female/paediatric surgical ward from January 2007 to December 2009. Information obtained from their case notes included demographic data, mechanism of injury, location of injury, anatomical site of injury and outcome of treatment. Results: Records for 114 children (77 boys, 37 girls; mean age 6.2 years; range 2 months to 15 years) were available for analysis. The highest number of injuries occurred in the age group 6-10 years. Home was the most common location of injury among the age group 0-5 years while older children sustained most of their injuries outside the home on the street/highways. Burns from hot water was the most common injury among children aged 0-5 years while pedestrian accident accounted for the highest cause of injury among older children. Fall accounted for 20.2% of the injuries. The most common specific anatomic injury was head injury followed by limb fractures. Two mortalities were recorded (1.8%). Conclusion: This study provided useful information on the characteristics of childhood injuries in our environment. There is the need for parents and children education about the risks of injury and preventive measures in addition to legislation and policy on environmental modifications and enforcements to significantly reduce childhood injury.
Activating transcription factor 3 is not up-regulated in hypospadias patients in Japan
Toshiaki Takahashi, Akihiro Shimotakahara, Katsumi Miyahara, Geoffrey J Lane, Atsuyuki Yamataka
Background: The aetiology of hypospadias is largely uncharacterized. Some of the researchers have advocated that activating transcription factor 3 (ATF3), an oestrogen-responsive transcription factor, is up-regulated in patients with hypospadias. The purpose is to evaluate the universality of this fact; we studied the expression of ATF3 protein in prepuce tissue obtained from hypospadias and phimosis patients living in metropolitan Tokyo. Materials and Methods: Prepuce tissue was obtained from outer foreskin at the time of surgery, quickly prepared for paraffin-embedded sectioning and stained immunohistochemically for ATF3. Two researchers blindly evaluated immunoreactivity and scored it semi-quantitatively as nil = 0, weak = 1, or strong = 2, to give a final staining intensity score (SIS). Subjects were 18 hypospadias patients and 17 phimosis patients (as controls) who had surgery between January, 2009 and March, 2010. Results: All subjects lived in metropolitan Tokyo, Japan. Mean ages at surgery were 2.9 ± 1.0 and 3.9 ± 2.4 years, respectively (P > 0.05). SIS was not statistically different between hypospadias patients (1.4 ± 0.5) and controls (1.5 ± 0.5), (P > 0.05). Conclusions: Our data suggest that ATF3 is not highly associated with hypospadias in metropolitan Tokyo. Differences in ethnicity might have influenced our results.
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The Day After The Sabbath 117: Boston Tea Party (The Bosstown Sound)
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This volume of TDATS is inspired by one of the enduring stories in the history of American rock; the "Bosstown Sound". It has been regarded from wildly varying viewpoints as a name made up for a scene that never existed, an unjustified hype, an authentic late ‘60s sound, a cynical industries’ marketing ploy that ended in a debacle, or a tragic end to something that could have blossomed and inspired a lot more great music. Probably the saddest part is that some Boston bands were unfairly tainted by the negative opinions, with their careers being hindered or even finished in the process.
Alan Lorber
It began with Alan Lorber, who has been a successful New York-based arranger, producer, musician and composer since the early ‘60s. One of his first successes in pop was creating The Mugwumps, a band which later split into The Lovin' Spoonful and The Mamas & the Papas. In 1968 Lorber devised a plan to use Boston as a geographical base from which to promote a number of his signings. He claims to have chosen Boston because of its convenient proximity to New York, where his Bosstown bands were recorded. A convienient fan-base existed in the 250,000 Boston college students and he claims there was a large number of clubs where artists could develop before touring nationally. There were also many college and commercial radio stations to promte at the grass-roots level. Just after announcing his plan to the trade press like Billboard and Variety, Newsweek carried the story, and coined the term "Boss-town Sound", adapted from “Motown”.
53 Berkeley St.
As a backdrop, Gary Burns recounts in his thesis “The Bosstown Sound” that Boston did have a genuine underground, kick-started in the early sixties by a healthy folk scene. A club called “The Boston Tea Party” (53 Berkeley St.) quickly became the main outlet for alternative rock after it opened in the winter of 1966. The Hallucinations playing with The Ill Wind, along with The Lost, were some of the first Tea Party shows to be announced in the underground Boston newspaper, Avatar. Some other important pre-'Bosstown' mid-sixties bands from the area were The (Rockin') Ramrods, The Remains and The Barbarians. The venue was also favoured by big-name visitors like The Velvet Underground, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy and Canned Heat.
The Boston Tea Party opening night poster
Alan Lorber chose the MGM record label for his signed Boston bands Orpheus, Ultimate Spinach and Beacon Street Union for no other reason than the convenience of having used them for similar acts of his already. Almost immediately after the term “Bosstown” was coined, two things happened which would curse it for ever more and bring it to an abrupt end. Firstly, influential rock press like Rolling Stone and Crawdaddy took an immediate negative stance, claiming that the Bosstown sound was a cynical ploy constructed by MGM, to be played against the huge west-coast “San Francisco Sound”.
The spiel in the initial press advert read ”Where the new thing is making everything else seem yesterday. Where a new definition of love is helping to write the words and music for 1968. Three incredible groups, Three incredible albums. The best of The Boston Sound on MGM records.” It then showed the debut LPs of Beacon Street Union and Ultimate Spinach. Also the second LP from Orpheus, showing that the folk/pop sounds of Orpheus were already well-established before being connected to the campaign.
Billboard magazine - 20th January 1968
The first ad in the Boston Sound campaign
Beacon Street Union, Orpheus and Ultimate Spinach
Now it was hip to bash the Bosstown sound, even Boston musicians joined in the vitriol. Russell “Rusty” Marcus, late-joining bassist with Eden's Children was quoted as saying: "Boston could never support a music scene. You can't enjoy yourself if your body's sick, and Boston's sick, physically, psychologically sick. We're glad we're not just lumped together with the rest of the Boston Sound. [At that time, Eden's Children was one of the only "Bosstown" bands signed to a label other than MGM] I mean, MGM's trying to buy its way onto the charts.”
Mike Curb (center) & members of
the 'Mike Curb Congregation'.
Davy Jones television special, 1972
Secondly, in 1969 the newly appointed MGM president Mike Curb (who later became a Reaganite politician and 42nd Lieutenant Governor of California) decided to wage a war on “drug bands”, with Rolling Stone reporting his derogatory comments about bands on his own label! In doing so he dropped many bands from the label, relegating them as "just a bunch of junk". Since then it has been speculated that this was a publicity stunt, and these were merely under-selling bands that were nearing end of contract anyway. The hip and trendy opinion-leaders like Rolling Stone made it acceptable to put down Boston bands. In Lorber’s words, “Nevertheless, the reaction triggered a national controversy which continued for more than a year. It became more trendy to talk 'Boston Sound' than to hear it. A snowball became an avalanche, with the artists buried under the outpouring that overshadowed the music, and eventually destroyed whatever future they might have had."
Countering this to some degree, Alan also wrote: "Strangely though, Boston Sound marketing was successful for Boston itself. Record outlets prospered. Revenues of rock 'n' roll radio multiplied. Circulation of local music papers doubled. Boston clubs experienced overflow attendance. For the groups, Orpheus' single Can't Find The Time was #1 in most US markets. The first Ultimate Spinach album sold 110,000 copies its first week out. All the Boston artists flourished creatively in a wonderful diversity of things political, things poetic, things classical and jazz, things of the time."
From the eighties onward, many people have studied what happened and why, including music executives trying to avoid another such marketing mess. Others have tried to defend the bands that they think were all unfairly tarred with the same brush, and recoup some respect. To make this volume I have used some great online resources that champions of the Bosstown Sound have put together. Respect goes to Paul ‘Blowfish’ Lovell for his “Rock in Boston 1967-69”. To Gary Burns for his Paper “The Bosstown Sound”, and Alan Lorber himself for writing about it all in the nineties, some of which you can read at Orpheus Reborn. Thanks also to Desdinova's “Re-evaluating The Bosstown Sound”.
Chevy Chase (2nd from rt)
in Chamaeleon Church
So, this volume is a collection of acts that were part of, or connected to, “The Bosstown Sound”. In TDATS tradition, I have chosen cuts from bands which played heavy at least some of the time. Narrowly missing the grade were Bear (youtube), The Freeborne (youtube) and Teddy & The Pandas (youtube). Some important Bosstown names like Orpheus, Earth Opera, The Chamaeleon Church, Ill Wind, The Bagatelle and Flat Earth Society may have been good at what they did but do not have songs included here due to the styles they played. I used a band called Fat back in volume 10 (link) but that track ('Country Girl') is in my opinion the best one on their album and I couldn't decide on another. Towards the end of this volume there's a couple punky late-'70s acts. Although obviously not in the Bosstown Sound, I included them as their members were, and it gives some perspective on what influence the old Boston names had on future sounds.
bands in this volume
The opening track, "Thumbnail Screwdriver", is a catchy song with a rolling groove and charismatic group vocals, a great opener indeed. Quill's real names follow, but on the record they went by the psudonyms of Da-ank Khol, Ju-unk Khol, Phil Stan D' There, Red Rocket Rogers, R. Willy North. These pseudonyms are rumoured to have been an attempt at distancing themselves from their Boston roots, as by 1970 the "Bosstown Sound" was well and truly knackered.
The band enjoyed a brief flash of national exposure by playing at the Woodstock festival in August of 1969. The quintet was co-founded in 1967 by brothers John Cole (bass, guitar, vocals) and Dan Cole (vocals, guitar, trombone), who were the main song-writers. The rest of their lineup was Roger North on drums, Norm Rogers on guitar, and Phil Thayer on keyboards, sax, and flute. Most of the songwriting was handled by John and Dan Cole.
Quill LP (1970)
They were successful enough to get support spots for artists such as Jeff Beck, Deep Purple, Buddy Guy, and Janis Joplin, and their appearance at Steve Paul's Scene in New York City earned them a booking at Woodstock. Unfortunately they never made the cut for the movie, owing to a technical flaw in their footage. They did get signed to Cotillion Records, but the resulting debut album failed, maybe it would have fared better with the help of exposure from the Woodstock movie? John Cole left and the remaining members had their second album rejected by Cotillion. Quill had broken up by 1971 but they received exposure 38 years later when the "Woodstock 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm" CD contained two of the four songs they played there.
North drum kit
Roger North is probably the most well-recognized ex-member, with a continuing career and a stint with the Holy Modal Rounders. He also gained renown in percussionist circles as the inventor of North Drums, a kit with curved drum bodies that projected their sound outwards towards the audience, which he played from the late '60s onward. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon and plays in the Freak Mountain Ramblers.
Brother Fox & The Tar Baby
Track 2, "Steel Dog Man", starts as it means to go on with a stomping hard rock riff and tight playing, punctuated by glorious psych breaks, backed-up by earthy vocals that cut straight to the bone. Brother Fox and the Tar Baby featured the talents of former Profits guitarist Richie Bartlett, bassist Tom Belliveau, guitarist Dave Christiansen, drummer Bill Garr, singer Steve High and keyboardist Joe Santangelo. Dave Christiansen, Joseph Santangelo, Tom Belliveau and Richard Bartlett were previously in Front Page Review, also appearing in this volume. Belliveau was also in Pugsley Munion (see vol59), and Bartlett was later in '80s new-wavers The Fools. They were signed by the small Oracle label, which released 1969's Bruce Patch-produced self-titled album. Christiansen was credited as writing all eleven tracks.
Brother Fox & The Tar Baby LP
This has a commercial edge and is a polished product, but it's done right and there's more than enough heaviness here too, over half the album is hard cuts with quite a unique take on combining late-'60s heavy psych with the chunky riffs and hammond organ of the freshly-emerging hard rock sounds of the times. This is what the first Boomerang album should have been like! (see Vol9)
The countrified feel, and high production quality with orchestration, shows that this was a serious stab at a successful album. The mellow tracks and ballads are all good, so make for a nicely diverse listen. The song-writing is consistently good, and the excellent vocals deserve a mention, sounding somewhat like Robert Plant in the heavier tracks. Highly recommended!
The Far Cry LP (1968)
The Far Cry were a jazzy 7-piece with sax and hammond who made even less impact than most of the bands here. Of all the members, guitarist Paul Lenart reappeared some years later, on Beacon Street Union member Peter Ivers' second solo album. He also played on Keith Moon's "Two Sides Of The Moon" (1975). They play a groovy and flowing form of progressive jazz rock, which is a very unusual thing to have come from the US at this time. User "mekkipuur" at RYM says that they are "the American equivalent to the british heavy progressive groups like Catapilla, Van der Graaf Generator, Gnidrolog or Raw Material" which is a good comparison. Vocalist/Harmonica player Jere Whiting sings with wild abandon, making for one of the most distinctive elements of the record, being compared by some to Capt. Beefheart. I have used the track Hellhound, which has a nice shuffle going on and lots of great extended solos from the band.
The Fort Mudge Memorial Dump's 1969 self-titled album is something to get excited about. A great combination the heaviest Boston sound psych you'll find, with Caroline Stratton's vocals resembling Grace Slick and some killer guitar workouts from Dean Keady, which in places resemble Hendrix at his sludgy-wah'd best. The track I used here, "The Seventh Is Death", is one of the most ominous and longest from the album. It features an unusual, troubled male vocal performance which I presume is from one of the other listed members: James Deptula, Dave Amaral or Richard Clerici.
LP cover, 1969
For such a well formed, great-sounding record there is little information to go by but here's what is stated about them: "They were from Walpole, Massachusetts, that started playing by 1969, gathering a good number of fans. Although they were from Walpole, they got filed into the “Boston Sound”, among the Ultimate Spinach, the Beacon Street Union, Orpheus, Tangerine Zoo, ect." A few years ago I found this comment on a Fort Mudge blog post, but as yet I have been unable to verify any of it: "Uncle Rick said...Hi, I worked with Danny (name not Dean!) and Caroline in a band called "Lovelace" in the '70s and we played to packed houses throughout New England. In between was a band called "MadeinUSA" which also cut an album. Lovelace also included locals Chickie Depula on bass and Mick Bendenelli on drums. Caroline, Cindy Daily & Hope Moon on vocals and they kicked butt!"
Apple Pie Motherhood Band
'Apple Pie' LP 1969
Track 5 presents a whimsical song with funny, eccentric lyrics. "Grandmother Hooker" easily raises a smile. Psychedelic blues unit the Apple Pie Motherhood Band evolved out of garage outfit C.C. & the Chasers (link). In 1965 they relocated from Boston to New York City, briefly adopting the name Sacred Mushroom (used on Vol108) and becoming house band at the Bitter End Café, backing acts ranging from Joni Mitchell to Neil Diamond to Kenny Rogers & the First Edition. The Sacred Mushroom moniker was deemed too drug-oriented for a deal with Atlantic, so a sarcastic comment from guitarist Ted Demos resulted in the name Apple Pie Motherhood Band, and their self-titled debut LP followed in 1968. The group relocated to Vermont to record the follow-up "Apple Pie", adding lead vocalist Bruce Paine, guitarist Michael Sofraine, and harmonica player Adam Myers to original members Dick Barnaby (bass, flute), Jack Bruno (drums), Ted Demos (guitar) and Jef Labes (keyboards).
'Apple Pie' LP rear
They were great musicians and their output was all over the board in terms of style and influence, using a lot of covers. This resulted in many great tracks and some mediocre ones, the second album is the heavier and more consistent. What they lack in originality and identity they make up for in exuberant and fun performances. They opened dates for the Jefferson Airplane, the Butterfield Blues Band, and the Chambers Brothers, but in 1970 they split. Demos, Soriphine and Bruno joined Shakey Legs (link) for one album, Labes later backed Van Morrison and Bonnie Raitt, and Bruno spent close to two decades as Tina Turner's touring drummer, then Elton John's. Paine briefly led Steamhammer in the UK, but was better known for acting work.
Eyes of the Beacon Street Union LP
For the next track we have a real dancefloor-filler from one of the original MGM-signed Bosstown bands, Beacon Street Union. Having listened to their two albums, I was not bowled-over by their somewhat unfocused sounds, but I did dig "Sadie Says No". Formed in Boston in late 1966, they comprised of John Wright (vocals), Paul Tartachny (guitar, vocals), Robert Rhodes (keyboards), Wayne Ulaky (bass, vocals), and Richard Weisburg (drums). On his site, Paul Lovell writes: "The Union had a few stage tricks. Sometimes they would throw bags of flour around resulting in a low budget fog show. They always fooled me with this next trick no matter how many times I saw them. They would come on stage and we would all clap and yell. They would start plugging in and tuning up. It seemed to take a long time. Eventually your attention would drift and you would just talk to your friends. At some signal the whole band would slam into the opening chord to My Love Is (youtube) at full volume and SCARE THE BEJEEBERS OUT OF YOU."
Eagle (1970)
'Come Under Nancy's Tent' LP rear
The band members were in their early twenties when both albums were recorded and the press hostility against the Bosstown sound took its toll. They split after only two years together. Shepherded by Alan Lorber (along with the groups Ultimate Spinach and Orpheus), the group met with little success, although their first album The Eyes Of The Beacon Street Union charted at #75 on May 4, 1968. The band relocated to New York, where, after a second album, The Clown Died in Marvin Gardens, Wright, Ulaky, Weisberg, and Rhodes recorded a further album as Eagle. This was a far-less psychedelic, countrified rock affair. Later in the 1970s, Wright went on to write and sing country music as leader of the Sour Mash Boys. He died on December 4, 2011.
One of Alan Lorber's bands, Ultimate Spinach was one of the most well-known, and perhaps the most notorious, of the groups to be hyped as part of the "Bosstown Sound" in 1968. The name itself guaranteed attention, as one of the most ridiculous "far out" names of the psychedelic era, even outdoing "The Peanut Butter Conspiracy". They were competent musicians with imagination, but their albums were derivative the West Coast psychedelic groups that were obvious inspirations.
On the first two of their three albums, Ultimate Spinach was completely under the control of leader Ian Bruce-Douglas, who wrote all of the material, sang most of the vocals, and played a wide variety of instruments, most frequently electric keyboards. Their self-titled 1967 debut was a serious attempt at psychedelia, but suffered at times from the overly-obvious trappings of the style and could sound like parody. Guitarist Barbara Hudson's great contributions in the vocal department did go some way in combating these problems, and in the end the album sold quite successfully.
1968's "Behold and See" LP was an all-round better, more consistent album and that is where I took the track I used here, "Mind Flowers". Although it's still quite derivative, this track has a couragously long running time and is supremely atmospheric, one of the trippiest songs I have ever heard. Bruce-Douglas quit after the second LP, but Lorber assembled a new lineup for their final album, with only Barbara Hudson remaining from that of the debut. Ted Myers (ex-The Lost and Chamaeleon Church) and guitarist Jeff Baxter (later to play with Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers) were introduced for the imaginatively-titled "Ultimate Spinach III" (1970). It was not quite as good as Behold and See, maybe mirroring the changing times it dropped most of the psychedelia completely. A straight-forward country/blues rock sound was adopted which made for a smoother, pedestrian experience, and a less distinctive album.
Eden's Children
'Sure Looks Real' LP
I found the two albums of Eden's Children quite hard to like on the whole, but they have a few good songs, lots of endearing parts, and a fair amount of good heavy fuzz riffing. It would seem that they seriously lacked in the quality control dept. The production job done by Bob Thiele, who appears to have been quite an accomplished jazz producer since the '40s, is severely inconsistent and lacking in places, making a few of their songs sound embarrassingly amateurish. Being on the ABC label and coming around just after the first wave of the "Bosstown" bands, they are frequently mentioned in the same articles but have always been considered less connected to it. The band was a trio, comprising Richard "Sham" Schamach (vocals, guitar), Larry Kiley (bass) and Jimmy Sturman (drums), at times you'd think they were trying to emulate Cream, but not always unsuccessfully-so. Shortly after the second album, from which I have used the track "Toasted" (voted the best heavy riffer on the album in the TDATS fb group), Kiely left the band and was replaced by Russell “Rusty” Marcus, but they broke up later in 1969. As yet I have found no evidence of further musical efforts from the members.
Jolliver Arkansaw
'Home' LP (1969)
Track 9, "Lisa My Love", coasts in on a bouncy bass line with stabs of fuzz guitar. Jolliver Arkansaw were a development from Bo Grumpus, a band who's only album, "Before The War" (1968), was produced by one Felix Pappalardi (pr. Cream & The Youngbloods). "Produced" is probably an insufficient word to use as he also wrote, arranged and played Keyboards, Trumpet, Bass, Guitar, Percussion and Ocarina, so more or less a fifth member of the band. With him were N.D. Smart (drums) and Jim Colegrove (bass), who traveled from Ohio to team up with guitarists Eddie Mottau and Joe Hutchinson. That was a light psych-pop affair of little interest here, but in 1969 the band renamed to Jolliver Arkansaw and made an album called Home. Felix was back in the producer's seat for this one and for one song, Gray Afternoon (youtube), an additional lead guitarist was invited, none other than Leslie West. Apparently it was this early 1969 session that convinced Felix that Leslie was worth working with more closely, which led to the West solo album Mountain and the formation of the group of the same name, initially as a trio with the ubiquitous N.D. Smart. There is more information at thecoolgroove.com (link).
Track 10 finds its mark from the outset as a raving freak-beat monster, "No Reason Why". Along with The Remains, The Barbarians and The Rockin' Ramrods, The Lost were one of the more celebrated Boston bands of the '60s. Unlike those other groups, who were more prolific, The Lost only released a few singles during their short existence. They were pre-Bosstown Sound, but I have included them as their members crop up again in later bands.
They formed at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1964. Originally the band, with Hugh Magbie as lead guitarist and singer, were among few interracial rock bands of the time. Changes ensued when they moved to Boston in late 1964 and Magbie quit to return to college. The Lost developed a lot of original material, from the imaginations of guitarist Ted Myers and keyboardist Willie Alexander (both mentioned elsewhere in this volume), recording a demo produced by Barry Tashian of The Remains that got them signed to Capitol. Their first single,"Maybe More Than You," was Dylanesque folk-rock, and got some sales and airplay in Massachusetts and New York.
A second single didn't appear for almost a year, although the band managed to open for numerous shows like the Beach Boys' 1966 Eastern tour. Capitol dropped them and in 1967 they split.
Arf! Arf! Records
Main songwriter Ted Myers ventured into psychedelic music with the Chameleon Church (which had future star comedian Chevy Chase on drums), and was a member of the Ultimate Spinach in the band's final days. Keyboardist Willie Alexander and bassist Walter Powers were members of the name-only, Lou Reed-less Velvet Underground of the early '70s, Powers also playing in Listening, coming up. Willie has become a bit of a Boston legend, playing with an endless succession of local bands over time. The Lost did a lot of recording, at Capitol and elsewhere, in addition to their three singles in the mid-'60s, which eventually became available on Arf! Arf!'s Early Recordings and Lost Tapes CD in the '90s. Read some more here. There is a recent interview with Ted Myers here at It's Psychedelic Baby.
Saint Steven
Over The Hills LP (1969)
Saint Steven was Steve Cataldo. He was previously a member of Front Page Review, who appear here next, a late-joiner to Ultimate Spinach and founding member of the post-punk/power pop Nervous Eaters. In 1969 he made a solo record called Over The Hills. This was an unusual experimental record with lots of things thrown in - psych, folk, hard rock, pop and sound effects in a psuedo-proggresive package. The record is split into two suites, Over the Hills (side A) and The Bastich (side B). It's all pleasant stuff, with a few fuzzy cuts like Ay-Aye Poe Day and Sun In The Flame. The Bastich pts 1 & 2 gives a good cross-section of what he was attempting, with it's pretentious choral intro and groovy psych guitar lead-out. It's not clear whether Steve played all the instruments himself, as nobody else is credited, but it was produced by John Turner who appears to have made some albums of his own. A highly collectible record due to it's rarity, it's worth a listen for Steve's great vocals, proto-prog concept and considered songs.
Front Page Review
Mystic Soldiers LP
Track 12, "Prism Fawn", has a nice urgency to it, with atmospheric keyboards. Front Page Review rubbed shoulders with bands like Eden's Children, Beacon Street Union and Strawberry Alarm Clock. With Alan Lorber behind the controls, they recorded an album for MGM which was not released at the time. "Mystic Soldiers" is a prime example of late '60s US psych, featuring a young Steve Cataldo (as just mentioned, of Saint Steven & Nervous Eaters) on songwriting / vocals. All the right ingredients are there: wah-fuzz guitars, organ, phasing & effects. Steve wrote all of the material for the group, which played minor-keyed brooding stuff. After they broke up, he made the "Saint Steven" solo album mentioned previously, and later hitched onto the new wave by forming the Nervous Eaters (coming up here soon), who made a couple of LPs. Front Page Review's album was finally unearthed for CD release in 1997 by Big Beat.
Peter Ivers' 1969 LP
'Knight of the Blue Communion'
Track 13, "Showroom Model", is an intriguing morsel of arty jazz rock that's indicative of the experimental boom of the late '60s. It's compelling and surreal, with off-kilter changes, but anchored by Peter Ivers' bluesy Harmonica. Peter Ivers was born in Boston in 1946. While studying at Harvard University, he played harmonica in The Beacon Street Union. After they split he surfaced as a member of The Street Choir before he signed to Epic in 1969 and issued "Knight of the Blue Communion", an unusual major-label releases for its time: A surreal parade of jazz, psychedelic, pop, classical and vaudeville vignettes with wildly eclectic arrangements and feverish rhythms. Featuring opera singer Yolande Bevan and electronic “modulations”, it evokes Frank Zappa’s most eccentric moments and the United States Of America at their most juvenile. Ivers recorded a follow-up, "Take It Out on Me" (Epic, 1971), but the label never released it, except for the single "Ain’t That Peculiar/ Clarence O’Day". Take It Out on Me has since been issued by Wounded Bird Records (link).
He signed to Warner Bros in 1974. Ivers and his co-producer, free jazz bassist Buell Neidlinger, delivered "Terminal Love", which at times sounded like Beefheart/Zappa. Indeed, Magic Band & Zappa collaborator Eliot Ingber appears on several tracks. A self-titled album for Warner followed in 1976. A year later, Ivers earned arguably his most enduring fame, writing and recording "In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song)" for David Lynch's noir horror classic Eraserhead (youtube). (The song was later covered by Boston's The Pixies.) A 1980 single, "Love Theme from Filmex," was his last official musical release. In the early '80s, Ivers hosted New Wave Theatre, broadcast on the fledgling USA cable network as part of their Friday evening Night Flight anthology. The series provided early national TV exposure for Los Angeles area bands like The Blasters and Dead Kennedys. With his outrageous wardrobe, philosophical interview questions, and rapid-fire social commentaries, Ivers was a most unconventional host, and many of the artists featured on the show made their distaste for him painfully clear. Peter is reported to have played in an avant-garde jazz outfit called Girlz of Zaetar, which had a rehearsal tape issued in 2007 (youtube).
Ivers was bludgeoned to death in his L.A. apartment in 1983. Many suspected the murderer was a member of the local punk scene. Ivers' killer was never found, but in his memory, Harvard University initiated the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist Program. The retrospective "Nirvana Peter" appeared on Warner in 1985. Josh Frank and Charlie Buckholtz have written a book about Ivers' life, art and mysterious death, In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre (2008). On the basis of new information unearthed during the creation of this book, the Los Angeles Police Department has reopened their investigation into Ivers' death. Thanks to Jason Ankeny at Allmusic.com, eggcityradio.com and Wikipedia for all this info.
Willie "Loco" Alexander (born January 13, 1943) sang and played keyboards with The Lost, The Bagatelle and The Grass Menagerie. He became a member of The Velvet Underground in late 1971, joining fellow Grass Menagerie alumni Doug Yule and Walter Powers and replacing Sterling Morrison. With the Velvet Underground, Alexander toured Europe in support of the album Loaded. Reshuffles brought on by manager Steve Sesnick then ended Alexander's time with the band.
Willie Alexander in recent times
After leaving The Velvet Underground, he enjoyed a checkered career. He recorded three solo singles beginning in 1975, and formed the punk-oriented Boom Boom Band the following year. The group recorded two albums for MCA, but broke up in 1978. He released Solo Loco in 1982, and then formed The Confessions, who also recorded two albums, A Girl Like You and Autre Chose. Alexander continued in his solo status throughout the '80s, and formed the Persistence of Memory Orchestra in 1991. In addition to his storied music career, in 1994, Willie narrated a local film entitled Middle Street made by fellow Gloucester native, independent filmmaker Henry Ferrini. Willie has also contributed many songs to the soundtracks for Henry's other films. You can check out Willie's current activities etc at his site (link).
Nervous Eaters c. 1977
Track 15, "Just Head", is a chunk of killer Stonesy punk with cheeky lyrics and unstoppable momentum. The Nervous Eaters was one of the bands that kick-started the Boston punk scene at the end of the 70‘s and the birth of a local scene that would foster dozens of influential and successful American artists in the 80’s and beyond. That needs to be said because the "Eaters", as the group was affectionately referred to locally, never achieved much attention outside of Boston or New York City. Featuring singer, guitarist and songwriter Steve Cataldo, previously of Front Page Review and Saint Steven, the Nervous Eaters was considered the house band at Kenmore Square’s Rathskeller (aka "Rat") club by virtue of its many appearances there and a pair of 7” singles released on the club’s Rat Records. Before taking that name, they had dubbed themselves The Rhythm Assholes, while they backed Willie Alexander on his 1977 solo single "Kerouac", and in concert. One of those songs, “Loretta,” became and remains one of the city’s enduring rock and roll anthems powered by a scorching four-piece attack and Cataldo’s husky and fervent vocals.
Nervous Eaters, Steve Cataldo 2nd from left
Ric Ocasek of the Cars became a fan and he produced a ten-song demo for the band that enabled a deal with Elektra Records, also the home of his platinum-selling group. Unfortunately, some blaming the producer, their eponymous 1980 album completely lacked the heaviness and attitude of the band’s live shows and original singles. The album failed and the band stepped into the shadows. A 1986 reunion album "Hot Steel and Acid", for the French-based New Rose label, was subsequently issued by Boston's Ace of Hearts Records. It belatedly redressed the balance with the frantic scuzz of the early singles, but the chance of national fame was already well-passed. New incarnations of the band, still including Steve Cataldo, play sporadically up to this day and you can follow them on facebook (link).
Listening LP cover (1968)
Rounding this volume off nicely we have a slice of Hendrix-heavy 1968 psych called "See You Again". Vocalist/keyboardist Michael Tschudin led the band Listening, and the later-Velvet Underground bassist Walter Powers (previously of The Lost) and guitarist Peter Malick (aged only sixteen when joining) helped to make this album historic. Walter performed over the years with keyboardist Willie Alexander as members of The Lost, the aforementioned Velvets, and on Autre Chose, a live album from Willie. Peter Malick later became Otis Spann's guitarist and a member of the James Montgomery Band on Capricorn. The album runs the gamut from psych, pop, blues to jazz. Eight of the 11 tracks are written by Michael Tschudin, with three titles attributed to the group. A couple of tracks are top-tear stuff, "Stoned Is", being another of them, while the rest make for a consistently enjoyable listen front to back. Michael Tschudin appeared soon after in Cynara (link), who look pretty mean on the cover of their s/t 1970 album, which is disappointingly loungy commercial piano-based jazz/soul that never works up a sweat. Peter Malick became an acomplished blues player and since becoming a producer/engineer in the 2000s he has had a hand in starting Nora Jones' career (website). Drummer Ernie Kamanis played guitar for Andy Pratt and Boz Scaggs and later had a solo career. Paul Lovell recounts some memories of Listening here.
See you again!
Cheers, Rich
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Desane decisions
Posted September 12, 2018 by Lawrence Gibbons & filed under Featured Inner West Independent, Inner West Independent.
By Peter Hehir
The NSW Supreme Court has overturned the earlier favourable Desane decision, thus preventing the 180 unit and commercial premises development.
This means that WestConnex will utilise all of the Rozelle goods yard as a construction site, as well as the properties fronting Lilyfield Road. These are the Desane site, the old Easton Park Hotel, Gillespie Cranes and Ironwood sites and the area owned by Swadlings.
Although opposition to WestConnex here on the peninsula and especially in Rozelle and Lilyfield is as solid as it’s ever been, residents are heaving a huge sigh of relief.
Faced on the one hand with a massive overdevelopment on the Desane site – which would almost certainly be followed by similar massive high rise structures right along Lilyfield Road, had the earlier decision stood, or on the other hand finally getting the long campaigned for park – clearly the choice was a no brainer.
Sure the park will be toxic and the sight of parents and kids running around wearing gas masks and respirators will probably be the norm, but it would still be an area of green in a part of Sydney that has been starved of open space for well over a century.
However three massive unfiltered exhaust stacks will dominate the park and no doubt consume a fair chunk of the footprint of the 13 hectares. Just to give you an idea of how dominating one of these structures will be, check out the monster that is being built opposite Bunnings at Ashfield!
From a wider perspective however the news is not so good. It means that the compulsory acquisitions still stand for homes taken at as little as 60 cents in the dollar, whether they were actually needed for the construction or not.
The SMC heavies in suits, accompanied by burly security guards may well continue to knock on doors and issue compulsory notices.
Residents who object to being evicted will still be jailed, as was the case of a resident who refused to leave his family home. I sat in Newtown Court where the defendant gave his evidence via a video link from Silverwater jail having just spent a week in custody.
He was only released on condition that he agree not to try to re-enter his former home.
Compulsory acquisition notices have been issued to the residents on the western side of Victoria Road. Liquorland has gone and many of the properties are empty awaiting the next swathe of destruction. This will be for the Iron Cove Tunnel which will make access to the Iron Cove Bridge nigh on impossible.
The homes have been taken for site offices and the entire area will no doubt be given over to high rise once the tunnel has been built. The madness doesn’t end there.
The Balmain Leagues Club site at the corner of Victoria Road and Darling Street has been approved as a dive site for the Western Harbour Tunnel. It’s difficult to conceive of a worse possible location with hundreds of double B’s a day looking to enter the bumper to bumper morning and evening Victoria Road log jam.
The tiny park at the end of Louisa Road in Birchgrove will definitely be taken from the community and used as a construction site for the WHT.
Structural damage to adjacent residences due to drilling and blasting is a certainty.
The concrete batching plant, the tunnel casting compound and the materials handling yards at White Bay foreshore operating 24/7, the estimated thousands of heavy truck movements along Victoria Road and through White Bay, paint a sorry picture…
The following quote is replete with a biting irony, especially so if you recognise the author:
‘I do not believe that the real life of this nation is to be found either in great luxury hotels and the petty gossip of so-called fashionable suburbs, or in the officialdom of organised masses.
It is to be found in the homes of people who are nameless and unadvertised, and who, whatever their individual religious conviction or dogma, see in their children their greatest contribution to the immortality of their race.
The home is the foundation of sanity and sobriety; it is the indispensable condition of continuity; its health determines the health of society as a whole.
The material home represents the concrete expression of the habits of frugality and saving “for a home of our own”.
One of the best instincts in us is that which induces us to have one little piece of earth with a house and a garden which is ours: to which we can withdraw, in which we can be among our friends, into which no stranger may come against our will.
This leads on to the conclusion that he who seeks to violate that law must be repelled and defeated.’
Recognise the author? One who is held in high esteem by Glad the Impaler and her band of likeminded apparatchiks?
Robert Gordon Menzies. Post-war Liberal Prime Minister. Now deceased.
‘He who seeks to violate that law must be repelled and defeated’.
Take heed Glad. We’re coming for you!
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Ep. 18: Black Holes Big and Small
Posted on Jan 8, 2007 in Astronomy, Galaxies | 12 comments
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We’re finally ready to deal with the topic you’ve all been waiting for: Schwarzschild swirlers, Chandrasekhar crushers, ol’ matter manglers, sucking singularities… you might know them as black holes. Join as as we examine how black holes form, what they consume, and just how massive they can get.
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General Information on Black Holes
Black holes: gravity’s relentless pull. An award winning interactive website covering a lot of FAQs, and the basics.
A Black Hole is Born
The Anatomy of a black hole.
Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars. Written and maintained by Robert Nemiroff (Michigan Technological University). Features explanations for general FAQs and links to interactive websites and movies.
NASA’s Imagine the Universe: Black holes.
Black Holes FAQ by Ted Bunn (University of Richmond, then a grad student at University of California, Berkeley). The discussions of observations are out of date, but the theories haven’t changed much.
Chandra scientists provide brief explanations about three different types of black holes, and link to many Chandra images and a short Chandra podcast.
Theorizing About Black Holes
Black Holes – History
Does God Play Dice? Public Lecture by Stephen Hawking
Black Holes Pathway to Discovery
A Short History of Black Holes
The Search for Black Holes
Don’t forget to check out Astronomy Cast on the life cycle of stars, to understand how to get to black holes.
Transcript: Black Holes
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Fraser Cain: We’re finally ready to deal with the topic you’ve all been waiting for: Schwarzschild Swirlers, Chandrasekhar Crushers, Old Matter Manglers, Singularities, Black Holes. Objects with gravity so powerful that nothing – not even light – can escape. All right Pamela, start nice and easy! What is a black hole?
Dr Pamela Gay: A black hole is basically an object that has shrunk down so small with all of its mass, that it’s actually possible to get close enough to all of that mass that you would have to go faster than the speed of light to get away from it. Our planet Earth is like a “people-hole� : no matter how hard I jump, I can’t jump off the surface of the planet. Well a black hole is an object that is so dense that its gravity so strong that light can’t get away from it.
Fraser: It’s a great analogy: the more massive an object gets, the stronger something has to be to escape, or the faster-moving something has to be to escape. With black holes it’s the speed of light, and as nothing moves faster than light, that’s that.
Pamela: Yes, you’re stuck! Now the catch is that any object, if you make it small enough, can become a black hole. The planet Earth would be a black hole if you could squish all its mass down to just a couple of millimetres across. It wouldn’t be a very impressive black hole, but if you got close enough you would be trapped on the Earth. But because the mass is spread out over such a large area, the gravitational effects aren’t that strong at the surface.
Fraser: So where did we come up with the idea of black holes?
Pamela: As far back as the 1784, the geologist John Michell started thinking “Well, we have this idea of Newtonian gravity, and we know about escape velocities, so let’s figure out just how big something has to be so that you have to go at the speed of light in order to escape.�
His calculation said that you had to have something about 500 times the radius of the Sun and the same density as the Sun at its surface to not be able to escape going at the speed of light. Physics has been upgraded since 1784 and we know that, with relativity, it’s a little more complicated. But the idea has been around for a long time.
Fraser: So what’s the more modern thinking about what’s going on inside a black hole?
Pamela: There are actually two different types of black hole; there are those that are 4-15 times the size of the Sun, then there are those that are thousands of times the size of the Sun, while a stellar-mass black hole is a star that at some point just stopped producing the energy that supported the outer layers of the star. When those outer layers collapsed in, the particles could not support the weight of all of the material pressing down on them.
If you have an object of more than 1.4 Solar masses, when the mass collapses the protons and electrons smash together and all of them fuse into neutrons; there is energy and bits escaping, but you end up with a neutron star.
If an object a little more than 3 solar masses collapses, it just keeps going, as neutrons (nor anything we can really understand) are not strong enough to hold the weight, so the star keeps collapsing. According to the math that we are working with today, you end up forming a singularity out of the material. But within the Schwarzschild radius…
Fraser: Sorry, what’s a singularity?
Pamela: Basically, it’s an infinitely dense point. You take all the matter and crush it down so it has basically no radius.
Fraser: So the pull of gravity is so strong that the matter is mashing the particles down to nothing?
Pamela: They basically reduce down to energy. Some people say it’s a “quark soupâ€?. We don’t fully understand the particle physics in this dense an environment. Our theories sort of stop once you get inside a black hole and there are some really powerful minds working on this, Stephen hawking, for instance.
Fraser: So what does Stephen Hawking think?
Pamela: Stephen Hawking is working on a theory of quantum gravity that is beyond the ability of anybody but the most intelligent experts in that field to understand, but there are indications that some really neat things are going on. For instance, there had been a long term bet between Hawking, Kip Thorn, and John Preskill about whether black holes consume information. One of the basic ideas of physics is that no information is ever lost and that, at a certain level, all of the information can somehow be gotten back.
But if stuff falls into a black hole never to come about again, that information is clearly getting absorbed into the black hole and lost forever. Or at least, that’s what people thought, but physics says information is never lost, so for a while there was a debate in which Thorn and Hawking said “Information is lost, black holes are uniqueâ€?, but Preskill said “No, information cannot be lost, that’s the rules of physicsâ€?.
Back in 2004, Hawking announced that maybe there were quantum perturbations at the event horizon of the black hole, and that information was able to come out through the stuff called “Hawking radiation�, or maybe there is information left behind if a black hole completely evaporates. This opens up fascinating things to talk about and he decided that information never is lost, so he paid Preskill in the form of a baseball encyclopaedia, with information he could always look up, as information is not lost.
Kip Thorn is still not convinced and has not yet paid his half of the bet, but these guys are doing complicated work to deal all the weird physics going on at the event horizon of a black hole.
Fraser: So, we have a star with 4-15 times the mass of the Sun, the fusion stops and it compresses down to possibly an infinitely small amount of space which we call a singularity, but it still maintains its mass. So what would we see if we were in the region of a black hole?
Pamela: If we were the poor schmuck who fell into the black hole, we would see ourselves falling in and all sorts of bad things would happen to us; we would get stretched out, our body would be torn apart by the tidal forces of gravity being not as hard on our head as on our feet (if we were falling feet first) and this would all happen fairly rapidly, at least in our perspective.
But if we have a buddy a little further away, in a safe place not falling into the black hole, they would see us falling towards the black hole and continually slow down as we go, and get increasingly more red because the light coming from us would get red-shifted by the powerful gravity of the black hole. Eventually we would not be seen to fall into the black hole but – over an infinite amount of time – we would be seen to fade away.
Fraser: So the gravity of the black hole is stretching out the wavelengths of our light as it’s trying to escape the pull of the black hole.
Pamela: Yes, the light gets gravitationally red shifted because the wavelengths spread out.
Fraser: So you don’t actually disappear so much as fade away. Shouldn’t we be able to see black holes as very bright objects because they are surrounded by all the matter they have consumed?
Pamela: Actually, what is even brighter around black holes is their accretion disk. If something gets too close to a black hole, the material falling in will spiral around and form a disk of material. You get similar structures around white dwarf stars and neutron stars, as material falling into more or less any really compact object will form an accretion disk, which is so dense that there can be nuclear reactions going on within the disk. So, in some cases, this disk behaves almost like a star.
Fraser: So it’s as if the material is choking the black hole, which cannot eat it fast enough, so its backing up and the environment of this material becomes almost stellar in nature. It’s like when we talked about the first few moments of the Big Bang, when the whole universe was like the inside of a star.
Pamela: The conservation of angular momentum chokes the rate at which the material can fall into the black hole. It can’t just fall straight in unless it has a magically perfect trajectory (which never really happens). So the material gets choked up by the conservation of angular momentum and ends up creating this accretion disk which has amazing reactions going on within it, and that’s actually how we identify where we think black holes are located.
Fraser: That was going to be my next question: if black holes are black, how can we find them?
Pamela: We look for all the signatures of things can only happen near a black hole: rapidly rotating, highly dense accretion disks, and we can use the rate at which they are rotating to judge how massive the object at their centre has to be. So if you have a rapidly rotating accretion disk that indicates the mass within it is greater than about three solar masses, you have a pretty good clue that it probably has a black hole in the centre.
Fraser: Will it have a special signature that we can see in certain kinds of telescopes?
Pamela: These environments are generally so dense that the material gets so heated that we see x-ray emissions. So we can look for x-ray emissions as a signature of black holes.
Fraser: What about their mass? Does that have an effect on their local environment?
Pamela: That’s where the rotation rates come in. Things that are near a high mass object will orbit it much faster than those orbiting a low mass object at the same distance, so we look at something and see that the accretion disk is going super fast (mathematics, mathematics…!) and we can calculate the mass at the centre of the accretion disk, and using that mass we can figure out whether it’s a neutron star, a black hole or a white dwarf.
We can use Doppler shifts and measures of spectra to get at the rates of rotation (in the same way that a police officer can get the rate of how fast your car is going) and use that to identify where black holes are located.
Fraser: Earlier we talked about two sizes of black holes: stellar mass and those which are much larger. So what are those?
Pamela: There are also things called “supermassive black holes”that are somewhere between hundreds of thousands and tens of billions times bigger than our Sun.
Fraser: What percentage of the mass of a galaxy is that? There must be a big chunk of a galaxy just in that black hole.
Pamela: It’s a huge amount. These things form the core of galaxies, and the mass of a supermassive black hole in the centre of a galaxy is actually related to the size of the halo of a galaxy and how fast the stars within the galaxy are moving. These are basically the angry monster sitting at the core of every galaxy just waiting to feed on in-falling material.
Fraser: So there’s one at the heart of every galaxy?
Pamela: As far as we can tell, every galaxy has one in proportion to its size, and in fact, these things answer a lot of questions in astronomy; quasars, for instance, are most likely black holes that are in the process of feeding on mass gas and dust that are falling into their centre.
Fraser: So that the backing up of material around the black hole?
Pamela: As the material falls in it gets lit up; sometimes jets form, and it’s the jets that we can see in different types of objects. Active galactic nuclei, with amazing jets shooting out the ends, are black holes with jets which are just a side effect of the environment around the black hole.
Fraser: How come you get those jets?
Pamela: It’s this neat combination of what happens when you combine magnetic fields and in-falling material. Sometimes the material falls in along the ‘equator’ of the black hole and, as it falls, it gets twisted into the magnetic field and shot out the poles of the rotating black hole.
Fraser: What impact does one of these supermassive black holes have on its galaxy?
Pamela: The impact comes in terms of ending up with a huge central core shooting off huge amounts of radiation, but it’s localised to the core and the jets that are coming out of the poles. So you can still end up with star formation going on, and probably planet formation, just further from the centre. In fact our own Milky Way galaxy probably contained an active, consuming quasar black hole in its centre. We have the black hole today, it’s just not angrily feeding on dust and gas that’s falling into it.
Fraser: So we have a supermassive black hole at the middle of the Milky Way.
Pamela: And it’s not feeding on any gas and dust because there’s none falling into it today.
Fraser: So how was that discovered?
Pamela: Simply by looking at the stars. Andrea Ghez, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, took high speed images of the centre of the galaxy so that she could align and stack the images in such a way that she could look through the atmospheric crud, and the dust and gas between here and there, and actually see the stars that are very close to the centre.
Over the course of ten years, she could watch these stars move; they would go half way round the centre of the galaxy while she was watching. Using the observed motions of these stars, she was able to calculate the mass of the object they had to be orbiting. Mathematically, it had to be a black hole (or some other object that no one has yet conceived of that is impossibly large and dense) that’s just sitting in the centre.
Fraser: There was a PBS special about three months ago where they showed the graphics that she built up. It was amazing to see the stars, several times the size of our Sun coming in then doing almost a quick turn around a point in space, then zooming back out, like comets orbiting the Sun, with bizarre orbits. I guess nothing could provide enough gravity but a supermassive black hole.
Pamela: There’s no way to pack enough normal stars into such a small area so as to get this gravitational effect. It’s one of the most breathtaking pieces of science to look at because you can see stars dramatically move like you would expect planets or comets – things local to our own solar system – to move.
Fraser: I’m sure people are going to want to know whether we are at any danger from these supermassive black holes at the heart of our galaxy.
Pamela: Absolutely none. We are safe!
Fraser: Not even a trillion years from now?
Pamela: Well, I really wouldn’t want to talk about a trillion years from now, because bad things are going to happen between now and then, like we are going to collide with the Andromeda galaxy, and then a lot of weird stuff is going to happen, because our supermassive black hole and Andromeda’s supermassive black hole will come together and orbit one another and perhaps even merge over time.
There are several merging galaxies where you can see these supermassive black holes near one another, with all the fabulous fireworks going off; they trigger star formation, they have jets and they’re accreting matter. It’s fabulous fireworks! When we collide with another galaxy, I really can’t speak to our safety, but until that happens, I’m fairly certain we’re safe.
Fraser: Is our Sun going to turn into a black hole?
Pamela: No. Our Sun is just not fat enough. It’s just hanging out maintaining it’s weight quite nicely. It occasionally loses weight through mass loss, and the older it gets, the more mass it will lose through solar winds, and unless it finds some way (which physics cannot predict) to gain three times its current mass, we are totally safe.
Fraser: So what would happen if a black hole came through the solar system?
Pamela: We would die! Phil Plait from Bad Astronomy does a brilliant talk called “Seven Ways a Black Hole Can Kill You!” asking questions like “What would happen if a black hole did wander through the planet Earth, or through the Sun?â€? But we don’t know of any black holes that are going to do this, so we should be safe.
Fraser: Except they’re black and you can’t see them coming!
Pamela: Right, but they grab dust and gas as they go through it and light off fireworks as they go, so – as far as we know – we are totally safe from randomly wandering, isolated black holes.
Fraser: That’s good! Will black holes last forever; is the end of the universe going to be when every piece of matter has found its way into a black hole?
Pamela: That’s one of the neat things; black holes that are small enough can actually evaporate, just like water will evaporate from a glass after a time. But this is only true for small ones.
Fraser: But how does it evaporate?
Pamela: Throughout the universe, virtual particles are bubbling in and out of existence, so you can get an electron and a positron that spontaneously form and almost instantaneously come together and self annihilate. If these things form on the event horizon of a black hole, one may be on the outside of a black hole and be able to escape, while the other gets sucked in.
So the two never meet and annihilate one another, and you end up with particles bubbling up at the event horizon which escape the black hole and allow it to evaporate. This is called “Hawking Radiation�. If you have a big enough black hole, the amount of particles and energy that it absorbs just from the cosmic microwave background radiation is probably just enough to counteract the effects of evaporation, but small black holes can actually evaporate away.
Fraser: And then bigger black holes will eat those particles and everything will end up in the really big black holes.
Pamela: Exactly!
Fraser: OK!
Pamela: But there can still be things like white dwarfs, neutron stars and even rogue planets which never get close enough to a black hole to fall in. So it’s not that everything is going to be a black hole, but there will be a lot of them!
Fraser: Another grim future from Pamela! Thanks, that was great. Talk to you next week Pamela.
Pamela: Talk to you later.
This transcript is not an exact match to the audio file. It has been edited for clarity.
Transcription and editing by Colin Humphries
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I have been following S.W. Hawkings black hole theories and his latest with the possible addition of alternating universes is possibly the most profound contribution this great man has contributed to the human race. He is saying that there are several alternate universes and that they are being cancelled out by one universe that has no black holes. The implications could only mean one of two things either this one surviving universe is void of all matter: or the stars, matter, energy, and life itself is eternal! If this universe is without black holes (dying stars) then the stars that occupy this universe do not die. A eternal universe ( God’s own hand itself).
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What exactly is meant by “One of the basic ideas of physics is that no information is ever lost”? Do you mean entropy?
our sun might be a black hole because it is getting bigger by every year and itcould turn into a black hole or it might.
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9/17/2011, Saturday
Bausch + Lomb Introduces enVista™ Glistening-Free, Hydrophobic IOL in European Union
VIENNA, AUSTRIA — Bausch + Lomb, the global eye health company, announced the launch of its new enVista™ glistening-free, hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lens (IOL) at the 2011 Congress of European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) in Vienna, Austria.
As the first hydrophobic IOL from Bausch + Lomb, the enVista lens represents a significant step forward in IOL technology. Setting the enVista apart from currently available IOLs is the unique combination of aspheric, aberration-free Advanced Optics technology, designed to deliver enhanced contrast sensitivity and better vision quality, with a clinically proven glistening-free material. In addition, the enVista lens design is intended to minimize posterior capsular opacification (PCO), a common long-term problem with IOLs that can cause patient vision to become clouded post-surgery. These features combined into one platform with the enVista lens, provide surgeons the opportunity to optimize short-term and long-term outcomes for their patients.1-3
“The enVista hydrophobic lens has been clinically demonstrated to be free of glistenings, a key attribute to help improve visual acuity,” said Professor David Spalton, FRCS, FRCP, FRCOphth, St. Thomas Hospital, London. “Its 360° square-edge barrier also provides an effective optic-haptic junction, which is associated with a low incidence of PCO.”
Glistenings are fluid-filled microvacuoles that can form within an IOL, and are common in some hydrophobic acrylic IOLs. They cause a portion of the light coming into the eye to be scattered in all directions, and have been shown to have a negative impact on visual acuity.4
“We are proud to innovate the hydrophobic lens category with an IOL that provides a high quality of vision and addresses the common issue of glistenings,” said Robert Grant, chief executive officer and president, Global Surgical Business, for Bausch + Lomb. “It was important that we deliver an advanced hydrophobic lens that surgeons and patients can count on now and over the long-term, and data shows that we have achieved that with the enVista lens.”
Bausch + Lomb will be hosting an enVista launch symposium, “Leading the Way for Vision Rejuvenation,” on September 17, 2011 from 13:00-14:00 in Strauss Room 1 at Reed Messe Wien GmbH. The event features presentations by Professor Spalton, as well as Edoardo Ligabue, MD, of the Ophthalmic Center at the San Siro Clinic in Milan, Italy, and Erik Mertens, MD, of the Antwerp Eye Centre in Belgium.
The enVista hydrophobic lens has received CE Mark approval in the European Union and additional approvals are pending worldwide.
Bausch + Lomb is one of the best-known and most respected healthcare companies in the world. Its core businesses include contact lenses and lens care products, ophthalmic surgical devices and instruments, and ophthalmic pharmaceuticals. Founded in 1853, the company is headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., and employs more than 10,000 people worldwide. Its products are available in more than 100 countries. More information is available at www.bausch.com
enVista™ is a trademark of Bausch & Lomb Incorporated.
1. Pepose JS, Qazi MA, Edwards KH, Sanderson JP, Sarver EJ. Comparison of contrast sensitivity, depth of field and ocular wavefront aberrations in eyes with an IOL with zero versus positive spherical aberration. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol. 2009;247(7):965-973.
2. Johansson B, Sundelin S, Wikberg-Matsson A, Unsbo P, Behndig A. Visual and optical performance of the Akreos® Adapt Advanced Optics and Tecnis Z9000 intraocular lenses: Swedish multicenter study. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2007;33(9):1565-1572.
3. Nishi O, Nishi K, Osakabe Y. Effect of intraocular lenses on preventing posterior capsule opacification: design versus material. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2004;30(10):2170-2176
4. Christiansen G, et al. Glistenings in the AcrySof intraocular lens: pilot study. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2001;27:728-33
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New BDSL IR and Transfer Policy
IR Spot:
In an effort to provide a way for teams with players unable to play anymore for various reasons each team will be given 2 "IR" spots. A player placed on IR by any team effectively ends that players season. He can no longer play in the BDSL for the remainder of that season. The IR spot can only be used by a team if their roster is maxed out at 22. A team with 21 or less players my not use their "IR" spot until they reach 22 players. The last date to use the IR spot would be the Wednesday directly before the first Sunday in July.
To place a player on IR, both the team manager and the player being placed on IR must confirm the move to a BDSL Board Member. The player's card must also be handed in to the Board for confirmation. Once this is done the player will then be removed from the teams active roster freeing up 1 roster spot for the team. The team may then register a new player for that spot via normal league rules.
New BDSL Transfer Policy Rules:
1) A $50 transfer fee is now instituted on any transfer of a player between two teams for both teams involved in the transfer.
2) A player that is transferred during a BDSL Season may not be placed on "IR" for any reason.
3) Both teams involved in the transfer and the player being transfered must all contact a BDSL Board Member to confirm the transfer.
New BDSL Transfer Window
The BDSL transfer window opens typically in mid-June and closes the Wednesday before the first Sunday in July. The window size varies on the year based on how dates fall, but typically lasts at least two weeks.
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I wanted to write some more on the training of Herbie. I talked about some of the things that I had been doing with him to help him get past his muscle soreness and install the forward button. Helping his body with muscle relaxers and chiropractic. Installing forward on the lunge line using the whip and voice. He had really gotten the lunging down quite nicely. I like using the vienna reins and cluck means go forward. If he delayed it was followed up by the whip. I don't necessarily like using the whip on the horse because it can make them nervous so for the really lazy types I will tap the ground with the whip but there are times when they may need a bit of a pop on the rump to really put the emphasis on move NOW.
I hadn't been riding him because really what was the point? If I couldn't do it on the ground than I likely wasn't going to be able to get him forward while up on him. I just kept plugging away until he had it down and I was impressed with how quick he was learning.
A very good rider who retrains a LOT of Tb's and greenies wanted to come see horses over the weekend and was interested in seeing Herbie. I explained what I had been working with and she was very familiar with the process. She really liked Herbie's conformation, his feet and his movement. He tried all of his tricks from wanting to bulk at the gate, kicking out and bucking in protest of going forward from the leg but she just kept sending him forward. He got better as she went and there were moments of brilliance. He doesn't have much bend to the left especially in the trot so that side of the ring was a bit of a challenge because he wants to bulge in.
I am laughing as I watch this again because he really was trying to say no and she just kept saying you can do this..you will do this..cut the crap.
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2014| April-June | Volume 13 | Issue 2
Mathew Sunday Jenyo, James Olusegun Bamidele, Wasiu Olalekan Adebimpe
April-June 2014, 13(2):65-70
Background: Arthritis is a common presentation among Nigerians, most especially in the elderly population. Easy access to over-the-counter drugs, paucity of data, and non-orthodox medical practice have underscored the need to examine the magnitude of the problem toward morbidity reduction risk factors. The objective of the study was to determine the pattern of arthralgia in Osogbo community in Southwestern Nigeria. Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted between September 2010 and August 2011. Respondents were serially recruited as they presented to the randomly selected healthcare facilities. Interviewer administered questionnaires, and modified checklist were used for collecting clients information, physical examination, X-ray, and laboratory results. Data were analyzed using the SPSS software. Results: A total of 90 cases were screened, with a male to female ratio of 1:1.5 and age range of 50-59 years. Females were more affected among the studied respondents, and this was statistically significant (p < 0.05). About half (48.9%) used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) for the pain, while about 17.8% used traditional herbs. Osteoarthritis of the knee was the most common radiological finding, constituting about 86.7% of the 30 respondents that had X-ray done. Only one case tested positive to rheumatoid factor in high-dilution titer. Notable complication of arthralgia in this study was loss of time off work in 46.6% of the respondents. Conclusion: Arthralgia of the knee joint was most common in the studied area, followed by that of hip and the ankle. Weight reduction strategies and prompt diagnosis and treatment were advocated. Since about half of the respondents used NSAID, the use of enteric-coated NSAID tablets would go a long way to minimize the unwanted side effects of NSAID, notably peptic ulceration and erosion.
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A retrospective analysis of acute organophosphorus poisoning cases admitted to the tertiary care teaching hospital in South India
M Rajesh Kumar, GP Vignan Kumar, P Ramesh Babu, S Satish Kumar, BV Subrahmanyam, M Veeraprasad, P Rammohan, M Srinivas, Amit Agrawal
Objectives: We have herein reported our experience with the pattern of presentation of cases of acute organophosphorus (OP) poisoning cases in a tertiary care hospital. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study evaluated the hospital records of patients with acute OP poisoning. In a pre-structured proforma, data regarding age, sex, time elapsed after intake, circumstances of poisoning, duration of hospitalization, severity, complications, and outcome of the patients were recorded. The data were presented as mean ± standard deviation, entered in the open office datasheet, and analyzed with PSPP software. Results: A total 101 patients were included in the study. Young adult males were more commonly involved than females (M:F 2.5:1). The mean age of the patients was 28 years (range 2-72 years, SD ± 14.3 years). Mean time to receive treatment was 5.2 ± 7.4 (range 1-48 h). About 45.5% patients received first aid before coming to the hospital. The reason was suicide in 88.1% cases and accident in 12 (11.9%, all children). Seventy-nine patients received pralidoxime (PAM) and the mean duration was 1.7 ± 1.1 (range 1-4 days). Atropine was given in all patients. Mean duration was 5.1 ± 3.1 (range 1–19 days). Mean hospital stay was 7.5 ± 4.7 days (range 1–26 days). Mortality was 9.9% in the present series. Conclusion: Although the present study contribute substantial information regarding the epidemiology and outcome of acute OP poisoning in a tertiary care teaching hospital at a district level, its relatively small sample size and the retrospective record-based nature are the major limitations of the present study. There is a further need for prospective studies to understand the underlying socio-economic factors responsible for acute OP poisoning in our population, and, accordingly, address the problems to reduce the incidence of acute OP poisoning cases.
A retrospective review of snake bite victims admitted in a tertiary level teaching institute
M Rajesh Kumar, M Veeraprasad , P Ramesh Babu, S Satish Kumar, BV Subrahmanyam, P Rammohan, M Srinivas, Amit Agrawal
Objective: Snake bite remains major public health problem worldwide. We present our experience with cases of snake bites managed in our tertiary care teaching center of South India. Materials and Methods: The details of all patients with snake bite admitted to a tertiary teaching care hospital from 2010 to 2012 were retrospectively retrieved and reviewed. The details regarding age, gender, first aid received or not, time elapsed between the bite, emergency care management and ASV (Anti Snake Venom) administration, site of snake bite, clinical features at the time of presentation, local examination findings at the site of bite, duration of hospital stay, need for elective ventilation, details of investigations and outcome were reviewed. The data were analyzed in PSPP software (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) for window for statistical analysis, while standard deviation (SD) was applied for the continuous variables, and proportions were applied for the categorical variables. Results: Mean age was 38.4 ± 14.8 years (range 4-70 years). Majority [72 (82.8%)] were farmers. In 86.2% patients, the site of bite was in lower limbs. Snake could be identified in only 20 cases [Cobra-12 (60%), Krait-2 (10%), and Viper-6 (30%)]. Mean time to reach to hospital was 12.1 ± 21.4 hours (range 1-120 hours). Mean anti-venom therapy duration was 3.2 ± 2.0 days (range 1-14 days). Mean hospital stay was 4.7 ± 3.1 days (range 1-15 days). Majority (72.4%) made good recovery; mortality was in 4.6% cases, and 20 (23%) patients left against medical advice. Conclusions: This study identified major epidemiological and management variables related to snake bite. There is a need for a well-planned data collection and information dissemination system to avoid this potentially preventable disease.
Assessment of the sexual functions of males with chronic liver disease in South West Nigeria
Olusegun Adekanle, Dennis A Ndububa, Ernest O Orji, Oluwasegun Ijarotimi
Background: Patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) have been reported to have sexual dysfunction irrespective of etiology. There is little or no report from Nigeria on this disorder. This study looked at sexual dysfunction among male patients with CLD. Materials and Methods: Patients with chronic viral hepatitis B, liver cirrhosis (LC) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were interviewed using the international index of erectile function questionnaire. Their responses were compared with an age and sex matched healthy controls. Bio-data and body mass index were obtained for both groups and liver disease severity was graded for patients using the Child-Pugh score. Analysis was done using SPSS (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA, 2004) for frequencies and means while comparison of means was done using Student's t-test. Significance level was put at P < 0.05. Results: There were 120 subjects consisting of 60 patients aged from 28 to 71 years; mean (SD) 45. 3 ± 9.4 and 60 controls aged from 29 to 79 years with mean (SD) 45.5 ± 10.1 years. Sexual dysfunctions were seen in patients with HCC and LC in the domains of sexual desire and sexual satisfaction respectively when compared with controls. When patients were divided into the various liver disease severities, patients in Child-Pugh Grade B scored low in the domain of arousal, whereas the domains of erectile functions, orgasm, resolution and satisfaction were affected in patients in Grade C when compared with controls. Conclusions: Male patients with CLD have significant sexual dysfunctions when compared with controls. The dysfunctions are more pronounced in those with Grade C liver disease. Sexual concerns of CLD should be inquired of in those with advanced liver disease.
A rare presentation of cervical fibroid in pregnancy
Animesh C Gandhi, Hemant I Dugad, Yatin Shah
Pregnancy in a fibroid uterus is not rare. However cervical fibroid is rare in pregnancy and has unique management challenges. We report a case of cervical fibroid in a Gravida2 Para1 patient that was found incidentally in a routine ultrasound in the second trimester. The fibroid grew in pregnancy till term, caused obstructed labour, a Cesarean section was required for the baby. Post surgery the fibroid prolapsed out of the introitus. Conservative management was decided to prevent surgical complications, delayed consequences of surgery and to preserve future child bearing. The case shows that conservative management over surgery is sometimes the appropriate choice.
Metastatic papillary carcinoma of the thyroid in a patient previously treated for Graves' disease
Garba H Yunusa, Tessa Kotze, Anita Brink
Incidental papillary carcinoma of the thyroid in patients treated surgically for benign thyroid diseases including Graves' disease is a known phenomenon. However, the management of these patients remains an issue of concern and controversy for those who care for them. We report a case of metastatic paillary carcinoma of the thyroid in a patient previously treated for Graves' disease. The subject of this presentation is a 50-year-old lady who was diagnosed with Graves' disease at the age of 29, for which she had a subtotal thyroidectomy following failure of medical and radioactive iodine treatment. Three years later, the patient was referred to our nuclear medicine department with a clinical diagnosis of suspected metastatic lymph nodes presumably from a thyroid malignancy.She had an 123I diagnostic whole body scan that showed 123I avid areas in the thyroid bed as well as left cervical lymph nodes, which later turned out to be metastatic papillary carcinoma of the thyroid on histology. She was treated with therapeutic doses of 131I. Follow-up radioactive iodine scans and serum thyroglobulin assays showed no evidence of malignant thyroid tissue. The occurrence of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid after a subtotal thyroidectomy for Graves' disease is hereby reported. The need for vigilance and regular follow-up in patients who receive all forms of treatment for benign thyroid diseases is emphasized.
Sexual function of males with chronic liver disease
Kasonde Bowa
Abdominal lump with intestinal obstruction: Prior history of abdominal surgery is a clue to diagnosis
Debajyoti Mohanty, Pankaj Kumar Garg, Anjay Kumar, Bhupendra Kumar Jain
Do not forget to see the linear hyperdense sign on CT
Binit Sureka, Aliza Mittal, Mahesh Kumar Mittal, Brij Bhushan Thukral
Cervical spondylosis in South West Nigerian farmers and female traders
SA Oguntona
Background: Neck pain is a common pain syndrome in the clinical practice. It may or may not be associated with the radiculopathy or myelopathy. Load carrying on the head is believed to be associated with an increased incidence of cervical spondylosis. Radiographic spondylosis is noticeable in 25-50% of people of 50 years of age and in 75-90% by the age of 65 years. Materials and Methods: Plain cervical radiograph were obtained in all farmers and female traders above 45 years of age who complained of neck pain. Those who met the radiological diagnostic criteria were enlisted in the study. The study was carried out over a 3 year period (July 2009-June 2012) in a private rheumatology clinic. Results: Thirty six cases of cervical spondylosis were seen, representing 10.7% of a total rheumatology cases seen over the study period. There were 23 males (63.9%) and 13 females (36.1%), giving a male : f0 emale ratio of 1.8:1. There were 18 male farmers, 5 female farmers, and 5 female traders. Eight males and 6 females showed severe degenerative changes in the cervical spine. Mostly affected were C4-C7 cervical spine levels. Conclusion: Load carrying, as earlier documented in literature may be a significant contributory factor to the degenerative process of the cervical spine.
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FLASH FICTION INDEX 2: Dec. 2011 - May 2017
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kailhofer
Location: Kaukauna, Wisconsin (USA)
April 29, 2016, 11:01:31 PM by kailhofer
Change That Tune: 2010+ Music Version
- Winner -
Inspired by the title of the song "Clockwork Angels" by Rush, 2012.
Wesson
“Is it true you’ve never cried before, Elayne?”
Elayne looked out at the grand city of Moonlight Station, paying only half attention to her fairy-friend’s rather personal inquiry. She was hiding below the sill of an open window thirty stories in the air: the perfect spot for a marksman like her. The twilight breeze rushed over her face like a warm stream, shaking her bangs.
“Hey!” The tiny form of Nina the fairy zipped up and down in front of her, “Earth to Elayne – answer me.”
Elayne shooed the troublesome creature away. “Of course I’ve never cried. I’m fifteen years old, crying is for little girls.” She used the scope of her rifle to scan the distant floor of the city. Just as she suspected the goblins were getting uppity again, walking about like they owned the place. Moonlight Station was once a peaceful human town until the green hoard graced it with its presence. Now it was war every day.
The exception was nightfall. Surprisingly, the goblin warlord agreed to a civil compromise: No hostilities after dark. Elayne spared a glance at the clock tower nearby. It was an opulent work of art decorated with stone angels holding a bronze bell that chimed at dusk. This bell was the signal for both sides to holster arms until morning.
The sun receded quickly, the colors of the day rushed to the western horizon turning the sky pink and the clouds black. If Elayne wanted a kill, it was now or never.
“Nina, which one should I pick?” she asked.
Fairies, however small, had superior eyesight; humans often enlisted their help in battle as spotters. The fairies often obliged in exchange for what they thought to be mankind’s greatest gift to the world: pie.
Nina aimed a finger. “There, the one picking his nose by the water fountain. He’s totally exposed, you can’t miss.”
Elayne surreptitiously took aim at the foul green skin. She inhaled and started to squeeze the trigger.
The clock tower bell rang out. It was a dull, empty ring that echoed far into the distance and resonated throughout the town like a wild river. Nightfall had arrived.
Elayne withdrew her rifle. “Saved by the Clockwork Angels …” she murmured to her lucky prey.
“You know,” Nina began cautiously, “Ever since this war began the greenies have won every battle they’ve fought. Do they have a crystal ball or something or do you humans just stink at fighting?”
“Talkin’ to the wrong woman, I’m just a grunt. Elayne crawled out from under the blanket hiding her body and wrapped it up. “Gotta go now, meet me here again tomorrow.”
“Wait! Where’s my pie?”
“I’ll bring you one tomorrow.”
“Unacceptable!” Nina flapped her wings and flailed her limbs, “Pie now. That’s the deal.”
“I have to meet someone first.”
“Oh, you can’t be serious. That courier boy what’s-his-face? Markin?”
Elayne held a fist close to her heart and closed her eyes. “We’re talking about my first love. This is a very important part of a young human girl’s life; I have to tell him how I feel.”
“B-But,” Nina stammered, “You fall in love all the time. This is like your 12th 1st love isn’t it?”
Elayne scampered back to the barracks like a rock skipping over a pond. A courier’s job was very important; he ran confidential information between friendly regiments both day and night. Elayne was lucky to even catch sight of Markin let alone catch him, and when she did she told him everything.
The inevitable silence was filled by nothing but her own doubts. Would he laugh at her? Would he ignore her? Neither occurred. He patted her on the head and said: “I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel the same way.”
The next morning, Elayne returned to her thirtieth floor nest with a jubilant bounce in her step. Nina was already there, half-buried in a pie she managed to pilfer from an unsuspecting human. She popped her head up from the crust. “What’s with the dopey smile? You didn’t actually confess your love did you?”
“Of course I did, and he said he loves me too!”
“He said he lov – does he even know your name? Ugh, why do I even try?”
The sky was gray most of the day; sunlight struggled to shine through the muscular clouds. Dusk came upon them fast and even with Nina’s eyes, Elayne failed to spot a single target worth the risk of firing upon. Goblins weren’t the best marksmen but a single shot was all they needed to uncover her location.
“… Elayne,” Nina said weakly, like she never intended to speak. “Look: down by the church.”
Elayne used the scope of her rifle. What she saw stopped her heart. Goblins congregated around a single human: Markin. Far from attacking him, they seemed to be welcoming him. The girls watched with cold numbness as he revealed the hidden positions of human soldiers, including their own.
“It can’t be …” So many of Elayne’s innocent beliefs disintegrated in front of her, replaced by the heaviness of stupidity. How could he say he loved her when he was plotting against her this whole time?
The same look of sadness and betrayal overcame Nina’s features but it provided only a little comfort. “Guess it wasn’t a crystal ball after all. Nightfall will be here soon. Shoot him now.”
The words were icy but accurate. Elayne took aim and framed her face to the task. She inhaled and secretly hoped that the Clockwork Angels would save him.
Ka-bang!
They didn’t. She withdrew from the window and hid herself. The clock tower bell rang out as the last bit of daylight shriveled over the horizon. And in the still silence of night, Elayne cried for the first time in her life.
I Am Invincible: Redux
This challenge was run by Eddie Sullivan.
The challenge was to write a superhero fiction flash story about a character who is omniscient or all powerful.
Example story:
Watching the Children of the Gods
Eddie Sullivan
Surveillance notes: confirmed members of Ordo Papilionis
Perk It Up Coffee, 134 Main St Burlington VT
Subjects: Wainscot, Alistair/ Wainscot, Alexandra
Audio, Video, Close in agent monitoring
Alistair sat drumming the fingers of one hand, while picking his coffee up with the other. Immediately after each sip, he knocked twice on the table, looked left, then quickly right. The casual observer would think he seemed nervous or compulsive, although there was no tension in his face. His countenance was as serene as still water at dawn. He was joined by a young woman who bore a striking resemblance to him. They had the same golden blonde hair and light blue eyes. She seemed as if she was communicating to an unseen person in American Sign Language. The effect was not as organized as that language though, perhaps more as if she were playing at a ridiculous pantomime of spell casting.
“Alex, nice to see you.” He gestured with his wrist and fingers but not apparently in her direction. “Sorry, just negating a flood in Bali.”
“Allistair, you look well.” She jumped from foot to foot then sat quickly. “That was dirty bomb not going off in Kabul.”
The waitress saw an additional customer and came to take an order. He shook his head back and forth so she assumed he did not want a refill. Alexandra stopped fidgeting long enough to make eye contact with the girl.
“Café Mocha extra light please.” The waitress turned away and she made extra frantic gestures as if she were catching up. “That was an avalanche in Kathmandu.”
“Wouldn’t you know that just as I need a refill I pick up a landslide in Mt Nebo, West Virginia!” He looked frustrated for the first time in the encounter. “Damn I needed another cup!”
“You can have some of mine when it comes.” His sister shook her head like she was starring in a shampoo commercial. “Whoa that one was close by. Seventeen car collision on Route 89 outside Lebanon, NH.”
The waitress brought the coffee. Alexandra transferred some of the contents to his cup. They continued talking and making seemingly random compulsive gestures for about forty five minutes. Agent Stan Harper was manning the camera across the street. His partner was monitoring the audio. They were in a crappy vacant apartment that had been commandeered for the occasion.
“Do you believe any of this Will? I never even saw stuff this odd working for 51.”
“I don’t know what to think, Stan. They seem to have some knowledge of remote events. The problem is they claim to be preventing things from happening. How do you prove they aren’t preventing something from happening?”
“Are they all from the same family?”
“Hell, they are all brothers and sisters!”
“We figure between two hundred fifty and three hundred. There are fifty one known family members outside the compound and one known in the compound. The rest are unknowns.”
“That is impossible. No one has that many kids.”
“Different mothers, same father. Augustus Wainscot should be about one hundred at least. Breeding and saving the world for seven and a half decades. The daddy of Ordo Papilionis. He dispatches his children to change the world. Each boy/girl pair is named with a different leading letter of the alphabet. They seem to exhibit different preternatural powers for each pair. These are the A’s. They claim that they make minute adjustments which prevent disasters all over the world. When one pair disappears another takes their place. There is always just the one pair for every letter.”
“That doesn’t add up. You said fifty one. Twenty six pairs would be fifty two. What gives?”
“Don’t concern yourself with the T’s. The T’s are no one’s problem but a guy named Finch.”
“What do the the T’s do?”
“Whatever they want! We have a T. The other T was KIA. You don’t want to talk about what killed a T, you need to trust me on that. The weird thing is, as long as we have the guy, Augustus won’t deploy anyother T’s. The one we have isn’t interested in going back, so the process is kind of in a holding pattern. You didn’t really read your files, did you?”
“Not really. I figured I was being put into a more mundane section when they asked me to leave Extraterrestrial branch. They threw me out here with you right after I arrived.”
“Yeah this department does that. We’re always on the move and attrition is high.”
“People die, sometimes they just see too much, or not enough, and walk away.”
“That seems odd.” Stan heard a strained buzzing out the window. He looked up and saw a small plane sputtering and losing altitude. It pitched from side to side painfully. The engine cut in and out. It was coming down for sure. It also seemed eerily likely that it was going to be coming straight in the window that he was standing at. He was going to die. There was no good explanation as to how he knew this, he just knew. There wasn’t even time to say anything to Will. The plane’s engine fired back to life strongly when it was about twenty feet from the window. The plane briefly occupied the space over the street just between the structures on either side. He looked into the pilot’s green eyes just as he jerked the stick and made the plane climb hard.
Stan turned to tell Will what had just happened. Will was looking at him laughing.
“I think she likes you.” Will pointed to the eye piece of the camera.
Stan looked into the aperture. The girl was looking right at him. She was smiling at him. Her brother was laughing. She waved and turned back to finish speaking with her brother. Will was chuckling behind him.
“Welcome to the Supernatural and Preternatural Section!”
(If you want more of this story and weren’t around last year- look for Eddie's entry in the archive for the story of the one of the T’s)
This story was previously edited by Iain Muir--Much thanks to him!
It All Never Really Ends Here…
Sergio Palumbo
Sitting on a couch that stretched all the way across the living room, the only thing the graying and almost bald man named Frank seemed to be capable of doing was staring blankly at the television. The room was almost totally dark, the only light coming from the widescreen TV itself. He gazed at something that no one else appeared to see, something that probably only lay inside his mind…
His wife, Alexandra, who was in her 70s, thought he was a desperate case by now, but in reality she was too. After all, her interests were somewhat foolish: like watching six different soap operas during the day and then watching TV crime dramas all night. But the woman had never worked outside the home and the pension her husband had started receiving, after retiring two years ago, had proven to be more than enough to let them have what they needed to live. The checks had started coming in each month following a strange accident that had happened to her man while he was on duty at his old job. Of course the couple never wanted to dine out, as they had almost never gone out when they were younger, nor did they go to the cinema. They seemed to be happy to just sit at home, as simple as that.
Actually, Frank had never been very talkative, and their discussions had commonly focused on matters like what to buy at the grocery store, what type of plants were best to have in the garden, and so on. Thus you didn’t need to delve very deeply into the status of their relationship to discover what was next for them, because eventually they simply would grow old together. Many marriages went that way, especially between two simple-minded partners, and that was exactly what they were – or at least that was what they were reputed to be among their neighbors nowadays. But they weren’t interested in what the others thought about them, as the couple didn’t feel the need to change themselves or to modify their lifestyle.
The truth was that Frank had become even less talkative than ever over the course of the last few months, after his retirement, but the woman wasn’t too worried: as people aged it was common to become more eccentric than before and more withdrawn, at least at times. What was really important was that the money kept coming in and they would never lack for food, water, beer, medications and the likes. Basically the only important thing was that they remain healthy as long as possible, of course. All the rest might simply go to hell, actually…
Sitting for most of the day on the couch in the middle of the living room, Frank didn’t care about what happened around him. After all, following that strange accident he had been involved in while working at the facility, life had taken on a completely different meaning. Because of the experimental energy that had unexpectedly hit him that day, everything had changed, and the people in charge of the institute had been very glad that he hadn’t sued them. Rather he had quietly accepted his early retirement, along with an extra-amount of money, which was given in exchange for him not raising questions about their poor safety procedures.
In a way, how could they even imagine what had really happened to him? Since that day, he had become an all-powerful and all-knowing individual who was able to make anyone die just by looking at them and wishing they were dead! Beyond that, his mind was capable of thinking at an incredible speed, evaluating and precisely calculating the probabilities that a death that he wished for- and that someone deserved…- might cause greater problems somewhere down the line. For example, right now he really wanted to strike dead the serial killer on TV - but his death, according to his calculations, would cause a missed opportunity for redemption of a friend of his in prison. Given the chance, that friend would be married one day and his son would save a school full of children thanks to his acts of courage…
It was all a matter of running different calculations in his head. Possessing both of those two great, unbelievable powers simply left him stuck for most of the day. As always new characters took the place of the previous ones on TV but when he thought about killing the new delinquents, new calculations of the bad things that might occur if he killed them would stop him cold!
It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t easy at all, and he only ended up being deeply trapped in his thoughts, without doing anything in the end. Deciding not to kill a heartless villain required a lot of time, as you thought about the thousands of consequences worldwide, generation after generation, and so on…
For example, his elderly wife Alexandra didn’t deserve to die certainly, at least not yet. But the odds were that one day she would be affected by a mental illness that would force her to murder him: he could see all the signs, given his unending calculations. But what should he do? Kill Alexandra or not kill Alexandra? Should he kill her today or tomorrow, for his own good and for the good of all mankind? Or should he only be concerned about the present safety of his dear wife who would not be truly responsible for the actions she would perpetrate against him in the future?
And more than that, if he killed her today, who would fix him dinner afterwards, and who would clean their house while he sat on the couch and endlessly continued his long, important calculations all day long…?
Most of the time indecisiveness proved to be his best decision, although his inability to decide might cause other worse, unprecedented problems here and there, in the future, maybe…
Michele Dutcher
It took a week for people at the outpost to notice what someone had done to the sepd’s nest – but Pojo knew it instantly. Deep inside the caverns of Bernard 2, the empath felt the young man’s laser slice through the fiber eggs of the 4 sepd chicks, leaving only a tiny hole in the fabric of each of the shells. The sepd’s nest had been built on a ridge high enough to be protected from the planet’s indigenous predators, but it hadn’t been high enough to protect it from one of the new humans at the outpost.
The 3-foot-high furry sepds would never hatch out of their eggs now – because the young man had killed them while the mother was hunting for food nearby the nest. The saddest thing for the humans was knowing that the mother still faithfully attended the nest everyday – expecting her 4 nestlings to eventually break free of their shells to find her waiting there to teach them how to survive on the tiny planet. She leaned against her brood 22 hours a day, using her 7-foot body to warm the now decaying chicks, scurrying off only occasionally to get food for herself, using her talons and beak to hunt small animals. But as the futile weeks passed by, even she knew something must be terribly wrong.
Pojo could feel it all, seeing the crime and its result in her mind, the same way she could feel the essence of all life on Bernard 3. She was one of two all-powerful empaths from a once great civilization. The sisters survived now deeper in the caverns than any human would probably ever venture, having existed for millennia, living directly off the energy of the planet’s core. By now the two were almost pure energy themselves, each providing balances for each other.
“A life-crime has been committed against one of the planet’s creatures,” Pojo, the kind-hearted, told her sister Kikpe.
“I felt it too, dear sister – but I felt it first in the shallow hatred of the human who calls himself, Cary,” answered the luminous Kikpe. “I took over his warped mind, pushing him up the path on the cliff. I allowed the crime to happen because bad events must happen to all living things – it is the way of nature. We are both all-powerful sister, but without me you would make sure there was no death and creatures old and sick would suffer forever. Death has its value. Without the death of one creature, another creature would die.”
“Life has its value as well. So I am now free to balance the suffering of the sepd with an act of kindness. Since a violent act has been done by a human, perhaps a human should be used to heal the mother’s heartbreak. There is one human in particular at the outpost, David, who has a good spirit. I will put into his mind an obsession to ease the pain of the creature on the ridge, in spite of the danger of being hurt by the sepd mother.”
And so it was that David, his judgment overpowered by a force he could not explain, began to creep up the cliff, intent on cleaning out the nest by removing the decaying eggs. Others from the outpost watched him from below – even Cary, especially Cary. The voice inside David’s head told him which way to go, which path to take, and eventually he looked down and could see the sepd’s nest a few feet below him. The mother was away, so he quickly scurried down onto the perch.
He checked the eggs and could see with his own eyes the laser holes that had been drilled by Cary. One by one he lifted them, throwing the eggs off the ledge into a stream below. Now the creature could get on with her life, she could build another nest next year, and the humans from the outpost would be sure to value it and protect it. A kind deed had been done to balance the violent one.
Suddenly the sepd mother was flying in front of David, her talons slashing at his arms and legs, her beak pecking at his eyes. Not knowing why the human had done the unthinkable, she grabbed hold of his shoulders, throwing him from the nest. In front of all the spectators, David’s body bounced down the cliff, splashing into the stream at the base of the mountain, in front of the mouth of a large cave.
Some started running towards the corpse of the man, hoping he might still be breathing – although everyone knew he was dead. But before they could reach him, a luminous ball of light could be seen floating on the water in the cave, being bounced about by the current. The ball got closer and closer to the corpse in the stream, eventually crashing into it, splashing its luminescence over the body. David could be seen rising slowly from the water now, shaking his head as though to clear it, before the crowd rushed towards him happily.
Deep inside the cavern, it was Kikpe who spoke first. “You gave him back his life. Now things are out of balance again.”
“Do what you must,” answered Pojo softly. “He should not have died – he was doing my bidding, I forced him to face the sepd.”
Kikpe began to glow as she concentrated on the mind of a young man who had eagerly done her vicious bidding.
Outside the cave, Cary ran towards David with the others meaning to welcome him back to the living. However, something distracted him – no one would ever know what – causing him to lose his step on a patch of slippery moss, cracking his skull open on the rocks.
“Sister, this man could have changed his ways,” said Pojo, irritated at the turn of events.
“A tooth for a tooth,” was Kikpe’s reply. “A life for a life.”
Do you see what I see?"
Sia sat in her meeting discussing how to make people achieve the crucial changes in their lives that they needed to move forward.
She had a long memory ... they were discussing the same thing in Ancient Egypt. She was frustrated because she had a different take on the whole matter than most. But in these computerized modern times, it all seemed to work so differently than the way she remembered!
Joe, the project manager was launching into one of his long speeches.
"The trouble, is that sometimes people know that they need to do something, but they can't get it done, because they can't find out how to do something they don't know in the first place. It's like the Chicken and the Egg problem".
Sandra added, "or like that game Jeopardy, run backwards. It's like asking that Trebeck guy, "I'll take $400 but I don't know either the question, or the answer."
Sia had some ideas. "Well, my hair stylist does wonders to hide my grey hair, but I've been around this a few times. Sometimes you don't change the person, you change everyone else around them."
Joe said, "Whoa! What does THAT mean?"
Sia said, "It's something a little like what you call a zeitgeist, a mood of the times. Ever notice that sometimes, "it all just seemed right" for ships to sail oceans? Or take to the skies? Often even before a pioneer, is a daydreamer, a precursor. But they often speak in nothing more than private notes, so even if you encountered them, you might not catch on to some of the bigt ideas they are up to."
Joe asked, "Well, okay, where do you want to go with this?"
Sia answered, "Fraud prevention. Not the insurance claim type - more like individual rumors, half truths, and outright lies and hustles don't work precisely the same way that they used to for the rest of history. Now, not counting the jokers and trolls, whenever you hear something, you can reach for your phone, or your computer at home, and check into it for yourself instantly. Sure, sometimes the information is blurred, but you can also get answers that often weren't available except for extensive research if at all."
Joe asked, "How does that affect us so strongly?"
"Because unfortunately many of the strongest mis-truths end up "grandmothered" into public consciousness."
Sandra asked, "Don't you mean "Grandfathered?"
Sia smiled. "See? That's because men made themselves into might-is-right regimes, and that worked its way into the language. It gets funnier. You have an entire town in Arizona named after a bird that doesn't exist. That whole flames thing? The Greeks got it wrong when they visited the temple of Benu. But it stuck because no one rememebers the Egyptian version."
Joe began to smile.
"So, who exactly are YOU?"
Sia sighed. "Ah, see, laziness. Because in the old days, you had to ask. Now you can just look me up. But perception and habits are different things. No one remembers the Egyptian Goddess of Perception either. Because I didn't have all the "cool kids" worshipping me. There were too many of us. I helped inspire the internet. But people won't even use it to change their perception."
Dating Star Storm
P.A. Hosler
Mike Paterson fidgeted nervously in his chair. His tongue felt dry and swollen in his mouth. He reached across the small table for the icy beverage sitting there. The ice sounded like little bells as he lifted the glass with shaky hands to his lips. He took a small sip and swished the cold liquid to moisten his mouth so he could speak.
“Are you sure she won’t be able to hear us?” Mike’s voice cracked a little as he spoke.
Charles Vorhees, reporter for the Daily Blab, continued to busily make preparations for the interview. He thought to himself, Of course she can hear us, she’s a freaking immortal being with supernatural powers. Aloud he said waving his hand in dismissal, “No. No, we’re safe here, the walls are lined withdihydrogen-monoxide. Military sources confided to me recently that it’s her only weakness.” Charles waited a beat to make sure Mike wasn’t going to object to his ruse.
Mike took another sip of water, his eyes darted around the room. “The floors too?” he asked.
“Of course Mr. Paterson, we’ve taken every precaution so we can conduct this interview.”
Charles hovered a finger over his tape recorder. “May we begin Mr. Paterson?” he asked. Mike nodded slowly and Charles pressed record. “So how exactly, Mr. Paterson...”
“Mike. Please call me Mike.”
“Okay Mike. How exactly did you and Star Storm meet?”
“She rescued me, that’s how it started anyway.”
“She rescues lots of people Mike. Could you be a little more specific?”
“True, but I think it was because of my blog.”
“Alright Mike, just tell me what happened.”
Mike squirmed uncomfortably in his seat. He wasn’t used to talking about himself and Star Storm had warned him not to talk about their relationship. A bead of sweat formed a wet horizontal line across his forehead. He dabbed at it unconsciously and then began to tell Charles Vorhees his story.
“For the past two years I’ve been running the highest rated Star Storm blog on the internet from my mother’s basement. I have spiders that collect images and stories about her heroics from all over the world. I guess you might say I’m her biggest fan.
“Then three months ago, I was running some errands for my mother in town. I had to stop at the bank and I walked right into a robbery. Everyone looked right at me, including the bank robbers. That gave one of the tellers just enough time to press the alarm button. Things went bad fast after that. The robber closest to me was pissed off to put it mildly. He leveled his gun at me and fired! I’m pretty sure I wet myself. Please don’t print that. Everything slowed down, I could even see the flash exiting the muzzle of that guys weapon! I hit the ground hard and I was dazed for a few seconds. I can remember thinking that a gunshot wound should hurt. I felt moisture so I thought, I’m hit, I know I’m hit. How come I can’t feel it? To make sure I wasn’t paralyzed by the bullet I sat up. I looked myself over... nothing... not a scratch. I looked around and the robbers were gone.
“People came over to help me up. They told me that Star Storm had saved me, saved all of us. I’d never had an actual encounter with her before, and I missed it. I didn’t even get a glimpse of her. The bank manager decided to close the bank for the rest of the day and ushered everyone out the door. I just stood in front of the bank and stared at the sky. I actually started to worry about having to tell mother that I couldn’t finish my errands because the bank had closed. And then the world dropped away.
“I was floating high above the city and it felt like I had left my stomach back where I had been standing. Star Storm spun me around to face her. She looked into my eyes and smiled. She knew my name. She told me she had been following my site for over a year. She made sure that it received the less mundane heroics before any of the others. I guess you’d say my site had it’s own special fan. I don’t think I’ll ever understand why but, then she kissed me.
“Things got really strange after that. Every time I left the house I’d wind up in the middle of some life threatening event. Sometimes buildings would collapse, trains would derail, or meteors would suddenly enter Earth’s atmosphere and head directly for whatever part of the city I was in. Sometimes people around me died while I was whisked away to safety. She would smile and tell me that she couldn’t save everyone. It didn’t take me long to figure out that Star Storm was causing these random disasters. She did it to be close to me. I begged her to stop. Apparently it’s some sort of mating ritual on her home world. Somehow I’m the only genetically compatible human she has found since being abandoned here. She wants to mate. I’ve never mated with anyone in my life!”
Charles interrupted, “Wait, you’re saying you’re a virgin?”
“I’m telling you she’s killing people to be with me and that’s the first thing that you want to know!” Mike yelled.
Suddenly a far wall exploded inward. “Hello Sweetie!” Star Storm growled. “I told you not to speak to anyone about us.”
Headline, Daily Blabb:
Head Reporter Charles Vorhees and Star Storm blogger Mike Paterson missing for more than a week. Authorities continue to investigate.
Remote Island in the Pacific:
“Behave yourself boys. I’ll be back soon.” Star Storm disappeared over the horizon, another disaster needed to be averted.
The Community Project
Joey To
One of the two big men with black stockings over their heads leaned over the counter to grab the cash. The other pointed his pistol at Yuki. She was about to pay for the can of apple soft drink. She glanced at Eva, a classmate, who stood nearby with lips curled and wearing her stupid pink scarf.
"Give me your schoolbags and purses," the thug grunted.
Yuki got mad. To use perfectly good stockings this way was a waste. And she didn't like robberies either.
But Yuki couldn't to afford to get mad. She couldn't afford a bad report this semester. She breathed in deeply and—
Stuff it. She rifled the can at the thug's head. A bang followed. The bullet merely ricocheted off her right shoulder. She knitted her brow at the hole in her uniform and, when she looked up, the guy's head was no more. Crap, she was gonna lose marks for this.
"Good one, Butcher, killing my suspect," Eva called out, "thought your project was the mob." Yuki ignored her and the hallway of sneers as she entered the Principal's Office.
Mr Clarke was red-faced, his hands planted wide apart on his mahogany desk. "YOU KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS COVERING UP YESTERDAY'S MESS?!"
Yuki squinted as he swivelled his monitor around. It was replaying her body-cam footage in slow-motion: the thug's head exploding on impact with the can. Admittedly, her response was probably a bit excessive, her nickname "Butcher" not entirely unjustified.
Mr Clarke sighed. "Dammit Yuki. I know you mean well and you're one of our most gifted students but you can't go around executing Code Blacks. It's not just your secret powers at stake, nor even this school…"
Yuki knew the speech. They were all-powerful but not all-knowing and they had to be careful with who they saved or took out. Last semester, she sped at a casual Mach 4.1 to rescue an old lady in a wheelchair stuck at a railway crossing. Aside from the shattered car windows, the old cow turned out to be the mercenary "C-4 Granny". Somehow, Yuki had missed the email memo. No prizes for guessing who was responsible for sixty-five deaths and the destruction of her favorite hot dog stand two days later.
"…and are you even listening?" said Mr Clarke with a raised eyebrow.
Yuki's stomach growled.
Yuki mumbled a series of expletives as she strode down the street. Given her abilities, she mumbled a few in parallel as well. As she neared Burger Bomb at the mall, she perked up her ears at some distant screech: something over the police radio about a suspicious semi-trailer on Route-44.
Just as well. She had to make up for the ten deducted marks somehow. This was the "Community Project". She would graduate immediately with a "super" license if she got tops marks for this. No need for further units.
In a second, Yuki whizzed over to an intersection on Route-44. She squinted: two men in a red semi-trailer, a shiny company truck. And carrying her favorite apple soft drink.
How effing dare they.
Yuki blazed toward the moving vehicle, ripped open the passenger-side door—both men were in tactical gear—grabbed one by the vest, dragged him out in front, hurled him through the windscreen and zipped away before anyone could digest what the hell just happened.
She was barely down the road when she asked herself why such well-equipped people would be interested in a semi-trailer of carbonated beverages.
So she dashed all the way back to the now stationary truck.
Yuki leapt into the cabin. The eyes of the driver bulged. He was conscious enough whilst the other was busy bleeding. She grabbed the clipboard beside the seat and read.
She tore off the former's mask. "Who set you up for this job?"
"You… you… mean this?"
Yuki wrapped her hand around his neck. "No, I meant the threat you made against the city cemetery. This left Dalesville and was meant for the nearby Burger Bomb. I assume you wanted to carry out an attack so why the detour through here?"
He pointed at her. "Like… you. But pink… scarf."
Of course. Eva wanted the top spot. It was always her. That sabotaging bitch. But Yuki interrupted her self-imposed exposition with another realization.
"So what other jobs did you have? Hurry up, I'm hungry."
The man grinned. "Enjoy your lunch…"
Just as Yuki heard sirens, there was a flash of orange, a wall of heat and she hit the bitumen a hundred feet from the flaming wreckage. She got up, patted her seared uniform and sniffed. Definitely homemade C-4.
That's it. She'd had enough.
Yuki stomped towards the Principal's Office.
"I'm sorry, he's in with another student," said what's-her-secretary's-name.
"I know," grunted Yuki as she kicked the door open and marched inside.
Eva sprung from her chair whilst Mr Clarke merely frowned. "I'm glad I reinforced that door, given the nature of this institution."
Yuki pulled Eva's pink scarf and slammed her head into the desk. "Did you reinforce the desk?"—there was a dent—"Guess not."
She let Eva slid onto the floor before commencing her expositional rant on how Eva hacked into her email to delete vital memos and organized certain crimes to provoke her, including intercepting C-4 Granny's goons, making them take a detour.
Mr Clarke sighed. "Probable. But it's still conjecture."
Yuki frowned. "I'm not accusing Eva of working directly with C-4 Granny. The hag probably detonated remotely when she realized her people were off schedule. Still, Eva would have guessed that."
"Fine. I'll deal with her."
Yuki didn't budge.
Mr Clarke narrowed his gaze. "And I'll allow you the chance to regain more marks. You may track down C-4 Granny as well as the mob for the project. But no more mistakes."
Yuki nodded. "One more thing," she said, pointing at the unconscious lump on the floor, "that was a Code Red, she tries anything and it'll be a Code Black."
3 Random Things Challenge
The challenge was to write a speculative flash piece where a crime has taken place and a jar and a calendar feature prominently in the story
The Beast, Within
N.J. Kailhofer
Rednae looked at the blurry wall calendar through the interface. July 31st was circled in red--an infamous date, considering it was today, the day of burning.
The gooey, lifeless walls were thick. No one was getting through them, and the doors wouldn't dilate any more. The inmates were trapped. A lone light source sputtered over Rednae's head, above a nearly opaque patch of the ceiling, the dim flicker making this prison even more hellish.
He knew the Beast had to be getting close to the inferno that would turn them all to ash, but there was little he could do to take them to safety. If he could relight the great engine, the Beast's defenses would spring to life. It would be spared the flame yet again. He jabbed his key into the lock once more, but it would not respond. It couldn't.
It was dead, like everything else.
Some Keeper I turned out to be. Rednae feared his tenure would be the shortest on record, that was, if anyone still existed to keep records. Keepers tended the Beasthome since generations past, but he was stuck in a cell, and now everything was headed straight for perdition's flame. Because I trusted her.
I must have been addle-minded. What did I expect, trusting a prisoner? She had been so unique: a tantalizingly red, bristle-haired visitor from beyond, from a mostly-water world teeming with intelligent life. All intelligent, scheming life, apparently. He had never seen the like of Melissa. Such a strange name.[i/I] Her body was so different: so... swelled... in spots. Rednae had a hard time keeping the vision from his mind. Plus, everything she described was so different, like how she traveled across the vast space in a hard-metal tube--just to explore. [I]No one explored. Life just was, and you lived as you could. Every prisoner had a story--millions of them--but none like hers. Melissa said she just wanted to get back to her metal tube, to be free of the Beast, but the Beast was made for holding criminals just like her. It was its function, as was his, too.
What if her words were true? Even then, Rednae dared to think it. I could go with her. She promised.
He entered. "We will speak again, now."
She was pacing. "Why do you keep coming here?"
"Your story is unbelievable, yet I keep wanting to hear it."
"I tell you I am an explorer," Melissa insisted. "We'd never been inside 'The Beast', as you call it, before, so I volunteered to go through the conversion process. I needed to discover what it was really like, from inside here."
Rednae's vision blinked. "That is madness. The Beast is a prison."
"We didn’t know that."
Rednae paused. "What did you know?"
"Not enough." She sighed, something prisoners didn't do. "I... I know about freedom. The place I came from, everyone moves about, freely. You can't even go from one room to another here, but there... you can go anywhere, room to room, building to building, city to city, even country to country, anywhere in the world."
Rednae boggled. "Surely not. Chaos!"
She looked at him, tears in the corner of her eyes. "I know about love, too, and about missing someone you love."
He seemed unsure.
She paused. "Haven't you ever loved someone?"
He was silent for a long time. "There was one."
Her hand reached out to touch his side. No prisoner had ever dared--his body would consume them. Instead of bringing her death, her touch was soft, tantalizing. It was unlike anything he had experienced. His body burned from it and yearned for it at the same moment. In his own way, he gasped. The sensation was overwhelming.
"Haven't you been touched before?"
"I have not touched another except to lock prisoners into their cells since the one... That was whom I loved. The one I was created from."
Melissa continued to caress his side. "The one who created you, is she still alive?"
"Rednae," she asked, "if you could see her, touch her, one more time, would you not do it, even if your laws forbid it?"
He was uncomfortable in the silence. Eventually, he said, "Yes."
"That is how I feel about going back to my people, every moment I am here."
He watched her face. "Truly, you feel like this, all the time?"
She nodded.
What do I do? Slowly, he moved toward the door. Extending his key, it opened. "Then go. I cannot stand to know I'm causing you such pain, because then I feel it, too."
She jumped toward the door, but stopped. "Come with me."
He declined. "If this cell is not occupied, the Beast will react. The searchers will find you."
She looked through the interface at the calendar and set her jaw. "After I escape, I will get you out of here. I promise I will."
The door closed.
She was gone. Rednae could not weep the sorrow and loneliness that filled him. He was not built for it.
He sat alone in silence in the cell, waiting until she would be past the searchers, until she would certainly be free... waiting too long for the Beast.
"Where is it?" the scientist asked.
Her lab assistant extended a jar. "Nicked it off the cart, love, as requested. I know you know this one inside and out, but why did I have swipe it from the incinerator line? You know what horrible things we've put in there. It was a miracle it lasted through so many tests, but it's not living. The Director won't be happy you're doing this."
She ignored him and scanned the specimen trapped inside the container, then inserted a needle into the dead rabbit's eye. Extracting fluid into the same metal, tube syringe that carried her during her own experiment, she chuckled.
"I'll get you out of there, Rednae. I promised I would."
A Fairy Familiar Tale
Alison Stranglelove checked her calendar again, then walked to the kitchen. Then she walked back and checked it again. She repeated several times. Her excitement creating obsession. Tonight was the summer solstice . She would be able to do that which she had prepared . She was going to sneak onto the Childhome estate and catch a fairy. It was trespassing, but if they didn’t want that to happen they shouldn’t have bought the forest ripe with ley lines and fairy rings and hogged it all.
She looked through the window and saw the sundown . Soon the box trap she had placed on the estate would need checking. The trap was baited with a honey cake, and sugarplums , according to her research fairies couldn’t resist that. She had found an obscure treatise on fairies that declared they loved human sweetmeats. Alison expected that she would be able to use her specially prepared jar this evening to collect a new little familiar.
The walk down to the estate was uneventful. She had found the perfect spot for entering the property and absconding with her new treasure. She placed the jar in her knapsack and climbed the fence. The trap was conveniently placed just a hundred feet inside the estate. As she drew close she observed with glee that it was sprung and moving as something bumped around. She kneeled next to it and put her hand on the box feeling the vibrations coming from the inside. She wanted to savor this moment, it was the culmination of such planning. The pinnacle of her career as a practitioner would be having a fairy as her familiar. She unscrewed the cap on her warded mason jar and held it up to the sliding door on the side of the box. She would waited for the fairy to fly into the jar in an attempt to escape through the opening and then close the lid behind it. Easy-peasy.
It took a moment after the jar was in place but then something shot out of the trap and into the jar like a bottle rocket. Alison slammed the lid on. She held it up to look at her prize. Inside was a perfect replica of a little nude woman with gossamer wings. She stared back at Alison through the glass curiously. A slight tinkling came from the little air holes in the cover of the jar.
“Well now my little miniature missus, it seems I have caught you and you will be spending some time with me.”
A glassy little voice came from the jar, “Why did you do this? I don’t know you. You should let me go.”
“No, I don’t think so little doll. You are coming home with me.”
The little figure put her hands on her hips and let her upper lip curl in a sneer. “I suppose I don’t have a choice then. Let’s get on with it.”
Alison was quite pleased with the fairy’s understanding that her service was a forgone conclusion. She expected a little more resistance to her servitude. She put the jar in her bag and scaled the fence. That damn Childhome family and their cockamamie claims that fairies were dangerous and that they needed to be contained to the estate. Those pompous witches and warlocks didn’t even bother using them as familiars themselves. It did briefly occur to her that the security seemed lax for something they proclaimed to the heavens was there divine mission on Earth.
When she arrived home she was brought to an abrupt halt in the doorway as her knapsack refused to go through the threshold with her. Backing out of the house she removed it and took out the jar.
“What is going on Sparkles?”
The little fey stretched and yawned. “Who is Sparkles?”
“You are. That is your new name.”
“I have a name, it is over three millennia I have used it. I don’t think I like to change now.”
Alison scowled at her new pet. “Tough you are mine and your name is Sparkles. Now why is it that I can’t get into the house?”
A twinkly little laugh came from the jar. “I can’t step foot in your home without being invited, those are the rules.”
“Isn’t that vampires?”
“Fey too I’m afraid.”
Alison’s breathed huffed. “Fine then you are invited into my home.” She picked up the jar and the bag and stormed through the door ; Sparkles shrieked with glee.
Alison put the jar on the table and stared at the fairy.
“Now it is late, and I am tired. So you behave yourself while I catch a little shut eye and I will feed you some cake when I wake up, ok?”
“Oh yes Mistress, that would be delightful!” Sparkles hopped up and down in her jar.
Alison Strangelove smile down at her new familiar and nodded. Then she turned to go to bed. She lay down and as she drifted off to sleep she thought ‘ Now who is a second rate witch?’ The stupid council declaring she wasn’t advanced enough for a familiar would be sorry now. She would show them all tomorrow.
Alison wasn’t a very good witch. Her worst trait was research by far. She brought a quite high member of the Unseelie Court into her home invited. Sparkles real name loosely translated was “Destroyer of Life, Crusher of Souls”. It was also evident she was unaware that a warded mason jar wasn’t sufficient to hold said entity, nor that her translation of fairy culinary practice was flawed. They didn’t like human sweetmeats (cakes and sugar pastries). They loved human sweetbreads though, which is for the most part is the thymus and pancreas. Once you were trapped in the woods or through unfortunate luck found one had somehow gotten into your home things usually became tragic. Those little devils would climb in any orifice they could and chew their way to the sweetbreads.
The program facilitator scanned the faces of the six people sitting in front of him. All six would now have the chance to unravel a real mystery from two centuries before – by going back in time to the location of the offense.
“Greetings to all of you,” began the facilitator. “As you know, crime has been eradicated from our world by the webnet that protects us. But in the far past, killers ran wild through the streets like uncontrolled predators, hiding in large cities.” He was pleased that most of the participants gasped at his statement. These time tourists had paid to be entertained afterall. “We’ve selected a crime from the year 1963 involving the deaths of 3 women. A suspect was arrested, but later released, due to lack of a motive and physical evidence.”
Magalie Stenger began to ask a question but was stopped. “Each of you will be supplied with an era appropriate C-241 robot, who will answer only 20 questions when you get to the time location. The tourist who solves the crime with the least number of questions wins bragging rights. Well, if there are no further questions, Pittsburg 1963 is awaiting your detection skills. The travel booths are in the next room. Happy hunting!”
As Magalie looked around, she thought that stepping through the time portal into Old Earth 1963 was well worth the cost of the trip. She enjoyed seeing the sky and the city built on rolling hills. A robot followed her through the portal, having been modified to look like a girl of eight.
“I am here to assist you, mother,” said the C-241’s soft voice. “What would you like to know?”
“What happened to the three women, in general terms?”
“Helen B, Mary F, and Jane C were abducted, sexually assaulted, and murdered – their remains were found floating in the Allegheny River. One of the bodies was discovered in those bushes over there.”
“What was the suspect’s name?” asked Magalie.
“Lowell Roppo,” came the answer.
“Is the suspect’s job location within walking distance?”
“Every location on Earth is within walking distance for me,” said the robot child, not understanding the question clearly.
“How about for me, C-241 – is it within walking distance for me?”
“Is that a countable question?” asked the C-241.
“How many have I asked so far?” asked Magalie.
“Five, including this one.”
“Could be worse,” she whispered to herself. “Yes, that is a countable question.”
“Yes!” said the small robot, leading the way into the heart of downtown Pittsburg on a lovely Autumn afternoon.
“Did Lowell work in this neighborhood?” asked Magalie, walking past the brick buildings.
“Yes,” said the girl. “All his life.”
This was harder than Magalie thought it was going to be. “Will you take me to the place where Lowell worked?” insisted Magalie.
“Yes,” said the C-241.
After several twists and turns through the streets, the pair came to a row of six buildings, all of which were in need of repair. “I’m going to assume that Lowell left town after being released and his shop is the one with the windows covered with brown paper.”
The C-241 did not respond, as the woman’s sentence was a statement, not a question.
“Silence gives consent,” said Magalie, walking up to the entrance to the closed store. “As she peeked through the cracks between the papers, she could see what appeared to be women’s heads. “Can you get me inside?” asked Magalie.
“Yes,” said the robot.
“Will you get me inside now?”
“Yes,” said the girl, tearing off the dead-bolt lock with one swipe of her hand.
Magalie looked around before going into the building.
The room was musty and opening the door had stirred up the dust, making the human wheeze. “Why are those heads there?”
“Those are ceramic heads used to hold wigs which were worn by women for fashion or because they had lost their hair due to age or disease.”
“How long had Mr. Roppo owned this store?”
“Both of their lives.”
“You mean there were two Mr. Roppos?” she asked.
“Yes, according to records, Lowell’s father owned the wig store before him.”
Magalie went further back, seeing a calendar hanging on the wall. She noticed 3 days which had circles drawn around them. “C-241, what did the three murdered women do on these 3 days that were similar?”
“They all had appointments at a cancer clinic nearby.”
“Cancer? – could that disease have caused their hair to fall out?
“Yes. The cure for cancer at this time was chemotherapy.”
Suddenly the woman saw her refection in a jar on a counter. As she looked inside, she saw a blonde wig. She took it out, turning it over in her hands.
“I’m ready to go back to tell Rodgers my findings,” she told the robot, and the pair disappeared.
The other five travelers were also in the room.
“I’m ready to hear your theory, Ms. Stenger,” said the administrator.
Magalie Stenger smiled to herself. “I propose that as Lowell Roppo grew to become a man in his father’s wig store, he came to fantasize about the women in the display windows. But since all of those ceramic heads were hairless he looked for women who were hairless – women undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, like the women who came and went from his father’s shop.”
From behind her back she held up the wig from the jar. “I believe that you’ll find the DNA of all three murdered women on this wig – the wig that Lowell Roppo put on each of the women after he had killed them, thus satisfying his fetish.”
“And she developed this provable theory in how many questions?” Mr. Rodgers asked the C-241.
“14 questions.”
“Can anyone beat it?” he asked looking around the room. The others shook their heads no. “Well then you win bragging rights and one free trip on another murder vacation. I hope everyone will travel with us again soon.”
The Case of the Calendar Jar Crimes...
It was that time of year again, and Harry Hutchison was very worried. The 62-year-old detective already knew what would follow - or better what was probably going to happen… - and the events of the day didn’t disappoint him. At midnight, precisely, a holo-call announced that another body part would be found in an obscure alley in town. As the graying man looked at the calendar he regretfully told his younger colleague, “I knew this would happen: it’s the same day, the same hour, only one year after the last one…”
News websites and blogs had already let their fancy run wild, and they had named that strange sequence of unexplainable bloody events the ‘calendar jar crimes’. The reason was simple: at the beginning of the crime spree, on the given date, a transparent jar was left in an alley with a body part inside. Well, it was not from a human body, as it came from an alien species called Hujkn, one of the many alien groups that had been allowed to settle on Earth since the day the first Trade Agreements had been signed and the world had been admitted into the Great Union of Free Planets. This inclusion had proven to be very profitable for humans due to improvements in technology, science, industry and medicine, undoubtedly. So far, there were about 300 new intergalactic species that were living alongside Earthlings, and their numbers were steadily increasing every year.
The main mystery was that the body parts found weren’t all taken from the same alien body, as every single time the investigations revealed that they had come from different victims – whose complete remains had never been found so far. So, why was a damn killer cutting pieces of tissues from an alien’s body, putting them into a jar and leaving it somewhere? Of all the madmen the detective had ever encountered in his life, this murderer was obviously the most bloodthirsty!
For the first three years, though the policemen hadn’t discovered anything about the person responsible, a jar would be found in town on the same date, after the usual holo-call. Then, things worsened. Once the media found out that all these body parts came from the same alien species - the Hujkn - it became clear the act was a hate crime. They surmised it must have been done by some racist who detested the Hujkn and wanted to show the whole world that he had decided to deal with those new citizens of Earth in this bloody way. The question was: should they be looking for a human who hated the Hujkn - or an alien? In fact, that species had many enemies - including other alien groups who had been admitted to Earth. The same could be said about humans who hated all other alien peoples, anyway…
Even though the policemen involved, including Harry, had no clues about the real killer, someone new decided to send a clear response - and so another jar with a body part from a different alien species had shown up. The remains were from the Ltmra, who had always been at odds with the Hujkn over some commercial agreements which had been infringed upon in the past, almost causing a war in space. So, there were now two of them: a person who killed, or cut, parts off poor Hujkn bodies and left them in an alley, and another one who did the same on the aliens known as Ltmra…
But, it didn’t stop there, as things left to themselves, usually go from bad to worse. Probably because of the game of intertwined hatred among the different species with past scores to settle, new jars with new alien body parts were announced and picked up in several parts of town, each find having its significance. These actions were obviously meant to strike fear in their enemy’s species. The fact was that each year had only 365 days, and the policemen had been hoping that no other alien killer would perpetrate the same acts, as those insane individuals seemed to have already selected a different date to showcase their crimes.
And then it happened: another jar - but with human organs - was found in a park on February 29th. For the first time, some unknown killer had started practicing the same crime on Earthlings - and it had occurred on a day that only repeated every four years. Humans had finally become the target of that madness! But there was something else that made the detective upset this year: a message attached to the jar with human body part that said: “You stupid humans! Do something and stop this senseless chain of violence, or we’ll fill every day of the year with jars holding the remains of Earthlings. You have four years to solve this crime or else, starting with the next 29th February, we’ll put our threat into practice!”
Harry silently looked at the message again and smirked. The detective knew he would not be working four years from now, as next March he would finally be retired, and so he could simply walk away from all those terrible crimes that had made his job unbearable for a decade. Someone else would be forced to solve the problem after he was gone!/b]
We’ll never know for certain, but Harry was probably very surprised when he stumbled upon an alien from a species he didn’t even recognize one night while coming back from the pub, and unbearable was the former detective’s suffering as that stranger started cutting out his internal organs and putting them into another jar to be left somewhere in town. Attached to that new jar was a message: “We’re already tired of waiting, so we’re not holding off until leap year: hurry up and solve those damn’ crimes on your damn’ planet now – or else!”
Flash Supressor
He states, “I’m an Adjudicator.”
“See the circle on the calendar. I have to go out and do it again. I can never complain. Let me explain, but first I must take some refreshment.”
He took a gumdrop out of the Everfilled Jar.
“This jar knows my thoughts, my wishes. I desired to throw the whole thing out the window but then it would be filled up again, just like that. And here they are, lemon gum drops, my favorite. And littering is a major ecological crime, as is farting. Methane, a major green-house gas, is strictly regulated. There are meters on everyone’s body from the day we’re born. Good credits are given to those who fart less. The truth of the matter is 40% of human populations are walking methane factories. It is a great form of taxation. Every body agreed those who polluted should pay.”
“I am not DNA prone to produce methane, but cows are. Large herds of cows were eliminated generations ago. Now only small numbers of the animals are allowed to breed and then again in especially environmentally controlled enclosed fields. Methane being a very potent gas is harvested for those activities that required natural methane for the sports population, specifically the indoor environmentally controlled go-kart racing crowd.
“I am one of the Hunters. All Hunters are licensed by the National Revenge Assembly, a bureaucratic subdivision within the Justice Department, an august group of citizens whose only desire is to see that the laws of the land are respected. Since all citizens are given all we desire and are free from want, and no one should have any want in our society. Want is The Capital Crime. Some of us desire to hunt. We don’t want to hunt. We simply desire to help maintain the balance in our Most Free From Want World.
“Every one has all they desire. Those who are found to want, and adjudicated as capital criminals, are allowed to go through a final form of trial. Our society gives every one what they desire. The final argument is conducted under the Human Hunting Laws. And the one found guilty could desire trial-by-combat.
In order to achieve a balance in the hunt revenge game that is required by our natural psychological make up, the NRA decrees hunting as the following, as I will explain, and we are given the opportunity to hunt, only the game is a condemned human. However, if he or she succeeds in break-freaking through the barrier of hunters or manages to kill one of us in the hunt, the criminal is deemed worthy and reformed of want by dint of God’s grace and set free. It’s a wonderful game. So far I’ve managed to adjudicate ten criminals. I’m called The Top Adjudicator.”
Today the hunt is in the break-freaking game preserve. The planets rotation is about to cut the natural light from the preserve. This is the best time. This is when the hunted ones get careless thinking they are about to cross the border. The Adjudicator studied her profile and figured she would try to use the river exit; so unoriginal.
I pop another gumdrop into my mouth. It is sour and my cheeks pucker. That was a good one and it brings a tight smile to my face. My rifle is resting on the sandbag as I chamber a .308. The specially made kill-bullet glides in silently. The bolt locks like jeweled clockwork. I turn on my infrared scope. The cross hairs align for 500 yards. There is no wind.
Number eleven.
She was condemned for expressing too much undesire and wanted too much to have diversity, to allow change. She had something to do with cyborg designs. Silly girl. She should have kept her mouth shut. She knew better. I don’t care too much about personal data for this game. Too much gets in the way and I over analyze. They all panic out here.
They said if she had her way, then we’d all be just a mess like the old days of total chaos and confusion. We are so free from want. Everyone is happy and those that aren’t, soon learn one way, or another.
Between the breaths: I see her face, I squeeze the trigger. All I hear is phhhht. The suppressor keeps the noise down to a respectable level. I don’t even need earplugs. That would allow her to possibly sneak up on me. Well not this one. That only occurred once and I was almost willing to let him escape. He was good. He could have been one of US.
He called me a stooge and tool for the National Revenge Assembly, corrupters of the old constitution. He should have just terminated me, no talk. I couldn’t let that slide. That’s what a side arm is for.
She’s down. My job is done, and such pleasure. My sensors are surely reporting my happiness to the National Revenge Assembly. I will be rewarded. Strange, there is no confirmation…but it happens.
I have a great desire for steak and potatoes tonight. And then, who knows.
I make the call again, nothing. I walk to where my RPV is just landing. I walk slowly. Before boarding I stop, turn, and look back at the killing field. I can’t believe I see her face in my memory. She was cute, too bad.
Something is burning inside me. I look down. I‘m bleeding, what the… My hand covers the blood. Then I hear her voice.
“You think I was stupid enough to do like the others? I’m allowed a review of the Hunters just as you are of your intended victims. I know you like to lay and wait by the river. You shot my cyborg. I saw you look at your communicator. Of course you didn’t get a confirmation. I will take your machine and leave you here as you would have left me.
Oh, one last thing.”
My brain registered the muzzle flash.
Michelle gulped at the charred pulverizer with its casing splayed open and the mangled mess in blue overalls ten feet away. It was the first time in her twenty-three years of life that she had seen someone almost drained of it.
She glanced out the window where asteroids, rusting vessels and other junk drifted. "Shouldn't we… err… send him to the hospital? Isn't there one right outside the perimeter?"
No one answered. Just wide eyes.
"Not taking him to Orion's Mercy," a voice boomed, "too many sociopaths and losers."
All spun around to see a sixty-year-old hulk with a crewcut donning a black trench coat, flanked by younger muscle, and all shrunk back.
"Sorry sir, didn't know Orion's Mercy was a psychiatric facility," said Michelle.
Jerry the Boss knitted his brow. "It's not. Was referring to them orderlies and doctors."
He squinted at his injured employee, then glowered at his busted machinery and huffed. "Get him to St Jude's now. Any jars this time?"
Babyface Danny slowly put his hand up.
"Jars?" whispered Michelle to the one next to her.
Michelle placed a blackened control chip on the wide rosewood desk. Jerry grabbed the component, held it up and leaned back in his chair.
"Sir, it's M-type but it's supposed to be N-type for that particular pulveriser," said Michelle.
As the boss inspected the chip, her eyes wandered around the office: photos of a young Jerry in an exo-suit; holo-captures of adolescents with one quaint lady prominently displayed, presumably his grandchildren; bottles of moonshine and two empty jars.
Jerry put the chip down, picked up a black marker and put a cross in today's cell on his calendar. There were two red asterisks in the same cell.
"According to maintenance logs," said Michelle, "it was changed last week, before I started, but…"
"…no name was entered," mumbled Jerry as he poured moonshine into his tumbler.
The waft of engine cleaner opened Michelle's sinuses. "Sir, I know I'm so new that Sheila hasn't even put my name into payroll yet but I need to know what's going on. I am the Process Engineer. How are jars connected to this… sabotage?"
Jerry narrowed his gaze and sipped his drink. "Young lady, Orion's Mercy Hospital have regular supply runs. Now, listen carefully since pirates do operate in this sector."
Michelle pulled the joystick. The ship broke left around a rock and a derelict cruise liner. The blinking red dot continued streaking toward the green dot on the HUD. Damn pirate missile.
She stole a glance over her shoulder—"You okay back there?"—Babyface Danny clinging onto the cases of… stuff.
He nodded. "Deploy c-countermeasures."
Her thumb brushed the selector, then hit the button right next to it. There was a clank as something was released but it didn't buy them time.
Still, Orion's Mercy was close. Michelle floored both thrust pedals and headed straight for the hangar, the missile still closing. She activated the transponder and hoped Jerry's fabricated codes would pass.
"Medical Transport One-Niner-Two to Orion Conn: under attack, require assis—"
Two streams of tracers blazed. The red dot disappeared. The defences seemed a bit excessive compared to other deep-space hospitals, not that Michelle was ungrateful.
The medical transport gleamed. Michelle tried not to smile but she was proud of her work. Hard to believe that the thing was scheduled for recycling just yesterday.
As Babyface Danny rolled the cases down the ramp, Michelle noted the reinforced hangar doors… then smoothed her paramedic's uniform and headed for the lobby with data-pad in hand.
At the entrance, green rays swept her head to toe. Orderlies glared at her but she kept her eyes forward and kept walking.
The corridors bustled and, like all caring environments, everyone ignored her. Having an ex-military boss obviously helped with resources, her outfit and key-card working so far. She turned right, marched toward Archives and entered.
Michelle gawked. Archives was certainly archives. Banks of files on the left and rows of organs on the right. In cryo-jars. She strode up to a terminal and plugged in the data-pad.
She smirked. Security did check her but found only her academic transcripts and pilot's license.
Then she executed the hack and an encrypted transfer link. Records flashed onto the data-pad screen: personal files, financials, layouts… the sabotage and the heavy defences now made more sense. Damn mob must have taken over the hospital recently. Jerry's business was successful and the mob, who obviously also ran organ black markets, wanted their slice. No way Jerry would have agreed so—
Oh dear… a file of a familiar young lady. Michelle had assumed the jars were a general threat to Jerry and his staff in the form of a personal taunt since he was an ex-Marine, a so-called jarhead. Well, it was personal: his granddaughter was poisoned a month ago and, during her brief hospitalization, had a kidney stolen.
Babyface Danny appeared on screen. "I'm d-done here. If I s-stay longer—"
"Wait in the ship as planned."
Then Michelle initiated a call. Jerry appeared and his eyes glinted. "Good work, now I know specifically who these maggots are. Get to your rendezvous."
Michelle was walking up the ramp when the orderlies shouted and bolted towards her. She elbowed the red button as one of them hurled himself at the ship, clinging onto the raising ramp. She kicked him in the face. She felt good whilst he fell off.
The ramp sealed shut and then she tapped [EMP] on her data-pad. Blue waves rippled from their cases. Lights out.
Danny pattered the comms panel.
"Hang on," the boss grunted in response.
A boom followed as the hangar doors flared inward. Thankfully, the hospital didn't detect Michelle's "countermeasures" as modified mines.
"Not leaving till we waste everyone on the list!" roared Jerry through comms as fifty exo-suits with full-assault load-out poured in.
He was obviously an old-fashioned guy, the type who got satisfaction crossing off dates and people he really didn't like.
The Rope a Dope Trope Challenge
The challenge was to write a flash story with a same old horror trope, but.... change an essential part that always ends up being a given.
The Thing in the Closet
“Mom, there is something in the closet, really.” Timmy had tried to tell her this for months ever since he himself noticed.
“Sweetheart, there are no such thing as monsters. Go to sleep. If you just close your eyes you will be out before you know it.”
She stood for a moment in the doorway framed by the light of the hall. She blew him a kiss and closed the door behind her.
It waited a moment so she wouldn’t be near. The sense of timing was perfect. There had never even been a close call.
“Psst.”
Timmy drew the sides of the pillow up in a “U” shape around his head blocking his ears.
He stared up at the ceiling refusing to acknowledge it in any way.
“Psst. Kid I know you can hear me. Quit it. Over here, hey!”
Timmy turned over and buried his face in the mattress. He pressed the pillow down hard on the back of his head seemingly trying to suffocate himself. He could hear the floorboards creaking through the pillow. They stopped near the bed. The tiny sharp tip of a sharp grimy claw poked his behind through the blanket. No sooner than it poked him, feet scuffled across the floor back to the closet.
Timmy rolled over exasperated. He threw the pillow at the closet door. It bounced off the door and swung it closed until contact was made with something just inside the dark portal of the door jam.
Timmy sat up. “What...do..you..want? And if you say what I think you are going to say, I swear to God I will find a way to catch you and give you to the government.”
“Got any gum?”
“Arrrgg!” Timmy leaped out of bed and flew across the room, kicking Legos in an explosive pattern in front of him in a wave of destruction. He reached the light switch and flicked it on.
He heard his mother walking quickly down the hallway and ran back to his bed, jumping in. He had forgotten the light. Humph.
She opened the door.
“Sweetie. There are no monsters.”
“Yes there are. He is right in there.” Timmy waved his hand at the closet. She opened the door to reveal a closet full of clothes.
“Nothing kiddo. Besides what would a monster want here?”
“He wants gum.”
His mother got that disapproving look on her face. “Honey, it is okay to be scared of the dark. This stuff about monsters is ridiculous, so ridiculous you don’t even have a good reason fabricated for why one would be here.”
“No “buts” young man. Go to sleep and stay in bed. Do you understand?”
“Yes Mom.” He scowled at her.
“And don’t give me that look or you will see what a real monster looks like. You’re eight years old, these bedtime shenanigans are getting old quick.”
He pointed to the pillow on the floor by the closet. She picked it up and threw it at him. He caught it and couldn’t help but smirk a little. Shoving it under his head he turned on his side and pulled up the covers. Mom blew another kiss and closed the door.
It waited the obligatory minute.
“Hey Timmy”
“Timmy boy.”
“Youhoo.”
Timmy ignored it for as long as he could.
“Please. For the love of God, please talk about anything but gum.”
“Tim.”
“I hate you so much.”
It was late afternoon and he hated to stop but he was on the road and knew that he had to. Graysen needed to find a store before venturing into the desert, as he wanted to buy something sweet before he got too far away from the city.
Of course, any place he went might give him problems and he always tried his best to stay away from crowded places so he could remain calm and relaxed.
As the 40-year-old bearded man entered the store, his eyes looked right, left and center, as he commonly did, because he didn’t want to run into any unexpected encounters. Such happenings were common, especially around here, which was the main reason he wanted to get as far away - as quickly as possible - taking his motorcycle and his meager belongings with him. He had always been very fond of his Britten V-1000 and his vintage leather jacket.
Outrageous in its day, his V-1000 was an old racing motorcycle that looked and performed like nothing else, offering blistering performance coupled with a visionary shape. From its 165-hp, sand-cast aluminum-alloy engine to its girder-style forks, each detail reflected its designer’s attitude and brilliant mechanical mind. Only ten of these bikes were ever built and he proudly owned one of them.
While he walked around inside, searching the shelves for Hostess cupcakes, his eyes never stopped roaming, in order to see if something else was close. After a few moments, he found the colorful packages he was looking for, and he immediately grabbed them. Now all he needed was a bottle of whiskey and he would be done with his shopping for today.
As he grabbed a Jack Daniels and turned towards the blonde-haired woman at the register, he saw what he feared might be here. A faint, pale presence appeared in the middle of the store and its hideous features told him that it was not much different from what he had previously stumbled into. The ghost was in its fifties and looked like a woman with burned skin, her slender body covered in ghastly wounds with parts of her bony structure being clearly visible.
As Graysen instinctively moved backwards and walked to the rear of the store to keep clear of the scary ghost, it approached him and started talking in a low, terrible voice that he alone could hear. “I’m Sylvie, I lived here, and I died here because of the disaster. I want you to listen to me, I need your help: please save me! Save us all!” And with that being said, the apparition immediately disappeared in a whiff of smoke and rotten meat.
“Hey mister, are you ready to pay?” asked the woman cashier who was eyeing him suspiciously. “Is there anything else I can help you find?”
Graysen raised his eyes and, as if he was still trying to come out of his present stupor, he simply replied, “No, thanks. This is all I need. How much?”
“It’ll be $17.25,” the cashier said.
His fingers bustled about his pockets and found the required cash. ‘Exact amount, no time to waste’ he told himself. The man almost started running out the door with the same troubled look on his pale face. Then, he headed for his beloved motorcycle and jumped on. He powered it up and rode it flat-out in order to distance himself from that small town and get into the empty desert. There he would be safe! There he would also be alone, away from all those presences that always appeared to him, asking for his help. He couldn’t help them anyway - he was not a superhero like in the comics. Moreover, he wouldn’t even know how to begin to save them…
As soon as the man had exited the store, the curly 8-year-old daughter of the shop owner came out the back and found her mother, the cashier.
“Who was that?” the girl asked.
“Just a customer, he sure was in a hurry…”
“Nobody stops here for long, mother. Maybe our town is too small.”
“I don’t think so, sweetie…” the woman replied. “It’s just that most of the tourists are heading towards the desert. They just stop here, buy something and move on.”
“We’re going to become a city of ghosts, mother,” the child insisted.
“Don’t say that, Sylvie. Try reading something besides ghost stories once in a while!”
When the disaster finally struck, the whole area was turned into a wasteland that nobody dared to enter for many years. Graysen had long since passed away. It was a shame that he had been given such an amazing psychic gift but no one understood it – not even the man himself, as a matter of fact.
Graysen had always been able to see dead people, especially in this area. After all these years he knew that he only had two options: either spend the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital or move away from everyone.
But things might have been very different, indeed, if only that man had known that he was not only endowed with the power of seeing dead people from the past – but he could see the ghosts of people who would die in the future. What he was seeing was their souls before they even grew up, exactly as he had just seen the ghost of the cashier’s daughter who was only 8-years-old. He saw her ghost as she would become when the child grew up and died. Sylvie’s future ghastly remains would come to the world of living humans from time to time, trying to warn the few that might see her of the impending disaster.
But there was no way to change the destruction that was coming, by any means. After all, people didn’t even take too seriously what they saw before their own eyes nowadays. How could anyone blame them if they didn’t believe in things that came out of the future?
The Tragedy of a Vampire Countess
Mortals have learned to fear my name, the name of Countess Reinhardt. I preside over a land of perpetual darkness, darkness so thick the human eye can’t see more than ten feet into the distance. It’s a forsaken land populated by monsters the likes of which humans have only seen in their nightmares. An inexplicable red sky hangs over their solitary houses both day and night.
The black outline of my castle dominates the horizon. Its archaic walls are stained with the filth of ages but it’s the only place a vampire countess like me can call home. The doors to my throne room open to a prize I’ve been waiting for, a beautiful young man from the village who has fallen under my spell.
His attempts to resist me made his gait uneven. I twirled a black lock of hair with my index finger. “… So thrilling,” I said to him, “You still think you can escape me, don’t you?”
500 years ago, I was just a commoner; the kind of girl all the men ignored. Mt first kiss was with a demon banished to a forest outside of town. It was a red kiss that placed upon me the curse of un-death. My rotten corpse moved as if it were still alive and my new hypnotic eyes granted me power of the same men who had dismissed me, I gathered them in my castle like trophies whose lives revolved around my twisted desires. And there in the darkness, I committed depraved acts that would offend the gods themselves.
The centuries marched on but no matter how many men I bewitched, I always found myself wanting more. Such irrational lust drove me to visit human villages in disguise to hunt for new victims. And one night I found the perfect one: Michael Harker, a young school teacher. He was under observation in an asylum; apparently his desire to explore his sexuality had caused the doctors to diagnose him with brain illness, something that affected so many young men across the land.
I experienced a thrill I hadn’t felt in decades when I snuck into his room. It was his innocence I longed for, an innocence I would strip away once I had him under my sheets. How surprised I was when he managed to resist my hypnotic gaze.
In that moment, memories more than 500 years old came back to me, memories of the girl I used to be: unpopular, unwanted, unattractive.
“I’m not ugly anymore, how dare you ignore me!” I foolishly shouted.
Alerted to my invasion, the famous vampire hunter Abigail Van Helsing burst into the room to confront me. Resorting to desperation, I took the unwilling boy under my arm and jumped out the window. My inhuman body allowed me to sprint miles across the monster-infested countryside and back to my castle.
Michael Harker never stopped resisting me. It was beyond vexing; I had amassed a harem of young men who fell to their knees at the mere sight of my mystical form. Day and night I seduced him only to be met with disappointment.
“I can do things beyond your wildest dreams,” I said to him, “No one has to know.”
He responded confidently: “I don’t belong to you or anyone else.”
The depression that took root in my ethereal mind was debilitating, I couldn’t even find the energy to feed. Michael was all I could think about. It was a frivolous pursuit to say the least, I held hundreds of men under my spell but it was the one I couldn’t posses that enslaved my lust. How could anyone remain so chaste in my spectacular presence?
Then came the day Doctor Helsing made her daring rescue attempt. The sound of my castle doors being smashed in shook the empty wine bottles in my room. Inebriated and weak from hunger, I grabbed my sword and prepared for an onslaught that would most likely end my immortal existence.
“Michael,” I muttered to myself, “If you only knew how you brought this demon to her knees.”
Helsing was waiting for me in my throne room shepherding an army of mortals. Even in my emaciated state, I managed to slay over fifty of them, but the outcome was inevitable. As I lay on the ground with lethal wood protruding from my bloodied chest, I watched Michael happily re-unite with the doctor.
I felt a sick smile spread cross my pale lips. While he was in captivity, Michael acted so scared and demure. It was that kind of fake fragility that captivated me. If only Abigail knew how manipulative he was.
“Good luck to you,” I whispered as my slayer left the castle, “I hope that boy destroys you like he destroyed me.”
A signal chirped… then it repeated itself.
Glances were exchanged across the table, followed by the bowl of mashed potatoes. Paz shoved a spoonful of carrots into his mouth… then sighed. He turned and squinted at the screen: the words "Unidentified Automated Signal" were blinking with what appeared to be jumbled code flashing underneath. Then he returned to his meal and the faces of twelve downcast rangers.
"Lieutenant Paz, you answering that?" said the computer through the speakers. "Military Protocol Section 4, Paragraph 22 dictates that active personnel must investigate unidentified signals unless such action compromises the execution of—"
"Yes, I know," said Paz with his mouth half full. "I'm eating."
Sergeant Dwayne "Unstoppable Tight End" Mortimer scanned the men. "Sir, the words 'death' and 'trap' comes to mind but we couldn't kill anyone in our last op. We could really use some action."
Paz kept chewing. "Computer, where's the signal coming from?"
"MU-45 in Sector 310."
"Is anything out there?" asked Corporal Trumna as she marched to the drink dispenser.
"I've already changed course and, given Sergeant Mortimer's concern, updated all your wills," said the computer. "I recommend you all go over it again before sending."
Paz strode into the armory. "Good to go? Everything alright?"
Mortimer put down one assault rifle and picked up another. "Yes… and no. Nothing wrong with our weapons. I checked and rechecked when we got back and again now."
Paz grabbed a weapon for himself and shrugged. "Well, the equipment didn't exactly fail… just that no one died like we thought they should."
There was a beep. "We are in GSO directly above the signal source on MU-45," said the computer. "Preliminary scans indicate an operationally safe atmosphere. Dropship prep is complete. C'mon, chop-chop."
"Operationally safe atmosphere my butt," muttered Paz in his seat. The dropship quaked. The winds outside raged and it was conveniently dark. Apart from the flashes of lightning. Someone hurled their dinner against a window. Paz knitted his brow. So not cleaning that up.
"Sir, there's a… a structure," said Trumna in the pilot's seat. Mortimer was standing next to her.
Paz unbuckled his harness and staggered towards the front. On screen, the structure was basically a bunker with merely one level aboveground. Through the windshield, thunder and rain, he could vaguely make out its outline.
"Resembles United Earth's standard off-world designs," said Mortimer. "What's that doing out here? Secret facility?"
"I have no records of any sanctioned operations on this planet," said the computer. "The signal source is located in sub-level four and I cannot decipher its nature."
"Thanks," grunted Paz, "how pleasantly ominous and—"
The dropship rolled. Paz hit the floor. Then the dropship rolled some more.
"Damn this storm… we're going down," Trumna called out, pulling the joystick. "Hold on, we can still make it to the landing pad."
They didn't.
Steam rose from the mangled airframe, the rain having mostly extinguished the fire. Paz scanned: twelve of them including himself. Trumna was missing. He remembered the dropship cabin collapsing somewhat dramatically. Not sure how he survived that. Trumna obviously didn't. Either way, the computer needed to send down a dropship later.
Paz forced himself up. "You're all still wishing for action?!"
At least the crash had somehow busted the door wide open. Then something creaked. Everyone turned to see the wreck budge and raised their weapons… then Trumna popped out, covered with oil and soot.
"Sorry 'bout that," she said as she adjusted her helmet and brushed off some glass granules.
Paz squinted. No time for celebrations or questions. "Let's move it!"
The corridors were dark, of course. And the air was stale too. Paz saw no signs of struggle or any disturbance apart from the lack of main power.
"Definitely United Earth infrastructure," said Mortimer. "Stairs to sub-level four just up ahead."
The squad made their way down… their boots clanking on the grilled floors.
"Might as well encounter some parasitic monster while we're at it," whispered Mortimer.
Light rippled across the walls at the T-junction ahead. Paz made some fancy hand signals and the squad moved up. When they rounded the corner and turned left, they all gawked. The floor was littered with bodies in white coats. At the centre of the room was a large glowing ball, the periphery rippling and pulsing steadily.
"I don't think that's a parasitic monster," uttered Trumna as she checked a terminal. "Although there could be one inside assuming it's an energy barrier."
Paz looked around. The bodies all seemed intact. No blood, no signs of trauma.
"Maybe the signal is a secret distress code," said Mortimer. "This is obviously some secret facility."
The energy field warped momentarily, now pulsing erratically. Trumna pointed to a graph, the line flickering. "I recommend shutting it down."
Paz nodded. The squad aimed their assault rifles as Trumna hit a few keys. The field flashed off… revealing a black lanky form with a—
They unloaded.
Sparks erupted as rounds ricocheted. No effect.
The squad inched back when the tall figure glided toward them. Then Paz realized that it was actually a humanoid form donning a black hooded robe and in its calciferous grip was a gleaming scythe.
"Heeeello!" it boomed. "Thanks for releasing me. These bastards here tried to trap me, probably wanted to be immortal. Well, they partly succeeded but not before I organized their exit interviews and sent out a distress call."
Glances were exchanged.
"I messed that part up, did I? Sorry." Then it shrugged. "Anyway, as a reward, I can give you all a painless death if you want but decide quickly. I haven't worked for a week, must be so many who need taking."
Paz opened his mouth but closed it without saying a word and turned to go.
"Where're you going?" asked Death, stalking forward.
"Err… we have work too," answered Mortimer with a reluctant smile, looking up at the towering figure.
"You're gonna kill people, right? May I come along?"
The "It Just Keeps Getting Meta!" Challenge
The challenge was to write a speculative flash fiction story where the author is the protagonist and there are at least 2 elements which are true to his or her life right now recently.
They Call It Puppy Love
“Dogs don’t talk.”
The little golden mutt glanced up at me lovingly and wrinkled her nose. “You mean they never talk to you.”
I was still very much attributing everything going on to the fever which kept me home from work. In a string of unlikely events my wife who normally works third shift had switched with a friend and was out of the house. That left me, the new puppy, and the two cats alone for the day.
“Well then why now, Valentine?”
“Why not now, Ed? Is one time really better than another for this kind of thing?”
I adjusted my head on the pillow, the sinus pressure was killing me. “Well now certainly isn’t the most opportune time by far. Is there something you need, like a tummy rub or a treat?”
“Funny. Truly. I can get those things quite well without speaking to you. There are much more important matters at hand. Do you think we just talk to anyone for any silly reason?”
A good barometer of just how ill I was could have been the level of apathy I still held for this particular situation. The decision to turn over on the couch and ignore the talking puppy was much less difficult that you would have thought. So I bunched the blanket under my chin, fluffed the pillow a bit with my head and turned over. I would just close my eyes and whatever the hell was going on would stop happening. I felt at the time it was an entirely rational decision. Valentine the puppy felt differently. The little bitch started barking relentlessly. Little did I know the noise of the bark wasn’t the solution to my ignorance in and of itself. She was issuing orders to the cats. They promptly obeyed and pounced on me relentlessly. I relented and turned back toward her, casting the cats off me in the process.
“So now cats can speak dog?” She nodded her little golden head. “And they take orders from them?”
“Think of it more as an exchange of professional courtesy.” She gave a cute little bark, which I assumed was thanks, and the feline co-conspirators went somewhere to lick themselves.
“Fine what is it that is so important that not only do you have to talk to an human, but also enlist the help of cats?”
“First tell me I’m a good girl.”
“You heard what I said. Tell me I’m a good girl. While you are at it stretch your lazy ass over here and rub my tummy.”
I spent several seconds looking at her in disbelief, until I realized disbelief over this request was made moot by the fact that it was in English, out loud, from a puppy. All bets were pretty much off at this point in our exchange. I relented just to get on with it and conclude whatever the hell was going on here.
I reached over and rubbed her tummy. “ Good girl. Good Girl. Who is a good girl?”
After a moment or two she flipped over, ran at me and hopped up onto the couch. She stood on my chest and looked me right in the face. “I am and don’t you ever forget it.”
“No, dope. You have cancer.”
“Cancer. I can smell it. Not bad, it just started. You should go to the doctor and be looked at. They will treat it and you will live.”
I spent a minute or two just looking into her puppy dog eyes. “ Ok I will bite. Why are you telling me this? I am sure other dogs have smelled it and not told other humans.”
“I like you and want to keep you. I have grown fond of watching you write your stories in your office at night after work. You really are quite good, consider doing it full time once we get this health business cleared up.”
I cocked my head at her, she cocked hers back. I think she was teasing me. “You like my work…wait you read?”
“Yes. You really are quite good. Also yes I read, but you also dictate a lot of stuff remember. I like that better, then I can just sit there while you tell me stories. So just go to the doctor and get fixed so nothing changes, ok?”
“Ok. But…Don’t you think that maybe now that I know dogs talk it might come up in my stories?”
“Nope. I am never going to say a word again after today. That coupled with the fact that no one will ever believe a fiction writer will keep my secret safe. Also what are you going to do write about this exact exchange? We both know it is too meta. Who do you think you are Charlie Kaufman? Pfft.”
Have you ever seen a puppy go Pfft? It is terminally cute.
“We will see, Valentine. “
She barked at me rather than speak again. As for me I turned over and fell asleep. I didn’t wake up till I heard walking in the living room. My wife was looking down at me.
“Hey sleepy head. How you feel?”
“Better, but I think I might go see the doctor anyway.”
“I just have a feeling it is time to get checked out.”
That damn, cute little bitch, I saw her wink.
Dayton Ohio
I can never remember a time in my life when I didn’t want things to be tidy. So it peeved me a little when a webzine editor set up a meeting of authors and editors in Dayton Ohio, and then bowed out at the last minute.
I had already bought my tickets and made reservations weeks in advance, even going so far as to Google and print out the city bus routes I would be taking. The hard feelings were ironed out however, when the rest of us decided to meet up in Dayton anyway.
Events didn’t truly veer off course until I was on the 17 bus heading downtown and a mechanical female voice came over the intercom on the bus. “Remember, people need your blood. Your blood will be happily accepted at locations easily accessed from most bus routes.” I thought it was unseemly for advertisers to assume that all people who rode the bus needed money bad enough to sell their blood. I looked around at the other riders, and none of them seemed to have been bothered by the announcement – even when it was repeated every three minutes.
I looked around the bus again, closer this time. There was something missing…but what?
Fat people. There were no fat people, there were no skinny people, and no one appeared to be homeless. Each of the 45 passengers appeared to be height and weight proportional, with their ages between 25 and 50 years old. As the ride progressed no one moved, no one shifted, and no one said anything. I briefly caught the eye of one lady who immediately looked down and pulled the brim of her hat over her eyes.
I was disappointed when I got to the ‘Grand Dayton Hotel’ and saw that the words ‘Grand Dayton’ had been covered with white paint, leaving only the word Hotel. There was a small arrow pointing around back where the main entrance normally was, so I entered the hotel through the parking garage. The word ‘Hilton’ had been scratched out on several metal name plates. There were sheets of plastic hanging in the lobby.
The group wasn’t scheduled to meet up for a few hours, so after checking-in (noticing a 4-foot-wide brown stain on the hall carpet outside my room) I decided to walk about downtown to find someplace nice where our small, friendly group could eat supper. I walked through blocks of buildings that were boarded up, sheets of brown paper covering many of the windows.
After not even finding a fast-food joint, I noticed an 8x11 inch sign saying the name of my bank and went inside the building. I went up the escalator. At the top I saw a row of six teller windows but no people. I checked my cell phone for the time: 1:47 in the afternoon.
A man in a suit suddenly burst out from behind the row of cages.
“Hello,” I said cordially. “I’m not from here and was looking for someplace downtown to eat.”
He was flustered. “I just eat healthy food in my apartment…but I believe there is an Uno Pizza around.”
“I’ll check, thanks,” I told him. Then my eye fell upon six toy robots arranged in a circle on a nearby desk. They were black and white and looked like small dogs. “These are cute. Are they for sell?”
The teller threw himself between me and the circle of toys. “They don’t like to be touched!” he whispered frantically.
“THEY don’t like to be touch?” I laughed.
“I meant: please don’t touch them!”
Seeing that I wasn’t welcome I went down the escalator, but not before noticing that the dogs must have been turned on somehow, because their eyes were glowing. As I was halfway to the first floor I thought I heard a mechanical female voice huff out: ‘Cute indeed!’
Our small group of cyber-friends ate and drank for hours inside the Uno Chicago Style Pizza Place. The company and conversation were great and group-selfies were taken. As we were paying for our checks, the editor of Alien Eyes saw a toy beside the cash register.
“I’ve only seen a few of these,” said Lawrence. “It’s an Aibo robot.”
“Aibo? I thought these quit being made in 2005,” answered Sterling, bending down to look at it.
“Careful!” I blurted out. “These toys don’t like to be touched!”
“You’re joking with us!” Lawrence said before we all broke into laughter.
Sterling looked at the cashier. “Would you mind turning it on? Years ago they begged and made a delightful peeing sound.”
“It’s just for display,” said the man flatly. He nodded towards the door.
As we left, I nudged Sterling to follow my lead. We both looked through the front window to see the robot dog’s eyes glowing as the cashier bent over, appearing to listen to whatever it was saying.
I was unnerved by the next morning. My dreams had been fitful and the lack of diversity of people I met was disturbing. Now I could see clearly that children had the toy dogs in their backpacks; women on the city buses carried them in their purses.
As I waited in the station for my bus, I noticed that none of the twenty people inside talked or got up to go to the bathroom or ate a snack. Fifty minutes passed and I finally had to get up to stretch my legs.
“Why did you stand up?” asked a woman nearby with blank eyes. “Is the bus here already?”
As I sat in the bus, anxiously waiting to leave the station, I noticed a man’s suitcase accidently crash open as it was being loaded under the bus. I was sure I saw a white hard-plastic toy hit the ground before it was hurriedly closed back up and shoved into the cargo hold.
Distorted Reflections
I have rarely – if ever – rearranged the contents of the cabinets inside my mother’s house, nevertheless all the furniture in her home, but when I had to do this, well, everything turned out to be really exhausting and it took many long days to make neat and get it all done. It was something that she couldn’t do anymore because she was very old - so I took over the duty.
Actually, I would never have thought about moving that stylish mirror near her front door, but there was no other space available to put the bookshelves, so I chose to hang it on another wall.
I really didn’t pay a lot of attention to it at first: it was nothing more than a mirror, and not in perfect condition by any means, though it was very pricey and a person might notice it at first sight. I also tried to clean it while moving it, but there was a small black stain – not much bigger than a large dot- on its surface that simply wouldn’t go away, so I gave up and left the spot where it was. It seemed to be something inside the mirror anyway, instead of a stain on its reflective surface.
After a while what amazed me were the new images that were reflected in the mirror, once I had put it in a new corner of the foyer. In fact if you looked at it from exactly the right angle, you might think you saw something inside the mirror itself. And there were also strange distortions all around that black stain, which didn’t make any sense at all!
Great was my surprise when I decided to have a closer look at the dark spot and discovered that you could actually see through it… A completely different world seemed to lie past that stain, a sort of alternate history setting, maybe!
Over the course of the following days, I got used to watching it for hours, using an old magnifying glass, attentively staring at those mountaintops and valleys I could clearly see now. I was amazed at how wooden wagons appeared to go through the pass, stunned by all the colorful people who came and went, some new strange animals, and so on. Incredible views!
Eventually those distortions made me ponder over the whole thing and think about other possibilities… Given my knowledge of physics, could it be a sort of quantum black hole? Or a mini-wormhole leading to another place? Why not? The problem was of course: how could this be possible? And why had this strangeness occurred inside that mirror?
Many strange questions were running through my mind, which were no more incredible than the things you could watch by carefully using the magnifying glass. Maybe I should have called some scientist, or perhaps I should have informed some newspaper about it - but I doubted that anyone would have ever believed me, and reasonably of course.
Then, one evening, my sister came to visit my mother - something she almost never did, as a matter of fact. She didn’t care too much about her parent, especially now that mother was really feeble and old. Once she was inside the house, she threw her fur coat over the mirror itself, saying that there was no other space available on the coat rack - which wasn’t true, of course, as she just liked to do as she pleased, without any regard for anything else.
That was why the mirror fell down, breaking with a crash, because of the excessive weight. This was something disastrous, as a matter of fact! Not that she would have behaved differently if I had told her to pay attention, of course. Alas - I knew her all too well…
“What’s done is done, accept it…” was all she said. I stared at her as you might look at a selfish person with no respect for her mother’s things, or someone who had never accepted that she should be held accountable for anything that went wrong over the course of her life. But I knew that she never cared about anything except herself, truth to be told.
What was even worse was that the magical characteristic that strange mirror once did possess had disappeared, as I ascertained as soon as my sister left the house - taking the newspaper and a big book of mother’s for herself while quickly exiting the home, without saying good-bye! Now there was no way to see that alien - or alternate - world again by means of the magnifying glass, given the break that had split the surface of the mirror into several parts – including the small stain. Now it was gone, forever…and no one else had ever seen it except me! I was certain that no one else would ever believe in such an extraordinary find if there was no evidence left, certainly…
I decided to collect all the glass pieces and put them in a box, for the future. Maybe one day I would find that something was still in there, that it was possible to look at that strange world another time through part of the remaining black stain, or maybe not…Who knows? The fact is that I simply didn’t want to throw all those scraps away as if nothing had ever really happened. Because it had happened, though strange it might be!
While moving the box, a quote by that ancient French writer, Nicolas Chamfort, came to mind. ‘There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.’ Or of your deplorable sister, anyway, I told myself, before closing the box with those unusual contents when that evening ended.
That was going to be a different world nobody would see again, and all the discoveries that might came from it -one day- were lost forever. Nevermind the researchers of the truth, or of some alien planets/ alternate realities, anyway...
Murder on the ISS Challenge
The challenge was to tell a story involving the murder of a disliked person named Wesley on the International Space Station.
It Couldn't Be Helped...
“Wesley is dead!” It was the voice of the female astronaut named Davina that reached the other four who were having lunch.
“What the hell,” replied Frank, the graying Commander with a worried expression on his wrinkled face.
“Yes, it’s true – he’s dead! - come and see!” said the 32-year-old woman.
So all the remaining astronauts left the Habitation Module and hurried to the ESA Lab where they immediately spotted the floating body of Wesley, the mission’s scientist. His expression was that of a lifeless corpse.
“Are you sure?” Gebahard, the NUSAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer inquired of her.
“See for yourself!” the woman exclaimed. “He’s dead – although I can’t understand why.”
“I’ll take a look,” said Robert the Pilot, moving forwards. He wondered why the Medical Monitoring Program that collected health data at regular intervals from ISS crewmembers, hadn’t reported the death right away. After a few touches, and a closer look, the bald man confirmed it. “Yes, it’s true.”
“How? Why?” was all the Commander could utter.
“Aneurysm. He died almost immediately.” Robert was very experienced at examining patients; after all he had been a professor for most of his life before becoming a full-time astronaut when he was 46. He had a deep knowledge of medicine and had been on board since 2030. Up till now a major medical emergency had never occurred on the ISS, but many scientists at Ground Control had long wondered what would happen if it did. “There is nothing we could have done…”
“So this will be a shock for the viewers back on Earth,” the Commander said. “Maybe this will actually increase interest in the ISS…”
“You’re not showing much regret about this Commander?” the woman retorted.
“Well don’t tell me that you cared about him…” the other made it clear.
“Okay, maybe I didn’t, but that doesn’t mean…”
“I, didn’t like him either,” Andrew, the tall fair-haired Payload Specialist added.
“He had bad manners too…” the Spaceflight Participant revealed.
“So, it seems that nobody here liked him, but he was a fellow crewmember, nonetheless…” the Commander stated. “And this is going to blemish our space mission, as people will not be talking about anything else.”
“Indeed, you’re right,” Gebahard nodded. He was a member of American military personnel specifically appointed to the ISS to follow a few projects on board.
“I’ll call Ground Control,” Frank said, cutting it short.
As Gebahard was moving back towards the Habitation Module, he thought of what had happened. He had received some precise orders from Earth, so the death couldn’t be helped.
Since the moment he had been warned about what Wesley had on his mind, he knew that he would need to act quickly, within the first three days of the space mission. Investigations had found clear evidence about what the dead scientist was really after. But Ground Control had found out the truth after their shuttle had already docked at the ISS and nobody wanted to cancel the space mission because of what they had discovered.
Apparently, Wesley had planned to release a virus on board that would kill all the other crewmembers as a terrorist action. That event would shock the planet, as everyone would think that NASA was unable to protect the safety of their astronauts. This might stop activities in space for years, in fact, who knew if they would ever start up again?
So he was ordered to act and he did as commanded. There were many substances that might cause such deaths and he had made use of the one that would raise the fewest questions. Causing an accident while the scientist was busy in his spacesuit wasn’t the best option, as it would put into question the procedures of Extra-Vehicular-Activities aboard the ISS. That was something nobody wanted at Ground Control.
On the other hand, making Wesley die because of an accident in the Esa lab might have dangerous results and the entire Science Space Program would be stopped at once. Beyond that, they didn’t want him to become a martyr.
When he came on board he already had that virus inside his body, ready to be activated as soon as a hidden fictitious capsule was opened, and so all of them would die, with the disastrous outcome becoming known everywhere. So, his goal now was all about understatement: another cause of death, though uncommon among astronauts, would better serve his purpose. And the substance known as Killer-Act, put into Wesley’s Zero-G rations, was the best plan. So this was what Gebahard had done.
He was not a hero and not a victim of bad decisions of the space mission team. It was just an unexpected death that was rare, though it might happen to anyone at anytime.
Of course, there were other reasons why he might have been ordered to use a second dose of that substance. For instance there was one of astronauts on the ISS who might send video messages against the war in South America. There was someone else who had expressed critical political views against the New Alliance over a Central African dictator who had caused the destruction of several freedom fighters’ bases. There was another crewmember who publicly disapproved of the military experiments that were underway on board to maximize the fatality possibility of a science-engineered flu. There was one astronaut who was ready to speak openly about secret events by an alien species that were currently re-shaping the other side of the Moon itself, unbeknownst to the public at large.
After all, astronauts were famous people whose opinions might have an undue influence on public view.
“Always work for the good of Earth, the growth of Mankind and the improvement of science of our country, crewmembers…” the NUSAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer told himself while positioning his body on his bunk so he could have a restful sleep. “Or you could all die! And I do mean all of you…”
"I'll get you!" the Russian shouted.
As Basil swam through the still air, Dimitri was close. He could hear the Russian's labored breathing, wrenching himself through the Unity hatch, only a half-meter behind. Basil propelled himself through the strong, machine shop smell that permeated the Columbus module. Bouncing through the turn at Harmony node, the engineer poured himself in his brown coverall uniform through the opening into Japan's gray Kibo laboratory--straight into the body of Wesley Amundson, an American scientist. The force of the collision knocked him into a spin toward the far wall of the module and stopped Basil in mid-air.
"Bloody hell!" Basil barked just as Dimitri plowed into him from behind. The two tumbled toward the side wall.
"Damn!" Dimitri's blue pants and white t-shirt were soaked with sweat. He shouted to Wesley, "He's beaten me again! I'm never racing this crazy Brit any more. He can get from Zvezda to Kibo faster than any man alive."
Wesley's black sweater and gray pants seemed snagged on the Velcro strips on the wall, but the aloof scientist had his head turned up toward the ceiling, away from them. A plastic food tray that smelled like peanut butter and grape jelly floated nearby.
"Sorry about that, chum," Basil offered. "Didn't see you there. All right?"
As usual, Wesley didn't answer.
"Wesley?"
Dimitri scoffed. "See? He won't even look at us now. He's getting worse!"
Basil floated over to him. "Are you ok?"
One glance at the frozen look of horror on the man's face and Basil knew he wasn't ok. "I think he's dead."
"What?" Dimitri searched in vain for a pulse. "He's dead, all right, and cold. This happened a while ago... He's wet. Could he have had a fever?"
Basil looked down. "We have a bigger problem."
Clutched tightly in the dead man's hand was a black Marakov 9mm pistol, which should have left the station in the last Soyuz lander. Basil wondered, "Why would he have stolen the gun?"
Basil realized, Wesley was scared. This was murder.
Basil looked at Dimitri. Dimitri looked back at him, and then to the gun.
Basil swallowed hard. The pistol was exactly the same distance from both of them.
He searched Dimitri's face. Dimitri was a military man, a pilot, and would have trained with that pistol as part of the Soyuz emergency gear. Basil, on the other hand, while technically mission commander, was an engineer from Britain, where only the army and certain policemen had guns. He felt distinctly at a disadvantage.
Dimitri's hand reached out. "I think I should secure the weapon."
Basil's own hand slid on top of the Russian's, stopping it. "I don't think that would be best right now."
Dimitri broke the uncomfortable silence. "Why did you kill him? I did not think you could do such a thing."
Basil turned toward him. "I didn't kill him, and there's only one other person on the station until the next re-supply, and he hated Wesley."
"Not just me. Everyone hated Wesley. Always interrupting everyone... pushy, smug. Wouldn't eat with the rest of us and had to have his special meals for his weak stomach, and none of us could touch them. He would float past my bunk all night long, back and forth, muttering about how terrible it was onboard, but how glad he was he'd lost his sense of smell so he didn't have to put up with my odor anymore. How was I supposed to ever sleep? He acted smarter than the rest of us, and Mission Control always sided with Wesley on everything, even when he was wrong. That is, when you could get him to do something!"
Dimitri gaped. "Are you trying to trick me? You killed him. Why else would he need a gun?"
"No, I didn't."
Basil thought very hard. "How about this. You take the gun from his hand, but then you give me the bullets. That way neither of us has to fear it being used on either one of us."
Dimitri stared at him. "Why are you trusting me to take the gun? Before I gave you the bullets, I could shoot you."
Basil shrugged ever so slightly. "You're either going to kill me to cover your tracks or you won't, but I know that without me, you'll be all by yourself up here... You're afraid of being alone."
Dimitri stared into Basil's eyes, then reached for the gun.
Down in a Mission Control break room, blonde dietician Anita Welhomme poured a fresh packet of Italian dressing that smelled faintly of garlic on the new variety of greens with chopped nuts that she bought from the lunch counter. On her phone, she read the headline, "NASA scientist dead on the ISS."
Munching loudly, she thought, Never tell the person who makes your food that she's not a real scientist, and ugly. She knows how to blend acetaminophen, aspirin, caffeine, and rubbing alcohol in your food to make you irritable and paranoid until you can't take it, and then there's the peanuts you're deathly allergic to. All of these are available on the station, and should be untraceable.
Just then, a man in a blue coat marked 'FBI' sat down in the chair across from her and glanced at the article she was reading.
"Funny," he said. "Astronauts train so much together and live in such close quarters that you'd think they'd get on each others nerves so badly they'd be ready to kill each other, but instead they form a bond like brothers, and are inseparable. They're heroes." He looked at her face. "Anyone who would break a bond between heroes truly deserves to die in exactly the same way."
Something's not right. She looked at him, then down at the remaining bits of her salad. Chopped Barbados Nut? It couldn't be. She sniffed the garlic odor. Lily of the Valley? ...It's all toxic.
She looked back at his face.
His smile was just ghastly.
Sitting Ducks
“Wesley is dead,” she screamed at my face, as if it made any difference.
“And this should concern me why exactly?” I asked her quietly, waiting for her to slap me.
“It was probably Doc. He always hated Wesley. You could at least give him last rites or something. You are a freaking priest.”
I instinctually ran a finger along the inside of my collar. “It won’t make a difference. Live or die, you and I are the only ones left now, and we’ll soon be dead or worse. Whoever killed him did Wesley a favor.”
She crumpled into a chair in front of my desk, as if the truth had hit her in the gut like a curled fist.
“But I loved him,” she finally squeaked out.
“You hated him as much as you loved him – just like the rest of us. It was all science with him – all black and white, right or wrong.” I tried to sound compassionate, more out of habit than sincerity.
I turned away from Elisa and gazed out a transparent plate facing the surface of the Earth. One side of the heavens over the planet was bathed in sunlight and the other side was covered in darkness. The black side sparkled with constant forks of lightning exploding inside the clouds, spreading one right after the other like electrified demon claws raking over a black velvet blanket. The side of the planet facing the Sun was dotted with hundreds of explosions, the force of blasts shooting debris into the ionosphere.
“They’re coming for us, Father,” she finally said. I could feel her eyes looking up at me. “The last thing Wesley told me was that the navigator had spotted four of their ships on the radar – ships on a course to intersect with the ISS.”
“I wondered how long it would take those soul-less monsters to notice us floating here in this tin can. I suppose they won’t consider their work complete until Earth is transformed into a replica of whatever environment they come from and all Earthlings are dead.” I stepped away from the window and walked over to where Elisa sat, placing my bottle of Bushmills on my desk. “At least the screaming is over…” I said, trying to comfort the girl, kneeling beside her chair.
“It was a good thing when Wesley turned off the radio signals coming up from the surface,” she agreed.
“Two days of trying to tune in on anyone surviving was enough. I suppose our alien demons enjoy hearing the cries of humans, killing us slowly, lapping up our blood.”
“Do something, Father – you must do something... Daniel, please. Those creatures will be docking here in a few minutes. All the others are gone, most done in by their own hands, the cowards. But I am the biggest coward of all. Please, save me.”
I looked down on her lovely freckled shoulders, thinking of the times I had thought of allowing my hand to simply brush the curls away from her young neck. She had loved Wesley and I had loved her. Did I love her enough now to do what needed to be done?
I quietly took out a syringe filled with fluid, one of two I had been handed by the doctor on the second day after the alien capture of Earth. I could hear the space-dock being triggered by the alien ship. The gears were wheeling; there was a sudden whoosh of air. I began to sing gently, so I wouldn’t hear her breathing stop. “Michael row the boat ashore, Halleluiah. Michael row the boat ashore, Halleluiah.” I plunged the needle into the base of her spine. At least she would be going to heaven, but my murderous hands had condemned me to hell.
Why hadn’t mankind ever made it off this infernal rock? Why had we made genocide of the human race so easy? I could hear their shrill voices coming through the station, checking one room after another. I wondered what they looked like. I wondered if they had a god, if they had someone like me who blessed their vile works.
I took out the second syringe, aiming it at my aorta with shaking hands.
An Incident in Space
George T. Philibin
Wesley was dead. No doubt about that! Olga felt his pulse, checked his breathing and finally realized the Wesley her secret lover was no more. Her American dead. How could this be! Only a few minutes ago he smiled and lived. This could only be the doing of Lin’ Tze Long, that dark haired Chinese physics that conned her way up there by having her father–The Director of New Financial Matters of the People’s Republic—open up a region in China to American businessman Mark Groper, the first cousin to the American President George M. Bowers. That’s how she got up her, and not by her academic standing!
Yet, it couldn’t be Lin. She’s been outside working on the solar panels, and couldn’t possibly have gotten in and killed Wesley. No, she couldn’t have been the one.
Blood from the knife wound started floating out of Wesley’s stomach. The air exchange system slowly drew the blood towards an inlet, but Olga’s mind wasn’t on that. She turned around, and facing her were John Kelly and Georgio Giamoni!
“What the hell did you do!” John blasted out. “What the hell-- did you do!”
Olga glided backward and managed to turn sideway. “It wasn’t me mo. . . believe me it was not me--- I found him this way,”
“There was nobody between you and Wesley! You must be the one who killed him,” Georgio said.
The three faced one another, silent and motionless as the death of Wesley sank in. Two eyes were fixed on Olga and her eyes jumped back and forth between John and Georgio’s.
The long- thin-screwdriver-type prob with its handle protruding out of Wesley’s body, looked almost alien. It wasn’t designed to kill, yet it served that purpose as if by design!
“Please, please you must believe me–I didn’t do it! I swear on Mother Russian that it was not me!” Olga said. “I loved Wesley!”
Behind John and Georgio a voice uttered: “My, God what happened?”
Major George Dickens looked over the murder scene. Olga’s eyes filled with tears while John’s eyes narrowed and his pupils thinned themselves into snake eyes, long and thin. Georgio’s dark eyes hid any expression that fell onto them, but his brow became flushed.
“Nobody killed Wesley! Somehow, Wesley must have slipped and the self-tapping-screwdriver drilled into him. Look--- I told NASA that might happen, but no! They never listen to us English!” Major Dickens said.
It was true. The self-tapping screwdriver was still turning inside Wesley body!
An face looked into the port window and saw Wesley’s body motionless with blood oozing out.
A scream echoed over the radio, and all heads turned toward the port window and saw Lin look.
“You killed Wesley you Russian peasant! Wesley said you wanted him just for the results of the experiment that he proved correct. Wesley didn’t love you, he saw through you that’s why you killed him!” Lin said. Her screams over the radio couldn’t be heard on earth.
“It was an accident!” Major Dickens said.
“You all are in on it! You all killed him!” Lin screamed. She turned and jetted over to the solar panels.
“I don’t know but I don’t have a good feeling about this!” Georgio said. “I never liked her–she reminded me of paparazzi. . . always looking at me!”
“You take Wesley away from me I take this station away from you!” Lin screamed.
“What is she up to?” Olga said.
Before Olga’s words stopped ringing, the space station’s arm swung into the solar panels and knocked half the panel out!
“My God—she’s gone crazy!” Major Dickens screamed.
“We’re all going to die!” John said.
“She’s using the remote to operate the arm!” Georgio said.
“Let me break her connection!” Olga said. Olga floated over to a computer console and typed in a command. The arm stopped within a second afterward.
“Her air will be running out soon, she’ll have to come in,” Major Dickens said.
“Ahhhh,” Lin screamed. “That will not stop me!”
“Yes, I loved Wesley!” Olga said. “I’ll love him until the day I die. He hated you and your smug attitude. He also hated everything Chinese!”
All eyes became wide and large as they turned toward Olga and the words that jumped out of her mouth! Never before did they hear such language! And she continued!
“You were not women enough for Wesley! In a million years you would not be women enough for Wesley, no never!” Olga said,
Lin blasted back in Chinese and whatever she said, felt like a hurricane blowing in. Again and again Lin blasted at Olga. Louder and longer and louder and longer until she was out of breath.
“You were not women enough for Wesley!” Olga said over and over again.
Major Dickens caught on first: “Good strategy, while she screaming she isn’t wrecking anything and her air should run out in not time with her usage now, good move Olga!”
He was right. Lin low oxygen supply alarm sounded. She had no choice but return, and as she fought the urge to enter the she realized that if she didn’t she would die.
Lin kept up her screaming at Olga and her oxygen ran out as she entered the air lock.
By the time they got her suit off, she was unconscious. They handcuffed her and gave her a sedative.
Georgio said it best: They test us for everything before we come up here, except the one thing that makes us all human– jealously.
Where's Wesley?
RdotTornello
Wesley Stephano Rici, a Ph.D chemist and one of the world’s tops most chefs, was absolutely scared of flying. He would actually drive or take the bus from NY to the Cape rather than fly. What and why was he doing working for NASA as the head food consultant/scientist for the space program?
When a reporter asked about that one day, he answered, “ It’s my duty as a citizen, the freedom to create like no other and the fringe benefits are fantastic.” He patted the news reporter’s butt as he saddled up close to her.
He was also the most obnoxious person on the planet not to mention some of his other socially predatory traits. His reputation with women other than his wife was legendary.
ISS Commander, Russian Colonel Natasha Bytatytsove, turned to her co-pilot U.S. Major Ricki Somers and said, “ I hear that the ISS program hired a world renown chef that everyone hates.”
Ricki replied laughing, “Yeah, he’s a pig. He claims he slept with every wife and girlfriend of the ground crew and orbital staff except one.”
“We in Russia heard that too and the money says it has to be the head of security.”
Major Somers turned red. Changing the subject said, “Russia, Japan, China and the US are sending freighters full of food and supplies for the holidays. We won’t be able to store it all on board.”
“Just leave the Chinese and Japanese freighters docked to the unfinished sectors. We’ll unload the rest our goodies first. I heard that your chef prepared a surprise for us. I’m looking forward to meeting him. Her eyes were sparkling. “Food, drink and a little recreation is what some of this crew could use. You agree major?” Asked Natasha with an evil grin.
“I’m a married woman and…”
“You didn’t deny my opening comments,” laughed Natasha. She gave Ricki a pinch and a wink.
After unloading the two freighters:
“Commander there is no sign of Wesley the Chef. He’s on the manifest. The hatch was open when we got to the Space X capsule but he wasn’t to be found,” said one of the crewmen.
“He’s here just keep looking. He could be anywhere. When you find him bring him to my quarters,” ordered Natasha.
Three hours later:
“Rickie was a bit worried and said, “Natasha, still no sign of him. Now what?”
Natasha added, “Maybe he went EVA she said smiling. She had been briefed regarding his fear of flying, and that he had been ordered to make the jump in the spirit of international good will.
“This is the commander speaking. Listen Wesley we know you’re hiding on board. Just get your butt to the command center so we can meet. If you don’t I’m not promising what sort of mess we’ll make of your superb culinary art.”
The crew had been looking everywhere. “Maybe he road the Chinese or Japanese freighters up,” offered another crewmember.
“No, he hates to fly. He just like to cook and screw,” responded Ricki.
Natasha looked at her and nodded. She leaned over and whispered to Ricki, “I hear tell that his food is considered ‘pantie droppers’ by some of his dinner guests ”. She couldn’t help but laughing.
Ricki looked at her and stood up to her full 6-foot height and said, “as a matter of fact, yes his cooking is that good. May you be so lucky. I’m going to get the holiday dinner ready. I’ve seen him cook more than a few times. I think I can handle this. He’ll show up. He’s just a big scardy-cat when it come to any flying.”
Dinner was the best that they had ever had. There were enough left-over packets to go around for a few more meals. Still, there was a no show from Rici. The Commander decided to look for him herself. Not only was this getting annoying but also it could prove embarrassing and politically, she had no idea.
“By god that was the best meal I’ve had. How did he do it? The turkey was great and beef/pulled pork shepherds pie was so tender. The vegetable tasted like they were just picked. How the hell did he preserve the food and wine so well? Major you take control of the station. I’m going to locate Chef Wesley the weasel Rici and have a few words with him personally.” As she got up, floating, turned to the major. “I didn’t mean to embarrass you. We just heard lots of stories about Wesley. There must be a lot of people who would like to see him ‘jump from a window’ as we used to phrase it decades ago.” She added, “You’re correct, his cooking is THAT good.”
Ricki turned to Natasha and said, “Yeah he’s made a lot of enemies. My husband threated to kill him a few times as did almost every other jilted lover or spouse. But by god can that man cook. This meal was one of his best. You know what I’m guessing? He’s got enough money, I bet he paid someone to get him off the flight, fake the manifest, and he’s back on the planet eating, drinking and screwing. That bastard, I did want to see him.”
Natasha just laughed. “Considering we looked all over I would tend to agree. I’m going to have a look at the Space-X freighter. Who knows maybe he’s cowering in there somewhere. And if not, then I’m going to call NASA and ROSCOSMOS and have what you call an APB for put out for your cook-lover.” She thought, I’d like a piece of him too.
Natasha floated down to the air locks and looked at the open hatch to the Space-X freighter. She thought, what idiots some of these ground service people are. Hand scrawled on the inner capsule hatch was DONNER-CAPSULE Bon-Appetite. She thought, Americans, they can’t even spell DONOR CAPSULE. It’s a wonder they ever got off the ground.
May 01, 2016, 09:45:11 AM by kailhofer
The Museum Earth Challenge
The challenge was to tell a story set in a Museum of Earth, 300 years after the Sun mysteriously disappeared.
Melvian said, “This is the first intact museum–the word they used–that we have discovered on any alien planet. And may I draw your attention to this two wheeled vehicle.
“Our translators have determined that it was called a Harley Davidson, and many of our archeologists are convinced that it was used for transportation, but also it seemed to belong to a religious sect or clan. Groups of these machines would move together, and the humans often wore totems on their back identifying them as to what sect or clan they belonged to. We also have identified other two wheeled vehicle, but they never mixed with the Harley Davidson machine.
“Now we have this Wesley. As you can see like all human he was extremely ugly, and our historian believe even by human standard he was extremely ugly! This Westley stopped existing when in orbit about this planet, and our historians have given us the possible reason: His ugliness when cramped together in a small pod, drove the other humans insane, and they stopped him from being, or killed him as the word was known in their language. Unlike us, when part of them stopped being, the whole also stopped being. They didn’t have the ability to regenerate from one of their cells into a new whole being. I know it’s hard to imagine not being anymore, but humans had that trait! Once this Wesley stopped being, he was gone forever.
“We never figured out why some of their females show themselves more than others! Observe this picture call Mona Lisa. It appears completely covered by material not grown out of her. Now this picture on the cover of this Play Boy. It is her true outer layering! She does not cover herself with materials from the planet. Yet, they both are females according to our historians that are specializing in this museum. It is baffling to us why?” Melvian said.
“Melvian what are those images over there?” Curator said. “Are they leaders?”
“Do you mean those statues as the humans call them?” Melvian said.
“Yes, I believe that is the right word according to the guide book,” Curator said.
“They were leaders,” Melvian said. “We are intensely studying them for they are the ones that directed many cultures and religious sects on this world that was known as Earth. Unlike us, they needed a central figure to guide them, tell them how to live and think. Most humans obeyed their orders--- a few didn’t and many just went along with the wishes of the leaders without challenge.
“Like I said, we are studying them, and the more we study them the more we become convinced that they were innate followers. Even their highly intelligent humans often fell under this trait, and that is one reason our historians are stumped. We don’t understand their minds, we don’t understand their emotions and we don’t understand their cultures or religions.
“Some of their leaders are put there by their fathers and families. For centuries in some areas of this Earth, clans or families have ruled uninhibited. But we have discovered that people have been given the right to select their leaders in certain areas.”
“Who was that man with the hair under his air-intake organ always with this one arm raised up,”
Curator said.
“Why, we believe that he was this Adolf Hitster or something similar to that sound. We believe that he had a medical problem and his arm would fly upward as a nerve twitch. According to all reports many other around him had the same nerve problems! Sometime their arm would fly up in unison. However this clan or sect didn’t appear long on Earth.”
“And what about that statue over there?” Curator said.
“It’s name was Trump,” Melvian said. “Notice that his fur on the top moves often. It tried to become leader but this female called a Hillary stopped him. It was a big fight but this Hillary won! Yet, when she beat him, she took him in and made him as assistant! We are perplexed over that one!” Melvian said.
“This place is a nothing! There’s nothing interesting in here! Where’s the monsters? Where’s the great stuff? What are you trying to con us with? I want my money back! You hear me!” Curator said.
“Yeah, I want my money back too!” Alternats said. Others in the group also demanded their many back!
The members of the tour group rushed Melvian who quickly disappeared behind a curtain.
When some of the group managed to get behind the curtain, they saw Melvian and his partner racing away on the Harley Davidson as they looked out the back door.
As Melvian sped down a road, his partner yelled, “We got us a whole lot of money! Man do we have the money now. We can slip down south and set up another con. By the way, how did you come up with this one?” Sultonet Melvian partner said.
“When I first found this place, a sign grabbed my interest. I studied it for a week. I finally translated it and it was a name, P.T.Barnum. Then when I managed to translate something he said, it all came together for me,” Melvian said.
“What did he say?” Sultonet said.
“A Sucker is Born Every Minute.”
"The line is so long!" – "Didn't you know the Emperor is visiting today?" – "Mummy, I want to snack on something." – "Hurry up, this isn't a ride."
"Actually, it is a ride of sorts," mumbles Penny as she marches by the entire queue. After all, Earth Museum is on a rock which is supposedly propelled along on what was the Terran orbit.
Reaching the entrance, she extends her pale arm with the wrist-comp attached. A pastel-white hand grips it and runs the scanner over it.
"The purpose of your visit?" the guard asks, his slit pupils narrowing. He's also nametagged "Dave".
Penny frowns. "My special journalist's pass not obvious enough?"
Dave simply stares down at her. Even for a vampiric race, he's cold.
Penny shifts her eyes to the floor. "Root beer. Can't get enough of it."
"Fair enough. Just don't get too close to the Emperor. He probably doesn't appreciate your so-called conspiracy theories. But don't worry, I find your articles quite entertaining."
The queue for root beer snakes around the corner. Great. Penny glances at her wrist-comp: graphs constantly orange if not red. At least she's getting anomalous background radiation readings, whatever they mean.
She strides through the "Beauty" section—rolling her eyes at those reflective grooming planes, masking powders and fake ocular lens—and straight to "Technology". She laughs at the bulky holo-projectors.
//…to your left is Mr. Mini-Fusion, a domestic generator manufactured just prior to…//
Penny scoffs. What kind of idiot race installs fusion units in their residencies?
//…Emperor is arriving at Airlock Three. Those who wish to…//
Patrons rush off. Penny's lips curl. She sidles over to a heap of junk, a Terran artificial satellite. She taps her wrist-comp for a wireless connection to the thing. The download begins…
//…this navigational satellite was used by Terran miners throughout their star system. It is hypothesized that the mysterious disappearance of their sun and planets 300 years ago was due to over-mining…//
Penny huffs. As if over-mining can cause that. She turns to see Dave heading towards her. Satisfied with the download progress, she shuffles away. She can use a root beer but time to interview the Emperor first.
Penny slips through the crowd and, in an unthreatening manner, holds out her wrist-comp to the Emperor, his retinue trailing closely. She sees Dave back off.
"Will you be discussing inter-planetary immigration policies at the conference later today? Perhaps adopt stricter controls?" asks Penny.
Without even a glance at her wrist-comp nor slowing down, the Emperor grins, baring his fangs. "My dear Penny, we have a duty to help others… at least when we're not sucking the life out of them."
The people chuckle.
Penny's wrist-comp beeps. They stop walking. She glances at the data displayed and smirks. "According to Terran satellite telemetry, it appears that just prior to their sun and Terra 'mysteriously' disappearing, our fleet of cruisers were near the system. You were already Emperor then. Any comment on that?"
Gasps cascade around them.
The Emperor maintains his grin. "As much as I appreciate your investigative skills, I do have a schedule…"
And as the Emperor mutters something about forwarding her research to his experts, Penny feels very lightheaded.
Penny's eyes flash open, the words "Entertainment" high above her. She sits up. Alone. This is obviously the new extension, yet to open.
"Would you like a game of Twister?"
Penny whips her head around to see a uniform almost as ostentatious as the Emperor's retinue. His nametag: "Melvian."
Penny peers around him to see Dave obstructing the exit. She rises, rubbing the back of her neck and, looking around, sees a colorful dial and a pad with colored circular patches.
Penny frowns and points. "We're too flexible to be challenged by that."
Melvian shakes his head. "I'm the curator. I have doctorates in anthropology and history. Your race is hardly flexible. The Emperor eats everyone within the military's reach. And as you know, even when he acts 'charitably' with his current immigration stance, he only lets in those who threaten your way of life and then uses that as an excuse to launch more military campaigns."
Penny continues frowning.
Melvian smiles, holding up a wrist-comp. She looks down. It's hers. Well, not anymore.
Fascinated by the screen in the corner showing the Terran gladiatorial game called "Football" and a play known as "Blitz", Penny grits her teeth and bolts straight for the curator.
Just as Dave is about launch himself at her, blue pulses streak by his head. And hers. Penny's eyes bulge at the Emperor's guards with their assault rifles. "Aren't you with them?"
Penny, Dave and Melvian sprint out of "Entertainment", through "Law and Justice" and into the airlock docking section.
Penny glowers at the two who have trouble keeping up. But weapons fire is a great motivator.
"Sorry… just wanted your wrist-com… didn't think it'll come to this," utters Melvian. "What did you do exactly?"
"Emperor just doesn't like me." Rounding the corner, Penny notices the strain on their faces. "You two aren't—"
"Yeah, we're Terran," says Dave as another pulse sparks against the bulkhead. "Our ship is ahead."
Melvian sighs at the fast-shrinking Earth Museum. "We made use of our fusion-powered holo-projecting and cloaking technology to hide our solar system. Your Emperor never worked out what happened exactly."
He hands back the wrist-comp to Penny.
"But we had trouble cloaking the sun's emissions during the most intense part of its cycle," adds Dave, wiping powder off his face. "Someone started the museum and we played along, a way to monitor your race's interest and help maintain our cover."
"Now what?" asks Penny.
"Our colleagues will take care of the museum. This can be explained away," answers Melvian.
Penny squints. "I meant me!"
"Oh… umm… live on Earth. Saw those barred cells in the 'Justice' section?"
Penny nods.
"Feed on our criminals, do us a favor. We have plenty of root beer."
Penny tries not to grin but her fangs start to itch.
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Subartu (SUBART 29)
Tell Beydar
The 2004/2 — 2009 Seasons of Excavations, the 2004/2 — 2009 Seasons of Architectural Restoration. A Preliminary Report
M. Lebeau, A. Suleiman (eds.)
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The fourth volume on the Euro-Syrian excavations at Tell Beydar constitutes the progress report of the 2004 to 2009 seasons of excavations and the 2004 (autumn) - 2009 seasons of architectural restoration. The central acropolis is currently almost completely uncovered. revealing the Early Jezirah IIIb administrative centre of the ancient city of Nabada.
The excavation of Temple D was completed. South of Temples B, C and D, a huge temple — Temple E — has been recognized. Close to it, a large open ceremonial court (‘Southern Square’) reminds similar urbanistic features at Tell Brak. Field B has been extended, providing more private houses and a large EJ IIIb building — B 1 — having some residential features. Field O, west and south-west of Temple B reveals an artisanal quarter, grouped around the main drainage of the city. A second EJ IIIb Palace — The Eastern Palace — is the main purpose of Field P and its plan seems to be similar to the one of the Acropolis Palace.
Field C has been reopened and extended, providing substantial data about the Hellenistic (Parthian-Seleucid) levels of occupation and their stratigraphy.
The large programme of architectural restoration, launched in 2003, has been extended, concentrated on the Acropolis of the EJ IIIb city.
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Lebeau et al. About Subartu. Studies Devoted to Upper Mesopotamia. Volume I: Landscape, Archeology, Settlement. Volume II: Culture, society, Image.
Lebeau Cultures locales du Moyen-Euphrate. Modèles et événements (IIe-Ier millénaires av. J.-C.)
Masetti-Rouault Visual Histories of the Classical World
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< Jays’ Blues Old Bones >
Joe of Little Faith
by Cliff Corcoran | August 24, 2005 8:43 pm
Prior to last night, Mike Mussina’s last loss came on August 3 in Cleveland when, after pitching four scoreless innings, Mussina fell apart in the fifth, giving up six runs and getting pulled from the game.
Prior to last night, the Yankees’ last loss came this past Sunday in Chicago when, after cruising through the first three innings, Randy Johnson fell apart in the fourth, giving up six runs, which would be all the White Sox would score and also all they would need.
Last night, Mike Mussina combined those two outings by cruising through the first four innings before falling apart in the fifth, giving up eight runs and getting pulled from the game. A ninth run charged to Mussina would score with reliever Felix Rodriguez on the mound. Those nine runs would be all the Blue Jays would score and also all they would need.
What I had hoped would be a dispiriting loss for the slumping Blue Jays turned out to be a dispiriting loss for the Yanks. Mussina’s collapse was particularly upsetting as the game had all the makings of a thrilling pitchers’ duel through the first four innings, with both Mussina and Toronto starter Dave Bush seemingly at the top of their game, the latter backed up by some spectacular defense.
Adding insult to injury, after the Yankees failed to drive a run across in the fifth and sixth, Joe Torre put his subs in, taking Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield and Jorge Posada out in favor of Felix Escalona, Bubba Crosby and John Flaherty respectively. The logic, I suppose, was to give these crucial players a breather in anticipation of today’s day game. But considering the success the Yankees had had against the Toronto bullpen the previous two nights (8 runs in 3 2/3 innings) and the fact that the Yankees are indeed the second best offense in baseball, I find it unforgivable for Torre not to have allowed his team a chance to come back at full strength.
As it turns out, the move immediately came back to bite the Yankee skipper as in the bottom of the seventh Robinson Cano and Tony Womack lead off with singles off Jason Frasor and were driven in by a Hideki Matsui double. Matsui was hitting in the two-hole yesterday, so had Torre left his starters in, he would have had two in and Sheffield and Rodriguez due up with a man in scoring position. Instead he had Bubba Crosby and Felix Escalona. To his credit, Crosby singled, but Escalona struck out, as did Jason Giambi, ending the inning.
In the bottom of the eighth, Tino Martinez lead off with a single but was promptly doubled up by John Flaherty.
Finally, against Vinnie Chulk in the bottom of the ninth, Jeter and Crosby singled to bring the clean-up spot to the plate with two outs. Again, it was Escalona, not Rodriguez who was due up. Torre went to the last man on his bench and pinch-hit Bernie Williams. Bernie worked the count full then crushed a ball into the upper deck in right for a three-run homer to close the gap to 9-5 only to have Giambi make the final out. Too little too late.
I’m certainly not blaming Joe Torre for last night’s loss, but his overt lack of faith in his team made this an even more painful loss than it should have been.
Incidentally, watching Tony Womack’s adventures in center last night (he played a warning track shot by Hinske in to a triple in the eighth) and his futility at the plate (his seventh-inning single notwithstanding), in contrast to Crosby (who went 2 for 2 and, playing right, caught a sinking fly in shallow center that should have been Womack’s but clearly had Tony flumoxed) greatly intensified my belief that Womack must be released and that Crosby (with or without help from Columbus) must be given his share of the centerfield starts (idealy those against opposing righty starters with a fly ball pitcher on the mound–right now primarily Chacon and Leiter–for the Yanks).
Both Boston and Cleveland also lost last night (to the Royals and Devil Rays respectively), while the A’s beat up the Tigers to pull back into a three-way tie with the Yanks and Tribe in the Wild Card race.
Today, the Yanks look to avoid a split, sending Shawn Chacon to the mound to face the Jay’s best active pitcher, Mr. Gustavo Chacin. Chacon has posted a 1.69 ERA in his five starts as a Yankee and is comming off a fantastic eight shutout innings against the White Sox on Saturday. Chacin was a hard-luck loser in his last two starts and is 0-2 with a 5.73 ERA and a 1.81 WHIP in two starts against the Yankees this year, both in Toronto.
1 mikeplugh ~ Aug 25, 2005 1:39 am
1. Hey all.
I'd like to start this post off with a final thing about the Jeter...clutch....criticism...debate we were having a couple of posts ago. I wasn't able to get anything else in and I want to just put a cap on my thoughts.
There are two ways to look at Derek Jeter.
1. By comparing him to his peers, especially those paid like him.
By this way of analyzing Jeter, there are dozens of players who put up a better 162 games. No argument. There are guys who mash home runs, drive in runs, score runs, play their positions like acrobats. Jeter doesn't do anything better than many of these players, with the exception of run the bases and make the fade away throw to first.
Look at Tejada and A-Rod (before he moved to 3B) at SS. You've got Pujols and Sheffield and Matsui and Andruw Jones and Vlad Guerrero and Barry Bonds, etc, etc, etc......
Over 162 games Jeter will compete with this group in runs and hits, and probably little else.
2. You can evaluate Jeter by what he's meant to the team in big situations. All I need for the rest of my life to give Jeter a permanent benefit of the doubt was his diving head first into the stands against the Red Sox in a regular season game.
Beating the Red Sox means that much to him. As a Yankee fan, anyone who in his heart and soul wants to give himself up to beat the Red Sox is my hero. That's the stuff that legends are made of.
He has the post-season numbers to go along with everything else. I accept that the Yankees as a team won those titles and have put together a great stretch of playoff appearances, but I look at it this way. In 22 post-season series he hit below .316 eight times. Those eight times he was pretty bad. But if you take those 8 series out of the mix, over the course of 14 post-season series, Jeter hit .382 against some of the best pitching in baseball.
Again, I'm not saying that Jeter deserves all the credit for the great Yankee success, I'm just combining it with what he means to the team from a symbolic standpoint, and by the fact that a guy who makes 18 mill a year would dive headfirst into the stands in a regular season game against his arch rival.
I can't say whether or not Barry Bonds would sacrifice his body and run into an outfield wall at top speed to beat the Dodgers in May. I can't say whether Manny Ramirez would either. I believe that Varitek would dive headfirst into the dugout to catch a game saving pop up against the Yankees, and that's why he's the captain and one of the most loved players on the Red Sox. He combines heart, passion, and guts with his hitting.
That's how I see Jeter. A guy who is generally outstanding in all phases of the game, sacrifices himself for the team, plays best in the spotlight of October, and does it all the right way.
Finally, I can't fault anyone for their opinions on this subject. I think it's really okay for us to see this differently. I take the position that we will continue to see Derek Jeter excel for the Yankees through the time he gets his 3000th hit, hopefully his 5 and 6th rings, and when he tops virtually every post-season record list. The Yankees will have been the team that helped him get all those chances to shine, but when some players dim in the spotlight, Jeter will make play after play that you will look back on in 25 years and smile.
Just my opinion. I could be wrong. :)
2 Joe in Jersey ~ Aug 25, 2005 3:44 am
2. I don't get all these stat hounds. There has been only one shortstop who has been in the league for more than 2 years that has a higher career OPS than Jeter, and it ain't Tejada. AROD is the guy. Tejada has a career OPS of .819 according to ESPN stats as of this morning. Jeter's career OPS is significantly higher at .846. Now this year Tejada's is higher, and some day he may or he may not catch Jeter. So aside from everything mikeplugh had to say about his clutch hits, all-out and smart plays on the field, and let's face it nobody tracks down a pop fly like Jeter, nobody not even AROD, the facts are that Jeter has been a better hitting shortstop than anybody except AROD.
3 jdrennan ~ Aug 25, 2005 5:07 am
3. Did anyone else notice YES' problems with the blue screen ads in the background? It seemed like the blue in the bluejay logo on the batting helmets was the same color as the blue on their bluescreen so the ad was imposed right into the left handed hitters head.
Probably the influence of reading "juicing the game"... but if that is the case, do you think Bud would make them change to logo so it doesn't interfere with the ads during the telecast?
4 rbj ~ Aug 25, 2005 5:15 am
4. And why the hell didn't the fans go for Sheff's foul ball that was in the stands. Instead that's another out. C'mon, there's a reason for home field advantage.
5 jedi ~ Aug 25, 2005 5:20 am
5. jdrennan,
I saw those "blips" last night as well, but I noticed it when Matsui was up to bat in the early innings. His hands and face were all messed up with the blue screen in the back. It seems it was not necessarily a problem with the blue jay logos, but with the blue screen and cameras.
rbj,
I rather have fans not interfere at all than interfere. Main reason, sometimes at a game, with all the drinking, fun and commotion, a fan doesnt always realize who is at bat. (i.e. the cub's infamous fan, Bartman)
6 JVarghese81 ~ Aug 25, 2005 5:26 am
6. Joe in Jersey,
I am a HUGE Jeter fan but I would suggest you read some really good writing by CLiff in the archives.
http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/12076.html
After Jeter's GG and improved fielding (better than last year according to the rate stats) this year as well as Nomar's injury problems, it might have changed a little bit but still, really good reading.
7 domvjr ~ Aug 25, 2005 6:11 am
7. I agree with everything that Mike wrote. I think its just the age we live in. I am sure if there was a blog in the 40's and 50's, people would be bitching about Joe D, being brittle, and the Mick striking out to much. I for one am enjoying everything that Jeter brings to the Yanks, his enthusiasm for the game, that he brings every day. Players like him and Mo, don't come around very often. I have no problem the criticism that he occasionaly receives, but we will all miss him when he is gone.
8 Dan M ~ Aug 25, 2005 6:38 am
8. Womack also turned Catalanatto's flyball into a double in the 1st. Any non-Yankee centerfielder catches that ball. When it was the only baserunner through four, I said to myself, "Mussina is going to lose a perfect game because we don't have a f---g centerfielder."
So much for that fantasy.
9 Shaun P ~ Aug 25, 2005 6:58 am
9. Dan, speaking of plays by the CF, when I saw Vernon Wells's spectacular catch that took a home run away from Giambi, all I could think was, "There goes all the runs we need to win this game, the way Moose is pitching." Oops.
Now I see why there are 98 comments in the next thread. Can't wait to read people's thoughts as it all came apart.
10 Cliff Corcoran ~ Aug 25, 2005 7:13 am
10. Okay, two quick things and then let's try to move on from this Jeter thing, which borders on the creationism/evolution thing in terms of the ability of one side to convince the other:
1) Rodriguez is terrible at tracking flies, he's said so himself. That's not a useful comparison.
2) I was at that July 1 game when Jeter dove into the stands. It was the greatest game I've ever seen in person and that was a thrilling, game-saving play. But it was July 1. When you're such an important player, giving up your body mid-season, regardless of the opponent, is not brave, it's foolish. I'm not coming down on Jeter for it. I'm sure he didn't think about anything other than recording that out. But a player's willingness to risk a mid-season injury to save a game shouldn't be applauded. Had Jeter landed on the DL as a result of that dive, it could have handed the Red Sox the division, which would have been mighty ironic.
11 sam2175 ~ Aug 25, 2005 7:15 am
11. The CF situation is really atrocious. We need a pureply defensive guy who will just run and track down flyballs. Terrell Owens? I hear he is not in camp right now. j/k.
Joe in Jersey, love your enthusiasm about Jeter, as I share it, but factually, you overlooked Garciaparra. His career OPS is .912. Now part of that could be Fenway, but even after ballpark adjustment, I believe his overall numbers would be significantly better than Jeter.
I think JVarghese81's post covers that anyway.
Moose's fifth inning ERA must be approaching hundred or something.
12. Tony Womack's rate in CF this year: 87
Bernie Williams' rate: 94
Batters vs. Mussina innings 4-6: .318/.352/.486 (.280 GPA)
Batters vs. Mussina pitches 76-90: .353/.364/.578 (.308 GPA)
He becomes dominant again in innings 7-9 and pitches 91-120.
13 Alex Belth ~ Aug 25, 2005 8:04 am
13. The other thing about that July 1 game was that Rodriguez made a far more difficult play in terms of skill when he turned a 5-2 double play with bases juiced to help save Mo's behind. http://bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com/archives/14289.html
As Joe Sheehan wrote about that game:
"All of the attention after the game was focused on Derek Jeter, who tore up his face diving into the third-base box seats after making a running catch to end the top of the 12th. Without taking anything away from Jeter, though, the play of the game was Alex Rodriguez's double-play turn in the 11th. On a ball that took a strange bounce just to stay fair, Rodriguez made a stab, a tag of the base, and a perfect, only-line-he-had throw to the plate to prevent the tying run from scoring.
Nothing against Jeter, whose catch--of a ball that I think was going to land fair and score two runs--required a great jump and excellent raw speed, but Rodriguez had to do about four things correctly in less than two seconds to get the optimum result, and he did. Jeter's play was simpler, although the requirements of making it--a sprint into short left field--led him to injure himself after completing the catch.
We're dealing in gradations of excellence here, which is really what last night was all about. Keith Foulke wiggles out of a jam? OK, here's Mariano Rivera escaping a tougher one. Pokey Reese makes a highlight-reel catch? Here comes Rodriguez, and then Jeter, pushing him to the cutting-room floor. Manny Ramirez comes up with another huge hit with his team up against the wall? Nice, but the Yankees get down to their last strike, more stars on the bench than in the lineup, and get back-to-back hits from the waiver-bait segment of the roster."
14. Excellent point, Alex.
15 Ravenscar ~ Aug 25, 2005 9:04 am
15. #8
That is, any other CF in the game but our backup Gerald Williams, who cost Jae Seo another shut-out last night.
16 Dan M ~ Aug 25, 2005 9:24 am
16. I forgot about Ice. Yes, he's terrible - and he also messed up Pedro's then no-hitter in LA two weeks back.
17. Someone suggested that Ice was getting Pedro back for that HBP he took to start Pedro's near-no-no against the D-Rays a few years back.
18 JL25and3 ~ Aug 25, 2005 11:08 am
18. I've loved Jeter since I first saw him play ten years ago. I don't have any illusions about him - among other things, he's got no range at all, especially going to his left. But last night he gave another great example of why I love having him on my team. Bottom of the ninth, down 9-2, one out - even Joe's given up on this game. But Jeter hits a slow bouncer towards second...and he hustles, full tilt out of the box and every step down the line. He doesn't give a damn about the situation or the score or anything else; he hustles all the way, all the time, every single time.
On a different subject: does anyone understand why Joe refuses to use Aaron Small?
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A sizzling C5 update!
By Cheryl Gatward | Featured, Hot News, Press Release
Our latest C5 update coincides with the launch of a brand-new app! C5 has had a ‘baby’ and it’s called C1 – a dedicated music discovery app that is serious competition for the likes of Shazam and Soundhound. To find out more about this ‘new baby’, that works alone, or connects with C5, visit the C1 page.
Our last update saw the addition of Deezer to our Streaming Music Services, Chromecast support and the tuning of our DLNA function to an all-time high. This update brings some time saving changes to the interface, the removal of in-app purchases and the integration with our new ‘baby’ app C1.
What’s New in update 4.4.2
Integration with C1
We’ve created a new, lightning fast music discovery app called C1. It’s free and works in combination with C5. Both apps have buttons that take you to the other app. C5 now has a ‘History’ panel which stores all the music searches you make in C1. Recognise and discover new music with C1, then enjoy the full audio visual experience in C5. Very smooth!
In-app purchases are gone forever! Both versions – the Plus and the Free – now enjoy the same functionality – you’ll just have to put up with advertising if you’re using the Free version (and had not previously purchased any in-apps). We’re keeping the ads to a minimum, but if you get fed up with them you can always update to the Plus version.
If you’re using an iPad you’ll notice a time saving and convenient change – all your ‘Players’ are now in a cool pop out window on the right hand side, making it super easy to change players quickly.
We’ve improved the general responsiveness of the app, making things much zippier than before, just like tuning a sports car. We’ve also splatted a few irritating bugs.
Download the press release:
C1 – Lightning Fast Music Discovery
By Creation5Team | Press Release
From the developers of C5, the definitive Big Screen music & entertainment app, comes the new, lightning fast music discovery app, C1 – a serious competitor for the likes of Shazam and SoundHound. Lightning fast is no exaggeration either. C1 is a dedicated music discovery app that has no other functions to slow it down! C1 will catch and store all your music searches, even when you’re offline! Just tap the C1 button to instantly identify music. Check out related videos from your discoveries and all the latest artist news. The stylish and minimalist interface makes for an engaging, uncomplicated experience. C1 works alone or connects with C5 for the full Big Screen musical experience. Available in 12 languages.
C1 Features
• Lightning fast music recognition
• Stores your searches in History
• Works offline and reveals searches once you have internet again
• Provides related videos for each search
• Displays links to related news on artists
• Stylish & minimal interface is very easy to use
• Free to download!
• For iPhone & iPad. Available in 12 languages.
More about C1
C1 connects with C5
C5 is more than 5 apps in 1 – you can enjoy Music, Radio, Video, Music Streaming, Photos, DLNA/Chromecast/Airplay/Bluetooth
• All your C1 searches are also stored in C5.
• Play your discoveries with Rdio or Deezer
• Watch your discoveries on the Big Screen using DLNA / Chromecast /Airplay
• Share your musical finds with your friends via email, SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook or Twitter
• A button on both apps makes for instant, easy connection
New Creation Product – CDJ
Creation manufactures all sorts of state-of-the-art tech products – we make technology easy to use and beautiful to behold. Our latest product is CDJ – an elegant workspace for DJing. Already endorsed by top DJs this is a serious workstation! No wires, no mess, no clutter, everything to hand.
This space saving table has a minimal and contemporary design and would suit any DJ that is interested in organising some serious sounds! It’s completely customizable with the wood and trimmings available to your personal specifications. We’ve built our first one and they are now available to order exclusively from Creation.
Take a look at the images below! Contact us here if you would like to receive more information.
New music discovery app coming soon!
By Cheryl Gatward | Press Release
Creation 5 will soon be having a baby! Yes, that sounds silly but it’s the best way we can think of to describe it. The Creation family of apps is getting bigger! In just a few weeks a new music discovery app called C1 will hit the App Store. This dedicated app has no other functions to slow it down – so it’s light, fast and zippy!
C1 can work in conjunction with C5 as it helps you to discover new music. It’s fast, it has a beautiful and stunningly simple interface and you can switch between the two apps with a simple tap. C5 will have a button that takes you to C1, and vice versa.
If you hear a song that you love the sound of but don’t know who it is, open C1. Press the ‘discover’ button and within seconds you will be shown the cover of the album (or single if there is no album), the name of the artist and be presented with a choice of music videos. The song will play for 30 seconds. To listen to the song in full you just need to tap the C5 button. A full history of your searches are stored in both apps.
The screen shot below gives you a sneak peek as to how gorgeous the new baby is. As soon as it hits the App Store we’ll send you a invitation to download. It’s free, of course. If you haven’t signed up for our newsletter you can do so at the bottom of the page.
Cast away! with Update 4.4
By Creation5Team | Featured, Press Release
We’re really excited about our latest update for many reasons, but the biggest reason for our childish levels of anticipation is the fact that you can cast anything – music, radio, videos, photos – to your smart TV directly from your iPhone or iPad (or NAS) using the devilishly clever little gadget, Chromecast.
Google’s Chromecast dongle can display high-definition 1080p content using your television or monitor’s HDMI port. It connects to your home network using a Wi-Fi connection, requiring minimal setup. Unlike other devices, it doesn’t have a physical remote control or local storage. Setup and functionality is foolproof, and if you’re used to streaming content across several different devices, Chromecast is a blessing. And at 35€ ($35 or £30) it’s a blessing for your pockets as well.
We recently wrote a blog on the delights of Chromecast and looked into how easy it is to set up and use, you can check out our article here.
Music streaming with Deezer
C5 already supports Rdio and now we’ve added Deezer! Deezer lets you listen to your music wherever and whenever you want. Explore over 35 million tracks and 30,000 radio channels, create playlists and follow the artists you love. With Deezer’s high-quality audio stream, you’ll never miss a beat!
DLNA functionality
Our DLNA function has been revved up to an explosive level!
In the last update we gave the DLNA a major overhaul adding the ability to stream radio, which wasvery difficult to implement, technically. So difficult in fact, that we are the only app on the market that offers Net Radio using DLNA! Now, you can also enjoy local videos, local photos and YouTube videos on your Big Screen using DLNA. Life will never be the same again!
We’ve also added a new window for controlling videos when using a DLNA video player, so you can now control the timeline.
When you open C5 it will automatically select the last Server/Player you used. Handy!
If you previously had problems receiving feedback from your DLNA player, which made C5 crash or freeze, you’ll be pleased to hear that those days are over! It’s sorted!
For the Xbox fans amongst you, did you know that the Xbox One works really nicely as a DLNA player? Try it! Creation 5 manages it perfectly.
Finally! You can now control the position of the song that is playing. Zip, skip, jump, jive, forward or rewind. You now have the power!
C5 can now play loads more music formats than before
General Performance
When you receive a phone call, the music will stop while you talk and then restart where it left off before you were interrupted.
In our quest to make C5 easier to use, we’ve added a fantastic new selection window for the iPhone. You’ll notice how easy it is to navigate.
We’ve also cleared the air and swatted some irritating little bugs.
Creation 5 Update 4.0.3 – Share the love!
Our new update lets you share music and videos using Facebook Messenger and Whats App, plus enjoy over 50 ready made playlists from Top Workout songs to Bond Themes to Road Trip tracks.
Now you can share the love with your friends and family easily and quickly through Facebook Messenger App (iPad and iPhone) or Whats App (iPhone). If you are listening to a cool track in your music library or a new song on Rdio or watching a video that you just have to share – simply tap the title, choose ‘share’ and pick the Facebook Messenger icon or the Whats app icon. If you are listening to a Net Radio station that you think would suit one of your friends perfectly, quickly and easily share the station with them in just the same way as sharing a song or video.
Playlists for Every occasion
Aside from the playlists that we have been developing for the last year – Throwback Thursday, Sunday Sessions, and Tutti Fruti we bring you a whole new selection of lists to enjoy. We will be adding to these lists weekly, so look out for more tracks each week!
Pandora Whiteboard Sessions
The performances take place in front of a giant whiteboard in a common area of Pandora’s office. On the day of the show one of their designers creates a unique drawing to represent each artist on the white board, which becomes the backdrop for the performance.These sessions are mostly acoustic and there’s lots of improvising too – recycling bins become percussion instruments.
In Performance at the White House
In Performance at the White House is a series of concerts produced by WETA since 1978 and spans every administration since President Carter’s. Created to showcase the rich fabric of American culture in the exclusive setting of the nation’s most famous home. So far we have two concerts – Women of Soul and Memphis Soul, we will add a new one each week.
To Infinity & Beyond
There’s a superhero in all of us, so grab your cape and mask and let the action begin!
Sweet, sexy and sensational JLo! Here’s a 10-track playlist of her top Billboard Hot 100 hit charts based on actual performance in release-date order.
Co-founder of 1970’s disco-funk-soul band, Le Chic, Nile has worked and collaborated with some of the most talented artist of the past and current generations, and has established a name for himself by producing a myriad of hit songs for the likes of Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Madonna, Duran Duran, and Daft Punk.
To get you in that beach-loving summer mood or to help you remember the warmth in the midst of winter, we’ve compiled a playlist of music videos filmed on the beach.
July 4th Party
Here’s a playlist for your July 4th celebrations!
Best of Glastonbury 2014
Here is our pick of some of the best Glastonbury performances over the 5-day long weekend.
Birthday Playlist
Surely, amongst your hundreds of friends, it’s somebody’s birthday out there today. Pick a song from this playlist and celebrate by sharing it with them. Or ‘Play All’ and enjoy the party!
We’ve made a party playlist with some classic football songs, some Brazilian bossa nova, some samba and some sporting anthems.
Pack your bags, fill the tank and let’s hit the road! A handpicked playlist for your road trip adventures.
Feliz Día de la Madre
Celebra el Día de la Madre con un playlist muy especial. Dile que la quieres con música…
We’ve downed tools to celebrate International Workers’ Day with this special playlist. Music for NOT working to.
In honour of this special day we’ve made a playlist with some of the greatest Jazz vocals of all time!
Top Workout Songs
By mixing the old in with the new, we’ve compiled a playlist of some of the best workout songs of all time. Whether you’re going in for spin class or out for a run, whether you’re lifting weights or taking an aerobics class, these tunes will get you grooving and moving.
Happy St. George’s Day!
The English aren’t the most demonstrative nation in the world, but they do appreciate decent heroes, like their nation’s patron, the dragon slayer, St George. Here’s a playlist with some of the best English artists, past and present.
Creation 5 Playlist for Earth Day 2014 – Look after the Earth, it’s the only one we’ve got!
A playlist infused with Easter traditions. New starts, fresh beginnings and a time to enjoy nature, let spring roll on!
A special playlist, dedicated to all the wonderful Mother’s out there 🙂 We’d be nowhere without you!
Happy St Patrick’s Day! In Chicago they’ve been dying the river green every year since 1962 – so pour a pint of Guinness and stick a shamrock in your cap tonight! Here’s a special St. Patrick’s Day playlist with our favorite Irish sounds.
February 14 – 24 hours dedicated to love, and we all need it! Here’s our specially selected Valentines Playlist with a realer, grittier style of love songs, no soppy sentimental stuff here.
Get rockin’ and rollin’ with this classic Elvis playlist!
Feeling Happy
We’ve made a Feeling Happy playlist – 20 feel good tracks to keep you on a high note! 🙂
Here’s a smooth playlist to ease you into the new year – some of our favorite tracks from our SundaySessions.
This playlist is the perfect soundtrack to your winter wonderland, wherever that may be. Merry Christmas to you all!
A Tribute to Nelson Mandela
We pay tribute to Nelson Mandela with South African music. Music that is a celebration of Mandela’s courage and enduring legacy.
We’ve put together a downright creepy though legendary playlist… Only for the darkest of nights
We’ve compiled a special 007 Top 10 playlist – our favourite Bond themes from the past 50 years.
All-new design for Creation 5
By Creation5Team | Featured, Hot News, Press Release
Our long-awaited iPhone update is finally here! iPad users have been enjoying the brand new Creation 5 for a few weeks and now, the iPhone also takes on a brand new interface design and some great new features.
Update 4.0 – New Features
Sleek, lightweight new interface
Our iPhone and iPad apps now share the same design philosophy. The menu has been simplified and reorganised, allowing faster and easier navigation whilst taking up less than half the memory of the previous version!
Search for any YouTube video
We’ve added more functionality to our YouTube feature! You can search for any video on YouTube without having to leave Creation 5. Just tap ‘Video’ on the main menu, tap ‘Search’ and choose the ‘YouTube Video’ option. You can save the video to your favourites, add it to a playlist or download it for offline playback.
Our YouTube feature is normally an In-app purchase costing €4.49 but as we’re celebrating our new design and over 370,000 downloads on the App Store we’re giving this feature away for FREE for a limited time period.
When you open the app or navigate the menu for the first time, you’ll be greeted by introductory tutorials, guiding you through your first steps. You can access them at any time by tapping the ‘Info’ button.
Download Podcasts
After much demand, Creation 5 now lets you download your favourite podcasts for offline playback. Tap ‘Radio’ on the main menu, then ‘Search’. Choose ‘Podcasts’ from the content options and type in the name of the podcast and search. Simply hold the title and tap ‘Download’. You’ll be able to find your downloaded podcasts in the Radio ‘Favorites’ section.
If you have music saved on a Dropbox account, you can play it on your iPhone, the Big Screen or your sound system using DLNA or AirPlay. You can also download your music files, with their album covers and enjoy your stored music on the go!
General Improvements
· Add Music to your favourites (previously only Video). You can find these favourites in the ‘Music’ section.
· All the code has been revised to ensure Creation 5 is more robust and runs faster than ever.
· You can now find additional information in the ‘Info’ menu. We’ve added a link to our FAQs and more information on In-App Purchases.
We’re constantly striving to improve Creation 5, so if you encounter any bugs, or have any general feedback, please do contact us!
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ST FRANCIS DE SALES COLLEGE vs WIRREANDA SECONDARY SCHOOL
OPEN BOYS
Tylor Mills, Zack Robertson, Jack Eastwood, Tyson Craigie, Matt McLean, Tylor Cuming, Charlie Hall,
Kain Vines, Alex Hennessy, Ryan Parry, Will Slater, Josh Spall.
The Open Boys round three game was played against St Francis de Sales College on Friday 16th March. The team had to travel up to Mt Barker Oval with Ryan Parry providing exceptional navigational skills during the journey. During that time, captain Josh Spall decided that if he won the toss he would send St Francis into bat first so that Wirreanda would know how much to chase. In theory, that was an excellent idea.
When the team arrived, the ground was wet with dew and Josh won the toss and decided to bowl first. Unfortunately things did not go as planned. St Francis were 0/40 after 5 overs, 0/104 after 15 overs and the first wicket fell when the score was 142. There was no come back from the bowlers and St Francis finished on 3/234 after their allocated 34 overs. All bowlers were expensive, but there were a few good signs from Charlie Hall, playing in his first game, and Ryan Parry(2/42) who both bowled several inexpensive overs. Jack Eastwood took the other wicket and Zack Robertson held on to two difficult catches.
The chase of just under 7 runs per over was always going to be difficult and Wirreanda were never in the game, particularly when they reached 1/20 after 7 overs. However, Charlie Hall demonstrated that he could bat for some time by scoring 12 off 55 balls. Josh Spall, playing in his last game for the school team made a brilliant 46 before being caught in the deep attempting to increase the run rate. Ryan Parry made 12 and had support from Tyson Craigie who scored 8. Wirreanda finished all out on 109 in 30 overs.
Ryan Parry, Alex Hennessy, Tylor Mills and Josh Spall have been playing for the school team since Year 8 and this appearance was their last one. They have all played their part in supporting cricket at Wirreanda.
A special mention must go to Year 12 student Kain Vines who was playing in his first game and enthusiastically ran around the field saving runs for his team.
Charlie Hall bowled after scoring 12 in his first game.
Tylor Mills heading to the crease after Charlie Hall was dismissed.
Josh Spall hitting out during his innings of 46.
Josh Spall waiting for the incoming batsman while chatting to umpire Nick Moschetta.
Play going on in the background as Charlie Hall checks on the time.
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Cohort Classic: 1950 Buick Special Sedanet – Design Analysis: The Full-Sized Fastback Problem
– September 29, 2016
(first posted 9/5/2012) Perfect timing: I was just about to write a piece on the challenges of the full-sized fastback, and how certain later ones in the sixties just didn’t work, like the ’66-’67 Dodge Charger and the Rambler Marlin. And what pops up at the CC Cohort this morning, but one of my favorite fastbacks ever, a 1950 Buick, shot by Charkle the 2nd (I should know who that is in CC-speak by now). And in my favorite color too: patina. Let’s savor this Buick and compare it to a few other big fastbacks to determine what works and what doesn’t, and why.
The 1950 is the successor to the 1948 Buick Special we examined a while back. GM embraced fastbacks in a big way during the 1941 – 1951 period, but they soon gave way to the more popular trunked sedans and coupes. It was a fad, essentially, harking back to the golden streamliner era of the thirties and the Tatras that ushered it in.
But the whole direction of car shape was changing: lower, longer, and most of all, much longer trunks. And therein lies the problem with the second big fastback revival of the mid sixties: the cars’ basic shape just didn’t lend themselves to fastbacks.
The trunks of cars in the sixties and seventies were absurdly long, and it changed the whole relationship of the passenger compartment to the overall car. The classic long-hood, setback passenger compartment and short trunk was tossed aside. Trunks were now as long as the hoods, if not more so. And of course, they were much lower too, exacerbating the challenge of turning them into fastbacks.
Not surprisingly, Bill Mitchell’s GM studios handled the problem much more deftly than the rest. How? By not trying to turn such a long car into a true fastback. The ’67 full-sized coupes. like this Buick Wildcat, have a long, flowing roof, and are often called “fastbacks”, but they’re not, really. Look at how much trunk is still sticking out behind the end of the roofline.
Buick took the 1968 A-Body coupes a bit further towards a true fastback, but it’s still far from what the Charger and Marlin were trying to do. GM understood the problem, perhaps from its past experience, or just better design competence.
Ford embraced fastbacks with a vengeance too; sometimes successfully, other times not. You won’t have to guess too hard about my feelings on this one. It’s not quite as bad as the Charger and Marlin, but it follows the same pattern: grafting a fastback roof unto a body that was never originally designed for one. Compare it to the red Wildcat for a bit of contrast.
The ’67 Mustang fastback worked so much better: “Look Ma! I’ve got a short trunk!” As well as a set-back passenger compartment (and not much rear leg room, of course).
The 1970 Camaro took that approach and spun it into gold. Even Pininfarina praised it. Yes, it worked on the pony cars, and other small hatchbacks soon to come, but it didn’t on full-sized cars, mostly.
So let’s enjoy the golden era of the big fastbacks, as embodied by this fine 1950 Buick Special. It’s rear end shows another aspect of why it worked so well, since it doesn’t have to resolve itself into the high trunk lip-line of the existing bodies like all those other sixties’ fastbacks, but gets its own dedicated tapering tail.
Enough of tails. Needless to say, the Buick has quite the front end to contrast its smooth backside. Its certainly one of the more memorable ones from that era, regardless of whether you love it or hate it.
A fish from the depths of the sea. And with a multi-hued color scheme. And those famous Buick reverse-dished wheels; might as well show them off.
This gives me a chance to remind all CC Cohort shooters to not try to shoot interior shots from the driver’s side window. It just doesn’t work, due to reflections. Hold the lens flat to the glass of the passenger side window, and it solves the problem.
The Special was Buick’s lowest cost line, and powered by the smallest version of the straight eight, a 248 incher with 115 hp. Dynaflow was optional, but this one apparently doesn’t have it. Just as well, as it really needed the big 320 inch eight to keep it from feeling like a tug boat pulling a barge.
MikePDX
Excellent, Paul, this topic needed doing and you’ve done it nicely.
Another way to look at the difference between ’40s and ’60s fastbacks is the rear axle location and rear overhang. These big Buick fastbacks have the rear axle far enough back for lots of back seat legroom. Haven’t looked it up, but I’m sure the big forties fastbacks had far more rear legroom than their sixties counterparts.
Mustang’s fastback came to mind the instant you started talking about the long trunk. Its proportions are right for a fastback at the expense of back seat legroom. I know because our family car in my junior high school days was a Mustang hardtop. I got tall quickly and practically had my knees in my teeth. In high school they traded the Mustang for the Ford XL version of that fastback above. Much better back seat.
Posted September 5, 2012 at 12:42 PM
In the second photo with the two Buicks and the Charger, take your eye from the Charger’s rear wheel up to the Buicks’ rear wheels. The difference jumps out.
Kiwi Bryce
Nice ol Buick I see it has kiwi rego recently vinned too we are now allowed to keep LHD on imported cars so ortiginals like this can just keep on keeping on
Did somebody say there is a problem with full-size fastbacks? I don’t see a problem at all!
The only “problem” I see is that I don’t own one!
I still like the mid-60’s Marlins, Chargers and Barracudas, goofy as they may have been, but I’m pretty goofy too. Of course, GM pulled it off better than anybody, however, the big GMs, especially the 1965-66 Impalas did it the best.
Impalamino
Likewise! I especially admire the 67-69 Barracuda fastbacks, but the 64-66s are really not a bad looking car at all, far as I’m concerned.
On the 2nd-gen Barracudas, that little non-fastback coupe is what I find attractive because you didn’t see many of them. Of course, I’d take’em both!
I really want a 2nd-gen Barracuda convertible, since it kind of took the place of the Valiant convertible. But I remember a guy I knew growing up who had one of the coupes. Even in the late 1970s they were scarce.
wstarvingteacher
Haven’t liked the fastback since about 1950. Possibly I understand why now. But I do love me some hatchback. Guess I need to read it again tomorrow.
Hatchbacks often are fastbacks! They’re fastbacks that open up. But they’re still fastbacks too, unless you’re talking about modern little hatchbacks with vertical hatches.
Like the ’74 Nova hatchback. I drove one in beater condition for awhile. The ten-mile-long hatchback weatherstrip didn’t leak too much.
I guess I’m making it obvious today, I’ve always had a thing for fastbacks.
chas108
Ahhh, the “Spirit of America” Chevies of 1974-76! My wife had a SoA ’74 Nova exactly like the one above when we were dating. It was a southern rust-free car that had a 350 2-bbl/TH350 and got maybe 16MPG.
I wish we could have kept it but at the time it was either that or my ’57 Chevy 150 2-door sedan.
As for the Buick…that ’50 fastback is my all-time favorite Buick. Even over the ’63 Riviera.
Mine was a beater by the time I got it, and had some rust from spending its first winter in Wisconsin. Vinyl roof was shot, paint fading, SoA trim very faded. By the time I ditched it in ’87, everything was sort of loose, you had to lift that long door a few inches to get it closed, and the headliner was held up by staples. The guys at work were starting to give me funny looks.
But it always ran great. It was my one and only American V-8 automatic cruiser and I still miss it.
Good grief, how old are you? I thought I was one of the most senior ones here at 61…
Former Saturn Owner
You’re still wet behind the ears, sonny.
@ Kevin
To be honest you had already dated yourself by something you said in an article. Don’t remember what. A guy in another thread (no name) here today mentioned grad school in 63. We keep giving ourselves away but I don’t really care. I just lost a friend today and we keep becoming fewer every year.
My favorite shirt is John Wayne on an “old guys rule” shirt. I don’t know what we rule but in my dreams I still have hair and don’t have cataracts. Dreams or not I am real happy to be here and kidding around on CC is as much fun as you can get for free.
Hope you get even older gramps.
WST, my favorite movie still is John Wayne in the “Searchers”…
Sorry, Paul, but when one old-timer speaks, all chime in! I guess we’re “Armchair Classics”!
Back to our regularly scheduled car program…
At Zackman: It was supposed to be one of the best pictures ever but in my youthful opinion is was great because Natalie Wood was hot. As she got older she got even better so that’s an opinion that I kept till she died.
rudiger
Reminds me of the old joke:
What are the three types of wood that don’t float?
Hey, I aspire to be as old as you guys are – much better than the alternative!
The perpetual struggle. Did not like the fastbacks but do like when it’s a hatchback. Brother (14 years older than me) owned a 48 chevy fastback. He was in the Navy and came home with it. I was about 8 years old. It was more than likely 1952-54 (not really 1950 was it?) when I realized how ugly I thought it was. Couldn’t see out the back window and I thought it just looked humpbacked. Then Dad got a 49. Still ugly.
When I realized how handy the hatchback was I was overseas. Toyota was the first that really got me. I guess it was a corolla. Workhorse of the orient. When I owned my first it was a Honda. It was a fastback also but had a big rear window. Good visibility. The one I really liked was the Nova. A guy in my apartment maintenance had one and I thought it was handy as a wagon.
To get a hatchback with good function today you have to buy an SUV or get an old wagon. Wet pavement and heavily loaded fwd hatchback can get scary. Last really good functioning (for utility) car was my (POS) Saturn Vue. Great till it broke but it was always broken. Before that the 77 Impala wagon. Like a giant 5 door hatch. Did air conditioning work out of it.
Zackman, I was born in June 43 and I think there are guys here that are at least as old as me. I had opinions before I had knowledge. So did all of us.
Yes, my old Nova hatchback was handy as a wagon, easier to get stuff in and out of and better looking too. All hatchbacks have one weakness: weatherstripping.
FWD and heavy loads just don’t go together, that’s why we don’t see FWD pickups.
A new hatchback wagon with good function is the Prius V, which has 67 cu. ft. cargo space with the back seats down. This matches Ford Escape and other compact SUVs, it’s about 2/3 the full-size SUVs.
PS: In a couple of years I’ll have had my ham radio license twice as long as required by the Quarter Century Wireless Assoc.
Loco Mikado
Heck, I had to get a CB radio license when I got my first CB. Had to anounce my call letters when signing on or off, although I forget what they were. I am in the same general age group as the rest of the OF’s.
Prius V has much better rear leg, shoulder, & head room than the hatchback (rear seats even adjust fore/aft), & is more quiet & comfortable. Of course it’s less efficient than the hatch, but compared to other wagon-like vehicles, it’s worth considering.
emjayay
When the next Prius V comes out it should be related to the new regular Prius on a completely new platform, meaning it is a much better car. It just might be kind of horrible looking though.
BigOldChryslers
As a matter of personal taste, I think that the blue ’68 Buick is the least attractive car in this article. You can see how they’ve softened-up all the lines versus the ’67 Wildcat above it. They also made the lower body crease dip lower as it sweeps to the back of the car. To me, the whole rear fender on the blue Buick looks like a large flat expanse, and the large, strangely-shaped C-pillar from their pseudo-fastback makes it worse.
I have the same complaint about the rear fender with the current Cadillac CTS coupe, a modern take on fastback styling.
robadr
The tiny wheels on the Charger and the Galaxie don’t help either, when there is such a massive body to support visually.
Buick didn’t actually call them “fastbacks”. As noted in the title, this two-door sedan is a “Sedanet”. (Where’s the “et” come from?). The four-door fastback is a “Jetback Sedan”, and the fastback business coupe is a “Jetback Coupe”. What we’d call a four-door notchback is the “Tourback”.
Page from Old Car Brochures.
pfsm
“Sedanet” is pure marketing-speak, much like the late 1940’s Ford Fordor and Tudor sedans….
In the 1930’s it was a ‘touring back’ essentially a fastback except that the slope was shorter and a lot steeper (like twice as steep as a 40’s sedanet). This was to differentiate it from the extra cost ‘trunk back’ where the trunk lid bulged to give more luggage room.
I was also going to say, the usual generic term for a sedan or coupe with a distinct separate trunk, in the modern idiom, is a notchback.
Popular Science reviewed the ’50 Buick Special in its Sept. 1949 issue.
Isn’t Google Books wonderful?
Stéphane Dumas
The “1963½” full-size Ford Galaxie and Mercury Marauder was marketed as fastbacks even if they are only “semi-fastbacks”. The 1967 Wildcat might be classifield as a “semi-fastback”.
principaldan
I like the oldest ones the best.
Now there’s a category worth thinking about.
Posted September 29, 2016 at 10:38 AM
I’ve since realized that the sedan versions of the 30s/40s fastback-esque designs are the ancestors (in silhouette) of our modern CUVs. The passenger compartments of each cut a remarkably similar profile.
Ford stylists held on to the full-size fastback theme by extending the B piler into almost a flying9 buttress, like t0he 1970 Mercury Monterey Marauder:
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Paul, NYC
Posted December 3, 2013 at 11:39 AM
Sorry to be pedantic, but I value accuracy in the comment section of this and other websites. The Marauders had no B pillar — the C pillar is the one that is extended for the tunnel effect.
It’s so nice to hear so many people say such wonderful things about me 🙂
my love of the fastback is rooted in that ’66-67 Mustang, but as a denizen of this board I’ve fallen in further love with the Volvo pv544, this Buick Special, the 48 Pontiac from a few days ago and all the mid 60s impalas/Wildcats/Rivs/Toros.. Thanks CC!
I think you may need professional help, Sir.
That’s what my analyst keeps trying to convince me of!
pdieten
“This gives me a chance to remind all CC Cohort shooters to not try to shoot interior shots from the driver’s side window. It just doesn’t work, due to reflections.”
Can you get a circular polarizing filter for your camera? You’d probably have better luck with shots like this if you used one. If you’re still using the Lumix I don’t think you can get filters like that, but $300 on a nice used DSLR with a cheap zoom lens and a $6 polarizing filter would get you where you need to go.
My technique is to cup the lens of the point&shoot with my other hand and hold that close to the glass (not quite touching — as the sign says, ‘Do Not Touch’) which is enough to block reflections from the glass. It works pretty well, apart from a bit of reflection around the edge of the shot depending on the angle etc. This shot of a Lancia Flaminia was taken on a bright, sunny day.
Should attach the photo…
Dr Lemming
Good article. Even in compact form the fastback sometimes didn’t work so well. Look at the first- and second-generation Barracudas. The 1967-69s were a bit more graceful than the 1964-66s, but their arc was too flat, which gave the c-pillar too much mass when viewed in profile. A GM-style s-curve roofline would have worked much better. Of course, the Barracuda also had a disadvantage because it did not get a shortened wheelbase behind the front doors like the Mustang and Camaro.
Now consider the 1968-70 Javelin. It was a compromise between the Barracuda and Mustang. It had a short deck but not a shorter wheelbase behind the front doors. That could have screwed up the proportions but Dick Teague did a deft job with the c-pillar. Even though it’s absolutely huge — one of the biggest in the business — it worked surprisingly well because of the graceful interaction of the window cutouts and the GM-like, semi-fastback roofline.
The other factor was how the c-pillar’s shoulder-level character line tapered nicely into the Javelin’s fishmouth front grille. That — along with the wrap-around full-width taillights on the 1968-69s — served to pull the eye away from the massiveness of the c-pillar, or at least accentuate the width rather than the length of the rear end. Just lovely. And utterly destroyed by the 1971 redesign.
It’s too bad the Javelin didn’t have a fold-down back seat and hatchback, because it then would have had the roomiest back seat and the most cargo capacity of any pony car . . . but still would have looked much better than the Barracuda. A major reason why the popularity of ponycars quickly faltered is that they weren’t as versatile as sedan-based two doors such as the Duster.
(Okay, so the Duster’s semi-fastback managed to look better proportioned than the 1967-69 Barracuda fastback or hunchback. But its front end was stubby and its rear might as well have been named Bertha Butt. Yuk.)
To me, the 60s fastbacks — particularly the ’64-’66 Barracuda, Marlin, and ’66-67 Charger — are very angle-dependent. With the Charger, I think it’s partly because of the relatively narrow track (59.5/58.5 inches F/R) and 14-inch wheels. In profile, the ’66-’67 Charger looks pretty good, but as soon as you start getting to three-quarter angles, the sheer volume of the roof makes the body of the car look enormous relative to the footprint of the wheels, giving the impression of a football linebacker balanced precariously on ballet slippers several sizes too small.
I kind of like the ’67-’69 Barracuda fastback, but it ends up taking a back seat to the notchback hardtop, which has a very nice (and decidedly second-gen Corvair) roofline with thin sail panels.
In fairness to the Duster, it was sort of an improvisation designed to share as much tooling as possible with the standard Valiant body, so some awkwardness is to be expected.
I have a 50 Buick sedanet, the one problem they had and I think it is why the did away with them, is the very limited trunk space.. but there beautiful. Vern
Posted September 6, 2012 at 3:09 AM
C’mon, the ’67 Wildcat is a fastback just as much as the Impala hardtop of the same year.
I’m sure the stylists have a term for the angle of the rear window like ‘tumblehome’ or something similiar. If the window is within a certain angle, I’m sure it qualifies as a technical ‘fastback’.
As to which car was the best looking fastback, those ’67-’68 Mustangs are surely a top contender. Conversely, one of the most extreme fastbacks (being almost completely horizontal) would have to be the nearly flat rear window of the ’71-’73 Mustangs.
They refer to the angle of the screens as how ‘fast’ it is
My grandparent’s first Buick was a ’50 Special, and had many [53, 58, 61, 65, 69] until the last Electra in 1973. Grandma switched to Chevy Impala in ’76, as a widow.
Who invented the denomination fastback? What does it really mean? And these new-fangled “coupés” (Mercedes CLS, Audi A7 etc), shouldn’t they be called fastbacks instead? AGB
Jose Delgadillo
Posted May 9, 2014 at 10:40 AM
I love fastbacks. My uncle had a 49 Caddy sedanet and I like those awkward looking late 40/early 50s four doors especially. I’ve had a couple of 66 Rivs and 240/2480z (s) and what I consider the king of overstyled full size fastbacks- The 71 Riv boat tail.
Keeping you all up to speed, here’s some recent pix of the Buick, with some fancy artwork.
Posted December 23, 2014 at 10:26 PM
Another nice one
yet another
Very nice! I love your car, and that’s putting it mildly. I’ve always had a thing about these fastbacks. And the patina is just perfect. Congratulations.
Gilberto pro
Thanks for bringing back memories. My dad had a 50 Buick special fastback in olive green in the 50’s. Growing up my sister and I would slide down the rear trunk and have contests to see who could do it faster. My dad would yell at us because we would scratch his car. But It was so much fun!
Posted November 4, 2015 at 2:57 PM
I love the 1949 Buick best. It is my dream car now. I like the way the rear fenders arc vs. the 50’s more upright fenders. I love the way the 49’s taillights are more stylized and nearer to horizontal. Even the taillights follow the fastback theme. For me, the 49 is the style king of the period.
I would like to see this 49 with 58 corvette tail lights. Have you seen this?
I agree with 1949 style…….
My first car in 1962 was a 1950 Buick Special 4dr fast back. “same color”
My father bought it new and gave it to me. It was a real slow poke with the straight 8 and Dynaflow trans. Also a gas hog. After buying new tires and a new battery It caught fire while parked at the curb, still don’t miss it.
Hmmm…and the rear window doesn’t have the squared lower corners. And the bumper molds itself nicely around the fender shapes. Pretty cool.
And then GM thought people would like these monstrosities,
Well, actually, I kinda like them. I did in 1978 and still do.
I like them also. Yes, I realize that means there’s something wrong with me!
I can admire them for their efficient design (compared to the barges they replaced), but that’s about it. From an aesthetic standpoint it’s like the automotive equivalent of white bread. Well, I guess since the grille has some kind of styling (Olds waterfall) it’s like white bread with some seasoning salt on it.
SanityChallngd
My Dad bought one of these 1950 Buick Special Sedanet Model 46D from the estate of the original owner in 1969. It had been sitting in a field for quite a while.
When he tried to start it, it wouldn’t turn over. Of course the 6 volt battery was quite dead. There was a service station next to the field where the car was. Dad asked the guy if he would help him jump start the car. The mechanic said it would be $100. Dad declined and pulled his full sized 7 car car-hauler tractor-trailer close enough to get jumper cables on the battery, gave it a short charge and a shot of gas, tripped the magic switch on the carburetor and drove the car on the back of the trailer – four flat tires and all.
We had the car for nearly 15 years after that. It was one of the few 1950s like the one above that didn’t come with a Dynaflow. At 35 years old, with about 110,000 miles on it, it finally needed a clutch.
My brother parked it in his barn to lift the rear end and slide the back axle and torque tube set up off the transmission and left to do a 4 day trucking run. While he was gone, lightning hit the barn and put it and the poor old Buick up in flames.
The car was a lot of fun to drive – one day I had a brand new 1982 Z-28 pull up beside me at highway speed and he wanted to race. He was mighty surprised when that 32 year old car beat him to the next town. He couldn’t believe it only had a 248 straight 8 until I opened the hood and showed him.
Hardboiled Eggs and Nuts
If Buick was known as “The doctor’s car” Then the 1950 Buick should have been “the orthodontists car”.
When I was a kid a neighbor who was a Buick guy had a ’49 Special Sedanet 2-dr. similar to the one shown and a ’52 Special regular sedan. Later traded the ’49 for a ’59 LeSabre 4 dr. sedan and the ’52 for a ’64 Special Deluxe. All were modestly equipped with radio, heater, Dynaflow and little else.
The early Buicks had their unique features, like side opening hoods, starter under the gas pedal and a radio antenna that sprouted from the top of the windshield. The antenna attached to a knob on the inside that could be turned to swing it out of the way when entering a low ceiling garage.
Can still recall the distinctive sound of a Buick straight 8 with the one speed Dynaflow pulling away. Exactly like an old Evinrude outboard.
Indeed, the engine would speed up, there would be some hesitation, and then the car would catch up with the engine, as the torque got converted in the Dynaflow. It was just like opening the throttle on a motorboat.
I used to occasionally go to lunch in a co-workers Nissan Rogue, with the CVT. It was eerily similar to riding in a Buick with Dynaflow; engine would speed up and then the car would proceed. Perhaps not as pronounced as in a 1950’s Buick but the motorboat feeling was definitely there.
I think part of the sound was from the secondary impeller, which during acceleration is spinning faster than the engine. (The earliest Dynaflow and Powerglide had essentially a two-stage impeller, with the two stages connected by an overrunning clutch. This was abandoned for 1953 on both transmissions.)
SomeOneInTheWildWest
I can’t say that I ever noticed weird noises from the 1950 Buick dynaflow. I know that in Drive it was slow from a standstill. My understanding of the secondary impeller is that at a standstill and under acceleration the transmission fluid pushes the secondary impeller faster than the primary impeller. As the car picks up some speed, less fluid is flowing through the stator so that the secondary impeller slows down to the primary’s speed.
The second generation Dynaflow/Powerglides both use completely different torque converter designs. The Powerglide is a basic torque converter, while the Dynaflow has twin turbine design.
I recall my Dad saying his first 1950 Buick with the Dynaflow was his “Beer Money Machine” when he had it in the mid 1950’s. Seems it was about 15 miles back to K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base from his favorite bar in Negaunee, Michigan.
He’d take somebody up on their bet that their late model Ford could beat him back to the base. Fords would have him all the way to the edge of town, but that Buick would get wound up and he’d be the first one to the main gate of the base.
Often, I guess, he’d be leaning against the fender lighting up a cigar while waiting for the night’s victim, um, opponent to pull up and pay off.
I know its isnt correct but Holdens basically pioneered this body style in the late 30s with their sloper style, a cross between a sedan and a business coupe without the coupe part, strange looking cars for the most part to me we had proper coupe bodies in NZ which Aussies have been coming over and taking home with them since the first found out about them decades ago.
Old Pete
The early ones (like this) were quite nice looking, but from ’37 on they went with a very thin B-pillar and window frames, and a much more sloped and heavy-looking back – now they were strange looking! Early ’35s like the one my Dad owned before the war had an opening rear window for ventilation only; definitely not big enough for loading!
Tatra87
Now that’s very pretty!
Non-antipodeans want to know: is that an NZ-made GM car? What make?
Chevrolet Sloper Holden bodied Australian model 1935/6, NZ had American bodies Aussie cars had locally made bodies.
cheers m8
Something missing from the article and comments is where the sixties’ fastback revival originated. My nomination is it returned first with the 1962 Ferrari GTO, which not only inspired all of the popular, traditional domestic fastbacks that followed, but two years later, the 1964 Ferrari GTO would also be the origin of the more short-lived ‘flying buttress’, tunnelback, inset rear window that would appear on the 1966 GM intermediates and 1968 Charger and Corvette.
Good question. The ’63 Corvette Sting Ray got tremendous attention in America. It surely inspired the ’65 Mustang fastback and all the other US sixties fastbacks.
I don’t think there was enough manufacturing lead time for a 1962 Ferrari to have inspired the Sting Ray. More likely it was the ’61 Jaguar E-Type fastback. Which was inspired by….?
I always thought it was inspired by the growing popularity of Beetles, Saab 93’s and Volvo 444/544 in the US in the late ’50’s. 🙂
Frank Bray
Yup, fastbacks only really work with short rear ends. Most of the fastback-styled cars of the ’60 looked ridiculous, with way too much trunk hanging out behind the rear wheels. The original Mustang worked great precisely because of its long hood/short deck proportions.
The ’50 Buick Sedanet has nice lines.
calibrick
When I saw that red Wildcat I thought surely this can’t be one of the subjects of the article, could it? Great to see you like it too Paul. It looks like a show car to me.
In modern times you don’t see the Charger, Marlin mistake very often but Toyota made it on the Camry Solara. It had the exact same length and wheelbase as the Camry sedan and it just didn’t work. Too much rear floor.
I really love those ’48-50 GM Fastbacks. There is going to be a car show at Point Fermin Park in San Pedro, CA on Sunday where there will be tons of the Chevys.
My exception to the big fastback rule
The preceding and following generations of Torino also handled it well.
steve sicklick
Suprised there is no mention of the ’71 Riviera as a later example fastback especially since it is a Buick and full size. When you look at the rear of the ’71 boat tail Riv’ it almost looks like the design was somewhat inspired by the Sedanet (look at the 11th photo down in the article) even though it wasn’t.
YoungCrone
Actually I have always loved those old Chargers (Especially a white-on-black one like that, I think.) The interiors are just something special, and well, maybe it’s a bigger car than I’d gravitate to, but they look really cool to me: (Really to be fair, they seem to have started with that spectacular interior and made the exterior changes to fit *that,* ) I think they just need bigger wheels than the stock ones, which seem to throw it all out of proportion: if I had one to fix up, (and the budget) I’d resto-mod and rectify that, whatever I had to do to the gearing: would need disc brakes anyway and want to improve handling. 🙂
J P Cavanaugh
I am going to stick up for the 68 Ford fastback, at least a little. I don’t think white paint does this style any favors. The stylists concluded the roof a bit forward of the tail end here as well, at least moreso than the Charger (but not as much as with the GM cars.)
I will admit that the fastback roof works better on the Mercury, which seemed to give the tail end more room to resolve and also broke up the side view with the more pronounced belt and fender line.
A great, insightful article as usual, Paul! I agree wholeheartedly…….I’ve never set out to analyze why a fastback profile works much better on a smaller car, other than that–subliminally–my eyes have been trained to realize that for whatever reason, sporty cars just generally look better in smaller or reduced proportions. I’ve never been super crazy about the Charger fastback, nor the ’68 Ford fullsize fastback. The fastback design looks best, I think, when it flows down into the trunk, but that also tends to reduce trunkspace in favor of a more aesthetically pleasing design. I think that there was some point in the 60’s/ 70’s where car makers realized that fullsize cars were better off when they left the sporty intentions to the pony and sports cars (something that Ford, themselves, realized with the Thunderbird, when it became more of a junior Lincoln in the late 60’s and focused more on luxury.
I always thought of my Porsche 944 as a fastback. I had a ’65 Barracuda before that…
I prefer the late ’60s (’69?) Torino GT fastback over the Galaxie.
And I’ve grown to like all the early ’49 – early ’50s GM versions – even the Chevys.
All the style of the early ’50s Bentley Continental fastback, without that uber high-price and snob-appeal.
Happy Motoring, Mark
Another infamous fastback that didn’t work was the ’78-’79 Olds Cutlass Salon and Buick Century “aeroback” sedans. Granted these weren’t full-sized, but they were marketed as mid-sized which is just a step below, much as several of the ’60s fastbacks (huge as they look to modern eyes) were only midsized in their day.
Here is a very cool Chevy Fleetline that I saw at a show this morning. Never knew these came with a rear wiper, wonder if that’s a custom touch.
I would guess this as a 1948 or so? Rear window wipers are an $11 option.
A nice picture, not taken with a phone camera I would guess.
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Mohammed Ali al-Huthi, head of the Higher Revolutionary Committee and an influential political figure, tweeted that his group wants “all official Yemeni parties” to demand a ceasefire.
“We announce an initiative to call all official Yemeni parties to ask to end launching rockets and drones against aggression countries... in order to deprive them for any reason to continue their aggression and siege, along a readiness to freeze and stop all military operations on all fronts in order to reach peace,” he wrote.
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Jayson Debacke, 6, dressed in rodeo-clown attire, stands at attention during a prayer before the Al Serra Dodge Ram Rodeo at the Genesee County Fair on Saturday, August 29, 2015, at the E.A. Cummings Event Center in Genesee Township, Michigan.
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The Burton Genesee Christian boys soccer team practices on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, at Genesee Christian School in Burton, Mich. The undefeated team has reached the Division 4 state finals.
Early morning light illuminates the Western Washington University men's crew team training in advance for the Head of the Charles Regatta on Oct. 6, 2014, on Lake Whatcom in Bellingham, Washington. Crew athletes at Western wake up for practice at 4:30 a.m. for 5 a.m. boat launch Sept. through April.
A lone baseball fan watches from the stands as Horizon High School faces off against Corona Del Sol High School on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, at Horizon High School in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Pistons players take the court before the game as the Detroit Pistons face off against the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Mich. Pistons beat the Suns 127-122 in overtime.
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Central Washington University's Mark McLaughlin, top, checks on Jordan Russell after falling as Western faces off against Central Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, at Carver Gymnasium in Bellingham. Western beat Central 94-91.
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Underbelly Edinburgh
Edinburgh's Christmas
Christmas in Leicester Square
Edinburgh's Hogmanay
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8 November 2019 - 5 January 2020
1. Do I have to pay to get into Christmas in Leicester Square?
No, there is no admission fee to enter and look round the market. Shows in the Leicester Square Spiegeltent and Santa's Grotto are ticketed and may get fully booked during peak times, so we recommend that you book in advance on the website where possible.
2. What can be booked in advance?
You can buy tickets in advance for shows in the Leicester Square Spiegeltent and Santa's Grotto. On peak days these may sell out well in advance, so advance ticket purchase is recommended. Please remember tickets are not exchangeable and non-refundable. See Ticketing (below) for further details.
3. What about non-ticketed attractions?
Our site features dozens of traders, all of whom accept cash and some accept cards. Food and drink prices vary, but we hope we have provided for all tastes and budgets – for all your Christmas shopping needs!
4. What time is the site open from?
12pm (midday) to 10pm, Monday - Friday.
10am to 10pm, Saturday & Sunday.
Santa's Grotto closes at 8pm every day.
The site is open as usual on 1 January.
Please note we will not be open on 25 December.
5. How do we get to Christmas in Leicester Square?
Christmas in Leicester Square is located in the centre of Leicester Square!
Nearest National Rail Station
Charing Cross – 7 min walk (0.3 miles)
Nearest London Underground Stations
Leicester Square (Northern and Piccadilly lines) – 2 min walk (0.1 mile)
Charing Cross (Bakerloo and Northern lines) – 7 min walk (0.3 miles)
Piccadilly Circus (Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines) – 4 min walk (0.2 miles)
The following routes all stop a short walk distance from Leicester Square (approximately 4 mins/0.2 miles from Leicester Square): 3, 6, 12, 13, 14, 19, 23, 24, 29, 38, 88, 139, 159, 176, 453, N3, N5, N13, N18, N19, N20, N29, N38, N41, N97, N109, N113, N136 and N279. The nearest bus stops are Dean Street Chinatown (Stop W), Leicester Square (Stop L), Haymarket Jermyn Street (Stop R) and Haymarket Charles II Street (Stop P). For a map of all bus routes please see here: https://tfl.gov.uk/maps/bus.
The nearest Santander Cycle Hire docking stations are located at Panton Street, St Martins Street, Charles II Street and William IV Street.
Unfortunately the roads surrounding Leicester Square have double yellow or red lines. There is a taxi rank available on Charing Cross Road outside Hunt’s Court. A disabled person’s parking space is on Whitcomb Street. Full details and locations of street Blue Badge parking bays can be found on the City of Westminster Council website.
6. How can I locate my lost property?
For all lost property queries, please email boxoffice@underbelly.co.uk
7. Can I bring my dog?
Yes! Dogs are permitted into the site (but not into the shows), but must be on a leash and controlled at ALL TIMES. Please Note: Leicester Square may be very busy, especially at weekends, and may not be a suitable environment for dogs.
8. How do I purchase a ticket?
We recommend that you buy tickets in advance from the Christmas in Leicester Square website for shows in the Leicester Square Spiegeltent and Santa's Grotto, subject to availability. Please note a booking fee will apply. For time slots and prices go to our What's On page.
9. Can I buy a ticket on the day at the box office?
Yes, you can buy a ticket on the day at the box office. Please be aware that these are subject to availability and we strongly recommend buying your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment. If you do wish to purchase your tickets on the day, please arrive in plenty of time.
10. Can I exchange my tickets?
Tickets are non-exchangeable, non-transferrable and non-refundable.
11. What should I do if I haven't received my tickets?
If you have booked tickets through the official Christmas in Leicester Square website but have not received or cannot print your ticket confirmation, please see a member of the box office team upon arrival, or contact us in advance, where they can assist you further. Please allow extra time for assistance at the box office as queues are likely. If you bought your tickets from another outlet, please contact them directly.
12. What if there is a problem with my ticket?
If you purchased your ticket from the Christmas in Leicester Square website please contact boxoffice@underbelly.co.uk If you bought your ticket from another agent, please contact them directly. Remember, you must bring your ticket with you in order to join your session or show time.
Please note: all tickets are non-exchangeable, non-transferrable and non-refundable.
13. Are there age restrictions for accessing the site?
Whilst the site is suitable for children of all ages, we would suggest that children are accompanied at all times by a person of 16 years or over. Children (under 16’s) must be accompanied by an adult after 7pm. Young persons (16 and 17 year olds) must be accompanied by an adult after 9pm.
14. Photography and filming at Christmas in Leicester Square
Photography and filming on site is only allowed for personal use. If you have any commercial or editorial photography or filming requests, please contact our press office to request accreditation in advance of arriving at: press@underbelly.co.uk. All amateur photographer groups must also request photography accreditation in advance of arriving on site. We thank you for your co-operation.
15. Is Santa Claus at Christmas in Leicester Square real?
Why not come and ask him yourself! And don’t forget to say hello to all his magical elves too. We hope you’ve been very VERY good this year…
16. Is Christmas in Leicester Square open on Christmas Day?
No, the site will be closed on Christmas Day, and re-opens on the 26th December from midday to 10pm.
17. Access requirements
Christmas in Leicester Square is fully accessible. If you have accessibility requirements and wish to attend Christmas in Leicester Square, please contact us directly to purchase a ticket. We have tried to make the walkways of Christmas in Leicester Square as even as possible with ramps where we can, however please note that due to the temporary nature of the site, ramps may occasionally be steeper than 1:12.
Wheelchairs are welcome throughout Christmas in Leicester Square and there is an accessible viewing area in the Leicester Square Spiegeltent. For patrons with other accessibility requirements, we recommend making yourself known to a member of Christmas in Leicester Square staff who will be happy to assist you.
An accessible toilet is available next to the Leicester Square Spiegeltent. If you are facing the front of the tent, the toilet is on the left hand side.
We do not have an accessible bar, however our staff are able to take an order outside of the bar and return the order to the bar to be poured.
If you are visiting Christmas in Leicester Square, you may be eligible for a complimentary seat for your personal assistant or carer, please contact access@underbelly.co.uk to learn more.
We would advise patrons with access requirements to allow extra time to get to our site and speak to a member of staff upon arrival, who will try to help you with any further requirements you may have. For more information on accessibility and to book tickets, please contact the box office on 03333 444 167 or email access@underbelly.co.uk.
We try and accommodate everyone’s requirements. If someone has accessibility requirements and is with a large group of people we will try and keep the group together. Large groups are strongly encouraged to call in advance to make arrangements.
Evacuation policy
All of our staff are trained to know how to assist disabled customers in case of emergency. There are a number of refuge points, staff will direct you to the nearest accessible point, depending on the nature of the evacuation.
Deaf and visually impaired customers
We welcome assistance dogs and will be able to provide water for them to drink. We do not currently offer a toilet area for assistance dogs.
People with photosensitive epilepsy
Some shows may contains strobe and flashing lighting. If you need further information about this please ring the venue on 03333 444 167.
18. Comments and feedback
We're always interested to hear your feedback - if there's anything that isn't covered in the above, you can email us on enquiries@underbelly.co.uk
Ticket Enquiries
For press enquiries: enquiries@underbelly.co.uk
Office Enquiries
Underbelly Ltd
London, EC1N 8EB
enquiries@underbelly.co.uk
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Obama launches Facebook page, sends message on climate
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The White House launched a Facebook page on Monday for President Barack Obama and used the social media platform to send a message on climate change. Organizing for Action, the political organization that helped elect Obama, has long used an account under the name “Barack Obama.” But the new page allows the president to speak in the first person, much like the Twitter account the White House launched for Obama in May.
Clinton to announce White House run Sunday; her fame both bonus and burden
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By Steve Holland and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton will announce her second run for the presidency on Sunday, starting her campaign as the Democrats' best hope of fending off a crowded field of lesser-known Republican rivals and retaining the White House. The overwhelming favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton will nonetheless face multiple challenges as she returns to the campaign trail seven years after losing the nomination in 2008 to Barack Obama. She has been a high-profile figure in American politics for more than two decades since her husband, Bill Clinton, won the presidency in 1992, and her fame still eclipses the other likely Democratic contenders and Republican opponents.
Hillary Clinton hires Google executive as tech chief
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By Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Likely 2016 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has hired a Google executive to serve as her chief technology officer, a person familiar with the campaign's planning said on Wednesday. Clinton hired Stephanie Hannon, Google's director of product management for civic innovation and social impact, to run her technology operations, according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Oracle sues Oregon officials in healthcare website dispute
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By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) – Oracle America Inc, the software giant in charge of developing Oregon's failed health exchange website, has filed suit against five former staff and campaign advisers to the state's former governor, saying they worked behind the scenes to kill the site for political reasons, court documents showed
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Emory researchers see investigating 3q29 deletion as a way of unraveling schizophrenia’s biological and genetic Read more
Emory scientists could discern that in people with SLE, signals driving expansion and activation are present at an earlier stage of B cell differentiation than previously Read more
At the sleep research meeting in San Antonio this year, there were signs of an impending pharmaceutical arms race in the realm of narcolepsy. The big fish in a small pond, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, was preparing to market its recently FDA-approved medication: Sunosi/solriamfetol. Startup Harmony Biosciences was close behind with pitolisant, already approved in Europe. On the horizon are experimental drugs designed to more precisely target the neuropeptide deficiency in people with classic narcolepsy type 1 Read more
Federal research funding sparks economic growth
A recent report from The Science Coalition gives numerous examples of how federally funded research at universities has led to innovation, new companies, and the creation of jobs. The Sparking Economic Growth report lists the university research origins of 100 companies, including Google, Genentech, Cisco Systems and iRobot. Four Emory startup companies were highlighted among the success stories: GeoVax, Inc., Pharmasset, Inc., Syntermed, Inc., and Triangle Pharmaceuticals, which was later acquired by Gilead Sciences in California.
Emory President James Wagner wrote a followup editorial in the Atlanta Business Chronicle about the importance of scientific research in Georgia’s universities to the health of our economy.
“Atlanta can be proud that Emory University is a shining example in this report, with four highlighted successful companies that were launched because federally funded research resulted in innovative and life-saving discoveries. These four success stories only scratch the surface as examples of the more than 150 companies and the resulting 5,500 jobs created in Georgia from discoveries at its research universities.
“Since the 1990s, Emory has turned external research funding, the majority from the federal government, into more than $775 million in licensing revenues from drugs, diagnostics, devices and consumer products. This is money infused into the state’s economy that helps create jobs and educational opportunities, saves lives, and leads to more research discoveries for the benefit of all. Emory has launched 47 start-up companies and licensed 27 drugs, medical devices and diagnostics already in the marketplace and 12 more currently in human trials.”
GeoVax, Inc., is developing and testing a promising AIDS vaccine based on research at the Emory Vaccine Center and Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Gilead Sciences (from Triangle Pharmaceuticals) and Pharmasset, Inc. are creating AIDS drugs that are taken by over 90 percent of HIV-infected patients in the United States and many more around the world. Syntermed, Inc. distributes imaging software developed at Emory that helps in the diagnosis of more than four million heart disease patients every year.
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Stará Ľubovňa: A Journey to the Roots of Slovak Whiskey at Nestville Park Distillery
A few months back I was doing my usual, intermittent mooch around my favourite Bratislava whisky shop, the White Mouse, when I noticed something tucked away in the corner of the window display gathering dust that I hadn’t glimpsed on previous visits, or indeed anywhere else: a bottle of Nestville Park, and the caveat, in small print: ‘Distilled and Bottled in Slovakia’.
It was their No1 offering – a blend and, as it turned out, the standard bottling for the distillery – and being a purist when in comes to whisky (yes, or whiskey) I would not have normally given it any more attention. Except for that small print. I had not until that moment, having lived in Slovakia over three years, been aware that the country produced whiskey whatsoever.
“What’s it like?” I asked the owner, who is a tad taken aback, as we normally chat about the Islay’s or the Speyside’s.
He considers a moment.
“It’s not bad” he says.
Crucial, that. Slovaks are some of the planet’s most self-deprecating people, particularly where anything intrinsically ‘Slovak’ is concerned, and here was one of its more worldly wise citizens, on record saying Slovakia’s foray into whisky-making was alright.
From that moment, the idea of a trip out to see where Nestville Park was made slowly cemented in my mind.
Part of the reason I love trekking out to whisky distilleries is the sheer randomness of the experience. There is no Earthly reason to trek out to a Campbelltown in Scotland or the outskirts of a Fort Worth in Texas unless you love whisky (Springbank and Firestone & Robinson, respectably). It provides a motivation to get out to those way-off-the-beaten-track places that would otherwise remain in obscurity.
And perhaps Stará Ľubovňa, the town to which you need to head to visit the home of Nestville Park, would have otherwise floundered in obscurity, too, were it not for its whiskey production. It is prettier, in fact, than either a Campbelltown or a Fort Worth: with a castle, a folk museum and a history dating back to the 13th century (although many more easily accessible Slovak towns can claim this). And more than either a Campbelltown or a Fort Worth, it is on a road to nowhere, in a rarely-visited part of a country that already receives comparatively few international visitors. They say that once you reach Stará Ľubovňa, you have truly arrived in Eastern Slovakia, which claims cultural distinctiveness from the west in everything from its people (the Roma and the Rusyn as well as the Polish and Ukrainians have a significant influence here) to its religion (it lies on the crossroads of the Catholic and Orthodox branches of Christianity). But the most obvious reason why the town would be the gateway to Eastern Slovakia is that, as you travel east from the High Tatras hubs of Poprad and Kežmarok, you pass nothing for the preceding 30 minutes but rolling emerald hills bursting with fertile farmland, swooping up from the banks of the nascent Poprad River.
The bus from Kežmarok (full of elderly couples that hunch deep into their coats and sigh as the light drizzle becomes a steadily harder rain as we wind up the valley road) stops a few kilometres short of Stará Ľubovňa, in Hniezdne, the smallest city in the erstwhile Kingdom of Hungary. The name is appropriate: not only does ‘hniez’ in Slovak mean ‘nest’ (from whence the distillery derives its name) but the small, sleepy town is at the very cradle of national history, being founded as one of the earliest Slovak settlements after Nitra – in the 12th century. Certainly, by this time, Slavic people would have been working the land hereabouts and the Northern Spiš region soon became well known for its agriculture. Cream of the crops? Wheat, barley and rye – just the grain needed for the production of the water of life – and Slovakia’s first recorded distillery duly got established here by at least the 18th century.
It’s a stark contrast between the ornate, peeling facades of the central townhouses and the spick, span entranceway to the distillery on the outskirts. I passed under the imposing wooden gateway proclaiming Nestville Park as Slovakia’s first (indeed, only) whiskey. Rain danced on an almost deserted car park: I was the sole visitor, another big difference compared to the Scottish distilleries with which I was familiar.
It’s hard to understand why is Nestville Park is an exceptionally well-laid-out tourist attraction. It is not only a whiskey distillery, it is also an exhibition on the history of whiskey making in this neck of the woods.
The two girls in the reception area glanced at me a tad incredulously when I walked in; the more so when I spoke to them in Slovak. Foreign tourists, it appeared, were none too common here. I was given the ‘English’ tour which consists of a guide (one of the afore-mentioned young ladies) who couldn’t speak a word of English pressing stop/start on an obtrusively loud American-accented recording, quite unnecessarily as it turned out because the displays in the ‘historical section’ of the distillery were in English. Nevertheless, thus we proceeded, me reading the in-English noticeboards, then having the same words replayed to me with a mechanical Deep-South twang.
The tour, though, was an enlightening romp through recreations of an 18th century cooperage and smithy, plus insights into how agriculture was practiced here in the 12th to 17th centuries. You get to have a ring of a huge bell in the belfry, too – once used to summon the workers!
Then the visit to the modern distillery commences.
Sniffing that grain! ©www.englishmaninslovakia.co.uk
Single malt aficionados should known straight off that Nestville Park is more akin to American bourbon – the maturation process ranging from three to seven years on average.
The malting process is done by hand. After 2-3 days soaked in water and malt is laid out in the malthouse for around a week to germinate. Then it gets switched to a kiln for further drying (2-3 days). The malt then has the water added to it – in Nestville Park’s case, water from a spring that has been flowing underground from the Bela Tatras part of the High Tatras mountains, and with a high iron, calcium and magnesium content, filtering through Paleogen-era bedrock en route. The fermentation room, considering Nestville Park’s products are mostly sold to a Slovak-only demographic, is huge: some 20 tanks each able to have 75,000 litres of alcohol bubbling away inside them.
The distillery overall has a modern feel – despite the historic record of a distillery around this site dating back to at least the 19th century – and the buildings are mostly very 21st century. Its pièce de résistance however, the tasting room, veritably oozes with history. Here, in an ornate hall hung on one side by what is Europe’s largest wood-carved picture, you get to partake of that well-earned sample dram – or, should I say, sizeable glass of the good stuff. The ambience is much more traditional rustic Slovak – albeit realised in an attractive way. And whilst slurping their complementary ‘green’ whisky – a grassy, earthy three year-old, you can also drink in how the whiskey production kicked off hereabouts historically: a reinterpretation of the medieval peasants that laboured to produce whiskey in Spiš region for centuries – and their life and culture.
A Nestville Park Whiskey Tasting
My favourite Nestville Park product was undoubtedly the single-barrel seven year-old. Think butterscotch and rum and raisin ice cream with a powerful shortbready afterkick. Just try it. At least the equal of most American bourbons – and coming with a good century more of history, too.
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ADMISSION: 5 Euros (standard tour with one tasting), 7 Euros (tour and three tastings)
OPENING: Daily 9am to 5pm (between May and September), Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm (from October to April)
NEXT ON THE JOURNEY: From Nestville Park in Hniezdne it’s only 58km east to Bardejov, one of the top ten most beautiful medieval towns in Slovakia and start point for visiting some of Eastern Slovakia’s famous wooden churches.
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Lunch AND Dinner Review: The Edison in Disney Springs
By AJ and the DFB Team 15 Comments
IT’S TIME to step inside… THE EDISON.
Officially announced in May of 2015 (and rumored long before that), The Edison’s Disney Springs debut has been a long time coming. Of all the dining additions that have come to Disney World’s shopping, dining and entertainment district since the beginning of the enormous expansion of the area formerly known as Downtown Disney, The Edison was — from the start — one of the most highly anticipated of the new offerings. (Originally slated to open in 2016, it has also been one of the most long delayed.)
After all, with the passing of Pleasure Island, options for adult nightlife in Disney Springs have been pretty much non-existent, even with all the terrific new places to dine. But the announcement of The Edison — inspired by its sister location in Los Angeles and a collaboration between Patina Restaurant Group and Kinetescape’s Andrew Meieran — brought the promise of a space geared towards adults, offering classic American food, craft cocktails, and live late night entertainment including cabaret, music, and palm reading in a lavish, “Industrial Gothic” setting.
And, what, exactly, does that mean? Well, we showed you much of that in our First Look at The Edison.
But now that we’re back with our full review of both Lunch AND Dinner, it’s time to take a closer look…
Approaching The Edison, you are entering a building that once served as a power plant providing electricity to Disney Springs during its earliest days as a growing town (according to the backstory).
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Fairy Stories & Other Tales
by Amelia Brown
The Whole Wide of Everything (in brief...)
Sitting on a bench, Jane could see the whole wide of everything. It started with the fields that waved at her, tall grassed blowing gold in a soft breeze. Next came the trees that hedged the field in, tall and stately, dappled green. After that rolled the hills that went on and on; until they stopped. For next came the horizon, revealing the rounding of the earth, sloping to reach the sky. The sky turned bluish black and out came the light of the stars, beckoning her to dance among them. And among them and beyond lay space and... well, that was all there was, really. But, sitting as she did, a bit cold in the night air, it felt like an awful lot.
The light shown on Anya’s fingers.It curled around her palm and danced.
This, she thought, was the sheer pleasure of having magic. But in the midst of her play, a shadow grew.It was not unexpected; it was the cost of doing magic, for it always begot shadows.But it never ceased to offer discomfort.If she could find a way to practice her craft and leave behind the adjacent darkness, she would.Anya was not fond of the dark, or shadows, or of the sense of unease that grew whenever she let the flickering brightness dance. But, too, there was a feeling of wholeness in her work.How could that be, such fulfillment when darkness lay about her?A constant wonder—the weight of it only born by extinguishing the light for a time until she could bear it again. Today was such a time.Anya took the light, and threw it at the darkness.The next breath, and it was gone. Elimination brought palpable relief, while at the same time she felt the loss of brightness acutely. These feelings, this tumult of emotions…
A Tale of the Snow Queen
There was once a young woman who was not especially kind, nor especially brave.In fact, there was nothing particularly special about her at all, save that she was human, and that kind was of a sort that was never entirely similar to one another.Perhaps it was because her life had been rather clear-cut, with nothing of challenge or consternation to develop her character.Or perhaps it was because little was expected of her, or that she had never witnessed need. And perhaps all of that had made her heart a bit small, a bit cold, a bit distant, and little inclined to care.
One winter’s day she wandered about the forest, to be free of village prattle and intrusions on her thoughts, when she came upon a pack of mice, seven in all, who looked frozen with cold.They seemed dead, but for the faintest beat of their hearts.A spark of compassion lit within her, and it seemed a fate of gross cruelty that snow and ice should cause the animals such pain.And in a desire to nurse them back to health, sh…
The Breath of the Wind
The wind whirled and cracked.Or maybe it had cracked something.The house, perhaps.
Stepping outside in the midst of the storm was inadvisable, but the man wanted to survey the damage.It was not the house that had cracked; it was the old apple tree.The wind had split it down the middle. He shook off the snow from his boots as he stepped back inside. ‘Nothing hit the cottage,’ he said to his wife. ‘That’s a relief,’ his wife replied, then went back to her sewing. ‘But,’ the man began.The wife looked back up.And then she saw it.The look in his eyes.And she knew, even before he said, ‘It’s the apple tree.’ He left it at that, but a knot found its way between his brows. His wife started to sink.As though she could fall through her chair, as though the solid outlines of her world had begun to fade.He watched her begin to slip away; it was a sight he had not seen in a long time.
Nights passed sleeplessly for the man, because nights passed sleeplessly for his wife.And in the day, he watched as she st…
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More Fed districts report slowdown: Beige Book
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)
The U.S. grew at a “modest to moderate” pace over the last month and a half as more districts are reporting slowing growth, according to the latest survey of anecdotes on the economy released by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday
The so-called Beige Book, which covered the economy between June and early July, was less enthusiastic than the “moderate” assessment of the last Beige Book
And now three regions, up from one, reported slowing growth
The slowdown appeared to be concentrated in the East Coast and Mid-Atlantic regions, as the New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland districts saw slowing growth.
The Richmond district reported “mixed activity.”
This Beige Book survey was prepared by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and is based on information collected before July 9
The report, basically a collection of anecdotal information from Fed business contacts, is meant to give Fed officials a feel for economic conditions as they prepare for their next interest-rate policy meeting on July 31- Aug. 1
Fed officials will have much more in-depth reports on economic conditions in hand before they meet. But these more detailed materials are not public
The downgrade of economic conditions fits with the pessimistic report presented over the last two days by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on Capitol Hill as part of his twice-a-year testimony
While not committing to any action, Bernanke said the Fed would act if it decided that the labor market was “stuck in the mud.”
Factory production was said to be expanding slowly, and there were also widespread reports of a deceleration in new orders
Retail sales were up slightly in all districts, led by auto sales, except Boston and Cleveland
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Management of urinary tract injuries following total hysterectomy: A single-hospital experience
Chao-Yu Hsu1, Kim-Seng Law2, Hao-Ping Tai1, Hsiang-Lai Chen1, Siu-San Tse1, Zhon-Min Huang1, Wei-Chun Weng1, Li-Hua Huang1, I-Yen Lee1, Min-Che Tung1
1 Divisions of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tungs' Taichung Metro Harbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tungs' Taichung Metro Harbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
Date of Web Publication 23-Feb-2018
Chao-Yu Hsu
Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung
DOI: 10.4103/UROS.UROS_11_17
Objective: This study elaborated on the clinical experience of patients who underwent urologic management due to urologic complications after receiving a total hysterectomy at a regional hospital. Materials and methods: A total of 696 female patients received the four types of total hysterectomy including total abdominal hysterectomy, transvaginal hysterectomy, lapaparoscopic hysterectomy or robotic hysterectomy for variant gynecologic pathologies. Only 22 cases (3.2%) had urologic procedures performed during or after the operations from 2012/1/1 to 2016/6/30. Results: Of the 22 cases, thirteen (1.9%) received a series of conservative managements only, including cystoscopy, ureteroscopy, endoscopic ureterotomy, ureteral catheterization or double J stenting during the follow-up period. Nine more complicated cases (1.3%) eventually had definitive management, including repair of the urinary bladder rupture, repair of the vesicovaginal fistula, ureteroureterostomy or ureteroneocystostomy. However, five of these nine cases had both conservative and definitive management. The mean delay interval between the initial management and gynecologic procedure was 19.3 days. For definitive management and the gynecologic procedure, the period was 52.8 days. Conclusions: Compared to previous studies, the incidence of urologic injuries following a total hysterectomy in our hospital was similar. From the paper review, it seems early recognition does not improve the outcome but we found a 100% good outcome in patients with definitive management. Copyright © 2017, Taiwan Urological Association. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Keywords: Conservative management, definitive management, hysterectomy, urologic injuries
Hsu CY, Law KS, Tai HP, Chen HL, Tse SS, Huang ZM, Weng WC, Huang LH, Lee IY, Tung MC. Management of urinary tract injuries following total hysterectomy: A single-hospital experience. Urol Sci 2018;29:12-9
Hsu CY, Law KS, Tai HP, Chen HL, Tse SS, Huang ZM, Weng WC, Huang LH, Lee IY, Tung MC. Management of urinary tract injuries following total hysterectomy: A single-hospital experience. Urol Sci [serial online] 2018 [cited 2019 Jul 15];29:12-9. Available from: http://www.e-urol-sci.com/text.asp?2018/29/1/12/226025
The hysterectomy is the most common major gynecologic surgery worldwide.[1] Owing to the female uterus and the urinary tracts being closely related, the potential risk of urologic tract injury is always of concern when undergoing gynecologic surgery such as a hysterectomy. Although improvements in surgical techniques have decreased the incidence rate of urinary tract injury and occurrence of complications, urologic injuries remain a common event in gynecologic surgery. According to previous reports, the incidence rates of urinary tract injury in all gynecologic procedures and pelvic surgery range from 0.2% to 1%.[2],[3] Another 10-year review study based on a community hospital showed a 0.4% incidence rate of urinary tract injury after undergoing gynecologic surgical procedures.[4] A systematic review of urinary tract injuries in laparoscopic hysterectomy also shows the urinary tract injury rate for laparoscopic hysterectomy was 0.73%, with the rate ranging from 0.05% to 0.66% and 0.02% to 0.4% for bladder injury and ureteral injury, respectively.[5] A 20-year review study in Asia shows similar results with a 0.7% and 0.6% prevalence of urinary bladder and ureteral injuries in gynecological surgeries.[6] In Europe, a large retrospective study reported the incidence of bladder injury during laparoscopic hysterectomy, abdominal hysterectomy, and vaginal hysterectomy ranged from 0.6% to 1.0%.[7] Routine cystoscopy has become a trend in postgynecological surgery management because previous studies demonstrated <25% of bladder injuries and <50% of ureteral injuries are disclosed without the use of cystoscopy, but there is up to a 100% detection rate of ureteral injuries and 80% detection rate of urinary bladder injuries following performance of an intraoperative cystoscopy.[8] However, a retrospective cohort study showed 14 patients (0.71%) with bladder injury and 5 patients (0.25%) with ureteral injury at the time of hysterectomy not detected by cystoscopy indicated cystoscopy was selective rather than universal procedure at the time of hysterectomy.[9] Routine intraoperative cystoscopy has been suggested as the reason for the decreased incidence of urinary tract injury during gynecological surgery.[10],[11],[12] However, potential considerations related to routine cystoscopy such as the false-positive findings, insignificant injuries, increased cost of training and instruments, and lack of verifiable benefit in the postsurgery period may be reasons for the lack of demonstrable reports. To the best of our knowledge, less comprehensive reports of urologic treatment experiences and management in posttotal hysterectomy have been presented in Taiwan. The aim of this study is to show the treatment experience for those who received urologic treatment and management due to urologic complications after undergoing a total hysterectomy in a community hospital. This may provide an appropriate strategy to prevent future occurrences of urinary tract injuries in gynecological surgeries.
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A total of 696 female patients who received surgery, including a total abdominal hysterectomy, transvaginal hysterectomy, laparoscopic hysterectomy, or robotic hysterectomy in Tungs' Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital during 2012–2016. Those who underwent conservative management (cystoscopy, ureteroscopy, endoscopic ureterotomy, or double-J stenting) or definitive management (repair of urinary bladder rupture, repair of vesicovaginal fistula (VVF), ureteroureterostomy, or ureteroneocystostomy) due to urologic injuries during or after hysterectomies by gynecologists were enrolled in this study. The characteristics, clinical measures, and the period and bleeding amount of the surgical procedures for these patients were also collected in this study. Conservative or definitive management was performed including diagnosis, operation, and postsurgery evaluation for these patients with urologic injuries based on the experience of the urologists in the hospital. The observational period of urologic treatment and management was between January 1, 2012 and June 30, 2016.
We computed the distribution of demographics, clinical measures, and surgical period including age (<40, 40–49, 50–59, and ≥60), surgery period (<3, 3–3.9, 4–4.9, 5–5.9, and ≥6 h), bleeding amount (<100, 100–199, 200–299, 300–999, and ≥1000 ml), hemoglobin level (<12, 12–14 and ≥14), creatinine level (<0.5, 0.5–0.9 and ≥1 mg/dl), blood urea nitrogen (BUN)(8–12 and 13–17 mg/dl), and urine protein (positive, negative, and unknown). The series of conservative managements of the urologic injuries were individually computed as cystoscopy, diagnostic ureteroscopy, endoscopic ureterotomy, and double-J stenting. The definitive management encompassed four procedures, including repair of urinary bladder rupture and VVF repair, ureteroureterostomy, and ureteroneocystostomy. The final treatments, including operation and diagnosis, were divided into eight (ureteroscopic procedures such as bilateral/unilateral ureteroscopy with double-J stent implantation or endoscopic ureterotomy with double-J implantation, cystoscopy, removal of tension-free vaginal tape-obturator (TVT-O) mesh, laparoscopic urinary bladder repair, open repair of urinary bladder, repair of VVF, ureteroneocystostomy, and ureteroureterostomy) types and nine (ureteral swelling-immediately following gynecology surgery or narrowing of the lumen without fibrotic change, ureteral stricture – visualized fibrotic change tissue, ureteral severance, TVT-O mesh erosion, urinary bladder minor injury – mucosal injury only, urinary bladder scarring – visualized fibrotic change tissue on urinary bladder mucosa, urinary bladder rupture, ureter–vaginal fistula, and VVF) types, respectively. The evaluation of final treatments included the severity of injuries (minor or major) and prognosis (good, loss follow-up, or stricture). The definition of major injuries included those who received major repair operations of urinary bladder rupture, repair of VVF, ureteroureterostomy, and ureteroneocystostomy. Otherwise, they were defined as minor injuries. The definition of multiple procedures includes those having at least two urologic operations following gynecology operations but not including removal of the double-J stent, and the first urologic management could be the same day or the other day of the gynecologic operation. The definition of one procedure includes those who only have a one-step urologic operation following the gynecologic operation, perhaps on the same day or the other day of gynecologic surgeries, and maybe including those lost to follow-up after gynecologic surgeries and having only one urologic operation. Lag time of recognition denotes the interval between the day of the total hysterectomy and the 1st day of recognition of urologic complications, possibly at the same time, and is also the day of first conservative management or even combined with a definitive operation. Lag time of final operation denotes the interval between the day of the total hysterectomy and definitive operations, including repair of the urinary bladder rupture, repair of VVF, ureteroneocystostomy, and ureteroureterostomy. The definition of a good prognosis is effective reconstruction of the urinary tract without functional abnormality and departure of urologic follow-up. The categorical variables of the baseline demographics and clinical measures were summarized as percentages, and continuous variables were calculated as means with standard deviations (SDs). Differences between the conservative management and definitive management for continuous variables and categorical valuables used the t-test and Fisher's exact test. All analysis was performed using SAS version 9.4 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA).
Twenty-two patients who underwent urologic treatment and management after total hysterectomy were selected in this study. All 22 cases underwent laparoscopically-assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH). The baseline characteristics between the minor injury and major injury study participants are shown in [Table 1]. The minor injury study participants had a higher mean age, presurgery hemoglobin level, bleeding amount, presurgery creatinine level, post-BUN, postcreatinine, but less surgery period of total hysterectomy, and negative pre- and posturine protein events then major injure study participants. However, there were no significant differences between minor and major injuries among all of the baseline characteristics (all P > 0.05). [Table 2] showed the differences in final operations for the treatment of urologic complication following total hysterectomy between managements, multiple-/one-stage procedure, and lag time of recognition. A significant difference between conservative management and definitive management was found for the final operation (P < 0.001). There were three categories of conservative management. The first was ureteroscopic procedures (n = 8, 61.5%) including ureteroscopy and double-J stenting (n = 5, 38.5%), bilateral ureteroscopy and double-J stenting (n = 1, 7.7%), endoscopic ureterotomy, and double-J stenting (n = 2, 15.4%). The second was cystoscopy (n = 4, 30.8%) and the third was removal of the TVT-O mesh (n = 1, 7.7%). The definitive managements were ureteroneocystostomy (n = 3, 33.3%), ureteroureterostomy (n = 2, 22.2%), repair of the urinary bladder (n = 2, 22.2%), laparoscopic urinary bladder repair (n = 1, 11.1%), and repair of VVF (n = 1, 11.1%), respectively. The four categories of final operation completed within the one-stage procedure included cystoscopy, laparoscopic urinary bladder repair, repair of urinary bladder and ureteroureterostomy, and the others were multiple-stage procedures with/without one-stage procedure. Lag time of recognition was day 0 when repair of urinary bladder were required on the same day of hysterectomy in 3 cases. Mean ± SD of lag time of recognition for ureteroureterostomy was 5.5 ± 7.8 days. Mean ± SD of lag time of recognition for ureteroneocystostomy was as long as 11.7 ± 6.7 days. For most of the others, the mean lag time of recognition was between 2 and 3 weeks to identify the particular gynecologic complication. [Table 3] shows the characteristics of the final diagnosis following the total hysterectomy. For conservative management, the top four causes of final diagnosis were ureteral swelling (n = 3, 23.1%), ureteral severance (n = 2, 15.4%), ureteral stricture (n = 2, 15.4%), and urinary bladder minor injury (n = 2, 15.4%). There were four categories of diagnosis in definitive management, including ureteral severance (n = 3, 33.3%), ureteral stricture (n = 2, 22.2%), urinary bladder rupture (n = 3, 33.3%), and VVF (n = 1, 11.1%). Urinary bladder complications including urinary bladder minor injury, scarring, or rupture were all managed by a one-stage procedure. The others were multiple-stage procedures of conservative management with/without definitive management. The lag time of recognition was 0 days for urinary bladder rupture in 3 cases, 7.8 ± 4.7 days (mean ± SD) for ureteral severance in 5 cases, 9.5 ± 13.4 days (mean ± SD) of urinary bladder minor injury in 2 cases, and the longest 38 days delay was for 1 case of TVT-O mesh erosion. The mean lag time of recognition of the others to identify gynecologic complications was more than 2 weeks. The urologic management, lag time of recognition, lag time of final operation, severity of injury, and prognosis following the total hysterectomy are shown in [Table 4]. Significant differences between conservative management and definitive management were observed among the lag time of recognition (P = 0.012) and severity of injury (P < 0.001). Thirteen cases (59.1%) performed conservative management only, with 19.0 ± 11.6 days (mean ± SD) of lag time between the first recognition of the injury and gynecologic operation, 33.5 ± 37.8 days (mean ± SD) of the lag time for the final operation as the definitive treatment. For those having good prognosis, the loss to follow-up and ureteral stricture in the prognosis were 69.2% (n = 9), 23.1% (n = 3), and 7.7% (n = 1), respectively. Of the others with definitive management, the means ± SD for lag time of recognition and lag time of final operation were 6.9 ± 7.5 and 52.8 ± 109.2 days, respectively. All of whom were classified as major injuries due to a subsequent major definitive management, including repair of the urinary bladder rupture, repair of VVF, ureteroneocystostomy, and ureteroureterostomy. However, all had good prognosis without subsequent urologic adverse events.
Table 1: Comparison of baseline demographics and clinical characteristics between the minor injury and major injury study participants (n=22)
Table 2: The differences in final operations for treatment of urologic complication following a total hysterectomy between managements, multiple-/one-stage procedure, and lag time of recognition
Table 3: The characteristics of final diagnosis of urologic complication following a total hysterectomy
Table 4: The urologic management, lag time of recognition, lag time of final operation, severity of injury, and prognosis following a total hysterectomy
The incidence rates of urinary bladder and ureteral injuries receiving total hysterectomy at our institute were 1.1% (8/696) and 1.9% (13/696), respectively. The results are similar to the reporting range from recent guidelines. The summarized incidence rates of urinary bladder injuries following abdominal hysterectomy, vaginal hysterectomy, and laparoscopic hysterectomy ranged from 0.37% to 2.5%, 0.44% to 6.3%, and 0.5% to 2.0%, respectively. The summarized incidence rates of ureteral injuries following abdominal hysterectomy, vaginal hysterectomy, and laparoscopic hysterectomy ranged from 0.03 to 2.0%, 0.02% to 0.5%, and 0.2% to 6.0%, respectively.[13] The chance of urinary tract injuries with a total hysterectomy by gynecologists is rare but unavoidable. Some clinical strategies are helpful in reducing the impact of adverse events. Delicate explanation of possible events to the patient and her family is mandatory before the operation. The surgeon obviously must be highly aware of the urinary tract and gynecologic organs relationship, especially during the operation. The surgeon must be alert during the history taking and physical examination, especially if there is a history of cesarean delivery or abdominal surgery/laparotomy, adhesions, and gynecology diseases of endometriosis or broad ligament fibrosis are high-risk situations. Low-volume surgeons commonly mentioned risk factors in urinary tract injuries.[14] High-risk patients had more intraoperative blood loss and a longer operation time during the operation.[15] Ibeanu et al. showed the below factors were also statistically correlated with increased risk of urinary tract injury, including blood loss of more than 800 mL, lower body mass index, duration of surgery, and increased uterine size.[10] We attempted to compare the risk of major or minor injury in [Table 1], but the P value is of no significance.
Prevention of ureteral injuries by ureteral catheterization before the hysterectomy used to be suggested in high-risk patients and has been surveyed as a generalized preoperative prophylaxis based on the retrospective study [16] and randomized trial [17] both showing no significant difference in the incidence of ureteral injuries. In contrast, some studies reached different conclusions. Cohen et al. suggested prophylactic ureteral catheterization should not supplant meticulous dissection, but it may improve the ability to identify the ureter either visually or by palpation among appropriately selected patients. The decision concerning the use of catheterization should be left to the surgeon's discretion.[18]
Early recognition of complications during or immediately after hysterectomy will improve the outcome and reduce morbidity after such complications of gynecologic surgery,[19] and perhaps it will decrease the lag time of the final operation for gynecologic complication and also reduce the possibility of eventual loss of kidney or legal problems. Most previous studies suggest almost all bladder injuries are detected and about 80%–90% of ureteral injuries are detected by intraoperative cystoscopy.[8],[20] The American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL) proposed the sources of injuries “missed” by intraoperative cystoscopy are related to postoperative swelling of nonocclusive suture ligatures and thermal injuries that initially do not cause mechanical obstruction. AAGL also advised that the current evidence supports the conclusion cystoscopic evaluation of the lower urinary tract should be readily available to gynecologic surgeons performing laparoscopic hysterectomy. However, not all ureteral injuries are detected by intraoperative cystoscopy, even under the use of intravenous indigo Carmine injection.[21] Cystoscopy is a good tool but not a fail-safe method of intraoperative assessment of ureteral integrity, and might increase the number of injuries recognized, possibly preventing many of the subsequent complications.[22]
Intraoperative recognition of urinary bladder injuries may directly identify by obvious cystostomy, urine leakage, hematuria, or distended catheter bag due to leakage of gas through the urinary bladder defect during LAVH. In highly suspect cases, cystoscopy with/without instillation of urinary bladder with 200–300 ml colored saline (methyl blue or indigo carmine) could be chosen. Postoperative recognition of urinary bladder injuries may present suprapubic pain, hematuria, and leakage of urine from the vagina and oliguria. If uroperitoneum develops, it will present diffuse abdominal pain, distension, and ileus. Intraoperative recognition of ureteral injuries is challenging due to the seven types of ureteral injuries, including transection, resection, laceration, thermal, ligation, crush, and angulation. Only a third of these injuries are recognized during the operation. In highly suspicious cases, it is advised using a cystoscopy to identify presentation of urine jets or hematuria from ureteral orifice or not, and ureteral catheterization to differentiate a possible ureteral injury or the ureteroscope is located at the site of the ureteral injury. Postoperative recognition of ureteral injuries following major pelvic surgery may present as flank pain with tenderness, hematuria, oliguria or watery vaginal loss, which may be present in the first 48 h after the injury. Urinoma, extensive cellulitis, and even abscesses may develop if the above are obscure or misleading. Thermal injury to the ureter may lead to delayed necrosis and fistula formation between 10 and 14 days postoperatively. If the ureteral injuries are left unrecognized, the consequences will be spontaneous healing to fistula and/or stricture formation.[23] Of importance, up to 25% of unrecognized ureteral injuries lead to eventual loss of the kidney (ipsilateral nephrectomy).[24]
Hove et al. reported the number of ureteral injuries discovered intraoperatively amounted to 17 cases, within a week of the operation in 50 cases and 47 patients whose injuries were discovered within a month, where 17 patients were found to have urologic injuries more than 1 month later. In five cases, the damage was not noted until more than 2 years after the operation.[22] This will lead to eventual loss of the kidney.[23] In our experience, three patients with urinary bladder rupture having definitive management and three patients of ureteral severances having definitive management [Table 3] all achieved a 100% good outcome, and their injury were all classified as major severity [Table 4]. The lag time of recognition of the urinary bladder ruptures and ureteral severances was within 1 week, and most of these injuries were a one-stage procedure. On the other hand, the lag time of recognition of the other injuries was more than 2 weeks and most of these injuries were a multiple-stage procedure [Table 3]. Timing of the first recognition and repair of the injury may be related to the outcome and multiple procedures or not. Regardless, it means more aggressive management leads to a better outcome. In contrast to definitive management, our patients received a series of conservative managements. Four of the 13 (4/13, 30.8%) patients either had ureteral stricture (n = 3) or were lost to follow-up (n = 1, perhaps requesting a second opinion from another hospital). Among the nine definitive managements, four cases had immediate reconstruction of the urinary bladder (n = 3) or ureter (n = 1) during gynecologic surgery, five cases had initial conservative management before the final definitive management and all achieved a good prognosis. The mean interval of the five cases between the first recognition and definite operation was 87 days (data not shown). Contrarily, only conservative endoscopic procedures are not always good choices following several similar efforts. Our cases showed 23.2% (n = 3) loss to follow-up and 7.7% (n = 1) eventual stricture without further management. Definitive management should be considered for these patients.
Our study shows the lag time between the first recognition of injury and gynecologic operation was 19.0 ± 11.6 days (mean ± SD) in only conservative management cases and a shorter interval of 6.9 ± 7.5 days (mean ± SD) in definitive management cases. The difference was significant (P = 0.012). However, it did not shorten the lag time for the final operation in definitive management cases; the lag time of the final operation was 33.5 ± 37.8 days (mean ± SD) in only conservative management cases and 52.8 ± 109.2 days (mean ± SD) in definitive management cases. It showed no difference (P = 0.386 for t-test) due to some of our definitive management patients trying conservative endoscopic double-J stenting before final definitive management, with the wide variant range being 0–335 days.
As to the location of the ureteral injuries, the majority (71%) occurred at the level of the vaginal cuff, approximately 2–4 cm from the ureteral orifice. The majority of urinary bladder injuries occurred along the posterior bladder wall.[25] Our cases are compatible with the paper review (data not shown). The management of different locations of the urinary bladder is only primary repair, but different locations of ureteral injuries are related to different repairs. The choices for middle-third ureteral injury are ureteroureterostomy, transureteroureterostomy, or ureteral reimplantation with a Boari flap. The choices for lower-third ureteral injuries are ureteral reimplantation or ureteral reimplantation with a psoas hitch.[25] Upper-third ureteral injury or complete loss of the ureter from a gynecologic surgery complication is rare.
Only one patient received LAVH for uterine myoma and TVT-O for genuine stress urinary incontinence. As proven by the paper review, concomitant placement of TVT-O during a LAVH surgery is an efficacious and safe procedure. However, the study was designed for a benign gynecological disease coexisting with stress urinary incontinence.[26] Our case displayed an erosive tape between the lumen of the middle urethra 1 month after the operation. Eventually, her right groin area pain persisted in spite of partial removal of the tape.
There are some limitations to this study. First, the small sample size of the retrospective study makes it difficult to evaluate the relationship between management and prognosis, so we only conducted descriptive research. Nevertheless, all patients with major injuries that received definitive management clearly showed a better prognosis (100% good prognosis) than with a series of conservative managements.
Compared to previous studies, the incidence of urologic injuries following a total hysterectomy in our hospital was similar. From the paper review, it seems early recognition does not improve the outcome but we found a 100% good outcome in patients with definitive management. We look forward to conducting this study over a wider area of hospitals in Taiwan and collecting nationwide data to conduct a more precise analysis of the exact Taiwanese experience.
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After a very snowy day with gale force winds the team returned to the Eiscat site last night. The weather forecast was very poor but our own local analysis suggested the possibility of a hole developing over the mountainous valley of Ramfjorden, site of the Eiscat installation.
In snow over 2 foot deep they set up the camera equipment for the four hour timelapse sequence. This would provide about 30 seconds of material for viewing on the dome. All shooting was being done in 8K format.
After an hour or so the sky cleared and although aurora activity was forecast to be low a beautiful outburst of green Aurora lit the valley and silhouetted the Radar Dish as it moved across the heavens. Using radar, the Eiscat instruments investigate the upper atmosphere and search for disturbances related to geomagnetic activity.
Bangkok Planetarium
Bangkok's long-time astronomical center is ready to beckon and captivate a new generation of children with the universe's mystical lure. The galaxies can now be explored using Digistar 5 in the renovated Bangkok Planetarium.
Bangkok Planetarium Returns to the Stars in January
The newly renovated Bangkok planetarium will reopen with a ceremony on Jan. 5 and offer free admission for five days through Jan. 9. The theater now features a 4K-resolution Digistar 5 system.
Via Kiaosod English, read more and watch a time lapse video of the renovation.
Christie Case Study on Science Museum of Virginia
Making the move from film to digital projectors, the Science Museum of Virginia upgrades their 1570 giant screen film projection system to the world’s first 8K digital fulldome system installed as a 1570 film projection replacement in a dome, enhancing the content they can offer.
Read the Entire Case Study Here
Digistar on the White House Lawn
Monday night’s Astronomy Day celebration on the White House lawn featured a portable Discovery Dome operated by educators from the Lunar and Planetary Institute with support from the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Rice University, and Evans & Sutherland. Rice provided the dome as part of their dome loaner program, HMNS provided the projection system and all of the content formatted correctly. Christine Shupla made the 20 minute presentation live using Robot Explorers solar system animations from Evans & Sutherland. Every institution played a critical role in making Astronomy Day under the Dome a success. Christine Shupla’s creative use of Robot Explorers could inspire others to use this show as full-dome animations for telling a live story of NASA’s missions to the planets.
It is exciting to realize that these very portable Discovery Domes can reach every student in the US with the
Science Centre Singapore
One of three new 8K resolution E&S 2015 installations in Asia, the Science Center Sinapore's Omni-Theatre is Asia's brightest digital fulldome system with each of the five Christie Boxer 4K30 projectors displaying a never-before-seen 30,000 lumens in a dome.
At-Bristol Science Centre
At-Bristol Science Centre, one of the UK's leading interactive science centres, is upgrading its Planetarium to become the UK's first digital 3D Planetarium.
Verkehrshaus
The Swiss Transport Museum (STM) features Europe's first "8K" Digistar 5 digital fulldome system.
Houston’s NASA-approved True8K Planetarium
Once the unprecedented pinnacle of sports stadium infrastructure, Houston’s original Astrodome still stands today, an abandoned homage to a bygone area.
Not far away, however, sits another city institution that houses, in its most literal form, another “Astrodome.” Like the original Houston venue, it’s setting a global standard for technology and multimedia production.
Probing the Depths of the Universe
For over 50 years the Bangkok Planetarium has been impressing visitors but more recently, thanks to Christie® Boxer and Evans & Sutherland's Digistar 5 system, the immersive cosmological experience it now offers has made the planetarium a must-visit destination. Deep space journeys and close-ups of objects in the farthest depths of outer space are attracting new visitors and enticing familiar patrons to return.
Adler Planetarium Boosts Image Quality
The Grainger's Digistar 6 system is billed as providing 8K resolution. It is comprised of "six Sony SRX-T615 4K projectors with 18,000 lumens per projector and 12,000:1 contrast," according to the company.
Read the Story Here
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
In May of 2016, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis opened their new Beyond Spaceship Earth gallery which includes an immersive space object experience called the Schaefer Planetarium & Space Object Theater.
Museum of Technology Zeiss-Grossplanetarium
On August 25, 2016 the large ZEISS planetarium in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district reopened, following extensive renovation work and upgrades with Digistar and Zeiss technology.
DellEMC Case Study on E&S
To deliver its industry-leading Digistar planetarium projection software, Evans & Sutherland sought a dependable, robust platform to easily incorporate into a turnkey solution that could be supported virtually anywhere in the world.
Fulldome Art with Digistar 5
Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science recently hosted an event featuring the art of local artist, Jenna Citrus, featured on their dome using Digistar 5. We love seeing all the creative and artistic uses of Digistar.
The renovated Burke Baker Planetarium is the first True8K™ planetarium in the world. Across a 50 foot Spitz NanoSeam dome, the system displays over 50 million unique pixels and provides 8,000 pixels across every meridian.
Burke Baker's Planetearium Re-Opening Out of this World
"This week Evans & Sutherland delivered on their True8K vision and exceeded all our expectations in Houston. The combination of high resolution, high contrast, high brightness, and rich color palette has turned our planetarium into a destination with record crowds and much applause. We have a star field that is as dark and rich as any on Earth. We have video that is far sharper, more vibrant, and more immersive than in any movie theater. In a True8K planetarium with its high frame rate, a new reality surrounds you, immerses you, and takes you where you could never go before. The Burke Baker Planetarium is not just a movie theater, but a unique audience experience, like a world-class exhibit, to be enjoyed oand over again." -Dr. Carolyn Sumners Vice President for Astronomy and the Physical Sciences HMNS
On Earth as it is From Heaven
As part of a new 8K show production in conjunction with Houston Museum of Natural Science, Evans & Sutherland has a photography team on the ground north of the Arctic Circle. They are photographing the Aurora Borealis, while coordinating with astronauts aboard the International Space Station to capture the same Aurora, in the same locations at the same time.
Using special equipment these images are being specifically captured in 8K resolution for the fulldome. The first results of these coordinated aurora images are now coming in. Sunday night (7 February, 2016) this active aurora was captured by our team and the ISS astronauts at the same time over Norway.
Otago Museum
The Perpetual Guardian Planetarium is a new 51 seat theater with a 9m aluminum Spitz NanoSeam dome tilted at 12°. Their Digistar 5 integrates two Barco F35 (2560 x 1600) projectors with 120Hz 3D capability.
EC-1, City of Industry
At EC-1 City of Industry East, there is a new 8K Digistar 5 devoted to astronomy education. This is the first of two Digistar 5 installations at EC1 Lodz, Poland. A second dome theater featuring a Digistar 5 system in 3D is installing now.
New Digistar 5 to illuminate Scobee Planetarium
San Antonio College's Scobee Planetarium will close for the remainder of the semester starting Nov. 20 to upgrade the projection system in the theater. We are thrilled to be installing a new 4K Digistar 5 system with dual Christie Boxer projectors.
Full Article from theranger.org
Shanghai Natural History Museum
The immersive environment inside the museum's Theater of the Cambrian Explosion is a one-of-a-kind attraction in the world. The dome is inverted and has a 5-meter diameter central pedestal in the center for up to 40 viewers per show.
Science Museum of Virginia
The Science Museum of Virginia (SMV) features the world's first "8K" digital fulldome system installed to replace a 1570 giant screen film projection system.
2018 Lunar Calendar
The E&S 2018 Lunar Calendar is ready! Shipments will begin soon, or you can get your own copy here! To receive a free calendar, submit a request via our contact form.
Specialty cinema reaches for E&S True8K
On 19 April 2017, leaders and directors of more than 50 science museums across China gathered in the world's largest fulldome (digital dome) theater, at the China Science and Technology Museum in Beijing. for a demonstration of Evans & Sutherland (E&S) True8K™ technology. The demo was part of the Beijing International Film Festival. According to local press and others who were there, industry viewers at the demo received True8K as an absolute breakthrough – achieving the highest possible image quality on a giant dome screen and definitively surpassing the longtime benchmark set by 1570 film.
Liberty Science Center
The newly renovated Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium at the Liberty Science Center is the world's largest IMAX dome theater and will soon have the world's largest digital giant screen dome system with a True8K™ Digistar 6 system from Evans & Sutherland (E&S).
European Southern Observatory
Milwaukee Public Museum's planetarium is Wisconsin's largest and most modern, and is the first Planetarium in the world to debut a Digistar 6 computer projection system that fills the entire Dome Theater with stunning 3D animations, creating an immersive astronomy experience.
Griffith Observatory
The Griffith Observatory's Samuel Oschin Planetarium re-invented itself again in late 2015, nearly ten years after a major renovation that ushered the 1930s-era Los Angeles facility squarely into the realm of digital fulldome.
Aurora Themed Bangkok Planetarium Opens with Excitement
More than 50 years after it first opened, Bangkok's Science Centre for Education - or the Planetarium as it was formerly known - recently underwent eight months of renovations, opening its doors wide again to moonwalkers, both young and old, just in time for National Children's Day.
Billing itself as Thailand's most advanced planetarium and equipped with a single, multipurpose 4K Digistar 5 system from the US, the venue celebrated its return with the screening of the award-winning documentary, "Experience the Aurora" by the leading American company Evans & Sutherland.
Read More via The Nation (Thailand)
Otago Museum's Planetarium Shows are Sellout Success
Using Digistar 5, the talented team at Otago Museum in Dundin, New Zealand, produced three new planetarium shows for their Grand Opening in December 2015. Almost every show since the planetarium's opening has sold out. Read More
Griffith Observatory Upgrades to Digistar 5
Griffith Observatory's new 8K Digistar 5 system drives 6 Christie Boxer projectors to produce crisp, bright images never before seen on their historic dome. Our proprietary auto-blending and auto-alignment technology allows us to take these 6 different projectors to create one bright, seamless, uniform, hi-resolution image on their iconic dome.
Bangkok, Thailand Digistar 5 Installation
E&S recently completed installation at the Bangkok Planetarium in Thailand. The planetarium now has a Hybrid Digistar 5 system with dual center mounted Christie Boxer projectors and a Mark IV Zeiss projector. Opening of the renovated planetarium will be later this year.
National Museum of Natural Science
The National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung is phasing out legacy technologies with a new 8K Digistar 5 system.
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The Storm Report With Coach Dan Chandler — June ’19
By Paul Tellgren
To perhaps no one’s surprise, the latest edition of The Storm Report with Minnesota Storm head coach Dan Chandler centers mainly around one topic: Patrick Smith‘s (77 kg) performance at Final X: Rutgers.
Smith, 29, earned his place on the 2019 World Team by defeating Kamal Bey (Sunkist, world no. 5) in their best-of-three series on June 8th at the Rutgers Athletic Center. The showdown between Smith and Bey stood as Greco’s unofficial main event that evening and it delivered. Bey won the first bout via tech, but Smith came back with a vengeance to outhustle and outlast Bey in the conclusive pair of matches. For Smith, the win puts him on his second Senior World Team (2017) and was his fifth Trials finals appearance in the past six years.
Coach Chandler speaks to Smith’s approach, their game plan prior to the event, what Smith’s immediate training plans for the Worlds entail, and also, what he thought about the Final X Series as a whole.
5PM: So, Pat Smith goes and defeats Kamal Bey, it was an extraordinary series of matches. I was very impressed.
Coach Dan Chandler: I was, too.
5PM: What does this mean for Pat? He has been in the Trial finals five of the past six years and at three different weight classes, and just made his second Senior Team in a qualifying year by defeating Bey, who is the fifth ranked wrestler in the world. This is really significant stuff.
Chandler: Yeah, he (Bey) is a very good wrestler. He’s a very good wrestler. We knew what he did and we have a lot of respect for him, so we had to wrestle him very carefully. We had a plan. For the first match, Pat did not follow the plan (laughs). He rebounded and showed a lot of poise, came back and put two near-perfect matches together.
5PM: Before the matches even started, what was the game plan for the series?
Chandler: Well, all we had to go on was that last match, and Kamal, he feels very comfortable with his heels on the out-of-bounds line. He loves it when people try to push him out of bounds. That’s one thing we kind of eliminated from Pat’s game plan. We didn’t necessarily want to look to drive him through the zone until late in the match, if we had to. We basically wanted to control the tie-up, be extremely physical, and then win the matches at the end. Keep it close, not give up any big throws, and win it at the end. That was the strategy. It’s a no-brainer. That’s what you’ve got to do anytime you’re wrestling someone who has those types of skills that Kamal Bey has.
5PM: What did you talk about with Pat between Matches 1 and 2?
Coach Dan Chandler: It’s a tough situation. Anytime you get tech falled, that’s a real confidence destroyer. But he showed a lot of poise and we knew that meant the match was an aberration. I saw immediately what had happened. We had worked on a pinch headlock tie-up, and Pat was pretty good at it. But when he wrestled Kamal, he was controlling it pretty well and then all of the sudden his elbow started coming apart. And he gave Kamal that opening to get to the body, which led to a five-point bodylock.
So I went back and said, Okay, we’re going to eliminate the pinch headlock. Just wrestle short arms, getting underhooks, move him, break his balance, first contact. You know, just control tie-ups, push him hard, break his balance, and you’ll get your chance on top; defend on bottom and then look for low-risk attacks. He had a lot of poise. He just came back super-intense and controlled every aspect of that match.
5PM: It looked extremely physical. I remember being coached by you, it was a streetfight. Bring the streetfight mentality to the feet and the pummel, and try to break people.
Chandler: Using that language, that’s how you beat someone who is technically superior to you. We called it “The American Style” during that golden era in Greco when we were winning a lot of medals. Dennis Hall personified that kind of style where you get real physical. You just stay in their face, stay real close, don’t be afraid to butt heads. It’s a lot of snapdowns, it is real physical, and it is a real combative style.
5PM: Are you surprised at all with Pat’s success at 77 kilos considering it is his first year in the weight class?
Chandler: It’s an interesting situation. We talked a lot about it last year after he was making 72. We were looking at the Olympics coming up and he says, Coach, what should I do? Should I wrestle 72 again this year? Should I go 72 this year and then go down to the next weight? He decided to go up instead, which I thought was a really smart move and it has worked out tremendously for him because he’s not giving up any strength. He is very strong for the weight class. He has done a very good job of improving his strength and conditioning, and he is a much better wrestler at this weight than he was at 72 kilos.
5PM: Pat scored four in Match 3. It didn’t look like a leg foul to me, did it look close at all to you?
Coach Dan Chandler: I’d have to look at it again but I know that he had the angle. There were still two minutes left in the match, he hit it pretty early in the second period. He hit a perfect slide-by through the zone, to his (Bey’s) back, four points. I mean, people’s legs make incidental contact all the time, whether from waist tackles, coming in low. Kamal gave him that angle, and let’s face it, Kamal was tired. I don’t think he really recovered from the second match. That took a lot out of him.
Smith exploded for a four-point sequence in the second period of Match 3 against Bey to take a 6-3 lead that he never relinquished. (Photo: Tony Rotundo/Wrestlers Are Warriors)
5PM: Pat also used front headlocks really well. He was heavy on the head, pulling him down, and occasionally cutting his air a little bit.
Chandler: That’s another one of the tactics, you know? You move the head, keep moving your hands, post the elbow, work for the underhook to a two-on-one to a snapdown; to a two-on-one to an inside bump. Just constantly applying pressure. He didn’t give Kamal much of a chance to breathe. The referees also gave Kamal a lot of time outs that I don’t know if anyone will get at the World Championships.
5PM: What is Pat’s summer of training going to look like right now leading up to the Worlds?
Chandler: Well, he is also wrestling in the Pan American Games, which is a major international event. The Pan American Games offer very strong competition with Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, and some of the other countries are very strong, as well, so Pat has multiple training camps in Colorado Springs. This week he is working out with another Anoka kid, Tyler Eischens. He’s in town preparing for the Junior Worlds, so he is training with Pat this week and next, and then after next week I think we are going to send Pat up to train with Andy Bisek in Marquette.
When he comes back from that, he goes to Colorado Springs for a training camp, and then we’ll see where he’s at before we decide what he’s going to do next. The focus right now is on par terre defense, getting better at what he’s already good at, improving mat strategy, and working on his dance a little more. Par terre defense and conditioning.
5PM: Right, stick with what got you there.
Chandler: Yeah, the better he gets at that style, he can beat anyone with that style. If he does it perfectly, that’s a classic formula how to beat Europeans.
5PM: What did you think about the Final X presentation and environment as a whole?
Chandler: As far as the competition and the arena, that is all good. I don’t like the fact they are forcing the clubs to spend all that extra money to go to two more additional events. I think everyone tends to overlook the problems the clubs have. They think we’re all made out of money, and some of them are. Sunkist Kids has a big benefactor, Titan Mercury has a big benefactor. We do not. We’re living off of bar bingo receipts. We only had to go to one, but we could have very easily gone to both Final X dates. And that is two more flights, two more hotel stays, that’s more meals. I mean, if they want to do this, they should kick in some money to help with the club’s expenses.
5PM: But as far as the competition itself, you were happy with it?
Coach Dan Chandler: Yeah. I mean, the referees were a problem. It’s frustrating, because they make so many errors. I don’t know, it has always been that way, so it’s frustrating for me. I think we got a pretty good shake, but I probably would sue the officials’ association if Kamal would have came back after his five-minute rest and beat Pat. I would have been pretty irate. But it probably helped Pat more than Kamal at that point in the series. But I didn’t like that. And then I saw a couple of major errors with J’Den Cox versus Bo Nickal, and then with (Zain) Retherford and Yianni (Diakomihalis). There were some major snafus in that match, as well.
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By Randy Caparoso
Denver, My Kind of Restaurant Town "
No doubt about it, metropolitan Denver, and the industriously growing five counties surrounding it, is one of the most significant in the nation population nearing 2.5 million (21st in the country) but not so intricate that even a newcomer couldnt get the hang of it fairly quickly.
Its like Manhattan in reverse; broad and muscular rather than tight and deep, but still very much negotiable. Only here, you get around by car rather than taxi or subway; and theres a space for every vehicle, like a chicken for every basket. The Western Americans dream that shining city, on a 5,280 ft. hill.
Like all well-planned towns, the oldest section, Downtown Denver, still rocks as the epicenter of business and play, from the moment the sun rises over the plains in the east til long after it sets over the Rockies in the west; the latter always beckoning with its bevy of bejeweled slopes and tony resorts, kicking up the icy white spray and green of the visitor dollar.
If you want to know why the growth has been so homogenous, with few dead spots both physically and historically, you need to look at Denvers history since its incorporation as a miners saloon town in 1861. The Pikes Peak gold rush, followed by silver speculators, pretty much expired by the 1890s, but by then our fruited plains had borne a livestock industry that still goes strong today. It may not have looked like it during the recently televised Democratic convention, but Denver is still a cow town, and the National Western Stock Show taking place every January is still the countrys premier livestock event of the year and a shot in the arm for the local food and beverage industry, usually doing business under a foot or two of snow, while the only big-time games in town are the steady Avalanche and the perpetually unfulfilled Nuggets.
The upshot being, Denver is where the beef (plus bison and lamb) is at, surrounded as we are by about 1.3 million head of cattle on some 13,100 independent ranches (64% of them still less than 50 head in size, many practicing sustainable methods). Besides crystal clear water (life tastes so good when it doesnt all have to come from bottles) and crisp mountain air, we do have vibrant springs and color-coded falls, sandwiching several spurts of 90 degree summer days; consequently giving us generous amounts of locally grown vegetables, fruits and artisanal cheeses, overflowing our farmers markets, where you can see a good number of our more savvy chefs trolling about among the friends, neighbors, and good looking strangers (the average Denver citizen looks more like a marathoner than a joe-sixpacker, as disgusting as that may sound to other inveterate foodies and drinkies).
Forty or so years ago the oil and gas industry began to make its impact on the Denver economy; and by the time that faded in the late eighties, the diversification we see today including the high-tech and software, financial, renewable energy, bioscience, aviation and aerospace industries were already starting to drive the average per household income (about $52,000) well over the national average. Ergo: a bustling food and beverage industry.
So where is Denver at? As someone whos lived, and opened restaurants, in cities as far flung as Honolulu and New York and in between, from La Jolla through San Francisco to Seattle, Chicago through Memphis to Austin, and Philadelphia through Baltimore, Atlanta and to both sides of Florida I can say this with authority: the average Denver restaurant-goer expects, and receives, a knowing level of sophistication, yet is not so tyrannical as consumers in so-called restaurant towns (i.e. San Francisco, Chicago and New York) in respect to self-imposed standards (or illusions). In other words, we just like to enjoy our food and drink, and were open to just about anything.
We have, to begin with, a solid core of our own celebrity (if you will) chefs, driving companies from modestly sized multi-units (like Kevin Taylors Restaurant Kevin Taylor and Prima Downtown, and Palettes in the Libeskind designed Denver Art Museum; Frank Bonannos revisionist Italian Osteria Marco and haute American Mizuna; and the stunningly inventive cooking done by Jennifer Jasinski at her Rioja and the more brasserie-like Bistro Vendôme), to single, postage stamp sized stores (like Patrick Dupays authentically bistrot Z Cuisine; Wayne Conwells deftly executed Sushi Sasa; Teri Rippetos perpetually seasonal Potager; and the almost soberingly pure distillations of flavor done by John Broening at duo).
But what if, like me, your jaded palate would just as soon dispense with the walls of fame, ego laden (even if unintentional) menus and affectatious wine lists, and you just want to eat; even if the silverware is mismatched, the tables and chairs just as distressed as your hair and jeans? Lots and lots of that in Denver, too. Starting with the neighborhoody Tables in Park Hill, and Table 6 tucked in a hood just north of Cherry Creek: both doing just pure, fresh cooking, sans attitude. For straightforward plates of charcuterie, confit and cheese, I opt for either Le Central on Lincoln, or French 250 in Cherry Creek.
For Japanese country-comfort food, theres Domo; and for the comfort of the authentic Japanese sushi bar, theres Sushi Den in the older burbs southwest of I-25, or Sonadas in LoDo (Lower Downtown). For an oyster bar selection as fresh as anything on a coast, theres Jax Fish House; and for coastal Mexican seviches, fresh fish tacos, and the largest selection of tequila north of the border, theres Lola in the emerging, young-professionals neighborhood of Highlands. Finally, for the most unpretentious dining of all microbrews, fried foods, dips and messy sandwiches the Wynkoop Brewery Company has been going full steam in LoDo since 1988; although the scene is even more hardcore local, and frenetic, at Three Dogs Tavern in Highlands.
Seeing that almost 35% of Denvers population is Hispanic or Latino, we happily eat that way, too. For me, burritos are properly made with all the off-meats in the world, and El Taco de Mexico in the ArtDistrict on Santa Fe delivers exactly that. For taqueria aficionados, Tacos y Salsas #3 on the other side of the freeway along Federal is the way to go. Tamales lovers (i.e. me) absolutely swoon over those of La Casita; and for piping hot, pillowy, honeyed sopapillas, we turn to Little Anitas. For indubitably killer carnitas smothered in green chili, you have to drive a half-hour north of LoDo to Lafayette to find Efrains; and for that gots-to-have Saturday morning urge for a menudo chock-full of tripe (and less hominy), you need to drive half-hour south to Lone Tree to sit at Los Arcos.
Then there are fusions; which when done right, are possibly the funnest foods in the world. Im originally from Hawaii, and thank goodness theres L&L in the workingmans hood of Aurora for my periodic fixations on manapua (Chinese pork dumpling), kalua (shredded, smoked pork) and laulau (steamed kalua and butterfish wrapped in taro and ti leaves). For more elaborate, yet casually inclined, experiences of East-West/Hawaiian style fish, noodles and sushi, theres Kona Grill in the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, or Hapa across the street. If you still fancy the Latin/Asian fusions that were the rage at the turn of the millennium, the tuna tataki, lobster potstickers and seviches at Zengo are exhilarating. Finally, if some say South American cuisine is in itself a New World fusion, Café Brazil is where to find it.
Like that of many towns, Denvers Southeast Asian population supplies us with the grocery stores essential for our home cooking; and Denvers pho restaurants, fortuitously, take the backseat to no others. Having tried most of them (something of a feat, since there are at least 99 of them), I can say that the most consistently sustaining are those of Pho 79, with four locations covering the north, south west, and far-west sides of town; although the combinations of jellified fish and gelatinous meats at Ha Noi Pho on Federal are probably untouchable.
Denverettes, of course, are cow-towners at heart, and so the big breakfast is important to them. For bleary eyed techies, though, breakfast spots at 3 PM or 3 AM are also absolute needs, and they always know where to gravitate: the 24 hour Denver Diner. Despite a tempting number of originally conceived pancakes, at the urban-cool Snooze, down the street from Coors Field in LoDo, I usually end up with the Niman Ranch pulled pork benedict (extra hollandaise on the side); or barring that, the crabcake benedict at Toast in the old town of Littleton off Santa Fe Drive. It may not be hometown bred, but you have to grant that the Dutch Baby pancake (not to mention the mile-high Spanish omelette) at the Original Pancake House is unbeatable; and for chile rellenos with eggs or huevos rancheros, Sams No. 3 (flipping eggs in Downtown Denver since 1927) always meets my needs.
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but lets cut this off with this final word: steakhouse. If anything, Denver is the place for honking red meat. When I was first escorted around the town ten years ago, one of my first duties was to visit Buckhorn Exchange Denvers oldest continuous restaurant (since 1893) where among the specialites, you can savor buffalo prime rib and rocky mountain oysters (i.e. buffalo bulls testicles). If your taste is more mainstream, however, Elways (owned by the hometown hero) has been doing such a bang-up job in its first location in Cherry Creek, that they recently opened up a second store Downtown in the Ritz-Carlton. Otherwise, all the national brands (Flemings, Ruths Chris, Del Friscos, Capital Grille, et al.) are here, and performing quite well, thank you. My favorite: Sullivans, as much for its handy-dandy LoDo location a block from Coors Field as its tuna tartare (my perfect bar food) and prime rib Sundays. From Hostess Job Description - Waiter
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Sudan crisis: Military and opposition agree three-year transition
by Foxton May 15, 2019 016
Protesters’ demands for full civilian government have remained undimmed
Sudan’s military leaders have announced an agreement with the opposition alliance for a three-year transition period to a civilian administration.
The Transitional Military Council (TMC) said the alliance would have two-thirds of the seats on a legislative council.
However, the two sides are yet to agree on a sovereign council – the top tier of power, where both want a majority.
Sudan has been ruled by the military council since last month’s toppling of President Omar al-Bashir.
Protests that led to his downfall have continued, with a huge sit-in outside the military headquarters to demand full civilian government.
Hours before the latest deal was announced, at least five protesters and a member of the security forces died in clashes in the capital, Khartoum.
There were reports of more gunshots on Wednesday in the area where demonstrations have been taking place. Activists have said that several people were injured.
What has been agreed?
At a joint news conference on Tuesday night, Lt Gen Yasser al-Atta said a final agreement on power sharing would be signed with the opposition alliance – the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF) – within 24 hours. That would include the forming of a sovereign council which will rule the country until elections.
“We vow to our people that the agreement will be completed fully within 24 hours in a way that meets the people’s aspirations,” he said.
Gen Atta said the DFCF would have two-thirds of the seats on a 300-member transitional legislative council, while the rest would be taken by parties not members of the alliance.
Earlier, protest movement spokesman Taha Osman said the sides had agreed on the structure of future authorities – a sovereign council, a cabinet and a legislative body.
DFCF member Satea al-Hajj expressed optimism that the final details on power-sharing would be agreed, adding: “The viewpoints are close and, God willing, we will reach an agreement soon.”
The military had originally wanted a two-year transition period while protest leaders had sought four years to give them more time to prepare.
However, Sadiq Yousuf, a member of the DFCF negotiating team, told the BBC Newsday programme that the composition of the 11-member supreme council was still being discussed.
“The issue has been on the number of members of the supreme council. We want eight civilians, three from the military, but they want seven military and four members.”
Still unclear who will be in charge
The agreement for a three-year transitional administration including a parliament dominated by opposition groups is a major step towards civilian rule.
A cabinet will also be appointed by the opposition Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces.
But the question of who will be ultimately in charge remains unanswered.
A council of generals is currently the top tier of control.
Who will be on the new executive body to replace it has been a sticking point for some time.
Both the military and the opposition groups want not just representation, but a majority.
The joint news conference by those involved in talks said this would be settled within 24 hours, but protesters remain on the streets until they are sure real and lasting change will come with the new transitional agreement.
In December, demonstrators took to the streets over a government decision to triple the price of bread. The protests soon grew into widespread anger against the president’s 30-year rule.
Five weeks into the protests, on 17 January, witnesses said state forces had fired live ammunition at protesters and killed a doctor.
Media captionDozens of people were injured in the clashes
He had been treating injured protesters in his home in Khartoum when police reportedly fired tear gas into the building.
He was one of dozens of people killed during the anti-government unrest.
As anger mounted, protesters staged a sit-in from 6 April outside military headquarters in Khartoum to demand the army force the president out.
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Five days later, the president was overthrown by the military.
A military council assumed power on 11 April, but demonstrators stayed put, insisting that it transfer authority to a civilian administration.
Initially, talks between the ruling generals and the protest organisers had shown little sign of progress.
Road to transition
19 December 2018 – Protests erupt after fuel and bread price rises announced
20 December – Demonstrators in the capital, Khartoum, strike an anti-government tone chanting “freedom, peace, justice”
22 February 2019 – President Omar al-Bashir declares a state of emergency and dissolves the government
24 February – Protests continue as security forces respond by firing live bullets
6 April – Activists begin sit-in at military headquarters in Khartoum vowing not to move until Mr Bashir steps down
11 April – army generals announce that Mr Bashir has been toppled but sit-in continues as people demand civilian rule
17 April – Mr Bashir is taken to a prison in Khartoum
20 April – Talks between the military rulers and civilian representatives begin
13 May – Shooting outside the military headquarters leaves six people dead
14 May – Military and civilians announce a deal on a three-year transition period
Where is Omar al-Bashir?
The ousted leader has not been seen in public since he was removed from office.
He was reportedly moved from the presidential palace to a high security prison in Khartoum, but the BBC has not verified these reports.
Mr Bashir has not been photographed since he was ousted from power
On Monday, Mr Bashir was charged with incitement and involvement in the killing of protesters.
The charges stem from an inquiry into the death of the doctor shot dead during the 17 January protests.
He is also facing an investigation over allegations of money laundering and terror financing.
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Tucson Padres Week #11 June 11-17
Posted: 10:08 am, June 18, 2012 by Mylo5
The Tucson Padres had yet another disappointing week as they went 1-6 on the week, winning its final game of the week on Sunday.
The T-Pads are still in fourth place in its division with a record of 22-48, putting them at 23 games behind from the first place Fresno Grizzlies.
Tucson are 17 games behind third place Las Vegas 51s.
Week 11 saw the T-Pads hit the road for two different series, first they headed to Las Vegas for a three game series against the 51s and then headed to Reno for a four game series against the Aces.
On Monday June 11 the T-Pads dropped the game 13-3 against the 51s.
It marked the fifth consecutive lost for the Padres this season, so far this season the T-Pads have not lost more than five games in a row.
Starting pitcher Matt Palmer only went three and two-thirds innings, giving up six runs on six hits, while striking out one and walking two.
All six of the T-Pads hits on Monday were singles.
On Tuesday June 12 Tucson dropped another loss to the 51s in a 9-3 contest. This loss increased the Padres loss streak to six games, which is now their longest losing streak this season.
Relief pitcher Miles Mikolas gave up two runs in his one inning of work. This is the first time in his three outings since being called up to Tucson that he gave up runs.
Jedd Gyorko went 2-4 on the evening, he is hitting .419 for the month of June.
Infielder Jesus Merchan went 2-4, hitting two singles and scored a run in his first appearance with the T-Pads since being added earlier that day after being picked up by the Padres from the independent Atlantic League.
Outfielder Daniel Robertson went 1-4 on Tuesday with a double in his return game, he has been returning from a strained tendon in his knee. He had been on the DL since June 2.
The T-Pads lost its seventh consecutive game on Wednesday June 13, when it lost a close 6-5 game against the 51s.
Tucson lost two different leads in the game on Wednesday. They gave up a two run lead in the third and another two run lead in the sixth inning.
Starting pitcher Kip Wells gave up all six runs, five of which were earned on 10 hits through five and two-thirds innings while striking out three hitters and walking three as well.
Merchan went 3-4 on the evening, with a double, two singles, scoring a run and collected and RBI.
Robertson was ejected from the game in the fifth inning after arguing a called third strike.
The T-Pads losing streak extended to eight games on Thursday June 14, dropping the game with a final score 4-1 against the Aces.
Robertson went 2-4 on the evening, hitting a single and a home run to collect the only run and RBI for the T-Pads.
Tucson continued its down slide on Friday June 15 losing by one run to the Aces in an 8-7 game. This increased the T-Pads losing streak now to nine games.
That is the longest losing streak for Tucson in its two year history.
The Padres had two home runs in the game and they did have a lead going into the bottom of the third inning.
Gyorko went 1-5 hitting a solo home run in the third inning.
Catcher Yasmani Grandal went 1-4 on Friday hitting a two run home run in the top of the ninth inning to bring the T-Pads within one run of the Aces.
Tucson showed some improvement as it had more hits than the Aces on Friday 12-11, and eight of the nine hitters for Tucson had at least one hit in the game.
Infielder Andy Parrino made his first rehab start on Friday since straining a ligament in his hand, he has been on the DL since May 31. He went 1-3 with a single.
The T-Pads started out strong on Saturday June 16 as they took a two run lead into the fifth inning, but were unable to hold off the Aces’ offense, who would come back in the later innings to win the game 9-4.
This marked the 10th consecutive loss for the Padres this season and have dropped 17 of its last 19 games.
Parrino went 3-4, hitting three singles and scoring a run.
Palmer pitched five innings giving up four runs on eight hits while striking out five and walking two.
Tucson finally snapped its losing streak on Father’s Day Sunday June 17 beating the Aces 10-4. It also marked the first time that the T-Pads beat the Aces this season, in eight attempts.
The T-Pads were also one hit shy of its team total hits for the season, they ended the night with a total of 17 hits.
Starting pitcher Bear Bay pitched five innings allowing two runs, one earned run. He had both one strike out and one walk on Sunday.
It marked the first win for Bay this year, who’s season record is now at 1-4., but he did leave the game in the sixth inning with a mild groin strang.
In fielder Anthony Contreras hit his fifth home run of the season in the fifth inning. He went 4-5 with two doubles, a single and a home run while scoring two runs and collecting four RBIs.
Parrino went 2-5 hitting a double and a triple, while scoring a run and collecting one RBI.
The Padres will be hoping to start a winning streak now as they head back home to play a four game series against the 51s and then immediately heading Fresno to take on the first place Grizzlies.
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Platform PS3
Release Date 9th November 2012
SRP £ 34.99
Genre PUZZLE / GAMESHOW
PEGI Rating 3
THE CUBE (PS3)
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Have you got what it takes to beat The Cube?
If you’re a fan of the TV show, you know that the aim of the game is to win seven consecutive challenges chosen by The Cube in order to walk away with the maximum prize of £250,000.
It’s the same on your PS3, although there are a couple of extra challenges and new ways to play. You can even challenge friends and family to see if anyone has what it takes and because you’re playing for fun not real cash, you can play as many times as you like.
Use your Move controller for a fun, challenging and realistic experience of The Cube.
The Cube Features:
Includes both The Voice and The Body featured in the hit TV show
Cut scene demonstrations for each challenge
Features 30 games
Extra DLC available for 10 more challenges
Extreme mode which features 5 difficult versions of the game’s best challenges
Profiles letting multiple players track wins and losses
Stats for each game showing average wins and lives used
Multiplayer Challenge and Head to Head modes
Move Compatible
Also available on Nintendo Wii and 3DS.
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Home›Resources›Personal›Saving and investing›VCT, EIS and SEIS› Enterprise investment scheme
The qualifying company
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The EIS is a government scheme that allows certain tax reliefs for investors who subscribe for qualifying shares in qualifying industries.
What benefits does the Enterprise Investment Scheme provide the investor and companies wishing to raise new finance?
The investor can expect:
Income tax relief at the 30% rate of tax on the amount invested in qualifying investments of up to £1 million a year. The EIS relief may be withdrawn if certain events occur within 3 years, such as shares sold. There is a further £1 million allowance per investor provided the investment in excess of £1 million is in knowledge-intensive companies.
Any gain arising on a disposal of the shares after 3 years to be free from capital gains tax provided that any amount of income tax has been claimed
Deferral of capital gains (no limit) on any other assets, by reinvesting all or part of the gain into an EIS company within one year before, or three years after, the gain accrued. The deferred gain becomes chargeable to capital gains tax if certain events occur later
Relief for any losses made on the disposal of EIS shares against capital gains tax or, in some circumstances, income tax
The opportunity to participate in the running of the business and to receive reasonable remuneration for doing so.
As a result of the above, an individual could have a total tax saving and deferral of 60% of his investment.
Investors who do not want to put all their eggs into one basket could consider an EIS approved investment fund or a venture capital trust (VCT).
Approved investment funds are collective investment vehicles employing a fund manager to invest subscribers' money in qualifying companies. The fund manager brings together the total investment of a number of investors over a number of companies.
The company can enjoy the opportunity to raise finance, either for initial startup or for expansion
The main condition is that the scheme be limited to companies with gross assets of less than £15 million before, and no more than £16 million after the investment. The company must have fewer than 250 equivalent staff. Please contact us for shares that fall outside of these criteria.
Throughout its relevant 3-year qualifying period, the company must:
Be an unquoted company
Have only fully-paid issued shares
Be a trading company carrying on a qualifying trade through a permanent establishment in the UK
Exist for genuine commercial purposes and not be part of a scheme for the avoidance of tax
Not be a 51% subsidiary of another company, or otherwise be under the control of another company.
An investor cannot be 'connected' with the EIS company, i.e. he or she cannot own more than 30% of the shares, directly or indirectly
Individuals who are paid directors or employees of the EIS company at the time of the issue of shares are normally disqualified from claiming EIS relief. Otherwise, qualifying investors can in certain circumstances be paid for their work, provided the total remuneration package is 'normal and reasonable'
The money raised by the EIS share issue must be wholly used for the qualifying business activity
Schemes that involve guarantees or exit arrangements will not attract tax relief.
The definition of qualifying trades is quite extensive, but certain activities (such as most dealing operations, banking, leasing, legal, and accounting services) are specifically excluded, as are those considered to be 'asset backed' (farming, forestry, property development, hotels, and nursing homes). Excluded activities also include shipbuilding and steel or coal production. More recently certain trades generating or exporting electricity which will attract a Feed-in Tariff are also excluded.
Changes to the scheme now require that when the shares are issued a new ‘risk to capital’ test is met. This test requires that taking into account all the circumstances existing at the time the shares are issued it must be reasonable to conclude both that:
• The investee company has an objective to grow and develop its trade in the long-term, and
• There is a significant risk that the investor could lose more of the capital invested than they get back by way of other returns from the investment.
For the purpose of the risk to capital test:
• The risk and the return is determined with reference to the investors in general.
• Loss of capital is the loss of some or all of the amounts subscribed for the shares of the investee company.
• The return on the investment is the net investment return taking into account income from the investment, growth of capital, and the value of the EIS relief obtained in relation to the investment.
In essence this will require due diligence to ensure that this is satisfied when the shares are issued, and will take into account publicity material and the prospectus for the share issue to establish that the investment is sufficiently risky to warrant extra tax relief.
Generally speaking, knowledge-intensive companies meet additional conditions associated with research and development spend and the creation of intellectual property. These companies have more favourable conditions under EIS, including being permitted to raise more funds through the scheme than other companies.
Comparison between VCT, EIS and SEIS.
The scheme is becoming more and more popular, and currently there appear to be more potential investors than there are opportunities. As may be expected, the tax breaks have been introduced by the government to encourage would-be investors in what, given the nature of the investment companies concerned, must be inherently risky ventures. However, readers with an entrepreneurial spirit, surplus cash and the appetite for a healthy payback, may be interested to learn more.
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UK: Government says y2k bug beaten--so far
Millennium bug beaten - so far - and to deadline, says government
The massive project launched to beat the millennium bug is almost unique among IT projects in that it met its deadline, the minister responsible has conceded. by AccountancyAge.com[21 Jan 2000]
Margaret Beckett told the Commons: 'I am pleased to confirm that so far - as predicted - it is businessas usual in the United Kingdom. In what is believed to be the largest co-ordinated project since the Second World War, thorough and detailed planning across government and the national infrastructure, both publicly and privately controlled, ensured a smooth transition over the date change. 'There is no doubt this work had to be done - the millennium bug was shown to have the capacity to wreak havoc among those services which, though essential, we take for granted. Problems were corrected swiftly because organisations prioritised and put business continuity plans in place.'She added: 'In the wider public sector NHS trusts and government agencies found problems that needed to be fixed. Problems in gas repayment meters and in electricity prepayment meters were found and fixed. And elsewhere in the private sector, everywhere from finance to food, transport to telecoms, major potential problems were found and fixed in time. There were and no doubt will continue to be further minor glitches.' Millennium Bug Campaign THE BUG BITES BACK?
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Sumatran Coffee Beans is named for the region of Sumatra outside of Padang in West Sumatra. The name is used as a marketing tool by the coffee producers as no coffee is actually grown in this region. Sumatra Lingtong is named after the Lintong area in North Sumatra where actual coffee is produced.
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History Of Sumatran Coffee Beans
Although Marco Polo was the first European to visit Sumatra in c.1292 it wasn’t until 1592 the Dutch started to gain control of native states that this land. About 100 years later the competition to cultivate coffee outside of Arabia was strong, even with the Arabs trying hard to maintain their monopoly on the crop. The Dutch finally managed to obtain seedlings and after a failed attempt in India managed success in growing coffee in Batavia (Jakarta), on the island of Java, which is now called Indonesia. The coffee plants flurished and were soon transported to the nearby islands of Sumatra and Celebes.
In the beginning the Dutch planted and cultivated Arabica coffee but by the turn of that century the Arabica plants were devestated by Coffee Rust. The Dutch response to the Coffee Rust was to import and plant the inferior Liberica coffee. The Liberica coffee bean is larger than Arabica beans but cups more like a Robusta coffee. This variety had a short lived popularity and was also affected by the Coffee Rust. The coffee was then changed again and Robusta was planted which still makes up the majority of coffee produced today.
Natural disaster and desease have played a big part in the history of coffee producting in Sumatra as well as World War II and the regions strugle for independence. During the first part of the 20th century the industry was controlled by the Dutch coffee plantation owners and the Colonial government. Before World War II this region had an extensive rail system to bring coffee and other commodities such as sugar, pepper, tea and tobacco to the port cities. After this region gained independence the coffee industry came under the rule of the new government or were abandoned. Today most of the coffee production is handled by small farms or cooperatives.
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HUBER+SUHNER to launch phase-stable cables for critical applications at Electronica 2018
The new Consistent over Temperature (CT) assemblies can be used across changing temperatures and feature improved reliability, stability and accuracy
HUBER+SUHNER CT cable assemblies
Leading international manufacturer of components and system solutions for optical and electrical connectivity, HUBER+SUHNER, is set to debut its newest cable assemblies which push the boundaries for stability and reliability in harsh environments at Electronica, November 13-16, 2018 in Munich.
The global Swiss-based company will be showcasing its five new and improved phase invariant CT cable assemblies which have been specifically developed for applications which require precise electrical length connectivity. Opening a new door for phase critical applications in fluctuating temperatures, HUBER+SUHNER has created a steady and reliable interconnect solution to satisfy a huge range of applications where phase stability is key. Along with the industry-leading phase vs. temperature performance, as well as a unique range of cable constructions to fulfil any customer demands, it meets all requirements in Radio Frequency, Aerospace & Defense, Test & Measurement and Industrial environments.
The solutions also have unique features to achieve a significantly improved insertion loss stability over temperature compared to standard coaxial cables. This is due to its innovative design, structure and specific developed materials.
“Thanks to our long-standing knowledge in providing communications to critical environments, we know exactly what the market, and essentially, customers, need from cable assemblies. Research and Development is core to the HUBER+SUHNER backbone, and our new CT assemblies offering is a direct result of our findings,” said Eduardo Romero, Product Manager at HUBER+SUHNER. “The new assemblies achieve increased accuracy, stability and reliability over multiple temperature cycles, and there are no limitations no matter the temperature or industry.”
Mr Romero added: “The new and improved CT variants of the tried and tested Sucoform, EZ, Minibend and Multiflex product families are practical and cost-effective yet performance and reliability are never compromised. Giving customers the option to control fluctuating temperature changes within their cable assemblies will ultimately lead to increased accuracy, stability and reliability – a beneficial scenario for all involved.
Electronica visitors can find HUBER+SUHNER at Hall B2, Booth 439, Messe München in Munich, Germany 13th-16th November 2018.
To arrange a briefing or product demonstration, please contact the HUBER+SUHNER team on the details below.
Axel Rienitz
HUBER+SUHNER AG
axel.rienitz@hubersuhner.com
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SmackDown Vs. RAW 2006 on the PSP is almost identical to its PS2 counterpart: The graphics are quite nice, the control remains enjoyable, and the full depth of play is retained. Including loads of wrestlers, some great WiFi multiplayer, and a management mode that adds a whole new layer to the wrestling game, SmackDown Vs. RAW 2006 is a must-play for portable-gaming wrestling fans. Get the full review from Matt James right here.
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Xbox Games Grew 77% Over System Life-Cycle, Suggests 360 DVDs Are (Mostly) Big Enough for Next-Generation
feature | 01/19/06 | Aaron Stanton
Microsoft has received criticism for sticking to the DVD9 format for the Xbox 360. Concerned gamers point out that the 8.5 gigabytes of storage may not be enough to hold next-generation games. Sony\'s PS3 will use blu-ray, a format capable of storing several times the information of DVD9. But how big are Xbox 360 games? And how much will they grow, really? We take a look at the size of original Xbox titles to see how much they grew between 2001 and 2005, and compare them to the size of the Xbox 360 launch titles to make an educated guess about the DVD9\'s future needs. The conclusion? Well, you\'ll have to read to find out, but it generally makes Microsoft look like they know what they\'re doing. Don\'t enter a forum debate about blu-ray without reading this article.
Meridian4 Announces Shadowgrounds
game: Shadowgrounds
Meridian4 has been having a good new year. They\'ve been picking up games left and right, and the titles just keep looking better and better. These are the kinds of games that I\'d love to see downloadable via Xbox Live, and that you can download and have a great time with on your laptop. That\'s not to say that they\'re low-fi, but they\'re not exactly cutting edge, either. Which can be fun. Their latest announcement is about Shadowgrounds, a sci-fi action title that offers a fresh take on old-school 3rd person shooters. It looks like Ikari Warriors meets Aliens.
Videogame Industry Tops $10.5 Billion
As reported by GameDaily Biz, NPD Funworld calculates the videogame industry\'s take last year at around $10.5 billion. It looks like games have reached a major milestone, and that is thanks to some (possibly) surprising trends in 2005: portable gaming and female gamers. Sure, the Xbox 360 launch was a major boost to the industry in Q4, but the success of the industry in a highly transitional year (new console launches are never great for software sales) is attributed to handheld gaming and female gamers. Get more on this story right here.
PSP finally outsells the DS in Japan
news | 01/15/06 | George Holomshek
It took a while, but Sony\'s PSP was finally able to top the Nintendo DS in sales last week (January 2-8) in Japan. As reported by Joystiq, this is the first time since April of 2005 that the PSP has outsold the DS. Sony managed to move 132,757 PSPs off shelves and the DS jumped into shopping karts 91,379 times. George has the details in this News blurb.
Everything We Know About the I.C.E. 360 Modchip
game: ICE Modchip
Has the Xbox 360 been successfully modified? This is the question that\'s been on the modding community\'s mind since InfinityMods.com claimed to have a functioning modchip in-hand. Is it true? In this article, we look at the time-line of everything we know about the I.C.E. modchip, and include an interview with Team I.C.E.
What does I.C.E. stand for? When is the expected ship date for the chip (early Feb., by the way). If you have doubts about the I.C.E. modchip, then this article certainly won\'t put them to rest, but we help keep you informed.
Sex in Video Games Conference This Summer
The Sex in Video Games Conference will be held in San Francisco June 8-9 at the Nob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco, CA. The conference theme is \"Exploring the Business of Digital Erotic Entertainment,\" which sounds totally not sexy to us. But the conference gains clout thanks to the involvement of Brenda Brathwaite, Game Designer and Founder and Chair of the International Game Developers Association\'s Sexuality SIG. If you\'ve got a vested (read: business) interest in the future of adult erotic interactive entertainment, then this is the place to go. It should be more scandalous than E3.
Armored Core: Formula Front Review
game: Armored Core: Formula Front - Extreme Battle
Armored Core is a tricky series: Gamers typically love it or hate it. Stat-hounds and customization freaks really dig the hardcore gearhead approach to battle bots, while the rest of us stick to more action-oriented titles for our big mech enjoyment. Nonetheless, the first Armored Core game is out for the PSP. Armored Core: Formula Front-- Extreme Battle is a fan-targeted title, geared towards current fans of the Armored Core series and fairly inaccessible for newcomers. Matt James has the rundown.
GamesFirst! Weekly Wrap-Up Number 15
This week in the Wrap-Up, Val checks out the biggest gaming news of the last couple weeks, catching us up on any news we missed while we were stuffing our gullets on stuffing and gullets. She also checks out reviews of PoPoLoCrois for PSP, Kosumi for PC, and Call of Duty 2 for Xbox 360 and PC. After all that, she serves up a tasty preview of Chromehounds, coming soon to Xbox 360 from the makers of the legendary Armored Core series. Get the latest podcasty goodness from your pals at GF!
Xbox 360 Modchip Website Launches, Updates Sale Date to January 31st, 2006
game: I.C.E. Xbox 360 Modchip
The website for the Xbox 360 modchip known as LiThIuM I.C.E. went live in the early hours of January 7th, 2006. While there\'s nothing there yet to cast much additional light on the chip or its creators, one comment on the site does include a date: January 31st, 2006. Is this the release date, or an extension of the two-week pre-order date mentioned on InfinityMods.com? It\'s hard to say. The site also includes information on the chip\'s development time-line, and reseller policies. We\'re all holding our breaths waiting for the site to finish launching, and we\'ll keep you posted.
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Is Carbon Copy Pro Better Than MLM?
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These days, it is almost impossible to do a Google search for any subject relating to MLM without finding a website that is either directly, or indirectly promoting Carbon Copy Pro. One of the centerpieces of the Carbon Copy Pro marketing system is the famous ‘Coffee House Letter’ written by Jay Kubassek. I wanted to take some time to answer some questions caused by the Coffee House Letter because so many people have asked me about it over the years.
The essential theme of the Coffee House Letter is that because of the advent and progression of the internet, MLM is becoming obsolete as a business model. (We’ll get more into that later).
Before we start, I need to take a minute to help you understand exactly what Carbon Copy Pro is, and how the surrounding business model works.
Essentially, Carbon Copy Pro is an attraction marketing system built around a direct selling company called ‘Wealth Masters International.’ In 2007, Jay Kubassek developed a marketing system that would allow people in Wealth Masters to recruit team members using modern online marketing systems. The result has been nothing short of incredible – and today CCP (Carbon Copy Pro) is worth $20 million dollars and has customers in more than 160 countries.
Carbon Copy Pro Vs. MLM, Continued…
When you visit a Carbon Copy Pro website, you’ll have an opportunity to opt in to a newsletter, and then you’ll be taken through a sales page where you can read the Coffee House Letter for yourself. When you’re done reading the site, you have an option of buying a DVD interview with Mike Dillard and Jay Kubassek, and you can opt in to be interviewed to see if you ‘Qualify’ to be involved with the Carbon Copy Pro System. The cost of the interview and DVD is $49, and the purpose is to ‘pre-qualify’ prospects to see if they’re serious.
If you decide to join Carbon Copy Pro, these are the expenses you can expect to incur (Please note that this does not include ongoing marketing expenses, such as Pay Per Click advertising, etc):
– $49 fee to join (This is in addition to the interview fee)
– Monthly Fee: $49 fee for the website, back office features, and other support services. There is an additional monthly fee of $149.
– It is also recommended to have $300 or more each for advertisements. (If you do not do advertisement then how can you get people to join? Carbon Copy Pro does not promote your site for you. You must promote it yourself.)
– Yearly Fee: $149 Consulting Fee. This fee is optional. You can join as a “Free Member without paying the $149 fee.
Remember how I said that Carbon Copy Pro is an Attraction Marketing System for Wealth Masters International? When you join, you also will sign up with one of the following 3 WMI packages:
* M1 – Masters Program: $1,995
* M2 – Wealth Conference: $8,495 or $8,995 for a combination of both M1 and M2 package
* M3 – Lifestyle Experience: $19,995
So to break it down, the total initial cost to become involved in Carbon Copy Pro is the following:
$49 (start up fee)
$49 (website and other fees)
$149 (monthly fee)
$149 (yearly if you choose to have the consulting fee)
$1995 (the M1 package fee)
For a total of $2381, and possibly exceeding $20,000 (If you get involved in M1-M3 all at once)
Now, while that start up cost may be alarming to someone who’s not familiar with traditional business, for the potential income that you can earn as a Carbon Copy Pro team member makes the investment well worth while. However, just because you can earn money with CCP, does that mean that it is better than MLM? While I don’t have the time to refute all of the claims made by The Coffee House Letter and other Carbon Copy Pro Reps, there’s a few main ones that I’d like to address.
Review: My Year With Microsoft Surface Pro
Imperfect, Heavy, Light, Powerful, and Excellent.
Just shy of one year ago, I transitioned from a Macbook Pro and iPad combo to a Microsoft Surface Pro 128GB. In light of this week’s announcement of Surface Pro 3 and my acquisition of a Surface Pro 2, I think it’s time to reflect on what that experience was like. Like most folks, I was a little skeptical about the idea of combining a laptop and tablet into a single unit. Would it be too heavy? Would the performance be too low? Would the battery life be awful? And what about the new Windows 8 OS that’s been the subject of so much teeth-gnashing? I’ll try to answer all these questions and more as succinctly as possible. Hit the jump and let’s get into the question: what’s it like to live with Microsoft’s vision for computing in the future?
1. The Operating System, starring Windows 8/8.1:
Windows 8.1 Update 1 had a good head start with Windows 8, as I started using it during the first publicly available betas about 9 months before launch, dual booting on my Macbook Pro. That experience gave me plenty of time to figure out how to navigate the OS well before launch, so I didn’t have the struggle that a lot of people did. Of course, it probably helps that I just naturally enjoy exploring and discovering new things. The early Windows 8 experience did have its struggles, though. I’d become accustomed to the iPad and even to my Windows Phone 7 device, both of which had lots of apps available in their stores. Windows 8’s store was notoriously barren by comparison, and that led to some early frustration when trying to use Surface Pro as just a tablet. Too many apps and features were missing to make for a satisfying experience.
Nevertheless, the device’s ability to handle legacy Windows desktop apps with aplomb kept me satisfied enough to continue, and the app store dilemma became less important by the day. If there’s one thing Windows really needs to fix, though, is its way of presenting the desktop. The desktop is still wrapped in the trappings of an archaic system whose time has passed, and it’s time for Microsoft to update it to a more modern presentation that has fonts big enough to read on high DPI screens and large enough to operate with a finger.
With 8.1 and the new 8.1 Spring Update (really? We couldn’t just call it 8.2?), virtually all my complaints about Windows 8 evaporated. While some dislike the new aesthetic, I’ve personally found myself loving the flat colors, active tiles and removal of extraneous effects. My sincere hope is that as Windows evolves it gets even flatter and the metro aesthetic becomes more pervasive.
Suggestion: Use a Microsoft account, and use OneDrive! I can’t stress these enough. If you’re using Windows 8–and on a Surface Pro, you will be–you shouldn’t create an old-fashioned local account. Doing so cuts you off from some of Windows 8’s best features. Among these is the ability to have almost your entire PC configuration, right down to tile sizes, locations and apps installed, backed up to your OneDrive account in the event you either need to restore your PC or you sign into a different Windows 8.1 PC. Best, though, is that with OneDrive you get 7GB storage for free, which, while not enough to cover, say, your music and photos collection, is probably plenty to ensure your critical documents are all safely backed up within moments of you making any change. It’s easy to learn to save to your OneDrive folder, and once you’ve become accustomed to having that safety net you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.
2. The Hardware: Build Quality, Heft, and Capability.
Surface Pro Docking Station
I used to lug around a 2010 Macbook Pro 13.3″, which weighed 4.5 pounds, and an iPad 1, which weighed 1.5 pounds for a total of 6 pounds. So when I say that the 2.5 pound total of the Surface Pro and Type Cover was a big weight off my back, I’m really not kidding. The sacrifice was that I had a smaller screen, but the gain was a far more powerful processor and far superior screen resolution and pixel density. The build quality is exceptional: there is literally zero flex to this device, its magnesium shell is hard and sturdy enough to withstand probably more abuse than you should feel comfortable making your PC go through. As a tablet, it’s half a pound heavier than that original iPad was, but as a laptop it has a huge advantage over anything Apple offers. But you probably wonder what I use my Surface Pro for?
I’ve spent most of the past year as a film school student at UCLA, which means that a lot of my workload involves editing and transcoding video, compositing after effects compositions, transferring footage across different media and so on. I use Adobe Premiere for most of these tasks, and my Surface Pro has handled them all with grace. I’ve had no problems editing and rendering 1080p video in real-time. And as you’d expect from a Windows machine with a full size USB port, working with external hard drives and optical drives is a breeze. Suffice to say, I also do the basics including working in Microsoft Office, writing in Final Draft, checking email, browsing the web, yada yada. Overall, I’ve had no complaints save one: early on, my first Surface Pro had some serious problems with the Marvell Avastar wifi chip and had to be exchanged, a problem that’s not entirely uncommon with this device. More on that later.
Let’s be honest: the webcams on this device suck. They’re flat-out terrible, and there’s no getting around that fact. They’re fine for basic Skype video calls, but that’s pretty much it. If you really need to record video, use something else. Anything else.
I frequently take notes in OneNote MX (that’s the metro version), especially lately. Like most students, I have tended over the past few years to type my notes, but recent studies show that students who take notes by hand tend to do better on tests. Well, I’m all for evidence based research, so I took this to heart, but I’m also lazy, which means I don’t want to type things after I’ve written them down. Enter Surface Pro’s stylus and voila: I can hand write my notes and have them in a digital format all at the same time. Hell yes. I find that the stylus, despite its cheap plastic feel, works well as a digital inking device. Some complain about the lack of a dock for the stylus, but honestly, I’ve no issues with that. I’ve been using it for a year and have yet to lose the thing.
Art Related Work
Last note on usability: my fiancée, artist Kelley Frisby, got her Surface Pro on launch day precisely because of the integrated Wacom digitizer with 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity. From the outset the usage here was contentious because Surface Pro shipped without a pressure sensitive driver that Photoshop could understand. However, once that driver materialized, she took to using the stylus all the time. And when we learned about Manga Studio Pro from artist Jonathan Case’s website, things really went off the hook as she found it to be far superior to photoshop for creating hand drawn illustrations. That she can have her Surface Pro on her lap with pressure sensitivity while she draws, and her keyboard handy for using keyboard shortcuts, is a huge benefit that other tablets simply don’t offer. Truly, if you’re an artist who draws and paints digitally, Surface Pro is the device for you. Nothing else combines so many hardware capabilities and broad software availability.
3. Battery Life
Surface Pro Kickstand
This is the one serious issue that has dogged the Surface Pro since its original launch, despite the fact that it was never as bad as people claimed or the fact that Surface Pro 2 completely mitigated the issue (and by all reports, Surface Pro 3 does even better). Early claims were that Surface Pro got about 3.5 hours of battery life. And under certain circumstances, that’s true: watching 1080p videos with the brightness up while downloading stuff in the background will, like any other device, eat battery life much more than average usage will. But that’s only part of the test, isn’t it? Under normal usage, which I’ll define as web, email and word processing, Surface Pro 1 will get 5 hours battery life right out of the box. With some mild tweaks to the power profile, which I’ve detailed in one of our most popular posts, it’s entirely possible to get 6-7 hours of battery life. My best time was just over 8 hours total, but with a caveat: I was working with the wifi turned off, writing in Word, in a low light situation where I could comfortably turn down the screen brightness to minimum. Most people I know get in the range of 5-6 hours.
Why I Switched
Let’s be as clear as possible here: the Surface Pro is not a flawless device, but then, neither is anything else. My chief complaints are that the desktop in Windows 8.x needs a Modern UI revamp, and I wish the screen were a little bigger. I hope to upgrade to a Surface Pro 3 at some point in the future for that very reason, though my suspicion is that the artist community, such as my own wonderful Kelley Frisby, will hesitate to upgrade as a result of the new device’s possibly inferior N-Trig digitizer.
So that leaves the big question: why did I switch? That’s a complicated question. First, I was never sold on Mac OSX, but when Apple’s Bootcamp 5 update removed my ability to install Windows 8 as a dual-boot OS choice, claiming it wasn’t compatible with the computer I’d been using for 2.5 years (and at that, running Windows 8 on for 9 months), the final straw broke. This was the third time Apple’d created problems for my devices, following the iOS 5 update that slowed my iPad to a crawl and the iOS 4 update that made my iPhone 3G all but unusable.
The prospect of having a tablet and laptop all in a single device was also very appealing to me. Yes, there are compromises: it’s a little heavier than a tablet and a little smaller than a typical laptop, but the overall effect is a net positive, and I’m happy to say that my year with Surface Pro has me convinced: Microsoft’s vision of a world where tablets are just slim, light, touch-friendly PC’s is the right one. That we now see even desktop all-in-ones becoming large tablets (seriously, have you seen the Dell Venue Pro 18″ tablets? Crazy!), and touch slowly but surely spreading even to budget level laptops, is a good sign the convergence Microsoft predicted when it announced the original Surface Pro is really happening.
Problems I had & Solutions Microsoft offered
Surface by Microsoft
I mentioned the problem my original Surface Pro had with its wifi chip awhile ago, but there’s more to that story. In fact, just a couple of weeks ago my Surface Pro once again began having problems with the wifi chip, and no update, driver replacement, or even a system reset helped. Eventually the device started blue screening repeatedly, so I took it in to see what Microsoft could do for me. To my complete surprise, they handed me a brand new Surface Pro 2 and even let me pay the difference to upgrade it to the 256GB/8GB model, which I eagerly did. The new device is basically all the great stuff about Surface Pro 1, distilled into a purer form. Same weight, size and shape, slightly better screen (though I honestly can’t tell the difference, for what it’s worth), and the Type Cover 2 is a fantastic little keyboard that does its job with aplomb. I’m very happy indeed, and more than glad I bought the extended warranty.
I’ve seen a lot of folks argue that the Surface Pro series is too expensive, and I can understand why. $999 before you even add the keyboard seems like a pretty tough pill to swallow, especially for a tablet when you live in a world of $499 iPads and $199 Kindle Fires. But I think it’s worth remembering what you get when you buy into the Surface Pro system:
1. You get an ultrabook that can run just about any legacy Windows app you can throw at it. It has excellent RAM options (4-8GB) and storage options (64-512GB), a full-sized USB port and both wired and wireless external monitor support (the latter via Miracast). In Apple land, this costs you $900 minimum.
2. You get a tablet that can do anything an iPad or Android tablet can do, plus more, with the only drawback being sheer numbers of apps. Even that is changing as the Windows Store approaches 200,000 and will soon merge with the Windows Phone store to boot. And because it’s Windows, you also get the perk of individual user accounts right out of the box. In Apple land, this is another $400+
3. A digital drawing/inking solution. Whether you just take notes or you do fine art, the Surface Pro has you covered. You don’t get this in Apple land at all. You instead buy a USB tablet that does not have a screen for $100+, or you buy a Cintiq to connect to your Macbook for $1,000.
Long story short: at first glance, yes, it looks like Surface Pro/2 is expensive, but you get a tremendous amount of value for your money.
Would I recommend the Surface Pro or Pro 2? Absolutely, especially if you’re an artist or someone who’s just sick and tired of lugging around multiple devices. We live in a world where our computing hardware is not just powerful, but can do its job with surprisingly little energy or heat. There’s just no reason to carry two devices in your bag in addition to the smartphone in your pocket. If I could have a wish granted, it’d be for Microsoft to add an extra USB 3.0 port, thunderbolt, and move from an mSATA to a PCIe SSD. Mind you, it doesn’t exactly need those items, but the hardware nerd in me would be really happy to have them.
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Successful Patient: Step-By-Step Strategies To Get The Health Care You Need
Strategies anyone can use to get the best from the U.S. health care system.
American Health Care Today And Its Providers
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The Japanese Tea Ceremony and the Shoguns
Originally drunk as an aid to the meditation demanded by Zen Buddhism, tea became the basis for the Japanese Tea Ceremony, or cha-no-yu. Its intellectual and spiritual underpinnings quickly evolved into a formal ceremony used by Japanese political leaders to further their aims, with schools of devotees adhering to different styles. This title provides a tight overview of this evolution and its significance for Japanese culture and society.
Georgia's Great Undertaking: The Beginnings of the Western & Atlantic Railroad
A concise study of how the politically and culturally divided state of Georgia came to initiate and build one of the most successful of the internal-improvement projects of nineteenth-century America.
Another Look at Chippendale and All the Rest
A study of cross-cultural influences on English furniture of the 18th century.
Networking for the Career-Minded Student
A guide for students on how to use systematic networking to improve their occupational outlook.
The Mystery of the Missing Majorette: Art Dodger Case File #1
A missing teenager. A troubled cold-case sleuth. A twenty-year-old mystery never resolved.
Art Dodger, Savannah-based artist, isn't too impressed at first by the story of Danielle Standridge's disappearance twenty years before. He accepts that she's gone. That someone else caused her absence by no means strikes him as certain. Fifteen-year-old girls do all sorts of odd and unexplained things, then and now. Still, in Dodger's experience, which is considerable, when a girl as good-looking as Danielle manages to stay missing forth decades, it usually doesn't bode well.
The Day I Died
A work of fantasy, redemption, friendship, and romance that travels in time between 2008 and colonial Pennsylvania just before the American Revolution.
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We Are Now The World's Biggest Banana Republic
Tags: 2015 Paris Climate Accord, US withdrawal from world leadership, Washington bullies, Napoleon, Luddites, William Wordsworth, O. Henry, On The Extinction of the Venetian Republic
On the face of it, Wordsworth and O. Henry would appear to have little in common, yet this morning-after-the-end of the U.S.'s international leadership role it's hard not to think of both of them.
It was O. Henry who, back in 1904 in a short story inspired by his time in Honduras, coined the term "banana republic", which was subsequently picked up by political scientists to describe politically volatile countries in Latin America whose economy was dependent on a physical asset - fruit, minerals, whatever - controlled by a combination of foreign corporations and a local elite dependent on them. Through subsidies and bribes, combined with tactics designed to destabilize legitimate national interests, the foreign commercial entities gained and retained access to the desired resource.
The result was a highly stratified society in which most of the local population was poor and survived at the mercy of a small ruling class that Read More
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World production and resources
Types of iron ore
South Australian iron ore
Elemental iron (Fe) is ranked fourth in abundance in the earth's crust and is the major constituent of the earth's core. It rarely occurs in nature as the native metal.
The pure metal is silvery white, very ductile, strongly magnetic and melts at 1528° C.
Iron accounts for approximately 95% of all metals used by modern industrial society.
Metallic iron is most commonly produced from the smelting of iron ore to produce pig iron.
Major iron compounds
% Fe
Geothite / Limonite
HFeO2
~ 63
FeCO3
Chamosite
(Mg,Fe,Al)6(Si,Al)414(OH)8
Ilmenite
FeTiO3
Steel is a processed form of pig iron with impurities such as silicon, phosphorus and sulfur removed and with a reduction in the carbon content. Globally, steel's versatility is unsurpassed. Wrought iron (low carbon) and cast iron (pig iron) also have important markets. One of the most ubiquitous products in Australia is corrugated iron, a structural sheet steel shaped into parallel furrows and ridges. It was invented by Henry Robinson Palmer in 1828 in London and quickly became popular for roofing and farm buildings.
Iron metal may be produced from the smelting of certain iron compounds. Their concentration in economic proportions is referred to as 'iron ore'.
Other well known uses of iron compounds are:
Iron sulfate used as fungicide, the oxalate of iron in photographic development, limonite, goethite, hematite as pigments and abrasives, magnetite in the production of industrial electrodes and also for washing coal
Iron chloride and nitrate used as mordents and industrial reagents in the production of several types of inks
Iron carbonyl as a catalyser of many chemical reactions
Micaceous hematite as a protective paint on steel superstructures.
World resources of crude iron ore are estimated to exceed 800 billion tonnes containing more than 230 billion tonnes of iron. The world's resources are dominated by low-grade ore, though current world production of iron ore is largely by supply from deposits of high-grade ore composed of either rocks of massive hematite or pisolitic goethite.
World iron ore production in 2013 was 2.95 billion tonne, with the major producers being China, Australia, and Brazil. Production in Australia was 530 Mtonne. South Australian total production in 2013 was in the order of 12 Mtonne, including 3.2 Mtonne of magnetite direct shipping ore, and 665,000 tonne of magnetite concentrate.
Ore production in Australia is overwhelmingly from high-grade hematite and pisolitic goethite-limonite deposits, mostly in the Hamersley Basin region of Western Australia. A recent trend has been production of a high-grade magnetite concentrate from beneficiation of low-grade magnetite ore. Resources of this latter material are enormous, in particular in Western Australia, and South Australia, with significant resources also in the Northern Territory, and Queensland.
The history of iron ore prices differs significantly from other metals. For most of its history the price of iron ore has been fixed globally, and for very long periods. Since the beginning of global pricing, which is pre-1900, the price has remained relatively fixed up until 2003. In that ~100 year period the price changed only once, from A$2/tonne to A$9/tonne in 1965. Since 2003 the iron ore price has fluctuated, reaching a peak of ~A$120/t in 2011. Since then the price has fallen in an erratic but steady decline some 40% to a September 2014 price of A$85-90/t.
The major rock types mined for the production of metallic iron are massive hematite, pisolitic goethite/limonite, which provide a 'high-grade' ore, and banded metasedimentary ironstone, magnetite-rich metasomatite, to a much lesser degree, rocks rich in siderite, rocks rich in chamosite which provide a 'low-grade' ore.
High-grade ore
Currently most of the iron ore mined in the world comes from large deposits of massive hematite rock formed by the in situ enrichment of a protore already enriched in iron, most commonly a banded iron formation (BIF).
Two of the best known Australian examples of massive hematite deposits are Tom Price and Mount Whaleback in the Hamersley Range, Western Australia. Another type of high-grade deposit is pisolitic limonite/goethite ore formed in ancient river channels, e.g. Yandicoogina, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia.
The consensus model for formation of massive hematite ore is enrichment by the passage of fluids, which remove the non-iron-bearing minerals (dominantly chert), to a much lesser extent add iron minerals. There are several variants of this model with the most accepted being enrichment by supergene processes. Recent models suggest enrichment by mass sideways and upward migration of dominantly superheated meteoric waters perhaps with a minor magmatic component.
High-grade ore generally has a cut off grade of ~>60% Fe. Historically it has provided a direct feed to smelters either as a raw lump or fines, also in a processed form such as sinter or pellets. There are emerging markets for new varieties of feedstock. Examples include sintered iron carbide and 'DRI' ore, which is natural ore with Fe >69% and low levels of specific trace elements suitable as feed to 'direct reduction' smelters.
Low-grade ore
Low-grade ore is a term applied to iron-rich rocks with cut-off grades in the range of 25�30% Fe. It was the main supply of iron ore for many centuries of the World's early history of production of iron. Since the 1950s North America's main supply has been low-grade ore.
The dominant economic iron mineral in low-grade ore is magnetite. The ore may be easily beneficiated by a process know as wet-magnetic separation - this process has been employed for many decades in North America.
BIF with hematite as the dominant iron mineral may also be beneficiated through wet hydrometallurgical processes though it rarely is due to economic constraints.
Information about iron ore deposits in South Australia is available in M20 Iron ore deposits in South Australia (PDF 2.3MB)
The major use of iron minerals in South Australia has been for the production of pig iron for the manufacture of steel. Up to 1915 small deposits in the Flinders Ranges and the Olary region were mined for flux for use in lead-zinc smelters. The recorded total production was ~850,000 tonnes from 35 quarries.
Following the spectacular rise in iron ore price in 2003 there has been a surge in exploration activity in South Australia targeting both high grade DSO , and low-grade magnetite-bearing rocks. As a result three major iron ore provinces have been confirmed, the Eyre Peninsula, The Mount Woods inlier to Hawks Nest district, and the Braemar Ironstone of the Nackara Arc.
There has been minor production of ochre from several mines in the Adelaide Geosyncline. Also minor production of micaceous hematite.
Pyrite (FeS) was mined at Brukunga to make sulfuric acid, which in turn was used, for the manufacture of superphosphate.
Some BIF has been considered for use as an ornamental stone.
Massive hematite rock
Major deposits of this rock type occur in the Middleback Range within a BIF host. The ore was formed by supergene enrichment of host BIF with both structural and mineralogical controls on ore distribution.
Age of ore formation is put at 1800�1650 Ma.
In 1915 the first major iron ore mine in Australia was opened at a massive hematite deposit at Iron Knob by BHP Pty Ltd. Since then some 200 Mt of high-grade ore has been mined from five massive hematite deposits in the Middleback Range. From 1915 to 1965 the Iron Monarch and Iron Baron-Iron Prince mines were the main supply of ore for Australia's iron and steel industry. The favourable logistics of low cost of ore extraction and the nearby portsite at Whyalla, led BHP to establish an integrated steelworks at Whyalla in 1964.
Other significant deposits of massive hematite include the hydrothermal Peculiar Knob deposit in the Mount Woods Inlier, resource size ~20 Mtonne and currently being mined (September 2014). Also the Wilgerup deposit in central Eyre Peninsula of 14 Mtonne at >57%Fe, and other smaller deposits of goethite and goethitic hematite from 10-20 Mtonne east of the Middleback Range.
Map showing principal iron ore deposits and infrastructure in the Iron Knob/Middleback Range/Whyalla region
Iron Baron was closed in 1995 and Iron Monarch was closed in 1998. Both these mines and the Iron Princess (north of the Iron Monarch), and the Iron Cavalier are in the process of being recommissioned.
Current operating mines in the Middleback Ranges are Iron Knight, Iron Duchess, Iron Duke and Iron Magnet, and Iron Chieftain.
In 2000 BHP Steel Pty Ltd divested itself of all long products businesses which included the Whyalla operations and its attached iron ore resources. From this announcement OneSteel emerged as a totally independent competitive steelmaker and miner. With OneSteel further rationalising its operations with the emergence of Arrium Mining, a dedicated exporter of iron ore, and supplier of iron ore to OneSteel's integrated steelworks at Whyalla. Arrium are the current major producers of iron ore from massive hematite deposits in the South Middleback Range.
In 2011 Arrium acquired the iron ore assets of WPG Resources at Hawks Nest including the massive hematite deposits at Buzzard and Tui, and the Peculiar Knob deposit of massive specular hematite.
Other small deposits of massive hematite hosted by BIF include the Buzzard and Wilgerup prospects.
Peculiar Knob prospect is a massive specular hematite deposit of hydrothermal origin.
Banded metasedimentary ironstone
Extensive strike lengths of prominent linear magnetic anomalies occur throughout the Southern Gawler Craton, Northern Gawler Craton, Olary Domain of the Curnamona Province, and the Nackara Arc region of the Adelaide Geosyncline. Limited outcrop and drilling has confirmed that the source of the anomalies is a magnetite-rich ironstone, commonly a BIF. These BIFs are described below in order of age.
Archean/Proterozoic BIF
There are many short strike ridges of possible late Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic BIF in the northern Gawler Craton, particularly in the region of Mount Christie and to the north at Sequoia prospect. Drilling at Sequoia has identified an inferred resource of 72 Mtonne at 25.9%Fe. Recent drilling in the Mount Christie region has confirmed the presence of significant volumes of magnetite rock, though no resource figures have been released.
Late Archean to Paleoproterozoic BIF
Forms a major low-grade iron ore resource with extensive strike lengths on central and eastern Eyre Peninsula, the Mount Woods Inlier and in a zone from Tarcoola NNE to Hawks Nest.
Wilgena Hill Jaspilite, Middleback Ranges.
BIF of the Middleback Subgroup occurs discontinuously throughout the eastern half of the Eyre Peninsula. It generally has a strong magnetic signature particularly so in Middleback Range, a discontinuous series of strike ridges of BIF extending north-south for 60 km. The source of the magnetic anomaly has been identified as magnetite-rich BIF beneath a cover of haematitic BIF averaging 90m thick. Arrium Mining OneSteel has determined an inferred resource of ~300 Mt @ 36.8%Fe of magnetite-rich rock underlying the Iron Duke deposit, and refer to the deposit as the Iron Magnet.
Arrium also has significant resources of similar BIF at their Hawks Nest project area in the far North. Resources include 220 Mtonne of magnetite-BIF at ~30%Fe at the Kestrel deposit, and 18.4 Mtonne of DSO hematite ore at the Buzzard-Tui deposit, with potential for additional resources.
60 km to the SSE of Hawks Nest is located the Giffen Well deposit. It is owned by Maosen Australia Pty Ltd and has an inferred resource of 689 Mtonne at 31.4%Fe. Coolybring deposit further south near Tarcoola has inferred resources of 700 mtonne at 39% DTR.
Returning to the Eyre Peninsula, there has been considerable resource drilling by several companies throughout the whole of the Eyre Peninsula on rocks of magnetite-bearing BIF. Resource size for ~15 deposits is in the order of 2.5 billion tonne, with head grades from 20-30%Fe, and DTR values from 20-35%. Indeed the Eyre Peninsula region has been confirmed as a major iron ore province in South Australia.
Mesoproterozoic BIF
In central Eyre Peninsula there is a prominent east-west linear magnetic anomaly with a length of ~50 km. Drilling at the Warramboo prospect has identified the source as a metasedimentary magnetite-bearing gneiss of granulite facies, possibly originally a BIF. Magnetite content averaged ~ 25%. Beneficiation testwork by a relatively simple grinding and wet magnetic separation process yielded a grade suitable for use in the production of DRI (direct reduced iron) feedstock. Published resource is 3.69 billion tonne at 16%Fe making it one of the largest JORC-compliant iron resources in Australia.
The Mount Woods Inlier contains considerable strike lengths of linear magnetic anomalies attributed to both BIF and magnetite-rich metasomatite, which interpretation has been confirmed by drilling. Much of the region lies beneath a cover of younger sediments whose depth varies from a few tens of metres deepening to >100 m to the south, but generally is in the order of 30-50m. There has been little exploration of these BIFs for iron ore. IMX Resources in 2012-2013 drilled their Tomahawk prospect, and confirmed the source of the magnetic anomaly as a magnetite-bearing BIF. Indicated grades were in the order of 25-30%Fe, no resource figure determined, but likely to be quite significant.
The Ooldea prospect lies on a magnetic anomaly associated with the Karari Fault Zone. Drilling has identified a mylonitised quartz-magnetite-feldspar-amphibole-biotite gneiss, with maximum grade reported at 27% Fe. Inferred resources are reported at ~560 Mt. Davis Tube Testwork shows a magnetite concentrate assaying Fe = 68.9 % and SiO2 = 2.4% can be produced. The magnetic signature of the Karari Fault persists discontinuously for 300 km to the northeast.
Neoproterozoic BIF
Braemar ironstone facies occurs as a stratigraphic package of magnetite-rich ironstone associated with diamictite and is located in the Nackara Arc region of the Adelaide Geosyncline. The rock has been described as 'Rapitan'-type BIF (i.e. associated with glacial sequences). Its iron ore potential was assessed in the early 1960s at the Razorback Ridge prospect. The average head grade is ~25% Fe. Much of its strike length of >150 km remained unexplored for iron ore until Royal Resources began exploration and resource drilling in 2009. Since then several companies have entered into exploration for iron ore in the region (including that part of the Braemar over the border in NSW), with most ground now held under tenure. Considerable exploration and resource drilling has been completed. In September 2014 five companies had identified resources of 7.8 billion tonne of iron ore with a head grade from 15-25%Fe, with Davis Tube recovery (DTR) in the order of 15-25%. There are exploration targets for an additional 3 billion tonne, with potential for significant additional resources. Truly the Braemar Iron Ore province is one of the most significant iron ore resources to emerge in recent times.
Magnetite-rich metasomatite
In the Mount Woods Inlier large accumulations of magnetite-rich metasomatite are evident, and beneath a moderate thickness of cover sediment from a few metres to maximum 100m. Drilling has confirmed significant thicknesses including Manxman, best intersection DD88EN 43 which intersected 402 m at ~34% Fe from 119 to 521 m. IMX Resources have recently closed their mine at Cairn Hill from which they extracted a DSO magnetite ore with copper and gold credits. Resource drilling by them identified a further resource of 569 Mtonne at 27.1%Fe, with significant potential for additional resources. Arrium Mining is currently mining the massive hematite deposit of Peculiar Knob, with a resource of 20 Mtonne at >60%Fe. Indeed the Mount Woods Inlier – Hawks Nest regions have emerged as a major iron ore province in their own right, with potential for considerable addition to defined resources, and with as yet untapped potential in the neighbouring Coober Pedy Ridge region to the west, and also south at Giffen Well and other resources near Tarcoola.
On the northern Yorke Peninsula the significant Hillside IOCG-type deposit of 337 Mtonne at 0.6% Cu, 0.14 g/t Au has recoverable iron as magnetite, with a contained iron of 54 Mtonne. The Agery prospect has intervals of massive black magnetite were reported below a deeply weathered basement. The polymetallic nature of these rocks, i.e. anomalous Cu, Au, Ag, U, REE may increase their prospectivity for iron ore.
There is a zone extending for some 600-700 km along the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton, which includes large accumulations of iron oxide generally accepted to be of hydrothermal origin. The most well known example is Olympic Dam, which contains significant volumes of hematite-rich rock. The average grade for the deposit is reported at 26% Fe. The iron-rich rocks are not considered to be an economic resource.
There is a zone extending for some 600-700 km along the eastern margin of the Gawler Craton, which includes large accumulations of iron oxide generally accepted to be of hydrothermal origin. In the Stuart Shelf region large deposits exist under a significant thickness of cover rock from 300 to >1500m. The most well known example is Olympic Dam, which contains significant volumes of hematite-rich rock. The average grade for the deposit is reported at 26% Fe. The iron-rich rocks are not considered to be an economic resource. Other large iron-oxide accumulations on the Stuart Shelf include Acropolis, Emmie Bluff, Oak Dam, Carrapateena, Khamsin, and Freemantle Doctor.
Iron-rich magmatic rock
These rock types are currently considered to be relatively insignificant as an iron ore resource in South Australia. Iron-bearing igneous rocks are known to occur within the Giles Complex of the Musgrave Block as small, yet rich segregations. Magnetite-ilmenite segregations have been reported in drill holes within the Malbooma Anorthosite Complex. Drilling has confirmed the presence of ultramafic rocks in the western parts of the Gawler Craton including the circular, strongly layered ultramafic complex of Yumbarra Prospect which shows a form comparable to a major ultramafic intrusion, and prospective for a host of metals including iron ore. There are many other reported occurrences of ultramafic rocks from the western portion of the Gawler Craton.
Iron-rich sediments
Their major iron ore potential relates to the economic recovery of ilmenite an Fe-Ti mineral, from mineral sands particularly in the Murray Basin.
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Reach Out and Touch Someone
On the boundaries of community, both intangible and concrete, the lonesome freedoms afforded by 21st century phone culture, and one deceptively simple question: What, exactly, constitutes a dance?
START A NEW COLLECTION
By Lightsey Darst
Photo courtesy of Mad King Thomas
OPENING NIGHT: Artists on the Verge, Soap Factory, May 4, 2013.
It’s 7:30 pm, art opening time, and I’m here to see the latest work of the dance trio Mad King Thomas (Theresa Madaus, Tara King, and Monica Thomas), Phone Dances. But nothing is happening in the MKT quadrant of the Soap Factory. At least, I take this for nothing happening: Monica Thomas walking around on a small stage in high heels and tight gold pants, head down and talking into her phone, seemingly leaving someone a message. Even though I know that these are phone dances, I somehow assume that a phone dance must involve a conversation. Thomas’s clingy, blingy outfit and her callipygian swagger are impressive -- but the actual event must be elsewhere, right?
The other spectators seem to feel the same; they’re not so much spectators as momentary observers. By this I mean that they give Thomas a bit of privacy for her call, looking at her now and again but not steadily, like strangers in a coffee shop. Actually, given the way I at least eavesdrop on people in coffee shops, perhaps we’re giving her more privacy than you would get for an average phone call. The elevated stage acts as a screen.
Beyond the stage, a horizontal strip mirror -- at least ten feet long, head-and-shoulders height -- garners more open stares. Here, we’re invited to think about what we need in the way of a dance and phone our needs in to the MKT hotline. Somehow, I can’t do this right now; the buzz of an art opening—dressed-up strangers, noise, laughter, drinks—jazzes my neurons enough. I don’t seem to be alone in this; people are too busy looking at each other to get out their cell phones and call for a dance.
I skim through the rest of Artists on the Verge and return to the MKT stage, which is now empty. Okay, I’m going home. But first, let me fill you in on the other art objects/experiences on view. In Anthony Warnick’s The Library, you’re invited to read, check out books, perhaps even assist in the ongoing process of printing and binding new books. Chris Houltberg uses a bizarre questionnaire to build a personal(ish) mini-experience inside his Profile Cube; on opening night, the rules of queuing and entry rapidly fall apart, with strangers bursting backwards into other people’s profile results. Sarah Julson offers maps to guide readers along various paths around her installation The Way. Finally, Asia Ward’s haunted house/Fantastic Voyage installation in the basement invites exploration. (For more on all these, see Sheila Dickinson’s review of the exhibition for mnartists.org.)
Question: Are these also dances?
MY PHONE DANCE (1)
I return to the Soap on a Saturday afternoon, determined this time to have the experience, do the thing. Funny how much art now demands this squaring of the shoulders. Or maybe it all does and always had—but I notice it more with participatory installations, in which my experiencing of the art becomes a performance that I am also audience to.
I go up on stage for the first time and realize that there are instructions in the floor (beautifully burned into the soft pale pine in an airy sans serif): I am to call someone. The dance ends when I hang up. So I call my friend Corinne, who lives near Toronto and who I’ve been meaning to call for a couple of months now. The phone rings. There’s hardly anyone in the Soap, and I snare only a few sidelong looks, a little “What’s she doing up there?” but no lasting stares. The phone keeps ringing, and then the answering machine picks up. Of course, Corinne is not home. No one is ever home these days. I leave a message, walking around the stage in, I realize, precisely the same way Thomas did on opening night—head down, placing my feet carefully, mindful of the words I’m stepping on. When I’m done with my message, I pause a moment. This was a very short dance—less than two minutes—so I feel that I have cheated. On the other hand, the directions on the stage tell me that my dance is now over. I leave the stage.
Five minutes later, Corinne calls back. I consider whether I should re-ascend the stage, but I decide not to; this is not in the contract created by the message on the stage. So I sit down in Sarah Julson’s exhibit, on a low concrete wall. Here, I am doubtless in the way (and in The Way). Steps lead to the wall, and I’m sure the maps instruct visitors to pass through this space I’m mindlessly blocking. Yet I seem to have become a more successful performance piece by plunking myself down here. People are looking at me, smiling. Of course I’m also smiling, and laughing, and making jokes, because I’m talking to my friend. Corinne and I talk for half an hour or so about life, art-making, and the overlap between the two.
After I hang up, I walk to the mirror, look at myself for a moment (I look familiar), and take a card. Outside the Soap Factory, I call the number and ask for “a vacation,” and then “a hoedown.” This last item emerged without premeditation. There’s something lovely about being asked what you want, sending your needs into the universe, not knowing how or when the answer will come back.
Whenever you do something under the heading of ART, the activity feels entirely different—in quotation marks, if you will. Try it for yourself: Mow the lawn as art, or, the next time you’re in a line and you really don’t want to be, decide that the line is art.
PHONE TAG
Then—a month elapses.
MKT calls me, but I’m never there. That is, I’m pretty much always there—it’s my cell phone, which I always have on me—but I don’t hear the call, or I’m teaching, or I’m eating dinner, or, I have to admit, I just don’t want to pick up. Does anyone pick up the phone now? I hardly ever answer my phone. I text or email, or, with out-of-town friends like Corinne, I schedule phone calls. Out of desperation, MKT—more specifically, Tara King—and I take to scheduling. But one or the other of us blows appointment after appointment.
We’re playing phone tag, and that makes me laugh. Is phone tag a dance? Is phone tag physical? Would it need to be physical to be a dance? All right, that question doesn’t interest me at all, but here’s the thing: Whenever you do something under the heading of art, the activity feels entirely different—in quotation marks, if you will. You can try this yourself: Mow the lawn as art, or, the next time you’re in a line and you really don’t want to be, decide that the line is art.
I know it’s old hat, this duck-rabbit life-art switch, but here it calls phone culture profoundly to my attention. I talk to strangers to get my North Carolina utilities turned on; I talk to my parents; occasionally my partner and I talk on the phone. But when we talk on the phone, it’s because something has gone wrong or we’ve confused each other. Our playful contact goes on by text message. If, when I was younger, the telephone was a lifeline, a source of amusement and events, contact and even love, apparently now the telephone is a lonely place.
7/22/2013. At last it works: King calls me and I’m there and I pick up the phone. I can hardly believe it. She tells me she will transfer me, makes a doot-doot noise, and then her voice, softened, soothing, and a bit tired, comes on the line and begins to tell me very nice things about myself and about this moment. “Talking to you is the best part of my day,” she says. She sounds like she means it. “I am happy because I am on the phone with you.” I am walking around in post-industrial Durham, NC, glancing into a warehouse turned housewares shop that sells the most beautiful weathered Persian rugs. I notice they’ve turned on the chandeliers. I see a plant I want to investigate more closely, so I take a detour. I told King I would be walking, so I feel a little guilty as I come to a halt before a tub of herbs, but just then she says, “You are doing a good job.” I keep expecting King to direct me to do something, but she never does. Instead, the overall drive of the voice-over is permission. It’s short and repeats, this time with a slightly different emphasis (still, somehow, I think it’s a recording). I listen perhaps three times.
I’m watching grass wave in the wind when my partner arrives. I let him listen and he, after a moment, asks me if this is Ring Ring Poetry—Cole Sarar’s recent phone poetry project, in which I participated. It’s not, and yet I think my drive for the poem I recorded was similarly about the person at the other end of the line: What would someone need to hear?, I was thinking. The poem was set in a particular place (in my case, Lake of the Isles) and included directions for the reader.
Again, the crossover question: What makes a dance?
A DEBRIEFING
A couple of days after my phone dance, I talked to Tara King again to find out how the project worked. Briefly, there were four basic dance structures: the walking dance, the jumping dance, the jumping dance plus small dance (specifically, Steve Paxton’s Small Dance), and the imagine dance. MKT sorted the requests for dances (about 75) into these categories based on what the caller seemed to need: requests for reassurance or confidence got the walking dance, requests for silliness got the jumping dance (with the jumping-plus-small dance being a much narrower category), and the imagine dance worked as a catch-all, covering requests that involved injuries, nostalgia, or specific places.
I got the walking dance. After hearing about the imagine dance, I sort of wish I’d had that one; it’s a world-ending, body-clearing sort of ritual. But I suppose I have to trust the choreographers to give me the dance I need … surely an odd thought, as if MKT had become shamans. And, in fact, King uses the word “diagnose” at one point in our conversation.
Within the basic scripts set by these categories, dances were customized to individual requests, then delivered live by one of the three members of MKT. How did this go? Months of phone tag ensued, plus ample phone awkwardness: “Maggie Thomas? I don’t know who that is,” one recipient said. And “phone calls are horrible,” King says; of the trio, only one actually likes to talk on the phone. Of course, that was part of the purpose of the project: “How can we make phones suck less?” Success was mixed: MKT couldn’t tell what people did with the dances because most ended with the recipient hanging up the phone—except when, even more awkwardly, people talked back to them. Still, King says of the dance I got, “I really like giving it.” Are the phone calls a performance? Yes, King says; “I definitely get stage fright every time in the same way” as when she performs in person.
As the above suggests, another purpose emerged as MKT’s phone dances went on: to make a space in which to ... not so much decide but discuss meta-questions of dance. As King asks, “Is dance shared physicality? Or is it in your mind?”—the dance you imagine as you watch. “Or is it the oral history?”—the history that backs up the steps, the context in which they have meaning.
Another aim was to think about what community can be when it’s not physically immediate -- how a dance can be meaningful when it’s not local — in preparation for a larger project they’re working on, about home. MKT excels at satire, but this sort of sincerity is bit out of their comfort zone. We’re a long way from the topless suffragettes of their 2011 Momentum commission. So, for the utter sincerity of Phone Dances, they enlisted Marcus Young, an expert at affecting and non-cloying public art, as their mentor. And then, says King, “We ran forward with the total earnestness of it.”
About the author: Originally from Tallahassee, Lightsey Darst is a poet, dance writer, and college instructor. Her manuscript Find the Girl was recently published by Coffee House; she has also been awarded a 2007 NEA Fellowship. She writes a regularly on a variety of subjects for mnartists.org.
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Minnesota Book Awards Finalists
Finalists for the 28th Annual Minnesota Book Awards were announced last night by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library. Two dozen judges around the state tapped a total of 32 nominees, including one by the state's poet laureate, Joyce Sutphen (Modern Love & Other Myths). Winners to be announced April 16.
Full nominee list:
Children’s Literature, sponsored by Books For Africa:
Behold! A Baby by Stephanie Watson, illustrated by Joy Ang (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
Dad’s First Day by Mike Wohnoutka (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins Publishers)
Ten Pigs by Derek Anderson (Orchard Books/Scholastic)
General Nonfiction, sponsored by The Waterbury Group at Morgan Stanley:
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture—and What We Can Do About It by Kate Harding (Da Capo Press/Perseus Books Group)
John H. Howe, Architect: From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design by Jane King Hession and Tim Quigley (University of Minnesota Press)
No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions by Ryan Berg (Nation Books/Perseus Books Group)
Secrets from the Eating Lab: The Science of Weight Loss, the Myth of Willpower, and Why You Should Never Diet Again by Traci Mann (HarperWave/HarperCollins Publishers)
Genre Fiction, sponsored by Macalester College:
The Devereaux Decision by Steve McEllistrem (Calumet Editions)
The Grave Soul by Ellen Hart (Minotaur Books)
He’s Either Dead or in St. Paul by D.B. Moon (Three Waters Publishing, LLC)
Season of Fear by Brian Freeman (Quercus)
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction:
In Winter’s Kitchen by Beth Dooley (Milkweed Editions)
The War Came Home with Him: A Daughter’s Memoir by Catherine Madison (University of Minnesota Press)
Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life by Karen Babine (University of Minnesota Press)
We Know How This Ends: Living While Dying by Bruce Kramer, with Cathy Wurzer (University of Minnesota Press)
Minnesota, sponsored by St. Mary’s University of Minnesota:
Minnesota Modern: Architecture and Life at Midcentury by Larry Millett, photographs by Denes Saari and Maria Forrai Saari (University of Minnesota Press)
Minnesota State of Wonders by Brian Peterson, stories by Kerri Westenberg (Mark Hirsch Publishing)
North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota’s Superior Coast by Chel Anderson and Adelheid Fischer (University of Minnesota Press)
Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe by Anton Treuer (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
Novel & Short Story, sponsored by Education Minnesota:
The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group)
The Patron Saint of Lost Comfort Lake by Rachel Coyne (New Rivers Press)
Prudence by David Treuer (Riverhead Books/Penguin)
There’s Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter (Pantheon Books/Random House)
Poetry, sponsored by Wellington Management, Inc.:
Beautiful Wall by Ray Gonzalez (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
Borrowed Wave by Rachel Moritz (Kore Press)
Home Studies by Julie Gard (New Rivers Press)
Modern Love & Other Myths by Joyce Sutphen (Red Dragonfly Press)
Young People’s Literature, sponsored by The Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University:
The Bamboo Sword by Margi Preus (Amulet Books/Abrams)
The Firebug of Balrog County by David Oppegaard (Flux/Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.)
Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart by Jane St. Anthony (University of Minnesota Press)
See No Color by Shannon Gibney (Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Publishing Group)
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Daryl Richardson likely the St. Louis Rams' starting RB
Published: Aug. 6, 2013 at 08:20 p.m.
Coach Jeff Fisher told NFL.com's Ian Rapoport last week that the St. Louis Rams likely will go with a committee of two or three running backs this season.
But Fisher suggested Tuesday that second-year pro Daryl Richardson already has emerged as the leader of that backfield committee.
"I think Daryl comes back as our starter," Fisher said Tuesday, via the Rams' official website. "He played significantly more last year than anybody."
The Rams essentially relegated Richardson to outside runs, pitches and receptions last season in an effort to get him in space as a complement to Steven Jackson. After outplaying the more highly touted 2012 second-round draft pick, Isaiah Pead, Richardson now has the experience edge entering preseason action. It doesn't hurt his case that Pead is suspended for the first game of the season.
"I'm a good quality back," Richardson said Tuesday, via Rams insider Tony Softli. "I feel I can do it all, be an every-down back."
While it's noteworthy that Fisher has endorsed Richardson with more than a month to go before the season opener, there's no reason to believe the Rams will back off their intention to use two or three tailbacks. If Pead or Zac Stacy develops the hot hand, Richardson still could take a backseat.
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Report: Henry Melton cleared to open Cowboys camp
Updated: July 23, 2014 at 09:56 a.m.
The Dallas Cowboys' depleted defense will get a shot in the arm from a key contributor when training camp opens.
Defensive tackle Henry Melton, an intriguing free-agent acquisition, will be cleared to take part in the first practice of training camp, reports The Dallas Morning News.
Melton missed the entirety of offseason practices while recovering from ACL surgery. There was speculation that his rehab was behind schedule, so this is welcome news for the Cowboys.
Less than two years removed from his first Pro Bowl nod, Melton is reuniting with new coordinator Rod Marinelli in Dallas. He has big shoes to fill in replacing three-technique tackle Jason Hatcher, who generated 11 sacks as an interior pass rusher in 2013.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" shines a light on the most unpredictable teams entering the 2014 season.
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North Star Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization (EIN # 06-1589586).
Our mission is to help children who face social, emotional or educational challenges with the help of animal assisted therapy, school visits and assistance dog placements. We have been incorporated for 18 years and have created over 300 assistance dog partnerships with children all over the world.
"Angels Learn to Fly" is a half-hour show that highlights the work of an assistance and therapy dog organization called the North Star Foundation (a nonprofit incorporated for eighteen years). This program focuses on North Star's latest batch of golden pups as they are raised and socialized to work with children, who face the social and emotional challenges that autism presents.
A day in the life of 12-year-old Joel Lawrence and his North Star service dog, Hero...and a glimpse into the obstacles they've overcome together.
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North Star dogs are specifically bred to work with children with social, emotional or educational challenges with each pup then partnered with care with the child served.
North Star pups are socialized from the start to be working dogs, and socialized specifically with their children, to best meet their needs.
Our Breeding & Whelping Program
North star daisy and shea
North Star dogs are trained by positive techniques and local trainers who work with North Star families within their own homes with the child served on the ground floor.
Classes are also taken at a local training facility and public access sessions are held in local community settings to certify the partnership.
Our Training & Socialization Program
Puppy Raising
north star mia and kelsey
North Star families are always at the very heart of our work, both those who puppy raise for us as well as families who help to raise funds as well as awareness.
Volunteer support is essential to our work, as helping to raise funding as well as a North Star pup is fun and family friendly.
For more information or to learn how to help create or sponsor a North Star placement, please contact:
Patty Dobbs Gross
Founder & Executive Director
20 Deerfield Lane
+1.860.423.0664 (home)
pattydobbsgross@gmail.com
"We help children find their way..."
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How dare they question my identity?: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee retorts to BJP’s ‘hijra’ jibe
The Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said that she was ashamed of BJP’s remarks on her sexuality.
Published: 05th May 2017 07:29 AM | Last Updated: 05th May 2017 07:29 AM | A+A A-
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (File|PTI)
By Aishik Chanda
“How dare they question my identity and insult my parents? Who gave them the right to insult a woman for cheap politics?” asked an emotional Mamata Banerjee in her retort to a BJP leader’s comments in which he called the West Bengal chief minister a ‘hijra’ or an eunuch.
Speaking at a public meet at Malda in central Bengal on Thursday, the Trinamool Congress supremo said that she was ashamed of BJP’s remarks on her sexuality. “I am ashamed of the Hijra remarks. Nobody has given him the right to insult a woman with cheap stunts. If it was some other state, they would have gotten a befitting reply,” she said.
During a public meet at Chandrakona in Paschim Medinipur district on May 1, BJP leader Shyamaprasad Mondal questioned Mamata Banerjee’s sexuality by accusing her of minority appeasement. “It’s difficult to make out whether Mamata Banerjee is a man or a woman. I doubt that she is a hijra (enunch), the ones you see in local trains and buses,” he said. An FIR was booked against the BJP leader for outraging the modesty of a woman.
Mamata Banerjee retorted to the minority appeasement allegation by calling BJP ‘fake Hindus’. “We don’t need to prove anything to fake Hindus and don’t need to take out armed rallies to prove our Hinduism. We worship Maa Durga, who was worshipped by Lord Ram,” she said.
“Those wanting to put us behind the bars by misusing CBI and ED should remember that we also have several cases readied against them,” the TMC supremo said in an indirect reference to CBI and ED’s investigation into Saradha, Rose Valley and Narada scams.
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Emission Norms to Inspire Biofuel Vehicles on Roads
To check growing air pollution, the government is coming up with standards for bio-diesel run vehicles on the lines of diesel and petrol vehicles. The step is meant to encourage production of vehicles run on biofuel, which is a less-polluting alternative.
Published: 13th December 2015 06:00 AM | Last Updated: 13th December 2015 09:46 AM | A+A A-
By Richa Sharma
NEW DELHI: To check growing air pollution, the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways is coming up with standards for bio-diesel run vehicles on the lines of diesel and petrol vehicles. The step is meant to encourage production of vehicles run on biofuel, which is a less-polluting alternative.
The draft mass emission standards for bio-diesel (B100) has been prepared in consultation with all stake holders, including automobile companies, who have been producing engine compatible to run bio-diesel in other countries. The ministry is ready to open the market for all types of biofuels such as ethanol, biogas, methane and biodiesel, among others.
Biofuels are prevalent the world over but India has not ventured into it till now. Once effective, the companies will be allowed to manufacture vehicles fitted with engine compatible to run on diesel or a mixture with bio-diesel, using up to 100 per cent bio-diesel.
The decision has been taken to cut the dependence on crude oil and bring down pollution caused by increasing number of vehicles especially in metro cities. In Delhi, 1,300 to 1,400 vehicles are being registered every day including heavy and light vehicles and two-wheelers. The standards also list emission tests to be carried on the lines of Pollution Under Control Certificates (PUC) issued in case of petrol and diesel vehicles.
“We have been approached by several automobile companies that they are ready to produce bio-diesel driven vehicles but the problem was that there were no standards. Keeping in mind that India needs to bring down carbon emission and shifting to biofuels can contribute a big time, we decided to come up with bio-diesel emission standards,” said a senior ministry official.
The draft has been put in public domain for final consultation and replies have been sought by December 26.
“We have abundance of sugarcane and India is the second major sugarcane producing country in the world after Brazil. We can use sugarcane for production of ethanol to run vehicles. So there are massive opportunities and with these norms, the door to explore green fuels will open,” the official added.
The National Green Tribunal on Friday stopped any new registration of diesel vehicles in Delhi till January 6, 2016. It asked Delhi government to formulate a policy in this regard.
According to official data, sale of passenger cars grew from 5 per cent to 1.87 million in the country during 2014-15 from the previous fiscal and sale of utility vehicle grew 5.3 per cent to 5,50,000 units during this period.
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Carlton House Terrace - Waterloo Place East Garden SW1
Carlton House Terrace - Waterloo Place East Garden
Garden website »
Saturday 10:00–16:00
Gate on east side of Waterloo Place
Nearest postcode: SW1Y 5AJ
3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 23, 88, 94, 139, 159, 453
Waterloo Place (Map)
Piccadilly Circus (Map)
Raised stone threshold at gate. Firm paths
This garden was developed on part of the former royal garden of St James’s Palace, when Regency architect John Nash built the surrounding Carlton House Terrace. Since 1832 it has been managed by the Crown Estate Paving Commission. The garden underwent restoration in 2011 and its 19th century character has been retained with serpentine paths, trees and shrubs. There are handsome railings and a number of statues, including the memorial to Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic). The original path network has been reinstated and the garden has been replanted with shrubs and ground cover that suit a shady area.
Ric Glenn: Gardens Manager
@CEPavingCOMM
The Phoenix Garden WC2H 8DE
Award-winning independent charity garden built and planted by the local community in 1984 on the site of a car park. Attractive for people and urban wildlife (including the West End's only frogs).
Bedford Square WC1B 3HH
Built between 1775 and 1786, Bedford Square is the best and most complete Georgian square in London.
The Passage SW1P 1NL
Ornamental kitchen roof garden designed by Adam Frost. Edible fruits and vegetables, therapeutic plants, impressive wall sculpture, creative rose arbour and commanding views.
Oasis Farm SE1 7LG
Once a strip of wasteland, now a flourishing community resource and a haven for nature. Plus a private walled garden designed by Dan Pearson.
Montague Street Gardens WC1B 5BL
Private space with a glorious garden overlooked by many period properties. New for 2019!
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Rosmead Garden
The Pop Up Tea Room is held to celebrate Garden Squares Open Day in the private garden in Rosmead Garden from 12noon to 5pm.
Enjoy a traditional English tea with a large selection of home-made sandwiches and home-baked cakes, served on fine china.
Run by local residents, all proceeds go to Teach2Teach International, a charity which works to educate children in some of the world's poorest communities.
Visitors are invited to donate generously.
Pedestrian gate on Rosmead Road
Nearest postcode: W11 2JG
7, 23, 52, 452,228
Ladbroke Grove (no service Sunday 9th June, 2019), Holland Park, Notting Hill Gate.
Clarendon Road (Map)
Avondale Park (Map)
Entry down a steep flight of steps followed by a short gravel slope. Uneven path
This garden was made famous in the 1999 Notting Hill film starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts when the couple climbed a fence to sneak into the private communal gardens at night. It is part of the Ladbroke Estate, which also includes Arundel Gardens and St John’s Gardens - see ladbrokeassociation.info for more details about the estate. In 1823 prominent London architect Thomas Allason planned out these generous communal gardens. They were organised in a concentric layout of crescents with the outer crescents dating from the 1860s.
Stanley Crescent Garden W11 2NA
Largely designed and built in 1852-3 by Thomas Allom. One of the least altered communal gardens in the area, it includes many old, rare and protected trees.
Museum of Brands W11 1QT
South-facing courtyard, enclosed by walls on three sides. Planting includes herbaceous perennials, climbers and tender sub-tropical plants which flourish in a microclimate.
Hanover Gardens W11 3LN
A peaceful woodland garden in the heart of the historic Ladbroke Estate, the quiet disturbed only by birdsong and the bells of St John's, Notting Hill.
Ladbroke Square Garden W11 3BJ
One of the largest private garden squares in London, laid out in 1849 and listed grade II.
St James's Gardens W11 4RA
Gardens centred on the church of St James. The tower provides a focus for the vista along Addison Avenue.
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James Goll Gets Discernment 100% WRONG!
The Elijah List sent out this promotion for James Goll’s new book:
The Discerner: Hearing, Confirming, and Acting on Prophetic Revelation -- by James W. Goll
Everything is backwards, upside down and twisted in this strange world of the NAR Super Apostles. Yes, discernment is truly something lacking in the Christian Church today, but with teachers like James Goll it is getting much worse.
Instead of looking to God’s all-sufficient Word, Goll is teaching people to become fortune-tellers and soothsayers, while tacking on a few Bible verse here and there to appear legitimate.
Here’s an awful and blasphemous quote from Goll:
“The Word became flesh” is a reference to Jesus Christ, but Goll gleefully attributes the qualities of God to himself. This is “Blasphemy 101.”
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
— 1 John 1:14
This verse is all about Jesus being the Word that became flesh. Obviously! But James Goll turns it into a verse about us being the word that became flesh. What the?? This is so terribly wrong that maybe James Goll is some obscure cult leader, right?
Here are some of the NAR leaders who endorse him and his latest book:
Discernment is what the Holy Spirit gives us THROUGH THE BIBLE! False teachers like James Goll are always giving speeches and writing books that claim to have new information that will help you learn stuff that goes beyond the Bible. On top of that, they end up taking God off the throne and climbing into the driver’s seat themselves.
For more of an explanation, here’s a similar article about Goll’s fellow NARpostle, Jennifer LeClaire:
Jennifer LeClaire Gets Discernment 100% WRONG!
By the way, we expect Dr. Michael Brown to remain silent as his fellow writer commits blasphemy…
Becoming Jesus?, Christian Sorcerers, False Prophets, New Apostolic Reformation
James Goll, Bill Johnson, Sid Roth
Todd White Says "I Am Sinless" (Just Like Jesus)
Todd White has himself confused with Jesus. Here's what Todd White thinks of himself:
(Todd White will block you if you ask him difficult questions)
Todd White ended the conversation and blocked the other person, Spencer Study, who used to be a huge Todd White fan. And no, this isn't fake; this began because Todd White sent a message to Spencer Study, who was commenting on Todd's Facebook wall, encouraging people to stop following Todd White. Spencer asked Todd if he was sinless because he'd heard him talk as if he was sinless many times in the past. Since this article came out on Oct. 11, Todd White (or his staff) is now on damage control; claiming that "someone out there is trying to make Todd look like a false teacher and putting clips and/or teachings together out of context and making fake accounts impersonating Todd. He never said that he was sinless."
This is THE STORY THAT LIFESTYLE MINISTRIES (TODD WHITE) IS USING TO EXPLAIN "WHAT REALLY HAPPENED"
But in his comments Todd White is clearly making himself equal to God, and he is clearly claiming to live without sin. Maybe he believes in imputed righteousness, but it's not a part of this dialogue. This is the old "Manifested Sons of God" doctrine being put on display.
UPDATE: Here is a 9 minute conversation between Steve Kozar (the author of this article) and Spencer Study (the guy who took this screenshot where Todd said "I am sinless")
I, Steve Kozar, the guy who wrote this article about Todd White (and a bunch of other articles about false teachers in the church) make NO MONEY from doing this! I am a volunteer doing this because I want to warn people. (Clarification: A few people have purchased my $30 watercolor prints from the Pirate Bakesale, so that makes me about a $120 per YEAR)
Now here's the gigantic mansion where Todd White lives:
Wanna know how much money Todd White actually makes? In 2015 it was OVER $600,000!!
Here's an article with details on Todd's obscene income: Todd White: How Much Money Does He Actually Make?
Todd White is a HUGE fan of "Word of Faith" superstar, Kenneth Copeland. Here's what Kenneth Copeland believes:
From Kenneth Copeland's "Voice of Victory" Magazine
Here are a bunch of clips where Todd White claims to be without sin:
Todd White openly claims that he can cause people to become Christians and there's no way they can get out of it:
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Here's one of Todd White's supporters giving me some very thoughtful input since I posted this article (notice how he bravely blocked me so that I couldn't respond, just like Todd):
Check out this giant compilation of articles about Todd White:
The Todd White Cornucopia of False Teaching
Here is something that false teachers getting rich off of the church hope you'll never read:
Becoming Jesus?, False Prophets, New Apostolic Reformation, Word of Faith
Todd White
"Mommy, Why Is Jesus in the Museum of Idolatry?"
Here's a story and video about a guy who says he's Jesus. Really. This was just begging to get posted here at the Museum:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xiaz4q_jesus-is-back-at-least-in-brazil_news
Don't worry folks, this nut case is in Brazil. At least here in the States our narcissist pastors show a little more subtlety than this guy...
Note the use of pop music to attract converts... hmm, I wonder if that works?
But, hey, you have to admit, he's got great hair, a convincing beard and a really nice costume!
February 24, 2016 / Steven Kozar/ Comment
Abominations, Becoming Jesus?, Bizarre, False Prophets, Stranger Than Fiction
Supernatural Video Cage Fight!
December 14, 2015 / Steven Kozar
Here's some more over-the-top, supernatural, "Signs and Wonders" videos; notice the similarities between them. This is the "Theology of Glory" taken to an extreme. While it's true we should represent Jesus in our behavior as best as we can, we are not supposed to be Jesus (duh!), or fool ourselves into thinking that the whole unsaved world is just waiting for us to show up and "manifest the glory of God."
Which one do you think "wins" the battle of videos? See the Curator's opinion below...
The winner: Todd White's video kicks sand in the face of all the other supernatural hype videos; watch at 1:15 when every cinematic trick in the book is utilized to emotionally manipulate the viewer and propagate the Dream Destiny Thingy:
The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore, God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
December 14, 2015 / Steven Kozar/ Comment
Becoming Jesus?, False Gospels, False Miracles, False Prophets
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PPI Companies
PPI Information Guides
Alliance and Leicester Mortgage PPI
Did Alliance and Leicester sell PPI? The Alliance & Leicester bank (former building society) has now been taken over by Santander. The global banking Spanish giant that has itself been in the news recently due to the banking crisis in Spain. If your house is secured on loan by the A&L then you might be entitled to claim Alliance and Leicester mortgage PPI.
Years ago, the Alliance & Leicester was highly successful bank which operated in the UK with branches up and down the country. The familiar orange and blue signage on the high street was testament to the success of the operation. They not only offered mortgages but personal loans and savings accounts.
You may be surprised to know that the building society was formed in 1985. The Alliance Building Society and Leicester Building Society joined forces and merged, full transitional status to bank completed in 1997 when the business was floated on the London stock exchange.
How many policies were mis-sold?
The Alliance & Leicester is like many of the high street banks which is currently being pursued by existing and ex-customers who feel they have been wrongly sold PPI over the last few years. There is a confirmed period of January 2005 to the end of 2007. There was in fact over 200,000 PPI policies mis-sold to Alliance & Leicester customers. Even now in 2018, there are thousands of people wanting to claim back compensation before the deadline in 2019.
The actual detail of an Alliance & Leicester mortgage PPI claim relates to personal loans. That were issued with PPI included at an average value of over £1000. Like many other financial service providers it has been declared that these payment protection insurance policies were in fact mis-sold.
Now customers can reclaim back money owed to them by a compensation package.
A&L PPI claims are being sought by thousands of people and unfortunately this bank was amongst the worst culprits of mis-selling payment protection insurance to their customers. Even the FSA director of enforcement, M. Cole was quoted as saying that the A&L were in serious breach of UK law and must pay back cash only to those people who took out loans and other finance agreements with the company.
How To claim for Alliance and Leicester Mortgage PPI
If you think you are entitled to compensation via an Alliance & Leicester PPI claim, then you can visit any branch in your local area which is now called Santander. Or write to the Alliance & Leicester at the below address:
PPI S1
9 Nelson Street
Bradford BD1 5AN
You can also telephone the company or user PPI claims company to do all the work for you. Please bear in mind that they will take a final percentage cut of the final amount you receive. Many people choose to make their own Alliance & Leicester payment protection insurance claim so they can receive the full amount without having to pay any fees or commissions to PPI claims companies.
Before you make an Alliance and Leicester Mortgage PPI claim make sure you are probably prepared. This includes having written proof of the PPI that was mis-sold to you. This can be found on the loan agreement other financial statement.
There are strict rules on how your case should be dealt with. The Alliance and Leicester have only a few weeks where they must reply back to your PPI claim.
If you’re not happy with the speed of your A&L PPI claim. Get in touch with the financial ombudsman you can speed the process up for you.
Unfortunately it can take quite a few months for the money to be credited to your bank account. But it seems that a Alliance and Leicester mortgage PPI claim is amongst the easiest sort out. The search should assist you even further in your quest to claim back money is owed to you through Santander and the Alliance and Leicester.
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Nationwide PPI Claims
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You are here: Home › 2017 Awards for Excellence Winner Green Award & Supreme Award
2017 Awards for Excellence Winner Green Award & Supreme Award
Coppins Sea Anchors Ltd
Project name: Super Yacht Sea Anchor with Integrated Rescue System
Fabric Supplied by: W . Wiggins Ltd
Components supplied by: QCD, Webbings & Tape, Gale Pacific, Hampijdan NZ Ltd
The client requested product designed to withstand storm conditions, but with an easy-to-deploy rescue system, for sale to owners of ocean-going vessels. It also needed to be light and compact. An effective system should prevent loss of lives and damage to yachts in these areas. It should avoid pollution and damage to other property in the event of a gear failure, extreme weather incident or other mishap too. It should provide for easy rescue, by coast guard or tug, and meet a requirement under an international convention for large ocean-going yachts used commercially to have effective, well-documented safety and emergency procedures. A quicker, safer rescue system would also reduce or avoid repair and salvage costs, and insurance company claims. Our proposal was seen as a way of meeting and going beyond such requirements.
We wanted to design and incorporate several new features to achieve the client’s objective and our own goals. The key was an integrated pickup towline, 250m in total length, with the specially-strengthened sea anchor itself forming part of the towline. This means that a rescue vessel needs only to get within about 200m of the stricken vessel, rather than within about 40m with existing rescue methods. The outcome would be to speed up the rescue time, to ensure success on the first rescue attempt, and to avoid damage, injury or death. The recovery line had to be kept easily visible and in a straight line, floating on the surface, for easy pickup with a grappling hook from the rescue vessel.
Also a sure-fire deployment system was needed: the product had to be ready to launch straight into the sea, with deployment able to be triggered as soon as the unit is completely clear of the stricken vessel. This trigger comprises a release cord running through the core of a web attached to a deployment bag; the cord is pulled to open specially-designed snap shackles to release the sea anchor. None of these features had been incorporated in any super-yacht PSA previously manufactured. Finally, lighter and stronger materials were used to achieve weight-reduction targets.
The major benefits are firstly, quick and fail-safe deployment, rapidly stabilising a disabled yacht, turning its bow into the weather, slowing drift and preventing a collision with rocks or other vessels, results one would expect from an effective PSA.
The second major advantage is the speed, safety and avoidance of loss available with a rescue system that can be used at some distance from the stricken yacht, allowing it to be towed to calmer waters or safe harbour. Hitherto the common method of securing a disabled vessel involved shooting ropes at close range from a gun on the rescue vessel or getting close enough to throw them, and hoping these could be attached to a suitable point on the yacht and to the rescuer’s towing system. There is a significant risk of failure with this, and of damage to the yacht by the steel cables commonly used by rescue vessels. The new product allows the complete system to be set up in advance for a quicker, safer rescue.
As well as protection from disaster, the client promotes our product as the perfect defense against environmental law suites and clean-up liabilities following an incident at sea.
The client has expressed strong satisfaction with this product and its fully-integrated emergency towline, and has signed a distribution agreement and appointed a marketing contractor for this product. The client has budgeted €100,000 for its promotion in the super-yacht world, with the model supplied being used as its flagship product. Ongoing sales are assured.
Is there any other relevant information?
Further to the above, the product includes a new and unique system for packing and compressing the PSA, either before sailing or after deployment and recovery, which can be operated by one person alone with no extra equipment. This means that the product requires less space and can be easily stowed, so is more likely to be carried on a super-yacht with limited space. The system involves packing the anchor loosely into the deployment bag, with the half-inflated buoy strapped into the top of the bag. The buoy is then inflated, achieving a degree and evenness of compression that would not be possible even with hydraulic press (it would be impractical anyway to carry the bulky framework needed for such a press on a yacht). Straps on the unit are then tightened and the buoy deflated. This new development will certainly have further applications in other products, for compressing fabrics or other materials.
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Blog Tour: A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir | Guest Post | Teaser | Giveaway
Welcome to our stop on A Torch Against the Night tour for Sabaa Tahir. This is one of my most anticipated reads of the year and I am beyond honored to be part of the tour. Below are some of Sabaa's favorite moments while writing this sequel, so be sure to check it out! This tour is hosted by PenguinTeen.
A Torch Against the Night
An Ember in the Ashes #2
Author: Sabaa Tahir
Reading Level: Young Adult
Released: August 30th 2016
Review Source: Razorbill
Elias and Laia are running for their lives.
After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.
Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison - to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.
But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene - Elias's former friend and the Empire's newest Blood Shrike.
Bound to Marcus's will, Helene faces a torturous mission of her own - one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape... and kill them both.
Top Five Moments While Writing A TORCH AGAINST THE NIGHT
1. Writing the last sentence. It felt like eight years of love and writing and rewriting and wondering and hoping went into that one sentence.
2. Chapter 45. This will make sense after you read it. It’s been in the works for years.
3. When I realized I needed more time to write—and got it. I was thrilled when my publisher agreed to my request for more time. I finally felt like I had the space to tell a story that was worthy of both my characters and readers.
4. Writing the title into the book: I love it when I spot the title of a book I’m reading in the text. Turns out that I love writing that line, too!
5. When I decided to let a character live. I won’t tell you who he is. You might not even notice him. But he lived. Most of my readers know that I am heavily influenced by current events in my writing. I got this character’s story from our world. In our world he didn’t survive—so in my book I gave him a different, better ending.
Spent my childhood in the Mojave Desert, where I didn’t have cable and thus chose to entertain myself with books and radio. My parents assured me that I wanted to become a doctor, but a brief stint working in a hospital changed my mind.
I left the desert for university at 17, graduated from UCLA a few years later, and went to work for The Washington Post directly after. Five years later, I left the Post and started working on a book.
If I could be anything, I’d be a space explorer, but a cool one, like Jean-Luc Picard.
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Interferon alpha/beta signaling
Immune System (Homo sapiens)
Cytokine Signaling in Immune system (Homo sapiens)
Interferon Signaling (Homo sapiens)
Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Homo sapiens)
Type I interferons (IFNs) are composed of various genes including IFN alpha (IFNA), beta (IFNB), omega, epsilon, and kappa. In humans the IFNA genes are composed of more than 13 subfamily genes, whereas there is only one IFNB gene. The large family of IFNA/B proteins all bind to a single receptor which is composed of two distinct chains: IFNAR1 and IFNAR2. The IFNA/B stimulation of the IFNA receptor complex leads to the formation of two transcriptional activator complexes: IFNA-activated-factor (AAF), which is a homodimer of STAT1 and IFN-stimulated gene factor 3 (ISGF3), which comprises STAT1, STAT2 and a member of the IRF family, IRF9/P48. AAF mediates activation of the IRF-1 gene by binding to GAS (IFNG-activated site), whereas ISGF3 activates several IFN-inducible genes including IRF3 and IRF7.
8702790 Interferon-alpha-dependent activation of Tyk2 requires phosphorylation of positive regulatory tyrosines by another kinase
Gauzzi, MC, Velazquez, L, McKendry, R, Mogensen, KE, Fellous, M, Pellegrini, S
J Biol Chem 1996
8621447 Formation of STAT1-STAT2 heterodimers and their role in the activation of IRF-1 gene transcription by interferon-alpha
Li, X, Leung, S, Qureshi, S, Darnell JE, Jr, Stark, GR
17969444 The receptor of the type I interferon family
Uzé, G, Schreiber, G, Piehler, J, Pellegrini, S
Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2007
8605876 Phosphorylated interferon-alpha receptor 1 subunit (IFNaR1) acts as a docking site for the latent form of the 113 kDa STAT2 protein
Yan, H, Krishnan, K, Greenlund, AC, Gupta, S, Lim, JT, Schreiber, RD, Schindler, CW, Krolewski, JJ
EMBO J 1996
IFN alpha/beta binds to IFNAR2 (Homo sapiens)
Recruitment of IFNAR1 (Homo sapiens)
Activation of JAK kinases (Homo sapiens)
Phosphorylation of INFAR1 by TYK2 (Homo sapiens)
Recruitment of STAT2 to p-IFNAR1 (Homo sapiens)
Phosphorylation of STAT2 (Homo sapiens)
Release of p-STAT2:p-STAT1 dimer (Homo sapiens)
Interaction of IRF9 with p-STAT2:p-STAT1 (Homo sapiens)
Translocation of ISGF3 complex to nucleus (Homo sapiens)
Formation of p-STAT1 homodimer (Homo sapiens)
Translocation of p-STAT1:p-STAT1 dimer to nucleus (Homo sapiens)
ISGF3 binds the ISRE promoter elements in IFN-stimulated genes (Homo sapiens)
Expression of IFN-induced genes (Homo sapiens)
Regulation of IFNA signaling (Homo sapiens)
ABCE1 binds RNASEL, inhibiting it (Homo sapiens)
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Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Caenorhabditis elegans)
Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Canis familiaris)
Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Danio rerio)
Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Dictyostelium discoideum)
Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Drosophila melanogaster)
Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Gallus gallus)
Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Mus musculus)
Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Rattus norvegicus)
Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Sus scrofa)
Interferon alpha/beta signaling (Xenopus tropicalis)
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THE NAKED SUN – Space, Place & Time EP
The Naked Sun are a four piece Americana/roots rock band based in Philadelphia. Their debut studio EP ‘Space, Place & Time’ offers four very high quality songs – the standard of which you’d swear came from a band far more established within the music world; the sound heavily influenced by many old style country rock themes.
True to the title, some gentle cosmic vibes lead off ‘Cosmic Wind’, as the band introduce themselves slowly, the musical layers gently unfolding. Tim and Drew’s dual guitars lay down a finger-picked blanket of sheer gorgeousness – a cross between Stephen Stills circa 1969 and Fleet Foxes – before Tim’s lead vocal adds an extra dimension of sadness. At the point where the rhythm section join, it is at first a disappointment the near-ambient folky vibes weren’t allowed time to explore the space farther still. However, with the arrival of the bass and drums, we experience a band that sounds so relaxed and natural, that too comes as a surprise; a band whose harder edge can be just as thrilling. The intricate guitar work still plays a part, but the more basic rhythms eventually win out; the drums play with old-style organ as the quartet go about their rootsy stomp. Some of the lead vocals are ragged, but that only lends more charm to their naturalistic approach. As things pull to their inevitable climax, the repetition of the phase “search the sunlit sky” acts as a more than reasonable hook …Then, as the tune fades, the atmosphere driven intro comes back to the fore, bringing things full circle. If you dig this, The Naked Sun will continue to please.
Rather more direct, ‘Debbie Diest’ allows comparisons with ‘Zuma’ and ‘Comes a Time’ era Neil Young, as The Naked Sun launch into a ragged waltz with a live in the studio sound. The natural lead vocals have a high edge that begs an easy comparison with Band of Horses man Ben Bridwell and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, while the louder electric guitar leads are worthy of Tweedy’s former band Uncle Tupelo. The basic arrangement rarely wavers from its initial intent, but at the same time, there’s just enough variation so not to allow the listener’s attention to drift. Of particular note throughout this piece is the way the mood changes just through Dave’s increase/decrease in drum volume. While the crash of the drum and the distorted guitar lines provide the core of the number, there’s more joy lurking underneath by way of a bar-room piano and very assured bassline. In terms of confidence, once again, the quartet more than prove their musical mettle, even though this may be more limited in appeal – geared mainly towards Crazy Horse and My Morning Jacket devotees.
With a shuffling drum and jangling guitars filling a space that sounds tailor made for some (absent) banjo action, ‘Fatigue’ occupies a musical space somewhere directly between the first two numbers. There’s an extra indie-rock edge fleshing out the rootsiness, before a rather groovy instrumental section leads into another huge climax, as Tim launches into a guitar solo that sounds like J. Mascis having learnt to play quietly. The pasting together of three distinctly different ideas ensures these five minutes rattle past in a very brisk fashion where the music is the most important factor, as the vocals tend to drift into the background. Even though it’s the least song-oriented of The Naked Sun’s material on this EP, it shows the band’s range of instrumental skills brilliantly. Bringing things back down to a very mellow level, ‘Rough Diamond’ is an excellent closer, as gently strummed and picked acoustics meet with gentle electric guitar lines that imitate a crying lapsteel, albeit with a little reverb. Meanwhile, a vocal softly cries and by the end of the second verse, the rhythm section join to mark time. Whereas parts of the other tracks hint at influence from roots rock revivalists with a revisionists slant, there’s something wholly old-school about this track. The guitar style in particular is very reminiscent of the likes of America and by the time the number rises to accommodate a booming rock drum, it’s so difficult (once again) not to be reminded of the legendary NY + Crazy Horse. Given The Naked Sun’s ability to play with reverb and distortion in such a controlled and emotive way, it would be superb to hear them tackle a suitably rambling version of Young’s own ‘Cortez The Killer’ (albeit without the cod reggae section present on the excellent ‘Live Rust’!).
This debut EP is so well realised – the songs shine constantly, while the instrumental sections shimmer and rock in equal measure. There are so many telling influences making up the core of The Naked Sun’s sound, but make no mistake, like the works of King Washington, they’re mixed up in such a way you’ll just love the end result. Great songs and great playing leads to ‘Space, Place & Time’ being a fantastic mood piece. It’s clearly the start of something special – take a listen using the widget below.
[A live recording is also available, featuring five numbers not included on ‘S, P&T’]
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Random Factoids
Re: Random Factoids
Magikarps_Beast wrote:
If you look at the sun RIGHT NOW, you are technically looking back in time. It takes 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach the Earth so you're actually looking at what the sun looked like 8 minutes ago.
Except for that little part about it blinding you :p
But the same thing applies to stars, just the amount of time is much longer, and they won't blind you. So that might be a little safer to try, lol.
GofD
Location: Somewhere in this general area.
WiFi is a made up word and means absoultly nothing.
A glass is never empty it will always be full of air, unless its in a vacuum, THEN its empty.
Edoc'sil
Location: Avoiding roasted cabbage, not eating earwax, and looking on the bright side of life
Wireless something, I thought, but I cant think of anything that starts with Fi except Fiction, so whatever.
A strawberry is 1)not a berry and 2)doesn't exist. The real name for it is Strewberry, for how the berries were strewn across the fruit. That's right, the berries are the things on the outside. The big red thing is just a fruit.
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." -Abraham Lincoln
"You can't argue with all the fools in the world- it's best to let them have their way and trick them while they're not looking." -Brom
Credit to Jester for the avatar!
torchie13125
Location: Lilycove City, Hoenn Region
Did you know that 1 in 4 females get raped before they are 25? Depressing and shocking, but I learned it from a video in my Catholic Sunday School about safe environments.
0_@ Now that's just not right...
'Decimated' means destroyed 1 in 10, unlike obliterated, which is destroyed everything.
Location: wherever there's a place to sleep...
-It is illegal to pass a Mr. Frosty (Ice cream truck) in the state of New Jersey.
-In most cases, assault is punished less severely than battery in the US (so actually punching someone can get you in less trouble than threatening them).
-The States of New York and New Jersey have the most lawyers per capita, the highest insurance rates, and some of the most complicated highway systems in the US
-Getting away from the law and other related facts, The Roller Coaster Tycoon game was bought out from its previous holder 3 times in its time of production (first time infogrames bought it from hasbro, then atari completely bought out infogrames, and then atari bought the full rights to the game and its marketing from Chris Sawyer (the creator of RCT).
Nuzlocke Challenge
current party in HG:
If you want to find me outside of Psypoke, you can find me on the pokemon lab server, look for steamroll. They will also be updating to the Gen V metagame soon so that will be worth checking out, too.
shinashu taji
Location: William McKinley High School. Lima, Ohio.
Two people on this forum have almost the exact same glasses, the only thing different is the color of the frames.
I suck at WiFi battling.
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
If you have 3 quaters, 4 pennies, and 4 dimes you have the most amount of coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
When you die your hair still gorw for a couple of months.
The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.
I really like this thread.
Come and see my new and improved trading thread! Now with Black, White, and Dream World!!
Black FC: 1463 5647 1777
Browners
Location: I'm... Right Here, Right Now, Right Here, Right Now...
Azure wrote:
Untrue. It stops growing when you die, the skin dries out it tightens giving the appearance of growing, and the 'growing' will last for however long it takes for the body to dry out.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
FC: 4856 6222 5746 [White]
Dark_Swampert
Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.
By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand
Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer. (Irony)
Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."
If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
A snail can sleep for three years.
The word "verb" is actually a noun.
Try these
-All cigarette companies sold their products as pure tobacco until the 1960's. marlboro got busted in the 1970's for putting nicotine in their cigarettes, which then spawned the filter you see on modern cigarettes (THEY DON'T WORK!!!). Marlboro got busted again in the early 90's for adding a whole bunch of toxins into the cigarettes like fiber glass and light amounts of tar plus other crap you shouldn't take. There was no age limit in America for smoking until 1994.
-Contrary to popular belief, both raw tobacco and raw pot (marijuana) pose no risks to your health whatsoever. However, with the chemicals added to them they pose serious risks to your health.
-And a random one, the first E-mail ever sent was "qwertyuiop" ; the entire top row of the keyboard at the time.
-Most americans actually drive faster in bad weather conditions.
-Connecticut is the worst state to drive in with the most accidents per 100,000 miles
-Women do get involved in more accidents than men
-Answering your phone while driving is the most dangerous action do to do while driving. surprisingly, just talking on the phone isn't as different as driving with no distractions.
-Disney (all of the parks and properties) have little easter eggs known as "hidden mickeys" scattered everywhere. They are silhouettes of mickey's head and iconic ears. There are rumored to be over 250,000 hidden mickeys in disneyworld, Florida alone, with aboout 75,000 supposedly being in the magic kingdom.
-Cinderella's castle is the underground HQ of Disney's real management for the magic kingdom, and the entire park (plus epcot) have an underground network of tunnels)
-Epcot stands for "Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow"
The Bridgewater Triangle, situated in southeastern Massachusetts, USA, is a smaller triangle than the Bermuda Triangle, but is as infamous to those who know about it, as this implies.
The Southern states of the US (who were once part of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War) will kick you out (literally) out of their homes and restaurants if you tell them (even jokingly) you're related to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman (who led the infamous March to the Sea, razing fields, destroying entire plantations, killing people and livestock on sight, and doing nasty things to women). The South will never forget what had happened.
Also, the state of Mississippi, especially the town of Vicksburg, will also kick you out for being related to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, as he ordered his troops to throw salt onto the soil around the countryside. (If you recall from World History, the Romans did the same thing to Carthage after the Punic Wars, and nothing ever grew there for centuries.)
Steel_Eel
Location: Space, the Final Fronteir
On the U.S. Dollar Bill, there is a hidden word located in the text banners which read "Annuit C
And... the eye is "The All-Seeing Eye"-that is, the eye refers to "the Great Architect of the World" as the Masons call it.
The Pyramid is a person's desire to step him- or herself up to the heavens.
There weren't enough people on the International committee that reviewed Pluto's status as a planet, and many countries didn't send representatives, so Pluto is technically still a planet, just because not enough people voted either way, even though the ruling was that Pluto wasn't a planet.
The Schroedinger's Cat experiment proves that physics can come up with theoretical data, but the real life experiments are only based on probability.
(This experiment was trying to prove if wave-particle duality principles of light also pertained to other things, such as a cat. Schroedinger said that a cat could be both alive and dead at the same time.
Looking at a vertical map of Washington, D.C. one can find many unfinished or different images of Freemason items looking at the roads. The iconic square and compass isn't at the same degree as the one depicted on the D.C. map. and there is also an unfinished hexagram in D.C. too. Freemasons are rumored to date back to well before the American Colonies were formed, some people even claim that Jamestown, Virginia was founded by a group of Freemasons.
(I believe that everyone here in this thread knows the Dan Brown books)
The Embargo Act of 1807 was also known as the Ograbme (embargo spelled backwards) Act, because it didn't help anyone on either side of the trade. ("O Grab Me" political cartoons portrayed this act as a snapping turtle.)
When your head is chopped off (an example would be from the Guillotine) you're still alive for 15 seconds.
Lassie was male
Noxious fumes and ashes killed the people of Pompeii, not lava.
Steam is not visible; what is is actually composed of visible water droplets that form when the steam begins to cool off.
Grizzly bears are named so because 'grizzly' refers to the color of the bear, gray or grizzled. Not because they are 'grisly'.
Wormholes are veeeerrry slowly becoming real; they are a theory still but seem to be possible if scientists can figure out how. Consider this: black holes were once thought to be science fiction, but now they are considered by all to be real; one or more have even already been seen...
Thundawave
Location: Nowhereville, United States of America
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
The only food that doesn't spoil is honey.
The sun shrinks five feet every hour.
Pearls dissolve in vinegar.
Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the only substances that lasts indefinitely.
Natural gas has no smell. Its smell is only added for safety reasons.
Watermelons are grown square in Japan.
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows of stone.
^Images made by someone named Klave^
Sprite Collection
Time travel is REAL...in theory. You would have to go 99% the speed of light and could only go forward in time.
Canada got its name due to a misunderstanding in translation.
GofD wrote:
Kinda, but it's not really "time travel." Traveling at relativistic speeds causes you to experience less time for the amount of time that you actually go through. That doesn't make much sense, so here's an example:
You're traveling in a vessel (spaceship, w/e) going at relativistic speeds. The vessel travels for three weeks like this, then speeds back down. When you leave the vessel, you find out something more like seventy years has gone by. So while you've only aged three weeks, everyone you left behind has probably grown old and died. O_o
Only when we discover a real wormhole will the workings of time and space truly be unraveled.
According to the producer of Back to the Future, Mattel already had hoverboards in production circa 1989. This caused much controversy with Mattel's Public Relations department over why they weren't selling them...
OK well, Yeah, I KNEW that, I guess we could say Traveling really fast is possible then...
Fg=mg (Force of gravity equals mass times gravity)
THe normal force is the opposite of gravity.
Wailord_2
Phobophobia is the fear of developing a phobia.
This is a signature. It is very good.
actually it's terrible, but let me believe what I want
3DS FC (Pokemon X) 2595-0552-0873
2+2=Fish
Steven Spielberg, a famous director out of Hollywood, CA, is Jewish.
Most of the producing companies in Hollywood (LucasFilms, Paramount, DreamWorks, Columbia, etc. etc.) have Jewish heads.
Walt Disney was an outspoken Anti-Semite and almost named Mickey Mouse "Mortimor Mouse" before his wife changed his mind.
torchie13125 wrote:
Um, what are you talking about?? 2+2 does equal fish. I'll post a pic explaining why later.
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Tooning Japanese - S4, Ep 17 - Conga Line Up to Paradise
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We're back to just Bill and Andy, but we cannot wait any longer! We're so close to the end of Season 4 that we had to march on, regardless of how short the episode ended up. At least both of our intrepid hosts agreed that Episode 24 of Wolf's Rain, "Scent of a Trap," was really good. Everyone finds their way closer to Jaguara's Keep, but only one wolf seems to have her true attention. This one ends with a bit of a cliff hanger! Join us for another discussion of Wolf's Rain!
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Tooning Japanese - S4, Ep 16 - The Correct Amount of Bones
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This week's opening and closing clips are amazing covers of "Sk8er Boi" by Jonathan Young & Lee Albrecht and "Pokemon Theme" by Anthony Vincent.
Tooning Japanese - Movie Review - Dragon Ball Super: Broly
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Whoa, is Tooning Japanese actually reviewing something new and topical? Join us on this newly trod road of explosions, screaming, and raising power levels. Yes, Andy and Ray are reviewing the brand new Dragon Ball Super: Broly movie! Spoiler...they both absolutely loved this movie. Go watch it in theaters now or pre-order it on Blu-Ray! Not that Blue Ray...the disc-based medium. You know what I mean. Just go watch it!
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Tooning Japanese - Bonus Ep: 2019 Announcements
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Well, there's no new episode this week. However, we have a couple of really big announcements! I'll let you listen to the episode, but I suppose there's spoilers right below this paragraph. We'll be back next week with a brand new episode. Until then, stay warm, and thanks for all your continued support!
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Op-Ed: Recall Persky to Stand Up for Victims of Sexual Assault
By Michele Dauber / May 29, 2018 33
Judge Aaron Persky needs to go.
Nearly 100,000 Santa Clara County voters signed a petition to put the recall of Judge Aaron Persky on the June 5 ballot. We believe Persky should be replaced with a new judge because he has a pattern of bias in favor of privileged perpetrators in cases of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child pornography.
The most notorious case was Stanford swimmer Brock Turner. On Wednesday we will hold a rally to stand up for the victim in that case.
Persky, a former lacrosse captain at Stanford, sentenced Turner to only six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster outside a frat party. A jury convicted Turner on three felony counts, including assault with intent to rape and sexual penetration of an unconscious and intoxicated person. Turner faced 14 years in prison for his crimes—he only served 90 days.
Recall supporters at a Bay Area rally.
For women in Santa Clara County, Brock Turner’s sentence isn’t just shocking, it’s dangerous. It reinforces the myth that sexual assault is not a serious crime. It discourages victims from coming forward to seek justice when even a jury verdict results in a slap on the wrist.
Both the Mercury News and the Palo Alto Weekly have endorsed the recall. The Merc wrote that “the recall will make it easier for victims to come forward and encourage prosecutors to aggressively pursue cases. Voters need to stand up and make a statement on behalf of women and men about the seriousness of sexual assault. Persky’s sentence failed to do so to an extent that he never will again be able to serve as a respected, effective judge. He should be recalled.”
The Weekly, a moderate and highly respected local paper located in the community where the assault occurred and where Persky lives, was even more withering in its criticism of Persky, writing that “Judge Persky abused his discretion, disrespected a jury, failed a crime victim and broke trust with the public he serves. There is no judicial accountability if these failures don’t lead to his removal from office.”
That’s why recall supporters include over 50 elected officials in Santa Clara County and beyond, including US Senator Kirstin Gillibrand, Representatives Ro Khanna and Eric Swalwell, State Senators Kevin de Leon, Jerry Hill and Jim Beall civil rights leaders such as Dolores Huerta and Anita Hill, and organizations including the National Organization for Women, the Feminist Majority, the South Bay Labor Council, the California Nurses Association, the Silicon Valley Young Democrats and the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific American Democratic Club.
Even judges and lawyers opposed to the recall harshly criticize the Turner sentence. Former Judge Ron del Pozzo, recently retired after 15 years on the bench, said the expected sentence would have been four to six years. He called six months in jail “inconsistent with the jury verdict based on other people who have been tried for similar offenses and sentenced for similar offenses” in this county. According to Del Pozzo, “you see people get a year for the first residential burglary without any history. You see people get a year for having several DUIs behind them and having a fourth.”
Former Judge LaDoris Cordell, also a Persky supporter, called the sentence an example of “white privilege.” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the Berkeley Law School labeled it an “abuse of discretion.” District Attorney Jeff Rosen, saying he “lacked confidence” that Persky could “fairly participate,” disqualified Persky from another case of sexual assault of an unconscious victim.
Persky only sentenced approximately 64 cases involving sex crimes and violence against women during his 19 months in felony court. Many of those cases show a similar bias.
For example, Ikaika Gunderson was from a Stanford-connected family, and played football for Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. He was convicted of felony domestic violence for beating and choking his ex-girlfriend and pushing her headfirst out of a car.
Persky abused his discretion by allowing Gunderson to move to Hawaii to play college football with no probation or monitoring and without notifying Hawaii, in violation of state and federal law. He was then rearrested for domestic violence in a third state.
In another case, a Sunnyvale man named Robert Chain was convicted of felony child pornography for possessing dozens of images of little girls in sexual situations, including an infant. Persky sentenced Chain to only four days in jail, rather than the six-month sentence dispensed by other judges in this county.
Persky made the plea offer, not the DA. Persky also said he would be “receptive” to reducing the felony to a misdemeanor after only a year, contrary to the probation recommendation. A Persky supporter and public defender called Chain’s short sentence “eye-raising” and said it is appropriate for offenses like disturbing the peace or public intoxication, not felony child porn.
Even before Persky became a criminal court judge he attracted criticism for his handling of the “De Anza Gang Rape” civil trial.
In that case, Persky allowed the college baseball players accused of committing the “De Anza Gang Rape” to show the jury photos taken months later of the teenaged victim in a skimpy outfit, supposedly to prove she didn’t suffer from trauma. The victim’s lawyers said that they believed Persky “protected” the perpetrators.
Persky’s response to the recall echoes this record. He hired Donald Trump’s Arizona state director, Brian Seitchik, for his campaign. Not surprisingly, the Persky campaign has repeatedly blamed the victim in the Turner case, justifying the lenient sentence by pointing to the fact that Emily Doe was highly intoxicated.
In a Vogue article last week, Persky’s campaign lawyer, spokesperson and largest donor— donating approximately $500,000 to Persky’s campaign to fund Persky’s frivolous, failed legal attempt to block the recall—engaged in a series victim-blaming statements.
McManis told Vogue that Emily Doe, the woman assaulted by Stanford swimmer Brock Turner “was not attacked,” noting that she “had been drinking before she arrived at the fraternity party.”
McManis went further the next day, stating in the Mercury News that he believed Turner's version of events that were rejected by the jury and telling the Daily Post that Turner was not a predator because he didn’t jump out from behind a dumpster.
That’s why the above-mentioned Wednesday rally will take place at 9:30am outside McManis’ office at 50 W. San Fernando St., in San Jose.
Another of Persky’s most important endorsers, former federal judge Arthur Weissbrodt, then took to facebook to defend Persky’s light sentence for Turner because the “drunk girl” was only penetrated with Turner’s fingers not his penis.
Meanwhile, we have had silence from Persky.
The judge has failed to disavow these comments from his campaign’s lawyer and from prominent supporters. Instead, when asked by CBS not whether he would change Turner’s sentence but merely whether he would now be more sensitive to the concerns of women as a result of the #MeToo movement, his answer was “absolutely not.” This helps to make it clear why so many Santa Clara County voters believe that it is time for him to leave the bench.
Victims of sexual assault and domestic violence will not come forward if they think they will be blamed for the crimes committed against them. They will not seek justice if at the end of a long process of medical examinations, invasive questions, and humiliating testimony is a slap on the wrist for their victimizers.
Opponents of the campaign to recall Persky say that recalls threaten “judicial independence” and should be reserved for judges who violate the law. In fact, Persky did violate federal and state law when he sent a convicted felon to Hawaii to play football without even notifying that state.
But the larger point is that judges are elected officials under the California Constitution, which gives to voters the power to elect judges and to recall them. That’s why the nonpartisan California Constitution Center concluded that judicial recalls are part of our constitutional mechanism for balancing the competing value sets of independence and accountability. The Persky campaign’s radical view that elected judges are unaccountable to voters is anti-democratic and contrary the California Constitution.
Santa Clara County voters deserves judges who take sexual violence seriously and who are not biased in favor of athletes and other privileged perpetrators. Voters have a right to express that value at the ballot box, and we expect they will do that on June 5 by voting to recall Persky.
This column was submitted by the Recall Persky campaign and signed by the following recall supporters: Rebeca Armendariz, Political Community Organizer, SEIU-USWW, Co-Chair Recall Persky; Prameela Bartholomeusz, Corporate Finance and Business Executive, Santa Clara County Democratic Party Executive Board member, Co-Chair Recall Persky; Michele Dauber, Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, Chair, Committee to Recall Judge Persky; Jenny Bradanini, President Women’s March Bay Area, Co-Chair Recall Persky; LezLi Levin Logan, Lead Administrator, Action Together Bay Area; Co-Chair Recall Persky; Jennie Richardson, Board Member, Women’s March Bay Area, Co-Chair Recall Persky; Dr. Sophia Yen MD., MPH, Adolescent Medicine Specialist, Co-Chair Recall Persky; Nicole Bratz, Software Engineer, Co-Chair Recall Persky; Sita Stukes, Board Member, Women’s March Bay Area, Co-Chair Recall Persky. All titles are listed for identification purposes only.
Opinions expressed in this article are the authors’ own and do not necessarily reflect those of San Jose Inside. Want to submit an op-ed? Email pitches to [email protected].
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Concerned May 29, 2018 @ 10:43 pm
There are so many things wrong with this op-ed. Sajid Khan touches on some of the previously mentioned ones in his opposing editorial in San Jose Inside. But here are a few new points:
– They criticize Persky for remaining silent about the Turner case, knowing full well that he cannot speak out because he is bound by judicial ethics. This is like criticizing a wheelchair-bound man for not running into a burning building to save the grandma on the second floor. This is unbelievably dishonest.
– They tout their Mercury News endorsement, which acknowledges that Persky is a decent man, an able judge, and that the recall’s bias claims are weak. It is undoubtedly one of the weakest endorsements I have ever read.
– They completely mischaracterize his comment to CBS news. He was asked if he would allow the current #MeToo movement to influence his decision making by making him more sensitive to the feelings of society. His response was “Well, let me say again based on the code of judicial ethics, I can’t really discuss the details of the case or my decision making,” Persky replied. “But I can say that generally, the answer is absolutely not.” He is not saying he is dismissing women’s concerns, as the recall writers so generously re-phrased it. He is saying that he would not be influenced by social movements, as his duty is to the law. Social movements are for politicians, and judges are not politicians. (Lambda Legal has a great article “The Problem with Judicial Elections”.)
– They call it victim-blaming to mention that Emily Doe was highly intoxicated. Except that it’s not – it’s merely to explain that they were BOTH highly intoxicated, so that a coherent story about what happened is hard to determine. They always forget to mention that Turner’s blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit (even the jury was not given this information as the prosecutor successfully got it excluded). It doesn’t mean he didn’t do it or that he’s excused, but it raises the possibility that his crime may have been more due to negligence and stupidity rather than intent to do harm.
So many misrepresentations, so many distortions. It really begs the question, why?
Joe Hansem Jun 2, 2018 @ 12:18 pm
I agree with most of this, but the idea that the fact the victim and the defendant were both drunk in that it supposedly casts doubt on what occurred is obtuse and legally irrelevant as the jury, which heard all the evidence, determined beyond any readonable doubt what the facts were. C’mon, the guy was caught in the act! The more Persky supporters try to apologize for Turner, the more they are digging themselves into a hole. How tone deaf can some people be? Note that Khan did not go there at all.
Associates Only May 30, 2018 @ 2:23 am
This columnist citing Cordell is deceptive as has been most of the actions of this campaign to recall this judge for following the probation recombination.
She’s on the record against this recall effort:
“One of Cordell’s main points is that the judge handed down Turner’s sentence at the probation department’s recommendation, which judges tend to follow.
Cordell’s other main point is allowing a judge his or her own discretion within the law. Cordell said that while she personally would have imposed a harsher sentence on Turner, recalling a judge for “unpopular decisions,” threatens the willingness of all judges in the future to give “individual consideration” — meaning possibly more lenient and less thoughtful sentences — to defendants, many of whom will inevitably be low income and people of color.”
http://www.ktvu.com/news/unlikely-cheerleader-supports-judge-persky-saying-his-recall-will-be-terrible-for-racial-justice
Overall, what does 14 years in jail (at the taxpayers expense for everything including health care) accomplish? Rape is a crime that no rational person commits. Mr Turner will be a lifelong sex offender and felon. What additional deterrent would be accomplished by additional incarceration?
Lisa skye May 30, 2018 @ 9:55 am
With the vote less than 2 weeks away, those opposed to recalling Judge Persky are trying to change the conversation back to victim-blaming. With Persky staying silent as Emily Doe is once again blamed for crimes that were done to her without her consent, while she was fully unconscious, we should all be reminded that his man is not free of bias and has no place on the bench. Seriously, Santa Clara County is better than this. We are a community that values one another, that respects difference of opinions and strives to create a safe place for all residents. Elected officials blaming victims of crimes does the opposite of what we as a community stand for. Join me at the poles on June 5 and vote to Recall Judge Persky so our community can get back to caring for one another.
SAN JOSE OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE May 30, 2018 @ 10:41 am
> We are a community that values one another,
unless the other is a working class white male, Christian, or Trump voter
> that respects difference of opinions
except Republicans, Libertarians, Conservatives or Democrats who are not progressives
> and strives to create a safe place for all residents.
except for people who have savings accounts, own real estate of rental property, or pay taxes. Definitely NOT a safe place for THESE residents.
Lisa skye May 30, 2018 @ 1:00 pm
Well that makes zero sense to my letter. Rhetoric is a very limited style of aurgument. Go read your state constitution and then we can go talk over coffee ?
SJ Kulak May 30, 2018 @ 8:04 pm
Ms. Skye,
It seems there is some confusion here, in that case, it is wise to define terms.
False Premise – A false premise is an incorrect proposition that forms the basis of an argument.
Rhetoric – the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
By using these nice figures of speech:
“community that values one another”, “that respects difference of opinions”, etc you are the one engaging in rhetoric. What our resident logician is pointing out is that you are trying to sneak one by us using false premises. False premises are tricky because while the logic may work, our brain sometimes just takes the premises for granted.
Now, there may very well be the right to recall public officials. One can debate the merits of that. If we are as a society to recall public officials, it should be for good reasons and not some witch hunt. That is our moral obligation to keep the integrity of our democracy.
There have been repeated attempts to cast aspersions on Persky’s solely based on his gender, race, and class, that he may have employed someone that worked with a President of the United States, etc.. As this case has been digested by the in public sphere for the past few months, it is clear Persky followed the prevailing process in sentencing after the prosecutor reduced the charges. The anger on the recall side is due to the assailant’s gender, race, and class and their congruity with the judge’s. If they are white males and they went to Stanford and played a sport, they must be in cahoots. This is a race-, gender-, class-based witch hunt, pure and simple.
Should we be mad that Brock Turner is out of jail after 3 months, sure, but this is not on Persky. While the mob can’t have Brock’s blood, they will settle for Persky’s. And that is an affront to the integrity of our democracy.
You may win the vote, but you will not be right. Regardless of what the state constitution says.
> By Michele Dauber
Michele:
Why do you suppose you HAVEN’T been fired by Stanford Law School?
Aren’t Law Schools supposed to be training people to support and defend rule of law?
How does organizing mobs to overthrow an independent judiciary support rule of law?
You’re not just a lousy “law professor”, you’re an ANTI-law professor.
What was Stanford thinking?
Lisa skye May 30, 2018 @ 12:56 pm
Why do you take it Personal? Go take a breathe read your state contituion ??. It is our constitutional right to Redress our government elected officials. The opposition has to go low because the law is on the Pro Recalll side, The right side of history.
SAN JOSE OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE May 30, 2018 @ 1:26 pm
> The opposition has to go low because the law is on the Pro Recalll side,
Did you hear this from Michelle?
I wouldn’t trust it. She’s a fake law professor at a fake law school.
Real professors at real law schools don’t advocate judicial nullification and mob rule.
Stanford alums should probably start requesting refunds on their donations and tuition payments for the rapidly diminishing value of their dubious “diplomas”.
Use the refunds to get an online diploma and a couple of Tesla’s. You’ll be ahead.
Lisa May 31, 2018 @ 5:59 am
The comstitution has allowed recall since since 1912, if you want change change that. Ask your self why this has not been changed since 1912…
SAN JOSE OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE Jun 1, 2018 @ 10:40 pm
Just because the constitution “allows” something doesn’t make it a good idea.
The constitution allows people to vote for Democrats. That doesn’t mean that voting for Democrats is a good idea.
Peter Cao May 30, 2018 @ 1:34 pm
___The constitutional rights of the State of California request the Recall Campaigners to be honest to the voters in the first place;
Show me… it has zero qualification for redress…
Well how is someone, like Dauber, who can’t even pass a bar exam be expected to lecture others on the law?
What the eff is wrong with Stanford University?
Fake law professors in their Law School organizing mob actions isn’t their only embarrassment:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/12/01/stanfords-elite-business-school-caught-cheating-by-one-of-its-own-mba-students/
“Stanford’s elite business school caught cheating — by one of its own MBA students”
And this in addition to their stupid “marching juveniles” band.
Michelle’s mob:
http://www.sanjoseinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/765AE4DB-3B9ACA00-1-33873807_10105908127971014_7087145553972166656_o-772×350.jpg
Stanford Law School’s idea of “rule of law”.
By the way, is that Michele in the photo with the bullhorn?
Is that one of the classes she teaches at Stanford?
“Seminar in Advanced Legal Bullhorning, LS415”
How many credits, and what’s the tuition per credit? $3,000? $5,000?
Way to leapfrog Harvard Law School, Stanford weenies.
Harvard is still stuck back in the sixties, merely handing out professorships to fake Injuns.
No it is not
Dotty Henderson May 30, 2018 @ 4:12 pm
Readers of these comments won’t be surprised to learn that Judge Persky’s campaign is being run by Brian Seitchik, Donald Triump’s 2016 Arizona state director. This hard right, anti-woman, victim-blaming rhetoric is the President’s stock in trade. The fact that Persky’s supporters are bringing it to public discourse is no accident, in my view. It makes the case for the recall that much more compelling.
Concerned May 30, 2018 @ 5:59 pm
This is, again, more of the inflammatory rhetoric coming from the recall campaign. Judge Persky has never endorsed Trump or any of his policies. Seitchik does not work for Trump now. He is a campaign consultant – they work for whoever hires them. Persky’s campaign has taken the high-road and has not taken any anti-woman, victim-blaming stance. Some supporters say stupid things. Does Dauber want to be responsible for a recall supporter’s “guillotine the testicles of the judiciary” comment I saw a couple months ago? Dotty is fanning the flames, instead of trying to have a reasoned discourse.
I’m not with the recall campaign, and it’s hardly inflammatory to state the fact that Persky hired Donald Trump’s Arizona state director to run his campaign. To quote Harry Truman, “I don’t give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it’s Hell.”
As to the assertion the Persky campaign has taken the “high road,” I refer you to the comments of Jim McManis, Persky’s biggest donor and his campaign lawyer. McManis says that the victim in the Turner case wasn’t actually attacked, and that she lied about writing her own victim impact statement. https://www.thecut.com/2018/05/lawyer-says-brock-turner-survivor-didnt-write-viral-letter.html
That’s the very definition of the low road, and completely consistent with a campaign that is run by a Trump operative.
No one else that Persky asked would take this on.. Persky did zero due diligence ask Persky he said no one else would take this on.
> Dotty is fanning the flames, instead of trying to have a reasoned discourse.
There is nothing — NOTHING — in the progressives’ playbook about having a “reasoned discourse”.
Where did you get THAT crazy idea?
Haven’t you ever watched a progressive “roundtable” program? Four progressive wolves and one Republican deer in the headlights:
“Why are Republicans always so racist?”
“Do Republicans kick puppy dogs because they hate puppy dogs, or is it because they don’t have a stick?”
“Does Trump really eat Kentucky Fried Chicken, or is it just cultural appropriation to fool black people?”
Dotty Henderson May 31, 2018 @ 7:20 am
> Judge Persky has never endorsed Trump or any of his policies.
And even if he did, that would not be grounds for recalling him.
The Michele Dauber/Stanford Law School driven recall campaign against Judge Persky REALLY has an intolerant, totalitarian ethos.
> Michele Dauber
I used to think, Michele, that law schools were about learning to use your words to solve disagreements in a civilized manner.
Your “activism” and stature as the Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, suggests that things are different now.
Stanford’s approach now seems to recognize that organizing street mobs and employing bullhorns are at least as good as citing Black’s Law Commentaries.
Since we have a disagreement over the propriety of Judge Persky continuing as a judge, I hereby challenge you to a duel to settle the disagreement.
I propose that the weapons for our duel be mobs and bullhorns, and the place for the duel shall be the front steps of Stanford Law School.
You pick the time.
You bring your mob and bullhorns, I’ll bring my mob and bullhorns, and we’ll settle this in a Stanford Law School way.
And just let me say in advance, in case you’re tempted to pull any funny stuff to tilt the scales of justice in your favor, it would really be chickensh*t on your part if you arranged for the Stanford campus cops to interfere with my mob bringing their motorcycles on campus.
Judge Persky has no connection to Trump or his policies, but Dotty thinks that if she keeps saying it people will believe it, hence her posting the same thing over and over. I doubt that LaDoris Cordell (civil rights activist, feminist), Ellen Kreitzberg (Santa Clara University law professor and director of the Center for Social Justice), Molly O’Neal (lead Santa Clara Public Defender, self-described feminist), Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, or Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren would align themselves with someone they thought espoused Trump-like views. This so-called connection is a red herring.
Readers can judge for themselves whether the fact that Judge Persky hired Trump’s Arizona state director to run his campaign is a “connection to Trump or his policies.” I think it clearly is. I can also see why the pro-Persky camp finds it necessary to deny it. It’s discrediting for most voters in Santa Clara County who voted against President Trump, and probably would cross the street to avoid his Arizona state director, not put him on the payroll.
For more information, just Google “persky trump”.
Ana Gabriela Hermosillo May 31, 2018 @ 11:31 pm
Slavery was the rule of law until the majority of people understood that it was actually a rule of injustice and racism per se. In the same way, the Santa Clara County Judicial elites have made a rule of law protecting the rights of rapists, pedophiles, and domestic abusers instead of protecting victims of these crimes. For this, Santa Clara County Women and larger community must undo this modern oppression of women and children. This modern oppression has made women and children the sexual slaves of privileged men who receive none or nonsense sentences for these horrible crimes. JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE DOES NOT EQUAL JUDICIAL CORRUPTION AND STUPIDITY!
The rule of law has to be outlawed when it is against community and society’s values and public policy. Medical doctors only need a single mistake that causes significant harm to a patient for a potential malpractice lawsuit. How many lives a judge has to destroy in order to be incompetent? The Santa Clara County BAR, Commission for Judicial Performance, and others supporting Persky are also corrupted institutions and persons. The members of these institutions are the ones that have contributed to Persky’s No recall. This appears to be an ethical issue. If Persky is not recalled, these financial contributors to Perky’s will be trying their cases in his very court room. Thus, it is an underwater business covered under “JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE” TO PRACTICE CORRUPTION!
Zoe Lofgren, you gave a deaf ear to the case of a local law enforcement who engaged in watching child porn and was protected by local police department, judges, and other local officials. Yet, here you are supporting the No recall. I personally reported this case to you. This law enforcement has continued his criminal activity; most recent IRS fraud. Supervising judge Julia A. Emede protected this active pedophile that worked directly for her and she also adored him. THE SANTA CLARA COUNTY IS THE HOME OF THE MOST CORRUPTED JUDGES AND OTHER PUBLIC AND POLITICAL OFFICIALS INCLUDING YOU ZOE LOFGREN. Shame on you!
On June 5, 2018 Vote Yes to recall Aaron Persky!
PROTECT WOMEN AND CHILDREN; VOTE YES!
Ana Hermosillo
Professional Mental Health Provider
QPR Suicide Prevention Trained Clergy
Feminist Christian Activist
SAN JOSE OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE Jun 1, 2018 @ 9:24 am
> The rule of law has to be outlawed . . . .
‘We don’t need no stinken’ rule of law.”
Jesus told you this, right?
SJ Kulak Jun 2, 2018 @ 1:20 am
Didn’t they teach you anything in school?
The law, reason, and science are social constructs designed by men to maintain the patriarchy?
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Google finds ‘miscreants’ infecting Web with some impunity
By Ethan Baron / April 18, 2016 at 3:12 PM
More than 10,000 Internet users surf into malicious waters every week as they hit compromised websites laced with malware and scams — and many webmasters are failing to respond well to the menace, according to a new study by Google and UC Berkeley.
“The proliferation of web threats such as drive-by downloads, cloaked redirects and scams stems in part from miscreants infecting and subverting control of vulnerable web servers,” said the Remedying Web Hijacking report, released this month. “Sites operating popular platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal faced an increased risk of becoming compromised, primarily because miscreants focused their efforts on exploits that impacted the largest market share.”
“Drive-by downloads” involve the installation of malicious code on the computer of a person who has merely opened a compromised website page. A “cloaked redirect” connects a user to a new Web page, while the URL from the original site remains in the browser address bar.
The researchers studied more than 750,000 incidents in which servers were hacked, between July 2014 and June 2015. More than 40 percent of webmasters for compromised websites did not fix the problem, the report said.
Google and UC Berkeley discovered that Google’s Safe Browsing service, which runs website addresses through a list of sites connected to malicious software and phishing attacks, plus “this site may harm your computer” warning notices about suspect websites, helped lead 55 percent of compromised sites to clean up. When webmasters were contacted directly about problems, the clean-up rate jumped beyond 75 percent, the report said.
However, the researchers found, “a sizeable fraction of site owners failed to address the root cause of compromise, with over 12 percent of sites falling victim to a new attack within 30 days.”
Photo: A man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View in 2015 (AP/Jeff Chiu)
Tags: cloaked redirects, drive-by downloads, Google, malware, phishing, scams, UC Berkeley, webmasters
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