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网上葡京网： News Analysis: U.S.-Iran tensions likely to linger, say experts
Source: Xinhua| 2020-01-14 16:22:34|Editor: ZX
本文地址：http://833.144050.com/english/2020-01/14/c_138704029.htm
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by Matthew Rusling
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Long-standing U.S.-Iran tensions may continue after the tit-for-tat fight between Washington and Tehran in recent weeks, experts have said in recent interviews.
The U.S. government said Friday that it has imposed fresh sanctions on Iran, days after Tehran's missile attacks on U.S. military bases in Iraq.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday in a White House statement that the measures are aimed at denying Iran revenue that "may be used to fund and support its nuclear program, missile development, terrorism and terrorist proxy networks, and malign regional influence."
Tensions between Tehran and Washington have reached new heights since the United States killed top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani near Baghdad's airport on Jan. 3.
"Multiple armed organizations in the Middle East worked with General Soleimani and declared after his killing that they will attack U.S. forces or facilities," Clay Ramsay, a researcher at the center for international and security studies at the University of Maryland, told Xinhua.
"If these attacks come, the U.S. leadership will have to decide whether to retaliate against Iran or only against the specific attacker," Ramsay said.
Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told Xinhua that the risk is that "there will be a wave of attacks and counter-attacks that never end. Each side will cite the other country's aggression to justify its own actions."
Trump's words on Twitter signaled that the U.S. has no intention of defusing the "maximum pressure" on Iran. On Sunday Trump expressed his support on Twitter for protests in Iran, after Tehran admitted that its armed forces had accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board.
Michael O'Hanlon, also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told Xinhua that while Iran "won't want a war," it may ramp up attacks on military facilities or oil-related infrastructure.
However, confrontation does not have to be a foregone conclusion, Ramsay believes, adding that numerous steps could be taken to reverse the spiral of escalation.
"There are lots of possible steps that could be taken quietly on each side. The U.S. could pick spots to relax its controls on the use of dollars by the Iranian Central Bank, allowing the real purchase and delivery of medical and humanitarian goods," Ramsay said.
"The United States could also allow some oil transactions to take place. Iran could hold off on the steps it announced a few days ago about moving away from the nuclear deal and it could privately discuss these with the International Atomic Energy Agency," he added.
It is "not clear what Trump's long term strategy is with Iran," West said.
"Although Trump says he wants to avoid Middle Eastern entanglements, he already has sent additional troops to that region and may have to send more to protect American interests," West said.
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Football Edged by Middlebury in Thriller, 35-31
Middlebury (4-0) 0 28 0 7 35
Amherst (3-1) 3 7 7 14 31
Pa: Ollie Eberth - 148
Ru: Hasani Figueroa - 109
Rec: James O'Regan - 151
Pa: Jared Lebowitz - 205
Ru: Peter Scibilia - 66
Rec: Frank Cosolito - 58
Time of Poss.
AMHERST, Mass. – Hasani Figueroa '18 rushed for 109 yards and a touchdown and James O'Regan '20 hauled in seven catches for 151 yards and a TD to help the Mammoths outscore the visiting Panthers 21-7 in the second half, however a 28 point second quarter by the visitors proved to be the difference maker as the Amherst College football team was edged by Middlebury College, 35-31 Saturday afternoon at Pratt Field at Lehrman Stadium.
With the setback, Amherst moves to 3-1 on the season, while Middlebury improves to 4-0 overall. Amherst returns to action on Saturday, Oct. 14 when they travel to Colby College (0-4) for a 1 p.m. matchup.
Staunch defensive performances highlighted the first four possessions of the contest, as neither side was able to gain more than 24 yards in their first two offensive drives.
Breaking through with 1:28 remaining in the first quarter, O'Regan hauled in catches of 13 and 20 yards to help the Mammoths drive 53 yards downfield and set up a field goal. Tasked with a 21 yard attempt, John Rak '19 drilled the kick through the uprights to give Amherst an early 3-0 lead.
Middlebury responded on their next possession, as Jared Lebowitz found Maxim Bochman in the end zone and Carter Massengill converted on the PAT to cap off a 17 play, 81 yard drive and give the Panthers a 7-3 edge.
Continuing to hold momentum in the second quarter, the Panthers registered three unanswered scores to set the score at 28-3 with 3:58 remaining before halftime. Pinning the Mammoths inside their own 26 yard line twice on their next three possessions, Middlebury capitalized on the opportunity as Kevin Hopsicker and Wesley Becton logged pick sixes at the 8:48 and 4:21 marks, respectively, to give the Panthers a 21-3 lead.
The Middlebury offense earned a short field after an Amherst fumble at their own 15 yard line following an 11 yard kickoff return. Lebowitz made the most of the situation as he lofted a 27 yard pass to Frank Cosolito in the end zone to give the Panthers a 25 point cushion.
Amherst began clawing back into the game on their next possession, as a 30 yard return by Avery Saffold '20 proved to be the start of a shift in momentum. Needing just four plays to find the end zone, Jack Hickey '19 closed out the scoring drive as he cut to the right side and dragged two Panthers over the goal line to record the 34 yard TD rush and set the score at 28-10 entering intermission.
Added seven more points to the board on their first drive of the third quarter, the Mammoths cut their deficit to 28-17 following a pitch to Figueroa and an 82 yard TD run down the left sideline with 12:31 on the clock in the stanza.
Extending their lead 37 seconds into the fourth quarter, Middlebury made it a 35-17 game following a seven play, 66 yard drive. Lining up at the Amherst 31, Lebowitz dropped a pass into the arms of Conrado Banky in the top right corner of the end zone.
The Mammoths struck on their next possession to bring the home team within 11 points, as Ollie Eberth '20 finished 5-for-5 on the seven play, 55 yard scoring drive. Bo Berluti '19 caught a 27 yard pass on a third-and-12 opportunity to set Amherst up at the Middlebury four yard line, before Eberth connected with Harry Boeschenstein '20 in the back of the end zone to make it 35-24 with 11:22 to play.
Taking the snap at his own 18 yard line, Eberth found a wide open O'Reagan on the right sideline for an 81 yard touchdown pass as the Mammoths pulled within four, 35-31, with 7:51 remaining in the fourth quarter.
The Amherst defense forced a quick 58 second three-and-out to give the Mammoths offense another chance, however Middlebury responded in kind and then ran out the last 4:56 behind three first downs to hold on to the 35-31 victory.
Eberth finished 7-for-12 for 148 yards with two touchdowns and an interception, while Reece Foy went 7-for-14 for 54 yards and two interceptions.
Figueroa led the Mammoths running game with 109 yards on 10 carries and TD, while Hickey added a TD and 80 yards on 12 carries. O'Regan posted a game-high 151 yards through the air, while Berluti hauled in five passes for 42 yards.
Rak, John Callahan '19, Jack Barrett '19 and Andrew Sommer '19 each notched six tackles to lead the Mammoths defense. Sommer added a pass breakup, while Saffold chipped in two breakups and Nate Tyrell '19 added another.
Lebowitz went 22-for-39 with 205 yards and three touchdowns, while Peter Scibilia led Middlebury's rushing game with 18 attempts for 67 yards.
Cosolito and Banky each eclipsed the 50 yard mark, with Cosolito making six catches for 58 yards and Banky gaining 52 yards on five catches.
With eight tackles, including six solo, and an interception, Kevin Hopsicker led the Panthers defense, while Aaron Slodowitz notched seven tackles. Kevin Maxwell and Fred DiTommaso each recorded a sack for Middlebury, while Jonathan Hobart forced a fumble.
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Almost 200 Chicago high school students from over 30 schools participated in the challenge, which encourages students to volunteer on campaigns for aldermanic candidates, said Meghan Goldenstein, elections and action program director for Mikva Challenge.
The experience of campaigning can really empower young people by giving them the opportunity and experience to be an integral part of the election process, Goldenstein said.
“If you campaign, you can actually have a greater impact than just voting because you can get more than one vote for a candidate,”she said.
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If an alderman is not living up to his or her word, then young people should volunteer for challengers and “try to fight back and increase the level of communication and work ethic in the ward,” the 17-year-old said.
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Synopsis: The Human Brent arrives on the Planet of the Apes in search of Taylor and his crew.
Reaction: Not as great as the original movie and considerably bleak in its outlook, but there are still several elements from this movie that have become classic in the Sci Fi genre.
Personal Rating: 6/10
"Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout."
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Pierre Boulle => Inspired by Novel "La plan�te des singes"
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David Watson => Cornelius
Don Pedro Colley => Negro
James Franciscus => Brent
James Gregory => Ursus
Jeff Corey => Caspay
Kim Hunter => Zira
Linda Harrison => Nova
Lou Wagner => Lucius
Maurice Evans => Dr. Zaius
Natalie Trundy => Albina
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The only film in the original series of five that does not star Roddy McDowall. Despite this, McDowall is often pictured on video and DVD packaging for this film. Roddy McDowall was unable to appear in this film because he was committed to another project. He can, however, be spotted briefly in the opening prologue, even though another actor plays the role later in the film.
Burt Reynolds was considered the lead role of John Brent.
Orson Welles was offered the role of General Ursus which he turned down.
This was the first appearance of Natalie Trundy in the "Apes" series. She is the only person to play both a human and an ape in the series.
James Franciscus was cast as Brent due to his resemblance to Charlton Heston.
An alternate ending was written where Taylor, Brent and Nova escape the underground prior to the bomb's detonation (it wasn't written as a doomsday bomb yet). They return to Ape City and, along with Zira and Cornelius, release the humans from the cages and a new order is begun. The script ends hundreds of years later with the Lawgiver teaching a group of ape and human children sitting in harmony together. The "Lawgiver Scene" was resurrected as the framing structure for Battle for the Planet of the Apes. The final shot of the script shows a mutated gorilla emerging from the underground and fatally shooting a flying dove.
Charlton Heston claims in the documentary Behind the Planet of the Apes that he personally suggested the ending, saying, "Why don't I just set off this bomb and destroy the world. That's the end of the sequels."
Originally, there was going to be a scene featuring a half-human/half-ape child. However, the producers were afraid that not only would the scene be too confusing, but that they would also lose their "G" rating.
As of January 2008 the total domestic gross for Beneath the Planet of the Apes is estimated at $18,999,718. Because of its modest budget of just $3 million, percentage-wise "Beneath," despite wide agreement that it's one of the worst of the series, has remained the most profitable of all the "Apes" films, including the 2001 remake.
According to the book Planet of the Apes Revisited, Don Pedro Colley's character is named "Ono Goro" in the screenplay. Colley was bemused to discover that he was credited as "Negro" in the end titles.
Charlton Heston was reluctant to reprise the role of George Taylor for this movie. He eventually agreed on condition that his scenes had to be shot within a two week period. He also insisted that Taylor had to be killed. He agreed to a compromise in which he'd disappear in the beginning of the film and reappear to die at the end.
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Buraja
Education: In 1997 achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in Acting and started the Direction Studies at Lithuanian Academy of Music. In 2003 achieved a Master’s Degree in Theatre and TV Direction at Lithuanian Academy of Music.
Work activities: Since 2001. She created seven documentaries and one feature films.
„MAMA“/ “MAMA”
2001, documentary, 16 min., Beta SP, colour, mono.
Sleepwalkers Students Film Festival, Estonia, 2000 - Diploma to the Best Documentary Film;
Fasts Fest Weekend International Student Festival, Ukraine, 2000 - Special Certificate;
Visions of Life Film Festival, Norway 2000 - Special Certificate;
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany, 2001 - Special Mention of the Jury for a contribution showing a particular artistic development;
Dubrovnik Documentary Film Festival, Croatia, 2001 - Prize in the Filmschool competition;
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2002 - Grand Prix (Digital Competition);
“VAPNA”/”VAPNA”
“DIENORAŠTIS/ THE DIARY”
2003m., documentary, 20 min., Beta SP, color, mono.
Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, Lab competition - Grand Prix;
Cinematexas film festival, Texas, USA – Screenplay Award;
International Documentary Film Festival, Competition Program of "Iron Wolf", Amsterdam, Netherlands;
COURTisane short film festival, Belgium;
The Norvegian Short Film Festival, International Documentary program;
Labuskie Lato Filmowe, Lagow, Poland;
Riga International Film Forum "Arsenals", Latvia;
Festival Internacional de filmets, de Badalona, Spain;
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival - Grand Prix;
Media City International festival of experimental film and video art, Canada;
PDX Festival, USA;
INPUT Conference, San Francisko;
“SESERYS DVYNĖS”/ “SISTERS AND TWINS”
2004, feature, 56 min., DVcam, colour.
“KRETOS SALA”/ “THE ISLAND OF CRETE”
2007, documentary, 24 min., DVcam, colour.
Cinema du Reel, Paris, France;
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig, Germany;
“IŠPAŽINTIS”/ “THE CONFESSION”
Kinoshock film festival, Anapa, Russia, 2009 - special jury award “For the creative courage while working with the theme and for the presentation of the unpresentable”;
55-th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, official selection, competition;
“AKIMIRKOS”/ “INSTANTS”
2009, documentary, 30 min, DVcam, colour.
“LIZA, NAMO!”/ “LIZA, GO HOME!”
2012, documentary, 27 min., HD, colour.
Premiere:
World premiere – 55th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Short Documentary Competition;
National premiere – 10th European Film Forum Scanorama;
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New Analysis Confirms Economic Benefits of Proposed Paid Sick Leave Ordinance in Austin
Home/Austin City Council, Paid Sick Days/New Analysis Confirms Economic Benefits of Proposed Paid Sick Leave Ordinance in Austin
Communities and businesses in Austin could see over $8 million in annual net savings should Austin implement the paid sick leave ordinance sponsored by Council Member Casar and co-sponsored by Mayor Pro Tem Tovo, Council Member Ann Kitchen, and Council Member Delia Garza, according to a new analysis from Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). Council members and local businesses should be reassured of the benefits of paid sick days for all workers in Austin.
The proposed paid sick leave ordinance for Austin workers could provide over $8 million in annual net savings to the community and businesses, which includes the following:
When weighing the benefits for employers against costs, Austin businesses are expected to save $4.5 million (net) annually.
Additionally, the community is expected to save about $3.8 million annually on health care expenses as a result of expanded access to paid sick days.
There are also a number of benefits to workers, businesses, and the community not captured by the cost-benefit calculation, including reduced workplace injuries, increased use of preventive care services, more timely treatment of illnesses, and improved employment and income stability.
Over 40 cities, counties, and states across the country have passed laws that protect their workers with paid sick days. In 2017, IWPR found that an estimated 37% of the Austin workforce lacks paid sick time. Over 211,000 private sector workers would be able to earn paid sick days if the ordinance proposed by Council Member Casar becomes law.
The data overwhelmingly support the need for this new policy. The real “cost” that we can see for the community would be the cost of doing nothing.
Austin City Council will take up the ordinance for a vote on Thursday, and Work Strong Austin along with community members will be there to have a rally and to testify. Find more info on that here.
Laura Rosen
Austin City Council, Paid Sick Days
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1991, Park Circus/MGM, 118 min, USA, Dir: Jonathan Demme
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Displaced Haitians could be home within 12 to 24 months
Kit Miyamoto
Many of 1.3 million Haitians living in crowded displacement camps could be back in safe homes within 12 months to 24 months, says earthquake structural engineer and post-disaster expert Dr. Kit Miyamoto.
Working with the Pan American Development Foundation, in cooperation with the Haitian Ministry of Public Works (MTPTC) and the UN's Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Miyamoto and a MTPTC team of 250 specially trained structural engineers are wrapping up the most comprehensive inspection of 400,000 homes in the capital.
Despite the widespread damage caused by the quake, approximately 20 percent of dwellings are unsafe and should be demolished - while 50 percent are safe for occupancy and some 30 percent are in need of repairs.
"In most cases, these homes can be repaired in less than three days for $1,000 to $1500 each," says Miyamoto, who spoke at an Organization of American States meeting on Oct. 27. "The math adds up. That means 800,000 people could leave the camps and go to repaired homes."
Miyamoto says the speed by which the people can leave the camps depends on money to repair the homes. "The Haitian engineers and MTPTC are doing a very effective job," Miyamoto says. "Their work ethic is admirable."
Amy Coughenour, deputy executive director of PADF, adds: "The emphasis now needs to be on rebuilding neighborhoods, returning families to their homes and restoring livelihoods. It is critical that we and other groups receive the financial support to carry out this important mission."
Miyamoto, who was driven by PADF into Port-au-Prince a week after the devastating earthquake, has worked in more than 20 post disaster countries, including China, Indonesia and Turkey. He and his firm have remained in Haiti since January. www.ImUnitedforHaiti.org
PADF, with a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, contracted Miyamoto International to train Haitian structural engineers under the MTPTC management to inspect buildings and "tag" them using international standards: A red tag indicates heavy damage and is unsafe; yellow tag indicates some damages; green tag means it is safe for occupancy.
In addition to PADF's 100 engineers, Miyamoto has trained an additional 500 for the MTPTC. These MTPTC engineers have inspected 320,000 buildings in the earthquake affected area.
Together, MTPTC, PADF and Miyamoto are now training masons and contractors to repair 2,000 yellow-tagged homes.
During the inspection process, the engineers identified 12 types of crack patterns - which are spray painted on the wall. When contractors arrive to a yellow-tagged home, they are able to match the inspection with government-authorized repairs.
"Our job is to be professors," says Miyamoto of the program to train Haitian masons. "The masons ask questions all the time. Their masons are quite good. We just need to refine their techniques. It doesn't take much to bring them up to international standards."
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ITU Adopted Huawei's Video MOS Proposal
Huawei announced that "During the recent ITU-T SG12 Q13/12 and Q14/12 interim meetings held in Berlin Germany:
Huawei’s proposed video MOS Umbrella WID project (G.vidmos) was adopted. The project will provide video MOS evaluation guidelines to the industry with consideration of different classification of related factors.
Concurrently, the modification of ITU-T Rec. P.800.1 "Mean Opinion Score (MOS) terminology" with the inclusion of video MOS standardized definitions, suggested by Huawei delegates, was agreed in the meeting.
During the meeting, Huawei made a proposal to differentiate the PC and Mobile scenarios based on extensive market analysis. It was also proposed to proceed with H. 265 and 4K resolution video MOS evaluation as soon as possible as one of the next phases of work priorities for video MOS.
Meanwhile, as one of the active participants among video MOS companies, Huawei submitted the audio, video, and audiovisual MOS evaluation models to ITU-T SG12 P.NATS project. This model can be used for the evaluation of real time encryption/non-encryption-based media stream OTT"
See "Huawei’s Proposed Video MOS Work Item Gains Approval by ITU-T" - here.
Labels: Huawei, streaming video
Sweden: ISPs Cannot Be Forced to Block Pirate Bay
THE LOCAL SE reports that "In a landmark decision, a Swedish court on Friday ruled that the country's internet service providers cannot be forced to block controversial Swedish file-sharing site Pirate Bay. After considering the case for almost a month, the District Court of Stockholm ruled that copyright holders could not make Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget block Pirate Bay"
Related post - "How will Pirate Bay Avoid Blocking?" - here.
"The court found that Bredbandsbolaget's operations do not amount to participation in the copyright infringement offences carried out by some of its 'pirate' subscribers.
The action was brought by Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Nordisk Film and the Swedish Film Industry, who teamed up in a lawsuit last year designed to force Bredbandsbolaget to block the site. They claimed that, unless it blocks Pirate Bay, Bredbandsbolaget should be held responsible for the copyright infringements of its customers".
See "Swedish court: 'We cannot ban Pirate Bay'" - here.
Labels: BitTorrent, blocking traffic, Bredbandsbolaget, Pirate Bay, Sweden
US Patent for Distributed DPI Granted to Ericsson
A new US patent was granted to Francisco Cortes Gomez of Ericsson, for "DISTRIBUTED TRAFFIC INSPECTION IN A TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK" (here)
Distributed Traffic Inspection in a Telecommunications Network Technical Field
The present invention relates to methods for traffic inspection in a telecommunications network and to corresponding devices. Background
In telecommunications networks, inspection of a payload section of data packets may be used for enabling smarter network decisions, e.g., with respect to controlling data traffic. For example, the inspection may be used as a basis for providing differentiated treatment of traffic based on potentially complex characteristics of the data traffic itself. This differentiated treatment may involve acting on the data traffic itself, e.g., by discarding data packets, modifying data packets, throttling transmission rates, or the like. Further, the differentiated treatment may involve taking actions related to the data traffic, e.g., charging or replication of the data traffic for law enforcement purposes or monitoring. Such inspection of payload may be implemented as Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). DPI functionalities may for example be integrated in nodes conveying user plane traffic, e.g., in a gateway or transport node.
However, DPI may require significant amounts of processing resources. Accordingly, implementation of DPI in a node conveying user plane traffic may result in performance degradation of functionalities needed for conveying the user plane traffic. Such performance degradation may be up to several orders of magnitude.
In addition, the processing load caused by DPI may depend strongly not only on the complexity of implemented inspection algorithms, but also on the nature of inspected data traffic. For example, a high proportion of data traffic which is "easy to classify" may lead to relatively low processing load, while a high proportion of data traffic which is "hard to classify" may lead to a processing load which is significantly higher, e.g., up to several orders of magnitude, even if the absolute amount of conveyed data traffic remains unchanged. Although a statistical distribution of data traffic between „easy to classify" and „hard to classify" may be assumed as a general rule, this may alleviate high load variance within relatively short periods of time, but typically does not alleviate impacts from new traffic patterns or addition of complex services. For instance, the dissemination of a new virus/worm requiring complex detection rules, or the success of a new peer-to-peer product may significantly increase DPI load on a rather short time scale.
DPI may also be implemented in specialized nodes. Such nodes may be optimized for DPI and offer sufficiently high processing resources. However, as additional devices such specialized nodes typically require high-capacity network ports for transfer of the user plane data traffic. This applies to the specialized node itself, but also to other nodes connected to the specialized node. Such high-capacity network ports may contribute significantly to the overall cost of a node. Further, such specialized nodes are typically designed to offer processing resources which are sufficient to perform also very complex inspection and classification algorithms at high speed, which may result in significant costs for a given throughput of user plane data. In scenarios where the user plane data traffic has a high proportion of "easy to classify" data the expensive hardware of the specialized node would be utilized inefficiently. Moreover, such a specialized node may constitute an additional potential point of failure and add complexity to any high-availability transport network design.
Accordingly, there is a need for techniques which allow for efficiently inspecting traffic in a telecommunications network. Summary
According to an embodiment of the invention, a method of inspecting data traffic in a telecommunications network is provided. According to the method, a node of the telecommunications network receives data packets of a flow. The node also forwards the received data packets of the flow to a downstream node of the telecommunications network. Further, the node takes a decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the node. The node indicates a result of this decision to the downstream node.
According to a further embodiment of the invention, a method of inspecting data traffic in a telecommunications network is provided. According to the method, a node of the telecommunications network receives data packets of a flow from an upstream node of the telecommunications network. Further, the node receives an indication of a result of a decision by the upstream node whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the upstream node. On the basis of the indicated result of said decision by the upstream node, the node takes a decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the node. According to a further embodiment of the invention, a node for a telecommunications network is provided. The node comprises at least one first interface for receiving data packets of a flow, at least one second interface for forwarding the received data packets to a downstream node of the telecommunications network, and a processor. The processor is configured to take a decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the node and to indicate, e.g., via the second interface, a result of the decision to the downstream node.
According to a further embodiment of the invention, a node for a telecommunications network is provided. The node comprises at least one interface for receiving data packets of a flow from an upstream node of the telecommunications network and a processor configured to receive, e.g., via the interface, an indication of a result of a decision by the upstream node whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the upstream node of the telecommunications network. Further, the processor is configured to take, on the basis of the indicated result of said decision by the upstream node, a decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the node. According to a further embodiment of the invention, a system for inspecting data traffic in a telecommunications network is provided. The system comprises a first node and a second node.
The first node is configured to receive data packets of a flow, forward the data packets of the flow to the second node, take a first decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the first node, and indicate a result of the first decision to the second node. The second node is configured to receive the data packets of the flow from the first node and, on the basis of the result of the first decision indicated by the first node, take a second decision whether to perform inspection of a payload section of at least one data packet of the flow at the second node. According to a further embodiment of the invention, a computer program product is provided, e.g., in the form of a computer readable storage medium, the computer program product comprises computer readable program code that, when executed by a processor of a node of a mobile telecommunications network, causes the node to operate in accordance with any of the above methods.
Labels: DPI, Ericsson, patent
BICS Implemented BroadForward Diameter Signaling Controller; Replaces Oracle?
BICS announced it has launched a "Next Generation signaling solution delivered and implemented by leading network solutions provider Infradata .. Infradata has implemented the BroadForward BFX Interface Gateway, a Next Generation Diameter Signaling Controller (DSC) with fully integrated Diameter Edge Agent (DEA) and interworking function across BICS' entire global IPX (IP Exchange) network".
It seems that BroadForward BICS deployment replaces the ACME (Oracle) solution used by BICS since December 2012 (here).
Broadforward GUI Based Configuration
"With the migration to BFX, Infradata has equipped BICS with a state-of-the-art Diameter Signaling Solution to cost-effectively enable innovative IPX services, as well as the ability to faster onboard new customers, generate detailed traffic insight and seamless interworking between Diameter, SS7 and RADIUS networks along with integration with IT systems"
See "Infradata Implements Next Generation Diameter Signaling Solution at BICS" - here.
Labels: BICS, BroadForward, Diameter Router, Oracle
GSA: 270 5G Networks by 2025, Driven by Capacity for Video and Ultralow Latency
A new report (here) from GSA predicts "over 270 5G networks will be deployed by 2025 and points to two significant trends that are driving the wireless industry to develop 5G network technology. These are:
the explosive growth in demand for wireless broadband services, which require faster and higher capacity networks to deliver video
other content-rich services and the predicted massive growth of Internet of Things (IoT) applications – some of which will require ultralow latency and need highly reliable IP connectivity".
See also "GSA's 5G Consensus Insights" - here.
"The report, from the GSA Executive Committee of Ericsson, Huawei and Qualcomm, is the first of its kind and will be updated twice a year.
See "GSA predicts over 270 5G networks by 2025 in the first Executive Committee report 'The Road to 5G'" - here.
Labels: 5G, GSA
ALU to Offer Vedicis' Smart Data as a Managed Service
Vedicis and Alcatel-Lucent’s managed services business announce an "industry-unique service and business model to put clients and subscribers at the heart of service providers’ decision making process .. Smart Data as a Service is a Managed Information Service that complements or replaces the traditional CAPEX model based on hardware, software, storage and analytics by providing a simple access to information for network, marketing, contact centre stakeholders, based on virtualized software and service platforms.
The main value proposition of Smart Data as a Service consists of:
Drive customer centric transformation: Adopt and extend a client 360 degrees view to all customers
One Service Multiple facets: Leveraging consistent and critical set of data
Subscribers, usage, devices, location, net technology, etc
Capacity planning, network operations, profiling and marketing, revenue assurance, legal compliance, etc.
Speed, time to deliver value: operational in weeks, removing technology, skills and geography barriers
Pay for what you focus on: Get what you need, avoid upfront investment, maximize return on investment
Real-time: Cut data collection, processing and editing time to seconds
See "Smart Data As A service with Alcatel-Lucent Managed Services" - here.
Labels: Alcatel-Lucent, DPI, Vedicis
Sandvine Receives (Another) $4M Order
No confusion here - it is the 2nd time in 3 days that Sandvine announces that it has "..received a software license expansion order for more than $4 million".
This time "covering its deployments in the mobile properties of a major multi-national operator group in the Caribbean and Latin America region. The order reflects growth in the customers’ deployments of Sandvine’s Network Analytics, Traffic Management and Usage Management solutions".
See "Sandvine Receives $4 Million Software Expansion Order From Mobile Properties Of Major Operator Group" - here.
Labels: DPI Market, Sandvine
Citrix De-invests ByteMobile; Blaming Encryption
Citrix acquired Bytemobile in July 2012 (here) for $435M (see "Citrix Expects $15M Bytemobile Revenues in 4Q12" - here) the then leading vendor of video optimization for mobile networks.
Expectation did not met, and during this year Citrix made several announcements about "Exploring Alternatives" for the product line (see "Citrix: Bytemobile Business Declined by 50%" - here).
So the final decision has been made. Closing.
Patrick Lopez, Founder and CEO,{Core Analysis} reports that "Citrix has decided to "de-invest" in the ByteMobile product line that was initially reported for sale. Citrix provided this week an update in an investor's call, on the results of its strategic review that was announced in September.
Executives commented:
"The underlying premises for the acquisition of ByteMobile have now vanished.We acquired the company for its ability to optimize video traffic,but today a significant amount of the video traffic is encrypted and can no longer be optimized. [...] We will transition some of the capabilities in the NetScaler product but for the most part phasing that product line out."The company mentioned that ByteMobile revenue for 2015 were expected around $50m and breaking even. XenServer will also be discontinued (unsurprisingly looking at VMWare and KVM's relative success)".
Related post from September 2014: "Flash Networks (40%) and Citrix (30%) Lead the Mobile Optimization Market" - here.
See "Citrix shuts down ByteMobile" - here.
Labels: Bytemobile, citrix
Mellanox Launches Programmable Adapter (Offloads DPI)
Mellanox Technologies announced the "ConnectX®-4 Lx Programmable adapter to enable public and private clouds, Web 2.0 infrastructures, telecommunications, and high-performance computing infrastructures to achieve the highest performance and maximum flexibility.
The ConnectX-4 Lx Programmable adapter provides users with the maximum flexibility to offload CPU utilization by migrating portions of their data processing logic to an on-board Xilinx FPGA [10/40Gb/s FPGA as ‘bump-on-the-wire’], while taking advantage of Mellanox network controller’s hardware-based application accelerations, unmatched scalability and efficiency.
The ConnectX-4 Lx Programmable adapter can be used to accelerate a wide range of network applications, including Security, Deep Packet Inspection, Compression/Decompression, High-Frequency Trading and many more. Thus, it optimizes and achieves the highest performance in modern data centers, private and public clouds, Web 2.0 infrastructure, telecommunications and high-performance computing".
See "Mellanox Announces ConnectX-4 Lx Programmable Adapter with Onboard Xilinx FPGA Acceleration" - here.
Labels: DPI, Mellanox
Sandvine Receives $4M Order
Policy Traffic Switch 32000
Sandvine announced that it has "..received an expansion order for more than $4 million. The order expands the implementation of Sandvine’s solutions for a major fixed line Communications Service Provider in North America that has been a customer since 2005 .. The customer is using Sandvine’s products to provide business intelligence for capacity planning, customer experience measurement, and other strategic initiatives.
The purchase relates to Sandvine’s Policy Traffic Switch (PTS) 32000 [see "Sandvine Adds a 200Gbps/2RU Appliance w/100GE Interfaces" - here] hardware. Approximately $1 million of the order value is expected to be recognized as revenue in the company’s fourth quarter, with the remainder to be recognized in FY 2016".
See "Sandvine Receives $4 Million Order For Market-Leading 100 GE PTS 32000 Platform" - here.
Labels: 100G, DPI Market, Sandvine
Openwave: 3 Tier1 Operators Deployed SDM Solution (Verizon?)
Openwave Mobility announced that "three Tier-1 operators have deployed its Subscriber Data Management (SDM) solutions:
Openwave Mobility maintains the largest SDM/UDR (User Data Repository) deployment in the world with over 130 million subscribers at a Tier-1 operator in North America
[At the end of Q3, 2015, Verizon had 137.553M and AT&T had 126.406 wireless subscribers - here. Openwave could not comment due to NDA with the cusotmer].
The SDM solutions are also being deployed with a Tier-1 operator in Japan
One of the largest group operators based in Europe.
SDM is being utilized by these operators to address critical use cases such as UDR and identity management solutions. Some of these operators are now looking to deploy IoT devices.
In addition, Openwave Mobility has deployed its Smart User Repository (SUR) with several operators. SUR seeks to provide centralized management of all subscriber data. This allows operators to reduce service innovation cycles by exploiting common subscriber information"
See "Three Tier-1 Global Operators Deploy Openwave Mobility’s Subscriber Data Management Solutions" - here.
Labels: Openwave Mobility, SDM
Akamai Expands HTTP/2 Deployment
Akamai Technologies announced that it is now "..actively working with more than 150 customers to deliver HTTP/2-enabled websites and is expanding its HTTP/2 program to all customers using qualifying products to deliver TLS encrypted web content.
HTTP/2 represents the first major update to the HTTP network protocol in nearly 20 years. Although websites have dramatically evolved during this time, HTTP, the underlying protocol of the Web, has not. Through features and capabilities such as multiplexing and concurrency, header compression, server push, support for the latest cipher suites, and an overall reduction in development complexity, HTTP/2 is intended to significantly improve the performance and security/privacy of today’s Web.
More than 70 percent of requests on Akamai’s CDN currently come from HTTP/2 compliant browsers; however, some older browser versions will continue to be used for the foreseeable future. Therefore, Akamai’s implementation of HTTP/2 has been designed to use real-time network and end-user intelligence to dynamically apply the appropriate performance optimizations to ensure the best performance for each user. In addition, we believe Akamai is well positioned to offer the tools and intelligence required to take full advantage of the move to HTTP/2. For example, easy‑to‑use, self-service and highly granular configurability allows customers to control the deployment of HTTP/2, while built-in monitoring and reporting helps measure the impact"
HTTP/2 attempts to solve many of the shortcomings and inflexibilities of HTTP/1.1. Its many benefits include:
Multiplexing and concurrency: Several requests can be sent in rapid succession on the same TCP connection, and responses can be received out of order - eliminating the need for multiple connections between the client and the server
Stream dependencies: the client can indicate to the server which of the resources are more important than the others
Header compression: HTTP header size is drastically reduced
Server push: The server can send resources the client has not yet requested
See "Akamai Helps Drive Adoption Of Faster And More Secure Web Protocol" - here.
Labels: Akamai, CDN, Optimization, TCP/IP
RAD, Sandvine and CenturyLink Showcase Application–aware Networking Solutions
RAD, in collaboration with Sandvine and CenturyLink, announced that they are "conducting a joint Proof of Concept (PoC) demonstration .. The three companies will showcase application–aware service level agreement networking solutions, designed for communications service providers (CSPs) .. The PoC will demonstrate powerful three core capabilities, including assured connectivity for Carrier Ethernet and IP, as well as application-aware visibility and policy control
RAD and Sandvine will demonstrate how their award-winning Service Assured Access and Cloud Services Policy Controller solutions are integrated in an application-aware networking architecture designed to help service providers, like CenturyLink, deliver highly reliable and intelligent business services.
RAD's Service Assured Access
In particular, RAD’s programmable MiNID provides powerful SLA assurances, application aware networking, and packet capture capabilities in a very convenient “plug wherever you need” SFP sleeve form factor that is ideal for introducing innovative service offerings into existing networks without the need for forklift upgrades.
See "RAD, Sandvine and CenturyLink Will Conduct Application-Aware Networking with SLA Assurance Joint Proof of Concept at GEN 15 Conference" - here.
Labels: Application Aware Networking, CenturyLink, DPI, RAD, Sandvine
Guavus Launches New Customer Experience Analytics Apps
Guavus announced the "..launch of a new suite of applications to enable the next generation of contextual customer experience analytics that fully illustrate the customer journey across networks and services.
The new application suite enables Service Providers to correlate and fuse petabytes of streaming and operational data with customer data in real-time transforming the Customer Experience Management (CEM) and Marketing functions towards real-time, contextual customer care and proactive business processes.
The Customer Experience Analytics suite leverages the same data framework as Guavus’ Service Reflex application, which provides insights into service operations, thus providing customers with a complete end-to-end view of the operating environment.
The next-generation Guavus Customer Experience suite is built around two core analytics applications that leverage a common framework for maximum reusability and extensibility:
Care Reflex: provides customer care agents with unprecedented and granular near real-time insights to determine the precise impactful events affecting the quality of experience at critical points in the customer journey by subscriber. As a result, problems are identified and resolved faster and subscribers receive personalized service that improves customer satisfaction and reduces churn.
Marketing Reflex: enables operators to gain a greater understanding of subscribers’ interests to strengthen their competitive position against digital providers and find new revenue opportunities to overcome flat ARPU.
See "Guavus Introduces a New Customer Experience Analytics Suite Powered by Fast Data Operational Intelligence" - here.
Labels: CEM, Guavus, Network Intelligence
Procera Launches Virtual Experience Probe
Procera Networks announced the release of its ".. game-changing Virtual Experience Probe, eVolution.
Engineered to deliver intelligence to real-time analytics systems, eVolution is an all-virtual data enablement solution that empowers fixed, cable, mobile and WiFi operators to enhance the subscriber experience, by providing contextual intelligence they can act upon immediately.
Rather than simply providing raw byte counts that are delivered by traditional probing systems, eVolution provides a broader subscriber view that enables an operator to take advantage of the intelligence in real-time with discount or turbo offers or for customer care problem resolution .. eVolution is available for purchase now.
The eVolution data probe runs in VMware or KVM virtualization environments on COTS hardware, and is the world’s first fully scalable real-time big data source for network intelligence based on native DPI technology. eVolution is differentiated by:
Infrastructure and Vendor agnostic data acquisition
Real-time virtualized software with highly optimized performance on COTS hardware
Deployment flexibility for a broad ecosystem of customers: carriers, enterprises, system integrators, OEMs, channel partners, and third party big data providers
Flexible data and KPI formats for use by big data repositories
Best cost per subscriber value designed to augment or displace cumbersome and expensive passive probing solutions
eVolution’s base solution enables traditional DPI visibility through Traffic Perspectives, with additional Perspectives available to provide a comprehensive view into Subscriber, Routing, Device, Score, RAN, and Content data. These Perspectives are used to enhance the subscriber-focused data feed even further and give a holistic view of the subscriber experience.
See "Procera Networks Launches eVolutionTM Virtual Experience Probe for Broadband Operators" - here.
Labels: DPI, Network Intelligence, NFV, Procera, Subscriber Intelligence
DNA [Finland] to Roll-Out Comtel's New Mobile Data Purchase SaaS Solution
Comptel Corporation unveiled a "disruptive solution that both simplifies how consumers purchase mobile data, and gives operators the power to maximise mobile data revenues .. The company’s new FWD solution consists of a native application (app), which lets users buy mobile data packets directly from their Android smartphones whenever they want. Rather than purchasing an inflexible plan based on megabytes or gigabytes, consumers can select a simple, time-based data option, ranging from as short as a minute to as long as a month, and enjoy full use of the Internet
.. FWD is Comptel’s first SaaS solution and was developed within NXT, the company’s very own start-up incubator.
For example, as soon as a consumer opens up Twitter, or any other app requiring an Internet connection, on her mobile device, she gets a list of available mobile data offers. The consumer selects her desired option, and FWD connects her to the Internet within seconds. Now, she can browse her Twitter feed and explore the Internet without boundaries. She can also check her mobile connection status and extend it at any time.
FWD includes a versatile tool, empowering operators to create, sell and market mobile data offers in real time – without needing to modify their network at all. The tool embeds insightful and actionable analytics, so operators can understand their customers like never before. They may price mobile data dynamically, for example, during peak usage times or “happy hours,” enabling them to better monetise mobile data and to efficiently utilise their existing network infrastructure.
DNA, the leading provider of prepaid mobile subscriptions in Finland, is expected to roll out the service soon to prepaid customers in Finland, making Finnish consumers among the first in the world to enjoy FWD"
See "Comptel Unveils FWD to Help Mobile Operators Win the Race for the Next Two Billion Internet Users" - here.
Labels: Comptel, DNA
Amdocs on Network Optimization Competition
During Amdocs' Q4 2015 earning call, a question was asked about the network optimization market, to which the company has entered using several acquisitions - Celcite (2014, $129M, here) and Actix (2013, $120M, here)
[related post - "Amdocs CEO: 'Network Optimization Business is Slow'" - here]
[Q] Tom Roderick [pictured], Stifel Nicolaus, Analyst
.. Eli. Curious for your additional thoughts on the competitive landscape and the network optimization business. You mentioned, I think, obviously you guys have been the disruptor in that market. I know Cisco has made some moves competitively. Some of the other NEPs have, as well. What are they doing, what are the traditional network equipment providers doing to protect their position, whether it's through pricing or bundling or things of that nature and how, what are they doing as a response to your disruption in the market?
[A] Eli Gelman [pictured], President & CEO. Amdocs:
To be honest, the first thing they do is they try to use a lot of fear against us, because we are the new guys in this area. They will try to slow this thing as much as they can. They will not announce it necessarily, but we see from everywhere. It's not like a specific company I can tell you all the guys that are producing a lot of boxes are trying actively to slow down this trend. I don't think they can do it. Even if they slow it down, it would not take, let's say, five years to come to full fruition. Maybe it will take seven years. You can not slow this down.
And I'll tell you more than that. Carriers cannot afford not to do it, because otherwise, the big guys will do it themselves. Level 3 will do it. Amazon would do it. They will build their own networks. And if the carriers are not careful, both, by the way, MSOs, the Comcasts and the Charter of the world, and the AT&T and Verizon of the world, if they would not do it, other people will do it for them or to them. So they have to do it.
The providers will try to slow it as much as possible. They say that they are investing in it and all of that. I don't think so. And every time that they see that they are a buying company, we've seen in several cases like this, they kill the company. In other words, they buy companies that have some momentum in this area and especially to kill them and not to build them. And we have a very different opinion. We have a different opinion that we have infrastructure and new components and new theory and new approach to this entire thing. And we'll see. We'll have the best man win.
See "Edited Transcript of DOX earnings conference call or presentation 10-Nov-15 10:00pm GMT" - here.
Labels: Amazon, amdocs, Cisco, Level3, Optimization
Telecom Italia Deployed Qwilt to Improve OTT Streaming Video QoE
Qwilt announced that "Telecom Italia has deployed Qwilt's award-winning open caching solution to boost network capacity and improve quality of over-the-top (OTT) streaming video for its more than 30 million customers. Telecom Italia implemented Qwilt's solution to provide enhanced quality of experience (QoE) for its subscribers using online video and live streaming services from OTT content providers in Italy.
.. The operator deployed the Qwilt open cache solution over a year ago to create a scalable architecture for its network and has experienced improved performance that meets the needs of its customers.
Qwilt's solution is delivered as a fully managed service to speed deployment and streamline ongoing operation. The broader operator organization -- including network planning, engineering and operations teams -- benefits from comprehensive media analytics, which offer insights into growth trends, content sources and consumer preferences.
By relying on open caching for online video delivery at the network edge, operators can substantially reduce network capital and operational costs -- a typical open cache deployment yields a return on investment (ROI) in less than 12 months.
The open caching deployment at Telecom Italia was supported by local systems integrator Proxy.
See "Telecom Italia Deploys Qwilt to Optimize Over-the-Top Video Content for Improved Customer Quality of Experience" - here.
Labels: Optimization, Qwilt, Telecom Italia
C&W [Caribbean] Deploys Tektronix' Geoanalytics Platform
Tektronix Communications announced that "Cable & Wireless Communications will deploy its TrueCall® platform to reduce operating expenses and improve network and subscriber services.
TrueCall will be deployed for CWC networks operated under the LIME/Flow brand in the company’s Caribbean coverage area, and under the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) brand in the Bahamas.
With TrueCall, CWC can decrease its operating costs in a variety of ways, including:
Remote analysis of network performance in order to minimize travel and drive-test costs and increase efficiencies
Deep, rapid analysis and troubleshooting of subscriber and device performance
Planning and optimization of network capacity
Analysis and optimization of roaming-device performance on its network, translating directly into revenue benefits
Network planning based on historical event insight, identifying trends to better plan for expansions and services"
See "Cable & Wireless Communications to Deploy TrueCall® Geoanalytics Platform to Decrease OpEx, Improve Subscriber Experience" - here.
Labels: Tektronix Communications
Vodafone: 75% Growth in Mobile Traffic During H1 2015
Vodafone published its H1 results (here), with some interesting stats its services:
30m 4G customers (+10m in H1) in 19 markets
H1 mobile data traffic up 75%
record 400 petabytes of mobile data carried in Q2.
See "Vodafone Group Plc Half year results" - here.
Labels: LTE, Vodafone
EdgeConneX Shows 12-20% Improvement in Quality of Experience
EdgeConneX announced a "Conviva white paper that validates the EdgeConneX business model. The white paper quantifies significant improvements in Quality of Experience metrics for end-users of Internet content and the content creators themselves.
Conviva, the leader in Over the Top (OTT) video experience optimization for the world’s top media companies, measured the video data streams of multiple publishers that distributed EdgeConneX-enabled streams for a leading Internet Service Provider (ISP) in San Diego, CA. These measurements were compared against a peer network that did not utilize an edge localization strategy with EdgeConneX.
Conviva found that EdgeConneX-enabled streams produced a 12 to 20% improvement in re-buffering rates, which is a measurement of the percentage of the time a video is loading versus playing on an end-user’s device. Re-buffering rates are a clear indicator of the quality of a video. These rates are directly related to lengthier customer engagement times, greater customer satisfaction, and as a result, lower customer turnover and abandonment.
See "White Paper Confirms EdgeConneX Delivers Superior Video Experience" - here.
Labels: EdgeConneX, Optimization, OTT, QoE
Comcast Expands Usage Based Billing (Don't Worry - it's 300 GB)
Karl Bode reports to DSLReports that "Comcast continues to ignore customer backlash, and continues to dramatically expand the company's broadband usage caps and overage fees. A close look at Comcast's usage cap "trial" FAQ indicates that the company plans to quietly expand caps into Little Rock, Arkansas; Houma, LaPlace and Shreveport, Louisiana; Chattanooga, Greenville, Johnson City/Gray, Tennessee; and Galax, Virginia starting December 1.
In all of these markets users now face a 300 GB monthly usage cap, with $10 per 50 GB overage fees.
..A copy of the notice being sent to users informs them that they shouldn't worry about the caps, because the "median usage for XFINITY Internet customers is 40 GB of data in a month" and "it appears this new 300 GB data plan will not impact you."
See "Comcast Dramatically Expanding Usage Cap Areas December 1"- here.
Labels: Comcast, Usage Based Billing
GSA's 5G Consensus Insights
Some slides from a presentation given in Hong Kong at the Global Mobile Broadband Forum on November 4, 2015
source:GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association www.gsacom.com)
See "5G: CONSENSUS INSIGHTS FROM GSA EXECUTIVE MEMBERS" - here.
Astellia - $1M Contract with Econet Wireless [Zimbabwe]
Astellia announced "..the signature of a €1 million contract with Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s number one operator. Under the agreement, Econet will deploy Astellia’s vendor-independent solution on its 2G and 3G networks and will also get expert support from Astellia’s consulting team.
The Astellia solution allows Econet to closely monitor network performance, as the company takes concrete steps in its pledge to improve the quality of both its broadband and voice services"
Econetr's market information (Aug 31st, 2015):
"Astellia’s comprehensive monitoring solution features Packet Service Monitoring. This advanced module is designed to evaluate the quality of experience perceived from an end-user perspective for data services such as MMS, emails, video streaming and Internet. It will enable Econet’s optimization team to detect and investigate problems such as slow web browsing due for instance to congestion, inefficient transaction procedures or faulty handsets.
See "Econet Wireless calls upon Astellia's expertise to accelerate mobile broadband adoption" - here.
Labels: Astellia, Econet Wireless
Virgin Media [Ireland] Partners with Webroot for Free, Opt-in Parental Control
Virgin Media Ireland announced that it is "launching a new way to help parents protect their children from age inappropriate material on the web - Virgin Media Parental Controls.
Free to all Virgin Media broadband customers, this new opt-in service is a first in Ireland and offers a one click solution to automatically restrict access to websites containing age inappropriate content. When parents activate the Parental Controls service, Virgin Media will automatically restrict access to websites under categories including - Adult and Pornography, Hate & Racism & Violence. Once activated, the restriction will become effective across all devices connected to the Virgin Media network in the home.
Virgin Media has partnered with Webroot, a market leader in intelligent cybersecurity for endpoints and collective threat intelligence, to deliver granular URL classification data for Virgin Media Parental Controls through integration with the Webroot BrightCloud Web Classification Service.
The classification data from Webroot enables Virgin Media Parental Controls to establish granular policies that selectively allow, block, or isolate websites based on 10 categories, which include Adult and Pornography, Nudity, Abused Drugs, Marijuana, Hate & Racism, Violence, Hacking, Weapons, Questionable and Gross.
See "Virgin Media launches new one click ‘Parental Controls’" - here.
Labels: Parental Control, Virgin Media, Webroot
Major Wireshark Release Announced
Riverbed Technology "sponsor of Wireshark® – the world’s most popular open source network and protocol analysis tool ongoing development project" announced "a major Wireshark release that’s been nearly two years in the making .. Wireshark 2.0 now uses a new application framework to deliver a significantly better user experience on all platforms, particularly Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
Key Wireshark 2.0 New Features:
Language support: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish
Configurable conversation types
VoIP player improvements
New wireless toolbar
Intelligent scrollbar
Faster column display
Filterable expert items
More conversation filter options
SSL dissector improvements
Streamlined menu items
IO graph, TCP stream graphs, throughput graph, window scaling graph improvements
IPv6 statistics and address compression
First column shows Related Packets and Conversation Spans
Windows stick around for easy comparison of graphs and statistics between captures
Background dissection makes sorting and other features faster
Streamlined menu items consolidate different capture and interface dialogs
See "Riverbed Announces Wireshark 2.0" - here.
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Telefonica [Argentina] Selected Gigamon for Visibility and Optimization
Gigamon announced that "Telefonica Argentina, a subsidiary of the Telefonica Group, has selected Gigamon’s visibility solutions to help optimize its subscriber service offerings.
Telefonica Argentina is utilizing a number of Gigamon solutions and technologies including several GigaSMART® applications for traffic intelligence: Adaptive Packet Filtering, Application Session Filtering and Header Stripping as well as Gigamon’s patented Flow Mapping.
By combining Gigamon´s Aggregation Solution, GigaVUE-TA1, and the GigaVUE-HD8 Fabric Node with the GigaSMART applications implemented as part of a Visibility Fabric™ architecture
Telefonica Argentina gained visibility into more than 32 x 10Gbps IP/MPLS links. The GigaSMART feature set significantly reduced the traffic that needed to be processed by the tools, resulting in a 10:1 cost savings ratio for Telefonica. With Gigamon’s solution in place, Telefonica Argentina can streamline the introduction of new technologies such as VoLTE, IMS and CDN to its network and reduce operational and performance impact.
Alberto Bernal, Telecom Network Planning Engineer, Telefonica Argentina said: “Gigamon has also helped us gain greater visibility across our entire network and identify and address issues as soon as they arise. In fact, during the deployment process, Gigamon helped us to troubleshoot a DNS Cache Server Farm performance issue, resolve it remotely avoiding a possible service outage. It really helped us to streamline the performance of the DNS system”.
See "Telefonica Selects Gigamon to Gain Network Visibility and Optimize Customer Offerings" - here.
Labels: Gigamon, Network Intelligence, Telefonica
Exinda Enhances Wan Optimization w/DPI, Diagnostics, Shaping, Acceleration
Exinda announced the release of their "WAN Application Performance Solution ExOS 7.4. With improved diagnostics, shaping and acceleration techniques, this new release will help network administrators guarantee business critical applications perform as promised for all users across the extended enterprise.
.. ExOS 7.4 also enhances Exinda’s application classification engine with new and enhanced application signatures and improved Layer 7 application identification for reporting and policy creation of all traffic in your network. These enhancements include:
New and updated VoIP
real-time and conferencing applications
better control of recreational traffic with enriched BitTorrent detection.
the new Google protocol QUIC
Kevin Suitor [pictured], VP of Product Management, Exinda said. “.. this is the first release in a series of releases that will focus on improving acceleration and control of each of the key Microsoft protocols with a goal of creating an Office 365 Solution Pack in 2016.”
See "Exinda Delivers Superior Application Performance in the Branch Office" - here.
Labels: Exinda, Wan Optimization
FB CEO: We Support Net Neutrality (w/ Zero Rating)
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg expressed his views on the Net Neutrality debate in India (see "India Planned Net Neutrality Laws" - here and "Google India: "strong protest" Against Including Zero Rating in Net Neutrality" - here). Facebook is promoting its intewrnet.org initiative to allow affordable access to developing countries around the world (see "Update to Internet.org Free Basic Services - here).
Press Trust of India reports that ".. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg [pictured] on Wednesday said his company is committed to net neutrality but supported zero-rating plans which have been criticised by many as violative of the principles of free Internet
When asked if Facebook supports net neutrality, Zuckerberg said: "Absolutely. Net neutrality is important principle. We do a lot to support both in terms of regulation and in our own work building an open platform that any developer can build something for regardless of who they are if they follow the basic rules .. Internet.org and Facebook are 100 per cent supportive of net neutrality, we lobby for it across the world, we build an open platform with no filtering but at the same time we also need to make sure that we continue to push for access," Zuckerberg said
He said providing free Internet to everyone in the world is expensive and telecom operators spend billions each year bringing Internet to users. "What we are really trying to do is to use Free Basics (previously known as Internet.org) so that any developer who can give low bandwidth services for free can be zero-rated
On zero-rating plans of telecom firms like Bharti Airtel [see "Airtel: The Internet, with Our Airtel Zero, is Neutral" - here], Zuckerberg said: "But to those who advocate against zero- rating I say look at a student who wants free access to the Internet for her studies
See "Zuckerberg affirms net neutrality but backs zero-rating plans" - here.
Labels: 1-800, Facebook, India, Net Neutrality
Analysys Mason's Recommendations to CSPs & Vendors for the $9.2B SDP Market
A new report by Glen Ragoonanan [pictured], Principal Analyst. and Gorkem Yigit, Analyst, Analysys Mason finds that:
The service delivery platforms (SDP) market will grow from USD5.7 billion in 2014 to USD9.2 billion in 2019, at a 10% CAGR, thanks to the shift from spending on infrastructure to spending on SDP for existing and new digital services
The main growth drivers are increased video consumption and the growing number of connected smart devices (customers often have more than one)
The availability and affordability of virtualised SDP solutions will drive spending despite lower price points than traditional SDP systems.
Analysys Mason's Recommendations for CSPs:
CSPs need to develop new ‘personalised’ (customisable) digital services using an integrated SDP approach
CSPs should invest in SDPs that optimise and monetise video services and in scalable SDM systems for IoT
CSPs should virtualise SDP network functions to improve scale and reduce costs
And for vendors:
Suppliers should incorporate NFV and SaaS into their CSP SDP solutions to enable faster and more cost-effective delivery of new digital economy services
Next-generation unified communications (voice, messaging and video) service delivery should be the foundation of TAS offerings
Growth in video and IoT devices will drive the need for scalable CMD and SDM platforms, increase the number of policy management use cases and investments, and drive supplier ecosystem growth or M&A
See "Service delivery platforms: worldwide forecasts 2015–2019" - here.
Labels: Analysys Mason, SDP
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3×30 Webinar: Look Up
4 Mar 2015 by admin
To introduce Ci’s new webinar series 3×30 our CEO and Founder, Kierstin De West, was joined by Headspace’s Co-Founder Rich Pierson to discuss ‘Look Up’ – the shift in consumer’s relationship with technology and our desire to connect to what is authentic, real and meaningful in our lives.
Missed out? Watch the recording below.
Click here to download the supporting editorial about Look Up.
3×30 is a 30 minute webinar series covering key trends in the cultural shift to sustainability, and what this means for brands. There will be 3 each season.
Would like to join us for the next one? Please send us an email, and we’ll put you on the list.
The Purpose Economy: Our Desire for Conscious Consumption and How Brands Can Respond
26 May 2014 by admin
Consumer behaviour has shifted towards a desire for more conscious consumption People are looking for products and services that go beyond transactions, and have purpose. In fact, according to the SHIFT Report, 73% of consumers say that a higher purpose in life is meaningful to them.
This Purpose Economy, as spotlighted in Aaron Hurst’s latest book, “The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World,” is about more than just profits; it’s also about creating meaningful impact in service of people and the planet.
Brands will have to innovate and adjust their practices in order to meet this desire. The thought leaders and innovators -including start-ups and accomplished business veterans – have begun to do so.
“Thingful” acts as a search engine for the Internet of Things. The search engine acts to enable people to discuss why and how they are using their devices and data. “Because, the ‘who’, ‘why’ and ‘where’ are ultimately far more important in The Public Internet of Things than the ‘what’.” Thingful’s objective of a search engine with community context, looks to make data more meaningful to people.
In the business to business sector, Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, no stranger to creating services that authentically connect with consumers, has recently created “The B Team.” The B Team is a not-for-profit initiative formed by a global group of leaders to create a future where the purpose of business is to be a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit.
Another great example that is fuelling the Purpose Economy is “imperative.com,” a service that “works with leaders to boost their ability to bring purpose to their teams, their community and themselves.” The platform offers three core drivers that determine what one needs to be fulfilled in their work.
With mega moguls and businesses making strides to strengthen the Purpose Economy, there is no doubt that consumers will soon be able to make meaningful choices in every aspect of their lives.
Feeling Connected: the Motivation Behind Consumers Connecting Attitudes to Actions
In today’s ever sustainability-minded society, people are increasingly evaluating the choices they make and how these choices reflect their growing desire for a conscious, connected, thriving life. However, there is undeniably, an attitude-action disconnect.
The SHIFT Report data illustrates this gap, where though consumers want to make sustainable choices, they don’t often follow through, and do so in categories where the barriers to conscious consumption: price, time, knowledge and pressure are lower.
The top three categories people say they have already made sustainable and socially responsible choices are Food (56%), Home Cleaning (53%), and Paper Products (52%).
KIND Healthy Snacks
Green Works All-Purpose Cleaner
Seventh Generation Paper Towels
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Engaging Tomorrow’s Consumer” project found that 72% of consumers surveyed around the world said they are willing to buy green products, but only 17% actually do so.
With WEF’s most recent collaboration with Effie Worldwide in establishing the Positive Change Effie Award, the two have taken a large step in bridging consumers attitude action gap. The award looks to influence marketers to engage in the cultural shift towards motivating change for the better.
The marketing that helps consumers connect attitude to action, and that will ultimately make change, taps into what motivates consumers to make sustainable and socially responsible lifestyle choices and purchase decisions.
When looking at drivers for being socially responsible, The SHIFT Report found that the one of the top motivations, at 60% of the general population, was being personally impacted or feeling personally connected to the issues. Authentic connection matters. It is something that consumers seek – for 81% of people feeling connected to family, friends and community is a top sustainability issue – and it drives behaviour changeTapping into this motivation is perhaps one of the most effective ways that a brand can authentically connect to its consumers and influence purchase decisions.
A great example of a brand who did it right was the highly praised “Smoking Kid” PSA from Thailand.
Thai PSA – Smoking kid
The advert was highly effective in helping people change their habits, garnering a 40% increase in calls to Thailand’s Quit Smoking Hotline.
For marketers to motivate behavioural change in people, and close the attitude action disconnect, they must understand what motivates consumers to actually make better lifestyle, brand and purchase choices and create a brand experience that taps into that. Feeling personally connected to the issues motivates 60% of Americans to ultimately take actions that connect to their attitudes.
Peoples’ Growing Desire for Authentic Connection: Offline and in the Real World
6 May 2014 by admin
The onslaught of digital communities and virtual connections in our lives has left people more connected and disconnected than any other time in history. After a decade of gorging ourselves on friending, liking, tweeting status updates, instagramming meals and snapchatting conversations – sometimes in lieu of connecting with our friends and family offline – what we are craving today is authentic human connection. The SHIFT Report shows that 81% of people listed feeling connected to family, friends and community as a top sustainability issue.
A new wave of messaging is tapping into the growing cultural and consumer desire to be more present and conscious of their lives by literally “looking up.” In Gary Turk’s recent short spoken word film, Turk asks people to spend less time connecting virtually, and more time connecting in the real world.
This film, which has now generated 15,722,683 views on YouTube, addresses the increasing trend in society of social media overload.
Turk voices a common concern that through our increased need to fetter ourselves to an online “community,” we have actually begun to feel more lonely, less attached and disillusioned by our addiction to our mobile devices.
Recently, brands have joined the movement as well. UNICEF’s Tap Project challenges people to put their phones aside for a moment in exchange for a clean water donation. The campaign stems from the fact that our generation can no longer go for even a few minutes without checking our cell phones, drawing parallels with the larger issue of being unable to go without safe drinking water.
Coca Cola’s fictional Social Media Guard ties in the brand’s messaging of “sharing moments,” and musingly advertises a human-sized, Coke-red dog collar.
Coca-Cola Social Media Guard
Whether or not these campaigns will truly cure our addiction to mobile phones and social media remains to be seen, but the message is in line with what people are craving today: authentic and real connection with the people in their lives, i.e. Looking Up.
The Mindful Consumer
Three years ago, Ci looked at how people who meditated differed from those who did not. We found that those who did, were more empathetic than others and far more likely to be agents of social change.
In 2014, this cultural shift toward mindfulness and the search for spiritual over material contentment has really come into its own with people looking to be to be more aware and conscious of their lifestyle habits.
From literal mindfulness – Headspace and Luminosity – to more holistic, trends such as Arianna Huffington’s third metric of success, “well-being,” we are starting to see people looking to be more aware and redefine this New Variable of conscious consumer choices.
Brands are quickly realizing this top priority care issue and looking to make changes in their products and services. Particularly quick to adapt to this has been the airline industry.
Mindful living is no longer strictly earth bound. In response to nearly a decade of increased anxieties during flights and throughout the flying process, the airline industry sees an opportunity to usher in a new golden age, one that is more mindful of its passengers and of their overall needs of a more conscious, connected lifestyle.
LUVO for DELTA AIRLINES
Luvo helps passengers “Be good to themselves,” on board Delta Air Lines which has introduced a new line of healthy menu items from Luvo now available in the economy cabin on Delta’s transcontinental flights between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
SPIKE AEROSPACE’S “NO WINDOW POLICY”
The latest idea for a supersonic business jet from Spike Aerospace involves replacing cabin portholes with windowless display screens showing a fake view in order to create a mood of elevated relaxation.
TAKE 10 for VIRGIN ATLANTIC
Headspace Take10 for the air are animated meditation videos available on all Virgin Atlantic flights that aid passengers on how to get some sleep, how to deal with boredom, exercises for kids, stress on arrival, & stress on a plane.
With two leading airlines having already adapted this mentality (Virgin Atlantic & Delta Airlines), other brands are already behind the curve.
Though price still remains the leading differentiator for consumers when choosing flights, anxious passengers are ready to shell out a few extra dollars for a more pleasant flight.
Is the Girl Effect Real?
(This article originally appeared on Sustainable Brands)
I live as the sole injection of estrogen in a house full of testosterone with my husband and two young boys, aged nine and six. But suddenly I am swimming in estrogen. Coming off the back of two different client projects both of which involved global brands targeting women — one in beauty and the other in food — I’m awash in gender comparison data on what people care about today and how this aligns — or doesn’t — with their brand interactions, lifestyle choices and purchase decisions.
I’ve just digested John Gerzema’s latest book, The Athena Doctrine: How Women and Men Who Think Like Them Will Rule the Future* and Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, both of which are garnering sales and conversation. There’s a growing buzz about the attitude, engagement and positive impact of women in the marketplace and in society at large. But is the girl effect real?
The answer is yes. My consultancy’s research tool The SHIFT Report™ has recently launched a report called The New Variables™that reveals a significant difference in how women and men rate CSR and sustainable life issues. Women are driving The New Variables that are defining success and driving lifestyle choices, purchase decisions and brand relationships — integrity, authenticity, community, connection, consciousness, social responsibility or, as The Athena Doctrine describes, the characteristics and traits that are typically identified as feminine.
After surveying 64,000 people in thirteen countries and in-depth interviews worldwide, Gerzema and his award winning co-author Michael D’Antonio conclude: The world would be a better place if men thought more like women. This fantastic book, at which I was privileged to get a sneak pre-launch peek, outlines the case for “How feminine values can solve our toughest problems and build a more prosperous future.”
According to The Athena Doctrine. “This marks a global trend away from the winner-takes-all, masculine approach to getting things done … men and women alike are recognizing significant value in traits commonly associated with women, such as nurturing, cooperation, communication, and sharing.”
Why are women driving The New Variables? As The Athena Doctrine shows, “Femininity is the operating system of 21st century prosperity.” Athena might even argue that women are defining The New Variables.
The New Variables report launches at an appropriate time — in the middle of growing chatter about the opportunities and implications of the women, business and positive impact trifecta.
The SHIFT Report reveals that over the past five years, across both the general population and demographic groups, there is year-to-year consistency in the hierarchy of what’s important to people today: sustainable life and CSR issues. Those issues that fall into the Personal, Social and/or Spiritual Sustainability Pillars are consistently the most important to people and those that are exclusive to the Environmental Sustainability fall at the bottom of the hierarchy.
For example, for 89% of respondents, “feeling connected to my friends, family and community” is an important sustainability issue, according to The SHIFT Report’s 2012-2013 study of 5,000 general population adults aged 18+ across the US and Canada; “Fair Trade: how the workers who make the products and services I use are treated fairly” is an important sustainability issue for 72%. Global warming is an important sustainability issue for 50%.
However women are significantly more likely than men to rate all sustainability and CSR issues as important.
Across all pillars women are more attitudinally engaged then men according to The SHIFT Report. 93% of women say that a Balanced Life is important versus 85% of men. 90% of women indicate that Feeling Connected to my Friends, Family and Community is important versus 79% of men. One of the biggest differences is the importance of Nurturing Personal Relationships versus Material Possessions; 84% of women state this is important versus 69% of men.
Attitude is one thing, and action is something quite different. The goal for marketers and the brand experiences they create is to align the two. Women are already more likely to align attitudes about what’s important with action then men are. The attitude-action gap is smaller, and more likely to close, with women.
There is indeed a girl effect
In addition to higher attitudinal engagement, women are more behaviorally engaged with sustainable life and CSR issues, according to The SHIFT Report. Women are significantly more likely to connect attitudes with action when it comes to making sustainable and socially responsible lifestyle choices and purchase decisions. Across all consumption categories from food to automotive to financial investments and more, women are on average 12% more likely than men to have already made sustainable and socially responsible lifestyle choices and purchase decisions.
It appears that not only is the girl effect real in lifestyle choices and purchase decisions, the qualities that are driving the girl effect are increasingly important in personal, social and business success.
Why is this happening now? What does this mean from a business and brand perspective and will certain categories benefit more than others?
Darcy Winslow, founder of sustainability consultancy DSW Collective, has some knowledge of this. Darcy tenured twenty-plus years at Nike where her roles included leading Nike’s Global Women’s Fitness Business and as senior advisor to the Nike Foundation, which seeks to empower disadvantaged girls, ages 10 to 19 years, through poverty alleviation and creating economic livelihood opportunities.
“It’s so far beyond the tipping point, that you can’t ignore it — the role that women are playing” in driving these New Variables, says Winslow. “What business or sector wouldn’t benefit from that and from a greater sense of well-being? Look at professional sports. Look at the military.”
So do women lean in and embrace what has been described by Sandberg as how men typically behave in business to their benefit, or do they embrace their feminine characteristics as a tool for success? There’s no one-size-fits-all, but I’d hazard a guess: It’s a balance of the two.
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The Happiness, Sustainability and Brand Equation: 3 Rules for Results
24 Apr 2013 by admin
By Kierstin De West (This blog originally appeared on Sustainable Brands)
The topic of happiness is exploding, with growing conversations locally and globally on happiness as a goal, a brand-positioning opportunity, and a metric of success in marketing, political and cultural arenas over the past two years. Brand and marketing leaders are obviously paying attention as there’s been a steady increase in brands’ positioning around, and promises to deliver, happiness to their consumers and the culture in which their business operates.
“Happiness” is an important and potentially game-changing opportunity in which brand and marketing leadership can — and should — engage, strategize and execute, but there are several key steps to ensure any human and financial marketing resources invested show a return.
Instead of brand and marketing executives jumping on the happiness bandwagon due to its current popularity, we need to understand what customer experiences and concerns lead to happiness while looking at quantified metrics that reveal where this insight authentically aligns with the brand and brand experience. The movement around happiness is not a trend and shouldn’t be viewed as such. It is instead an indicator of the cultural shift to sustainability andThe New Variables™ that characterize this shift. The New Variables guiding people’s lifestyle choices, brand relationships and purchase decisions are: authenticity, integrity, community, connection, consciousness and social responsibility.
What do happier people care about?
The people who are happier with their lives overall care most about sustainability and CSR issues than those who do not, according to The SHIFT Report’s 2012-2013 survey of 4,000 Americans and 1,000 Canadians. The quantitative data in this free report — a preview of The Brand Happiness Index™ — reveals that those who are the happiest are significantly more likely to feel that sustainability and CSR issues — across all of Consumers’ Four Pillars of Sustainability™ (personal, social, environmental, spiritual) — are more important than those who are not very happy. This includes CSR issues such as community connection and engagement, climate change and having a higher purpose in life. This quantitative research mirrors SHIFT’s cultural and qualitative research.
Can some brands enable happiness more than others?
While brands from Coca Cola and Jet Blue to Domino’s Pizza and Best Buy are packaging and promising happiness, some brands will be more successful in enabling happiness than others. The SHIFT research reveals that brands that stand for more meaningful values and connect with what consumers care about today are more likely to have happy consumers than brands who package and promise happiness when it’s not a cornerstone of their brand DNA. These brands are less likely to enable happiness in their consumers.
For example, the Report finds that 32% of regular Seventh Generation consumers are very happy versus 20% of regular Tide consumers. 31% of weekly Whole Foods customers are very happy versus 21% of weekly Safeway customers.
An initial response to this finding is that the Whole Foods/Seventh Generation customer is likely a wealthier customer, and therefore more happy. However, while higher incomes do equate to higher levels of overall happiness, this plateaus at $75,000, according to research by Economist Angus Deaton and psychologist Daniel Kahneman.
The SHIFT Report shows that across income groups and not just for those with higher household incomes, brands that stand for more meaningful values are more likely to have happy consumers.
What are the implications of the happiness chatter for brands today?
A dozen or so years ago, I was at the Account Planning Conference in Miami where I attended a great workshop run by On Your Feet, in which one workshop volunteer sat on the “Hot Seat” and assumed the personality of a brand nominated by the group, while others tossed both silly and strategic questions their way. I took the Hot Seat as Levi’s, during a time when the brand was knee-jerk responding to the latest trend without any confident, central consistency of what it stood for. With every question, I answered something along the lines of “I don’t know. Whatever you think is cool.” At this point, Levi’s was going through a tough time— sales were tanking, factories were closing and lay-offs were happeningthey had not authentically connected with what their customers cared about. Shortly after came Flat Eric— a character created for Levi’s commericials by advertising agency BBH — with a cool, relevant, confident and consistent brand experience that led the way, and didn’t knee-jerk respond. Flat Eric became a cultural phenomenon and things improved for Levi’s.
Regardless of subject area, a knee-jerk response by a brand is never a good thing if you’re looking for authentic consumer (and other key stakeholder) engagement and trust, and the market and shareholder value that requires these two elements. In the current consumer, cultural and marketplace landscape of The New VariablesTM, these elements are even more important. Doing a “happiness” campaign in a silo because it’s trending well — without looking at what people care about today, what is important to those that are happy versus not, and how this authentically aligns with your brand experience — won’t deliver results. Without this strategic analysis, as simple as it is, companies lower their chance of brands delivering a return on their “happiness” marketing investment.
How to use consumer happiness to drive results
Here are three rules for looking through the lens of happiness to engage your customers, grow your audience and drive market share and results in the cultural shift to sustainability and CSR:
Rule 1) Big Picture:
Take a big-picture understanding of happiness and what kind of experiences, issues, cares and concerns lead to happiness
Rule 2) Look at Your Audience
Drill into and understand what makes your audience happy, where the lines and significant differences are between them and the general population. Do the same thing for micro-targeted consumer groups in your overall audience.
Rule 3) Alignment
Determine where the alignment points are between what your brand authentically stands for, the overall brand experience pipeline and the cares, concerns, experiences and sustainable life issues that lead to happiness. Your products may taste, feel and cost the same as your competition but enabling happiness can be a competitive advantage, if it’s done right.
Happy consumers that will engage with, buy and evangelize your brand are the result of not just understanding happiness, but authentically linking your brand to your CSR initiatives to gain competitive advantage and market share.
Two Words: Alignment and Authenticity
My new column for Greenbiz which will feature exclusive SHIFT Report data, launched this week with cool infographics on political affiliation and sustainability. Here is the article:
I was recently at lunch with two friends, one of whom brought her husband. After the couple departed, I found myself apologizing to my other friend for the husband’s rude behavior, the mildest part of which included leering gestures at the waitress and comments that don’t need to be repeated.
“Don’t worry about it,” he responded. “I always try to focus on the points of alignment with someone. There’s always something. And once I found them, it was an interesting conversation where we were both engaged.”
Alignment is crucial.
As businesses seek to define and tell their sustainability story in the landscape of shifting consumer values — which they must do in order to be culturally relevant — there has been significant focus on environmental issues where there is less likely to be alignment and which aren’t necessarily the most important to some people.
Sustainability (a word so overused, misused and abused that I’ve started calling it the S-Word) is about the issues that lie underneath it. These are a collection of issues that include but go beyond green and include personal, social and spiritual sustainability issues.
This was uncovered both qualitatively and quantitatively in our market intelligence tool, The SHIFT Report. These sustainability issues are important to mainstream consumers in varying degrees. However, across most consumers groups — from either a brand consumption, activity, demographic, lifestyle or political point of view — green issues are not necessarily the most important ones. They are significantly surpassed in importance by social and personal sustainability issues: community connection, fair trade and employee treatment. These are areas consumers feel personally affected by or connected to, and represent two key motivations for caring about brands and companies.
People aren’t waking up across the globe declaring, “I want a green life.” Rather, they are waking up saying that they want a connected, conscious, thriving and sustainable life (though they don’t necessarily use those words). Brands and their storytellers need to understand this in order to define and tell their stories and engage consumers in conversations. As one respondent put it during one of our focus groups, “How can we take care of the environment if we can’t even take care of ourselves?”
Environmental sustainability is crucial, but it’s not the only piece of the puzzle. Green needs to be looked at in the context of other sustainability issues, not in a silo. Green may turn out to be the best color of a brand’s sustainability message, but it might not be.
Unless brand manager focus on the issues that define a brand and determine which issues authentically align with their initiatives and audience, they risk making misleading claims, not connecting with their audience and potentially alienating others. When brand managers targeting a diverse global or national audience look primarily at environmental issues without interconnection and context to broader sustainability issues, the result can be a brand experience that doesn’t bring disparate and diverse audiences together, but keeps them apart. Looking at green in a silo doesn’t reflect a big-picture understanding of the cultural shift to sustainability, in which people are redefining the criteria by which they make lifestyle choices, purchases and brand decisions, It misses the forest for the trees, and in doing so can also reinforce sustainability myths, such as that those on the political left are more engaged with sustainability than those on the political right.
Indeed, looking at political parties in the U.S. and Canada and how voters connect with sustainability issues is a good way to assess brand alignment within a mass and diverse mainstream audience. For Republican and Democrat voters (or, in Canada, Conservative, Liberal, NDP and Green Party voters), alignment is not necessarily around environmental issues, it’s around all the other issues: schools, housing security, health care and general well-being. This bigger-picture, interconnected approach doesn’t minimize the importance of environmental sustainability. But it delivers on its importance in a different way.
Let’s take look at two social sustainability issues where there is alignment across a diverse audience: community connection and supporting locally based business, which are themselves interconnected. With the support of local business and local economies, the environment becomes the beneficiary (such as lower greenhouse gas emissions) rather than the direct strategy. Environmental sustainability issues are supported, but they are a direct result of focusing on key areas of alignment across a diverse audience: buying local and supporting locally based business.
Thus, brands — political or otherwise — that speak to a diverse audience have two key words to keep in mind when telling their story in a culture of shifting consumer values: authenticity and alignment. What can they authentically talk about given their initiatives around sustainability? And where do these internal sustainability truths align with their diverse audience?
Determining the sweet spot that aligns these truths will uncover opportunities that deliver on business priorities to drive positive change and business success.
Read the original post here: http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2011/04/14/two-words-alignment-and-authenticity#ixzz1K6sBgldd
Impact of Political Affiliation on Connection with Sustainability Issues and Motivation
Inspired by The Visual Miscellaneum’s Left vs. Right Political Spectrum, we thought we’d take a dive into The SHIFT Report and see the impact of political affiliation on connection with sustainability issues and motivation. It is interesting to look at the issues where the parties diverge (environmental), where the more right wing views push ahead (spiritual) and where they are quite close together (social + personal).
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Political Affiliation (USA) on Connection with Sustainability Issues and Motivation (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Political Affiliation (USA) on Connection with Sustainability Issues and Motivation (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Th/TheSHIFTReportImpactofPoliticalAffiliation/USDashboard/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Political Affiliation (Canada) on Connection with Sustainability Issues and Motivation (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Political Affiliation (Canada) on Connection with Sustainability Issues and Motivation (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Th/TheSHIFTReportImpactofPoliticalAffiliation/CanadaDashboard/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
Are People Who Meditate the Top Social Change Agents?
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A few weeks ago, the New York Times Article “How Meditation May Change the Brain” by Sindya Banhoo in the “Well Blog” garnered 590 comments and was number six on the list of most emailed articles that week. I became curious about people who meditate every day versus those who do not and wondered:
Are they more likely to be the agents of social change? Are they more empathetic towards brands that make an effort to be socially responsible?
How did people who meditate every day measure up against the general population in terms of:
How important key sustainability issues are to them.
Sustainability attitudes- action disconnect
Are meditators more or less likely to feel the brands they engage with are socially responsible?
Are daily meditators more or less likely to be motivated by altruism to care about these sustainability issues?
Are they more or less motivated by fear and how do they compare to those who never engage in meditation or prayer?
Does the increased empathy that comes with meditation (as some of the research noted in the article suggests) carry over to their brand relationships?
Diving into the database (n=5000, general population) from The SHIFT Report‘s annual quantitative study and SPI segmentation update, I looked at people who engage in meditation or prayer every day across a few areas of the study: sustainability issues, motivation, sustainable consumption categories and perception of brands as socially responsible. Here are the results:
Overall, those who meditate are more likely to rate the sustainability issues as important, There’s no surprise that this would ring true for some of the issues that fall into the spiritual sustainability pillar. Those issues that fall into the environmental sustainability only show the least difference.
Q: Please rate the importance of the following issues associated with sustainability as they relate to you
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Connection With Sustainability Issues (n=5,000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Connection With Sustainability Issues (n=5,000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ci/CiTheSHIFTReport-ImpactofMeditation-March4/Sust_IssuesDB/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
Are those who meditate daily actually living their values with lifestyle choices and purchase decisions that deliver on social change?
The attitude-action disconnect is an unavoidable truth for everyone. Hey, we can’t all be like the folks in Portlandia. It turns out that those who meditate every day are more likely to be making sustainable lifestyle choices and purchase decisions than those who don’t, showing that they are more likely to be turning their sustainability attitudes into actions. Note to Social Innovators and NGOs – Start a ‘get meditating’ campaign (and go beyond green).
Q: Which of the following areas of your life have you already made sustainable lifestyle choices and purchase decisions?
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Turning Sustainability Attitudes into Action (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Turning Sustainability Attitudes into Action (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ci/CiTheSHIFTReport-ImpactofMeditation-March4/ConsumptionDB/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
If people who meditate are more empathetic, according to the research published by Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging cited in Banhoo’s article does that empathy extend to brands?
Those who meditate or engage in prayer every day are more likely to want to know about the socially responsible behavior of brands whose products and services they buy: 73% versus 67% of the General North American population.
Here I selected a few brands from the study to look at. The first chart is clustered together a bit loosely, but with three groupings in mind and some overlap between them: competitors, those that spent consumer marketing $ on telling their sustainability story (authentic or otherwise), those that have sustainability ‘equity’ but didn’t spend significant consumer marketing $ telling their sustainability story.
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Perception of Brands as Socially Responsible (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Perception of Brands as Socially Responsible (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ci/CiTheSHIFTReport-ImpactofMeditation-March4/BrandEmpathyDBClustered/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
Here we’ve sorted the brand list in a different way, ordered by perception as socially responsible. Those that North Americans (general population) feel are the most socially responsible sit at the top.
The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Perception of Brands as Socially Responsible (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Impact of Meditation on Perception of Brands as Socially Responsible (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ci/CiTheSHIFTReport-ImpactofMeditation-March4/BrandEmpathyDBSorted/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
Me or We? Are meditators altruistic or are they equally motivated to care about sustainability issues by self-serving generosity as the average person?
Overall those who meditate are more motivated overall to make socially responsible lifestyle choices and purchase decisions and we can see that engaging in meditation or prayer leads to deeper motivation when looking at the differences between those who don’t ever, the general population and those who everyday.
Q: Please rate how motivating each of the following are in your interest to make socially responsible lifestyle choices and purchase decisions.
The SHIFT Report: Meditation’s Impact on Motivation Behind Sustainability Engagement: Lifestyle Choices/ Purchase Decisions (n=5000 general population) <br /><a href=”#”><img alt=”The SHIFT Report: Meditation’s Impact on Motivation Behind Sustainability Engagement: Lifestyle Choices/ Purchase Decisions (n=5000 general population) ” src=”http://public.tableausoftware.com/static/images/Ci/CiTheSHIFTReport-ImpactofMeditation-March4/MotivationDB/1_rss.png” height=”100%” /></a>
(Full disclosure: I meditate daily. )
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Japan Gold (TSXV: JG) announced this week that it acquired five new gold projects in the Southern and Middle Kyushu Epithermal Gold Provinces located on the Japanese island of Kyushu.
In a press release, the Vancouver-based miner said the projects, which collectively comprise 21,058 hectares, cover prospective ground along strike of, or adjacent to, significant current and past producing gold mines including the Hishikari, Kushikino, Yamagano, Okuchi and Bajo mines.The Southern Kyushu Epithermal Gold Province has yielded over 11 million ounces of gold from low-sulphidation epithermal deposits while the Middle Kyushu Epithermal Gold Province has yielded some 1.7 million ounces of gold from epithermal gold mines.
According to Japan Gold, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry notified the acceptance of the new applications giving priority to the company over these areas and authorization to commence surface exploration. “With the addition of these new projects, the company’s portfolio now includes 24 separate gold projects within the major epithermal gold provinces of Japan,” the miner’s media statement reads.The year 2019 has seen the Canadian company making public a series of acquisitions, which prompted a 5.88% rise in the price of its shares in the past eight months.
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A man from Mexico with gunshot wounds was arrested Thursday, by U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Border Patrol Tactical Unit and the Carrizo Springs Station, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported Friday.
According to the agency, Del Rio Sector Foreign Operations Branch received notification from the government of Mexico that Mexican law enforcement had exchanged gunfire with several individuals near Guerrero, Coahuila, Mexico.
The government of Mexico stated that at least one subject may have fled by crossing the Rio Grande River into the United States, the agency said in a release.
Agents from the tactical unit, the Carrizo Springs and Eagle Pass South stations, and Laredo Sector responded.
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Review: John Zorn’s Cobra – 30th Anniversary (11/29/14)
By Sarah V. | December 2, 2014 - 1:58 am | Concert review
On Saturday night I headed to Brooklyn with some friends to catch John Zorn’s 30th anniversary performance of Cobra at Roulette. Cobra premiered at Roulette in 1984, so it was certainly the perfect place for the anniversary concert. (It’s one of my favorite NYC venues, I’m always happy when something I want to see is happening there.) Zorn put together an all-star cast of his usual suspects including a lot of my favorite downtown musicians: Cyro Baptista on percussion; Sylvie Courvoisier on piano; Trevor Dunn on upright bass; Mark Feldman on violin; Erik Friedlander on cello; George Lewis on trombone; Eyal Maoz and Marc Ribot on electric guitars; John Medeski on organ; Ikue Mori on electronics; William Winant on percussion; and Kenny Wollesen on drums.
The night kicked off with a Q&A which was supposed to be Anthony Coleman asking John Zorn questions about Cobra. It deteriorated quickly into a bit of a tirade when Zorn saw someone in the audience taking a picture with their cell phone. He went on at some length about how there should be no record made of this concert in any way – no recordings, no photos, etc. I hesitated to even write this blog, but I guess us writers still have that whole ‘free speech’ thing going for us. Since there was such a strict ban on photography I am forced to give you only this artist’s representation of the concert:
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By Sarah V. | March 22, 2014 - 2:54 pm | Concert review
(If you missed the first half of this review, you can find it by clicking here!)
After stretching our legs during the 15-minute intermission, I settled back in my seat for the next ten bands. Well, I say “my” seat, but technically I was sitting in someone else’s seat, because my friend M. tipped me off to a no-show empty seat, front row dead center. Yeah, I’ll take advantage of that, thank you! It was a very nice change of pace seeing everything except the keyboards, instead of nothing but the keyboards.
The first band in the second set that really wowed me was the trio of Loren Sklamberg (vocals, accordion), Frank London (trumpet) and Uri Caine (piano). Out of all the bands we heard that night, this one had the most klezmer at its heart. (This seems relevant as the Book of Beriah concert was part of the Newish Jewish Music Festival.) Frank London gave us a bit of an explanation before the beginning of the piece, saying the name of the piece, “Kelim,” which is “part of the kabbalistic-mystic concept of how the world was created” inspired them to use this particular text, which I think he said was Yiddish. Even without being able to understand the lyrics, I thought the piece was hauntingly beautiful with a very Old World feel. Really loved London’s trumpet on this piece.
Next up was Abraxas, a band that regular readers of my blog will be familiar with. Shanir Blumenkranz is the bandleader and gimbri player, accompanied by Kenny Grohowski on drums, and two electric guitar players: Aram Bajakian and Eyal Maoz. While the band was setting up and getting plugged in, some joker in the audience yelled out “What IS that thing?” This prompted John Zorn to grab the mic and retort, “A gimbri, you fool!” which got a laugh out of the audience. I especially liked the intro to their piece which had some really cool atmospheric guitar work over a melodic bass line (well, gimbri line).
(Abraxas. Photo courtesy of Mark Kirschbaum.)
After Abraxas, we got to hear Mephisto – which (as Zorn explained) is usually called “Mephista,” but apparently the substitution of a male drummer (Jim Black) made them decide to alter the (more…)
Tagged abraxas, aram bajakian, book of beriah, brad jones, ches smith, craig santiago, erik friedlander, eyal maoz, frank london, gyan riley, ikue mori, jamie saft, john zorn, kenny grohowski, loren sklamberg, marc ribot, mark feldman, masada, matt lebofsky, mephista, Secret Chiefs 3, shanir blumenkranz, sylvie courvoisier, timba harris, Trey Spruance, uri caine
Concert(s) review: Ode to the Nonas: Bonebridge and Abraxas in Milan
By Sarah V. | February 23, 2014 - 6:18 pm | Concert review
Today we have a guest blog from Ariëla Flusser – long-time reader, first-time contributor! She’s a Belgian currently living in London, and enjoys traveling around Europe to see her favorite downtown NYC musicians. Incidentally, traveling internationally for live music qualifies you almost instantly for the diagnosis of “concert manic!” – Sarah V.
Each year from October to March, Teatro Manzoni in Milan stages a series of concerts of contemporary jazz, avant-garde and world music from around the globe: Aperitivo in Concerto, rhythms of our times. The concerts have a very unique set-up. They take place in a beautiful red velvet theatre from 1873 at 11AM on a Sunday and attract a curious mix of open-minded no-nonsense people of all ages and backgrounds, artists, music lovers, students, families with children, and tourists. The eclectic crowd joins in to be surprised, sometimes challenged, but above all to enjoy fabulous live music. And most ‘Aperitivo’ concerts I’ve seen over the years were out of this world.
I often wondered what makes these concerts so special. Is it the untimely hour? You already have to want to be there, to get up and dressed and in the mood at 11 on a Sunday morning. The musicians also have to switch to another gear from evening to (early) morning playing. Is it the stately theatre with its plush chairs, programme books and stewards showing you your place? Such a setting in a way ‘forces’ you to be quiet and focus on the music. Is it the down-to-earth audience? Some of the continental avant-garde/jazz venues can be so snobbish, attracting a ‘’tu m’as vu’ crowd who come ‘to see and to be seen’ rather than to hear. The Manzoni magic is probably a mix of all these elements and much more.
This year’s 29th edition hosted the David Murray Quartet featuring Macy Gray, the reunited Jazz Passengers, the controversial writer-poet Amiri Baraka with his word music project (and one of his last public performances before he passed away in January) and jazz flutist Nicole Mitchell, amongst others. I made my way to Milan for Erik Friedlander’s Bonebridge and Abraxas playing John Zorn.
Cellist Erik Friedlander is one of my favourite artists and always an absolute pleasure to hear live. He manages to give the best of himself in all circumstances, be it a 1000-seat hall, a small attic room, in open air on top of the Dolomites or a venue with a sound system breakdown and a chatty audience. Bonebridge is Erik Friedlander’s latest band with Doug Wamble on slide guitar, Michael Sarin on drums and Trevor Dunn on bass. I did not manage to go to any of last year’s European concerts, so I was double excited to finally see the band live in my favourite venue. Bonebridge were promoting their new album Nighthawks, due to be released in May.
Erik Friedlander, cello.
Photograph by Roberto Cifarelli (click here for the full gallery)
Erik Friedlander opened the concert by thanking everybody for turning up so early and set the tone for a warm interaction between the band and the audience. The band played tracks from both Bonebridge and Nighthawks and took the audience on an interesting journey through (more…)
Tagged abraxas, aram bajakian, bonebridge, doug wamble, erik friedlander, eyal maoz, kenny grohowski, michael sarin, shanir blumenkranz, trevor dunn
Concert review: Winter Jazzfest Marathon (Jan. 10-11, 2014)
By Sarah V. | January 14, 2014 - 2:38 am | Concert review
This weekend I attended both days of the Winter Jazzfest marathon in Greenwich Village. It’s a festival that has a unique appeal to those of us who are particularly manic about concerts; it’s basically an all-you-can-eat buffet of live music held in a bunch of venues in Greenwich Village. For one relatively low price you can run around and hear as many bands as you can stuff in your ears in the time allotted. Most sets were 45 minutes with a few double-length sets here and there. (I took it relatively easy and caught eleven ensembles plus the “round robin” duo improvisation set.)
This year was the tenth anniversary of Winter Jazzfest and featured a huge amount of bands (more than ninety). It was, of course, impossible to see them all, and there were some tough decisions to be made. We’d been warned by friends about previous years having long lines and big crowds at some venues, so we simplified our schedule a bit and tried to do multiple sets in the same venues as much as we could (without sacrificing the bands we most wanted to see). I spent most of my time in the NYU Law venue and the Judson Memorial Church, which was a pretty cool-looking room:
(That’s Ches Smith on the left and Shahzad Ismaily on the right, during Ceramic Dog’s late-night Saturday set.)
The funny thing was that after I simplified things and tried to make my schedule less ambitious, I somehow ended up seeing (more…)
Tagged abraxas, ceramic dog, ches smith, ches smith trio, craig taborn, eyal maoz, eyebone, jim black, kenny grohowski, marc ribot, mark feldman, mary halvorson, mat maneri, mostly other people do the killing, nels cline, shahzad ismaily, shanir blumenkranz, sylvie courvoisier, teddy klausner, tyshawn sorey, winter jazzfest, yoshie fruchter
Concert(s) review: John Zorn & friends improvising at the Stone
By Sarah V. | December 29, 2013 - 3:58 am | Concert review
It’s become somewhat of a tradition for John Zorn to hold a series of improv concerts at the end of the year with a whole passel of downtown NYC musicians taking part. The concerts raise money for the Stone, the experimental music venue in Alphabet City. (That’s a neighborhood in New York, for those who aren’t familiar.) My office closes down between Christmas and New Years Day, so for the last few years I’ve made an effort to come down for some of the improv concerts. This year they did a five-night run and I made it to four of them, making it the fourth year I went to four sets of year-end improv at the Stone. Very symmetrical of me!
The fun of these concerts is the surprise element: you really never know what you’re going to get. The basic formula is for John Zorn plus maybe eight or nine other musicians to show up, and they all hang out in the basement and periodically send up small groups of musicians (usually 2-5) to play a fully improvised piece. Then for a finale they all get on stage together and perform. (This last piece can be a bit bizarre depending on the makeup of the group – you might have more pianists than pianos, more drummers than drum kits, more guitarists than amps, or simply too many people to fit on stage – but the name of the game is improvisation, so they always make it work!)
One of the more interesting aspects of these shows is that Zorn will throw together musicians from all kinds of genres and just see what happens – classical, jazz, rock, avant garde, they just get put on stage and they have to come up with something on the spot. It’s always fun to see what works and what doesn’t – and more importantly, which musicians are up to the challenge. Often you will see people performing who had not only never played together before, but had never even met. It doesn’t always work, but the surprising moments of brilliance are worth it.
I took a bunch of surreptitious flashless photos, as usual, so I thought I’d try out a little photo gallery thingy with my favorite pics from this week’s concerts:
(I’m going to ask your forgiveness in advance if I miss or screw up any names here, there were so many different musicians and this was the first time I’d seen a lot of them…)
The first of the four concerts this year was on (more…)
Tagged annie gosfield, anthony coleman, billy martin, brian marsella, briggan krauss, ches smith, chris cochrane, chris otto, chris speed, chuck bettis, dave scanlon, david watson, don mckenzie, doug wieselman, eyal maoz, frank london, george spanos, ikue mori, jeremiah cymerman, john zorn, jon madof, lukas ligeti, mark feldman, marty ehrlich, matt wilson, michael nicolas, nonoko yoshida, ron anderson, shanir blumenkranz, steve swell, sylvie courvoisier, tim keiper, ty citerman, uri caine, uri gurvich
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My self-curated guitar festival with Aram Bajakian, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot and Stephen Ulrich
Recent concert highlights: Erik Friedlander, Trevor Dunn’s PROOFReaders, Marc Ribot, Sean Rowe, and Zion80
A pair of musical surprises: Jolie Holland at Bar LunÀtico & Dresden Dolls at Rough Trade
Early April Concert Highlights: Doug Wieselman; Jolie Holland; Nels Cline Singers w/Jeff Parker
Last week’s concerts: Mat Maneri, Lucien Ban, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Banquet of the Spirits, Marc Ribot, Emeline Michel, and last but not least, Sex Mob
abraxas amanda palmer aram bajakian Banquet of the Spirits brian marsella ceramic dog ches smith concert review cyro baptista doug wieselman erik friedlander eyal maoz frank london greg cohen gyan riley ikue mori jamie saft joe henry joey baron john medeski john zorn jolie holland jon madof kenny grohowski kenny wollesen klezwoods marc ribot mark feldman masada mike patton nels cline sean rowe Secret Chiefs 3 shahzad ismaily shanir blumenkranz sofia rei sylvie courvoisier tim keiper trevor dunn uri caine uri gurvich walter sickert and the army of broken toys yoshie fruchter zion80 zorn@60
NYC suggested concerts
Music blogs and sites we like
Brian Carpenter & the Confessions
DJ Ranja’s blog
Downtown Music Gallery
Jazz Toilet blog
Jeremiah Cymerman
Jeremy’s Tom Waits blog
John Zorn & Tzadik forum
Julia Olivarez
Le Zornographe
Marc Ribot’s tour dates
Moritz Bichler’s photos
Peter Gannushkin’s photos
Stefan’s Joe Henry blog
Tom Waits forum
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ISUZU NEWS MAY
IAL Headquarters Grand Opening looms
Isuzu Australia Limited (IAL) is looking forward to the Grand Opening of their state-of-the-art new headquarters in Truganina on 30 May. Attending the event will be several dignitaries, including Mr Masanori Katayama, Isuzu Motors Limited (Japan) President and Representative Director.
Pumped up: Isuzu Engines visit Agfest
As the name suggests, Tasmania’s Agfest is a celebration of all things agricultural. Isuzu Engines visited in early May with an exciting array of off-highway engines as well as some agricultural and irrigation solutions for Australian farmers.
Isuzu Engines returned to Agfest in Carrick, Tasmania, held between 3-5 May 2018.
This year’s event celebrated 36 years of agricultural know-how and the organisers weren’t short of a crowd, revelling in a record patronage of 65,794 visitors over the three-day event, up 3,007 on last year’s attendance.
Bringing its product direct to the customer, Isuzu Engines once more showcased their reliable selection of off-highway power units.
IAL’s Engine Sales Manager, Rod Best, said a set of favourable conditions combined to create a successful and memorable Agfest 2018.
“In terms of enquiries, irrigation was the focus for a lot of our visitors this year – particularly power units ranging from 25-70 horsepower,” he said.
“There’s a genuine thirst for knowledge at these events and it’s an excellent opportunity to meet with customers working across a variety of applications.”
Agfest signals the beginning of a busy schedule for the Engines team, with their next stop being the Irrigation Australia conference and exhibition in Sydney next month.
“Agfest is a great event and gives us a great opportunity to showcase our off-highway power units,” Mr Best said.
“When it comes to irrigation or agricultural applications, it’s important that we make sure people have the right product for the right application.
“We’re aiming to empower our customers by supplying the power unit solution that is most suited to their specific needs.”
The Power Units on display at Agfest were:
3CB1 Radiator Cooled
3CE1 Radiator Cooled
4LE1 Radiator Cooled
6BG1QW Radiator Cooled
4BG1 Radiator Cooled
4JG1 Radiator Cooled
For further information see engines.isuzu.com.au
New Zone Manager for WA & SA kicking goals
In 2017 Isuzu Australia Limited (IAL) announced the appointment of Craig White to the position of Dealer Sales Manager for Western Australia (WA), South Australia (SA) and the Northern Territory (NT). Mr White has brought with him a raft of valuable experience and overseen significant growth.
Before starting at IAL, he worked for three years at Mitsubishi Australia Ltd as Area Sales Manager for Western Australia. Prior to that Mr White was the Key Account Manager for Michelin Australia in WA where he dealt exclusively with trucks.
Mr White expanded on what he wanted to bring to the role personally and his strategic view of Isuzu’s role in the transport market in WA, SA and the NT.
“Firstly, I’d like to say how excited I am to be working for Isuzu as they push toward their 30th consecutive year as Australia’s number one selling truck brand,” Mr White said “especially with the exciting products and programs that are in place for 2018 and beyond.
“Results are obviously key to any organisation and I want to help drive those by formalising processes that previously might have been a bit ad-hoc.”
IAL National Sales Manager, Les Spaltman, said he was excited about the skill-set and energy that Craig White was bringing to the Isuzu team as well as some very robust results.
“We’re thrilled to have Craig on board with Isuzu. He brings not only a lot of valuable insights and experience to the position but some strong ideas and energy,” Mr Spaltman said.
“Craig has been driving very strong dealer results. Deliveries are up 16 per cent in WA and 21 per cent in SA compared to this time last year, which is terrific news on Isuzu’s quest to hit 30 years of consecutive market leadership.”
Isuzu’s electrifying stand at MegaTrans
As the major sponsor of MegaTrans 2018 – a three-day supply chain and logistics event held from 10-12 May at the Melbour... Read more »
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Birmingham Bounce 2017
A weekend of lindy hop and authentic jazz workshops and dancing
Scott and Jenny
Birmingham Bounce 20/05/2016 Bounce 17 Teachers, Teaching Team
Latest News – Scott Cupit and Jenny Thomas will be joining the Birmingham Bounce to bring their unique blend of energy and love of swing dancing to Birmingham!
Scott Cupit
While travelling in America with his brother, Scott stumbled upon Swing dancing. He was instantly drawn to the energy of the dance, the music and the people. Scott made a New Year’s resolution to learn how to swing dance.
Soon after, he began teaching classes and things took off from there. Along with his business partner Claudia, he started Swing Patrol, often called the world’s largest swing dancing school. Scott’s love for swing dancing was contagious—his classes grew from 23 people on the first night to over 200 people after eight weeks.
Seventeen years later Swing Patrol run weekly classes in Melbourne, Sydney, Tasmania, Berlin and London. Scott moved to London in 2009 to open Swing Patrol London which now has over 900 students a week through its many venues and weekly social dances.
In 2009 Scott gained an amazing amount of media attention with his interactive and swinging hour on the “empty Plinth” in Trafalgar Square. Voted one of the top ten hours of the whole project by the Evening Standard Scott bought 100 of his London dancers to be involved and the footage is spectacular. The story gained global attention with articles popping up in Texas, all over Australia, Germany and Britain. Even the Fiji Times ran a story.
Scott still teaches weekly as well as running the business. He is often invited to teach abroad and at local scenes around the UK. After 17 years he still thinks he has the best job in the world.
Jenny Thomas
Jenny began Lindy Hopping 24 years ago in Anthony Van Laast’s show “Souls in Motion” where she joined Ryan Francois’ dance company Zoots and Spangles.
During those years Jenny has travelled the world teaching Master Classes, sharing her extensive knowledge of dance technique and exposing countless people to her love and passion for the dance and continues to do so. To many in the swing dance community she is thought of as one of the “Teachers Teachers”.
Performing on some of the most prestigious stages in the world – The London Palladium, Royal Opera House, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, The West End & Broadway. Including Soloist and Assistant Choreographer for the Original cast of The Broadway Musical SWING , The Tony Awards, Macy’s Day Parade and The Blockbuster Movie The Polar Express with Tom Hanks.
Jenny has even performed at Her Majesty The Queen’s residence Buckingham Palace with the boys from TAP DOGS which led to a collaboration with Paul Robinson, Dougie Mills and Joanna Goodwin creating The Tap Team, which gave regular classes at London’s Pineapple Studios and toured England giving masterclasses.
During the last 10 years she has also coached, choreographed and performed on the top Prime Time TV shows of today…
Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Christmas Special, The Peoples Strictly for Comic Relief, Strictly Dance Fever, So You Think You Can Dance and USA’s Dancing With The Stars and Jazz/Tap coach on ITV’s Dancing On Ice.
This past year Jenny made history by bringing Swing Dance to The Houses of Parliament with Strictly star Robin Windsor. Launching UK’s Dance Manifesto 2015 for the All Party Parliamentary Dance Group
Registrations for The Bounce will open Summer ’16 – to be the first to know all our latest news sign up to our newsletter below and follow us on Facebook!
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The World Eater
Ouroboros represents the never-ending cycle of Rebirth and its Nordic equivalent is known as Jörmungandr (pronounced [jœrmuŋɡandr]), mostly known as Jormungand, the World Serpent that grew so large, it was able to surround the Earth and grasp its own tail. Legend has it that the world would end if it ever let go of its tail so our game is all about this massive space snake that is seeking out it's tail while devouring planets that stand in its way.
Run the Setup.exe
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Security Management: Online Community Helps Police and Businesses Nab Crooks
April 7, 2011 | Coverage
LAS VEGAS - Repeat offender Freddie McBride Jr. opened the Macy's jewelry counter and slipped nearly $3700 worth of merchandise into a Macy's bag. Confronted by loss prevention outside the Sacramento Metro-area store, McBride shouted out to his getaway driver to "get his gun." In reaction to the threat, store security backed off and McBride went upon his way.
McBride didn't stay a free man for long though.
Normally a crime like McBride's would be nearly impossible to solve. But an expanding online community of law enforcement and loss prevention professionals has joined forces to help upend that probability.
Unfortunately for McBride, the Roseville Police Department of California used his picture caught by surveillance cameras to create an online alert in 3VR's CrimeDex, a social network where law enforcement and businesses share business-related crime information. That alert was noticed by a California parole agent who realized McBride was a parolee in her office. In response, she called McBride and lured him into coming back to her office where police arrested him for armed robbery. Within four days of the alert, McBride was again in custody.
According to Detective Sergeant Darin DeFreece of California's Roseville Police Department, who spoke during a session at ISC West, McBride's crime and arrest demonstrates the importance of Web-based information-sharing portals where law enforcement and loss prevention professionals can trade information across multiple jurisdictions, identify common criminals they're all dealing with, and finally put them behind bars.
CrimeDex, the tool DeFreece used to nab McBride, is the brainchild of former Portland Police Detective Jim "Gator" Hudson, now vice president of CrimeDex Services at 3VR. Fed up with the lack of cooperation between law enforcement and businesses to solve crime, Hudson quit his job and created his online community where vetted law enforcement, fraud, and loss prevention professionals could share information and videos of crimes, identify common suspects, and more efficiently target resources to end thieves' free-for-all.
DeFreece said that without CrimeDex, McBride would have escaped. "We call these the unsolvables," according to DeFreece. "These definitely go into the random file. We don't work these cases unless we have something."
The idea behind the online community, Hudson said during a session at ISC West, is to drive a sledgehammer into information silos and finally allow law enforcement and businesses to share information and videos of suspects in an efficient manner. Often times, he said, law enforcement and loss prevention professionals are working the same cases but don't know it because they aren't sharing information effectively. Hudson created CrimeDex to solve that problem.
Currently CrimeDex is leveraged by 600,000 public and private security professionals, creating a Facebook-like social network that helps solve the crimes that plague businesses like organized retail theft and fraud. The crime data pumped into the community marries information and video and makes it searchable so security professionals can connect the dots across jurisdictions, like what happened in the McBride case. Currently, CrimeDex houses video and information on approximately 15,000 suspects and wanted criminals.
Users can also send e-mail alerts organized around a geographic area to other CrimeDex participants to warn them of criminals active in their area and use facial recognition software to try and match a suspect they've entered into the system against a list of wanted criminals.
Ted Barron, a former vice president and senior security manager at Wells Fargo Bank, said that the corporation has used CrimeDex to catch criminals preying on it. In one instance, the system helped catch a Russian citizen living in Oregon who used a computer program to steal $400,000 by matching payment cards to pin numbers across Oregon and California.
CrimeDex, however, is a closed system that vets its customers to ensure they are law enforcement or loss prevention professionals.
Hudson says that if CrimeDex didn't vet its subscribers, criminals could use the system to determine whether they were on law enforcement or private security's radar and adapt to security professionals' latest tool.
By Matthew Harwood
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Why, O Why???
Finally, I decided to break down and post something here that's not merely a music list.
This weekend, we sang hymns relating to angels. One of them related particularly to St. Michael the Archangel. Another related to Michael and his cohorts Raphael and Gabriel. This was because this day (September 29 as I write this post) is also the feast of the Archangels SS. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael (or in the Extraordinary Form, St. Michael the Archangel, or in the Anglican calendar, St. Michael and All Angels).
Our recessional hymn has seen its way into some (not many) Catholic hymnals. That is Ye Holy Angels Bright, set to the tune "Darwall's 148th" (widely known with Rejoice, the Lord is King).
Our hymn after Communion (call it a meditation hymn, hymn of praise, hymn after Communion, whatever), was a nice little 2-verse hymn based on the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel (link to the text in the hymn author's own blog) sung to the tune "Madrid" (widely known with Come, Christians, Join to Sing).
The other two hymns, the entrance and offertory, came from obvious Catholic sources. Yet I've not seen either one in any Catholic hymnal past or present. We had to delve into the Hymnal 1940 to get these gems. These beautiful texts should be in many Catholic hymnals.
The entrance hymn was Christ, the Fair Glory of the Holy Angels, which is a translation of Christe Sanctorum Decus Angelorum by Rabanus Maurus - yes, the same Rabanus Maurus that gave us Veni, Creator Spiritus, from which the familiar Come, Holy Ghost (that's Come, Holy Ghost and not that insipid One Spirit, One Church, which has infested many an OCP hymnal for the last two to three decades) is translated. The tune is the very rousing Coelites Plaudant.
The offertory hymn was Hark, Hark, My Soul! Angelic Songs Are Swelling authored by Fr. Frederick Faber, the Catholic priest who is most widely known for Faith of Our Fathers (not that goofy "A Living Faith" which has infested every GIA hymnal since the 1997 RitualSong) and There's a Wideness in God's Mercy, set to the tune "Pilgrims" by Henry Smart (who is best known for his tune "Regent Square", most commonly associated with the Christmas carol Angels from the Realms of Glory).
WHY, OH WHY are these two hymns of high quality in both text and tune not in any Catholic hymnals? Instead we get One Spirit, One Church, A Living Faith, All Are Welcome, Here Me Is, Lord, Eagle's Claws, and One Fred, One Barney. Enough said... for now!
(Side note regarding Father Faber: over a decade ago, when I was working for the iPadre, I chose both Faith of Our Fathers and There's a Wideness one Sunday when after Mass, a former organist of the neighboring Fall River diocese approached me and asked me, "Hey Brian, what's with all the Protestant hymns, Faith of Our Fathers?" Yes, this was a Catholic organist who posed that question to me. I tried my damnedest to keep a straight "professional" face, if there is such a thing, while explaining to her that Faith of Our Fathers was written by a Catholic priest. I afterward slipped into my van and laughed my head off, sounding like the Joker in the 60's TV series version of Batman.)
Sunday XXVI at Sacred Heart
The Quarter-Hundredth Sunday of the Year
The Two-Dozenth Sunday of the Year
The Three-Day Weekend
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CSR Strategy Group
Holding corporations accountable for environmental sustainability, human rights, good corporate governance, and social justice
How Universities Can Join the Movement to End Genocide
Posted on September 12, 2019 by Simon Billenness
How can you make your university take action to end genocide?
Students and faculty have an honorable tradition of organizing to uphold human rights. By organizing to persuade your university to enact a policy to end genocide, you are following in the footsteps of similar campaigns, such as the South Africa anti-apartheid movement (1980s), Free Burma movement (1990s), Save Darfur campaign (2000s), and fossil fuel divestment movement (today).
International Campaign for the Rohingya and STAND, the student-led movement to end mass atrocities, have developed a campaign for students and faculty to press their university to enact a comprehensive campus policy to help end genocide. The campaign focuses on harnessing how the university uses the power of its investments and the power of its purchasing.
Universities as investors
Educational institutions invest trillions of dollars, primarily through their endowments. As shareholders, universities are partial owners of thousands of publicly traded companies. Through those ownership stakes, unviersities can put pressure on corporations to stop doing business with governments engaged in genocide. This kind of shareholder activism can be more powerful than selling – or divesting – stock in companies.
Does your university own stock in Chevron? It likely does because Chevron is a very widely held company. For two years, shareholders of Chevron filed a shareholder resolution putting pressure on the oil company, the largest U.S. investor in Burma (Myanmar), to adopt a policy of not doing business with government engaged in genocide or crimes against humanity. In 2017 and 2018, that resolution received the votes of approximately 6% of shareholders at Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting.
In response to this pressure, Chevron has raised issues of human rights directly with the Burmese government. This year, shareholders reached an agreement with Chevron to drop the resolution in return for a dialogue with Chevron over what companies can do to pressure governments engaged in or at risk of commiting genocide and/or mass atrocities.
International Campaign for the Rohingya is working with shareholders owning over $50 billion in assets to put pressure on all of the oil companies in Burma. This shareholder group has also pressed major jewelry retailers not to buy gems that profit the Burmese army. This Fall, investors will engage Western Union, which is in partnership with a bank controlled by Burma’s army.
How can you successfully press your university to join the growing number of shareholders taking action to end genocide? You can start by asking your university treasurer some key questions.
What stocks does the university own? Does it own Chevron or Western Union?
Many educational institutions, especially public universities, make public their stock holdings. Many others will simply provide that information on request. Some will only reveal their holdings after feeling pressure from a campaign asking for disclosure.
Zero in on your university’s direct holdings of shares. Those are shares that your university owns outright and can vote in favor of shareholder resolutions such as the one at Chevron.
Does the university have a policy guiding how it votes its shares?
Some universities have developed a policy guiding how they vote their shares on resolutions raising environmental, social, and governances (ESG) issues. Ask for a copy of the current policy and request that it include a provision that the university vote in favor of resolutions asking companies to adopt a policy of not doing business with governments engaged in genocide or crimes against humanity.
How has the university voted its shares in the past?
Some universities publish a report showing how they voted on each shareholder resolution. Whether this is public or not, find out whether your university held Chevron stock in 2017 and, if so, how it voted those shares on the resolution in 2017 and 2018 pressing the company to adopt a policy of not doing business with governments engaged in genocide or crimes against humanity.
Does the university work with other shareholders to promote corporate responsibility?
Some universities are members of US SIF – The Forum for Sustainable and Reponsible Investment, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the Principles for Responsible Investment, or the Council of Institutional Investors. If your university is a member, ask what help and resources they are receiving to address issues concerning ending genocide.
Would the university adopt a formal policy of using its investments to help end genocide?
Ask your university to join the growing “No Business With Genocide” campaign. International Campaign for the Rohingya is working with a growing coalition of investors and NGOs. We are ready to work with you and your university to develop policies and practices that help end the genocide of the Rohingya.
How can students and faculty influence the university’s investment policies and practices?
Some universities, such as Harvard, have an advisory committee on shareholder responsibility that helps develop policies and practices. Ask to participate.
If your university lacks such an avenue to influence its investments, launch a campaign to pass a resolution in your student government, faculty council, and/or board of trustees. Develop petitions and hold rallies. Meet with your university administration. Use every pressure point to persuade your university to step up and help end genocide.
The Responsible Endowments Coalition publishes how-to guides for students and faculty on university endowments, divestment, and shareholder advocacy. Read them to prepare yourselves on how to best influence your university to help end genocide.
Universities as purchasers
Universities buy billions of dollars of goods and services from corporations from around the world. That enormous purchasing power can be used to press companies to adopt a policy of not doing business with governments engaged in genocide and/or mass atrocities.
Again, there are powerful examples of how students and faculty have successfully influenced their university’s purchasing policy. The Conflict-Free Campus Initiative (CFCI) is a joint initiative of the Enough Project and STAND, the student-led movement to end mass atrocities. By encouraging universities, which are large purchasers of electronics and powerful spokespersons, to commit to measures that pressure electronics companies to responsibly invest in Congo’s minerals sector, students are voicing the demand for conflict-free products from Congo.
How can a university use its purchasing power to help end genocide?
A university can, in its purchasing RFPs and contracts, require contractors to disclose any company policies regarding doing business with governments engaged in genocide and/or crimes against humanity.
A university can also in its purchasing RFPs and contracts further require contractors, within two years, to have a written and formally adopted company policy stating that they will not do business with governments engaged in genocide and/or crimes against humanity.
These provisions can apply to any contractor with the university with annual revenues of a certain amount, such as $100 million or greater.
International Campaign for the Rohingya and STAND, the student-led movement to end mass atrocities, have developed a campaign for students and faculty to press their university to enact a comprehensive campus policy to help end genocide.
It’s time for universities to make a difference in ending genocide, starting in their own campus. Working together, students and faculty can be the builders the grassroots campus movement to end genocide.
This article was previously published by the International Campaign for the Rohingya.
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▶ What is the most 'cutting edge' fact for creation? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-16)
Defeating Atheism with Science
Northwest Creation Network Uploaded 5 years ago 2014-03-26
Multimedia Presentation by Spike Psarris Apologetics Symposium at Cedar Park Church, Bothell WA. March 20, 2014 Description: Many atheists claim that science disproves the Bible. Despite these claims, science is actually quite consistent with Scripture. Christians often feel unequipped to defend their faith in this area -- but this need not be so. Instead, any Christian can defend his or her faith against any scientific claim from an atheist, even without knowing the details of that particular claim. Why? Because science itself disproves atheism. Atheism, when taken to its logical conclusion, denies the fundamental assumptions and requirements of science. Therefore, if science is valid, then atheism must be false. In this presentation, engineer and former atheist Spike Psarris will present on "Defeating Atheism with Science," showing why this is true. Join us as we discuss how Christians can defend their faith in all areas of science. After a brief discussion of specific evidence like fossils, radiometric dating, and intelligent design, we'll dig deeper and see how science itself disproves atheism. Understanding a few fundamental ideas about science are all that's necessary for any Christian to be well-equipped in this area. About the Speaker: Spike Psarris was previously an engineer in the United States' military space program. He entered that program as an atheist and an evolutionist. He left it as a creationist and a Christian. He now speaks on creation and Christian apologetics, equipping believers to defend their faith and glorify their Creator. _______________________________________________________ This seminar was recorded during the Apologetics Symposium at Cedar Park Church in Bothell Washington (http://www.cedarpark.org/). The NW Creation Network organizes this educational program each month, which features live presentations aimed at defending the Bible and confronting the teachings of atheism and evolution. These events are open to the public, free to attend, and available through live webcast. Northwest Creation Network http://nwcreation.net Apologetics Symposium - with live webcast http://www.nwcreation.net/symposium/ Seattle Creation Conference - organized since 2004 http://nwcreation.net/conference/ Learn more about how science supports the Bible at our CreationWiki: Encyclopedia of Creation Science. http://creationwiki.org Like and follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nwcreationnetwork
Scientific evidence for a recent creation -- Creation Magazine LIVE! (2-05)
All dating methods involve making assumptions. But many scientific dating methods, with reasonable assumptions, do not support deep time and an old universe. Hundreds of dating methods support a young earth and recent creation of the universe. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: 101 evidences for a young age of the earth and the universe (http://creation.com/age) Dinosaur soft tissue and protein—even more confirmation! (http://creation.com/schweit2) Aren't 250 million year old live bacteria a bit much? (http://creation.com/250ma_bact) Radioactive decay points to a recent creation (http://creation.com/rate) Mitochondrial Eve and biblical Eve are looking good: criticism of young age is premature (http://creation.com/eve3) Y-Chromosome Adam? (http://creation.com/y) Patriarchs of the forest (http://creation.com/talltrees) Coal: memorial to the Flood (http://creation.com/coal-memorial-to-the-flood) Opals in months—not millions of years! (http://creation.com/creating-opals) Niagara Falls and the Bible (http://creation.com/niagara) Salty seas—Evidence for a young earth (http://creation.com/salty) Does Creation make the Gospel a laughing stock? (http://creation.com/laughing) Related Products: 15 Reasons to take Genesis as History (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=00-1-536) Refuting Compromise (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-575) What the Bible & Science Say About the Age of the Earth (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-557) Creation magazine (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=90-3-001)
Why Biblical Creation is Good Science 4/10/14 @ 3:30 pm EST
Answers in Genesis Uploaded 5 years ago 2014-04-08
Design(er) Conference Site: http://goo.gl/JA3Rw6 Prof. Stuart Burgess (BSc Eng, PhD, CEng, FIMechE, FRAeS) has taught engineering design at Cambridge University and Bristol University in the UK. He has won many national awards for engineering design including the Turners Gold Medal and a Mollins Design Prize. He has published over 130 scientific articles on design in engineering and design in nature. He has seven patents and carried out design projects for industry including designing parts of rockets and spacecraft for the European Space Agency. He is author of the books Hallmarks of Design, He Made the Stars Also, and The Origin of Man. He has lectured in many countries including the USA and Japan. He is married to Jocelyn and they have five children.
90 Minutes of Evidence for the Global Flood
Is Genesis History? Uploaded 2 years ago 2017-09-29
If you like this lecture from the 2017 IGH Conference, you can get it and over 70 more at: https://isgenesishistory.com/conference/ Learn more about the film "Is Genesis History?" and get more resources at www.isgenesishistory.com One of the challenges of understanding global flood geology is grasping what the Flood did to the surface of the earth. In our documentary, many of the scientists talk about the enormous sediment layers covering the globe, but we only had a few minutes to introduce this very important topic. During the 2017 IGH Conference, Dr. Kurt Wise explored the impact of the Flood on the earth in a series of three in-depth lectures. This lecture on the “study of sediment,” the first in the series, is an excellent overview of the unique features of the sedimentary shell covering the earth. It provides an enormous amount of evidence for the reality of the global flood. If you’ve not seen the documentary yet, here are ways to watch Is Genesis History featuring Kurt Wise and 12 other scientists and scholars: https://isgenesishistory.com/ Specific topics of “Sedimentology of the Flood” include: 0:00 – Introduction 6:45 – Describing the lithostratigraphic column 24:45 – Transcontinental water-lain sediments & paleo-currents 38:45 – Lamination & bioturbation 47:45 – Megasequences & pulses of flood water 1:12:15 – Nautiloid fossil beds in Grand Canyon 1:26:00 – Crossbeds in sandstone
Radiohalos ruin radiometric dating (Creation Magazine LIVE! 7-15)
Radiohalos are the result of nuclear decay. They provide powerful evidence that the earth is young and radiometric dating is highly inaccurate. Related Articles: How dating methods work (https://creation.com/how-dating-methods-work) Radioactive dating methods - Ways they make conflicting results tell the same story (https://creation.com/radioactive-dating-anomalies) Radiohalos: Startling evidence of catastrophic geologic processes on a young earth (https://creation.com/radiohalosstartling-evidence-of-catastrophic-geologic-processes-on-a-young-earth) New radiohalo find challenges primordial granite claim (https://creation.com/new-radiohalo-find-challenges-primordial-granite-claim) Related Products: Thousands … Not Billions (http://creation.com/s/10-2-199) The Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/s/10-2-505) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag) Notable Video Sources Lava flow sampling from Kilauea Volcano (5/31/17) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDxTNtcAU0M RIP ammo vs Ballistics Gel - RatedRR Slow Mo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sas9N3OmuM&t=1s Out & About In Banbury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bQsBTo_WTQ LIMESTONE EXTRACATION *excavator in quarry* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9tpL_Ea4_o&t=1s Mount St. Helens: May 18, 1980 *eruption* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec30uU0G56U Earth zoom out (Amazing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESDQ84Yd8U
Real Science Supports the Bible
Multimedia Presentation by Jonathan Sarfati Ph.D. Seattle Creation Conference, August 2013. Woodin Valley Baptist Church, Bothell WA. Description: It has become almost axiomatic to some that all science evidence supports evolution, and that Biblical creation is merely a myth. In this presentation, Dr Sarfati's presents a slew of rational and credible arguments showing that "real science" supports the Bible. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of biology, geology, fossils, radiometric dating, and more, Sarfati identifies flaw after flaw in the evolutionary worldview. About the Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Sarfati is a research scientist and speaker with Creation Ministries International (http://creation.com). He was born in Ararat, Australia in 1964. He moved to New Zealand as a child and later studied science at Victoria University of Wellington. He obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry with two physics papers substituted (nuclear and condensed matter physics). His Ph.D. in Chemistry was awarded for a thesis entitled 'A Spectroscopic Study of some Chalcogenide Ring and Cage Molecules'. He has co-authored papers in mainstream scientific journals on high temperature superconductors and selenium-containing ring and cage-shaped molecules. He also had a co-authored paper on high-temperature superconductors published in Nature when he was 22. _______________________________________________________ This seminar was recorded during the 2013 Seattle Creation Conference at Woodin Valley Baptist Church in Bothell Washington (http://www.woodinvalleybaptist.org/). The NW Creation Network organizes this educational program each month, which features live presentations aimed at defending the Bible and confronting the teachings of atheism and evolution. These events are open to the public, free to attend, and available through live webcast. Northwest Creation Network http://nwcreation.net Apologetics Symposium - with live webcast http://www.nwcreation.net/symposium/ Seattle Creation Conference - organized since 2004 http://nwcreation.net/conference/ Learn more about how science supports the Bible at our CreationWiki: Encyclopedia of Creation Science. http://creationwiki.org Like and follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nwcreationnetwork
Tracing the nations back to Babel (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-12)
Extra-Biblical historical records testify to the ancient nations beginning as family units from Noah's descendants. This powerfully supports the Bible's history, especially the reality of the world's population 'restarting' after the Flood of Noah. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Creation Magazine LIVE! Season 2 Episode 4 (http://creation.com/cml2-04) In the days of Peleg (http://creation.com/peleg) Tower of Babel confirms linguistics (http://creation.com/babel-linguistics) The 16 grandsons of Noah (http://creation.com/grandsons) Chinese characters and Genesis (http://creation.com/characters) Where are all the people? (http://creation.com/people) Egyptian history and the Bible (http://creation.com/egypt) Related Products: Languages: The Bible vs Evolution (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-533) Mitochondrial Eve and the Daughters of Noah (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-524) Oracle Bones Speak (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-3-510)
What about the Garden of Eden? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 6-16)
Where was the Garden of Eden? What was it like? What did it contain? The Bible does not give us all of the answers, but it does give us lot of them, and many can be logically deduced from scripture. Watch this week’s episode to get the answers. Related Articles: Has the Garden of Eden been found? (http://creation.com/has-the-garden-of-eden-been-found) The tree of life (http://creation.com/the-tree-of-life-garden-of-eden) Was the Garden of Eden in Iraq? (http://creation.com/was-the-garden-of-eden-in-iraq) What about the snake in the Garden of Eden? (http://creation.com/what-about-the-snake-in-the-garden-of-eden) Was the Garden of Eden a 'sanctuary' from a hostile outside world? (http://creation.com/eden-sanctuary) Related Products: The Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/s/10-2-505) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
No two ways about it: Operational vs historical science (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-17)
This episode tackles what is one of the biggest stumbling blocks to understanding the debate about origins: the difference between operational and historical science. Using an list of requirements for 'science' from a popular evolutionist textbook we examine evolution to see whether it meets the requirements. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: What distinguishes origins and operational science? (http://creation.com/origins-vs-operational-science) Who's pushing bad science? (http://creation.com/lerner) It's not science! (http://creation.com/its-not-science) The importance of correct history and theology (http://creation.com/history-and-theology) Science, History and the Bible (http://creation.com/science-history-bible)
Five atheist miracles (Creation Magazine LIVE! 7-20)
Do atheists believe in miracles or magic? They would say no, but believing that everything can develop without a supernatural creator requires it. Related Articles: https://creation.com/five-atheist-miracles https://creation.com/the-religious-nature-of-evolution https://creation.com/evolution-as-religion https://creation.com/atheism-a-religion Related Products: Evolutionists Say the Oddest Things (http://creation.com/s/10-2-608) Christianity for skeptics (http://creation.com/s/10-2-585) Evolution's Achilles' Heels (http://creation.com/s/10-2-640) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag) Video Sources Clip: 13:59-14:05 (Anthony Flew – walking) Link: https://youtu.be/4TpM98RYrnU Source: simpletoremember/YouTube "Antony Flew - World's Most Famous Atheist Accepts Existence of God" Fair Use/Fair Dealing - education
How can a good God allow evil in the world? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 6-22)
Explaining the origin of death and suffering is vitally important in defending Christianity, since many people use the existence of ‘evil’ as an excuse not to believe in God. Learn why a literal-historical Genesis account is vital in answering. Related Articles: Why would a loving God allow death and suffering? (http://creation.com/why-death-suffering) How did bad things come about? (http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter6.pdf) Why would a loving God allow suffering? (http://creation.com/why-would-a-loving-god-allow-suffering) Is it God’s fault? (http://creation.com/is-it-gods-fault) Related Products: Beyond the Shadows: making sense of personal tragedy (http://creation.com/s/10-2-576) Walking Through Shadows: A Testimony - How Genesis creation gives strength in personal tragedy (DVD) (http://creation.com/s/30-9-579) Christianity for Skeptics (http://creation.com/s/10-2-585) The Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/s/10-2-505) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
Archaeology supports the Bible (Creation Magazine LIVE! 7-06)
Archaeological discoveries provide powerful support for the accuracy of Scripture. Today we highlight fascinating portions of an interview with a leading archaeologist. Special Thanks: John DeLancey – Tel Gezer footage https://youtu.be/B5mSvnAD_RQ?t=4m17s biblicalisraeltours.com (Life-Transforming Israel Tours & Teaching in the Context of the Land of the Bible) The Mental Metal Channel – sifting footage https://youtu.be/9DcZfqT5f-A?t=2m27s Lia Lapithi Shukuroglou – footage of small gods https://youtu.be/c-qOcWfwkS8?t=10m38s Gabriel Colodro – Hebrew Torah Writing https://youtu.be/x5Ppuy_T0dQ?t=1m4s Other footage sources: Hunter McLaughlin - more of Tel Gezer https://youtu.be/Xq-yp5CTy3Y?t=42s Bible Vision HD – even more of Tel Gezer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPjnHo8H-HY TheJerusalemCenter – Timeline of Israel https://youtu.be/2mR2W43t6tI?t=28s Philistine Pots from Gezer haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.739358.JPG 20th Century Fox – Exodus footage https://youtu.be/wpwqEv-0XF0?t=4s Ruth Martin – mud (earth) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYcaNY3q-WI New York Times - Ebla Map https://nyti.ms/2t3iBmq Pinterest – Lugal-kisal-si, king of Uruk https://pin.it/ydrycwp7swoagz Ebla Tablets gazeteduvar.com.tr/kultur-sanat/2016/08/13/tanrilarin-laneti-tabletleri-calanlarin-ustunde-olsun/ PHD Comics – Dead Sea Scrolls https://youtu.be/SLQB-Y97bxk?t=2m39s Narak Saron – monkeys https://youtu.be/hSBE-yS5H3w?t=1m48s TWI/Granada Television – Hitler in Colour https://youtu.be/OEerqYY8N4U?t=3m34s Related Articles: Archaeologist confirms creation and the Bible (https://creation.com/archaeologist-confirms-creation-and-the-bible) Where does history begin? (https://creation.com/where-does-history-begin) Related Products: The Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/s/10-2-505) Christianity for Skeptics (http://creation.com/s/10-2-585) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
What is the image of God? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 7-09)
What is it that humans have that God has and other animals don't? Related Articles: Made in the image of God (https://creation.com/made-in-the-image-of-god) Man: The image of God (https://creation.com/man-the-image-of-god) Did the Fall destroy God’s image in man? (https://creation.com/fall-destroy-gods-image) Related Products: The Genesis Account (http://creation.com/s/10-2-606) Christianity for Skeptics (http://creation.com/s/10-2-585) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
One human family -- an interview with Dr Carl Wieland (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-21)
This episode provides a fascinating look at human culture, racism, slavery through the eyes of one of the fathers of the modern creation movement. Author, speaker and founder of Creation magazine Dr Carl Wieland is our guest. Related episode: Tracing the nations back to Babel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q32hkel6OEI The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Origin of the Human Races (http://creation.com/the-origin-of-the-human-races) Adam and Eve Race Genetics (http://creation.com/adam-eve-races-genetics) Darwinism and the Nazi Holocaust (http://creation.com/darwinism-and-the-nazi-race-holocaust) Two-tone twins (http://creation.com/two-tone-twins) How did the different 'races' arise? Creation Answers Book Study Guide (http://creation.com/creation-answers-book-study-guide-lesson-17) The Bible vs slavery: response to critics (http://creation.com/bible-v-slavery) Racism Q&A page (http://creation.com/racism) Related Products: One Human Family (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-578) How did the different races arise? (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=00-1-520) One Human Family (Audio) (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=35-1-019) Creation Answer's Book (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-505)
Dr. Robert Carter: Evolution's Achilles' Heels
Calvary Chapel Tri-Cities Uploaded 2 years ago 2017-04-18
Dr. Robert Carter from Creation Ministries International shares how Darwinian evolution fails to explain what we see and how the Bible presents a coherent view of origins. From Sunday, April 9, 2017, at Calvary Chapel Tri-Cities, Kennewick, WA.
Big Bang and the Bible (Creation Magazine LIVE! 7-08)
Major scientific problems with the Big Bang are explained along with its incompatibility with Scripture! Related Articles: Big bang beliefs: busted (https://creation.com/big-bang-beliefs-busted) Bye-bye, big bang? (https://creation.com/bye-bye-big-bang) Secular scientists blast the big bang (https://creation.com/secular-scientists-blast-the-big-bang) Related Products: Dismantling the Big Bang (http://creation.com/s/10-2-188) Starlight, Time and the New Physics (http://creation.com/s/10-3-505) The Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/s/10-2-505) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
A 'mountain of evidence' for evolution? -- Creation Magazine LIVE! (2-18)
Many people say that evolution is fact and that there is a mountain of evidence to prove it. Should Christians just cave in and admit that Genesis is a myth? This episode examines and refutes key evolution evidences such as: • Embryo similarity • The Miller/Urey experiment • Peppered Moths • Homology • Horse evolution • Fossil record • Dinosaurs • Archaeopteryx • Whale evolution • Tiktaalik • Vestigial organs • Ape men • Natural selection • Mutations • Chimp/human DNA 98% similarity • Junk DNA The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Embryo similarity (http://creation.com/fraud-rediscovered) Vestigial organs (http://creation.com/vestiges) The Miller/Urey experiment (http://creation.com/urey) Peppered Moths (http://creation.com/peppered) Homology (http://creation.com/homology) Horse evolution (http://creation.com/horse-evolution) Fossil record (http://creation.com/fossil-random) Dinosaurs (http://creation.com/coexist) Archaeopteryx (http://creation.com/bird-evo) Whale evolution (http://creation.com/pakicetus) Tiktaalik (http://creation.com/tiktaalik-finished) Ape men (http://creation.com/apemen) Natural selection (http://creation.com/muddy-waters) Mutations (http://creation.com/evolutions-end) Chimp/human DNA 98% similarity (http://creation.com/similarity-myth) Junk DNA (http://creation.com/junk-dna) Related Products: Refuting Evolution (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-110) Refuting Evolution 2 (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-579) The Greatest Hoax on Earth? Refuting Dawkins on evolution (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-555) Creation magazine (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=90-3-001)
Was Noah’s Flood global? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 4-24)
Does it matter whether it was global or local? What does the scripture actually say? If it was a global flood, where’s the evidence for it? These and other questions are answered in this episode. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program shows how the latest scientific discoveries support the Bible and refute evolution and million of years. Related Articles: Why is origins important? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-18) (http://creation.com/cml3-18) Tracing the nations back to Babel (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-12) (http://creation.com/cml3-12) Noah’s Flood Q&A page (http://creation.com/noahs-flood-questions-and-answers) Genesis Verse-by-Verse (http://creation.com/vbv) Related Products: Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/s/10-2-505) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
What about the Stone Age? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 6-06)
Many historians describe primitive 'Stone age' men living long before the first man, Adam, existed. This reinforces a time line that contradicts the Bible. Learn how the Bible's timeline provides the best framework for understanding the 'stone age'. Related Articles: The Stone 'Age'—a figment of the imagination? (http://creation.com/the-stone-age-a-figment-of-the-imagination) A Better Model for the Stone Age (http://creation.com/a-better-model-for-the-stone-age) A Better Model for the Stone Age Part 2 (http://creation.com/a-better-model-for-the-stone-age-part-2) Modern 'Stone Age' reconsidered (http://creation.com/modern-stone-age-reconsidered) Related Products: Apemen: Missing links and the Bible (http://creation.com/s/30-9-539) One Human Family: The Bible, science, race and culture (http://creation.com/s/10-2-578) 15 Reasons to Take Genesis as History (http://creation.com/s/00-1-536) The Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/s/10-2-505) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
What would we know about creation if we only had the New Testament? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-01)
Many Christians feel that Genesis is a side issue and that modern Christians should just focus on New Testament teachings. What would we know about origins if we only studied the New Testament? The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: What does the New Testament say about Creation? (http://creation.com/new-testament-creation) Genesis: Bible authors believed it to be history (http://creation.com/genesis-bible-authors-believed-it-to-be-history) The use of Genesis in the New Testament (http://creation.com/genesis-new-testament) Genesis Verse-by-Verse Bible study tool (http://creation.com/vbv) Related Products: Creation, Fall, Restoration (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-561) Refuting Compromise (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-575) How did we get our Bible? (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=00-1-548)
Origins - who is being divisive? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 6-15)
Jesus prayed that believers, "would be brought into complete unity, or become perfectly one". Jesus prioritized unity. Watch this episode to learn how this relates to Christians who hold different views of creation. Related Articles: Who is being divisive about creation? (http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j26_3/j26_3_25-28.pdf) 'But it’s divisive!' (http://creation.com/but-its-divisive) Why does CMI focus on creation? (http://creation.com/focus-creation) The dubious apologetics of Hugh Ross (http://creation.com/the-dubious-apologetics-of-hugh-ross) Is charity more important than apologetics? (http://creation.com/Charity-or-apologetics) Related Products: Refuting Compromise (http://creation.com/s/10-2-575) The Lost Path to the Roman Road (http://creation.com/30-9-662) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
Continental drift and the Bible -- Creation Magazine LIVE! (2-07)
Have the continents moved apart? If so, when? Creationist Antonio Snider, the first person to publish on continental drift proposed that the continents separated during the Flood. Today his original idea is backed by cutting-edge computer modelling. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: What about continental drift? (http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter11.pdf) Catastrophic plate tectonics: the geophysical context of the Genesis Flood (http://creation.com/catastrophic-plate-tectonics-the-geophysical-context-of-the-genesis-flood) Probing the earth's deep places-Interview with plate tectonics expert Dr John Baumgardner (http://creation.com/probing-the-earths-deep-places) Related Products: Planetary Cataclysm DVD (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-581) Models, Genes and Global Warming DVD (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-585) Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-505) Creation magazine (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=90-3-001)
Life from non-life (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-14)
Has the law of biogenesis (life begets life) been broken? Evolution says yes. However, when established scientific laws that describe the natural world are broken we recognize that as supernatural, or miraculous. So then, does the origin of life require the supernatural? The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: The Primitive atmosphere (http://creation.com/atmosphere) Origin of life: the polymerization problem (http://creation.com/polymer) 15 loopholes in the evolutionary theory of the origin of life: Summary (http://creation.com/loopholes) Origin of life: the chirality problem (http://creation.com/chirality) Self-replicating enzymes? (http://creation.com/replicating) Life from life... or not? (http://creation.com/life-from-lifeor-not) Origin of Life Q&A page (http://creation.com/origin) Biology in Six Days (http://creation.com/jerry-r-bergman-biology-in-six-days) Could Monkeys Write the 23 Psalm? (http://creation.com/monkeys) Related Products: By Design (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-524) Codes and Creation (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-559) Evolution Impossible (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-550) Evolution: Good Science? (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-553) In the Beginning was Information (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-517)
Transitional fossils? Where? -- Creation Magazine LIVE! (2-22)
The 'missing links'—hailed as proof for evolution—are examined and debunked. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: The links are missing (http://creation.com/refuting-evolution-chapter-3-the-links-are-missing) That quote!—about the missing transitional fossils (http://creation.com/pattquote) Fossils Q+A page (http://creation.com/fossils-questions-and-answers) Related Products: Exploring Geology with Mr Hibb (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-1-586) Living Fossils—Evolution: The Grand Experiment Vol-2 (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-1-536) Amazing Fossils (comic book) (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=00-1-001) The Fossil Record: Unearthing Nature's History of Life (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-567)
How does genetics point to design? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 6-18)
Gregor Mendel (father of genetics) and Charles Darwin (father of modern evolution) disagreed. Darwin claimed creatures could change into unlimited other creatures. Mendel's discoveries suggest otherwise. See which idea science supports. Related Articles: Genetic variability by design (https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j18_2/j18_2_98-104a.pdf) DNA: marvellous messages or mostly mess? (http://creation.com/dna-marvellous-messages-or-mostly-mess) Splicing and dicing the human genome (http://creation.com/splicing-and-dicing-the-human-genome) Incredible Kinesin! (http://creation.com/incredible-kinesin) New bacteria show 'wonder upon wonder' (http://creation.com/new-bacteria-show-wonder-upon-wonder) Design in living organisms (motors: ATP synthase) (http://creation.com/design-in-living-organisms-motors-atp-synthase) Related Products: By Design (http://creation.com/s/10-2-524) Unlocking the Mystery of Life DVD (http://creation.com/s/30-9-059) God the Master Designer DVD (http://creation.com/s/30-9-610) The Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/s/10-2-505) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
Radioisotope dating—An evolutionist's best friend? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 1-14)
For details visit: http://creation.com/creation-magazine-live-episode-14 Does radioisotope dating provide solid scientific evidence for 'billions of years'? This episode summarizes huge problems with this dating method and highlights recent research results that supports a young earth. Related articles - Radioactive dating failure (http://creation.com/radioactive-dating-failure) - Dating Dilemma: Fossil wood in 'ancient' sandstone (http://creation.com/dating-dilemma-fossil-wood-in-ancient-sandstone) - The way it really is: little-known facts about radiometric dating (http://creation.com/the-way-it-really-is-little-known-facts-about-radiometric-dating) - RATE group reveals exciting break-through! (http://creation.com/rate-group-reveals-exciting-breakthroughs) - Diamonds: a creationist's best friend (http://creation.com/diamonds-a-creationists-best-friend) - Radioisotope Dating Q&A page (http://creation.com/radiometric-dating-questions-and-answers) - Chapter 4 in The Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter4.pdf) In the News - The large hadron collider: will a black hole swallow us? (http://creation.com/the-large-hadron-collider-lhc-will-a-black-hole-swallow-us) - Was Tuberculosis part of the original very-good creation? (http://creation.com/oldest-tuberculosis-claim) Feedback - Carbon dating into the future (http://creation.com/carbon-dating-into-the-future) - What about the 'Stone Age'? (http://creation.com/what-about-the-stone-age)
Gap Theory—an idea with holes? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 1-08)
For details visit: http://creation.com/creation-magazine-live-episode-8 Could there be a gap of millions of years between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2? We discuss some of the major problems with it. Related articles From the beginning of the creation (http://creation.com/from-the-beginning-of-the-creation) Can evolution's long ages be squeezed into Genesis? (http://creation.com/can-evolutions-long-ages-be-squeezed-into-genesis) What does 'Replenish the Earth' mean? (http://creation.com/what-does-replenish-the-earth-mean) Gap Theory brochure (PDF) (http://creation.com/images/pdfs/flyers/gap-theory.pdf) Feedback Theistic evolutionist answers CMI's questions (http://creation.com/does-it-matter-which-is-right) Why do you take the Bible literally? (http://creation.com/feedback-on-cmi-australia-vs-skeptics) Also see - Theistic Evolution Q&A page (http://creation.com/creation-compromises-questions-and-answers#gap)
The key to understanding the age of the earth debate (Creation Magazine LIVE! 4-09)
Biological evolution is a far less controversial topic among Christians than the age of the earth. But one event recorded in the Bible is the key to understanding the majority of the issues people have with the idea of millions of years. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program shows how the latest scientific discoveries support the Bible and refute evolution and million of years. Related Articles: Are fossils ever found in the wrong place? (http://creation.com/fossils-wrong-place) Video - Continental drift and the Bible — Creation Magazine LIVE! (2-07) (http://creation.con.cml2-07) Geology and the young earth (http://creation.com/geol-ye) Sedimentation Experiments: Nature finally catches up! (http://creation.com/sednature) Video - Living fossils (http://creation.com/cml4-05) Noah’s Flood and the Gilgamesh Epic (http://creation.com/noahs-flood-and-the-gilgamesh-epic) Black Sea flood mistake? (http://creation.com/black-sea) Related Products: Biblical Geology – Properly understanding the rocks DVD (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-511) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
Countering creation skeptics (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-07)
Skeptics accuse creationists of pushing 'bad science' and religious ideas. This episode examines evolution according to the evolutionists own criteria for what science is. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Answering the "New Atheists" (http://creation.com/answering-the-new-atheists) Countering Critics Q&A's (http://creation.com/countering-the-critics-questions-and-answers) Answering Bible Skeptics (http://creation.com/skeptics-bible-errors) Who's really pushing bad science? http://creation.com/lerner) Here be Centaurs (http://creation.com/centuars) Creationism and Peer Review (http://creation.com/creationism-science-and-peer-review)
Fossils: Evidence for Biblical creation (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-02)
Fossils provide remarkable support for the Bible's account of history, beginning with creation and including a global flood. This week we focus on some fossils that are very difficult to fit into the 'millions of years' timescale, but fit wonderfully with the Bible. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Did God create over billions of years? (http://creation.com/billions) A fossil is a fossil is a fossil. Right? (http://creation.com/fossil) The Amazing Stone Bears of Yorkshire (http://creation.com/teddy) Dead whales: telling tales? (http://creation.com/fossil-whales) Where are all the human fossils? (http://creation.com/human-fossils) Why should science make it difficult to believe the Bible? (http://creation.com/difficult) Related Products: Amazing Fossils (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=00-1-001) Bones of Contention (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-173) Dinosaur Challenges and Mysteries (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-582) Untold Secrets of Planet Earth: Dire Dragons (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-581)
Dinosaurs and the Bible (Creation Magazine LIVE! 1-11)
For details visit: http://creation.com/creation-magazine-live-episode-11 Dinosaurs, those fascinating and mysterious creatures beg the question: where do they fit into the Bible? Evolution says dinosaurs fit into history millions of years ago. The Bible says that land animals (which would include dinosaurs) were created on Day 6 (the same day as people). Which view does science support? Get ready for amazing evidence showing that dinosaurs lived recently, just like the Bible says. Related articles - What about dinosaurs? (Chapter 19 from The Creation Answers Book) (http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter19.pdf) - How did dinosaurs grow so big? And how did Noah fit them on the Ark? (http://creation.com/how-did-dinosaurs-grow-so-big) - Dracorex —the dinosaur that looks like a dragon. (http://creation.com/dracorexthe-dinosaur-that-looks-like-a-dragon) - Squirming at Squishosaur (http://creation.com/squishosaur) - 'Schweitzer's Dangerous Discovery' (http://creation.com/schweit) In the News - Newly Discovered Horned Dinosaur Follows Evolutionary Theory, Scientists Say (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256438,00.html?sPage=fnc.science/evolution) - Squishosaur scepticism squashed -- protein (collagen) discovered in T-rex bones. (http://creation.com/squishosaur-scepticism-squashed) - Grass eating dinosaurs—A 'time travel' problem for evolution? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5jXlMB9Hk4) Feedback - Dinosaurs, dating and the age of the earth (http://creation.com/dinosaurs-dating-and-the-age-of-the-earth) - Where are all the human fossils? (Chapter 15 from the The Creation Answers Book) (http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter15.pdf) Also see - Dinosaurs Q&A page (http://creation.com/dinosaur-questions-and-answers)
Astronomy, the Big Bang and creation -- Creation Magazine LIVE! (2-16)
Is the big bang the only possible explanation for what we see in the heavens? How observations in astronomy fit with the Bible -- this week on Creation Magazine LIVE! The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Bye-bye, big bang? (http://creation.com/bye-bye-big-bang) Secular scientists blast the big bang (http://creation.com/secular-scientists-blast-the-big-bang) Our galaxy is the centre of the universe, 'quantized' redshifts show (http://creation.com/our-galaxy-is-the-centre-of-the-universe-quantized-redshifts-show) High-redshift quasars produce more big bang surprises (http://creation.com/high-redshift-quasars-produce-more-big-bang-surprises) Related Products: Dismantling the Big Bang (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-188) Starlight, Time and the New Physics (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-3-505) Distant Starlight - A Forum DVD (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-609) Creation magazine (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=90-3-001
Radiometric back flips; How solid are those dates? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 5-10)
A popular myth is that radioactive dating methods confirm the geologic time-scale and the concept of human evolution. The methods appear so impressive that many Christians accept them as evidence that the earth is very old. Many have been taught that radiometric dating methods are absolute. But exactly how solid are those dates? Related Articles: Radioactive dating methods (http://creation.com/radioactive-dating-anomalies) Radiometric Dating Questions and Answers (http://creation.com/radiometric-dating-questions-and-answers) The way it really is: little-known facts about radiometric dating (http://creation.com/the-way-it-really-is-little-known-facts-about-radiometric-dating) Radioisotope dating of rocks in the Grand Canyon (http://creation.com/radioisotope-dating-of-rocks-in-the-grand-canyon) Radiometric dating and the age of the Earth (http://creation.com/radiometric-dating-age-of-earth) The pigs took it all (http://creation.com/the-pigs-took-it-all) Related Products: The Mythology of Modern Dating Methods (http://creation.com/s/10-3-090) Radioactive Dating & A Young Earth DVD (http://creation.com/s/30-9-626) Thousands … Not Billions (http://creation.com/s/10-2-199) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag
How long were the Genesis days? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 7-02)
Could the Genesis creation days be millions of years long? Join us as we dive into the language of the biblical text and discover how long God took to create the universe. Related Articles: How long were the days of Genesis 1? https://creation.com/how-long-were-the-days-of-genesis-1 The numbering pattern of Genesis (https://creation.com/the-numbering-pattern-of-genesis) How could the days of Genesis 1 be literal if the sun wasn't created until the fourth day? (https://creation.com/how-could-the-days-of-genesis-1-be-literal-if-the-sun-wasnt-created-until-the-fourth-day) 2 Peter 3:8—'one day is like a thousand years' (https://creation.com/2-peter-38-one-day-is-like-a-thousand-years) Related Products: The Genesis Account (http://creation.com/s/10-2-606) What the Bible and Science say about the Age of the Earth (http://creation.com/s/30-9-557) Refuting Compromise ((http://creation.com/s/10-2-575) Creation Answers Book (http://creation.com/s/10-2-505) Creation magazine (free sample copy) (http://creation.com/free-mag)
Evolution and pop culture (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-19)
This episode examines how pop culture influences the debate about origins. Evolution permeates not only educational institutions but also the media and entertainment industries. Many popular books, movies, video games and TV shows draw on evolutionary ideas. This week we highlight some of the evolutionary themes in popular culture. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Evolution and the Science of Fiction (http://creation.com/evolution-and-the-science-of-fiction) Who's transforming our society? (http://creation.com/whos-transforming-our-society) Aliens are Coming (http://creation.com/aliens-are-coming) Origin of Life (http://creation.com/origin-of-life) Lifting the veil on the UFO phenomenon (http://creation.com/lifting-the-veil-ufo-phenomenon) SETI-Religion or Science? (http://creation.com/seti-religion-or-science) Related Products: Alien Intrusion (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-566) Creation Evangelism (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-518) The Dark Side of Darwin (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-508) Creation Answer's Book (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-505)
Can you be a Christian and believe in evolution? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-08)
Some Christians believe in evolution. Does this mean they are not Christians? Scientists and theologians are interviewed to answer this question. The Creation Magazine LIVE! TV program is a ministry of Creation Ministries International. With offices in seven countries and more PhD scientists than any Christian organization this program features cutting edge science that supports the Bible delivered in a non-technical, visually-rich, discussion-based format. Related Articles: Do you need to believe in a literal Genesis to be a Christian (http://creation.com/must-believe) Same data different interpretation (http://creation.com/same-different) Can Christians believe evolution (http://creation.com/can-christians-believe-evolution) What all atheists have to believe (http://creation.com/what-all-atheists-have-to-believe) Why do Christians defend evolution? (http://creation.com/why-do-christians-defend-evolution) Does evolution make Christians? (http://creation.com/evolution-makes-christians) Genesis Verse-by-Verse Bible study tool (http://creation.com/vbv) Related Products: The Alternative Creation's Competitive Edge (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-560) Battle for the Mind (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-592) Biblical Biology 101 (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=30-9-630) Creation without Compromise (http://creation.com/store_redirect.php?sku=10-2-551)
What is the most 'cutting edge' fact for creation? (Creation Magazine LIVE! 3-16) by CMIcreationstation
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Age estimation and lead-radium dating of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea,
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Brooks, Andrews, Ashford, Ramanna, Jones, Lundstrom, Cailliet
Radiometric validation of age, growth, and longevity for the blackgill rockfish (Sebastes melanostomus),
As nearshore fish populations decline, many commercial fishermen have shifted fishing effort to deeper continental slope habitats to target fishes for which biological information is limited. One such fishery that developed in the northeastern Pacific Ocean in the early 1980s was for the blackgill rockfish (Sebastes melanostomus), a deep-dwelling (300-800 m) species that congregates over rocky pinnacles, mainly from southern California to southern Oregon. Growth zone-derived age estimates from otolith thin sections were compared to ages obtained from the radioactive disequilibria of 210Pb, in relation to its parent, 226Ra, in otolith cores of blackgill rockfish. Age estimates were validated up to 41 years, and a strong pattern of agreement supported a longevity exceeding 90 years. Age and length data fitted to the von Bertalanffy growth function indicated that blackgill rockfish are slow-growing (& = 0.040 females, 0.068 males) and that females grow slower than males, but reach a greater length. Age at 50% maturity, derived from previously published length-atmaturity estimates, was 17 years for males and 21 years for females. The results of this study agree with general life history traits already recognized for many Sebastes species, such as long life, slow growth, and late age at maturation. These traits may undermine the sustainability of blackgill rockfish populations when heavy fishing pressure, such as that which occurred in the 1980s, is applied., Cited By (since 1996):13, CODEN: FSYBA, ,
Stevens, Andrews, Cailliet, Coale, Lundstrom
Application of an ion-exchange separation technique and thermal ionization mass spectrometry to 226Ra for radiometric age determination of long-lived fishes,
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Andrews, Coale, Nowicki, Lundstrom, Palacz, Burton, Cailliet
Age validation of canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) using two independent otolith techniques,
Canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) have long been an important part of recreational and commercial rockfish fishing from south-east Alaska to southern California, but localised stock abundances have declined considerably. Based on age estimates from otoliths and other structures, lifespan estimates vary from ∼20 years to over 80 years. For the purpose of monitoring stocks, age composition is routinely estimated by counting growth zones in otoliths; however, age estimation procedures and lifespan estimates remain largely unvalidated. Typical age validation techniques have limited application for canary rockfish because they are deep-dwelling and may be long-lived. In this study, the unaged otolith of the pair from fish aged at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada was used in one of two age validation techniques: (1) lead-radium dating and (2) bomb radiocarbon (14C) dating. Age estimate accuracy and the validity of age estimation procedures were validated based on the results from each technique. Lead-radium dating proved successful in determining that a minimum estimate of lifespan was 53 years and provided support for age estimation procedures up to ∼50-60 years. These findings were further supported by Δ14C data, which indicated that a minimum estimate of lifespan was 44 ± 3 years. Both techniques validate, to differing degrees, age estimation procedures and provide support for inferring that canary rockfish can live more than 80 years. © CSIRO 2007., Cited By (since 1996):12, Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: AJMFA, ,
Andrews, Kerr, Cailliet, Brown, Lundstrom, Stanley
Bomb radiocarbon and lead-radium disequilibria in otoliths of bocaccio rockfish (Sebastes paucispinis),
Longevity estimates for the bocaccio rockfish (Sebastes paucispinis) using traditional techniques range from less than 20 years to approximately 50 years. Otoliths of bocaccio are difficult to age, and previous attempts to validate ages have been unsuccessful. Because otolith age suggests the bocaccio are reasonably long-lived, lead-radium dating was used in an attempt to independently age bocaccio otoliths. The measured 210Pb and 226Ra activities were among the lowest reported and resulted in poor radiometric age resolution; however, the break-and-burn technique clearly underestimated age in some cases with the longevity of the bocaccio being at least 31 years. To provide better age resolution, the bomb radiocarbon approach was applied to individual otoliths. Based on measured radiocarbon levels relative to a reference time-series, several specimens were aged at approximately 30-40 years. To evaluate these determinations, the remaining otolith of the pair was sectioned and aged blind. The result was an excellent fit to the reference time-series and a validation of the age estimates. The maximum age from growth zone counts was 37 ± 2 years, which is consistent with a reported maximum age of approximately 50 years. © CSIRO 2005., Cited By (since 1996):18, Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: AJMFA, ,
Andrews, Burton, Kerr, Cailliet, Coale, Lundstrom, Brown
Lead-radium dating provides a framework for coordinating age estimation of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) between fishing areas,
Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) or 'Chilean sea bass' support a valuable and controversial fishery, yet their life history is not well understood and longevity estimates range from ∼20 to > 50 years. In this study, lead-radium dating provided valid ages for juvenile to older adult groups, which were consistent with the counting of otolith growth zones in transverse otolith sections, and longevity estimates exceeding 30 years. Lead-radium dating revealed minor biases between the radiometric age and interpretation of growth zone counting for regional fishing areas monitored by two facilities, Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology (CQFE) and the Central Ageing Facility (CAF), using different age estimation techniques. For CQFE, under-ageing of ∼3.3 years was observed for individuals with estimated ages under 20 years. For the CAF, ages were overestimated for young fish and underestimated for the oldest fish. Lead-radium dating detected underlying problems in coordinating age estimation between geographically separated fish stocks, and provided a framework to objectively assess otolith interpretation and growth modelling between laboratories based on age-validated data. © CSIRO 2011., Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: AJMFA, ,
Andrews, Ashford, Brooks, Krusic-Golub, Duhamel, Belchier, Lundstrom, Cailliet
Bomb radiocarbon and lead-radium disequilibria in otoliths of bocaccio rockfish (Sebastes paucispinis): A determination of age and longevity for a difficult-to-age fish,
Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) are the target of an important commercial fishery in the Southern Ocean, yet age data used for management have not been comprehensively tested for accuracy. In this study, Antarctic toothfish were aged using counts of otolith growth zones based on criteria established for Patagonian toothfish, D. eleginoides, a closely related species. To validate these ages, the radioactive disequilibrium of lead-210 and radium-226 in otolith cores was measured and used as an independent chronometer to accurately determine age across the range of fish caught in large numbers by the fishery. Growth-zone counts indicated Antarctic toothfish live to at least 39 years of age, and were in close agreement with the chronometer, validating the age estimation criteria and the accuracy of age estimates. Von Bertalanffy growth function parameters indicated Antarctic toothfish were relatively slow-growing (k = 0.111), especially in relation to their maximum size (L ∞ = 158.9 cm). © 2010 Springer-Verlag., Cited By (since 1996):4, Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: POBID, ,
To improve the accuracy and precision of radiometric age determination using 210Pb: 226Ra disequilibria in otoliths of fishes, a technique was developed incorporating an ion-exchange procedure followed by isotope-dilution thermal ionization mass spectrometry (TIMS) to determine 226Ra. This technique counts ionized radium atoms directly; therefore, the uncertainty of the technique is superior to conventional radio-decay dependent techniques. Calcium and barium are major components of the otolith matrix that can interfere with TIMS analysis of radium. To remove these interferants, an ion-exchange separation procedure was developed. This procedure was tested by applying it to otolith samples from three fish species in three separate radiometric ageing studies. The resultant separations and TIMS determinations indicate that the procedure efficiently separates radium from calcium and barium. Measured 226Ra activities for each species were similar to previous radiometric ageing studies, with the exception of one sample. When results were compared with traditional 226Ra determination techniques, radon emanation and α-spectrometry, the separation procedure with isotope-dilution TIMS had significant advantages. Samples over three times smaller than attempted in other studies were processed with decreased uncertainty and processing time., Cited By (since 1996):30, Fish and Fisheries, CODEN: CJFSD, ,
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It’s a tough job to survive in Bollywood if you don’t belong to one of those filmi families or have a godfather to support you. Vaani Kapoor, who made her Bollywood debut with Shuddh Desi Romance in.
It’s a tough job to survive in Bollywood if you don’t belong to one of those filmi families or have a godfather to support you. Vaani Kapoor, who made her Bollywood debut with Shuddh Desi Romance in 2014, is going to be next seen in Aditya Chopra’s Befikre after a gap of two years..which is a very long time. But the wait has been worth it, she says. In an exclusive interview Vaani revealed how in the last two years she has been watching a lot of films like Sultan, Pink, Udta Punjab, Bajirao Mastani, Kapoor & Sons and Neerja and how she’s been loving them all and doing her usual stuff too.
So basically, nothing much has changed for her all this while. Talking about Befikre, Vaani plays a character named Shyra who is a tour guide. And if you have watched the trailer of Befikre, which I am pretty sure you must have by now, she is looks like this uber stylish tour guide. She’s hot, she’s stylish, she’s carefree and a diva – She’s Shyra for you! (ALSO READ: Ranveer Singh and Vaani Kapoor’s Befikre will earn Rs 24 crore over the first weekend)
Both you and Ranveer look ravishing together. How did you guys work out on the chemistry which seems to be naturally coming to you both.
Ranveer is actually more of an outgoing person. He’s so lively, bursting with energy all the time and he’s outspoken which helped in breaking the ice between us. So yeah, that kinda helped a lot.
You’ve kissed Ranveer Singh..THE Ranveer Singh for over 23 times in the movie.. Your thoughts?
Yes, I have kissed THE Ranveer Singh but who counts how many times you’ve kissed someone? I mean initially it was a little weird but yeah, eventually we both got so used to it that now if someone just randomly tells me to kiss Ranveer I’ll be like okay. It’s like hugging someone. You don’t count how many times you hug a person and neither is it awkward hugging someone. So now it’s as casual as that.
Ranveer took a jibe at you in the Befikre making video when he said you fart while kissing..
Ugh, Ranveer loves to discuss human feces. He loves discussing farts, poop and all of those things. So yeah, that’s Ranveer Singh for you!
You play a stylish tour guide in the film and otherwise too your style sense has undergone a sort of makeover. Who do you think from Bollywood is a diva?
I think Sonam Kapoor dresses up really well. I think she has an amazing style sense and also I think Kareena Kapoor Khan is one fashionista. She can pull off anything and everything just so effortlessly.
We further went on play The Bold and Bindaas quiz with her and she wasn’t quite a sport but yeah she played well. We went on to ask her what’s her take on one night stands, casting couch, plastic surgeries, BDSM and much more.
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It wasn’t the start that Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa would have liked for their 2015 MotoGP Championship campaign.
Dani, starting from second on the grid and Marc starting from third, both had a problematic first corner, with Marc emerging as the biggest victim. As the MotoGP riders jostled for position, Dani was edged out down to seventh and Marc made a small mistake, running wide in turn one and rejoined the track in last place.
Both riders began to make up positions with Dani in sixth and Marc up to eleventh by lap three. The Repsol Honda duo pushed to chase race leaders Lorenzo, Dovizioso, Iannone and Rossi with Dani was on the tail of this group but unable to keep the pace. As the race progressed Dani began to suffer severe arm pump in his right arm and slowly dropped back. Meanwhile Marc passed Petrucci, Crutchlow, Smith and Hernandez and was up to sixth by lap eight.
On lap twelve Marc reached Dani and passed him into 5th, demoting Dani to 6th. Marc began to chase down the leading four riders but the gap of 3.8s was too great. Nevertheless, Marquez still managed to break a record with the fastest top speed recorded in the premier class of 350.5km/h, beating the previous record held by Iannone of 349.6km/h.
This is the first time since winning the German GP in 2013 that Marc has not lead the MotoGP Championship standings. Both riders will be looking to bounce back from this disappointing start and challenge for victory at the Red Bull Austin GP in two weeks time.
Marc Marquez: "We should be happy because we have salvaged eleven important points, when we could easily have left here with none. It was a tough race, in which I made a mistake at the first corner and dropped back to last place. This meant that I had to make a comeback, pushing hard all through the race, but in the end I saw that I could not catch the group at the front. The positive that I'll take from today is that we rode at a similar pace to the lead group. In Austin we will continue to work hard, with an even stronger desire to do well."
Dani Pedrosa: "Tonight’s race didn’t go to plan and unfortunately, I had serious problems with my right forearm which isn’t good news for me. I worked very hard over the winter in order to find a solution, because I was suffering in every race last season. Every doctor recommended that I not undergo another operation and I have tried to look for alternatives, but by the looks of things nothing is working positively for it. Now I have to assess my options and see what I can do. It is probably the most difficult moment of my career. I will do my best to find a solution but in this moment it is difficult to imagine what it could be."
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By caniac29, October 15, 2008 in Hurricanes Talk
GreatsavebyGerber
IMHO, the ability to skate is a nice touch, but not a huge necessity. While the Power Players are strong skaters and are among the league's best in shoveling snow, they fail miserably in their efforts to work up enthusiasm and high spirits, which are what the economy-battered fans at Honda Center are sorely in need of.
Thanks kindly for passing along our good words and kind wishes to Holly, Bodyslam. It's very appreciated.
Where is Christy Yamaguchi when you need her!
You mean Kristi, Bret Hedican's better half, or a similarly named female who may not even skate? http://kristiyamaguchi.com/''>http://kristiyamaguchi.com/' target="_blank">http://kristiyamaguchi.com/[/post]
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I just read the bio for Laura, one of the new Storm Squaddies. It says she was a 4 year member of the Iowa State dance team. It's like the solution has been hand delivered to the Storm Squad! Is there ANY REASON Laura could not teach the rest of the Storm Squad SOMETHING?! They've got a built in cheer coach, now all they need is someone to teach them to skate! There has to be more than the "rail sit"!!!
You know that gives me a crazy idea. How hard would be be to get a few decent figure skaters and come up with some kind of skating Laker girl rountine? Actual cheers on skates? Probably tough to pull off and actually look good. Does anyone in the league do this? Could be unique. Not that I don't like constantly coming up short on the cheap T shirt toss.
For what it's worth, I'm in no position to critique the Storm Squad for not skating during game breaks, since I myself don't skate. (Furthermore, I'd sell my soul to have a quarter of their looks.) As long as the young women on the crew are getting the home crowd revved up during games -- which, honestly, the Power Players need work on -- and representing themselves well away from RBC, they're doing their job just fine.
I believe the whole idea of this thread is that the Storm Squad is NOT revving up the crowd this season. They have basically done the same thing since their first season, but this year they're doing it even more lackluster. Back in the early 90's, I attended many University of North Dakota hockey games. During intermission, the cheerleaders(actual college hockey cheerleaders) would skate onto the ice(operative word SKATE) and perform and lead cheers. During the game they would be on the steps also leading and performing cheers. I've been watching the Storm Squad "railing sit" since their first year and can't believe no one in the organization thinks it's time for the Storm Squad to "rev' up their game.
It could be, BuffaloCanesFan, that the purpose of this individual squad isn't to do the rah-rah thing that college cheerleaders and song-squad members are known for. Just a thought, but you ought to call the member in the Canes' front office who works closest with the Storm Squad so you could share your comments and suggestions. At least you'll know you've made your voice known.
I know, on the other hand, that the Ducks' Power Players aren't meant to do the go-team-go cheerleader thing -- they 1) shovel snow during stoppages of play and 2) shoot T-shirts into the crowds during the "Bazooka Blast" gigs during each intermission. Period. (They also disappear totally from view during the game, which means they're far less accessible to fans at Ducks' games than the Storm Squad, who are in front of the crowd all game long. That's something to consider.)
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Reply #150 posted 07/20/19 4:06pm
violetcrush
^^^Yes, I don't think he was going to get married, but I think he wanted Susannah to stay, so he was doing the ring and the proposal, and flip-flopping, because he wanted her with him.
It's all in the song Forever In My Life, which he wrote for her.
endiadj
violetcrush said:
I think Prince wanted all of his women to stay! If he could've had them all stay in the same house and get along so he could bounce from room to room, he would've!😂 I don't believe for one second that Susannah was any more special than Jill, Denise, Sheila, the ex-wives or any of the other ladies. Maybe because she was Wendy's twin, maybe, maybe not.😑
endiadj said:
I think Prince wanted all of his women to stay! If he could've had them all stay in the same house and get along so he could bounce from room to room, he would've!😂 I don't believe for one second that Susannah was any more special than Jill, Denise, Sheila, the ex-wives or any of the other ladies. Maybe because she was Wendy's twin, maybe, maybe not.😑 [Edited 7/20/19 16:32pm]
I agree with you on the "Prince wanted all of his women to stay" idea. I'm sure he would have preferred to keep all of them around in some capacity, although for different reasons. I do think that Susannah had both the deeper emotional and physical connection with him - not that it made him stop bedding the pretty side chicks - he could not resist them, but I think he needed Susannah in his life more than the others.
Again, I always go back to the songs, and the ones we know are for her are some of his best love songs. Listen to Forever In My Life again while reading the lyrics. He pours his heart out in that song, and the words are intense.
There comes a time, in every man's life
When he get's tired of fooling around
Juggling hearts in a three ring circus
Someday will drive a body down to the ground
I never imagined that love would rain on me
And make me want to settle down
Baby it's true, I think I do
And I just want to tell you that I wanna with you (baby, if you do too)
And baby if you do too
Forever, forever, baby I want you forever
I want to keep you for the rest of my life (you can make right)
All that is wrong in my world (you are my saviour)
You can make right (you are my light)
You are my saviour, you are my light (Forever I want you in my life)
Forever I want you in my life
There comes a road in every man's journey (don't be afraid)
A road that he's afraid to walk on his own (I'm at that road)
I'm here to tell you that I'm at that road (I'd rather walk it with)
And I'd rather walk it (you than walk it alone)
With you than walk it alone (you are my future)
You are my hero, you are my future (no past)
When I am with you, I have no past
Oh baby my one and only desire (make this feeling last)
Is find some way in this dog gone world (sugar it's true)
To make this feeling last (I know I do)
Oh baby it's true, I know I do (to with you)
I'm sorry but that is one intense love song. SOOOOOO good!! With just that drum beat and acoustic guitar when he played it live....one of my favorites for sure.
OldFriends4Sal
The other thing I want to add and remind that there is no real jockeying for position...
But there is a contigent of Prince fans, generally female, that have a harem mentality when it comes to Prince. They have always lived vicariously through their favorite woman in Prince's life, and feed the frenzie and craziness.
#IDEFINEME #ALBUMSSTILLMATTER
A Liar Shall Not Tarry In My Presence
I will make you cyber shit in your pants!
What's the matter with your life
Is poverty bringing U down?
Is the mailman jerking U 'round?
Did he put your million dollar check
I didn't think so either, but I do believe he believed in it. Prince's musical life feed his personal life and his personal life fed his musical life. Post Purple Rain the Kid having learned from pain moved toward love 'Love is better than Sex....(Temptation) You have to want it for the right reason, and when you look at a large percentages of the songs via the Family, ATWIAD, Parade/Dream Factory, outtakes etc marrying, being in love, God love God, Heaven etc was very prominent even the whole premise of the movie UTCM was moving from a selfish love to a spiritual love, being transformed by love etc And I do believe he connected that aspect to Susannah, and it also was painted by the people in his camp
SoulAlive said:
I remember this tabloid article I think it was the National Enquirer or Star.Back then,I didn't believe that Prince was really gonna get married.He was too much of a player,lol.
Reply #155 posted 07/21/19 5:53am
^^^ Yes, I agree with those thoughts. I think he unexpectedly met someone who brought him to a deeper emotional place , and who inspired him in other ways beside just the physical, but the physical aspect was deeper too. Of course, he couldn't - or wouldn't - stop the "temptation" side of it, so inevitably the relationship failed.
I think his inability to stop the hook-ups with women was similar to his constant need to make new music. Well, that and a very strong libido
I agree. The 80s women at least, they all represented something Prince desired. Some maybe less/more romantic(or sexual) than others but I think if he could he would have had them all in the camp.
Deadflow3r
There was never an Allison Mack person in Prince's life that would keep all the other women in line. He was polygamous but clearly not into having a cult like group of woman that worshipped him morning, noon and night. Given how many woman on this very site who would have gladly jointed his cult, should he have whipped one up, that says something. He was nutty but not deranged.
There came a time when the risk of remaining tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin.
Deadflow3r said:
Prince was a “player” who was able - I’m sure with the help of his mangers - to keep the women separate. He usually had a “main girlfriend” with him in MN, and a few other “side” women in other locations. He was the equivalent of a cheating boyfriend or spouse. The lack of smart technology helped him keep things quiet. I think his m/o would have been much more difficult to manage today.
Reply #159 posted 07/30/19 11:29pm
It probably wouldn't matter today. People tend to not give a shit about non married cheating musicians unless it goes against their image.
But even Prince slowed down eventually. The days of him juggling several girlfriends were over when he passed.
A certain kind of mellow.
Mikado said:
Yes, of course. He was not in great health the last couple of years before he passed, although it seems, from that 2015 RS interview, that some of the old mindset was still there. The reporter described his flirtatious late night phone call with the young female singer Delilah - I think that is her name. He did tell the journalist he was celibate though.
Prince was also married twice, and it seems he was most likely not monogamous during the marriages. But yes, famous musicians seem to get a “pass” with the cheating thing whether married or not. I guess it’s just considered typical behavior, so there is usually no shock or uproar with fans.
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"When the three of us got in, I think it just made it that much sweeter. It was probably the first time we stopped lying to each other," he said. Theres always been a mutual admiration among La Russa, Cox and Torre, contemporaries who rank third, fourth and fifth, respectively, in all-time managerial wins. "I always felt like Joe was the best at teaching a team the right way to win and lose," said La Russa, who compiled 2,728 wins in 33 seasons with the Chicago White Sox, Oakland and St. Louis, behind only Connie Mack (3,731) and John McGraw (2,763). "A loss, they never made excuses. Just got beat." "But they won. They won a lot, and they never showed up the other side," La Russa said. "They never embarrassed you because they beat you, and I cant say the same for other teams and other managers." While Torre excelled as a player — in 1971 he won National League MVP honours with a signature season that included 230 hits and a .363 average, 97 runs, and 137 RBIs for the Cardinals — he became something special in the New York Yankees dugout. Despite mediocre stints managing the New York Mets, Atlanta and the Cardinals (five winning seasons in 15 years), Torre was hired by the Yankees prior to the 1996 season. "That was a good sign for me, trust me," said Torre, the only man to amass more than 2,000 hits (2,342) as a player and win more than 2,000 games (2,326) as a manager, according to STATS. "After youve been fired three times and then you get hired by the Yankees, that was a good sign. I figured it was all said and done by that point in time," he said. Ever the diplomat, Torre somehow managed to assuage the most demanding of owners in George Steinbrenner, maintaining his coolness amid all the Bronx craziness while keeping all those egos in check. The result: 10 division titles, six AL pennants and four World Series triumphs in 12 years as he helped restore the lustre to baseballs most successful franchise. Heady territory for a guy who never played in the Fall Classic. "It was magical. I never took it for granted," said Torre, who today serves as Major League Baseballs executive vice-president for baseball operations. "I just think its so important to respect this game, just the fact that you can leave your mark and possibly wind up in a place like this, even though thats not why you play the game. Its just been an amazing ride for me." La Russas teams finished first 12 times and won six pennants, and he was picked as Manager of the Year four times, finishing second in the voting five other times. He went to the World Series three straight years from 1988-90 and also lost in the 2004 World Series when his Cardinals were swept by the Boston Red Sox. That La Russa found success in the dugout and not as a player is not a surprise. He made his big league debut as a teenage infielder with the 1963 Kansas City Athletics and appeared in just 132 games over six seasons, hitting .199 with no home runs and seven RBIs. "How lousy I was, I was hoping the guy wouldnt call me in to play. Thats the truth," La Russa said. "Then I got to thinking, I cant make a living, so I went to law school." La Russa tried to finance his way through law school as a player-coach in the White Sox organization, and quickly learned there was a lot more to managing than simply making out a lineup card. That allowed La Russa the opportunity to question and second-guess and it all "got my fires going." After graduation, La Russa decided to see if he could manage in the minors to get the bug out, with the ultimate goal of becoming a lawyer. The White Sox gave him Double-A and Triple-A assignments, and he was hooked, becoming a devoted student of the game. 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With a man in his face, Jackson veered left of the lane and pulled up from about 10 feet to give Wisconsin the lead in a frenetic final minute. Nigel Hayes led Wisconsin with 14 points, while Sam Dekker added 11. Payne had 24 points. Travis Trice added 13 points for Michigan State, though Big Ten-leading scorer Gary Harris was held to six points on 3-of-20 shooting after being shadowed most of the afternoon by defensive specialist Josh Gasser. And yet Michigan State still had a chance late, even with guard Keith Appling sitting out a second straight game with a wrist injury. Harris long bucket with about 23 seconds left -- one of his few bright spots on the afternoon -- got the Spartans within three. Wisconsin had a chance to turn it into a two-possession game, but Ben Brust missed the front end of a 1-and-1. Michigan State secured the rebound and called timeout. Coach Tom Izzo drew up a play that ended up with Payne holding the ball. He had burned Wisconsinn much of the night on the inside.dddddddddddd This time Payne hit from the outside with 10 seconds left and the Badgers faithful thought they were witnessing another late collapse at home. The loss to Ohio State more than a week ago ended up about the same way. But Jackson, who has struggled much of the last month during Wisconsins stretch of losing five of six, came up big. He finished with eight assists and seven points, but had five turnovers. Wisconsin led by double-digits much of the second half. Things got shaky late. After two empty Wisconsin possessions, the Spartans raced down in transition and Trice hit a 3 from the wing to get within 55-52 with 1:43 left. They just couldnt break through in the end. A five-game winning streak over Wisconsin came to an end. Payne finished 9 of 16 from the field in his second game, and first start, since returning from a foot injury. Gasser finished with 11 points and six rebounds for the Badgers. His straightaway three with 6:33 left gave the Badgers a huge lift and a six-point lead that was slowly chipped away by the Spartans. But Gasser gave his team an ever bigger lift with his defence on the crafty Harris. The Badgers finished the first half on an 11-0 run to take a 30-22 lead at the break. A crowd overwhelmingly dressed in Wisconsin red groaned after Gasser came up holding his left arm after being whistled for a blocking foul. Jackson pulled up for a foul-line jumper in transition to get the crowd at the Kohl Center going into a fever pitch and a three-point lead. They eventually got to witness Wisconsins first home win since beating Illinois by 25 on Jan. 8. Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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Yes, Virginia, There is Life after the Breeders’ Cup
After basking in the gloaming of a reasonably successful Breeders’ Cup—one, however, that only firmed the penumbra position of real dirt racing in America—it was back to business as usual with a host of premature retirement announcements. Among them, lightly-raced synthetic sprinter Zensational who will stand for $25,000 at Hill ‘n’ Dale—exactly what the sport needs, another Unbridled’s Song son breeding! Conduit will race once more before standing stud in Japan, while Mastercraftsman will stand in Ireland.
Beyond the promised return next year of geldings Cloudy’s Knight, Presious Passion and Mine That Bird, I’m most looking forward to Summer Bird who should only ripen into a magnificent older dirt horse, the quality and quantity of which (not withstanding Curlin) has been severely lacking in recent years as so many 3-year-olds (Street Sense, Hard Spun, Big Brown, etc.) retired well before really proving themselves on the racetrack. Others returning include Cannonball who embarks on a Pacific Rim campaign, beginning in Hong Kong and then on to Australia, before heading back to Ascot next summer, and Rags to Riches’ half-brother Man of Iron who will aim for Dubai’s spring carnival.
Those fillies and mares retired or likely to be retired include Music Note, Cocoa Beach, Zenyatta, Ventura, and Seventh Street—but the good news is, in 2010, we will be able to enjoy the likes of Goldikova, Informed Decision, Sara Louise, Rainbow View, Dar Re Mi, and Rachel Alexandra (not to mention a Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs).
Sayonara, Azeri ($2.25 million), Magical Fantasy ($1.8 million), Lady Joanne ($1.6 million), Ginger Punch ($1.6 million) and Laragh ($850,000)—Japanese buyers raided the fall sales on Tuesday, coming away with all of the aforementioned G1 winners. They also acquired G1-placed Jardin and the unraced Loves Only Me, half-sister to European champion 2-year-old Rumplestiltskin, whose dam is a full-sister of Kingmambo, out of the champion Miesque. Talk about some nice bloodlines!
Among those who failed to meet their reserve at Fasig-Tipton were Diamondrella ($1.1 million) and Honey Ryder ($1.25 million), while those removed from the sale included recent G2 Raven Run winner Satans Quick Chick, G1-placed Silver Swallow, G1-placed Dubai Majesty, G1-placed Justwhistledixie, and Xtra Heat’s promising daughter Elusive Heat.
Finally, a plethora of analysis and commentary regarding the paramount issue du jour—who should be Horse of the Year—is out there, and you’ll find none better than those of Lisa Grimm (Superfecta), Teresa Genara (Brooklyn Backstretch), Gary West (West Points), Jeff Scott (The Saratogian) and, for historical perspective, Kevin Martin (Colin’s Ghost).
As I alluded to in a previous (albeit abbreviated) post, I (and other more highly-respected industry insiders) firmly believe this year deserves co-Horses of the Year, as both Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra are equally worthy. It's not like it hasn't happened before.
And don’t give me that bullshit about the Breeders’ Cup being the “World Championships” (it’s not—deal with it) or it “cheapening” the award by not selecting one over the other—this isn’t the damn electoral college or something equally profoundly important. It’s just a stupid award which, frankly, no one outside of the industry will even care about so why affect discord and hostility among what few fans remain? Let’s be adults, put aside our bias about the horses’ owners and their campaigns, and just celebrate two equally spectacular performances. Honestly, this sport does its damnest to piss people off on the smallest things rather than take on and fight the really important battles.
Posted by Valerie Grash on Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The breeding stock sales always make me feel a little sad--while we always know what's going on with the stallions and where they are, the mares just kind of disappear, and it's hard to get news of them. It's even worse when they head overseas.
But your last paragraph considerably brightened my spirits...would that such a thing were possible.
(and thanks for the link)
I don't understand your point in the last paragraph. Controversy and debate is what makes the world go around, especially in an endeavor as subjective as horse racing. Give the award to one or the other (personally, I couldn't really care less to whom because, as you say, it's just a stupid award), let the fans of the loser cry and vent and stomp their feet, and move on. Awarding it to both is a copout which accomplishes nothing. Maybe they should put them on skates and have a shootout to decide.
SaratogaSpa said...
The award is based on a tally of individual votes, so unless the voters collude beforehand or someone changes the voting process, I don't even know how you could engineer a "tie" vote.
Loved your comment - "...don’t give me that bullshit about the Breeders’ Cup being the “World Championships” (it’s not—deal with it)..." That it IS the "World Championship" is the core argument advanced by the Zenyatta over Rachel Alexandra crowd. The other side shoots back that one amazing race does not make a championship season.
But I don't agree that it's just a stupid award - it's in the records books - it becomes part of racing lore. It elevates one horse over the other in a very concrete way.
For that reason, and because both Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta had perfect, albeit very different, years, I agree that they should share it. If Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand could share an Oscar, Rachel and Zenyatta can share an Eclipse.
coeurdefer said...
Got a question. Certainly there is "life" after the BC, but is there life for a good to great horse after being sold to Japan?
And sorry, in this country barring a TC winner, the BC is of major importance for the industry and Eclipse/HOY honors...unless you are privy to some information that I am not or you are one of these anti-syn advocates. Yeah. You're right. RA is the better of the 2 horses, synthetics are ruining US racing and RA didn't show up because the trainer and connections properly managed the schedule for the complete racing calendar. Yeah, that's right and I'm gonna buy it hook, line and sinker! Sorry, I'm not biting. But keep trolling, you'll find many that devour the synthetic argument.
The greats do it any where, any time (yeah, I know about Z's scratch) and field or distance. RA took the early campaign...Z was managed for the calendar to the BC.
And yes, I do believe the BC is our championship race venue.
I agree that the Breeders' Cup is hardly perfect as a "World Championship." But it's the closest thing the sport has, and, in my opinion, to dismiss it as "bullshit" is to reward a dickhead like Jess Jackson who skipped it and deprived us all of the race we wanted to see for nothing other than his own selfish and egotistical purposes. She was too tired my tired (of hearing his crap) ass.
That post was pretty funny! I won't get into trainer styles (or horsemanship skills for that matter) with regard to RA and Z....but that was pretty funny!!!
Your observation re: "bullshit" is dead on. Thanks for the smile. And I think there are more issues facing RA than "just a bit tuckered" and surface concerns. But I don't pay the bills and the connections did what they thought was right...barring undisclosed illness for RA.
Thanks to RA, MTB, Summerbird and Z for a good year (thank God). As fans, a good year is worth the weight in gold for the horses involved in any HOY debate.
440yards said...
Here are the data:
Zenyatta beat more winners of grade I races (19 compared to Rachel Alexandra’s 12).
Zenyatta beat horses with more combined earnings than Rachel Alexandra.
Zenyatta showed up at the Breeder’s Cup and won the Classic for the first time in history.
Zenyatta is the only horse to have ever won two different Breeder’s Cup events.
Zenyatta has more earnings than Rachel Alexandra.
Last year, Jess Jackson campaigned Curlin to a second Horse of the Year title. Curlin ran a disappointing fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, but still won the title. I remember reading dozens of pieces advocating his case. They made the point that despite his fourth place finish (and perhaps declining form), he should win the title because Mr. Jackson kept him in training as a 4-year old instead of sending him to stud service. Additionally, he made the trip out west to race on a synthetic course when conventional dirt was clearly his best surface. It would have been a shame had he not received Horse of the Year honors.
Haven’t the Moss’ done the same thing? They have kept an excellent mare in training when, at the end of 2008, we already regarded her as one of the greatest mares of the decade. AND they entered her in the classic. Mr. Jackson, however, apparently learned nothing from last year’s experience. Sportsmanship is and has been a factor. Mr. and Mrs. Moss out sported Mr. Jackson.
My prediction – Zenyatta wins Horse of the Year.
Summer Bird is going to Japan later this month to compete in the Japan Dirt Cup! I love this horse.
Valerie Grash said...
I just wasted a good hour of my life composing a thoughtful counter-point argument to some of the comments made here, but then (and forgive me, sane commenters—ignore the sarcasm as it was not intended for you) I realized what level of intellect I was addressing, so here you go.
Yeah, a hockey shootout comparison when a player and goalie go mano-a-mano is comparable to voting for an award and co-winners “accomplishes nothing”—as if this is some life-and-death scenario where there must be ONLY ONE. And Jess Jackson’s a dickhead for, what, buying a filly from an ultra-conservative owner and setting her upon a campaign the likes of which is rarely if ever seen these days? The same guy that didn’t rush Curlin off to the breeding shed after his 3-year-old campaign as MANY others did and continue to do? The same dickhead who will race Rachel Alexandra NEXT year? Man, what an ass!
And, boy, I must be one of those anti-synthetic people because I don’t drink the Breeders’ Cup kool-aid about being the “World Championships”—it’s not just an entirely artificially-created moniker dreamt up by some public relations/consulting firm—an artificial construct, just like “Win and You’re In” (but only if your nomination fees were paid, and you still need to pay entry fees). Just because they say it is must make it so. And, god knows, we have to have ONE race decide a champion—a campaign that actually challenges the horse by running again and again vs. the best competition available is nonsense. Just manage to do the minimum possible until one race—well done! Let’s reward that conservative attitude!
Congratulations, Man of Iron! The best stayer on the planet! Yeats? Viewed? Who’s dat? Oh, THANK GOD we know now that Dancing in Silks is THE best sprinter in the WORLD?!? Where the hell has he been hiding? In non-graded stakes races restricted to California-breds? And Furthest Land is the BEST “DIRT” miler in the WORLD! In his last race on REAL DIRT, he finished fourth, over six lengths behind, a field of CLAIMING HORSES!! Oh, yeah, man! I’m chugging that freakin’ kool-aid now!
How did this blog entry become a referendum for or against synthetics, or a vehicle for folks who still want to propagandize Zenyatta’s “superiority” over Rachel Alexandra? Those “statistics” claiming Z’s superiority are not only arbitrary is their selections, but also completely without perspective:
“Zenyatta beat more winners of grade I races (19 compared to Rachel Alexandra’s 12)”—How many of those 19 and 12 were G1 winners this year? How would a 3-year-old filly run against more G1 winners as opposed to a 5-year-old mare racing against older horses? How many horses where actually in each field of each race?
“Zenyatta beat horses with more combined earnings than Rachel Alexandra”—same argument. Lifetime earnings or earnings this year? And how many of those were from one big overly-inflated purse?
“Zenyatta showed up at the Breeder’s Cup and won the Classic for the first time in history”—yes, she did.
“Zenyatta is the only horse to have ever won two different Breeder’s Cup events”—yes, she is.
“Zenyatta has more earnings than Rachel Alexandra”—ditto. $2.7 million is for one race. Otherwise, she earned $630,000 for 4 races this year. In 8 races Rachel earned just under $2.75 million.
You could just as provocatively argue that Rachel Alexandra ran on more tracks (7 vs. 3), in more states (6 vs. 1), and more times in open company (3 vs. 1). She also won by greater margins, in faster times and by setting more records. Yeah, ignoring those facts makes Zenyatta CLEARLY superior.
They are BOTH amazing horses!! Why are we fighting over this?!?
Valerie-I would argue some of us are not fighting over this:)
Most of us are in the same tent.
For what it is worth, I would lean towards RA slightly over Zenyatta for HOTY..but no matter what happens I hope it is not a Co-HOTY situation-I hope one wins outright over the other -because that will spur on even more debate from the losing side and more talk about this game we all love-through the winter and into 2010 (and beyond), which in the end is great for the game of horseracing.
I have to admit your post made me laugh – in a good way. How fortunate we are to be able to argue about two of the best horses many of us have ever seen. FYI – Zenyatta’s wins over grade 1 winners is for this year only (same as Rachel’s). Her win over horses with lifetime earnings is for this year only. AND Zenyatta posted a better equibase speed figure than Rachel Alexandra this year. Thanks for your blog; you do a great job.
C'mon Valerie, you know as well as I that the only reason Curlin wasn't retired after his three-year old season was because of the issues over the horse's ownership. Otherwise, he would have been off to stud faster than you can say Kendall-Jackson.
I'm not gonna weigh in on the Z vs. RA debate, but 440yards, you can't make the comparisons you just did between a 3 year old filly and a 5 year old mare.
Becky, what is wrong with 440yards comparisons? He made it clear that those stats are for this year. This year, Zenyatta beat more grade 1 winners of this year. This year, Zenyatta beat earners of more money this year.
the Source of the James said...
Maybe the BC Classic isn't the World Championships, but winning certainly doesn't hurt when it comes to world respect.
Check out the latest IFHA rankings...
http://www.horseracingintfed.com/resources/2009Rankings/2009_1108_WTR.asp
440yds:
Only ONE (1) of Zenyatta's 15 opponents in her first four races this year has won a graded stake THIS YEAR.
Zenyatta beat 8 winners of 2009 Grade 1 races. If someone one a G1 last year, or two years ago, and can't win a graded stake this year, do you think they're the same level of competition?
"If someone one a G1 last year, or two years ago, and can't win a graded stake this year, do you think they're the same level of competition?"
Maybe I'm missing the point, but that makes no sense at all.
Whatever the relative merits of the competition this year, Zenyatta proved in the Breeders Cup Classic that she could not only beat the same top horses that Rachael did, but that she could dominate them in a way that Rachael could not (in the Preakness at least where she only won by the skin of her teeth and Calvin Borel.
And we should never forget that while Zenyatta was putting everything on the line in one of the biggest races of the year, Rachael was back in the barn munching oats.
The bottom line is that Jess Jackson screwed the pooch by ducking the BC Classic, betting that
A... Zenyatta would not run in it and
B... that she would lose if she did.
He thought he had HoY and OoY locked up, so he stayed home.
Betcha he hasn't has a good nights sleep since.
440yards:
You're the one who brought up "number of G1 winners beaten." I'm only pointing out that beating a former great that's lost a step or two isn't the same as beating them at their peak. Looking at a horse's form from the current year compares Granny Smiths to Macintoshs rather than to Apple Butter.
You tried to make it sound like Zenyatta beat a stellar cast all year long, when in reality she beat a couple of has beens, some never will bes and her stablemate who was probably entered to disguise the lack of quality in those fields.
If your response is BC CLASSIC, BC CLASSIC, then let's hand the 3 year old championship to Mine That Bird, the winner of the biggest race for 3 year olds.
"If your response is BC CLASSIC, BC CLASSIC, then let's hand the 3 year old championship to Mine That Bird, the winner of the biggest race for 3 year olds."
Actually, had Mine That Bird not faded as the year progressed (probably as a result of the wear and tear of being the only horse gutsy enough to show up in the money for all three Triple Crown races), an argument could have been made for him, especially since he came within a nats hair of beating RA in the race of her life.
Still, while the Breeders Cup is not the end all be all, to throw it out entirely is just plain sour grapes.
The fact is, it was a magnificent race won by a magnificent horse and one that fans will be talking about for years to come.
I don't know how much clearer I can get. This year, Zenyatta beat horses, who this year, won a combined total of 19 grade I races, this year. They didn't win those races last year. They didn't win those races two years ago. They won those grade I races this year, and this year, Zenyatta beat them. Any questions?
440yards
Yes, I have another question. Where did you learn to add?
2009 G1 wins of Zenyatta opponents
Pre-BC
2 - Life is Sweet
2 - Einstein
4 - Gio Ponti
1 - Mine That Bird
1 - Richard's Kid
2 - Rip Van Winkle
3 - Summer Bird
1 - Twice Over
16 not 19.
If your numbers aren't correct, of course people assume you're counting things you claim not to be.
gpence61 said...
Is this the same Anonymous who said:
"440yds:
Only ONE (1) of Zenyatta's 15 opponents in her first four races this year has won a graded stake THIS YEAR."
Now you're saying it's 16?
Twice over won two grade I's this year, the Emirates Airline Champion Stakes and the Foundation Stakes. However, I was mistaken. Regal Ransom won the UAE Derby and the Superderby, both of which are grade II races, not grade I races. I apologize.
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Fire & Water Records – Billy Joel
Rob welcomes podcaster extraordinaire Tom Panarese to talk about the music of the Piano Man himself, Billy Joel!
Tom Panarese – https://popcultureaffidavit.com
http://www.fwpodcasts.com/rk/FWR-BJ.mp3
Tags: Billy Joel, Fire and Water Records, Music, Tom Panarese
26 responses to “Fire & Water Records – Billy Joel”
Kevin fron New Orleans says:
a few days ago another great piano player died Dr. John
Ryan Daly says:
Terrific episode, guys! Great topic and wonderful discussion.
I wasn’t a huge Billy Joel fan growing up; I was mostly just familiar with his big hits. Like Tom, I enjoy “We Didn’t Start the Fire” un-ironically, and also, like Tom, I never liked “Uptown Girl” except when Homer Simpson belts it out from the back of Martin Mull and George Carlin’s car.
However, about ten years ago I did a dive into all of his albums and built myself an iTunes playlist that was… (hang on, double-checking…) Wow, 34 songs deep! Most of them are of the Greatest Hits variety but there are a few deep cuts in there. Just about all the songs you guys brought up are on my list, except for “Vienna” and “Rosalinda’s Eyes”. I don’t remember those. I’ll have to go back and listen to them again.
My Top 5 Billy Joel playlist (in no particular order):
1. “Only the Good Die Young” – I can understand why some might think this song is too pop-like compared to some of his deeper, darker tunes, but I still dig it. Beyond the catchy quality, the lyrics have always resonated with me, reminding me of my good Catholic girlfriend from senior year of high school. I wouldn’t say the crowd I ran with was dangerous, per se, but “we might be laughing a bit too loud” indeed.
2. “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” – for all the reasons you guys said.
3. “The Longest Time” – yeah, it might be a cheesy do-wop song, but I love it. For a time, this was in the rotation of songs I would sing to my son to put him to sleep at night.
4. “The Entertainer” – for all the reasons you guys said.
5. “And So It Goes” – probably my favorite Billy Joel song, although whenever I hear the piano at the start of this song I’m reminded of “All I Know” by Art Garfunkel, which I like far, far, faaaarrr better. Maybe a dubious honor that my favorite Joel song reminds me of someone else’s better song. Oh well.
Tom has an open invitation to come on FWR whenever he wants to chat about anything he wants.
Sontaron says:
Where Bill Joel said his inspiration for Miami 2017 came from
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/president-ford-announces-won-bailout-nyc-1975-article-1.2405985?outputType=amp
Huh! News to me. Thanks!
It’s up there as one of my favorite Billy Joel songs. I even did some role playing sessions based on my thoughts on what that alternate universe would look like going from what the narrator in the song described and historical postulations.
Anj says:
Great episode. Joel was a unifier in the house, someone everyone liked, a record my parents and all my siblings could listen to without griping. That is amazing.
I’ll give my 5. But one isn’t a favorite song as much as a favorite family story. And while I love Joel, I will share the top 4 songs I lick of his to sing in the shower/karaoke. I guess that makes them my favorite.
1) You May be right – now I’m not the lunatic who gets drunk and drives a motorcycle in the rain, but I thought this song represented my trying to date in high school and college. A comic reading, D&D playing premed guy was a ‘lunatic’ in comparison to jocks, etc. I kept hoping that someone would think that it just may be a lunatic they were looking for.
2) She’s got a way – shows the breadth of his talent. Slow, piano love sing. Wonderful.
3) Pressure – a bit more rock, great psychedelic lyrics, and a great song when you are feeling pressure. Cathartic.
4) Don’t ask me why. – for all the reasons you say.
And then the story. I grew up in a pretty conservative Catholic house. As I said, Joel was a unifier. We listened to his albums a lot. Well, at some point my mother came up to me and said ‘do you know what ‘only the good die young’ is about?’ She used to sing it in the house all the time not realizing it was about a guy trying to convince a good girl to have sex. It must have hit her like a ton of bricks. ‘Well,’ she said. ‘We won’t be playing that song in this house anymore.’ She made us skip it! I love that story so much!
BTW, ‘Second Wind’ is my favorite late Joel song.
I love how, in the video for that song, Billy plays a few notes on the harp from “Piano Man.”
Neil Daly says:
Wow, this is the podcast i never knew how much i needed! I’m so relieved to hear someone else dissect Billy Joel’s lyrics and break down his songs the way that Ryan and I do. I’ve always heard the underlying sadness in his words and themes, masquerading as uptempo pop tunes. But had trouble convincing anyone else (then again, my problem may have been trying to discuss it with Long Islanders).
Example? Sure. In 2004, i got married in an epic Italian Long Island ceremony. And as you can imagine, Billy Joel was a recurring prerequisite for the reception; culminating in “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” when all 200 attendees literally stopped every conversation mid-sentence and rushed the dance floor to “air piano” and sing. But as fun as it was, I couldn’t escape the haunting feeling that the song’s lyrics would doom my marriage (it did, by the way). When i mentioned it to my then-wife Tina (or Teen-er, as it’s pronounced on the LIRR), she had no idea what i was talking about. So i roped in some other members of my new NY family. And they seemed just as lost. Confused, i reminded them that they all sang every single word of the song just an hour ago so how did they NOT know that Brenda & Eddie got divorced? I mean, we all just waved goodbye to them..?
And then it dawned on me. They weren’t musical snobs like my brother and i. They can memorize lyrics simply by repetition (think hooked-on-phonics) without ever considering what it was that they were saying. Because it wasn’t important to them. So I brought up others like “Summer Highland Falls” (my personal fave BJ song) and “I’ve Loved These Days” and again… crickets. It had never occurred to them how sad the lyrics really are. “He’s just friggin’ awesome” is all they’d say! And to a certain degree, they’re right. He is. But for me personally, I always wanted to know more and dig deeper and experience the hopes and dreams, highs and lows, heartaches and heartbreaks of the writer. So you guys did what i’ve been waiting for someone to do with Billy Joel for a long time.
Needless to say, Teener and Neil went the way of Brender and Eddie. But thanks to her and my time spent on Long Island, I’ll always have a ton of Billy Joel memories, from backyard BBQ karaoke parties to seeing him perform at Madison Square Garden. Ironically, one of my closest musician friends is now NY/NJ’s premiere Billy Joel tribute act, “Captain Jack” (shameless plug for a friend)! Anyway, your podcast stirred up all kinds of great memories and has me primed to revisit my Billy Joel playlist for some new insights. So thanks guys for the great show. Looking forward to more…
Jack Bohn says:
Partway through the episode, and had to beat Chris Franklin to saying noted art connoisseur Vincent Price curated the paintings sold by Sears.
Among my top 5 would be “Just the Way You Are” for its sound, which the Internet tells me borrows the tape loop voice machine fron 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love. ” “Innocent Man,” and “River of Dreams. “
Chris Franklin says:
I heard “Just the Way You Are” on the radio on my way to work today, and I noted that 10CC connection.
And yes, you beat me to the Vincent Price bit! Good show!
Fantastic show, fellas. I am a passing Joel fan. Like the hits, never owned an album. But he’s pretty much everywhere. His videos were always entertaining back in the day, and although most probably don’t hold up now (very few music videos do), at the time they were normally inventive and worth watching.
And yes, as a kid, I loved “Uptown Girl”. The video was fun. And Christie Brinkley! I didn’t realize it was “lame” until that Simpsons episode you guys mention.
I didn’t realize he hasn’t produced an album since “River of Dreams”. I really dug that title track, with it’s “In the Jungle” type beat and lyrics, but much deeper spiritual meaning.
Oh, and one more comic connection. In the video for “A Matter of Trust”, the building Joel and his band are playing in has some kind of poster with a John Romita Spider-Man on it. I caught that at the time, and it still sticks with me.
Mike Deines says:
Thanks for a entertaining episode! I’ve always been a passing fan of Billy Joel. I knew some of his hits and enjoyed them, but never followed that up with a deeper dive. So I really enjoyed this episode which gave me a larger appreciation of some of his other songs. Special of note is Summerland, Highland Falls, which I never heard before but it hit me like a ton of bricks listening to it on this episode. So much so that it gave me goosebumps! Thanks for a new favourite song to listen to! Keep up the great work and I can’t wait to hear what artist is next,
I forgot to mention my one main memory of Billy Joel is when I was about 6 or 7 and seeing my older brother play Glass Houses over and over again. He really loved that album and I thought the cover looked neat.
roger priebe says:
this is a true story from my youth.
I had to be under 10 listening to billy joel, he was all over the radio. you could not get away from him.
the song “big shot” with these lyrics:
You had the Dom Perignon in your hand
And the spoon up your nose
i just remember thinking, why would anyone have a spoon up their nose????
it just didn’t make any sense to me…..lol
i have since then figured it out.
and a message to pan pan, if you want to one of these about bruce, let me know!!!!
Paul Hix says:
I was a huge Billy Joel fan in the 70’s and 80’s, bought all the albums from The Nylon Curtain onward, plus backward. Saw him live on the An Innocent Man tour etc.
I think around the early 90’s I had put too much of his music in my ears. I just became tired of the whole catalogue and need a break.
That break lasted till 2018. Finally dig out the CDs and put them back into my phone’s rotation.
So this episode is excellent and timely.
Fave album is Nylon Curtain, top 5 songs are:
All for Leyna
Goodnight Saigon
Also, if I ever create a comic, the villain organisation will be Space Monkey Mafia.
My two favorite albums are
Storm Front and КОНЦЕРТ
Top fav songs in no order
Scandinavian Skies
The Downeaster ‘Alexa’ and / or Leningrad
Billy right now is tied with Gaelic Storm as who I have seen in concert the most.
GAELIC STORM!!! I didn’t think anybody else had heard of them.
I originally saw then in D.C. but they go to the Dayton Ohio Celtic Festival quite often. And it appears they will be there this year. (unfortunately I’ll be in Denmark). I have a few autographed CD’s of their’s.
http://www.daytoncelticfestival.com/
there’s a storm brewing…
Pointless Ephemera says:
Thanks for this guys – absolutely loved this.
My parents had the cassette of An Innocent Man and played it a lot through the mid-80s – it’s probably still my favourite of his albums.
Then I took the cassette with me to university in ‘93 and despite Britpop and Cool Britannia, I ended up as a big fan – bought all of his albums on CD or cassette except for Streetlife Serenade.
Needless to say, my enthusiasm got a lot of sarcastic comments, but I never even pretended to be cool. My enthusiasm has waxed and waned over the years, but this episode was, as Shag says, an example of finding my joy. Particularly liked how enthusiastic you were for Songs from the Attic – listened to it again today, as I’d forgotten how good it is.
My top 5 varies, but at the moment they are:
– Big Shot
– Uptown Girl (I don’t care how cheesy people think it is)
– Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
– All for Layla
– Miami 2017
I like Billy Joel alright– as much as the next guy, so long as the next guy isn’t a fellow commenter here. I feel like Joel doesn’t get a lot of credit because he’s a regular guy. I mean, he’s a middle class, middlebrow, straight Italian white dude who grew up listening to the Rat Pack and only the lightest complected doo-wop/rock/etc. He’s therefore not gay, perpetually looks like someone’s befuddled dad, is as eager to please as an attention starved puppy, owes no exceptional debt of influence to artists of color, had the unmitigated gall to cheat on Christie Brinkley, and was in no way out of place voicing/performing for a Disney cartoon. Plus, his instrument of choice is a piano, and only angry alterna-chicks get street cred for tickling the ivories.
If Paul Pfeiffer grew up to become Marilyn Manson, Kevin Arnold is Billy Joel. He may help you get laid, but you won’t actually do the business to a Billy Joel soundtrack and successfully maintain an erection. He’s talented, certainly, but he’s never cool, absolutely. Arguably the living embodiment of adult contemporary in the 1980s.
“You May Be Right,” “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me,” “Big Shot,” “My Life,” and “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” are the least embarrassing for me to be caught listening to. Garth Brooks’ “Shameless” is so much better that Joel’s sounds like the halfhearted cover. I mostly only like “Modern Woman” because of Ruthless People, which I haven’t seen since before Chad Bokelman was born. You guys keep bringing up “A Matter of Trust” and it just makes me wish for a Depeche Mode episode.
Great show Team!
Billy Joel was my first ever concert, with my Mom and brother, stepdad (before he became my stepdad) and his kids on the Bridge Tour in 1986.
Since then, I’ve seen him 4-5 times, second only to Eric Clapton (another time, another place).
My goodnight rocking chair song for my oldest was “Lullabye” and still tugs at my heartstrings. No matter how old she gets, that song will always put my Baby Amanda in my arms.
But enough reflection.
MY 5 Billy Joel songs are:
2000 Years
The Stranger (I’d whistle this anywhere and everywhere throughout my high school years)
Angry Young Man
Leningrad – I grew up in that Cold War fear, so this one was really poignant to me, especially coupled with the TV special that took us with Billy and family into the heart of Russia.
Ward Hill Terry says:
I enjoyed this more than I expected to! I have kind of a knee-jerk reaction to Billy Joel and his music. There’s a resentment from 13-year-old-me against my big sister playing his albums (52nd Street, Glass Houses) over and over. There’s the annoyance/jealousy of the (Long Island) guy in college who played nothing but Joel on the piano in the Student Union. There’s also the over-saturation of so many of his records. As an older man, I have gotten over my teen angst with me sister, and I greatly admire my fellow alum who entertains many people playing Billy Joel songs on his piano! I can even enjoy some Joel hits for nostalgia sake, but I’m not a fan of his music. I am a fan of his musicianship, though! When I do listen to those records, I not only like his piano-playing, but also the arrangements and instrumentations. I also like hearing “back-stage” stories. I heard an interview Joel had with Alec Baldwin on the latter’s NPR show. It was a fascinating perspective, as the host could ask questions as a peer. How one deals with fame, how one has a celebrity marriage, etc. Joel was quite candid and very interesting!
Finally, I want to share this with you. I play in a rock band. We have a new song in our repertoire called “My Baby Like To Rock.” In the bridge the singer sings a list of bands that his baby likes. When we first started learning it, we observed that “list” section was quite similar to “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” So, the writer made an adjustment, and now the bridge ends with: “Nick Lowe, XTC, Buzzcocks, DMZ,
Black Lips, Plimsouls, (She hates Billy Joel!)”
The lyrics in parentheses are sung (shouted) by the whole band. Rob and Tom, if we record this, I’ll let you know!
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Tuesday's Broadcast Ratings: NBC, "This Is Us" Stay on Top in Demos
Primetime Preliminary Fast National Nielsen Data
(includes all DVR playback through 3:00 am)
Here are the highlights of the 15 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast networks last night (10/15/19):
NBC (6.424 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.2, #1) was the demo champ on Tuesday thanks to its trio of "The Voice" (7.587 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.3, #2), "This Is Us" (6.706 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 1.5, #1) and "New Amsterdam" (4.979 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.8, #T6).
The silver then went to CBS (8.647 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 0.9, #2) with its drama lineup of "NCIS" (10.606 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.1, #T3), "FBI" (8.714 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 0.9, #5) and "NCIS: New Orleans" (6.620 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T8).
Next up was FOX (3.244 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.8, #3) with fresh installments from "The Resident" (3.696 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T8) and "Empire" (2.792 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.8, #T6).
Meanwhile, ABC (3.276 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 0.7, #4) offered up originals from "The Conners" (5.439 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 1.1, #T3), "Bless This Mess" (3.410 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T8), "Mixed-ish" (2.804 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T8), "Black-ish" (2.607 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.6, #12) and "Emergence" (2.696 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T13).
And finally, a new "The Flash" (1.281 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T13) and the return of "Arrow" (0.869 million viewers, #15; adults 18-49: 0.3, #15) rounded out the night on The CW (1.075 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.4, #5).
Week-to-week changes (adults 18-49):
+12.50% - FBI
0.00% - NCIS
0.00% - The Conners
0.00% - New Amsterdam
0.00% - Empire
0.00% - NCIS: New Orleans
0.00% - The Resident
0.00% - Mixed-ish
0.00% - Emergence
-6.25% - This Is Us
-12.50% - Bless This Mess
-13.33% - The Voice
-14.29% - Black-ish
-16.67% - The Flash
Year-to-year changes (adults 18-49):
+16.67% - The Resident (vs. The Gifted)
+14.29% - Empire (vs. Lethal Weapon)
0.00% - Arrow (vs. Black Lightning)
-8.33% - NCIS
-10.00% - FBI
-12.50% - NCIS: New Orleans
-31.82% - This Is Us
-33.33% - New Amsterdam
-36.36% - Mixed-ish (vs. Black-ish)
-40.00% - Black-ish (vs. Splitting Up Together)
-50.00% - Emergence (vs. The Rookie)
-50.00% - Bless This Mess (vs. The Kids Are Alright)
-52.17% - The Conners
In late-night metered market ratings (via NBC's press release):
Here are the highlights of the 15 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast networks one year ago (10/16/18):
NBC (8.020 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.7, #1) held off the demo competition on Tuesday with originals from "The Voice" (8.818 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 1.7, #3), "This Is Us" (8.863 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 2.2, #2) and "New Amsterdam" (6.380 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 1.2, #T5).
ABC (6.014 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.3, #2) then scored the silver with the debut of "The Conners" (10.500 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 2.3, #1), "The Kids Are Alright" (6.576 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 1.4, #4), "Black-ish" (4.531 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 1.1, #7), "Splitting Up Together" (3.725 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T8) and "The Rookie" (5.377 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T8).
Next up was CBS (9.489 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.0, #3) and its trio of "NCIS" (11.700 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.2, #T5), "FBI" (9.390 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.0, #T8) and "NCIS: New Orleans" (7.376 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 0.8, #11).
Meanwhile, FOX (2.428 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.6, #4) offered up fresh installments of "The Gifted" (1.946 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T13) and "Lethal Weapon" (2.910 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.7, #12).
And finally, new episodes of "The Flash" (1.636 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T13) and "Black Lightning" (1.036 million viewers, #15; adults 18-49: 0.3, #15) on The CW (1.336 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.5, #5) rounded out the evening.
0.00% - FBI
0.00% - Lethal Weapon
-5.56% - The Voice
-14.29% - NCIS
-14.29% - The Gifted
-25.00% - Black Lightning
+76.92% - The Conners (vs. The Middle)
+27.27% - The Kids Are Alright (vs. Fresh Off the Boat)
+25.00% - The Rookie (vs. Kevin (Probably) Saves the World)
+25.00% - Splitting Up Together (vs. The Mayor)
+9.09% - New Amsterdam (vs. Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders)
0.00% - Lethal Weapon (vs. The Mick/Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
-8.33% - Black-ish
-16.67% - FBI (vs. Bull)
-33.33% - The Gifted (vs. Lethal Weapon)
-40.00% - Black Lightning (vs. DC's Legends of Tomorrow)
· In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 1.7/5 with an encore telecast; "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," 2.8/7; and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.7/5.
· In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 0.5/3 with an encore; "Late Show," 0.4/2; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.4/3.
· From 12:35-1:05 a.m. ET, ABC's "Nightline" averaged a 1.1/4 in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in 18-49 in the Local People Meters.
· From 12:35-1:35 a.m. ET, ratings were: "Late Night with Seth Meyers," 0.9/4 in metered-market households with an encore; CBS's "Late Late Show," 1.2/4. In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, averages were: "Late Night," 0.3/3 in 18-49 with an encore; "Late Late Show," 0.2/2.
· At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.7/3 in metered-market households with an encore and a 0.2/3 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
[october 2019]
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Home Research > Members > 1509-1558 > NORTH, Roger (1531-1600)
NORTH, Roger (1531-1600), of Kirtling, Cambs. and Mildenhall, Suff.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE1
b. 27 Feb. 1531, 1st s. of Edward North, 1st Lord North, by 1st w. Alice, da. of Oliver Squire of Southby, Hants. educ. ?Peterhouse, Camb. m. c.1547, Winifred, da. of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, wid. of Sir Henry Dudley, 3s. inc. Henry† and John† 1da. KB 15 Jan. 1559; suc. fa. as 2nd Lord North 31 Dec. 1564. Kt. banneret 1586.2
Member of Queen’s chamber 1558; j.p. Cambs. 1558/59-d., Suff. and I. o. Ely 1579-d., Mdx. 1591; alderman, Cambridge 1568, high steward 1572; ambassador to Vienna 1568, France 1574; ld. lt. Cambs. 1569; commr. musters 1569; trier of petitions in the Lords, Parlts. of 1571, 1572, 1584, 1597; steward, duchy of Lancaster, Cambs., Norf. and Suff. 1572; custos rot. Cambs 1573/74-?d.; gov. Flushing June 1586, Utrecht and Harlingen July 1586; PC and treasurer of the Household Aug. 1596.3
Roger North was born in the same year that his father became clerk of the Parliaments. Little information survives about his boyhood and youth. He may have been a student of Peterhouse like his brother Thomas, the translator of Plutarch, but his admission to Gray’s Inn in 1561 was probably honorary. The generally accepted date for his marriage is an error arising out of a confusion between two Henry Dudleys, both sons of the Duke of Northumberland. One died in 1544, the other in 1557; all North’s children were born by 1556. Young North excelled at tilting, and at one tournament Princess Elizabeth rewarded him with a scarf of red silk, a token which figures proudly in a fine contemporary portrait. He became a member of Elizabeth’s Household upon her accession and was created knight of the Bath at her coronation.4
Doubtless his father’s prestige and influence procured North’s first election to Parliament in 1555 at the age of 24,when he was returned as senior knight of the shire for the county of Cambridge. Despite his father’s standing at court, North voted against a government bill and his absence from the next Parliament may be attributable to this opposition. His Protestantism later took a Puritan form. In later life he was to remain an active magistrate in Cambridgeshire, and to become high steward of the borough, while winning national fame at court and on the battlefield. He died on 3 Dec. 1600.5
Author: T. M. Hofmann
1. Did not serve for the full duration of the Parliament.
2. Date of birth recorded by father, EHR, xxxvii. 566. DNB; CP, ix. 652-3, 726n.
3. Lansd. 3, f. 193; CSP For. 1572-4, pp. 560-2; CSP Ven. 1558-80, pp. 520-1; LJ, i. 667, 703; ii. 62, 191; Somerville, Duchy, i. 595; CPR, 1560-3, p. 435; 1563-6, pp. 20, 123; SP12/59, f. 190v; Al. Cant. i(3), 266; Cambridge Chs. ed. Maitland and Bateson, 103.
4. Biog. Reg. Peterhouse, i. 228; LP Hen. VIII, xx; EHR, xxxvii. 565-6; F. Bushby, Three Men of the Tudor Time, 45n.
5. Guildford mus. Loseley 1331/2; Cam. Misc. ix(3), 24.
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Worst & Best I’m Alan Partridge Episodes/List
Genre: British Sitcom
First Transmission: 1997-2002
Channel: BBC
I’m Alan Partridge was created and written by Peter Baynham, Steve Coogan and Armando Iannucci.
The series follows Alan Partridge, a failed television presenter whose previous exploits featured in the chat-show parody “Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge,” and who is now presenting a programme on local radio in Norwich.
It has been well received by both critics and fans, and was nominated for three BAFTAs.
Steve Coogan: Alan Partridge
Felicity Montagu: Lynn Benfield
To Kill a Mocking Alan – Alan hosts an Afternoon With – session at the hotel, hoping to win a contract from two visiting Irish television executives. Also present is Jed Maxwell, Alan’s biggest fan, and Alan takes the Irishmen back to Jed’s place to give them the impression that he has a permanent home. Alan’s ignorant view of Irish history cuts no ice and he soon finds himself alone with the very strange Jed, who has not only made a room in his home a shrine to his hero, but had his face tattooed on his chest. Alan flees in terror.
I Know What Alan Did Last summer – After telling his Ukrainian girlfriend that he is a good friend of U2’s singer, Bono, she insists on meeting him. Meanwhile, two tax inspectors come to see Alan and he’s rather nervous.
Series One
A Room with an Alan (1997) –
Alan’s wife Carol has kicked him out and now he is living at Linton Travel Tavern, a hotel near the A11.
Alan Attraction (1997) –
Alan fires the staff at his production company as he has not secured a second series of his programme.
Watership Alan (1997) –
Alan becomes an object of hatred for local farmers when he makes various unsympathetic comments about farming on his radio show.
Basic Alan (1997) –
Alan is now the only guest at the hotel as it is closed for refurbishments.
To Kill a Mocking Alan (1997) –
Alan hosts “An Afternoon with Alan Partridge” at the hotel which is attended by his self-confessed “biggest fan”, Jed Maxwell, who is also a raving mentalist.
Towering Alan (1997) –
Alan is delighted to discover that Tony has died and his successor, Chris Feather, always liked him and might give him a second series.
The Talented Mr Alan (2002) –
Five years have passed and Alan is back on local radio following a nervous breakdown and being fired by the BBC. Now he lives in a caravan with his Ukrainian girlfriend, Sonja, while his dream house is being built,
The Colour of Alan (2002) –
Alan is asked to host a sales conference for a firm making coal-effect fires and then later pierces his foot on a spiked fence.
Brave alan (2002) –
Through his new friend Dan Moody, who owns Kitchen Planet, Alan is invited to make a presentation at the Colmans Mustard Bravery Awards.
Never Say Alan Again (2002) –
Alan decides to have a marathon James Bond watching session.
I Know What Alan Did Last Summer (2002) –
Alan has a nervous meeting with some tax inspectors.
Alan Wide Shut (2002) –
Alan’s house is finally ready and he gives the builders each a present – a copy of his poorly-selling book, ‘Bouncing Back.’
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All that [[Whatsit]] does is state the apparences. (Like the apparences section doesn't do a good enough job.) I think it should be taken off the featured article nomination list. {{User:DrPepper42/sig}} 00:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
:Nah, we never really remove noms from this page. I don't even use it, really, except occasionally to view a list of articles people have named as possibilities. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 01:37, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
::Also, I disagree with your assessment of the article. Some amount of summary of the list of appearances is desirable, as it's one of the only ways to avoid an [[HRW:OA|"often appears"]]-style article. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 01:46, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
:::Im just saying, the only other thing is this sentence: Whatsit is a name for the commodity that [[The Poopsmith]] shovels, also known as You-Know-What and [[crap]].
::::Do you want a complete explanation of what fecal matter is? {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 13:43, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
:::::No, I'm saying we should say what we should maybe include something else, or move to Pile of Whatsit and add more info for it to be ready to be featured. {{User:DrPepper42/sig}} 14:48, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
== [[Biz Cas Fri]] ==
I know we don't really remove articles from this, but I think we should make an exception in this case. It's a disambig page! {{User:Theycallmefree/sig}} 19:02, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
== Point ==
What exactly is the point of this page? We could easily put every page on the Wiki on this page. And also, the list is outdated (none of the entries after Week 3 have been bolded). [[User:RickTommy|RickTommy]] 07:08, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
:I'm not thoroughly convinced we need this page anymore, but it certainly isn't hurting anything to keep it around. It does have the potential for people to use it to get ideas for articles to suggest at FAS (not that I myself use it that way). {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 08:43, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
::I disagree. At the very least, this page can be used to keep track of what has been featured before (and I have used it before making a suggestion to verify that my suggestion hasn't already been featured). So, as long as it's kept up regularly I think it's very much of use. --[[User:Stux|Stux]] 14:07, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Current revision as of 14:07, 13 March 2010
1 Criteria
2 Alternate Nominations
3 Early Chaos
4 I'm listening
5 Next Week
6 Week 28
7 Top Disclaimer
8 Chosen Articles?
9 Emails
10 Nominating
11 What's Her Face
12 What do we use this page for?
13 Early nomination
14 Strong Bad's Mask vs Homestar's Pants.
15 Whatsit?
16 Biz Cas Fri
[edit] Criteria
I was just looking on Wikipedia, and thought it might be interesting to show their criteria for nominating an article. I'm not saying this has to be exactly followed or anything, but I think in any case it's a good thing to think about when selecting an article for nomination:
Exemplify HRWiki's very best work. Represent what HRWiki offers that is unique on the Internet.
I think that's the same here.
Be Comprehensive: Covers the topic in its entirety; does not omit any major facts or details.
Again, I think this is good criteria
Be Accurate: Supports facts with specifics and external citations. Includes references, arranged in a ==References== section and enhanced by the appropriate use of inline citations.
Not as important, but is something good to think about.
Be Stable: Should be mostly static, and not change rapidly from day to day.
Since most of our articles are in constant flux, I don't think this is strictly true. But if an article has a definite finishing point, it might be best to wait until that is reached.
Be Well-written: Compelling, even "brilliant" prose—the former name for featured articles.
Again, quite true.
Be uncontroversial in its neutrality and factual accuracy, and not have ongoing edit wars.
That means no featuring 'STUFF', heh heh. But seriously, again quite applicible.
Comply with all of our standards.
We have a good team who ensure all our pages are standardized. But still something to think about.
Have images where appropriate, with good captions. However, an article does not have to have a picture to be featured.
Most of our articles have very good pictures, I don't think it's something to worry about too much.
Have an appropriate length. It should stay tightly-focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail. However, excellent short articles are also accepted.
This is an important one for our wiki. Since ours are week long articles, long ones are probably a better choice.
And of course, criteria limited to our wiki, generally it's also good to pick less than obvious articles, which means probably not specific toons, specifically, as a general rule.
This isn't Wikipedia, so there are some instances where these rules can be bent. But all in all, it's good to keep in mind. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 04:42, 19 Jul 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Alternate Nominations
I'm new to hrwiki, and the articles that I find most interesting are the analysis of character dialogue (such as Homsar's speech patterns) and the running word gags. I nominated a few that I find myself returning to frequently after viewing HR toons. The character pages are not nearly as thorough, interesting, or educational. I would never have known what a "word salad" or "portmanteaus" without these pages.
Hello! Thanks for your noms, and thanks for reading. We'll certainly consider them. —BazookaJoe 23:40, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Early Chaos
So how do these work? Do people just nominate, and our proprietor decides? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 04:18, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering that myself, mostly because I don't understand why stuff like the Floppy Disk page is getting overlooked in favor of shorter articles with very little content. (My picks include: Strong Bad Email, Strong Bad Email Statistics, Stinkoman Enemies, Floppy Disk Container, Halloween Costumes, Original Book) Aurora the Homestar Coder 04:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Yea, I'm kinda miffed about Schenectady Crispies. If the page is gonna be around for a whole week, I'd think it'd be big enough to browse for some time. I don't want to see a whole 'nother STUFF, but I think discussion between a few folks, maybe just the sysops or something would be kinda cool. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 04:47, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
I think Schenectady Crispies is a strange pick too, and I have to question Homeschool Winner as the third featured article. It's something that only a few "hardcore" fans have interest in, it's not even on the official site (except for the Dancin' Bubs background). Aurora the Homestar Coder 04:56, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
Personally, I think that it would be better to nominate articles that are lesser known, i.e. smaller characters, different locations or objects. Personally I would think that nominating Strong Bad emails wouldnt be quite as useful, as they already see a lot of pageage. But thats just me -- Tony Stony 01:07, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
Lesser known, yes. But I think large lesser known pages would be most useful, In My Humble Opinion. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 05:39, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
I think the point is just for the article to be a really good, thorough oneEDSMILDE
[edit] I'm listening
Sorry for kinda doing my own thing here. I'm usually very hip to the wiki way, but I guess I got a bit carried away with this thing. Know that I meant no harm. I figured I would just do my own thing until somebody else stepped in and suggested a better way. You guys have got my undivided attention. I've pulled out the featured pages that have been frowned upon, and am open to suggestions on a new nomination process. I don't want this to turn into another STUFF, but I do feel we should have some organized way to discuss articles that have been nominated and come to a consensus about whether they should really be featured or not. — Joey (talk·edits) 14:37, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Thanks Joey, I didn't mean to sound mutinous or anything before, I really was just curious. Anyways, I think I already said it before, but I figure that as long as they're up for a week, they should be fairly large pages, to give users a week's worth of browsing/exploring and whatnot. Lesser-known pages are also good, since it may be harder for users to find them (not specific toons or emails, more 'supplementary information', e.g. Floppy Disk Container, Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters, ect). But that's my general opinion. I do appreciate your giving 'Schenectady Crispies' the boot (among others), that coulda been one looooong week... ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 00:17, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Pages like Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters would be hard to put in a summary for the Main Page, though. Though I don't think we should really limit it to just us, but a sysop decission would probably be best, to keep it from being another STUFF. —FireBird|Talk 20:10, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Actually, since each article is just a synopsis about the article, I'm sure we would be able to summarize the page information for such pages as Minor Teen Girl Squad Characters and Floppy Disk Container into an article about them. I could probably figure something out, if such pages are chosen. But yea, we should probably figure out some kind of system for choosing them. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 21:40, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
With only six days remaining with which to choose a new feature article, I think we need to decide some kind of meathod of deciding on it... Right? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 18:55, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I brought this up over on Da Basement and Firebird suggested, essentially, that the sysops make nominations (based on the nomination page, I suppose) and then they get decided on. I guess this could happen on Da Basement... Homestar Coder 19:55, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Next Week
Okay, it's Friday night. What's going to be the featured article for next week? --ColorPrinter 00:00, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)
Hello? Is anyone reading this? How about TGS? --ColorPrinter 00:45, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Week 28
I noticed that there is not featured article for week 28 and time is running out. I will most likely pick Teen Girl Squad if there are no objections and no one else steps in with another candidate. After all, it's better than having a big empty space on the left-hand side of the main page! —THE PAPER PREEEOW 21:03, 10 Jul 2005 (UTC)
The featured article choices have moved to Da Basement, at least for the time being. Homestar Coder 21:59, 10 Jul 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Top Disclaimer
If we leave already selected nominations as just struck out on the list, do we need to suggest at the top that users check the Featured Articles Page as well? ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 00:14, 20 Jul 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Chosen Articles?
How are articles chosen to be on the main page? Is it when someone clicks on an article on that page, it get's a vote, or does a worker of HRwiki choose?
Cheddarlebbon
Thunderbird Choose most of the articles, but also take advise from the ones listed here and from other users. — Elcool (talk)(contribs) 19:45, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I was just looking for this myself and I found it, so I thought I should post it here -- not necessarily in reply to E.L. Cool, but simply so others can find it if they see this. Featured articles are discussed and selected at HRWiki:Featured article selection. You can also use the HRWiki:FAS shortcut to get there. — Joey (talk·edits) 23:13, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Emails
I'm seeing a lot of emails build up at the bottom. I really don't think an email (other than flashback) should be a featured article. --Dacheatbot · Communicate 01:48, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
alternate universe might be nice, too. And others have pivotal parts. Emails are a key element of the site, and at least a few should be featured someday. None have as of yet, though. --DorianGray
Maybe An Email That Created A Main/Minor Character Should Be There Too (aka homsar, etc). - Homsar7(Hom · Sar)
[edit] Nominating
I think Stinkoman 20X6 should be a featured article. I mean, seriously! It's the biggest progect that The Brothers Chaps ever made! --Homestar Cheetah
I think we're waiting 'til level 10 is released. --DorianGray
I like that idea, except we should probably wait until it's finished. It shouldn't be too long. - The Joe(Talk) 21:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What's Her Face
I think What's Her Face is an interesting article, or any of the TGS Main Characters. And, in order to save space, I'll also push for Taranchula. I think their page has gotten big enough to be featured.
[edit] What do we use this page for?
I've been thinking lately about how I never actually use this page as part of the process of selecting featured articles. I brought this up briefly on IRC, and found most other people I talked to didn't use it either. So I'm curious: are people using this page? And if so, what for? Heimstern Läufer 22:47, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
It's entirely possible that some people might use this to do some initial searching for articles which they might not otherwise know are there. If I were more involved in the FAS process, I probably would use this page. I'm not in favor of deleting or severing all ties, but it seems that a restructuring in order. This page seems to have reached its maximum potential for good articles, but we seem to be lacking good, healthy participation in FAS. Perhaps we should make FAS more visible to the average user or candid reader who would like to have a say. My proposal is this: replace the Nominate this article link on the main page with a Help select a future featured article link. We'll make FAS a more active and open place. And then we will hang up a link to this page at the top of FAS for anybody who is brainstorming for articles. —BazookaJoe 23:15, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Yes, let's do that. Heimstern Läufer 18:24, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
That doesn't look very good on the Main Page, as some of the words then go on to another line. Plus, this makes the second link crammed on the right side of the box. Is there a shorter thing we can say? Homestar-Winner (talk) 00:13, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
I shortened it to Help select featured articles. I never noticed it was a problem because I have a widescreen monitor. Does it work now? —BazookaJoe 00:19, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Still, the word articles is on another line on my computer. Homestar-Winner (talk) 00:22, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Okay, taking 'featured' out should do the trick. —BazookaJoe 00:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Early nomination
I know its only Tuesday, but I really like retirement...how bout that? Religious Corn 22:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, RC, if you want to get involved in choosing featured articles, have a look at HRWiki:Featured Article Selection. Heimstern Läufer 22:35, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip! Religious Corn 20:39, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Strong Bad's Mask vs Homestar's Pants.
How about an article paralleling Homestar's tight pants (or lack there of) as to wether he wears a mask that he never removes, or if that's his face & the strings in back are in fact braids. I'd also like to see "Strong Bad offending Marzipan" as both a parallel to "Homestar Offending Marzipan" & as part of the debate on whether he has a crush on her or hates her as much as or more than Homestar.--67.161.122.193 05:12, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Whatsit?
All that Whatsit does is state the apparences. (Like the apparences section doesn't do a good enough job.) I think it should be taken off the featured article nomination list. DrPepper42 00:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Nah, we never really remove noms from this page. I don't even use it, really, except occasionally to view a list of articles people have named as possibilities. Heimstern Läufer 01:37, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Also, I disagree with your assessment of the article. Some amount of summary of the list of appearances is desirable, as it's one of the only ways to avoid an "often appears"-style article. Heimstern Läufer 01:46, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Im just saying, the only other thing is this sentence: Whatsit is a name for the commodity that The Poopsmith shovels, also known as You-Know-What and crap.
Do you want a complete explanation of what fecal matter is? Heimstern Läufer 13:43, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
No, I'm saying we should say what we should maybe include something else, or move to Pile of Whatsit and add more info for it to be ready to be featured. DrPepper42 14:48, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Biz Cas Fri
I know we don't really remove articles from this, but I think we should make an exception in this case. It's a disambig page! free 19:02, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Point
What exactly is the point of this page? We could easily put every page on the Wiki on this page. And also, the list is outdated (none of the entries after Week 3 have been bolded). RickTommy 07:08, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm not thoroughly convinced we need this page anymore, but it certainly isn't hurting anything to keep it around. It does have the potential for people to use it to get ideas for articles to suggest at FAS (not that I myself use it that way). Heimstern Läufer 08:43, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
I disagree. At the very least, this page can be used to keep track of what has been featured before (and I have used it before making a suggestion to verify that my suggestion hasn't already been featured). So, as long as it's kept up regularly I think it's very much of use. --Stux 14:07, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
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Author bio: Cheryllynn's vivid imagination comes through in all she does in life. Her writing started in junior high, although she never truly shared her work until recently. They were kept hidden away in an old tattered orange folder. Original works she wrote as early as 1984 still hold ink on the pages and are just now coming to life. Paranormal and Fantasy are her favorite genres with Mystery and Thrillers close behind.
Born in Northwest Florida and raised in Southeast Georgia she developed a love for nature and the outdoors.
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Book title: Awakening Fate, The Chronicles of Elizabeth Fairbairn, Book Four
Genre: YA / Fantasy / Paranormal
Synopsis: Elizabeth thought the battles behind her were difficult until some of her past came back to haunt her. She struggles to determine what emotions she is feeling that is real or induced by the amulets of the original witches now when an unexpected person becomes the keeper of Prince Petre's items. Protecting a friend comes to the forefront of her newest goal while coming up against an adversary she didn't know existed was troublesome enough, but not to have her powers at her command...that is the true test of her will and strength. Will Elizabeth be able to accept the new keeper? Will Sorina and Prince Petre give their blessings? Can the young witch keep her friend safe as well as herself?
Publish date: Feb 6, 2019
Publisher: Self
An excerpt from Awakening Fate, The Chronicles of Elizabeth Fairbairn, Book Four
Of course, he gently wrapped his fingers in with hers, gave a small nod and looked to the ceiling. “Ready?” Reba asked as her and her sisters finished making the circle around them, she had every intention of keeping them safe. Elizabeth nodded then closed her eyes.
The ground was wet from dew, she had arrived in the morning time just as the sun was rising over the ridge of the horizon. Elizabeth felt the moisture seep through her socks in the high grass. She started to walk and realized Wesley was at her side, she had almost forgotten. Looking at him, her heart leaped when he smiled at her. “We have to find Sorina,” her words filled with determination.
“Lead the way, this is your territory.” He motioned a hand out as if to follow her lead.
Looking to her left, Elizabeth recognized the tree line as the same one Sorina ran into for safety when she was last here. She moved towards it quickly when she glimpsed the corners of a white gown between the trees. Stopping suddenly, Wesley almost ran into the back of her. “What’s wrong?” He whispered.
“She is here, watching,” Elizabeth whispered back. Craning to catch another glimpse she called out, “Sorina. It’s me Elizabeth. It’s safe, you can come out now.”
Moments passed before the soft voice of Sorina called back, “Why have you brought an elf with you? What is this about?”
Twisting her mouth in thought, Elizabeth knew she had to explain things. “Sorina, this is Wesley Roberts. He is Sire Levi’s son. He is… he is the keeper of Prince Petre’s items.”
Sorina suddenly was at the forest line, “No! Not an elf. They would never!” Her voice was filled with shock as she glided towards them in a rush. She circled Wesley, looking over every inch of his body. “You look like him, except for the hair.”
Wesley turned to watch the woman taking him in, “I am honored.”
She smiled at him, “I can see why the amulet chose you. Your heart is good. But I’m surprised, I never considered an elf to be a keeper. You have no magic.”
Lowering his head, Wesley considered her words. “Well, not exactly.”
Both women turned their heads quickly and responded more loudly than they intended and in unison, “WHAT!”
He chuckled. “When the coven was having their battle last year, we left as we are supposed to do. Well, I went to Southern Europe and was studying. My father wants me to take over his house one day, as expected, but he wanted me to meet a distant relative and learn from her. She is an ancestor of an elf and witch, both from Romania.”
That got a rise out of the women, Sorina instructed him, “Please continue.”
“Well, that branch of elves has magic because of their bloodline to you.” Elizabeth gasped and Wesley quickly recovered the conversation, “We would not be related. The bloodline has been so distant that none of that family would be closer than seventh cousins, at best.”
“You are the children of Leagh?” Sorina asked.
Wesley nodded, “No ma’am, not Leagh but Randolph, her twin, he married an elf… During their marriage, they had six children. One was my father's grandfather and one the grandfather of Tiffany. And the rest is history.” As he spoke Sorina covered her mouth with her hand. Randolph and Leagh was the first set of twins born after the magic was gifted to Petre and Sorina, both had returned to Romania after a few years in Northern Europe. They had said they had to be in a place they felt at home.
“Did you know this before you met Elizabeth?”
“No. I only found out when I went to train. Tiffany filled me in on the entire family history and started teaching me spells that we could work.” He turned to Elizabeth, “I wanted to tell you everything.”
She pulled back from him, angry that she hadn’t listened to him. “It was my fault. I was being stubborn and hard-headed and I… I didn’t want to listen. I wanted to be mad. How foolish!” She snipped.
Sorina took Elizabeth in an embrace and whispered in her ear, “My child there was no way anyone would blame you for your actions. You were kept hidden from the world you belonged to and when thrown in did the best you could.” Tears escaped down Elizabeth’s cheeks. Sorina held her tighter, “You are so strong even when you think you are weak.”
Wesley stood watching the two women embrace. He had wanted to be there for Elizabeth, but he knew she had been through so much emotionally, there was no way he could stay angry at her. Sorina pulled back from Elizabeth and took one of each of their hands and smiled, “You two will do great things for our people.” Looking to Wesley, “One day, you will need to meet Petre but not until he is ready. He is not as forthcoming as I am.” She released their hands and began to turn away gliding towards the woods, just at edge she turned to them one last time, “You have our blessings,” then she shimmered into nothingness.
Sitting straight up, Elizabeth turns to see Wesley slowly waking up. She turns to her mother, “He is it. He is the keeper. We have Sorina’s blessings.” Releasing Wesley’s hand, Elizabeth starts to stand when she hears him mumble. Looking back, she realizes he is having trouble coming out of the dream and put a hand on his shoulder to shake him, “Wesley, wake up.” She calls out trying to get him to come around.
He turns his head back and forth like he is fighting something, then suddenly calms down. Inside the dream, Petre came to talk to Wesley but only after Elizabeth and Sorina had gone.
Wesley tried to follow Elizabeth. As he was moving towards her, he felt something grab his arm. He turned to find a man holding onto him and looking quite angry. "Who are you?"
"You say you are the descendant of Randolph?" The man stood tall with broad shoulders holding onto Wesley's arm with a tight grip, nearly cutting off the circulation.
Wesley turned to face the man who wouldn't let him leave. Ripping his arm from the man's grasp he asked with a growl, "Who are you and why have you held me back?"
"Answer my question elf. Are you the true descendant of Randolph?" the man asked once more.
Not in the mood for games, Wesley took a step back. Sorina had said Petre wasn't very forthcoming, could this be him? He was told Petre's personality lacked compassion but this was absurd. "I won't answer anything until I know who you are? I'm thinking you're Petre, Prince Petre!" The man's face softened. The elf was smart and easily figured out who he was without over reacting.
"Walk with me my child... we have so much to discuss."
Author interview with Cheryllynn Dyess.
Kasper: Hi Cheryllynn, welcome aboard our levitating Reader' Lounge. Here, take a cushion and get comfy.
Cheryllynn: Thanks Kasper. Nice to be here in my fave group.
After being friends with you for 6 years, I reckon I know the answer to this first question. Do you have a pen name and why?
Yes I do. I write under my maiden name, Cheryllynn Dyess because that is what I first published under. When I got married I asked my husband if he had a problem with me continuing to do so because I’m very proud of my family’s name and very much wanted to keep it as my pen name. He was fine with it and so it was! This lounge seems to be having a rocky day today, Whoa there!
Oh my goodness, it does seems to be moving around under the cushions. What on Earth is going on? (A two-toned muzzle pops out from under the cushions, followed by a brown head with cute brown eyes). Um, Cheryllynn, does this dog belong to you?
Yes indeed, that's my dog: Nyx. Named after the Greek Goddess of the night. She must have snuck on behind me when we were arranging the cushions.
No worries at all. I like dogs. But um, we're a mile up in the air over the Pacific. I hope she knows how to stay.
Yes, she'll be alright, I'm sure.
Alrighty. What was the defining event that made you start writing?
That’s tricky. I started writing when I was a teen as an outlet for the things going on in my life that I couldn’t talk to anyone about that were dark and very emotional. Fast forward to 2011, when I met my future husband and he read my earlier writings and couldn’t understand why I wasn’t doing it for a living. So he made things in our lives so that I could come live with him and write full-time and be a stay at home mom to our teen boys (teens at that time) and got married shortly after.
He really is the best thing to happen to you. I know you have such a close and loving family.
What other writing have you done?
I have a book of poetry and a cookbook out. I plan to put out some short stories in my future as well.
What makes your writing unique compared to others in the genre?
I’ve been told I have a poetic style of writing but I like to feel that my ability to describe the world in which everything is going on let’s me stand out among the others.
Awesome feedback, congratulations.
What made you choose this genre?
The Paranormal and Supernatural subgenres in Fantasy are very personal...I’ve had spiritual experiences all my life and I’m drawn to those types of works. It feels natural to me!
Awesome. A little birdy (or was that a phoenix?) told me you are one of the hosts for Fae Week in the Readers' Lounge. I can't wait to hear more of your real-life tales.
What’s the story behind your book title? Awakening Fate is the fourth book in The Chronicles of Elizabeth Fairbairn and is about Elizabeth finding that fate plays a larger role in our lives than we’d like to believe. In Awakening Fate she has to accept things that are very irregular and unexpected among her people.
What’s the basic plot of your Elizabeth Fairbairn series?
Overcoming adversity and obstacles, to be simple and short really.
Which scene from your book do you like best and why?
Oh goodness that’s a hard question. Let me see… Okay, without giving away too much about the story I’ll say the scene where Elizabeth finds herself in trouble and her magic isn’t accessible and she figures out how to get out!
I'm having visions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer over here...seriously I love strong female leads.
Which is your favourite character and why?
Other than the main character, I’d go with Wesley. He’s an elf shifter who is fated to be with Elizabeth and they go through some quite difficult situations in these stories. He’s fun and always supportive of her.
How do you develop your characters?
They grow with each story. I don’t really plan that out, they tend to write themselves.
Have you used any real events or places as inspiration for your writing?
Oh all the time. I grew up in Southeast Georgia and that area shows up in the Born of The Veil. In The Chronicles of Elizabeth Fairbairn, I created the area from when I stayed in Virginia. In a book coming out later, The Forgotten Soul, I used the town I was born in. Another book I’m working on called After The Storm, I am using my current hometown as a basis.
What advice would you give to someone wanting to write a book?
Just do it! Write it out and then go from there. Don’t hesitate or overthink it!
Rock mostly and then some pop. I like something with a lot of energy.
I crochet or garden or clean! Something with lots of detail to make me not think of the story. Sometimes reading helps too!
How did you go about developing your cover artwork? I love this Awakening Fate cover.
This particular cover is art from Stella. She also did the cover for book three, A Moment of Darkness, and I asked her to keep with the same theme
Who are your five favourite authors?
C.L. Gaber, RS McCoy, NK Jemisin, Ally Shields, and Jennifer Malone Wright would be in my top favorites.
What do you write about in your Behind the Pages blog?
Things that affect me daily or in my life. I like to be very personal there so readers can get to know me as a person rather than me as a writer.
What are your writing plans for this year?
My goal is to get 6 more books out this year and have 9 more completely written.
Oh my goodness, you'll be busy!
What’s your experience of the Fantasy Sci-Fi Readers’ Lounge?
As a member, I’d like to say it’s been fantastic. I’ve met new readers and new to me authors! It’s been fun and exciting. I hope we continue to grow as much as we have already!
Which one of your characters would you like to be?
Jewel! She is a fairy. This is a photo of what I envision her to be.
Oops! your dog Nyx has eaten my interview questions, I can see shreds of them blowing away into the ocean. Oh no.
Don't worry. I think I can summon Jewel to help us. (Cheryllynn whispered something, which caused the hairs to rise on the back of my neck. Next thing I know a gorgeous fairy appeared. She nodded her cute bobbed head and the interview questions appeared as good as new in my hand).
Gee, thanks so much, Jewel. I sure wish I had friends like you. (The fairy gave a shy smile and disappeared into thin air).
Jewel the fairy
Quick quiz:
Favourite thing to cook: chicken
Silliest saying: This is a PG interview...so I’ll skip this one.
Best holiday spot: Beach
Most played song: Rolling in the Deep by Adele
With writing, are you a plotter or (seat-of-your) pantser? Pantser for sure!
Do you prefer SciFi or fantasy: Oh...Fantasy.
Best superpower: Reading minds.
Number one thing to do on your bucket list: visit the Highlands of Scotland where my ancestors are from.
Kasper: Thanks Cheryllynn. It sure has been an adventurous evening. Please wait until we land, Nyx.... too late! I hope she's OK after that big leap.
She'll be fine. I think it's time for her dinner. Thanks again for having me. Bye.
Cheryllynn's Links:
Website: www.cheryllynndyess.com
Blog: www.behindthepages.blog
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cheryllynndyess
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/cheryllynn_dyess
Twitter: www.twitter.com/cheryllynndyess
Amazon: www.amazon.com/author/cheryllynndyess
Bookbub: https://goo.gl/zqw1Xy
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Urban Fantasy author Imani L Hawkins joins us on The levitating Readers' Lounge #FSFRL @ImaniLHawkins #UrbanFantasy
Author Bio: Imani L Hawkins is a writer of all things supernatural, paranormal, and urban fantasy. Growing up in New Mexico, the land of enchantment, she’s always surrounded by beautiful scenery that inspires most of her tales.
Caring for her two children with the support of her loving husband, she’s found the courage to write stories filled with intricate plot lines and characters she sure anyone would be able to relate to.
A love of all things creative, she spends her free time playing the alto saxophone, making designer soaps, painting, playing around with digital design, and writing stories she hopes will inspire others.
She loves hearing from people who enjoy her stories. So, feel free to follow her on social media, subscribe to her newsletter, or simply send her an email! (details on her website: link below).
Imani's new release:
Book title: Dark Descent: A Dark Allegiance Book Prequel
Publisher: Pyramese Publishing Group (view a picture of the publishers below)
She had to kill him to save her kind...
Twenty years have passed since Naomi publicly executed a United States Senator on live television. In the beginning, she was celebrated. Magic wielders stood with her in solidarity to save her life and honor her sacrifice. But as the humans became increasingly hostile toward the wielders, Naomi was pushed aside, discarded, and forced to live outside of society. Everything changed the moment Toni waltz through her home, an alley in Channingsburg Nevada that boasted brick walls, broken bottles, and trash that littered her new home. Where once she'd thought she'd disbanded the Fraternity of Purifiers, she is faced with the knowledge they still existed and the daughter of the man she'd killed leads them. Thrust between a woman who wanted nothing more than to see her rotting corpse plucked clean by vultures and wielders who wanted her to stand for their cause, Naomi must make a choice to either sacrifice her life to save the woman who hates her, or stand in solidarity with the ones who'd turned their backs on her.
Author interview by Kasper
Welcome to our levitating Readers' Lounge, Imani L Hawkins. I'm stoked you managed to squeeze this in with your huge writing schedule. Your work rate is impressive.
Imani: Hi Kasper. Nice to be here. I guess I am rather busy.
I released my first two stories in December: Last Holiday: A Sweet Revenge Story and Myleah: Fallen into Shadows Prelude.
Then in January was From Darkness: Fallen into Shadows Book One.
The prequel ha just been released: Dark Descent: A Dark Allegiance Book Prequel
I like to work hard and have plans for plenty more.
Wow. You're going places, Imani. Speaking of going places, I'll just launch this Lounge into the stratosphere.
Oh, Kasper, wait up a tick. Looks like we have some unexpected companions running up to join our flight. These are my children.
Hi Kiddies. Welcome aboard. Psst...there is a secret compartment in the Lounge here with mints. Would you like a sweetie? OK then, Imani, I know you by a different name. Is Imani L Hawkins a pen name and why?
Yes. Imani L Hawkins is a pen name. I wanted a name that represents my reasons for finally pursuing my writing career. And what better reason than these?! Imani for the little girl on the right, and L for my son Lyndon.
What was the defining event that made you start writing?
I was bullied in school and there was one book that made me feel less alone. It was The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman. I was fascinated by the book and way I was able to escape into a story, leaving the world behind. At six years old, I found myself thinking I would like to provide others like me with the same escape, so I penned my first short story at the age of six.
Imani's children
I'm sorry to hear about the bullying but glad you found a way past it and at such a young age is remarkable. I think the same way about The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay.
What made you choose the Urban Fantasy genre?
Initially, I wanted to write romance. That was until I realized how awful I was at it. (Kasper chuckles). The men always came out sappy and corny, the type of men I’d like to punch in the face while screaming, “Man up, you wimp!” Okay, wimp isn’t exactly the word I’d use but it’s better to digest. Anyway, I love being able to blur the lines between realism and fantasy, with a cast of characters that wield magic, and avoid those sappy love scenes that make me cringe. Urban Fantasy was perfect for that.
Simple answer, I don’t. For example, I came up with a character who was supposed to be the sweet innocent type. I wrote up her biography, her looks, her family, her personality, and her likes and dislikes. But when I tried to write her, I could hear her screaming in my ear, “That’s not me! I wouldn’t do that! Why are you doing this to me?!” So, she took on a life of her own and it felt more organic to me. The character became real and I felt I could write her as if I was just getting to know her as I hope the readers would be doing at the same time. *Okay. I’m not crazy! I know there are other writers out there who speak to their characters, right?*
LOL. That's a great answer. I like the way they develop.
Imani's new release
I set a schedule for myself. Oddly enough, I can’t write without chaos surrounding me. Luckily, I have a three-year-old and a six-year-old who love to bring the chaos. I turn on the television, find my favorite spot on the couch, thank my husband for putting up with the kids, and write in sprints. I write for an hour straight, then take a short break. I do this throughout the day until I’ve hit my goal for the day.
You are so disciplined. Congratulations.
I also have to give you a special mention for winning the highest total word count in our Readers' Lounge writing challenge for January. Our readers can check out the award here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2043978469031165/permalink/2103121123116899/
I am actually working on an origin story about naguals, shapeshifters. I plan to build an entire world around them that spans across nine full length books.
What song would you choose as the theme song of your book?
Red: The Darkest Part of Me
I’m usually working on more than one project at a time. So, when I get stuck on one project, I move on to another.
That's a good one. I'll have to remember that.
Are there any writing styles or genres you dislike?
I may upset a lot of writers by saying this, but I actually have two pet peeves that stem from my time spent as a developmental editor. *puts on my bulletproof vest*
Erotica. While I love some good heat, I can’t stand a book that is so riddled with corny sex scenes there is no actual storyline to follow. I always find myself skipping through pages of sex scenes, trying to get to the meat of the storyline, only to be disappointed there was none.
I am not a huge fan of first-person present tense, especially when they use more than one perspective. *Don’t shoot me!* When I read it, I’m always wondering what is going on around the character? What does the character feel now that they’ve gone through this event? What else am I missing?! I also find it difficult to connect to a character when the perspective is always changing.
You can be any fictional character for one day. Who would you be?
Celine from Underworld. That b*tch can kick some ass!
Favourite thing to cook: Shrimp cerviche
Silliest saying: Ummmmm…*thinks* I decline to answer on the grounds I may incriminate myself.
Best holiday spot: Ruidoso New Mexico
Most played song: Breaking Benjamin – I Will Not Bow (my theme song)
With writing, are you a plotter or (seat-of-your) pantser? Plotter, unless my characters scream at me.
Do you prefer SciFi or fantasy? OMG Don’t make me choose!!! *bites nails* Fantasy, but don’t tell my husband.
The publishers from the Pyramese Publishing Group
Best superpower: Mind control! Then I could get my husband to stop watching marathons of Star Trek on my days off.
Number one thing to do on your bucket list: Punch Oprah in the face. (Hey, I have my reasons.)
Website: http://www.imanilhawkins.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/imanilhawkins/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Imani-L.-Hawkins/e/B07L8W6C11/
Thanks for coming for a ride with us today, Imani and kiddies. Have you had a good time?
(Much head nodding while sucking on sweets).
Imani: Yes, thanks Kasper, it sure has been fun. It's a very comfortable Lounge.
Readers, please check out Imani's links and keep an eye out for her in our Fantasy Sci-Fi writing challenges.
Imani's award for Highest Total in the January writing challenge in the Fantasy and Sci-Fi Readers' Lounge.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2043978469031165.
Announcing the winners of the January writing challenge for the Fantasy Sci-Fi Readers' Lounge #FSFRL #amwriting
Hey there Readers’ Lounge Lizards, we have some awards to present today.
A group of our intrepid authors have been scribbling and typing their fingers to the bone for the past month in our January Writing Challenge. Words are logged each day with the minimum being 100 words. The words have to be new words in a fantasy / sci-fi story.
In January we had over 40 authors pen over 1 million words, yes, that's 1,000,000 words. Wowsers! Congratulations to all those who participated.
Our three founders of Lady Cheryllynn, Lady Marsha and Lady Kasper are delighted to award the following prizes:
Most Days Logged
Skin-of-the-teeth Days
Highest daily total
Most days in a row
Highest overall word count
Our thanks to Robin Lythgoe for the awesome prize badges
Most Days Logged
It was with great excitement that the Founders watched the word counts coming in every day of the January Writing Challenge. Many authors tied for this prize after writing each day for 31 days.
And the prize for Most Days Logged goes to Alli Martin, Avril Sabine, DM Staley, Glen Edens, Jeanette O’Hagan, Jessica Ney-Grimm and Kasper Beaumont.
Most Skin-of-the-teeth Days
Sometimes writing at all can be a challenge for our authors, due to writing, family, work or other commitments. We like to reward the authors who keep going even when pressed for time. This award for the January Writing Challenge goes to the authors who submitted the most days with word counts between 100 and 199 words. Two authors tied for this prize this month.
And the prize for Most Skin-of-the-teeth Days goes to Kristie Kiessling and Kasper Beaumont
Most words in a single day
Now this was our most hotly-contested prize. The lead changed several times as authors submitted some truly amazing totals. When LaTanya Hawkins submitted over 8,000 words on the first day we had an inkling that this challenge would be big, but we had no idea how big. On January the 9th, JC Andrijeski did 8319 and Maro Graham did 12493. The gauntlet was dropped for a super weekend battle to come.
That weekend a bunch of authors burned the midnight oil and posted huge numbers including DM Staley on 10K, JC, LaTanya on 15K, Sable Schwab on 13K and Maro. We also had G. Russell Gaynor on 15K and Esme Wilde on 16K joining in just for one day.
When the dust settled on the parchment for the month, several tired authors conceded the winner. And the prize for Most Words in a Single Day goes to JC Andrijeski with a whopping 20,094. Twenty Thousand Words in One Day! Congratulations JC.
Most Days in a Row
Knowing how busy are authors are, we thought to encourage them with an award for the person with the most consecutive chain of days. To our delighted, many authors tied for this prize by writing every single day. Such dedication is impressive.
And the prize of Most Days Logged goes to Alli Martin, Avril Sabine, DM Staley, Glen Edens, Jeanette O’Hagan, Jessica Ney-Grimm and Kasper Beaumont.
Highest Overall Total
It was a nail biter, watching some huge daily totals coming in and wondering who was going to nab the big prize. We had several contenders here with monthly totals over 30,000 words each. These are: Angelique Anderson, Avril Sabine, Cassandra Fear, Cheryllynn Dyess, DM Staley, Glen Edens, JC Andrijeski, Jessica Ney-Grim, LaTanya Hawkins, Sable Schwab and Samuel Peach. Well done to you all for writing half a book or more in a month.
Our founders Lady Cheryllynn, Lady Marsha and Lady Kasper are delighted to award the prize of Highest Overall Total to an author with an average daily count for the month of over 4,000 words per day.
Our winner with a total of 127,573 words is very dedicated LaTanya Hawkins.
Congratulations to all our winners.
If you're a fantasy and sci-fi author and you'd like to join our writing challenges, please join up in the Fantasy Sci-Fi Author Support Group.
Award winning author Madeleine Holly-Rosing drops by the new Fantasy Sci-Fi lounge for a chat #steampunk #FSFRL @MHollyRosing
Author bio: A TV, feature film, comic book writer, and novelist, Madeleine is the winner of the Sloan Fellowship for screenwriting, and the Gold Aurora and Bronze Telly for a PSA produced by Women In Film. In addition, she has won numerous awards while completing the UCLA MFA Program in Screenwriting. The writer/creator of the graphic novel, Boston Metaphysical Society, she has also run a number of successful crowding campaigns and published the book, Kickstarter for the Independent Creator. In 2019, Source Point Press is set to republish the first six issues and the trade paperback of Boston Metaphysical Society. The first novel set in the comic universe, A Storm of Secrets, was published in 2018. Formerly a nationally ranked epee fencer, she has competed nationally and internationally. Madeleine is an avid reader of comics, steampunk, science fiction, fantasy, and historical military fiction.
* Book title: Boston Metaphysical Society: A Storm of Secrets
* Genre: Steampunk/Paranormal
* Synopsis:
Politics and power. Demons and spirits.
When ex-Pinkerton detective Samuel Hunter married Elizabeth Weldsmore, the heir to one of Boston’s Great Houses, he knew his life would change forever, but he never expected the return of Elizabeth’s psychic abilities. Not only do they have to keep it a secret, but Elizabeth must learn quickly how to master them. For a psychic in a Great House is a political liability which her father, Jonathan Weldsmore, knows only too well. As the Great Houses jockey for power, the three of them must contend with treachery, subterfuge, and potentially a new demonic threat, in this political and supernatural thriller set in an alternate-history Boston of 1890.
The novel is a prequel to the graphic novel, Boston Metaphysical Society: The Complete Series.
* Publish date: Sept. 17, 2018
* Publisher: Brass-T Publishing
Author Interview with Madeleine Holly-Rosing on the Fantasy and Sci-Fi Readers Lounge
Kasper: Hi Madeleine, welcome to our steam-powered levitating Readers' Lounge. We're looking forward to hearing all about these gorgeous books and the author behind them. Are you ready? (kaz turns on the engine).
Madeleine: Sure am. Thanks for having me here. Woah! (sound of metal clunking fills the air, acrid stench of smoke and oil). Um...do you want me to fix the Levitating Lounge for you?
Oh how embarrassing. It's still under warranty, you know. We're very lucky you're a tinkering kind of author. Okay, it seems to be levitating properly now, thanks for your prompt attention. Just pop that wrench on the cushion there. Now, let's chat about books. You have told us about your latest release: Boston Metaphysical Society: A Storm of Secrets.
What other writing have you done up to now?
A lot. LOL. I have an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, so I’ve written quite a number of scripts. A few have been optioned, but none have been produce. I have also done some work-for-hire and I am a regular contributor to Fanbase Press where I do reviews of comics and novels as well as interviews.
The writing I’m most known for is my creator-owned series, Boston Metaphysical Society (BMS) with art by Emily Hu. It began as six issue graphic novel mini-series which is now in trade paperback. While I was producing the series, I wrote a number of short stories and novellas (prose) in the BMS universe which has been published as an anthology (Boston Metaphysical Society: Prelude). Earlier last year, we had a successful Kickstarter campaign for our first standalone continuation of the series, The Scourge of the Mechanical Men (Art by Gwynn Tavares) and the first novel,A Storm of Secrets, came out this year as well. I also have a BMS short story (prose) called, Here Abide Monsters, in the Some Time Later anthology from Thinking Ink Press and I have a number of non-BMS sequential art short stories in various anthologies as well.
I have also published a book on Crowdfunding
Sound like you're a versatile author.
What made you choose the steampunk comic genre?
That’s a fun story. BMS was originally a TV Pilot I wrote while I was at UCLA. It started off as a period detective piece, but then one day I was sitting in the Melnitz Lounge when a director friend of mine hopped over the couch, plopped down next to me and uttered the word, “steampunk.” I said, “What?” He repeated himself then explained that he thought BMS, which was then called 1800 Detective Agency should be developed in a steampunk universe. I had heard about steampunk, but didn’t know a lot about it so I did some research. My friend was right. That little conversation changed my life.
Steampunk sure is a cool kid on the block in the Speculative Fiction genre, he made a good suggestion. What’s the basic plot of yourBoston Metaphysical series?
The original graphic novel series is about an ex-Pinkerton detective, a spirit photographer, and a genius scientist battling supernatural forces in late 1800s
Boston. The new novel is a prequel to the series and begins five years before the graphic novel when Samuel Hunter (the ex-Pinkerton detective), and his wife, Elizabeth, have just returned to Boston from their honeymoon. However, it isn’t long before Elizabeth’s psychic abilities return and not only threaten her family’s position, but may be the only link to finding a number of men, women, and children who have gone missing.
I start with writing their family histories since that is a strong influencer on who and what the characters in the book become. I usually go back to their parents and often their grandparents or even farther if it’s important to the world building. This has really paid off especially in the case of BMS. In the original graphic novel, Caitlin’s father was a medium and spirit photographer and when he discovered she had the gift, trained her. You see very little of him in the graphic novel, but his presence is always there, not as a ghost, but as someone who was such an important part of her and Samuel’s life, you feel like you get to know him.
I love that idea of hidden mentorship.
Do you have another job outside of writing?
Yes, I work as an instructor for LA Fitness and I do crowdfunding consulting.
Having run five successful crowdfunding campaigns to help fund the comic, I published the non-fiction book, Kickstarter for the Independent Creator, and I lecture on crowdfunding.
Read and write a lot. You also have to be a student of human psychology. It’s important to understand why people do the things they do which is why I write such extensive character biographies. Find reputable classes and teachers to learn from and surround yourself with people who challenge you. Don’t be afraid of criticism unless it’s personal, then walk away.
How did you go about developing your striking cover artwork?
Everyone wants to know that. LOL. Luisa Preissler is the artist’s name and she’s a young woman who lives in Germany. If I remember correctly, I ran across another of her paintings either on Facebook or Kickstarter. She had done a cover for a
steampunk novella. I took one look at it and said, “That’s the artist I want.” I searched for her on Google, found her website, and contacted her. We discussed clothing, overall concept, as well as hair and clothing color. She did read an early draft of the novel (her idea) to help her capture the character of Elizabeth Weldsmore. The title graphics are done by Anke Koopmann. The cover is currently a finalist in the Authorsdb.com cover contest.
Speaking of awards, a little bird told me you may have some exciting news for us Lounge Lizards. Congratulations.
Oh thank you. Well this doesn't happen very often, but Boston Metaphysical Society: A Storm of Secrets has won a Silver Medal in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category in the Feathered Quill Awards. So now I can officially say I am an award winning novelist. https://featheredquill.com/2019-winners/
That is so cool.
We launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund our next standalone graphic novel, The Spirit of Rebellion. Gwynn is still on board as the artist. We launched on Jan. 23 and end on Feb. 22 Link:http://kck.st/2FS2zRo
You're sounding very busy. I especially like the sound of House Wars.
What’s your favourite pet?
Dogs. I love dogs. Which doesn’t mean I don’t like cats, I do. I’m just really allergic to them.
Do you prefer ebook or hardcopy?
Depends. If it’s someone new I want to try out, it’ll be ebook. But if they are a favorite or become one, I’ll buy the hardback.
Favourite thing to cook: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Silliest saying: I call one of my dogs, “Thumpy Butt” because he wags his tail so hard.
Best holiday spot: Kauai
Most played song: Let it Go from Frozen
With writing, are you a plotter or (seat-of-your) pantser? Depends. If it’s a short story (prose), it’s by the seat-of-my-pants. If it’s longer, I will outline.
Do you prefer Sci-Fi or fantasy: Science Fiction
Best superpower: Controlling or generating electricity would be cool.
Number one thing to do on your bucket list: Watch Bruce Springsteen live in concert.
Well, it looks like our Levitating Lounge is preparing for landing. Thank you Madeleine for our entertaining flight; it's been so much fun. We look forward to checking out your books in the links below.
Thanks Kasper, I had fun too
Madeleine's Links:
Website: http://www.bostonmetaphysicalsociety.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BostonMetaphysicalSocietyComic/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mhollyrosing
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcholly1/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6470435.Madeleine_Holly_Rosing
Amazon (ebook and print): https://goo.gl/iiyaGk
Nook: https://goo.gl/CjsfYC
Please also check out Boston Metaphysical Society's brand newkickstarter to print Boston Metaphysical Society: The Spirit of Rebellion.
Ghosts! Steampunk! Oh my! Caitlin flees to Philadelphia only to discover a ghost, a rebellion, and perhaps, her destiny.
Blurb: Even after saving Boston from The Shifter, Caitlin is thrown out by her mother for working with Samuel and Granville. When she goes to Samuel for help, he takes her to the boarding house of an old friend in Philadelphia. There she discovers a ghost, the beginning of a rebellion, and perhaps her destiny.
Like Boston, the poor and working class of Philadelphia are pushing back against the Great Houses, and Caitlin and Samuel are caught in the middle of it. And much to her surprise, Caitlin has discovered that the battle with The Shifter has left her with telekinetic powers. What no one realizes is that a Pinkerton by the name of Harry Connelly has taken a special interest in Caitlin and the boarding house. Is he friend or foe? And what does this mean for Samuel and Caitlin?
Join authors and readers who share the same interests in the Fantasy Sci-fi Readers You can pop in anytime to interact with authors of your favorite genres and participate in games and contests for prizes, giveaways, and more!
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Plant genomics candidate 5
Revision as of 17:18, 28 February 2012 by Paul Lewis (Talk | contribs) (→Wednesday, February 29, 2012)
Interview Schedule: Plant Ecological/Evolutionary Genomics candidate #5
One person for breakfast please; 3 people for lunch; 3-4 people for dinner
Time Name Room
7:30 p.m. Elizabeth Jockusch, Bernard Goffinet Dinner (Utsav)
8:30 a.m. Don Les Breakfast (Tolland Inn) Note the intentional later start
10:00 a.m. Kent Wells TLS 380
10:30 a.m. Mark Urban BioPharm 200A
11:00 a.m. Rachel O'Neill CAGT
12:00 p.m. Chris Elphick LUNCH
1:30 p.m. Rob Colwell 375 TLS
2:00 p.m. Cindi Jones BioPharm 400
2:30 p.m. Louise Lewis BioPharm 200
3:00 p.m. Elizabeth Jockusch BioPharm 305B
3:30 p.m. Seminar Prep
4:00 p.m. Seminar IMS 20
5:15 p.m. Greenhouse/Collections Tour Don Les
6:30 p.m. Don Les, Kent Wells, Cindi Jones Dinner (TBA)
7:30 a.m. Carl Schlichting Breakfast (Tolland Inn)
9:00 a.m. Kent Holsinger BioPharm 305A
9:30 a.m. Margaret Rubega BioPharm 500
10:00 a.m. Greg Anderson TLS 381
10:30 a.m. Charlie Henry TLS 481
11:00 a.m. Janine Caira TLS 483
11:30 a.m. Paul Lewis TLS 166a
12:00 p.m. "Chalk Talk" (EEB Faculty) Bamford
1:00 p.m. Grad Student / Postdoc Lunch Bamford
2:00 p.m. Bernard Goffinet BioPharm 300
2:30 p.m. Don Les BioPharm 305C
3:00 p.m. Michelle Williams CLAS
3:30 p.m. Carl Schlichting TLS 366
4:00 p.m. Kent Wells TLS 380
5:00 p.m. Lab space tour (Elizabeth) BioPharm 305B
6:00 p.m. Louise Lewis, Paul Lewis Dinner (Willibrew)
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The Hans Kilian Award 2011 went to the german cultural and literary scholar Hartmut Böhme.
Hartmut Böhme, Professor of cultural theory and history of mentality at the Humboldt University of Berlin is the first awardee of the Hans Kilian Award of Merit. The Award amounting to 80,000 Euros was conferred on the scholar on May 6, 2011 at the Technical University of Darmstadt.
The Hans Kilian Award which was established by the Köhler Foundation at the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft honours outstanding scientific achievements in the study field of the historical and cultural existence of mankind and the corresponding alteration of the human psyche.
The main areas of Hartmut Böhme's academic interests include history of nature and technology in the intersecting fields of philosophy, arts, and literature as well as historical anthropology with a particular focus on history of body. In their conclusive report, the Jury emphatically commended Professor Böhme's academic achievements with the following statement:
"In his numerous interdisciplinary works, Hartmut Böhme gave a vigorous expression to his steady interest in psychological and especially psychoanalytical issues, forms of thinking and research. His major publications on history of culture and mentality as well as on history of ideas and concepts underscore the importance of psychoanalysis as a social and cultural science. Historical, sociological and cultural perspectives have for many years been a distinguishing feature of the awardee's academic writings.
One recent example is Böhme's seminal studies on fetishism and its meaning in modern times. With his interdisciplinary research works on topical phenomena under the perspective of psychology and psychoanalysis, Hartmut Böhme advocates the very stances that are essential for the scope of the Hans Kilian Award.
Professor Böhme's other remarkable merits include his exemplary commitment to the introduction and institutionalisation of interdisciplinary research in university teaching. Not least, the Award honours his continuous collaboration in those study groups that strive to re-establish psychoanalysis as a vital part of the present-day international, dynamically developing social and cultural sciences.
The Jury believe that the first awardee shall forward the social and cultural sciences' interest in psychological and psychoanalytical issues, which should further be differentiated within the framework of outstanding interdisciplinary research. If the ensuing results are not only discussed in academic lectures but also received by broad public, then one important future-oriented objective of the Award and its first conferment can be considered accomplished."
The ceremony was inaugurated by the welcome address of the TU Darmstadt's vice president Professor Petra Gehring. After the speech by the Chair of the Hans Kilian Award's Board Dr Heinz-Rudi Spiegel, Dr Lotte Köhler held a lecture on life and academic career of the Award's eponym Professor Hans Kilian.
Subsequently, in his laudatory speech in honour of the awardee, the member of the Award's Board Professor Jürgen Straub (Ruhr University of Bochum) acclaimed the range and scope of Professor Böhme's scientific research in the field of transdisciplinary cultural psychology and history. The ceremony was closed with the awardee's lecture "The dismembering act. A pictorial and psychological history of anatomy".
During the festive reception following the conferment, the guests also had an occasion to visit the bookstalls displaying books by Hartmut Böhme, academic publications sponsored by the Köhler Foundation as well as numerous scientific manuscripts published by Psychosozial Verlag. On the occasion of the Hans Kilian Award 2011, Psychosozial Verlag had published a book with selected articles by Hans Kilian and academic comments on his life and works (Kulturelle Evolution und Bewusstseinswandel [Cultural Evolution and Transition of Consciousness], in German; eds: Lotte Köhler, Jürgen Reulecke, Jürgen Straub; Gießen 2011).
In the name of the Hans Kilian Award Board we would like to thank all our guests, whose participation in the ceremony greatly contributed to the cordial atmosphere of the evening and helped to make the award conferment a very special academic event.
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Home / Latino Initiative
Understanding the needs of North Carolina's increasingly diverse communities
Go Global NC’s Latino Initiative, founded in 1998, provides year-long professional development programs to business, community, education, and policy leaders from across North Carolina. Leaders develop a fresh approach to understand and take action to address challenges and opportunities in North Carolina’s increasingly diverse communities.
Programs begin with an intense orientation workshop followed by a week-long immersive learning experience in Mexico. Go Global NC leads four action-planning workshops – at one, three, and six months and one year after travel - to create a platform for collaboration and networking to ensure leaders are applying their global experience in North Carolina.
The innovative projects of hundreds of alumni have positively impacted health, education, and policy at local, county, and state levels.
See the Impact Latino Initiative Programs Have on Participants
When a delegation of North Carolina law enforcement officers from Mecklenburg and Union Counties traveled to Mexico with Go Global NC's Latino Initiative, their goal was to build a better understanding of the diverse communities they serve. Please view the video below to hear about their experiences in their own words and voices, which was filmed in both Mexico and North Carolina:
Here is just a sampling of the amazing impact our Latino Initiative alumni are having in their communities:
Health Results
Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte launched a 40-foot mobile clinic, called the Community Care Cruiser, to provide immunizations and primary care to youth up to age 17. About 80 percent of the young people seen by the mobile unit in Mecklenburg County are reporting a Latino/Hispanic background.
Wake County is utilizing Lay Health Advisers/Promoters to deliver health education with an emphasis on nutrition and preventing obesity and diabetes.
Duke University Health System administrators helped develop a new training program for nurses. Spanish-speaking women who were trained as nurses in countries outside the U.S. are receiving training and education to help prepare them for North Carolina state licensure. This successful initiative is attracting considerable attention from states in the U.S. and in Mexico. The program represented a collaborative effort between the health system, the Duke AHEC, and Duke University’s School of Nursing.
FirstHealth of the Carolinas has partnered with Montgomery Community College to train Patient Navigators in Montgomery County to serve as liaisons between their cultural communities and the health care system. Hispanic, Laotian, Hmong and African American students have completed the unique training program designed to help members of ethnically diverse populations maneuver the local health care system and to find needed health information.
Public Safety Results
The Smithfield Police Department provided its officers with cultural training that focuses on officer safety and community outreach with the Latino community.
The North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts established guidelines for certified interpreters to assist Spanish speakers in navigating the judicial system.
Leadership from the Union County Courthouse created an informational guide in English and Spanish about court procedures and available interpreter services.
For more information contact Lorena Patterson at (919) 237-7961 or by email: lpatterson@northcarolina.edu
Latino Initiative News
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Enriching North Carolinians’ Understanding of Their New Neighbors
Go Global NC Launches Its First Crowdfunding Campaign!
Read the October 2016 E-News
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Asante Kotoko set for August 6 return
2yMichael Oti Adjei, KweséESPN
Asante Kotoko in action against Hearts of Oak Christian Thompson/BackpagePix
Michael Oti AdjeiSpecial to ESPN
Asante Kotoko will be back in league action on August 6, three weeks after the accident that killed the team's equipment officer and injured their two coaches.
The Professional League Board of the Ghana Football Association say the Porcupine Warriors will honour their outstanding league game against Accra Hearts of Oak on August 6 before playing league leaders WAFA on August 23 in their second outstanding game.
The PLB said they arrived at the August 6 return date based on a medical review that said Kotoko would be fit to play by then.
The record Ghana champions have not been involved in league action since the bus carrying the team was involved in an accident on the journey back to Kumasi after a game in Accra.
About 12 of the players involved in the accident have been back in training since last week with the youth team under the supervision of youth team coach Ernest Appau, but assistant coach Godwin Ablordey and coach Steve Pollack have not yet joined them.
Pollack is recovering from surgery on his knee after the accident, but the Englishman is determined to return stronger.
"Day by day, I'm getting better and better. I think about football and my work at Kotoko 24/7," he told the club's official mouthpiece Kotoko Express.
"We're going to get back strongly. I've been thinking of the team but, of course, I also think of my health, the health of my players and everybody in the team. We're coming back strongly, no two ways about that."
Pollack will have his work cut out when he returns, with the Porcupine Warriors now nine points behind leaders Aduana Stars with the two games in hand.
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Super Bowl XLIX Recap: Patriots Pass Defense, Before The Pick
February 11, 2015 Leave a commentNew England Patriots, NFL Defense, NFL Playoffs, Seattle SeahawksBy Dave Archibald
The New England Patriots pass defense had an up-and-down game in Super Bowl XLIX. The Seattle Seahawks failed to complete a pass until late in the second quarter, but eventually proved efficient with their air attack, gaining more than 20 yards per completion before the Patriots stood firm to earn the victory ‒ including the game-clinching interception. Dave Archibald takes a look at what went right and wrong for the Patriots pass defense.
Following a slow start, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson connected with his teammates 12 times in the game. However, those dozen completions went for 241 yards and two touchdowns. Seattle went on to score 24 points over four consecutive possessions in the second and third quarters. However, the New England defense buckled down after that, holding Seattle scoreless on their final four possessions.
Are You Not Contained?
Wilson is perhaps the most dangerous running quarterback in football, averaging better than 53 rushing yards per game in the regular season. The Seahawks feature Wilson on option plays via the zone read, but he wreaks much his havoc when scrambling on designed passes, both to generate yards with his legs and to buy time for his receivers to get open. The Patriots contained him well, holding him to just three rushes for 39 yards while sacking him three times. No play better illustrates the dedication to keeping Wilson in the pocket than this one from early in the second quarter:
The four-man rush chases Wilson from left to right and back. At one point, Rob Ninkovich (#50) appears to have a clear shot at the quarterback, but notices that Chandler Jones (#95) ‒ the right-side contain ‒ is on the ground. He eschews his chance at a sack to keep Wilson from the edge. Jones recovers his feet and pursues Wilson all the way to the other side.
In addition to the four-man rush, safety Devin McCourty (#32) lurks in a middle zone, spying the quarterback. With other rushing quarterbacks, the Patriots have used linebackers Jamie Collins, Dont’a Hightower, or Ninkovich as spies, but in the Super Bowl the Patriots often turned to McCourty, perhaps the fastest player on the team, showing the respect they have for the speedy Wilson.
The Patriots don’t sack the Seattle signal-caller here, but they hound him to the 11-yard-line ‒ 15 yards back of the original line of scrimmage. That adds distance and difficulty on his attempt to Bryan Walters (#19) in the middle of the field. The coverage is good, the throw is high, and the ball sails harmlessly over the target, leading to a Seahawks punt.
The worst sequence for the New England pass defense came just before the half with the Patriots leading by seven. The Seahawks had the ball at the New England 44 with just 17 seconds left. It should have been a simple matter to hold them scoreless, and at worst a completion would have set up a field goal.
The Patriots show their typical one-high safety look but, rather than playing man-to-man coverage underneath, they drop into a zone as the play unfolds:
At the top of the shot above, cornerback Brandon Browner (#39) is playing textbook Cover 3 technique. In this coverage, the outside corners are responsible for the deep zones, so he’s giving a big cushion to his man. He stays outside of the receiver, knowing he has help to the inside of the field. By contrast, Kyle Arrington (#25) has just a small cushion on his man, Ricardo Lockette (#83). But while Arrington angles towards his help, he’s not far enough outside Lockette:
Because of the lack of cushion and outside leverage, the WR manages to beat Arrington with a cut to the sideline. Wilson hits Lockette for 23 yards and the receiver steps out of bounds to stop the clock. Worse still, Arrington grabs Lockette’s face mask on the cut, resulting in a penalty that adds another 15 yards to the gain, giving the Seahawks a shot at the end zone.
From Worse to Even Worserer
With six seconds remaining, the Seahawks have time for only one quick pass play, needing to leave at least a second on the clock to kick a field goal if unsuccessful. They line up in the shotgun with two receivers to each side.
The Patriots play their corners off the line, nearly ten yards deep. Wilson targets 6’5” Chris Matthews (#13), who is split wide left against 5’11” cornerback Logan Ryan (#26). Even though Ryan has a cushion and positioning, he drifts backwards at the snap, likely to guard against the fade to the taller receiver. Wilson goes for the quick back-shoulder throw, however, and Ryan is unable to react in time.
Ryan erred here, but Wilson also deserves credit for excellent ball placement. The throw gets to Matthews where he can high-point it right as he’s crossing the goal line, which would have been difficult to defend even with better coverage from Ryan. Still, given the time remaining, if Ryan had just committed a hold or interference penalty, Seattle would have had to kick the field goal.
Longball with Chris Matthews
Matthews wasn’t done making an impact on the game. On Seattle’s first drive of the second half, Wilson looked for the 25-year-old off play action:
The Patriots did not blitz much in the contest, but sent Darrelle Revis (#24) on a rare corner blitz from the slot, with Hightower (#54) coming around the edge. The Seahawks keep both running backs in to pick up the blitzers, and Wilson unloads the ball quickly, throwing to Matthews running a streak route up the left sideline against Arrington. There’s little mystery to the pattern, and Arrington stays in close coverage, but he’s giving up seven inches to the taller Matthews, and the receiver is able to haul in the catch for 45 yards. After this play the Patriots benched Arrington, moving the 6’4” Browner to defend Matthews. The receiver only logged one nine-yard catch the rest of the way. This move also brought Butler into the lineup in sub packages … and the rest, as they say, is history.
Stay Away from Revis Island
Revis held Seattle’s leading receiver Doug Baldwin to just one catch for three yards, though that catch was a touchdown. The Seahawks abandoned targeting their top receiver ‒ Wilson never threw to Baldwin again ‒ and frequently used him as a decoy:
Here the Seahawks line up in a running look with just two wide receivers: Baldwin to the offensive right (bottom of the screen) and Lockette to the left. The Patriots counter with Cover 1: free safety McCourty aligning deep, with Revis on Baldwin and Butler on Lockette in man-to-man coverage underneath. Seattle puts Baldwin in motion towards the middle of the field, and at the snap he cuts upfield along the seam towards McCourty’s territory. Wilson fakes the handoff and, because of Seattle’s deep passing attack, McCourty must maintain over-the-top coverage on Baldwin’s seam route.
That creates a window for Lockette, who runs a deep cross into the vacated section of the field. Butler slips and then trips Lockette, causing the pass to land incomplete, but he is not flagged. Still, this was a well-designed play by the Seahawks, drawing both Revis and McCourty with the deep route and isolating the matchup on the rookie corner.
Revis did his job on Baldwin, forcing Wilson to ignore his favorite target. It’s telling that on the game’s critical play, Seattle drew up a play for Lockette ‒ a player who had totaled just 18 catches in a four-year NFL career.
Football Outsiders ranked the Patriots defense 30th in the NFL against tight ends, but Seattle never targeted Luke Willson despite his recent productivity. The Patriots used primarily man coverage against the 25-year-old, and whether it was Collins, Browner, McCourty, or strong safety Patrick Chung matched up on Willson, he was unable to shake free. Willson also fell victim to the way New England schemed: with the Patriots usually playing one safety in the deep middle and a spy in the underneath, Seattle clearly felt more comfortable attacking the perimeter of the field where they had better numbers.
Jermaine Kearse was held catchless on five targets until overtime of the NFC Championship game, where he hauled in the game-winning touchdown reception. He was having a similarly quiet night (two catches on five targets for just 12 yards) before his miraculous 33-yard-catch on the final drive.
While the New England pass defense held down Seattle’s offense for long stretches of the game, they allowed too many big plays to consider the Super Bowl one of their stronger efforts. They held down Baldwin and Kearse, but Lockette and especially Matthews did surprising damage. Still, the defense came up big when it had to, holding the Seahawks scoreless in the fourth quarter and sealing the win with a huge interception at the goal line. Patriots fans can’t ask for much more than that.
Follow Dave on Twitter @davearchie.
Dave Archibald knows pass defense, specifically how coverage, the pass rush, excellent cornerbacks, versatile safeties and in-game adjustments can make a big difference.
All video and images courtesy the NFL and NFL Game Rewind.
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Dave Archibald is a native New Englander who lives 15 minutes from Foxboro Stadium with his wife and two children. He writes about secondary play, statistics, team building, and whatever tangents his lifelong football education takes him on.
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Logistics-hub initiative eyes diaspora
Published:Thursday | January 23, 2014 | 12:00 AM
Christopher Serju, Gleaner Writer
JAMAICANS COULD find themselves facing stiff competition for most of the top jobs that will flow out of the logistics hub initiative, from their relatives and friends now living abroad.
Dr Eric Deans, chairman of the Logistics Task Force in the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Commerce, served notice recently that there are some skills that will have to be recruited globally.
"That is going to happen," he declared, going on to point out how a reversal of the brain drain could dent the job prospects of many locals.
"We have this huge diaspora community who are eager to come back, with the skills, with the work ethics. (They want) to come back to Jamaica, to be the first beneficiaries of the opportunities that are coming on stream," he explained.
necessary skill sets
Deans said that indications from the industry analysis are that some of the necessary skill sets would not be readily available and, for this reason, the HEART Trust/NTA and Carib-bean Maritime Institute had been commissioned to help design and implement the necessary training curriculum. In addition, the task force is working with the Ministry of Education and some other tertiary-level training institutions to anticipate and meet the need for skilled workers in a number of areas.
However, with locals eagerly anticipating the logistics hub initiative for the job opportunities, a lot of them might be disappointed, according to Deans.
He told The Gleaner: "Initially, many of those skills will not be readily available. Right now, we have an unemployment rate of 16 per cent, but if a company wants to locate tomorrow in Jamaica, those unemployed persons wouldn't match per se the needs. It takes time to train those people."
However, he was confident about the Jamaican workforce getting up to speed in time to meet the needs of the logistics hub initiative.
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ARTICLE: Western newspapers used a cultural framework when reporting the Great East Japan Disaster
By: JRN
Tags: crisis journalism, foreign correspondence, japan, media systems, United Kingdom, United States
The Great East Japan Disaster of 2011 provides an important case study through which to evaluate how the western media cover Japan. Besides the nuclear crisis, limited attention has been paid to news reporting across the multiple overlapping disaster.
Jamie Matthews of Bournemouth University did a critical discourse analysis of coverage of the disaster in The New York Times, The Guardian and The Observer. The author looked at 215 articles written during the early phase of the disaster.
There were three discursive phases in the disaster cycle: post-impact; response and the post-disaster environment and; consequences and recovery.
Japan and the disaster-affected communities of Tohoku were represented through a cultural framework, the analysis shows. This was enacted during the response phase of the the news cycle, and based on a discourse of cultural otherness.
This discourse was most clearly shown through human interest stories that showed how people in Japan were living through the disaster, Matthews explains.
The news texts drew much on stereotypes and employed culture to provide context to individual stories. These stereotypes can also give be positive, the author notes. Several articles in the sample also contested these views, showing examples of post-disaster behaviours that contradicted the familiar images.
The discourse of cultural otherness is not based on lack of familiarity on the part of journalists, Matthews writes. Instead, it is, in part, attributable to the features of disaster journalism. In disaster journalism, journalists produce narratives that enable distant events to resonate with their audience
The article “Cultural otherness and disaster news” was published in International Communication Gazette and is available on the publisher’s website (free abstract).
Picture: SH-60B helicopter flies over Sendai by United States Navy, public domain
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SC Johnson Releases New Public Sustainability Report: Company Continues Focus on Making Sustainable Green Choices
Innovative Waste Reduction Programs, Renewable Energy Projects and Continuous Progress on Product Chemistry Advance Company's 2016 Environmental Objectives
Feb 19, 2013 4:00 AM ET
SC Johnson releases new #Sustainability Report outlining ways to achieve 2016 #environmental goals http://3bl.me/xspd6t via @SCJGreenChoices
RACINE, Wis., Feb. 19, 2013 /3BL Media /PRNewswire/ - Privately-held SC Johnson released today its 2012 annual public sustainability report (www.scjohnson.com/report) which shares the latest information on the family company's ongoing work to achieve its 2016 environmental goals by using more clean energy, cutting greenhouse gas emissions and creating innovative products that use fewer resources.
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"Over the past year, we've progressed many environmental efforts that are detailed in this report -- from our ongoing work to continually select better ingredients, to innovative new programs related to reducing waste," said Fisk Johnson, Chairman and CEO of SC Johnson. "The goal of these and other advances is to make the world a better place for future generations. That's the inspiration behind our holistic commitment to the environment, and it's something we work to live up to every day."
The SC Johnson commitment to sustainability is based on a focus to make a positive impact at every stage of a product's lifecycle. Beginning with efforts to make responsible supply chain decisions, the company also works to increase its use of clean energy and package products that use less material. The company's dedication to help consumers make green choices through education and engagement brings this commitment full circle.
For more than 20 years, SC Johnson has set five-year environmental goals to guide this 360-degree approach. Progress and results are publicly shared on a regular basis, along with the latest information about exciting, innovative ways the company is reducing its environmental footprint. This past year marked the first year of SC Johnson's newest five-year environmental strategy, which aims to expand its greenhouse gas focus, explore new ways to minimize landfill impact and continue improving product chemistry.
2012 SC Johnson Public Sustainability Report Highlights
The company has already made great progress towards its 2016 environmental goals as detailed in the report; highlights include:
Using its internally developed and patented Greenlist™ process, SC Johnson continued to phase out less-desirable ingredients in its product formulations in favor of better choices that have a lesser impact on the environment.
As part of its award-winning ingredient disclosure program, the company launched an industry-leading Fragrance Palette in North America, providing consumers with an online resource that discloses fragrance ingredients used in SC Johnson products.
SC Johnson launched a consumer initiative to study and increase recycling by families.
The company continued progress against its goal of becoming landfill neutral by 2016, which includes using less packaging and more post-consumer-recycled content.
SC Johnson also increased clean energy use with innovative technologies.
In December 2012, SC Johnson completed work on two 415-foot-tall wind turbines at the company's largest global manufacturing facility, Waxdale, in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin. The turbines will allow SC Johnson to generate on average 100 percent of electrical energy on-site to manufacture trusted brands such as Windex® and Glade® that are produced at Waxdale.
Three SWIFT mini wind turbines on the roof of its Lowell, Ark., sales office, which are capable of generating as much as 3,600 KWH of electricity annually, reducing carbon dioxide emissions equal to about 280 gallons of consumed gasoline.
A new biofuel initiative at its factory in Surabaya, Indonesia - by using waste husks from rice grains as a fuel source, is projected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 7,800 tons each year.
SC Johnson expanded its concentrated cleaner refills to five of the company's brands: fantastik®, Pledge®, Scrubbing Bubbles®, Shout® and Windex® in an effort to save millions of pounds of plastic ending up in landfills nationwide.
SC Johnson continued to support communities around the world through philanthropy and volunteerism. In the last 10 years, SC Johnson contributions have exceeded $200 million.
About SC Johnson's Public Sustainability Report
To minimize waste, SC Johnson limits the number of printed editions and encourages readers to view the report atwww.scjohnson.com/report
Learn more about green choices on Twitter at @SCJGreenChoices
About SC Johnson
SC Johnson is a family-owned and managed business dedicated to innovative, high-quality products, excellence in the workplace and a long-term commitment to the environment and the communities in which it operates. Based in the USA, the company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of household cleaning products and products for home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care. It markets such well-known brands as GLADE®, KIWI®, OFF!®, PLEDGE®, RAID®, SCRUBBING BUBBLES®, SHOUT®, WINDEX® and ZIPLOC® in the U.S. and beyond, with brands marketed outside the U.S. including AUTAN®, TANA®, BAMA®, BAYGON®, BRISE®, KABIKILLER®, KLEAR®, MR. MUSCLE®, and RIDSECT®. The 127-year-old company, that generates $9 billion in sales, employs nearly 13,000 people globally and sells products in virtually every country around the world. www.scjohnson.com
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Program Tuesday May 23DevOps2017-04-27T10:11:00+00:00
Mixiii Biomed 2017 Conference Program has nine main tracks consisting of invited Lectures/Panels and company presentations.
Trending topics have been identified and through this focused track approach, participants have the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding and more insight into the subjects.
Time slots highlighted in light blue indicate company presentations.
Please check program on site in case of last minute changes.
07:30 – 17:00 Registration Open
09:15 – 09:40 Welcome by Conference Co-Chairpersons
Ruti Alon, Founder & CEO, Medstrada
Dr. Benny Zeevi, Managing General Partner, Tel Aviv Venture Partners
09:40 – 10:00 Nechemia (Chemi) J. Peres, Managing General Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango: "Special Tribute to Mr. Shimon Peres"
10:00 – 10:50 Shmuel (Mooly) Eden, Former Intel Senior Vice President and President Intel Israel, Chairman, University of Haifa: "The exponential world, can we improve the quality of life of the elderly"
11:20 - 17:40 PERSONAL DIAGNOSTICS AND PERSONAL MEDICINE
Symposium Chairperson:
Dr. Iris Grossman, PhD, Vice President, Teva Pharmaceuticals
11:20 - 11:40 Eran Eden, PhD, CEO MEMed Ltd.: "Challenges and opportunities of developing new personalized Dx Product"
11:40 - 12:10 Yarmela Pavlovic and Randy J. Prebula, Hogan Lovells: "Precision Medicine: Companion & Complementary Diagnostics"
12:10 - 12:25 Dekel Taliaz, Taliaz Ltd.: "AlgoSight Antidepressant - selecting the right treatment for people suffering from depression"
12:25 - 12:40 Moti Gal, NovellusDx "NovellusDx Functional Oncology Diagnostics"
12:40 - 13:00 Prof. Yuval Dor, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "Noninvasive detection of cell death"
13:00 - 13:20 Prof. Gal Markel, MD, PhD, Sheba Medical Center: "Biomarkers for immune checkpoint inhibitors"
14:50 - 15:15 Dr. Mark D. Stovsky, MD, MBA, FACS, Senior Director, Emerging Business, Cleveland Clinic Ventures and Cleveland Clinic Innovations: "Innovations in Cancer Diagnostics from the Cleveland Clinic"
15:15 - 15:35 Dr. Iris Grossman, PhD, Vice President, Teva Pharmaceuticals: "Harnessing biomarkers and digital markers to holistically address the individual's needs to maintain health in later decades of life"
15:35 - 15:50 Yael Glickman, Micromedic Technologies Ltd: "Innovative diagnostic platform for early cancer detection"
15:50 - 16:05 Assaf Oron, BiomX: "Modulating the microbiome to develop noveltherapeutics - an emerging field"
16:05 - 16:20 Dr. Elon Ganor, Nucleix: "Nucleix – Using Epigenetics for Cancer Detection in Liquid Biopsy"
16:20 - 16:45 Ben Newton, GE Healthcare Life Sciences: "Biomarkers development and production in the Molecular Imaging arena: GE perspective and strategy"
16:45 - 17:45 Panel: Discussion & Conclusion
17:45 – 19:45 Gala Event
11:20 - 17:25 NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES
Prof. Nir Giladi, MD, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Ichilov Hospital
11:20 - 11:50 Prof. Nir Giladi, MD, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Ichilov Hospital: "The road to early detection and prevention of neurodegeneration"
11:50 - 12:10 Tami Rachmilewitz, Medical Director, NeuroDerm: "State that matters: The story of liquid levodopa"
12:10 - 12:25 Yoram Solberg, BrainsGate Ltd: "BrainsGate - Spheno Palatine Ganglion (SPG) Stimulation to Treat Acute Ischemic Stroke"
12:25 - 12:40 Eyal Baror, Neuronix Ltd.: "Neuronix Technology for Treatment of Alzheimer's disease - Results of Phase-III US Multi-Center Study"
12:40 - 13:00 Prof. Michal Beeri, PhD, Sheba Medical Center: Neurodegeneration: "An economic, societal and emotional disaster and the role of brain technologies as the light at the end of the tunnel"
13:00 - 13:20 Dr. Shahar Arzy, MD, PhD, Hadassah Medical Center: "Clara: a new tool for early identification of the core disorder in Alzheimer's disease"
14:50 - 15:15 David Simon, PhD, Medtronic, RTG Brain Therapies Neurosurgery: "Medtronic Brain Therapies: Achieving our Inorganic Growth Aspirations"
15:15 - 15:35 Dr. Ilana Schlesinger, MD, Rambam Medical Center: "Essential tremor and Parkinson's - frontiers of therapeutics (Insightec)"
15:35 - 15:50 Yuval Mor, Beyond Verbal Communication Ltd.: "Using AI to Revolutionize Healthcare"
15:50 - 16:05 Son Preminger, Intendu: "Intendu Active Brain Trainer - Transforming Brain Health in Aging and following Injury and Disease"
16:05 - 16:25 Prof. Shai Efrati, MD, Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research: "Hyperbaric treatment for cognitive health"
11:20 - 15:45 THE IMPACT OF AGING ON POPULATION HEALTH AND WORLD ECONOMY
Prof. Shlomo Noy, MD, PhD, Sheba Medical Center
11:20 - 11:45 Prof. Shlomo Noy, MD, PhD, Sheba Medical Center: "The impact of aging population on health technologies and economy"
11:45 - 12:15 Stephen A. Kagan, MD, FACP, Healthy Ageing Center of Excellence; Senior Director, Rare Disease, Global Medical Affairs,Pfizer, Inc.: “Framing Our Work Around a Platform of Healthy Ageing”
12:15 - 12:30 Assaf Sella, Kytera Technologies LTD: "A New Paradigm For Aging In Place"
12:30 - 12:45 Yaron Tal, ChroniSense Medical, Ltd.: "ChroniSense"
12:45 - 13:00 Avner Halperin, EarlySense: "Democratizing Healthcare: Empowering Proactive Care at Home"
13:00 - 13:20 Prof. Tzvi Dwolatzky, MD, MBBCh, Rambam Medical Center: "Frontiers in Medicine: New Leadership for Geriatric Medicine"
14:50 - 15:05 Rami Cohen, TelesofiaMedical: "Personalized videos for the elderly"
15:05 - 15:20 Omri Shor, Medisafe: "5 Guiding Principles for Sustained Patient Engagement in Medication Adherence"
15:20 - 15:45 Ziv Ofek, Founder and CEO, CDI (Center for Digital Innovation): "Healthy Aging: when challenges meet Innovation"
16:00 - 17:30 START-UP COMPETITION
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Back on St Valentine’s Day the Dotcom walkers visited the Refreshment Room on Carnforth Station which I deemed to be the most romantic place in Lancashire as it was the main location of the British cinema classic "Brief Encounter"filmed in 1945. As we poked around adjacent visitors centre looking at some of the exhibits I began to wonder what it is about this film that makes it one of the most acclaimed films ever made in Britain. Everything that happens in the film is encapsulated in the title which amounts to not very much at all. Following a brief encounter while waiting at a railway station Laura Jesson played by Celia Johnson realises she has developed "feelings" for Alec Harvey played by Trevor Howard and Alec realises he has "feelings" for Laura but both are married so without ever consummating the relationship or getting anywhere near it decide it is best not to see each other again. The film is about the conflict between a person's emotional life and middle class conventions - the middle class conventions win.
At the end of the film while the audience feels sympathy for the two protagonists it also feels the right outcome has been reached. Given that the film was made as the war was coming to an end it might be seen as an appeal for the return to normal life with values of civility, decency, duty and restraint after the turbulence of the war years when brief encounters between servicemen on leave and lonely wives and girlfriends were rather more commonplace than we would like to believe.
In this second decade of the 21st century we seem a long way away from the Refreshment Room of David Lean's film. What would have Celia made of Big Brother or Trevor of the Jeremy Kyle Show? Not much in the way of civility or decency there and certainly no restraint. We may have lost things that we needed to lose since 1945 like a colonial empire and measles but "Brief Encounter" with its clipped middle class accents and impeccable manners reminds us of how we British once liked to be seen.
This route could not be easier. From Bolton-le-Sands it follows the Lancashire Coastal Way to Carnforth and returns along the Lancaster Canal. It is a walk full of interest though – not least the railway station at Carnforth where Trevor met Celia briefly in 1945
Start/finish: Bolton-le-Sands Shore Road close to Red Bank Farm caravan site. LA5 8JR
Distance: 7 ½ miles 12k
Summary: Easy.
WARNING: Follow all advice concerning tides displayed on noticeboards at start of walk.
Maps: OS OL Explorer 296 Lancaster, Morecambe and Fleetwood, OS OL Map 7 The English Lakes South-eastern area.
Map by kind permission of the Johnston Press
1. With Morecambe Bay on your left walk along the raised embankment northwards.
After St Michaels's Lane the embankment ends so continue on the flat reaching Wild Duck Hall a large white building.
Keep to the left of the hall on a service road leading to Bolton Holmes Farm. From this point the way is a little less straightforward in that the salt marshes are dissected by creeks and pools which need to be carefully negotiated especially when the tide is high.
After a rock strewn point of land the way reaches the estuary of the River Keer close to Marsh House Farm. After a stile continue along the lane
which brings you to the junction where the Coastal Way turns left. Here keep ahead on Crag Bank Lane passing beneath a pair of railway bridges to a road junction.
Turn right for Carnforth.
2. The route continues past the station
to the busy road junction with the A6. Cross the road at traffic lights
and continue slightly uphill to the canal bridge. Just before it turn right and following the access path around a children's playground reach the tow path. With the canal on your left walk back to Bolton-le-Sands.
This is easy uncomplicated walking.
3. 2 ½ miles (about an hour) will bring you back to Bolton-le-Sands. Pass under Church Bridge (No 122) and then take the path up to St Michael's Lane. Turn left and soon after cross the A6.
Still on St Michael's Lane continue through a housing estate and to cross the railway by a level crossing. The lane then quickly returns you to the shore and car park.
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US Lacrosse “Stick Stories”: Oakland Lacrosse Club
By Lane Errington | @Lane_Errington
Gilda Rottman
How lacrosse has taken hold in Oakland’s inner-city neighborhoods —
and how US Lacrosse helped to make it happen
If you can see it, you can be it.
As a group of roughly 50 middle-school kids, many of whom are holding a stick for the first time, rotate through drill stations at an Oakland (Calif.) Lacrosse Club practice in October, co-founder LaNon Gillins shares the basics of the game and a bit of inspiration with their wide-eyed parents.
“Lacrosse teaches resilience,” he says. “Anyone who’s played knows why — because you’re going to drop the ball about a thousand times before you get good at catching it.”
For kids who grow up in Oakland, resilience is the key to unlocking the future. Some struggle with food insecurity, be it inconsistent meals or lack of access to healthy food options. Others are dealing with an unstable home life or have experienced violence in their neighborhoods.
Executive Director Kevin Kelley, a former Providence College goalie turned West Coast transplant, co-founded Oakland Lacrosse Club in 2012 after spending a decade coaching lacrosse and working in urban education for a Bay Area nonprofit. Initially, he traveled from school to school, offering students a free opportunity to try lacrosse in physical education classes. The sport was foreign to most inner-city kids, who grew up seeing peers play basketball, football or run track.
“Because of the rise of pay-to-play sports and schools not having the resources, in cities like Oakland, thousands of kids don’t get the opportunity to be part of a team,” Kelley said.
Most Oakland Lacrosse participants are black, Hispanic or Asian-American. Nearly all attend public school. More than 70 percent qualify for free or reduced lunch. Fifty percent live in neighborhoods where their life expectancy is 12 years fewer than if they lived in a neighboring suburb. Transportation to and from practices and games is a challenge for many.
“Kids need to feel safe to develop,” said Gillins, who joined OLC full-time this year as Director of Lacrosse and Culture. “A lot of our kids are on guard. Why? Because the world they live is in isn’t safe. So the first thing we need to do is allow them to take that mask off. … That starts with unconditional love.”
With public school funding unavailable, Oakland Lacrosse Club membership is free for students, with the mindset that kids will do amazing things when given access to resources and opportunities. What began with one team and 20 players now is four and 100, respectively.
The club has put down roots at Westlake Middle School, adding academic support sessions and enrichment components — they visited Google in November— on top of lacrosse to create a holistic program. Coaches hold study hall at least twice a week before making their way out to the blacktop to lead practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Kelley hopes to add at least three similar programs at Oakland public middle schools over the next three years.
“We want to create a second family for our kids,” Kelley said. “By creating an environment where they feel that they can succeed, we’re creating a foundation for them to succeed in other areas of their life.”
Oakland Lacrosse Club has benefitted from numerous avenues of US Lacrosse support, including a First Stick Grant in 2013, National Diversity Grants, funding from the Northern California Chapter and participation in the Urban Lacrosse Alliance.
“We would not be where we are today without US Lacrosse,” said Ginger Miles, former Cal women’s coach and current US Lacrosse West Regional Manager who volunteers as president of the Oakland Lacrosse board of directors. “US Lacrosse was the seed money that got us off the ground. It was the original equipment that allowed us to put sticks in hands and start our [P.E.] outreach initiative.”
Middle schoolers who come through Oakland Lacrosse Club can continue on to play at Oakland Tech High School, a 2010 First Stick Grant recipient also overseen by Kelley, and soon, Oakland Military Institute, one of 110 lacrosse teams and organizations in 36 states awarded First Stick Grants in October.
So what does success look like?
Success is Adrian, an eighth grader who worked with OLC mentors four days a week in study hall to turn a failing GPA into a 3.6 in less than a year, and is a vocal leader at practice.
Success is 14-year old Ariam, who emigrated from war-torn Eritrea in east Africa last year, arrived in the U.S. speaking little to no English, and credits Oakland Lacrosse as a catalyst for her transition.
Success is Jamal, who has dreams of attending St. Ignatius, home of California’s top-ranked high school lacrosse program, next year — and the lacrosse skills to make it happen.
While many would consider the program a success just to make it to game day, Oakland’s four teams won almost exactly half of their games last spring, participating in the Northern California Junior Lacrosse Association (NCJLA).
The ultimate vision? Give all 40,000 kids in the Oakland Unified School District an opportunity to play lacrosse, and use the sport as a medium to help them in other areas of their life. Kelley and his staff believe in a long-term commitment to the individual from sixth through 12th grade.
“Big picture, we think that the kids coming out of our program will someday be able to change the face of Oakland,” Miles said.
It’s an ambitious dream, but if they can see it, they can be it.
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Stocks are hip and shares are old school
Earlier, I explained that "share certificate" and "stock certificate" mean the same. I also believe different kinds of securities have evolved because of changing environments. Well, here is an example of adaptive evolution in scripophily.
Check out the following two certificates :
double-click their images to enlarge them,
and look for similarities and differences.
certificate No 1
Image courtesy : Geert Leemeijer
This is an odd couple
Both look like standard certificates. They also resemble each other :
Both are issued by The "Shell" Transport & Trading Company, Ltd.
Both are printed by Blades, East & Blades Ltd.
And both state a capital of £43,000,000.
Yet, there is something strange about this pair. Did you notice that the first one is issued as a £1 ordinary share, and the second one as a £1 ordinary stock certificate ? You can verify this in these details.
detail from certificate No 1
Certificate No 1 was issued almost ten years earlier than certificate No 2. That raises the question why change the lettering from "share" to "stock" ? Why would a company want this : there is no change in the capital structure, and after all stock and share mean the same thing.
A matter of modern language ?
Geert Leemeijer aka Stockold Scripophily brought these two examples under attention in the Collectible Stocks & Bonds Facebook group. Geert suggested that over time the term stock certificate became more popular than share certificate. The different lettering on these securities was ".. a matter of modern language".
Here is an overview of the Shell examples provided by Geert with the date of issue and the stated capital :
1920 - £23,000,000 - 20 ordinary £1 bearer shares , blue
1925 - £43,000,000 - 5 ordinary £1 bearer shares, brown
1929 - £43,000,000 - ordinary £1 registered shares, blue
1937 - £43,000,000 - 1 ordinary £1 bearer share, red
1957 - £113,000,000 - ordinary £1 registered shares, blue
Two of these are displayed above, the others are grouped in the paste-up image below. The set illustrates the transition from share to stock for the Shell company.
"Shares" in the upper row, "stocks" below.
The brothers Marcus and Sam Samuel founded The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company in 1897.
Their father imported and sold sea-shells and that's how the "Shell" company got its name.
Shell is not the only one
Other British companies also favoured stocks above shares. The UK section of Tabak-Peter shows the following examples :
British-American Tobacco Ltd
The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland) Ltd.
Earlier certificates from these companies are printed as shares and later ones as stocks.
Another example is the J. Lyons & Company Ltd. J. Lyons started as a spin off from the Salmon & Gluckstein tobacco company at the end of the 19th century. The company expanded into a chain of teashops, ran high class restaurants and started to manufacture biscuits and later ice cream.
J. Lyons & Company, Limited
7% Preference "shares" of £1, 1923
The red stamp on the certificate, see below, tells us that
The Shares referred to herein were converted into stock on the 24th June, 1940
J. Lyons developed original ideas about what the future of business could be like. After World War II they supported the EDSAC computing project at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory. In 1959 J. Lyons built their own computer, called Lyons Electronic Office I. Based on the EDSAC design, LEO I handled the company's accounts and logistics.
J. Lyons & Company Limited
7% Cumulative Preference "stocks" of £1, 1958
PS : Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher worked
as a food research chemist for the company around the 1950s.
UK stocks and shares in the Turbulent Thirties
Google's Ngram viewer displays charts that show how often terms, or phrases, occur in a corpus of books over a preselected number of years. The Y-axis shows the percentages of references to each term from all terms Google has indexed for a year (X-axis) in the entire corpus.
Google Ngram viewer shows a decline for the term
share certificate from the 1930s till the early 1940s.
The corpus used in the chart is British English. It consists of books in the English language published in Great Britain. The chart illustrates a decline for the term share certificate over a period from the 1930s till the early 1940s (blue line). Meanwhile stock certificate saw an increase at the end of the 1930s. You can also check the same with the American English corpus, but the share certificate pattern is not repeated in that graph. According to Google Ngram's data, the term share certificate became more popular again from the 1960s.
Apparently during the 1930s it was trendy to speak of stock certificates in the UK. In this period a number of British companies preferred to market their securities as stock certificates instead of share certificates. Possibly this can be explained by the increase of intercontinental (American) aviation, radio, and film. A matter of adapting modern language.
Shell's history pages
Shares and stocks, bearer and registered certificates
Google's Ngram
Labels: computers, food, Netherlands, oil and gas, restaurants, shipping, shops, tobacco, transport, UK
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Council Documents & Policies
Leyburn Community Library
Thornborough Hall
Leyburn Town Council
Market Town & Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales
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A Meeting of the above named Council convened by the Council was held in the Oak Room, Thornborough Hall on Monday, 19th February 2018 at 7.00pm.
Present: Cllr Walker Cllr Sanderson
Cllr Begley Cllr Bradford
Cllr Medley Cllr Pace
Cllr Riley
District Cllr Duff
3959. PUBLIC REPRESENTATIONS
The new PCSO for Leyburn, Lidia Ford, introduced herself to Councillors. She has been involved with the new Pubwatch scheme in Leyburn and Middleham.
3960. APOLOGIES were received from Cllr Read.
3961. To receive any Declaration of Interest under the Council’s Code of Conduct or Members’ Register of Interest -There were no declarations of interest.
3962. CO-OPTION OF TOWN COUNCILLOR
Councillors conducted interviews with four candidates for the office of Town Councillor.
The public were then excluded in order for Councillors to discuss the candidates. The meeting was re-convened and voting took place. Mr Paul Wood from Cow Close was selected as the new Town Councillor. All candidates were thanked by the Chairman.
3963. MINUTES OF MEETING held on Monday, 15th January were approved as a correct record.
3964. CLERK’S REPORT
Yarker Bank Lane update - John Hall had been informed by Land Registry that they will now register the lane in the name of James Sunter. Mr Hall will prepare wording to be included in the Title that ensures access to the quarry along the track at all times.
NYCC has raised an order to have the faded markings at the zebra crossing refreshed. The work will be carried out when the weather improves. They are aware that the road is sinking a little near the crossing and are closely monitoring the area and will take action if it continues to get worse and becomes a safety hazard.
NYCC cannot remove the barriers outside the old HSBC building until Costa coffee put up their own since they are there to protect pedestrians from the damaged wall.
LED street lighting installation in Leyburn by NYCC - The decorative street lighting at Manor Court will not be done this year since they wish to develop a retro fit LED gear tray that will fit in the existing lanterns.
A new local online directory for North Yorkshire has been launched by NYCC called ‘North Yorkshire Connect’ and details can be viewed at www.northyorkshireconnect.org.uk . The online directory includes local support service information, local groups and charities. Local groups can join and add information to the directory by registering online.
RDC has produced two newsletters: Visit Richmondshire – to promote upcoming events and to showcase the district and Business in Richmondshire- information for tourism businesses on upcoming workshops and grant funding opportunities. In addition to this they have also produced a facebook page - Visit Richmondshire which highlights and promotes events (including the newsletters).
The manager of Kirkwood Hall has spoken to the Broadacres development team about the poor state of the roadside verges and they are due to be taken over by NYCC in the near future. In the meantime she has requested that the area is tidied up.
Mrs Benson has contacted the Town Council to say that at the present time she has decided not to continue with her plan to install a stone memorial bench in the cemetery.
Update on building a sustainable future for the Friarage - All of the data and information gathered during the engagement process will be included in a draft business case to be presented to the NYCC Scrutiny of Health Committee during summer 2018.
NHS CCG for Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby has launched a text messaging service called Compass Buzz which is for young people aged from 11 - 18 years old. By texting the service on 07520 631168 they will be able to receive confidential advice and support from a wellbeing worker. The service is available Monday - Thursday 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. and Friday 9.00 a.m. - 4.30 p.m..
The Deputy Clerk had been requested to obtain information about the use of CCTV. CCTV operators must let people know they are using CCTV by putting up signs that are clearly visible stating the details of the organisation operating the system. CCTV operators are not allowed to disclose images of identifiable people to the media or to put them on the internet.
David Robinson was thanked for once again removing the Christmas tree from the Market Place.
A generous donation of £500 had been received from the Lower Wensleydale Business Network towards the summer flower displays and Christmas Light displays.
Another successful litter-pick had taken place on the previous Saturday and Councillors thanked all those who attended. The Clerk will contact the Auction Mart to ask if large items of rubbish can be removed from their land.
Leyburn Community Library volunteers are holding a ‘Books & Bakes’ afternoon from 12.00 - 2.00 on Friday, 23rd February and Councillors and members of the public are invited to join them.
3965. REPORTS FROM MEETINGS ATTENDED BY COUNCILLORS - A meeting of the Town Plan Steering Group had taken place and also a preliminary meeting for arrangements for the Tour de Yorkshire event on 5th and 6th May.
3966. CORRESPONDENCE & REPORTS
Items Circulated
White Rose update- December 2017
Clerks & Councils Direct- January 2018
Market Times- December 2017
Decision/Comment Required
The ice cream contract for 2018/19 was awarded to Yorkshire Dales Ice Cream Ltd from Bolton Abbey.
Following discussion it was agreed to locate Tourist Information Points at the
Co-op and the Bolton Arms.
Councillors approved the purchase of two leaflet stands for the Tourist Information Points.
Councillors provisionally discussed arrangements for the Tour de Yorkshire event and approved the hire of equipment needed for the event which can be funded from the Thornborough Hall account. RDC also has some grant funding available.
It was agreed to arrange a site meeting to decided the location for the Tour de France sculpture.
The Clerk will prepare draft criteria for a new Standing Order regarding making donations and bring this back to the March Meeting for discussion.
Councillors gave permission for St Andrews Church, Grinton, to hold their annual car boot sale in the Parks Field, Grinton on Monday, 28th May 2018.
Councillors discussed the request for a donation towards a reclining chair for Kirkwood Hall’s 'Step Up Step Down' scheme and agreed to contribute £500 from the Thornborough Hall account.
Councillors ratified payment for the YLCA training day for the Deputy Clerk on
Friday 16th March.
3967. LEYBURN TOWN PLAN
Update - The action plan is now being drawn up and the first draft of the narrative will soon be available.
3968. PLANNING
17/00824/FULL Full Planning Permission for Demolition of Side Entrance Lobby, Construction of Extension and Formation of Secondary Escape Window in Lieu of Door to Toilets at Leyburn Methodist Church, Railway Street, Leyburn, North Yorkshire GRANTED
17/00791/FULL Full Planning Permission for Erection of Agricultural Workshop Portal Frame Building at Washfold Farm, Moor Road, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5JZ GRANTED
17/00893/FULL Full Planning Permission for Extension of Existing Hardcore Yard to Create a 100m x 30m Hardcore Yard Area to Park Machinery at Washfold Farm, Moor Road, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5JZ. GRANTED
17/00693/LBC Listed Building Consent to Fit Cellar Cooling Unit in Courtyard at Low Level so as not to be Visible from Street Level and fit 1 no. Satellite Dish to the Far End of the Car Park Fixed to the Perimeter Wall at The Bolton Arms, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5BW. GRANTED
17/00746/FULL Full Planning Permission to Fit Cellar Cooling Unit in Courtyard at Low Level so as not to be Visible from Street Level and fit 1 no. Satellite Dish to the Far End of the Car Park Fixed to the Perimeter Wall (Retrospective) at The Bolton Arms, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5BW. GRANTED
18/00035/FULL Full Planning Permission for Removal of Existing Timber Bowling Club House and Utility Shed and Replacement of a New Bowling Club House / Pavilion and Utility Shed at Leyburn Bowling Club, Moor Road, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5DJ.
18/00002/FULL Full Planning Permission for Orangery to the Rear and Extension to Existing Garage at 11 Mount Drive, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5JQ.
18/00004/FULL Full Planning Permission to Replace Existing Front Door and a Number of Windows to the Front and Rear at Danby House, 8 St Matthews Terrace, Harmby Road, Leyburn, North Yorkshire, DL8 5EL.
Councillors had no objections to items (f) and (h) but with regard to (g) commented that a soakaway should be installed to ensure that surface water does not affect neighbouring properties.
3969. MARKET
Councillors discussed the suggestion to hold a Sunday market once a month (probably the second Sunday) and hold the May market during the weekend of the Tour de Yorkshire since the Market Place will be coned off for both days.
3970. CEMETERY
The Cemetery contract for 2018/19 was awarded to A&J Garden Services.
3971. ACCOUNTS
The precept for Leyburn for the year 2018/2019 was set at £47,210.
Councillors approved the accounts as attached.
3972. EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION
There are several old adverts and notices fixed to lamp posts around the town. These will be removed.
NYCC will be asked again about the muddy verge on Richmond Road.
A new 2018 events poster will be put up in the notice board outside Thomas the Bakers shop.
The market shelter is now opened up from 7.15 on weekday mornings in term time for the benefit of pupils waiting for early buses. Allan Morris was thanked for his help with this.
The local Fire Inspector will be asked to visit the antique shop premises.
The Clerk was asked to find out when data is downloaded from the Moor Road speed matrix.
The old TI sign on Moor Road needs removing. NYCC will be asked to do this.
3973. DATE OF NEXT MEETING: Monday, 19th March 2018 in the Oak Room, Thornborough Hall at 7.00 p.m.
Leyburn Annual Parish Meeting will be held on Monday, 26th March at 7.30 p.m. in the Oak Room, Thornborough Hall. Any item for the agenda must be sent to the Clerk by 9th March.
Meeting closed
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Actor William Baldwin, who is currently in Cyprus to film ‘S.O.S. – Survive or Sacrifice’, which is being shot in and around Limassol said he loves the island.
Filming started earlier this month. It is a production by Atladium, which began operations in Cyprus in 2017 and specialises in feature films, television series and other video productions.
Altadium said the project was made possible due to the support from ‘The Initiative of Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency – Film in Cyprus’. With an aim to attract investors to its audiovisual industry, Cyprus launched “Olivewood” last year.
Speaking during a news conference in Limassol, Baldwin said he always wanted to visit the island as one of his best friends lives here. His stay was only a few days but “I definitely want to come back for more time,” he said. On a break from filming, he told Cybc he loved the food and had eaten lobster at a restaurant in Limassol.
The actor said that from his personal experience, the tax relief scheme the Cypriot government applied for the development of the audiovisual industry was expected to significantly boost the local economy and tourism.
Producer and actress Marianne Rosset, who is also in the film, and her husband Vitaly Rosset, expressed their satisfaction that they were contribute to the development of the film industry at the local level and to the promotion of Cyprus abroad through ‘S.O.S. Survive or Sacrifice’.
“We want to show how perfect Cyprus is for producing films,” they said.
The film, directed by Roman Doronin, is expected to be released by the end of 2020.
According to the script, two sisters, Kate and her younger sister – Liz, arrive at a seaside resort. At the hotel, they realise that the hapless Liz has left her passport at the airport. The sisters quarrel. Liz stays in the hotel room while Kate goes out for dinner, alone.
At a bar, Kate meets a travel blogger – Michelle, and her buddies: a local entrepreneur – Andreas, and a tourist – Nick. Andreas offers the two lovely ladies an unscheduled, impromptu ride on his tourist hot-air balloon.
As the result of a freak accident, the wind carries the balloon far out to sea. Their cell phones are out of range, and the gas canisters won’t last long. If they ditch in the sea everyone will drown.
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Canterbury: A Sketch Book
Keesey, Walter M.
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Published by Adam & Charles Black, Ltd. 4, 5 & 6 Soho Square, London 1922. 1922.
Hard back. 24 full page pencil illustrations. Spine edge covering missing and in near Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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The Sarre Penn | The Story of a Stream
Allan Butler, Monica Headley, Veronica Litten [Maps by Jean Anthony]
Published by A. G. Butler, 15 Nackington Road, Canterbury, Kent First Edition circa 1996 not stated. 1996.
First edition in publisher's original illustrated light green card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains 95 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. In very near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0952618303
Townsend, William
(Book #ID 3837)
Published by B. T. Batsford Ltd., London First edition 1950. 1950.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cloth covers, lettering to spine. 8vo 88 pp. Nr. Fine in Very Good dust wrapper with light foxing to covers, not price clipped 8s 6d. Dust wrapper supplied in archival acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A.
A Short Guide to St. Augustine's Canterbury
Published 1923. 1923.
Card wraps. 8 pp. 125 mm x 185 mm. Illustration to front cover of The Great Gate of Abbot Fyndon 1300. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
A Short Guide to the Catholic Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury
Thomas Becket (also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London, and later Thomas à Becket (21 December c. 1118 - 29 December 1170) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion].
Privately Printed.
8½'' x 6'' four sided pamphlet. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
1955 Kelly's Directory of Canterbury [Buff Book] and Neighbourhood (Incorporating Pike's Blue Book) | Comprises Street Section, Private Residents Section, Commercial Section, Trades Section, and Official Information for 1955 (30th Edition).
Kelly's Directories [Kelly's Directory]
Published by Kelly's Directories Ltd., 186 Strand, London 1955. 1955.
Publisher's original buff brown card wrap covers [soft back] black title lettering and advertisements to the spine, front and rear covers and page edges. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains [ii] 396 printed pages of text with monochrome advertisements. In Very Good clean condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Petham Tales | The History of a Village in Kent
Hannibal, Patrick
Published by Thompson & Hannibal, Broadway, Petham, Canterbury First Edition 1988. 1988.
First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Petham is a rural village and civil parish in the North Downs, five miles south of Canterbury in Kent. Contains 51 printed pages of text with archive monochrome photographs and maps throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Panorama of Canterbury : The Ancient and Modern City in Eighty Photographs
Erwood, Guy R.
Published by Lambarde Press, Sidcup, Kent First edition 1963. 1963.
First edition hard back publisher's original light olive cloth covers, gilt stamping to upper panel. 4to 9½" x 7¼" 80 pp. Eighty monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy paper. In very Nr. Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Historical Memorials of Canterbury : The Landing of Augustine, The Murder of Becket, Edward the Black Prince, Becket's Shrine
Stanley, Arthur P.
Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street, London Tenth edition 1883. 1883.
Hard back publisher's original green cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine, edges untrimmed. 8vo 7¾" x 5¼" 302, 32 [pp] catalogue. Ten illustrations, fold-out plan. Rubbing to spine ends, various newspaper clippings, concerning Canterbury Cathedral, tipped to end papers. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Portrait of Canterbury
Boyle, John
Published by Robert Hale Ltd., Clerkenwell House, Clerkenwell Green, London First Edition 1974. 1974.
First edition hard back publisher's original terracotta cloth covers, gilt stamping to spine in brown title block. 8vo 8¾" x 5½" 192 pp. Monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy paper. Very Nr. Fine in Very Good dust wrapper with light abrading to spine tips and corners, spine slightly faded, price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Canterbury Scenes From the Past
Edited by Jane Drake [A Pitkin Guide]
Published by Pitkin Pictorials, North Way, Andover First Edition 1990. Andover 1990.
First edition in publisher's original illustrated laminated card covers. 8vo 9½'' x 6¼'' 28 pp ISBN 085372475X. Archive photographic colour and monochrome illustrations throughout. In Fine condition, unused new book, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Canterbury; The Archive Photographs Series
Crampton, Paul
Published by Chalford Publishing Co. First Edition 1997. 1997.
First edition in publisher's original illustrated laminated card wrap covers. 8vo 9½'' x 6¼'' 128 pp. ISBN 0752410245. Archive monochrome illustrations throughout. In Fine unused condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Canterbury Revisited; Britain in Old Photographs Series
Butler, Derek
Published by Alan Sutton Publishing Limited., Phoenix Mill, Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire First Edition 1997. Stroud 1997.
First edition in publisher's original illustrated laminated card wrap covers. 8vo 9½'' x 6½'' 128 printed pages of text. ISBN 0750913606. Archive monochrome illustrations throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Canterbury A Second Selection in Old Photographs [1]
First edition in publisher's original illustrated laminated card wrap covers. 8vo 9'' x 6'' 160 printed pages of text. ISBN 0750903937. Archive monochrome illustrations throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Canterbury in Old Photographs
First edition in publisher's original illustrated laminated card wrap covers. 8vo 9'' x 6'' 160 pp. ISBN 0862996545. Archive monochrome illustrations throughout. Message inside the front cover and in Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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Tackling Agrarian Crisis: Agenda for Govt@2019
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Repeated Movements of Farmers
First on August 9 this year, and now recently on November 29-30, 2018, the peasant organizations of India have made massive demonstrations in the national capital. August 9 being a Bharat Bandh day too. Also, there has been a massive kisan march in Mumbai as well. Issues for the farmers include waiver of loans, subsidy for crops and a mandatory procurement of crops by government, and an acceptance of the MSP-C2+50 percent equation for assessing the minimum price of crops, with C2 being the sum of paid out costs, imputed value of family labour, interest on the value of owned capital assets, rent paid for leased-in land and the rental value of owned land.
The farmers’ movements across India became poignant after several instances of State atrocities on them. During the last two years of the ongoing NDA regime, there have been several cases of firing on farmers, killing quite a lot of them: six in Mandsaur, MP; seven in Jharkhand; thirteen in Thoothukudi, TN. No action has been taken against the police in any of these cases. Very little, or delayed, and in some cases, no relief has been provided to the deceased farmers’ families.
So, there is all disquiet in the farm-lands of India, which still engages more than 6 out of 10 working people and feeds 7 out of every 10 Indians. And it is not unique to the current government only. So, the agrarian crisis is bound to be a major issue in the ensuing national elections of 2019 in India. The farming community would this time demand very solid measures in the interest of their survival if any party solicits their support.
Re-defining the Agrarian Community
There is a major difference of opinion among different schools of thought with regards to who should be called farmers with many not including tribals or milk and poultry producers etc. In fact, the conglomerate of farmers should include all producers of primary agricultural commodities, including women, dalit, nomadic and adivasi farmers; also the landowners, tenants, sharecroppers, agricultural labourers and plantation workers; fishing folks, milk producers, poultry farmers, livestock rearers, pastoralists, and collectors of MFP (Minor Forest Produce); and, finally, everyone engaged in crop cultivation, shifting cultivation, apiculture, sericulture, vermiculture, and agro-forestry.
This broad scope of agrarian community makes it around 62% of the Indian society and, hence, the wellbeing of farmers is not just about economic survival of a majority of Indian households, it is about retaining our national dignity and India’s civilizational heritage. Farmers are not just a residue from our past as many apologists of reckless industrial growth and urbanization would want us to believe. The farmers, agriculture and village community are integral to the future of India and the world. The demands of the farmers’ are fully consistent with India’s constitutional vision of a welfare state, fundamental rights and directive principles of state policy.
Going beyond, the farmers’ responsibility is as honest hard workers who face numerous odds, as bearers of historical knowledge, skills and culture; as agents of food safety, security and sovereignty; and as guardians of biodiversity and ecological sustainability in the country.
Reality of Agrarian Society
But the reality stands starkly different today. Economic, ecological, social and existential crisis of Indian agriculture and an overall ecological degradation and destruction affecting farmers and their livelihoods is the stark reality which are finding expressions through such mass movements in spite of firing and arrests.
There has been an unprecedented increase in diversion and destruction of agricultural land, privatization of water, forced displacement, deprivation and migration affecting security of food and livelihood. We find a persistent state of neglect of agriculture and discrimination against farming communities and an increasing vulnerability of farmers to extortion by the village powerful and government officials.
Also, alongside, there is a deepening penetration of large, predatory and profiteering corporations that are already in control of significant sectors of Indian agriculture. All these have led to a spate of farmers’ suicides across the country and unbearable burden of indebtedness facing widening disparities between farmers and other sectors in our society, and suicides have crossed 400,000 in independent India.
The larger part of the agrarian community of India, consisting of landless labourers or very small land holding farming families need a secure life and dignified livelihood, social security and protection against natural and other calamities, apart from protecting their rights as citizens over land, water, forest and all natural resources including common property resources. They also need a diversity in seeds, food systems and sustainable technological choices. Needless to say, as citizens they deserve freedom of expression, organisation, representation and struggle through constitutional means for realisation of their demands and shaping their future towards which they have actually faced the violent State repeatedly in recent times, though it has been the order for quite some time now.
Agenda for Government@2019
Before the next general elections, farmers demand holding of a Special Session to address the agrarian crisis by passing and enacting the two Kisan Mukti Bills that are of, by and for the farmers of India, namely, The Farmers’ Freedom from Indebtedness Bill, 2018; and The Farmers’ Right to Guaranteed Remunerative Minimum Support Prices for Agricultural Commodities Bill, 2018. Beyond this, the agrarian agenda needs to be at the top of the manifesto of those who want to govern India from 2019 after the next general elections in the first half of the year.
The government ahead shall need to increase the number of guaranteed employment days under MGNREGS to 200 days per family, and ensure wage payment within the period guaranteed by statute and at par with legal minimum wages for unskilled farm labour. Less or no work, delayed payments, and lower than stipulated payments have been plaguing income of the farmers under this scheme.
The government ahead needs to reduce the cost of inputs for farmers either by regulating industry price or offering subsidy directly to farmers. From a very pragmatic perspective, the government ahead needs to universalize the benefits of the Public Distribution System including cereals and nutri-cereals, pulses, sugar and oils without linking it to Aadhar or biometric identification and without shifting to direct cash transfer.
Also, on social security, the government has to provide comprehensive social security for all farm households including pension at the rate of at least Rs. 5,000 per month per farmer above the age of 60.
Another vexed issue is the need to address the menace of stray animals by removing all legal and vigilante-imposed restrictions on cattle trade, compensating farmers for destruction of crops by wild and stray animals and supporting animal shelters;
A very urgent survival question for the marginalized section of the farming community is to stop land acquisition or land pooling without informed consent of the farmers, no acquisition or diversion of agricultural land for commercial land development or for creation of land banks, prevent the bypassing or dilution of The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 at the state level, and instead need to evolve land use and agricultural land protection policy at the earliest.
To solve the challenges specifically of the sugarcane farmers, the government ahead needs to mandate that the sugar mills to pay interest @ 15% p.a. if cane dues are not paid to the cane-growers within 14 days of the delivery of cane; and Fixed Rate Price (FRP) of cane to be fixed by linking it to 9.5% recovery of sugar.
Farming community and rural economy also needs some protections from some detrimental foreign interventions. The government ahead needs to withdraw pesticides that have been banned elsewhere and not approve GM seeds without a comprehensive needs, alternatives and impact assessment. Also the government needs to disallow Foreign Direct Investment in agriculture and food processing, and remove agriculture from Free Trade Agreements, including the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP);
To solve problems of identification and giving benefits, government needs to secure the identification and registration of all real cultivators including tenant farmers, sharecroppers, women farmers, lessee cultivators and rural workers etc. It also needs to stop uprooting adivasi farmers in the name of afforestation, ensure strict implementation without dilution of Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act and Forests Rights Act, 2006 which talks about land tilling rights to farmers there for a long time and ensures rights of tribal population for using Minor Forest Produce.
The government ahead needs to provide land and livelihood rights to the landless, including agricultural and homestead land, water for fishing, mining of minor minerals etc. Also, they have to ensure timely, effective and adequate compensation for crop loss due to natural disasters; implement a comprehensive crop insurance that benefits farmers and not just insurance companies and that covers all types of risks for all crops and for all farmers, with individual farm as the unit of damage assessment; reverse anti-farmer changes in the Manual for Drought Management; and build assured protective irrigation through sustainable means for farmers, especially in the rain-fed areas;
Among some relatively minor issues, the government ahead needs to ensure remunerative guaranteed prices for milk and its procurement for dairies and to supplement nutritional security through Mid Day Meal Scheme and Integrated Child Development Scheme etc; and waive off all outstanding agricultural loans of farmers from suicide-affected families and provide special opportunities to children of such families.
The new government also needs to ensure three levels of action for the farmers: first, protect the farmers from corporate plunder in the name of contract farming by reviewing the Contract Farming Act 2018; and, second, promote procurement, processing and marketing under Farmer Producer Organisations and Peasant Cooperatives instead of corporatisation of agriculture and takeover by MNCs. And, third, promote an agro-ecology paradigm that is based on suitable cropping patterns and local seed diversity revival, so as to build economically viable, ecologically sustainable, autonomous and climate resilient agriculture.
The agrarian agenda is the most important agenda for impoverished India today and it is staring on the face of the nation whether India goes ahead with a caring governance and policy-making on these issues.
By Prof Ujjwal K Chowdhury. The author is a noted media academic and columnist, and is currently the Media Dean of Pearl Academy, Delhi and Mumbai, and earlier Media Dean of Symbiosis and Amity Universities.
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This article (written before the Conservative party's policy announcement) proposes wide-ranging reforms to the MHA 1983 "to bring it into the 21st century and in line with international human rights law" under the following headings: mental disorder; nearest relative; involuntary treatment; involuntary detention; fusion of mental health law and mental capacity law. See [[Mental Health Treatment Bill]] ==Mental Health Tribunal== *'''MHT office closure.''' The following is the text of an email dated 18/5/17 in relation to an office closure: "Dear All, Please be aware that due to a burst water pipe the Leicester office is closed. We do not have access to the building and have staff travelling to other locations within the City and County. We have not been able to divert the telephones so are unable to take calls. Urgent work will take priority. All emails will be monitored but there may be some delays in providing a response. 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It is likely that this situation will remain for several weeks. I would like to thank you for your continued patience and support during this difficult time." See [[Mental Health Tribunal]] ==Other== *'''Hull Daily Mail, 'Siblings Timothy Baumber and Tessa Quelch conned elderly mum out of £58k' (6/5/17).''' See [[Lasting Power of Attorney#Other]] ==Book== *'''New edition of book.''' {{bookold|mhlaw}}. See [http://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/book-review-mental-health-law-6th-edition/ book review] by Alex Ruck Keene (1/5/17) and [[Books]] page. ==Job advert== *'''Job advert.''' [[DAC Beachcroft, Leeds - Healthcare Regulatory Solicitor]]. 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STAFF PICKS OF THE WEEK: January 18, 2012
By Robot Overlord on January 17, 2012 0 Comments
You’ve seen the list of new comics that are arriving in stores this week, but what should you pick up? Take the jump as the Major Spoilers Staff picks the books they are most looking forward to this week.
Writer: Dan Slott
Artist: Humberto Ramos and Victor Olazaba
Publisher: Marvel
SOLICITATION: New York City is destroyed because of Spider-Man! A glimpse of the future leaves Spider-Man with 12 hours to figure out how to stop it from happening.
STEPHEN: Can’t believe this series comes out three times a month, and still retains its creative edge and quality story telling. Wish every publisher could crank out a three or four times a month title. Did I just call out DC? Maybe, dear reader, maybe…
ANIMAL MAN #2 (Second Printing)
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Travel Foreman
SOLICITATION: Maxine’s new abilities continue to terrify Ellen and Buddy Baker, and things take a turn for the worse as Buddy begins a startling transformation of his own that will lead him on a journey into the heart of The Red. Meanwhile, The Hunters Three arrive on Earth and set their sights on the Baker family. The Hunt is on as DC’s most surprising new series continues to take ANIMAL MAN in shocking new directions.
RODRIGO: Animal Man #2 is going back to print and this time I’m totally getting it. I’m way behind on all the new 52 stuff and checking in on Buddy and the horrendous abominations hanging out with his kids is just the kick I need.
Writer: Scott Snyder
Artist: Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion
SOLICITATION: Deep beneath Gotham City lies the Court of Owls’ deadliest trap – and Batman has fallen right into it! Can he escape, or will he perish in a maze of nightmare? Enter the labyrinth, Batman – if you dare!
JIMMY: Scott Snyder has been killing it on Batman, and while I’m not a huge fan of Greg Capullo’s art (I’d much prefer Szymon Kudranski on this title), Snyder’s story has been incredibly well-crafted. Snyder’s work on Batman is as masterful as Grant Morrison’s while avoiding all the headaches and acid trips.
GEORGE: Scott Snyder has made a fan out of me with his work on this and Swamp Thing. The strongest of the post-New 52 Batbooks has Snyder and Greg Capullo crafting a story of generational conspiracy with Gotham and the Wayne family at the forefront. Snyder has almost made a character out of Gotham City in this arc, positioning it first as Batman’s ally in his vigilante battles, before pulling the rug out from under the Caped Crusader’s boots. And Capullo’s take on Batman should not be missed.
STEPHEN: Scott Snyder messaged me to tell me that this was his favorite installment of the series to date. With the big Court of Owls crossover on the way, this issue better cement Batman as a must read each and every month. Yes, I do have high hopes.
CHEW #23
Writer: John Layman
Artist: Rob Guillory
SOLICITATION: “MAJOR LEAGUE CHEW,” Part Three
Hey, remember that dead baseball player we put on the back cover of Issue #15? Tony learns his story this issue. And not voluntarily, either.
ZACH: Chew is hands down my favorite read every month; it has never let me down to date. Of course, I would still buy this book if there were no words because Rob Guillory’s art is that good. Seriously, do yourself a favor and go buy the four trades that are out and get completely caught up with Chew, you will never regret it.
DAREDEVIL #8
Artist: Kano
SOLICITATION: Get ready for the second part of the Spider-Man and Daredevil team-up! Picking up where AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #677 left off, the next great love triangle of the Marvel Universe heats up!
STEPHEN: As good as Amazing Spider-Man #677 was, I can’t wait to see what happens next! Mark Waid hasn’t let me down yet, and I’m interested to see what Kano whips up this issue. And since it is all part of the big DD/SM/BC three-way thing going on, I’m on board both books for the duration.
GHOST RIDER #8
Writer: Rob Williams
Artist: Lee Garbett
SOLICITATION: Ghost Rider, Hawkeye and Johnny Blaze face the twin furies Steel Wind and Steel Vengeance. Can Alejandra learn to control the hellish power of the Spirit of Vengeance or will the whole planet be consumed in a cleansing firestorm?
RODRIGO: Been meaning to check out what the latest version of Ghost Rider is up to, I haven’t heard much about this book, but it’s up to eight issues. That’s gotta be a good sign, right?
GHOSTBUSTERS #5
Writer: Erik Burnham
Artist: Dan Schoening
SOLICITATION: The smash-hit ongoing series continues in this second story arc! Thanks to the results of their latest adventure, P.C.O.C. chief Walter Peck punishes the Ghostbusters by using the contract the team signed with the city to bar them from doing their jobs… at least until they meet his “reasonable physical requirements” for ghostbusting work. While they groan about having to lose weight and look for a loophole to Peck’s authority, strange things are brewing outside Schenectady.
ZACH: If you are a fan of the Ghostbusters movies then you have to be reading this series. If you aren’t a fan of the movies, well that’s fine but you still need to be reading this. Eric Burnham strung together a fantastic first story arc and according to his Twitter the upcoming story will be just as exciting.
KIRBY GENESIS: DRAGONSBANE #1
Writer: Robert Rodi
Artist: Fritz Casas
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
SOLICITATION: pinning out of the epochal events of KIRBY: GENESIS comes the saga of Sigurd Dragonsbane, the greatest champion in all Valhalla. Since time immemorial tales of his adventures have resounded throughout the halls of gods and men alike. But what happens when Sigurd and his colleagues-wise Balduur, rakish Honir, and caustic Heimdall—discover that Valhalla isn’t the only mythic realm?… And that all the others are now conjoined into one vast magical landscape? Why, they set out to explore it, of course—and to rescue a princess beset by dragons. But all isn’t as it seems in these newly unified Mythlands, and Sigurd’s latest exploit could be his last! Based on character concepts and designs by Jack Kirby, Dragonsbane draws back the curtain on the astonishing mythical underpinnings of the Kirby universe.
JIMMY: I haven’t picked up much of the Kirby Genesis books, but the ones I have I’ve really enjoyed (I reviewed Captain Victory #2 a few weeks ago, ). I am planning on using Dragonsbane as a way to jump further into this new old universe, and will probably read some of the back issues of the other Kirby Genesis tie-ins I’ve skipped. I have no idea if this issue will be a good jumping on point for new readers, but since it’s a #1 it couldn’t hurt to try!
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ONGOING #1 GLOBAL CONQUEST EDITION
Writer: Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz
Artist: Dan Duncan
SOLICITATION: They’re back! The original heroes in a half-shell make a triumphant return to comics! Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael reunite to bring their ninja aptitude and teenage attitude to IDW Publishing in this all-new, action-packed series. Featuring a cast of familiar characters — Master Splinter, April O’Neill, Casey Jones, and more — and true to the spirit of the original comics created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are bigger and badder than ever, and ready to rock old and new fans alike!
RODRIGO: Whew, good thing companies are so willing to reprint their successful books, otherwise my entire collections would consist of #0 and #4 issues. I want to see what’s up with the Ninja Turtles, I hope they’re doing justice to every ENTIRELY DISPARATE take there has been. I want to see Black and White angst AND 90s hip- hop.
TINY TITANS #48
Writer: Art Baltazar and Franco
Artist: Art Baltazar
SOLICITATION: Because you demanded it – Tiny Titans unmasked in a special all red hair issue! Barbara! Miss Martian! Starfire! Blackfire! And Speedy! Actually, Speedy’s hair is more of an auburn. Also, what’s Wonder Girl’s secret? What is she doing with all that fruit? A discovery is made when she reveals her secret oranges!
JIMMY: This issue is the much-hyped (on the “Aw Yeah Podcast” with Art and Franco) “Secret Oranges” issue, where at least one Titan will have her “Secret Oranges” revealed. At the cost of some of the humor, I’ll explain the joke just in case it doesn’t translate well from speech to print–Secret Oranges are a play on Secret Origins. It was just revealed recently that Tiny Titans is winding down to a 50th issue finale, and Art and Franco are going to be replacing it with a Superman Family book. I’m not too keen on the Superman family, but I have loved Tiny Titans from the very beginning, so I’m hoping that Art and Franco finish as strong as they started.
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #6
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Chris Samnee
SOLICITATION: NEW ARC STARTS HERE!
Miles must learn how to be a hero from Peter Parker! The new Ultimate Scorpion is introduced!
ZACH: The boy who sent the non-comic world into frenzy finally has his new Spidey costume and is ready to carry on the legacy that Peter Parker left. Bendis has written a perfectly paced story so far and Pichelli’s art has been nothing less than jaw dropping.
UNCANNY X-MEN #5
Writer: Kieron Gillen
Artist: Greg Land
SOLICITATION: NEW ARC! Spinning out of events of UNCANNY X-FORCE.
The X-Men investigate a new Marvel Universe area called TABULA RASA!.
GEORGE: Schism surprisingly revitalized the X-Books more than I thought possible. Both Wolverine and the X-Men and Uncanny X-Men have opened ambitiously and followed through. Uncanny X-Men #5 begins a new arc, coming after a heady one-and-done issue written from a Phalanx member’s POV that exemplified writer Kieron Gillen’s capacity for doing strange ideas right. I’m less looking forward to Greg Land coming back to Uncanny, but we can’t have it all.
Writer: Rick Remender
Artist: Lan Medina
SOLICITATION: Pushed to his limits, Venom goes head to head with Jack O’Lantern!
The Arch-foes fight through Vegas brings them face-to-Face – with Toxin?! Meanwhile, the Red Hulk closes in on public enemy number one – Venom!
GEORGE: Rick Remender is rapidly becoming my favorite writer at Marvel, and Venom is a big reason why. Uncanny X-Force might be flashier and ambitious, but Venom is damn good reading. It was inevitable that Flash Thompson would go rogue with the Venom suit, but who saw him doing the buddy road-trip thing with Jack O’Lantern? The Halloween-themed ne’er-do-well is so gleefully villainous and plays beautifully off the troubled heroism of Flash Thompson. Red Hulk is getting added to the mix soon, as is Toxin, so the story’s going to get hectic real quick. Jump on board soon!
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December 27, 2012 Weekly Fuel Prices Report, Gas Prices
A large jump in California wholesale gas prices in recent days has slowed or stopped prices from declining at Southern California gas pumps, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California’s Weekend Gas Watch. The state average is $3.529 a gallon for regular today – two-tenths of a cent lower than last week and $1.15 lower than the $4.671 new record price set on Oct. 9.
The average price of self-serve regular gasoline in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area is $3.585 per gallon, which is 1.2 cents less than last week, 22 cents lower than last month, and less than a penny higher than last year. In San Diego, the price is $3.582, seven-tenths of one cent below last week, 19 cents below last month, and 1 cent higher than last year. On the Central Coast, the average price is $3.627, down six-tenths of one cent from last week, 22 cents lower than a month ago, and less than one cent above last year. In the Inland Empire, the average per gallon price is $3.544, down 2 cents from last week, 23 cents lower than last month, and less than one cent more than last year.
“In the past nine days, local wholesale prices have jumped by 40 cents,” said Auto Club spokesperson Jeffrey Spring. “However, that doesn’t necessarily mean prices will start going up very quickly. There was a big price cushion for the last two months between the wholesale price and the retail price, and that gap has just been closed to what would be considered a ‘normal’ level. However, if wholesale prices continue spiking, we could see some rapid price increases at gas stations in coming weeks.”
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I wrote recently about E.B. Ford, 'the Kenneth Williams of Zoology', the decidedly eccentric author of Butterflies, the first in the classic New Naturalist series. Browsing in The Aurelian Legacy (a book I have surely mentioned before), I came across another anecdote about 'Henry', as he was called in ironic reference to his deep distaste for the modern world. Among the things he disapproved of were the radio, newspapers and fish-and-chips, and for him it was invariably a 'photographic camera' and a 'cinematic projector', while any complex piece of machinery required for the laboratory was 'the engine'. But to the anecdote.
Miriam Rothschild, the great entomologist who became one of the few women Ford was prepared to regard as a thinking organism, first came across 'Henry' in the Zoology Department at Oxford. Meaning to introduce herself, she knocked on the door of his office and waited..
'After a moment's silence there was a rather plaintive long drawn out cry: "Come in!" I opened the door and found an empty room. I looked round nervously - not a soul to be seen, but an almost frightening neatness pervaded everything. Each single object, from paper knife to Medical Genetics was in its right place. Each curtain hung in a predestined fold... the sight of this distilled essence of neatness and order took my breath away. I stood there, probably with my mouth open, trying to reconcile this vacant room with that ghostly cry - had I dreamed it? - when suddenly Professor Ford appeared from underneath his desk like a graceful fakir emerging from a grave. Apparently he had been sitting crosslegged on the floor in the well of his writing table, lost in thought, but he held out his hand to me in a most affable manner... "My dear Mrs Lane [her married name] - I didn't know it was you."' Miriam Rothschild concluded 'you never have to ask a great man for an explanation.'
Not E.B. Ford anyway.
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And a Moth
I spent some while last night trying to identify a moth - a fool's errand, of course.
The moth had settled on the bathroom wall, and what piqued my interest was that its wings were held in a decidedly butterfly-like pose, half-way between flat and folded, much like a Blue butterfly - and indeed, in size it was on just that scale. The colour, however, could hardly have been less blue: a wheaten ground, with three wavy brown bars across the forewings, two very thin and one thicker and darker. What, I wondered, could it be? Foolishly I thought the butterfly-like pose might narrow down the field - not by much, I discovered, and, after a fruitless on-line search, I was soon forlornly rifling through my ancient, but notably compendious and well illustrated, book of British butterflies and moths, written by W.E. Kirby around a century ago. In the end, I had it narrowed down to some kind of Thorn moth - indeed, with its small size, it really should have been the Little Thorn (Cepphis advenaria) - but that one, I discovered, flies in May and June (and the August Thorn is too large).
That's the trouble with moths - there are just too many of them. Whereas we British butterfly fanciers have barely 60 species to identify - in practice far fewer, unless we're making a point of travelling around the country ticking them all off the list - moth species add up to a daunting 2,400-plus, of which more than 800 are macro-lepidoptera (i.e. easily visible). The genus that includes the Thorns (Ennominae) alone includes more than 80 British species. Moths are undeniably beautiful, often in a subtle and understated way (as with my Thorny enigma), but really it is far easier just to say 'Oh - a moth', to look and enjoy, than it is to identify the little beauties (there are several species of Beauty moth in the genus Ennominae).
As for the stranger on my bathroom wall, when I last saw it, it was resting in a much more moth-like pose, its banded wings spread flat. And this morning it was gone.
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Birthday Betjeman
Born on this day in 1906 was John Betjeman, 'poet and hack' as he described himself in Who's Who. He was, of course, much more than that, but he was a rare example of a literary (if often low-brow) poet who was hugely popular and well-loved, a 'national treasure' and a celebrity. His penchant for jogalong metre kept him firmly in the light verse tradition, but there is often in his works an interesting counterpoint between the jaunty rhythm on the surface and a strong undertow of melancholy below. Here is a curiosity, taken from a Michael Parkinson chat show (Betjeman was a great talk-show favourite), in which the late Kenneth Williams and Maggie Smith (now enjoying a late flowering as Lady Violet, the only character in Downton with any lines) reading Betjeman's early Death in Leamington, to the apparent delight of the author.
'A permanent trail of imagination...'
Exciting news here for us retroprogressives, as the clacking of manual typewriters is heard again in the newsroom of The Times (where, sadly, it seems to be causing more bemusement than anything). I guess there must be many working in newspapers now who have never heard the sound, let alone used a manual typewriter - and if they did, they'd probably wonder how anyone ever managed to bash out a story with such a cumbersome machine. But for some, the manual typewriter still has a certain inky allure - not least Tom Hanks, who has even developed an app that gives the illusion of writing with an old-fashioned typewriter. Typing with a manual, he says, 'stamps into paper a permanent trail of imagination through keys, hammers, cloth and dye' - an eloquent expression of what is special about manual typing. It is closer to a craft process than the frictionless, resistance-free electronic transaction that is 'typing' with a modern computer keyboard - writing in cyberspace rather than on paper.
It is surely true that the sheer cumbersomeness of manual typing and the difficulty of rewriting encouraged forethought, care and brevity, whereas the ease of the modern keyboard encourages the reverse - get it all down any old how, knock it into shape afterwards, and if it's too long, well, it's too long. The endless stories on the BBC News website (and many others) are classic products of keyboard writing - as, I suspect, are many overlong works of contemporary fiction. The modern keyboard has made writing too easy.
Sign of the Times?
Talking of the Today programme, as we were the other day (and so often before - truly it 'sets the agenda for the day', alas), I noted recently that John Humphrys, while interviewing some big wheel in the warmist world, mentioned the inconvenient truth that 'global warming' has barely happened over the past 15 years or so. I wondered if this might be a sign that the times are changing, that even the BBC might now be open to a degree of scepticism that would have been condemned as heretical just a couple of years ago. Well, the other day I happened on this story on the BBC News website, which looks like a hopeful sign - up to a point. The 'pause' story is never presented in terms of 'Whoops, looks like we were wrong' but only as a case of certain factors having been overlooked - and, in this case, the new prediction is that warming will be even worse when it does happen. In other words, we might have got it hopelessly wrong last time, but this time we're right, you'd better believe it, there can't possibly be any factors we're overlooking. Hmm...
Bank Holiday Monday, and the rain is siling down in the time-honoured manner. However, the past couple of days had enough sunshine for a few late butterflies to venture out. On Saturday I was gifted with my first Small Copper of the year. I was skirting a golf course (averting my eyes), wading through the long dry grass beside the fairway, when suddenly, out of nowhere, it appeared - a bright, fresh and beautiful specimen. It perched on a flowerhead almost at my feet, flashed its wings a couple of times, and was off.
That was the only butterfly I saw that afternoon, but yesterday I headed for the Surrey Hills determined to see more. By the time I arrived at the hillside I was heading for, clouds had covered the sun, a wind had come up and my hopes were not high. However, as I explored, I soon came across a Chalkhill Blue - a tired and tatty female, but a joy to see, especially as it was my first of the year. Happily it was not to be the last. In the course of my wanderings, despite the unpromising conditions, I came across at least a dozen more, some fresh and vigorous, others looking decidedly end-of-season, but all of them beautiful in that unique silvery, cloudy, milky-blue Chalkhill way. And, by way of a bonus and to show just how intensely blue a blue can be, a male Adonis Blue flew past in all his shimmering glory. These were just the highlights; there were also Common blues galore, Small Heaths, Brown Argus... Even if it rains for the next month, that was a splendid climax to the butterfly year.
Those whose business involves making statements that are effectively meaningless but must appear to be full of pith and moment are always in need of new turns of phrase to make their airy nothings sound important. For some while, the phrase 'going forward' has been much employed, but lately it seems to have fallen out of use, having perhaps been too often lampooned. Time for a new form of words - and this morning I caught one that I think might well catch on. It was, of course, on the Today programme. I can't remember what the subject was, but a representative of HM Government found himself approving (or obliged to pretend he approved) of something his interlocutor had been doing. 'That,' he declared, 'is exactly the journey of travel the Government has been on.'Yes, journey of travel...
I think we are all, in a very real sense, on a journey of travel, are we not? Going forward.
The Awakening and a Hedgehog
This week Radio 4 is running a dramatisation of Kate Chopin's once-scandalous novel The Awakening as its 15 Minute Drama. Someone has had the bright idea of framing the action by having it observed through the eyes of a black maidservant, who provides a running commentary in the kind of caricatured, eye-rolling style you might have thought would be frowned on in these PC times. However, as the white characters too lay on the stage Southern accents and intonations with a trowel, it doesn't seem entirely out of place. What it does do, though, is fatally distance the action of what is on the page an intense and challenging read - just the kind of novel that would benefit from the intimacy that radio can achieve. Unless things pick up in the last couple of episodes, this looks like a sad misfire.
And in other news... This morning, on the way to the station, I saw a hedgehog. Sadly it was a two-dimensional hedgehog, having been flattened by a passing car, but I was still glad to see it, as it was the first evidence I'd seen of a hedgehog presence in the area for a decade or more. When I was a boy, hedgehogs came as standard with every suburban garden, and they thrived in town (well, suburb) and country alike - but by the late Nineties, seeing one was becoming a bit of an event. And then there were none - or so it seemed. It's good to know they're still around after all, and I hope the next one I see is alive and well and taking care when crossing the road.
And I see that my birthday post on Edgar Guest is on The Dabbler today...
'Don't read much now...'
Among the clips of Philip Larkin in Great Poets in Their Own Words was one of the poet reading (in that decidedly posh voice of his) A Study of Reading Habits -
When getting my nose in a book
Cured most things short of school,
It was worth ruining my eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
And deal out the old right hook
To dirty dogs twice my size.
Later, with inch-thick specs,
Evil was just my lark:
Me and my coat and fangs
Had ripping times in the dark.
The women I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.
Don't read much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who's yellow and keeps the store
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.
This is Larkin in one of his blokey personas (as in Self's the Man and, in extreme form, This Be the Verse), moving from an account of childhood reading that is plausibly autobiographical to a middle stanza that hints at darker things (and contains what is surely the only known use of the rhyme 'fangs' and 'meringues') before the shadows close in for the final, terminally disenchanted stanza, to arrive at that bleak, and clearly far from autobiographical, conclusion. As ever with Larkin, the rigorous formal control of this awkward, unsettling material is masterly.
Larkin completed and dated A Study of Reading Habits on this day in 1960.
Maybe this time...
Regular readers will know of my penchant for that most elegant form of gentleman's neckwear, the cravat (search 'cravat' on this blog and you'll see what I mean). For some while I've been forlornly trying to spark a cravat revival, and kidding myself at intervals that it is finally under way. Well, now the revival has the force of the mighty BBC News website behind it, to say nothing of light entertainment legend Nicholas Parsons. Yes indeed - 'the world's first Nicholas Parsons-driven fashion revolution is surely under way'. Let's hope so...
Graham Robb's Ancient Paths
I've been reading The Ancient Paths by Graham Robb, whose recent history The Discovery of France was such an eye-opener. The Ancient Paths - subtitled Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe - is, in its very different way, quite an eye-opener too. It's a book Robb really didn't want to write. 'The idea that became this book,' he writes, 'arrived one evening like an unwanted visitor. It clearly expected to stay a long time, and I knew that its presence in my house would be extremely compromising. Treasure maps and secret paths belong to childhood. An adult scholar who sees an undiscovered ancient world reveal itself, complete with charts, instruction manual and guidebook, is bound to question the functioning of his mental equipment.' That idea was so startling that Robb spent several years trying to disprove it, convinced that it couldn't possibly be right and that this kind of thing was the proper preserve of cranks and obsessives. But the more he looked, the more he saw to confirm and fill out his original idea...
What's it about? In a nutshell, Robb argues - in depth and detail and with a wealth of corrroborative evidence - that Druids (yes, Druids) used their knowledge of Pythagorean geometry and the movements of the Sun to survey and map their world with extraordinary precision, enabling rapid and effective communication and transport across it. These Druids were not white-robed mystics but a highly educated and civilised elite, the products of a 20-year education, Greek speakers who mingled on more or less equal terms with the highest in Roman society. They - along with virtually all the more attractive and civilised features of the Celtic world - were erased from the record by the conquering Romans, who were at pains to portray their enemies as mere painted savages, and to destroy the more impressive evidence to the contrary.
As I say, Robb lays out his case in great detail, with maps and diagrams galore, and long lists of place names (skipping is an option). I'm no expert, but it all seems pretty persuasive to me, and makes quite fascinating reading - if true, it really is quite revolutionary... If nothing else, Robb's findings support the very sound thesis that Everything is much older than we think, and much more complex. Thanks to the myth of Progress, combined with the fact that history is written by the victors and that so little material evidence survives from most eras, we tend to look back into the past as into an ever thickening darkness, in which the botched prototypes of the Enlightened Man to come grope and stumble about in benighted ignorance. It was never so.
Poets on TV
Last night on BBC4 I caught the second of two programmes titled Great Poets in Their Own Words. I'd missed the first, and this was the one covering the latter half of the 20th century. Essentially it was a compilation of archive clips featuring poets talking about their work. The Great in the title was perhaps redundant, as the nearest this got to greatness was Larkin (followed, a long way behind, by Heaney and Hughes?) Naturally an archive show like this is bound to favour the more flatulent and self-publicising among the poetic community - cue much footage of Ginsberg and co, a very drunk Berryman, the Liverpool Poets, Linton Kwesi Johnson... No Geoffrey Hill here, nor Richard Wilbur (I'm assuming Auden was dealt with in the first programme) - and a bit of Stevie Smith footage would have been welcome. Hughes and Plath featured quite large, despite a notable shortage of material (Plath never appeared on TV).
But there was Larkin - who, for all his 'hermit of Hull' reputation, seems to have been on TV rather a lot, most notably in a BBC Monitor documentary, in which he was interviewd by John Betjeman (JB's only appearance, despite the masses of archive he left behind). It's strange and rather unsettling to see Larkin enacting his great poem Church Going for the cameras, and loping myopically about his workplace - what scabrous commentary was going through his head, I wonder, as he performed Philip Larkin, Poet and Librarian? It's probably as well we don't know...
Critical Thinking Nosedives
I see record numbers of young people are heading for university following yesterday's announcement of A-Level results, even though they showed an infinitesimal 'dip' in grades. Advanced Level is an exam with a 98 percent pass rate - a sad index of its intellectual rigour - and with top grades awarded to more than a quarter of entrants. Still - good luck to those who have chosen to go on to university, and let's hope they're doing the right thing for them.
What struck me about the breakdown of these A-Level results was that one subject was now being taken by a startling 46 percent fewer pupils year on year - a uniquely steep, probably terminal decline. And it was not, alas, Media Studies or even General Studies - it was Critical Thinking. I must admit I did not know such an A-Level subject existed - but as it does, it should surely be regarded by the universities as a serious core subject. If a university education teaches one thing, that thing should be Critical Thinking. No doubt, as taught to A-Level, it is a fuzzy option that universities are right not to take seriously - but there's no reason why it should be. Rather, it should be stiffened up and put right at the core of any education, especially at university level. Heaven knows we could do with a lot more critical thinking - not least among the products of our universities.
I was looking at the portrait of Charles Darwin on a £10 note just now when a little thought experiment occurred to me... There was Darwin, the very image of a big-brained, bearded, wise old ape, brooding on his huge and discomfiting Idea. Evolution could have no better icon. But suppose, I wondered, suppose Darwin looked like Herbert Spencer (above). The Idea, of course, would still be there - but its iconic force would surely be much diminished.
Similarly, suppose Einstein had not looked like everyone's idea of the mega-brained, wild-haired professor, his head bursting with world-shattering ideas and profound insights? Suppose he had looked more like, say, Niels Bohr, who could have passed for a bank manager...
Or suppose Stephen Hawking, instead of being the very image of a mighty mind trapped in a useless body, had been able-bodied? Hard to believe he'd have been quite the world-conquering celeb he is today...
At least Richard Dawkins, for all his fame, is unlikely to become an Icon, blesses as he is with the bland, polished features of an Anglican bishop - albeit one who looks after himself and has a good barber.
I must admit I like a good lager - chiefly because I find it the most effective instant pick-me-up (and thirst quencher) after a day's exertions. Note, I say a 'good lager', and I am quite sure that there is such a thing, that it tastes better, and that I could tell the difference blindfold. I was therefore rather startled to come across this report, which concludes that all lagers taste the same.
I wonder what they were actually tasting - draught, bottled, canned? Bottled Budvar is surely distinctive enough to be told from the other two, though there may be some denatured draught version that tastes much the same, as draught lagers tend to (though even the widely available Kronenbourg certainly tastes different from Stella and Heineken). The main distinction in lagers is - to my palate at least - between the generic, brewed anywhere, Europop style, which, particularly in England, has a nasty sour-stale overtone, and those lagers that are still custom-brewed. This is illustrated perfectly by canned Heineken: the version that is still brewed in Holland is about the best lager you can get in a can, whereas the Europop ('brewed in the EU') version is really quite nasty. Both kinds are now on sale in the UK, but happily the good ones still bear the legend 'Brewed in Holland'. But I have detained you long enough...
Donald Justice would be 89 today, if he were still with us. His quiet voice lives on and strengthens with the years, while more strident and self-advertising poets of similar vintage seem headed, ultimately, for oblivion. What better way to celebrate Justice's birthday than with a poem? This one is from his second collection, Night Light - a collection, as one review noted, 'suffused with elegiac, elegant grief'. Indeed it is...
Lights are burning
In quiet rooms
Where lives go on
Resembling ours.
The quiet lives
That follow us—
These lives we lead
But do not own—
Stand in the rain
So quietly
When we are gone,
So quietly . . .
And the last bus
Comes letting dark
Umbrellas out—
Black flowers, black flowers.
And lives go on.
And lives go on
Like sudden lights
At street corners
Or like the lights
Left on for hours,
Burning, burning.
I thought they had all gone - departed early and abruptly, the unwontedly fine English summer having given them all they required. The last excited flypasts I saw were in the final days of July, and since then I have only spotted a few stragglers, the last of them - or so I thought - last Wednesday. But yesterday evening, at the end of a day of alternating sunshine and stormy downpours, I happened to glance out of the front-room window - and there was that familiar sickle shape. I dashed out of the front door and, yes, there it was - in the now clear blue sky, a solitary swift, circling quite low and leisurely, as if returning to take a last look round old haunts. I followed its flight over the back garden, then back to the road, before eventually it sailed off elsewhere, perhaps to begin the great journey South.
Edward Thomas seemed always to know when he had seen his last swift:
How at once should I know,
When stretched in the harvest blue
I saw the swift's black bow,
That I would not have that view
Until next May
Again it is due?
The same year after year -
But with the swift alone.
With other things I but fear
That they will be over and done
And I only see
Them to know them gone.
I'm not sure yesterday's swift was my last of the year, but if it was, it was a perfect, heart-lifting end to the swift summer.
It Was a Gas
I see that Nitrous Oxide - 'laughing gas' - is in fashion again, just as it was back in the 1790s, though it was then enjoyed by a rather more select band of enthusiasts.
At the Pneumatic Institute, the brainchild of Dr Thomas Beddoes (father of that strange poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes), in Bristol, the young scientific whiz kid Humphry Davy was throwing himself into the grand project of experimenting with Nitrous Oxide. The hope was that it would have near-miraculous therapeutic properties - and who knew what other uses - and Davy was keen to experiment on himself (as he had already done with Carbon Monoxide, with very nearly fatal results) to find out its effects.
After inhaling four quarts, Davy noted 'highly pleasurable thrilling, particularly in the chest and extremities. The objects around me became dazzling, and my hearing more acute... Sometimes I manifested my pleasure by stamping or laughing only; at other times, by dancing around the room and vociferating... This gas raised my pulse upwards of twenty strokes, made me dance about the laboratory as a madman, and has kept my spirits in a glow ever since.'
No wonder he was keen to press on. 'Between April and June I constantly breathed the gas sometimes three or four times a day for a week... I have often felt very great pleasure when breathing it alone, in darkness and silence, occupied only by ideal existence.' What, he wondered, would be the effect of an overdose? After inhaling a full six quarts, he noted that 'the pleasurable sensation was at first local, and perceived in the lips and the cheeks. It gradually, however, diffused itself over the whole body, and in the middle of the experiment was for a moment so intense and pure as to absorb existence. At this moment, and not before, I lost consciousness; it was, however, quickly restored, and I endeavoured to make a bystander acquainted with the pleasures I experienced by laughing and stamping. I had no vivid ideas.'
Pressing on, he was soon making use of a portable gas chamber designed by James Watt, which enabled him to inhale eight quarts over a planned 75 minutes before being released from the chamber (with his pulse at 124, his temperature 106 and his face bright purple) and given a top-up of 20 quarts of pure gas. 'The sensations were superior to any I ever experienced. Inconceivably pleasurable,' he noted. 'Theories passed rapidly thro the mind, believed I may say intensely, at the same time that everything going on in the room was perceived. I seemed to be a sublime being, newly created and superior to other mortals, I was indignant at what they said of me and stalked majestically out of the laboratory to inform Dr Kinglake privately that nothing existed but thoughts.'
After some more experiments testing the effects of combining alcohol with nitrous oxide - it seems it's good for hangovers - Davy ended this self-experimenting phase, happily unscathed and with his mind sharper than ever.
The Pneumatic Institute was popular also with artists and writers, and Coleridge was among those sampling the laughing gas, noting 'an highly pleasurable sensation of warmth over my whole frame, resembling what I remember once to have experienced after returning from a walk in the snow into a warm room'. But he also felt, he wrote, 'more unmingled pleasure than I had ever before experienced'.
Robert Southey, who was to develop into a sedate and respectable Poet Laureate, was quite esctatic in his reactions to the gas, writing to his brother Tom: 'O, Tom! Such a gas has Davy discovered, the gaseous oxide. Oh, Tom! I have had some; it made me laugh and tingle in every toe and finger-tip. Davy has actually invented a new pleasure, for which language has no name. Oh, Tom! I am going for more this evening! It makes one strong and happy! So gloriously happy!'
Surely science was never such fun again.
[For more on all this - among many other things - see Richard Holmes's marvellous The Age of Wonder.]
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Kay Ryan: Doing it again
I've remarked before on Kay Ryan's extraordinary ability to condense a world of meaning - of truth indeed - into a few short, simple lines and images. Here she is, doing it again, in a poem I came across last night while browsing in The Best of It:
Whatever must be learned
is always at the bottom,
as with the law of drawers
and the necessary item.
It isn't pleasant,
whatever they tell children,
to turn out on the floor
the folded things in them.
What weight that word 'folded' (the only long 'o' sound in the poem) carries - and those 'folded things'...
Another Edward Thomas
From one of the many documentaries marking the centenary of the Kaiser War, I picked up the arresting fact that the man who fired the first British shot of that war shared his name with one of its greatest poets - Edward Thomas. Drummer (later Corporal) Edward Thomas of the 4th Dragoon Guards was on reconnaissance near the village of Casteau in Belgium, on August 22nd, 1914, when his troop came across four German cavalrymen. They chased them down and, in the ensuing confrontation, Thomas shot and wounded one of them. And that was it.
Thomas himself - the other Edward Thomas, that is - put his feelings about the war and his particular form of patriotism into an angry but wise poem written after a blazing row with his more conventionally patriotic father, on Boxing Day, 1915:
This is no case of petty right or wrong
That politicians or philosophers
Can judge. I hate not Germans, nor grow hot
With love of Englishmen, to please newspapers.
Beside my hate for one fat patriot
My hatred of the Kaiser is love true: –
A kind of god he is, banging a gong.
But I have not to choose between the two,
Or between justice and injustice. Dinned
With war and argument I read no more
Than in the storm smoking along the wind
Athwart the wood. Two witches' cauldrons roar.
From one the weather shall rise clear and gay;
Out of the other an England beautiful
And like her mother that died yesterday.
Little I know or care if, being dull,
I shall miss something that historians
Can rake out of the ashes when perchance
The phoenix broods serene above their ken.
But with the best and meanest Englishmen
I am one in crying, God save England, lest
We lose what never slaves and cattle blessed.
The ages made her that made us from dust:
She is all we know and live by, and we trust
She is good and must endure, loving her so:
And as we love ourselves we hate her foe.
Cameron: Looking at Fish
Hats off to David Cameron? Well, kind of, provisionally, maybe lifted an inch or two from the pate... I find myself quite impressed by how, in the face of what the BBC describes as 'huge pressure' and amid much outcry in the media and among his fellow politicians (and even the resignation of the Tories' token Muslim Woman), Cameron has so far not joined in the hand-wringing, moral grandstanding and wholesale condemnation of Israel over what is going on in Gaza. No, rather than cave in to that 'huge pressure', he employs himself (so far anyway) doing what he loves to do - looking at fish in a fish market. He was doing it last year, he's doing it this year, he clearly intends to go on doing it every time he find himself anywhere near a fish market. Good for him! To paraphrase Dr Johnson, a man is seldom more innocently employed than when he is looking at fish. Especially a politician...
Over on the Dabbler...
There's me on Ricks on Keats and embarrassment.
Missa Whaat?
Half-listening to the radio last night as I drifted towards sleep, I heard what I took to be a traditional setting of the Mass for four male voices - but there seemed to be something wrong with the words. What was it? I could only make out odd fragments, so was none the wiser, until the presenter (the Right Rev Mark Tully) came on and told us that it was... Missa Charles Darwin!
Yes, a bright spark called Gregory Brown had decided to put words from Darwin's seminal works and correspondence to a traditional Mass setting. You can read all about it here, and listen online if you care to... It put me in mind of those absurd Temples of Reason that sprang up after the French Revolution, appropriating the apparatus of Christianity and adapting its rituals to lend spurious resonance to atheism and humanism. A Mass based on Darwin's writings strikes me as either a fabulously stupid gesture or blasphemy, or perhaps both. No doubt some keen atheist is already at work on a Missa Richard Dawkins...
Getting Round to Barbara Pym
I vaguely remember dipping into Barbara Pym back in the late Seventies, around the time her then neglected work was acclaimed by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil in the TLS and her career was instantly revived. I was curious to see what all the fuss was about - and I could dimly discern it, but felt Pym's novels weren't really for me. This was probably because I was too young. Now that I am considerably more laden with years, I have finally got round to having a proper crack at Barbara Pym - and I have to report that Larkin and Cecil were bang on the money: she's brilliant.
This judgment is formed on the basis of just one novel (so far), but I can't remember when I last got so much sheer pleasure from a novel as I did from Jane And Prudence (published 1953). Through much of the book, there was barely a paragraph that didn't make me smile, outwardly or inwardly, or laugh out loud. Pym's eye for the ridiculous is unfailing and her prose is wondrously supple and nuanced. An extremely deft craftswoman, she does just what is needed and no more - enough to bring her characters alive, place them in their world, and set the plot spinning. Her eye is clear but never cruel, even though there is really rather little to commend any of the characters - especially the men, who are a sorry bunch.
The reader's sympathy is generally with Jane, an Oxford graduate who had thought of being an academic but married a nice, rather dull vicar. With her gracelessness, dreadful clothes - she dresses as if she's going out to feed the chickens - and habit of coming out with wildly inappropriate, if well-meaning, contributions to any conversation, she put me in mind of Miranda (Miranda Hart's comic alter ego, that is - not Shakespeare's Miranda). You can't help but like her, though you probably wouldn't want to meet her.
There is rather less to be said for her more glamorous friend Prudence, who was at the same Oxford college but is a decade or so younger and unmarried (at the age of 29, which seems dangerously close to old maidhood in 1953). She seems to spend her life in a state of romantic self-delusion, drifting from one unsuitable and/or uninterested man to the next. Her unerring instinct for these (steered by the well-meaning Jane) leads her inevitably to the supine, dangerously handsome widower Fabian Driver, the novel's best comic creation, who's at the centre of most of the funniest and most excruciating scenes.
Also at the centre of things, at all times, is food: the action takes place against a daily round of cooked breakfasts, three-course lunches, cooked dinners and bedtime drinks (Ovaltine!) - not to mention the morning and afternoon tea and biscuits (or cakes) that are the main focus of purposeful activity in the office where Prudence works (if that isn't too strong a word). Meat - still on the ration in 1953 - is a constant preoccupation, because 'The men must have their meat', although, as one character darkly hints (to Jane's bemused dismay), they only really want 'one thing'.
This endless round of meals and snacks - how come there was no 'obesity epidemic' in those days? (see also Bowen) - and the leisurely pace of working life are among many things that remind us of how hugely different the England of 60 years ago was from the rushed, food-foraging, TV dinner present. Another is the preoccupation with religious identity. This is a world in which everybody (apart from a few oddballs) is a church-goer, and questions of High and Low are very much alive. It is also a world in which people read poetry - Prudence will sit over lunch reading Coventry Patmore(!), and Jane is forever quoting, or at least thinking of, lines from the Metaphysical poets (her speciality). This poetical vein running through the novel gives it a very distinctive flavour and hints at unexpected depths...
I read Jane And Prudence in a Virago Modern Classics paperback adorned with a wildly inappropriate chicklit-style jacket and prefaced with a gushing introduction by Jilly Cooper. But the back of that garish jacket carries this endorsement by Anne Tyler: 'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life.' That, I think, is exactly right.
There's a nice piece on the AbeBooks website about the strange things people have used as bookmarks and forgotten about - everything from forty $1,000 bills to a rasher of bacon (at least it wasn't a fried egg).
It puts me in mind of the time I opened a book and found some chap had cut off the end of his trouser-leg to use as a bookmark. 'Well,' I thought, 'there's a turn-up for the book.'
Nige
Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon.
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Home Nashville Public Library Digital Collection Dixon-Memorial United Methodist Church, 2000 October
Dixon-Memorial United Methodist Church, 2000 October
Title Dixon-Memorial United Methodist Church, 2000 October
Corporate name Dixon-Memorial United Methodist Church (Nashville, Tenn.)
Twelfth Avenue (Nashville, Tenn.)
Description A photograph of Dixon-Memorial United Methodist Church located at 1111 Buchanan Street at Twelfth Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. According to the church's cornerstone, the structure was erected in 1938. The congregation was formed in 1889. The foundation is cement. The walls are red brick. The roof is made of grey shingles. The windows are stained glass. The doors are wood. Forms part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Sacred Sites Survey Project. 1 photograph : col. ; 4 x 6 in.
Identifier SSSP - Dixon Mem UMC
Location Closed Stacks-SSSP-Dixon Mem UMC
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Category: DC 2272 Shaun Parry
Police Officer Sacked After Filming Himself Performing a Sex Act in Police Station Toilets!!
Posted on 12th December 2019 6 Comments
I will be voting for Boris Johnson tonight.
Yes, you’re getting my vote Boris; you did say you will be recruiting 20,000 more police officers, if you are true to your word send them to our cities where they are desperately needed (ie; terrorists, shootings and stabbings).
Please Boris don’t send any more to Wales, unless they have been vetted to a high standard because as of late a lot of Welsh police officers have caused pain, misery and disgrace to our communities.
Boris, here are just a few for you to read about; officers drinking and driving, an officer filming himself in a police station toilet, a female police officer who had sex with an abuse victim, another officer jailed for raping a baby, on a previous post a solicitor was caught having sex with an officer at Cockett Police Station. North Wales Police Superintendent Robert Kirman goes on trial next week for fraud, another officer, PC Mike Smith is also in court next week, the list is endless and these officers are all in Welsh police forces.
Please Prime Minister, help our communities to be safe from these sex monsters.
Please read the link below why PC Christopher Leach was dismissed:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-officer-sacked-after-filming-20964173
Disgusting behaviour!! Now read the link below, PC Robert Jeffrey Hill banned for drink driving for 14 months; another officer that uses the defence suffering from anxiety and depression, they seem to think this is get out of jail card.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/duty-copper-who-said-hed-17365389
Now read the link below of the North Wales policewoman PC Andrea Griffiths, who had been a liaison officer for a vulnerable middle-aged man.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-policewoman-admits-having-17388065
Also, read about the sick PC Dean Roberts recording himself abusing an infant and shared the clip with other paedophiles before he was caught by his workmates and arrested.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/police-officer-jailed-raping-baby-13043397
Finally, DC 2313 Don Kenyon and 2179 Jason Davenport, Don your favourite saying what you told me “police officers have good jobs and they don’t get into trouble”, shame on you Kenyon and shame on you NWP.
Below is a list of North Wales Police officers that have been sacked from the force, the majority of them for sex offences:
SUP Gordon Anglesea
PC Garry Donnelly
PC Wyn Morris
PC James Cleverley Evans
PC 1352 Dave Parminter
PC Dave Gardener
PC Ian James Clarke
PC James Gill
Prime Minister, you have got my vote and my family’s, please look at how many corrupt officers we have in the force and I’ve only mentioned a few.
CategoriesDavid Gardner, DC 2272 Shaun Parry, DC 2313 Don Kenyon, Gordon Anglesea, Insp 2179 Jason Davenport, North Wales Police, PC 1352 David Parminter, PC 1651 Martyn Parmley, Superintendent 1443 Rob Kirman
North Wales Police Attend 2 County Courts to See if Michael Creamer is Married
Posted on 5th March 2019 5th March 2019 10 Comments
I Michael John Creamer was born on the 9th September 1964, I was born in Liverpool and eventually moved to North Wales and on the 12th May 1990, I married my beautiful wife, nearly 29 years ago, albeit we had been together approx. 4 years before we married, so we have been together over 33 years, neither me or my wife had been previously married before we met and since being married have never been divorced.
When I was arrested in 2008 on suspicion of mortgage fraud, I was asked in the interview had I been married before or have I ever been divorced and the answer to that question was NO, but DC Don Kenyon, DS Jason Davenport, Nicholas Hawe and DC 586 Phil Griffiths obviously didn’t believe me, I know this sounds like a joke, they were investigating mortgage fraud with no complainee and a victimless crime, but in some way The Mob have to justify how they spent mugs money.
Please read Carys Hughes’ statement, who is the family court clerk at Caernarfon County Court.
If this statement is true and accurate, why hasn’t Carys Hughes signed this statement? Or has somebody at North Wales Police HQ written this themselves? Now read Susan Miguel’s witness statement, she is the manager at Rhyl County Court; Davenport and the rest of the foot soldiers must not have been happy with their findings at Caernarfon County Court, so they decided to try Rhyl, to see if they knew anything different.
Susan, if you read this blog could you please confirm why you too have not signed your statement to confirm it’s true and factual or is it something North Wales Police have written. Now please read Ruth Ewen’s statement:
Ruth Ewen, you too have not signed your statement, I’m not sure if you or any of your colleagues are aware of the Home Office guidelines, you must sign a statement to confirm that what you’re saying is true and accurate.
Let’s now turn to Janet Ryan’s statement, where The Mob have checked with Janet Ryan to see if Sophia Creamer does exist and to check her date of birth, yes that’s my beautiful daughter, the lengths North Wales Police have gone to for mortgage fraud and they also checked to make sure Mathew Creamer does exist, yes that’s my son North Wales Police, what has this enquiry got to do with mortgage fraud?
Janet Ryan, can you please confirm is this statement true and accurate and if so, why didn’t you sign it?
I’m leaving my number:- 07977928434, could any of you staff from the County Courts please contact me to confirm these are your statements and give me a reason as to why they are not signed?
There are people around the country who are deliberately going bankrupt to avoid paying debts, there are people getting mortgages on houses and getting the property repossessed because they have borrowed against them, there are people getting bank loans in false names and not paying them back and yet North Wales Police are not carrying out checks against these people who are deliberately defrauding the system. Look at the lengths they went to, the checks etc they did against myself who owes nobody any money, never been bankrupt, got no mortgage and owes nothing on credit cards and never had any CCJ’s.
North Wales Police must be really jealous and obsessed with me, terrorists that are a threat to Great Britain are not being checked this thoroughly, please see the picture below of Shamima Begum, the school girl who fled London to join the Islamic State group in Syria.
Ms Begum who has just given birth said she now wants the U.K.’s forgiveness and supports some British values. DC Don Kenyon and DS Jason Davenport, would you be interested in checking with the County Courts in Great Britain to see does this child exist, just in case she wins her appeal and is allowed back in Britain, she gave birth over two weeks ago to a baby boy, having previously lost two children and named her baby after her first son.
The home secretary Sajid Javid told MPs on Monday that he would not hesitate to prevent the return of Britons who travel to Syria to join ISIS while the UK cannot leave people stateless under international law, he said any such Britons would be questioned, investigated and potentially prosecuted.
Kenyon and Davenport, I was wondering if you would like me as your PA (personal assistant), I have 29 years of marriage under my belt, you lot haven’t served that long in the police force and nearly all of you involved in Operation Pylon have had affairs, failed marriages, being convicted of rape (Ian James Clarke) some have been sacked from the force (Shaun Parry, Martyn Parmley, Dave Parminter and many more), I will name you all in future posts. You will not bully me and think by sending me to prison for 7 years and stealing £350,000 from me, will keep my mouth shut, well I can tell you it won’t, I want justice and will not give up until I get it. You lot don’t like the truth!!
CategoriesDC 1359 Nicholas Hawe, DC 2272 Shaun Parry, DC 2313 Don Kenyon, Insp 2179 Jason Davenport, North Wales Police, PC 1352 David Parminter, PC 1651 Martyn Parmley, Truth
2272 Shaun Parry Sacked By North Wales Police
Posted on 21st February 2019 21st February 2019 6 Comments
DC 2272 Shaun Parry was one of the officers involved in Operation Pylon along with Inspector Ian Verburg, DC 2313 Don Kenyon (Don, remember what you told me, ‘police officers don’t tell lies, we have good jobs’), 2179 Jason Davenport and many other officers from the force that told lies and manipulated the CPS to bring a charge against myself for mortgage fraud and also stole money from me. Superintendent John Chapman, I haven’t forgotten, I want my money back.
It’s good to see karma catch up with Shaun Parry, the officer who couldn’t keep his hands to himself and also couldn’t keep his penis in his trousers.
I’ve left my number Shaun, can you ask your wife to give me a ring so I can truthfully tell her who you’ve been going with behind her back, my number is 07977928434.
Please see picture below: Shaun proudly picking up his award from the ex-Chief Constable Mark Polin and Superintendent John Hanson. Hanson, who took the complaints from members of the public regarding ‘Thoughts of Oscar’ he told me in HQ Colwyn Bay, when I was present with my solicitor Mr Leigh Wright, the comments Oscar published were just nasty and hurtful and it will all blow over in two weeks.
The thing is with my blog John, is that it’s all factual and the truth, a lot of people don’t like to hear the truth and there’s loads more statements to produce and many photos to come.
Please see below outcome of misconduct hearing:
Shaun Parry, there goes your job and your pension.
CategoriesCPS, DC 1359 Nicholas Hawe, DC 2272 Shaun Parry, DC 2313 Don Kenyon, Insp 2179 Jason Davenport, Mortgage Fraud, North Wales Police, Thoughts of Oscar
DC 2272 Parry Faces a Misconduct Hearing and the Ex-Chief Constable Gets Punched on the Nose
Posted on 13th February 2019 13th February 2019 8 Comments
Operation Pylon was carried out in 2008 when myself and other people were arrested on suspicion of mortgage fraud. You will have already read on this blog about Inspector Ian Verburg, where he denied knowing ‘7 bellies’ Nigel Roberts was the author of the poison pen blog and told the local community ‘we don’t know who the author is, it’s best you don’t look on the site’. Verburg was also told by the judge during my trial to go and speak to Oscar a.k.a. ‘7 bellies’ and to tell him to remove the derogatory comments concerning myself, we also now know North Wales Police protected that site and used it to get me convicted.
Please read below Ian Verburg’s statement which confirms he was one of the 100 officers and more involved in Operation Pylon
Please read 2313 Don Kenyon’s statements below which also confirms he was involved in Operation Pylon, Don’s favourite saying in the interview was ‘Michael, we’re police officers, we have good jobs and we don’t tell lies’
At the time, approximately 2008 when I was arrested, another officer who was involved in Operation Pylon was a trainee detective, Constable 2272 Shaun Parry; In 2009 when North Wales Police were making their enquiries 2272 Shaun Parry attended my late mother’s house, 10 Penman Crescent; my mother phoned me up saying Shaun Parry had attended her property and he’d wanted to speak to her regarding me, I told my mum ‘you’re not under arrest and you’re nothing to do with this investigation’ so I told my mum to tell him to fuck off, bless my Mum, she said I could not speak to them like that.
I asked my mum to send me Shaun’s number, I phoned Shaun up and told him to clear off away from the property. He had the cheek to say, ‘I’m making enquiries into Operation Pylon and you’re quite right Michael, your mum has no part of this operation, so if you could get your mum to call me and tell me herself, she doesn’t want to speak to me that’s the end of the matter’. I got my solicitor to speak to Shaun confirming what was agreed, Shaun left and my mother never heard from him again. Shaun was a young police officer at the time, trying to make a name for himself.
Please read 2272 Shaun Parry’s witness statement, again confirming that he was one of the officers in Operation Pylon.
Please now read below that 2272 Shaun Parry is facing a misconduct hearing at North Wales Police headquarters on the 19th/ 20th February. We await the outcome. What I do find strange is the public cannot attend the hearing, Shaun I know Ian Verburg told all offices not to read my blog, but you just can’t stop reading it.
I’m leaving my number and address:
Michael Creamer, 4 Parc Waen, Conwy LL32 8EL
Mobile:- 07977928434
And if you would like to get your Mrs to ring me, I will tell her who you’ve been knocking off behind her back; this incident has nothing to do with the misconduct hearing.
Just to remind you readers of the blog, in March 2017 Ian James Clarke was the arrogant North Wales Police copper convicted of raping a sleeping woman while his police officer wife slept in the adjoining bedroom, Clarke was jailed for 5 years. PC 1651 Martin Parmley from the same team also faced a misconduct hearing and is no longer employed by North Wales Police; there seems to be a pattern of this behaviour.
Please see photo below:
Shaun Parry, John Hanson and Laura Griffiths are the 3 officers that were commended by the ex-chief constable Mark Polin. Yes, the picture shows Superintendent John Hanson who was the head of professional standards and used to sit in on misconduct hearings.
Finally, can I bring to your attention that the ex-Chief Mark Polin was having an affair with a serving police officer’s wife, when the Sergeant found out, how brave of him, he went around Polin’s house and thumped him on the nose; yes, you may well laugh readers of the blog, but this is actually assault and Polin never reported it, police officers were called to this incident!!
Any members of the public, if you wish you can write in under the FOI and ask for any recorded incidents involving police officers at their own homes and see if any events are recorded as North Wales Police are supposed to be honest and transparent; as we all know Mark Polin retired with a good pension and then set himself up with a good job working for Betsi Cadwalader. I am a little surprised how he got his new job as he knows nothing about the health service, his new job should have been given to someone with experience in this field, I would like to remind you 2272 Shaun Parry you’re a foot soldier, senior police officers very rarely get prosecuted.
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/detective-faces-allegation-inappropriate-behaviour-15822913
Your comments are welcome.
CategoriesDC 2272 Shaun Parry, DC 2313 Don Kenyon, Mortgage Fraud, North Wales Police, PC 1651 Martyn Parmley
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China’s Narrative of Xinjiang Issue
December 17,2019 | Hujjatullah Zia
Tensions between China and the United States have escalated after the House of Representative’s Uighur Human Rights Policy Act, 2019. International media and human rights organizations claim that China is persecuting the Uighur community and violating their human rights and religious beliefs, allegations that Beijing has denied. Calling the US action a political move aimed at damaging its international image, China states it is running a de-radicalization program to mainstream its communities.
Chinese officials say that they are countering violent extremism (CVE), including “separatists, religious extremists, and terrorists”, who refer to Xinjiang as “East Turkistan”. The Chinese State Council Information Office issued a booklet in July this year saying that never in Chinese history has Xinjiang been referred to as ‘East Turkistan’ and there has never been any state with this name. According to the booklet, at the turn of the 20th century, terms such as ‘Pan-Turkism’ and ‘Pan-Islamism’ “made inroads in Xinjiang” and “separatists in and outside China politicized the geographical concept and manipulated its meaning, inciting all ethnic groups speaking Turkic languages… to join in creating the theocratic state of East Turkistan”.
Another booklet issued in March said that religious extremists inherited “the so-called theories of ‘Pan-Turkistan’ and ‘Pan-Islamism’ created by former colonialists”.
Since the strategy of China’s counter-terrorism is being challenged by international media, China is worried about its global image. In April, China invited a media delegation from different countries in Xinjiang, where t v delegation visited Wensu County Vocational Skills Training Center and Moyu Vocational Skills Education and Training Center in Aksu. The journalists interviewed some of the students learning there. In their interviews, the students, who were Uighur Muslims, said that they were radicalized through unknown messages sent through WeChat, a Chinese social media app. We also visited the residences of some Uighur Muslims who were graduated from vocational skills training centers. They expressed their happiness and said that they were recruited in companies or launched their own business after graduation.
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Chinese Ambassador to Kabul Mr. Wang Yu said in a press conference this month that Xinjiang was not about ethnicity or religion but about combating extremism, terrorism and separatism. He said that to protect ordinary people, China had been cracking down on violent terrorist networks and opened vocational education and training centers to educate people affected by extremist ideology with a minor tendency to commit crimes, rectify their extremist ideas, teach them vocational skills for free and enable them to find a job and make a living. He added that the measure “has produced very good results”.
He slammed the US and other western countries for “interfering with China in the name of human rights”.
The Chinese narrative is that it is fighting against religious extremists, terrorists and separatists in accordance with national laws and international instruments, including the United Nations Charter.
In addition to the establishment of education and training centers, China is seeking to mitigate the challenges through economic empowerment, mainly in Xinjiang which is the hub area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. Xinjiang has, indeed, maintained social stability, achieved economic growth and improved lives for the people.
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ATP5PB
ATP5PB, PIG47, ATP synthase, H+ transporting, mitochondrial Fo complex subunit B1, ATP synthase peripheral stalk-membrane subunit b, ATP5F1
External IDs
OMIM: 603270 MGI: 1100495 HomoloGene: 1275 GeneCards: ATP5PB
Gene location (Human)
Chr.
Chromosome 1 (human)[1]
1p13.2
111,448,864 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse)
Chromosome 3 (mouse)[2]
3 F2.2|3 46.46 cM
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
• protein binding
• ATPase activity
• hydrogen ion transmembrane transporter activity
• proton-transporting ATP synthase activity, rotational mechanism
• transmembrane transporter activity
• nucleoplasm
• mitochondrion
• mitochondrial proton-transporting ATP synthase complex, coupling factor F(o)
• mitochondrial matrix
• proton-transporting ATP synthase complex, coupling factor F(o)
• cell nucleus
• membrane
• myelin
• mitochondrial proton-transporting ATP synthase complex
• mitochondrial inner membrane
• extracellular exosome
• substantia nigra development
• proton transport
• ion transport
• ATP synthesis coupled proton transport
• mitochondrial ATP synthesis coupled proton transport
• ATP biosynthetic process
• ATP hydrolysis coupled cation transmembrane transport
• cristae formation
• transport
Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Human Mouse
Q9CQQ7
RefSeq (mRNA)
RefSeq (protein)
Location (UCSC)
Chr 1: 111.45 – 111.46 Mb Chr 3: 105.94 – 105.96 Mb
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ATP-synt_B
atp synthase b subunit dimerization domain
Pfam clan
1b9u / SUPFAM
Available protein structures:
structures / ECOD
RCSB PDB; PDBe; PDBj
PDBsum
ATP synthase subunit b, mitochondrial is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ATP5PB gene.[5][6]
This gene encodes a subunit of mitochondrial ATP synthase. Mitochondrial ATP synthase catalyzes ATP synthesis, utilizing an electrochemical gradient of protons across the inner membrane during oxidative phosphorylation. ATP synthase is composed of two linked multi-subunit complexes: the soluble catalytic core, F1, and the membrane-spanning component, Fo, comprising the proton channel. The catalytic portion of mitochondrial ATP synthase consists of 5 different subunits (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon) assembled with a stoichiometry of 3 alpha, 3 beta, and a single representative of the other 3. The proton channel seems to have nine subunits (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, F6 and 8). This gene encodes the b subunit of the proton channel.[6]
The b subunits are part of the peripheral stalk that links the F1 and FO complexes together, and which acts as a stator to prevent certain subunits from rotating with the central rotary element. The peripheral stalk differs in subunit composition between mitochondrial, chloroplast and bacterial F-ATPases. In bacterial and chloroplast F-ATPases, the peripheral stalk is composed of one copy of the delta subunit (homologous to OSCP in mitochondria), and two copies of subunit b in bacteria, or one copy each of subunits b and b' in chloroplasts and photosynthetic bacteria.[7]
^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000116459 - Ensembl, May 2017
^ a b c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000000563 - Ensembl, May 2017
^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ Higuti T, Tsurumi C, Osaka F, Kawamura Y, Tsujita H, Yoshihara Y, Tani I, Tanaka K, Ichihara A (Sep 1991). "Molecular cloning of cDNA for the import precursor of human subunit B of H(+)-ATP synthase in mitochondria". Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 178 (3): 1014–20. doi:10.1016/0006-291X(91)90993-H. PMID 1831354.
^ a b "Entrez Gene: ATP5PB ATP synthase peripheral stalk-membrane subunit b".
^ Carbajo RJ, Kellas FA, Runswick MJ, Montgomery MG, Walker JE, Neuhaus D (August 2005). "Structure of the F1-binding domain of the stator of bovine F1Fo-ATPase and how it binds an alpha-subunit". J. Mol. Biol. 351 (4): 824–38. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2005.06.012. PMID 16045926.
Human ATP5PB genome location and ATP5PB gene details page in the UCSC Genome Browser.
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Farrell LB, Nagley P (1987). "Human liver cDNA clones encoding proteolipid subunit 9 of the mitochondrial ATPase complex". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 144 (3): 1257–64. doi:10.1016/0006-291X(87)91446-X. PMID 2883974.
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Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides". Gene. 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID 8125298.
Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene. 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149.
Elston T, Wang H, Oster G (1998). "Energy transduction in ATP synthase". Nature. 391 (6666): 510–3. doi:10.1038/35185. PMID 9461222.
Wang H, Oster G (1998). "Energy transduction in the F1 motor of ATP synthase". Nature. 396 (6708): 279–82. doi:10.1038/24409. PMID 9834036.
Jia L, Young MF, Powell J, et al. (2002). "Gene expression profile of human bone marrow stromal cells: high-throughput expressed sequence tag sequencing analysis". Genomics. 79 (1): 7–17. doi:10.1006/geno.2001.6683. PMID 11827452.
Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
Cross RL (2004). "Molecular motors: turning the ATP motor". Nature. 427 (6973): 407–8. doi:10.1038/427407b. PMID 14749816.
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Part of the CF(0) (base unit) of the ATP synthase. The base unit is thought to translocate protons through membrane (inner membrane in mitochondria, thylakoid membrane in plants, cytoplasmic membrane in bacteria). The B subunits are thought to interact with the stalk of the CF(1) subunits. This domain should not be confused with the ab CF(1) proteins (in the head of the ATP synthase) which are found in PF00006
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SCOOP: Apolipoprotein DivIVA DUF3552 DUF4407 DUF948 FliH Fun_ATP-synt_8 HrpE Mt_ATP-synt_B OSCP T2SSM UPF0242 V-ATPase_G V-ATPase_G_2 vATP-synt_E YMF19
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InterPro entry IPR002146
Transmembrane ATPases are membrane-bound enzyme complexes/ion transporters that use ATP hydrolysis to drive the transport of protons across a membrane. Some transmembrane ATPases also work in reverse, harnessing the energy from a proton gradient, using the flux of ions across the membrane via the ATPase proton channel to drive the synthesis of ATP.
There are several different types of transmembrane ATPases, which can differ in function (ATP hydrolysis and/or synthesis), structure (e.g., F-, V- and A-ATPases, which contain rotary motors) and in the type of ions they transport [PUBMED:15473999, PUBMED:15078220]. The different types include:
F-ATPases (ATP synthases, F1F0-ATPases), which are found in mitochondria, chloroplasts and bacterial plasma membranes where they are the prime producers of ATP, using the proton gradient generated by oxidative phosphorylation (mitochondria) or photosynthesis (chloroplasts).
V-ATPases (V1V0-ATPases), which are primarily found in eukaryotes and they function as proton pumps that acidify intracellular compartments and, in some cases, transport protons across the plasma membrane [PUBMED:20450191]. They are also found in bacteria [PUBMED:9741106].
A-ATPases (A1A0-ATPases), which are found in Archaea and function like F-ATPases, though with respect to their structure and some inhibitor responses, A-ATPases are more closely related to the V-ATPases [PUBMED:18937357, PUBMED:1385979].
P-ATPases (E1E2-ATPases), which are found in bacteria and in eukaryotic plasma membranes and organelles, and function to transport a variety of different ions across membranes.
E-ATPases, which are cell-surface enzymes that hydrolyse a range of NTPs, including extracellular ATP.
F-ATPases (also known as ATP synthases, F1F0-ATPase, or H(+)-transporting two-sector ATPase) (EC) are composed of two linked complexes: the F1 ATPase complex is the catalytic core and is composed of 5 subunits (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon), while the F0 ATPase complex is the membrane-embedded proton channel that is composed of at least 3 subunits (A-C), with additional subunits in mitochondria. Both the F1 and F0 complexes are rotary motors that are coupled back-to-back. In the F1 complex, the central gamma subunit forms the rotor inside the cylinder made of the alpha(3)beta(3) subunits, while in the F0 complex, the ring-shaped C subunits forms the rotor. The two rotors rotate in opposite directions, but the F0 rotor is usually stronger, using the force from the proton gradient to push the F1 rotor in reverse in order to drive ATP synthesis [PUBMED:11309608]. These ATPases can also work in reverse in bacteria, hydrolysing ATP to create a proton gradient.
This entry represents subunits b and b' from the F0 complex in F-ATPases found in chloroplasts and in bacterial plasma membranes. The b subunits are part of the peripheral stalk that links the F1 and F0 complexes together, and which acts as a stator to prevent certain subunits from rotating with the central rotary element. The peripheral stalk differs in subunit composition between mitochondrial, chloroplast and bacterial F-ATPases. In bacterial and chloroplast F-ATPases, the peripheral stalk is composed of one copy of the delta subunit (homologous to OSCP in mitochondria), and two copies of subunit b in bacteria, or one copy each of subunits b and b' in chloroplasts and photosynthetic bacteria [PUBMED:16045926].
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Cellular component proton-transporting ATP synthase complex, coupling factor F(o) (GO:0045263)
Molecular function proton transmembrane transporter activity (GO:0015078)
Biological process ATP synthesis coupled proton transport (GO:0015986)
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This family is a member of clan ATP_synthase (CL0255), which has the following description:
This clan contains subunits of the F0 complex of ATP-synthase. The F0 complex is the non-catalytic unit of ATPase and is involved in proton translocation across membranes.
The clan contains the following 13 members:
ATP-synt_8 ATP-synt_B FliH Fun_ATP-synt_8 HrpE Mt_ATP-synt_B NolV OSCP V-ATPase_G V-ATPase_G_2 vATP-synt_E Yae1_N YMF19
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Seed source: Pfam-B_137 (release 1.0)
Previous IDs: none
Type: Family
Sequence Ontology: SO:0100021
Author: Finn RD
Number in seed: 14
Number in full: 9730
Average length of the domain: 131.00 aa
Average identity of full alignment: 24 %
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: 72.98 %
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target: Digital Video Networks
Digital Video Networks was formed to serve Educational, Military and enterprise customers in their transformation to digital video systems over I.P. networks. Their mission is to design, install and support Cutting Edge Audio, Video, & Data Collaboration/Presentation Systems to their clients.
AGC Networks, acquired Black Box Corporation
synopsis: Global solutions integrator AGC Networks announced that a newly-formed, wholly owned subsidiary has completed the previously-announced acquisition of Black Box Corporation, a leading digital solutions provider dedicated to helping customers design, build, manage and secure their IT infrastructure.
buyer parent: Essar Group
buyer: AGC Networks
AGC Networks (AGC) is a Global Solution Integrator representing the world’s best brands in Unified Communications, Data Center & Edge IT, Cyber Security (CYBER-i) and Digital Transformation & Applications to evolve the customer’s digital landscape. "
target: Black Box Corporation (BBOX:$770.58)
Black Box is a leading digital solutions provider dedicated to helping customers design, build, manage and secure their IT infrastructure. Black Box delivers high-value products and services through its global presence and approximately 3,000 team members.
price ($mm)[EV]
$109 [$87]
closed 11/14/2018 via BNC Analysis
Kinly, acquired MK2 Audiovisueel B.V.
synopsis: Kinly, a Netherlands-based provider of secure and flexible visual collaboration solutions, has acquired MK2 Audiovisueel, a Dutch provider of audiovisual technologies. MK2 Audiovisueel helps their clients find and install the audiovisual technologies they need for reception areas, meeting rooms, presentations, and communications.
buyer parent: Avedon Capital Partners
buyer: Kinly
Kinly is a Netherlands-based provider of secure and flexible visual collaboration solutions. Their Cloud Collaboration platform allows their clients to have a meeting room in the cloud, allowing them to meet with anyone, no matter where they are or what device they use. "
target: MK2 Audiovisueel B.V.
MK2 Audiovisueel is a Dutch provider of audiovisual communication and information technologies. MK2 Audiovisueel helps their clients find and install the audiovisual technologies they need for reception areas, meeting rooms, presentations, and communications.
closed 11/14/2018 via PR Newswire
Stratacache, Inc., acquired Sys-Teams Ltd
synopsis: STRATACACHE announces the acquisition of Sys-Teams, a UK-based company specializing in delivering comprehensive installation, integration and field service solutions to notable global brands' digital signage and digital retail experiences.
buyer: Stratacache, Inc.
From digital signage and IP video, to content distribution and enterprise video caching, Stratacache solutions are designed to promote business growth, drive innovation and increase productivity. They simplify organizational communication and significantly reduce network performance challenges. "
target: Sys-Teams Ltd
Sys-Teams is a UK-based company specializing in delivering comprehensive installation, integration and field service solutions to notable global brands’ digital signage and digital retail experiences.
closed 10/3/2018 via BusinessWire
Camera Corner Connecting Point merged with Arlington Computer Products, Inc.,
synopsis: ACP (Arlington Computer Products), an IT solutions provider based in Chicago and Atlanta, announced it has merged with Camera Corner Connecting Point (CCCP), an IT and audio-visual solutions provider based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
buyer: Arlington Computer Products, Inc.
Headquartered just outside of Chicago — with offices in Atlanta and London — ACP creates IT solutions for small to midsize businesses, large enterprises, school districts, government agencies and other organizations. "
target: Camera Corner Connecting Point
Camera Corner Connecting Point (CCCP) is an IT and audio-visual solutions provider based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. With a full staff of AV and security system designers and installers, CCCP expertly represents every area of AV, Video Security, Communications and Information Technology Services.
closed 9/5/2018 via BusinessWire
Rahi Systems, acquired Thresher Communication and Productivity
synopsis: Rahi Systems, a company that offers a suite of solutions and services to data centers, has acquired Thresher Communication and Productivity, a leading provider of state-of-the-art audio/visual solutions and services.
buyer: Rahi Systems
Rahi Systems delivers a suite of solutions and services that optimize the cost, performance, scalability, manageability and efficiency of today’s data center. "
target: Thresher Communication and Productivity
Thresher Communication and Productivity is a leading provider of state-of-the-art audio/visual solutions and services. Thresher has designed, deployed, and supported thousands of innovative AV and IT solutions within the Bay Area.
closed 8/23/2018 via Company Press Release
Baptiste Leclercq and Steven Poulain, acquired TV Wonder
synopsis: TV Wonder, a company that engages in digital signage and digital project management services, has been acquired by its employees Baptiste Leclercq and Steven Poulain. TV Wonder is the link between communication strategy and IT. By combining video media, computer networks and the cloud, they make video media intelligent. They are based in France.
buyer: Baptiste Leclercq and Steven Poulain
Baptiste Leclercq and Steven Poulain are directors of the company, TV Wonder. TV Wonder is the link between communication strategy and IT. By combining video media, computer networks and the cloud, they make video media intelligent. They are based in France. "
target parent: Provectio
target: TV Wonder
TV Wonder engages in digital signage and digital project management services. They are located in Noyal-sur-Vilaine, France. TV Wonder is the link between communication strategy and IT. By combining video media, computer networks and the cloud, they make video media intelligent.
announced 7/25/2018 via PR Newswire
Diversified, will acquire TSL FZ LLC
synopsis: Diversified, an industry leading technology solutions provider, has reached an agreement to acquire TSL FZ LLC, a provider of global broadcast and AV solutions. TSL FZ works closely with manufacturers and clients to devise end-to-end solutions to meet the demands of clients' businesses.
buyer: Diversified
Diversified is an industry leading technology solutions provider delivering digital media, collaborative, broadcasting, electronic security, and OTT solutions globally. From initial design consultation to deployment to managed services, Diversified is a trusted technology partner. "
target: TSL FZ LLC
TSL FZ, LLC provides global independent broadcast and AV solutions, from consultation, design and system integration, right through to professional support services. Their teams work closely with manufacturers to devise end-to-end solutions to meet the demands of their business.
closed 6/29/2018 via PR Newswire
Cenero LLC, acquired avectus
synopsis: Cenero, a leader in audio visual, unified communications and IT solutions, announced it has acquired avectus, an AV systems integration company located in Lebanon, NJ. avectus specializes in audio visual, video conferencing and custom control system design and installations.
buyer: Cenero LLC
Cenero is a service focused audio visual, unified communications and IT solutions provider. With extensive knowledge of the most advanced collaboration and audio visual technologies, the company's goal is to deliver programs that improve communication and drive efficiency throughout an organization."
target: avectus
avectus is a leader in the audio visual equipment industry. They specialize in audio visual, video conferencing and custom control system design and installations. avectus guides their clients through every step, from helping them design the audio visual equipment package to long-term maintenance.
Infinite Electronics International, Inc., acquired Integrated Network Cable
synopsis: Infinite Electronics International, an operational holding company providing management and back office support for globally recognized electronic components brands, announced that it has acquired Integrated Network Cable, a leading online distributor of cables and connectivity products that also specializes in IT and network-installation services.
buyer: Infinite Electronics International, Inc.
Infinite Electronics is an operational holding company providing management and back office support for globally recognized brands addressing the immediate needs of engineers for wired and wireless connectivity products. "
target: Integrated Network Cable
Integrated Network Cable (INC) is a leading online distributor of cables and connectivity products that also specializes in IT and network-installation services.
AVMI, acquired Focus 21
synopsis: AVMI, a leading international AV integrator, announced that it has acquired the UK-based Focus 21, an engineering company specializing in the integration and servicing of audiovisual and videoconferencing systems.
buyer: AVMI
AVMI designs, delivers, supports and manages audio visual and digital media technology solutions - locally and globally - to corporate enterprises, innovative retailers and government departments. They are based in London, UK. "
target: Focus 21
Incorporated in 1998, Focus 21 Visual Communications is an engineering company specializing in the integration and servicing of audiovisual and videoconferencing systems. They are based in Surrey, UK.
closed 7/26/2017 via BNC Analysis
Connect NZ Limited, acquired ITAV Ltd.
synopsis: Connect NZ has acquired audio-video design and consultancy company ITAV. ITAV offers a solid foundation of value add technical consultancy, specialising in delivering expert advice in the integration of IT & AV technologies.
buyer: Connect NZ Limited
Connect NZ delivers business technology to the New Zealand market including small business, corporate, education and government enterprise. Connect NZ prides itself in having one of the largest range of IT services available to New Zealand businesses. "
target: ITAV Ltd.
ITAV provides professional services to Defence, Corporate, Government, Education and Entertainment industries throughout New Zealand. They offer a solid foundation of value add technical consultancy, specialising in delivering expert advice in the integration of IT & AV technologies.
closed 6/15/2016 via PR Web
Advanced Network Management, Inc., acquired Digital Roads, Inc.
synopsis: Advanced Network Management, the largest IT provider in the region, continues its impressive and consistent momentum with the acquisition of the highly regarded Colorado-based Digital Roads, Inc. Digital Roads, Inc. has earned a reputation for proven expertise in designing and deploying digital video applications and automated control systems.
buyer: Advanced Network Management, Inc.
Advanced Network Management, Inc.(ANM) has earned its reputation as a recognized leader in the Information Technology industry. Their comprehensive engineering expertise enables their team to design, implement, and support customized solutions, in order to address the unique IT challenges. "
target: Digital Roads, Inc.
Digital Roads, Inc. has earned a reputation for proven expertise in designing and deploying digital video applications and automated control systems. Their experience spans a wide range of environments including corporate, education, healthcare, government and entertainment.
Ingram Micro Inc., acquired Rollouts
synopsis: Ingram Micro Inc. announced an acquisition transaction with Rollouts, an IT services company specializing in providing on-demand field technicians and rapidly-deployable workforces to businesses and IT solution providers.
buyer: Ingram Micro Inc. (IM:$41,718.03)
Ingram Micro's global infrastructure and deep expertise in technology solutions, supply chain, cloud and mobility enable its business partners to operate efficiently and successfully in the markets they serve. "
target: Rollouts
Rollouts provides rapid deployment services at hundreds to thousands of sites nationwide . This includes : site survey, cabling and installation of self-service kiosk, ATM, digital signage, RFID, POS, self-checkout, servers, routers and camera systems.
AVI-SPL, Inc., acquired Interactive Solutions
synopsis: AVI-SPL, Inc., the leader in enterprise grade A/V and videoconferencing systems integration and unified communications, has acquired Interactive Solutions, a company that specializes in the design and integration of A/V systems technology for meeting and collaborative spaces, digital signage solutions, classroom technologies and lecture theaters.
target: Interactive Solutions
Interactive Solutions specializes in the design and integration of audio visual systems technology for meeting and collaborative spaces, digital signage solutions, classroom technologies and lecture theaters.
announced 6/27/2019 via Company Press Release
ICT Group N.V., will acquire Proficium B.V.
synopsis: ICT Group N.V. has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire 100% of the shares of Proficium B.V., a technical consultancy in the field of maintenance and asset management. Its services include developing and deploying tooling and database applications. Proficium has over 20 employees and generates annual turnover of around € 3 million.
buyer parent: DPA Group NV
buyer: ICT Group N.V. (ENXTAM:ICT:$146.71)
ICT Group N.V., established in 1978, is a leading industrial technology solutions and services provider. Their specific industry knowledge of various markets enables them to realise innovative solutions and offer secondment of experienced and highly educated professionals. "
target: Proficium B.V.
Proficium is a technical consultancy in the field of maintenance and asset management. Its services include developing and deploying tooling and database applications. Proficium has over 20 employees and generates annual turnover of around € 3 million.
One Equity Partners, acquired Lutech S.p.A.
synopsis: One Equity Partners, a middle-market private equity firm, has acquired Lutech S.p.A., a leading mid-sized IT system integration and solutions provider to medium and large Italian private and public-sector clients.
buyer: One Equity Partners
One Equity Partners is a middle-market private equity firm focused on the industrial, healthcare, and technology sectors in North America and Europe. The firm builds market-leading companies by identifying and executing transformative business combinations. "
target parent: Laserline Safety And Security Systems Srl
target: Lutech S.p.A.
Lutech is a leading mid-sized IT system integration and solutions provider to medium and large Italian private and public-sector clients, with an offering across vertical markets and business models: system integration, proprietary vertical market solutions and next generation IT infrastructure.
Cyient, Inc., will acquire Certon Software, Inc.
synopsis: Cyient Inc has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Certon Softare, Inc. Based in Melbourne, Florida, USA, Certon is an IP-led innovative provider of full product life-cycle engineering services to companies seeking certification approval for safety-critical systems, embedded software, and electronic hardware.
buyer: Cyient, Inc. (BSE:532175:$511.06)
Cyient is a global provider of engineering design, manufacturing, digital and technology services. Cyient’s portfolio spans product engineering, process engineering, networks and operations and geospatial services. "
target: Certon Software, Inc.
Certon Software has established an identity of unparalleled safety‑critical solutions in the aerospace, medical device, and transportation industries. They have internally developed tools, processes, and technology to streamline approvals of safety-critical systems, software, and complex hardware.
U.S. Bancorp, acquired talech
synopsis: U.S. Bank has acquired talech, a Palo Alto-based software company that provides software that allows businesses to manage multiple operational tasks – such as order management, inventory and staff reporting, customer management, business insights and payments processing – in a single, integrated point-of-sale system.
buyer: U.S. Bancorp (USB:$21,235.00)
U.S. Bancorp is the parent company of U.S. Bank, the fifth largest commercial bank in the United States. The company provides a comprehensive line of banking, brokerage, insurance, investment, mortgage, trust and payment services products to consumers, businesses and institutions. "
target: talech
Established in 2012, talech provides software that allows businesses to manage multiple operational tasks – such as order management, inventory and staff reporting, customer management, business insights and payments processing – in a single, integrated point-of-sale system.
closed 10/11/2016 via BusinessWire
Corcentric, acquired InfoAccess.net
synopsis: Corcentric Collective Business Systems, Inc., a provider of cloud-based financial process automation solutions, announced it has acquired substantially all of the assets of InfoAccess.net, a provider of cloud-based e-invoicing services headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
buyer parent: AmeriQuest Business Services, Inc.
buyer: Corcentric
Corcentric, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AmeriQuest Business Services, Inc., provides cloud-based financial process automation solutions that have revolutionized how the world’s largest organizations manage and protect their financial assets. "
target: InfoAccess.net
InfoAccess.net, founded in 1999 has more than 16,000 customers in more than 50 countries and helps buyers and sellers exchange critical purchase orders and invoices in any electronic format, reducing error, paper processes, and costs for more accurate payments and reconciliation.
announced 5/12/2014 via BusinessWire
Vantiv, will acquire Mercury Payment Systems, Inc.
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synopsis: Vantiv, Inc., a leading provider of payment processing services and related technology solutions, announced an agreement to acquire Mercury Payment Systems, a payment technology and service leader whose solutions are embedded into point-of-sale software applications and brought to market through their dealer and developer partners.
buyer parent: Advent International
buyer: Vantiv (VNTV:$3,796.12)
Vantiv, Inc. is a leading, integrated payment processor differentiated by a single, proprietary technology platform. Vantiv offers a comprehensive suite of traditional and innovative payment processing and technology solutions to merchants and financial institutions of all sizes in the U.S. "
target parent: SilverLake
target: Mercury Payment Systems, Inc.
Mercury Payment Systems, LLC is a payment technology and service leader whose solutions are embedded into point-of-sale software applications and brought to market through their dealer and developer partners.
DoubleBeam, acquired GoPago
synopsis: DoubleBeam, a provider white-labeled mobile payments technology solutions designed to easily integrate into any existing mobile application or digital wallet, announced that it has acquired GoPago, a leading provider of commerce solutions to merchants and mobile payments platform for customers.
buyer: DoubleBeam
DoubleBeam provides white-labeled mobile payments technology solutions designed to easily integrate into any existing mobile application or digital wallet. DoubleBeam's technology solutions have been deployed by mobile commerce providers, retailers and point-of-sale (POS) vendors. "
target: GoPago
GoPago is reimagining the Point of Sale (POS) by providing an all-in-one cloud based solution encompassing an on premise POS, mobile storefront, automated loyalty & rewards and credit card processing.
Silver Lake Partners, acquired Mercury Payment Systems, Inc.
synopsis: Mercury Payment Systems, one of the fastest-growing payment processing companies in North America, and Silver Lake, the world's largest technology investment firm, jointly announced that Silver Lake will make a strategic growth investment in Mercury and acquire approximately 60% of the Colorado-based business.
buyer: Silver Lake Partners
Silver Lake is the leading private equity firm focused on large-scale investing in technology. Silver Lake's ability to source and structure large-scale, private equity transactions and add value to portfolio companies is unmatched by other private equity firms investing in the technology industry. "
Mercury Payment Systems is an integrated transaction processing company created to enhance point-of-sale systems by offering credit, debit, check, gift card and loyalty processing. Mercury's integrated Internet protocol (IP) or dial-up processing solutions are fast, reliable and affordable.
Wrenchead, Inc., acquired icarz, incorporated
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synopsis: Wrenchead, Incorporated, a leading ebusiness solution provider to the wholesale distribution and retail markets, today announced it has joined forces with icarz, incorporated, a leading provider of web-based point of sale and warehouse solutions. The company will be named WHI, Inc.
buyer: Wrenchead, Inc.
Wrenchead engineers ebusiness and econtent solutions that help Distributors build stronger businesses and increase profits. Wrenchead services verticals such as the Automotive Aftermarket, Electrical Wholesale and Marine Wholesale. "
target: icarz, incorporated
icarz is a leading provider of demand chain and business management solutions. Our next-generation, Internet enabled products make possible efficient, reliable parts distribution. We offer unique end-to-end visibility into the entire demand chain from the point-of-sale.
Accelerated Analytics, purchased POS Reporting Business from afterBOT Inc.
synopsis: Accelerated Analytics®, a leading provider of retail point of sale reporting, announced it has acquired afterBOT’s retail POS reporting business. The acquisition further expands the market leadership of Accelerated Analytics as the go to provider for retail point of sale reporting solutions.
buyer: Accelerated Analytics
Accelerated Analytics is a comprehensive software-as-a-service solution for analyzing, and reporting on retail EDI 852, POS, and supply chain data. It includes web based analytics so that business users can focus on growing profitable sales, reducing out of stocks, and optimizing assortments. "
seller: afterBOT Inc.
At afterBOT, their vision is to connect retailers to suppliers and customers through a comprehensive Collaborative Commerce platform. They believe retailers must embrace their supplier community and openly share sales information to empower both retailers and suppliers to win.
closed 8/7/2012 via BNC Analysis
SPS Commerce, Inc., acquired Edifice Information Management Systems
synopsis: SPS Commerce, a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, announced it has acquired Edifice, a leading provider of cloud-based supply chain performance solutions with more than 500 customers worldwide, including many Fortune 1000 suppliers.
buyer: SPS Commerce, Inc. (SPSC:$263.52)
SPS Commerce is a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, providing integration, collaboration, connectivity, visibility and data analytics to thousands of customers worldwide. "
target: Edifice Information Management Systems
Edifice is an information services company specializing in the collection, analysis and distribution of point-of-sale data used by retailers and suppliers to improve their supply chain efficiencies.
$34 [$34]
NTT Data, Inc., acquired Payoo
synopsis: NTT DATA Corporation, through the Singapore-based unit NTT DATA Asia Pacific, has agreed to take over Vietnamese fintech firm VietUnion Online Services Corporation. VietUnion, a subsidiary of Saigon Investment Group, has been expanding this business primarily through Payoo, which enables users to make different sorts of bill payments.
buyer parent: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
buyer: NTT Data, Inc. (TSE:9613:$20,266.19)
NTT DATA is a leading IT services provider and global innovation partner. NTT DATA emphasizes long-term commitment and combines global reach and local intimacy to provide professional services, including consulting, application services, business process and IT outsourcing and cloud-based solutions."
target parent: Saigon Investment Group
target: Payoo
Payoo enables users to make different sorts of bill payments. It has reached a transaction volume of $1 billion per year, Payoo is an operating subsidiary of VietUnion, which also provides various software solutions such as a mobile POS system, smart-card solutions for transportation and more.
Ingenico Group, acquired ROAM
synopsis: Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, announced that it now owns 100% of ROAM. ROAM and its mcommerce platform – consisting of secure mobile card readers, mobile Point-of-Sale (mPOS) applications, an innovative mobile payments engine and professional services – are now part of Ingenico Group’s mobile-focused brand.
buyer: Ingenico Group (ENXTPA:ING:$2,529.54)
Ingenico Group is the global leader in seamless payment, providing smart, trusted and secure solutions to empower commerce across all channels. With the world's largest payment acceptance network, they deliver secure payment solutions with a local, national and international scope. "
target: ROAM
Since 2005, ROAM has been known as pioneers in the mobile point of sale (mPOS) space, having produced and distributed the industry’s first secure mobile card reader. Since then, they have continued to innovate, evolve and expand the breadth of their mobile commerce offerings.
closed 7/29/2014 via Market Wire
Ciao Group Inc., acquired EverMobile
synopsis: Ciao Group Inc. announced that it has acquired Evermobile ST, Ltda., a privately-owned company that delivers innovative high-performance, secure, enterprise class software solutions for the mobile world. The Evermobile organization, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, will become a new business unit of Ciao Technology, Ltda. also based in Sao Paulo.
buyer: Ciao Group Inc.
Ciao Group Inc. is an innovative communications company which serves a wide range of markets. Ciao delivers new and innovative software solutions that overcome legacy application limitations and deliver increased productivity and cost effectiveness. "
target: EverMobile
Evermobile ST, Ltda. is a privately-owned company that delivers innovative high-performance, secure, enterprise class software solutions for the mobile world.
MINDBODY Inc., acquired Booker Software
synopsis: MINDBODY Inc., the leading technology platform for the wellness services industry, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Booker Software, a leading cloud-based business management platform for salons and spas, and the provider of Frederick, a fast-growing, automated marketing software for wellness businesses.
buyer: MINDBODY Inc. (MB:$228.91)
MINDBODY Inc. is the leading technology platform for the wellness services industry. Local wellness entrepreneurs worldwide use MINDBODY's integrated software and payments platform to run, market and build their businesses. "
target: Booker Software
Booker is the leading technology platform for running and growing salons and spas, delivering an end-to-end solution for business owners to compete in the rapidly growing market for local services. Booker and Frederick offer online booking, CRM, marketing automation, staff management, and POS.
closed 9/7/2016 via PE Hub
iZettle, acquired intelligentpos
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synopsis: iZettle, a technology company in Europe announced it has acquired intelligentpos, the UK’s leading cloud based point of sale solution for shops, bars and restaurants. iZettle and intelligentpos provide an integrated payment and point of sale solution that allows small businesses to take card payments and helps manage and grow their businesses.
buyer: iZettle
iZettle is a mobile payment solution that lets anyone accept credit cards with their smartphone or tablet. iZettle works every day to build game-changing payment tools that empower small businesses to play on the same turf as the big guys. "
target: intelligentpos
Intelligent Point of Sale Limited develops cutting-edge software for SMEs to utilise on iOS devices (iPad) as a low cost cloud-based point of sale (POS) solution. intelligentpos offers advanced point of sales features including table management, stock management, and advance reporting.
Rising Sun Ventures, acquired Eyenalyze, Inc.
synopsis: Rising Sun Ventures announces its purchase of a majority stake in Eyenalyze, an Arkansas-based software firm specialized in data analytics for restaurant owners and franchises. Its subscription-based service empowers restaurant managers, executives and business owners with customized, data-driven insights to maximize profitability.
buyer: Rising Sun Ventures
Rising Sun Ventures (RSV) is a private investment firm. RSV has a portfolio of companies with a focus on algorithmic data aggregation and analysis. It operates globally and is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA. "
target: Eyenalyze, Inc.
Eyenalyze is an analytics tool for restaurant owners that helps manage profitability by delivering real-time financial reporting data on sales, invoices and labor on any device. Their API retrieves daily updates from POS, Vendor/Supplier, Ingredient/Menu, Payroll, Credit Card, and Banking systems.
closed 11/21/2019 via GlobeNewswire
Newtek Business Services, Inc., acquired POS on Cloud
synopsis: Newtek Business Services Corp., an internally managed business development company, has acquired a 51% interest in POS on Cloud, a Kentucky-based limited liability company. POS on Cloud developed a secure, affordable, easy-to-use cloud-based Point of Sale (POS) system for restaurant, retail, assisted living, parks, and golf course businesses.
buyer: Newtek Business Services, Inc. (NEWT:$58.59)
Newtek Business Services Corp. is an internally managed Business Development Company, which along with its controlled portfolio companies, provides a wide range of business and financial solutions under the Newtek brand to the small- and medium-sized business market. "
target: POS on Cloud
POS on Cloud provides a secure cloud-based Point of Sale (POS) system for restaurant, retail, assisted living, parks, and golf course businesses. The company provides payments and purchase technology solutions, as well as solutions for inventory, customer management, reporting, and more.
Total Specific Solutions, acquired FDT AB
synopsis: Total Specific Solutions (TSS), the European Vertical Market Software group of Constellation Software Inc., has acquired FDT AB from Elon Group, a Nordic alliance that operates over 500 retail stores. FDT is one of the market leaders in Sweden for retail solutions. FDT offers a modern cloud-based POS system and a back-office ERP system.
buyer parent: Constellation Software, Inc.
buyer: Total Specific Solutions
Headquartered in The Netherlands, Total Specific Solutions has over 50 independently managed software Business Units. They offer them financial security, strategic guidance and share their best practices so that they can be leaders in their respective domains. "
target parent: Elon Group AB
target: FDT AB
FDT is one of the market leaders in Sweden for retail solutions. FDT offers a suite of software solutions for retailers. Their Excellence Retail solution is a modern cloud-based POS system. Their Avance solution is a back-office ERP system that covers all retail store processes.
Swan Retail Ltd., acquired Touchretail Holdings Ltd
synopsis: Retail software provider Swan Retail has acquired rival Touchretail. Touchretail provide cutting-edge inventory management and point of sale software. Touchretail makes TRIMS Back Office, TRIMS POS, TRIMS CRM and Retail Accounts. Touchretail is based in Staffordshire where they develop, support and supply software worldwide.
buyer: Swan Retail Ltd.
Swan Retail is a software house in the retail software based in Hampshire, UK. Specialising in the retail and catering sectors, their software applications offer a comprehensive solution covering EPoS, stock management, accounts, customer ordering, warehousing, CRM and eCommerce. "
target: Touchretail Holdings Ltd
Touchretail provide cutting-edge inventory management and point of sale software. Touchretail makes TRIMS Back Office, TRIMS POS, TRIMS CRM and Retail Accounts. Touchretail is based in Staffordshire where they develop, support and supply software worldwide.
Shopmatic Pte. Ltd., acquired Octopus Retail Management Pte. Ltd.
synopsis: E-commerce solutions startup Shopmatic is acquiring brick-and-mortar solutions specialist Octopus Retail Management as it pursues an omnichannel retail strategy. Singapore-based Octopus offers cloud-based omnichannel management software to physical stores.
buyer: Shopmatic Pte. Ltd.
Shopmatic is an international ecommerce company that was launched with the intent of helping anyone going online, succeed in selling their products and services. Shopmatic helps users develop their own unique web store and list them on marketplaces and social channels. "
target: Octopus Retail Management Pte. Ltd.
Singapore-based Octopus offers cloud-based omnichannel management software to physical stores. Octopus offers a complete suite of retail management solutions from the Point of Sales (POS) to the back-of-house inventory to customer relationship management and eCommerce.
First Data Corporation, will acquire Software Express Informática Ltda
synopsis: First Data, a global leader in commerce-enabling technology and solutions, announced that it will acquire Software Express. Software Express provides technology solutions to merchants of different sizes, including multi-acquirer EFT, multi-acquirer EFT POS, reconciliation, a payments gateway, and automated recurring payments, among other products.
buyer parent: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
buyer: First Data Corporation (FDC:$8,679.00)
First Data is a global leader in commerce-enabling technology and solutions, serving approximately six million business locations and more than 3,700 financial institutions in more than 100 countries around the world. "
target: Software Express Informática Ltda
Founded in 1986, Software Express provides technology solutions to merchants of different sizes, including multi-acquirer EFT, multi-acquirer EFT POS, reconciliation, a payments gateway, and automated recurring payments, among other products. They are based in Brazil.
DotSoft merged with Solucia Sarl,
synopsis: DotSoft has merged with Solucia, a French provider of omnichannel solutions for distance selling and e-commerce. DotSoft is a French provider of SaaS-based solutions for the retail industry. DotSoft's DS Smart Commerce platform provides retailers with solutions for POS, CRM, e-commerce, business management, and more.
buyer: Solucia Sarl
Solucia is a French provider of omnichannel solutions for distance selling and e-commerce. Solucia offers solutions for supply management, inventory management, customer relationship management, marketing, content management systems, sales and more. "
target: DotSoft
DotSoft is a French provider of SaaS-based solutions for the retail industry. DotSoft's DS Smart Commerce platform provides retailers with solutions for POS, CRM, e-commerce, business management, and more. DotSoft enables brands to revolutionize their sales, customer relationships and marketing.
Ticker: VV
Versatile is a multi-disciplinary technology company with solutions across the mobile, digital signage, IT infrastructure, software and hardware landscape. The company’s products are utilized by Fortune 500 companies, leading financial institutions and large and small retail organizations.
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Ticker: NYSE:LDOS
Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and healthcare markets. The Company’s 33,000 employees support vital missions for their government and commercial customers.
Ticker: ENXTPA:ATE
Alten SA
The ALTEN Group is a leading European Technology Consulting and Engineering (TCE) firm with approximately 18,000 employees in 20 countries. The ALTEN Group works with clients in the aerospace, defense, transportation, energy, life sciences, financial services, telecom and IT sectors.
Ticker: ENXTPA:AKA
Akka Technologies
AKKA Technologies is an engineering and technology consulting company that supports its clients in meeting their increasing challenges. They are the European leader in the mobility segment, operating in 20 countries through 21 centers of excellence.
Ticker: BSE:532312
Geometric Ltd.
Geometric's portfolio of Global Engineering services, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Embedded System solutions, and Digital Technology solutions enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies.
Ticker: AXXU
Axxess Unlimited, LLC
Axxess Unlimited provides information-driven business solutions through interactive marketing, interactive technologies, application and product development, customer relationship management, business intelligence, portals and collaboration, and infrastructure solutions.
Ticker: ASX:WLL
Wellcom Group Limited
Wellcom is a technology based marketing production company with operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia and New Zealand. Wellcom creates, manages and delivers content for corporations and advertising agencies.
Ticker: TSE:6533
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Chapter 190: Approaching Irregularity
The seal of the Devil Sealing Grounds was restored, and the Devils had once again been sealed. However, this time, the losses made by the God Races were miserably heavy. Among the clansmen who were sent by the various clans to guard the place, eighty to ninety percent of them lost their lives, and only a small number of them survived. It must be known that those who were qualified to guard the sealing grounds, were clansmen who possessed extraordinary godly powers within their respective clans. This escape made by the Devils had greatly diminished the strength of the God Races. If another outbreak were to occur, they wouldn’t be this fortunate to have the seal restored again.
Zhu Yao had overexerted her godly energy. Though it was strangely replenished after that, it wasn’t her own godly energy after all. After the activation of the seal, the godly energy disappeared, and she was unconscious for two whole days. When she woke up, she realized she had returned to the straw cottage in the furthest northern lands.
Zhu Yao was a little worried about Little Sixth’s injuries, and had wanted to ask her teacher for a vacation leave. However, when she returned to the Parasol Tree to take a look, she still couldn’t find even Yue Gu’s shadow after searching all around the place.
Was ‘occasional disappearance’ a prerequisite skill for every master?
Without any ideas in mind, she could only meditate and recuperate. When the sun began to set, she finally saw a figure flying back from the far skies. A moment later, he had already descended in front of her, and there was even another person standing next to him.
“Little sister.” The person who came back with him was Shao Bai. The moment he landed on the ground, he hastily walked towards her, his expression carried several hints of restlessness. “Why have you gotten up? How’s your body? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?” He pulled her and began to carefully inspect her body.
Zhu Yao pressed down his hand. “Shao Bai, why have you come?”
Only then did he reveal a light smile, and his expression recovered that familiar warmth. Reaching out his hand, he helped her tidy up her hair. “I have already been here for two days. You’re injured, so why wouldn’t I come?”
“I’m fine.” Zhu Yao gave him a relieved smile. “Just that I have overused my godly energy, I will be fine in a few days.”
“Overused your godly energy?” Shao Bai’s expression paled, as he immediately pulled her hand and measured her pulse.
“Don’t worry, I have pretty much recovered.” She had already tested it herself when she woke up. More than half of her godly energy had been restored, at least fifty percent of her battery had been charged.
Shao Bai measured for a few moments, yet, his brows sunk even deeper, and his expression became even more complicated. The corner of his lips moved, as though he wanted to give her a small lecture, but in the end, he merely let out a sigh.
“Yue Nan.” Yue Gu walked over as well, his expression looked stern. With a serious look, he said. “You have done well for this incident.” With praising intentions, he raised his hand, and gently stroked the head in front of him. “Although you were a little slow, you still managed to restore the seal.”
Yue Gu did not praise people often, at the very least, this was the first time she saw him praising someone so directly ever since she went to the furthest northern lands. Zhu Yao was a little happy.
If his hand had not landed on Shao Bai’s head, the effect would have been better.
Zhu Yao evidently saw Shao Bai’s face, which was filled with a warm smile, stiffen for a moment. Silently passing Shao Bai an apologetic gaze, she pulled down a certain person’s evil paw. Sorry, he hasn’t taken his meds today.
“Have a good rest these few days, there’s no need to rush in learning your mystic arts.” Yue Gu gave her a few instructions, and then nodded towards Shao Bai. Then, he turned around and left, so that he wouldn’t interrupt these siblings catching up.
“Shao Bai. About the Phoenix Clan…” Zhu Yao asked a little anxiously.
“Call me second elder brother.” Shao Bai flicked his finger on her forehead, before answering. “Don’t worry, it’s manageable.”
“Then what about Little Sixth?” Recalling the prejudice Shao Bai had towards Little Sixth, she could not help but add a few words. “This time, when I was restoring the seal, I was fortunate to have Little Sixth guard me, otherwise… He was injured because of me.”
As expected, his expression sank a little, though at the very least, he didn’t evidently frown like before as he stroked her head. “I know.” Taking a deep breath, his smile grew even warmer, as he moved away from the topic. “Second elder brother has brought you some things.” With a twist of his hand, he summoned a basket. “It’s everything that you like to eat. If there isn’t enough, second elder brother will get more of them for you…”
Before he could even finish, a white figure flashed beside them. Yue Gu, who had yet to walk far away, had made a u-turn, and blew himself back like a gust of wind. He stared deeply at… the basket in Shao Bai’s hands.
Zhu Yao: “…”
Shao Bai: “…”
Yue Gu: “You two can continue.” He’s just staring.
Stare~~~
Zhu Yao’s expression darkened. This ancient glutton! Letting out a deep sigh, she took the basket off Shao Bai’s hands. A certain pair of eyes then instantly shifted to where her hands were. Zhu Yao could even feel that her fingertips were turning hot from his stares, and she had no choice but to pass it over to him.
A certain person took it with a satisfied look, and gave her a ‘good disciple’ gaze. Casually, he scooped up a dried fruit, and nibbled on it with a noble and glamorous look, while turning his head to look at Shao Bai’s hands, as though he was waiting for him to pull out something again. He no longer brought up any intentions of leaving.
Teacher, where’s your morals as an ancient God? She really wanted to severe their teacher and student relationship.
Under these intense stares, Zhu Yao simply could not make small talk with Shao Bai without being distracted, let alone removing the knot in her heart regarding Little Sixth. Shao Bai hastily left her a few words, and then headed off. Before he left, he passed her a wooden carved bracelet. “This is made by the wood of the Parasol Tree, and it can be used to suppress devilish energy. Remember to wear it at all times.” After saying that, he purposefully moved closer to her ear, and sent a voice transmission. “Don’t worry, second elder brother prepared another bag of them in the bracelet.”
After saying that, he even gave a meaningful glance at Yue Gu, and then reluctantly walked away. Zhu Yao was speechless. Just why did he think that she liked eating snacks?
Five days later, Zhu Yao’s godly energy had completely recovered, and there was a faint feeling of it increasing in capacity. Just as she was getting pumped up and planning to give everything she had, Yue Gu began to slack off. Not only did he not teach her any mystic arts, he neglected his duties, and brought her on hunting expeditions all around the mountain all day. As long as he spotted a living creature, he would catch it and request her to cook it.
“Teacher, that’s a grasshopper, it can’t be eaten.”
“Teacher, that’s a snake. It’s poisonous.”
“Teacher, can you let that sparrow go? It’s not even as large as your palm yet.”
“Teacher, release that panda. You really can’t eat that.”
“Teacher, it’s true you can eat apples, but that one has already turned into a spirit. Can’t you see it crying?”
“Teacher…” Zhu Yao let out a deep sigh. Resigning to her fate, she took out the bag of snacks from the storage bracelet, and passed it to him with her two hands. I will be honest and turn this over to higher management, alright? So please, conduct your lessons.
Yue Gu was startled for a moment, before receiving it with a calm look. He took out a dried fruit, and finished it in two bites. “Disciple, from tomorrow onwards, why don’t you teach your teacher how to tie my hair?”
“Eh?” Was this for real? Wasn’t he unwilling to learn because he always had clumsy hands?
Why did he suddenly have a change of mind?
Yue Gu closed the bag, and placed it back onto her hands. Suddenly, the corners of his lips curved up. “Your teacher suddenly wants to learn it.”
“…” What?
Yue Gu said with a stern look. “Your teacher has always not mind about things when it doesn’t concern my physical condition. But I can’t always have you help me.”
Zhu Yao looked at the bag of snacks on her hands, and then glanced at his smiling expression. She could not help but reach out to touch his forehead. Her teacher couldn’t possibly be this normal.
“Teacher, you don’t have a fever, right?”
Three days later, Zhu Yao really felt that Yue Gu was having a fever. Not only did he not snatch her snacks out of nowhere, he even took the initiative to learn the various life skills. From hairstyling, to cooking, and to making various living necessities. And she had even recently learnt how to do make-up.
Although the hair he tied would mostly end up like a chicken’s nest, the dishes he cooked would all turn charred black, the various furniture would be missing an arm or a leg, and the things he sewed would all turn into torn cloth, he seemed to have suddenly understood the importance of life skills, as he was learning them especially seriously.
Furthermore, he was determined in not having her intervene, he had rather have a chicken’s nest on his head every day and have it shake everywhere. No matter what, he was insistent on doing it on his own. This sudden change in personality had made Zhu Yao suspect if his body had actually been taken over, if not for the same, calm “it’s not me who did it” expression he had no matter how many times he failed.
Zhu Yao thus spent every day watching him fail on various tasks, and of course, she had put aside the matter of learning mystic arts.
Just who was the master, and who was the disciple here?
This situation lasted for a month, and it only began to improve when the three Patriarchs suddenly came to the furthest northern lands.
The three Patriarchs came this time to first ask about the matter regarding the revelation that day. Back then, Yue Gu once promised that he would inform the various clans once he made a conclusion. The second matter, however, was a grave matter that was causing everyone to feel great fear and unease.
For some unknown reasons, ever since the incident where the Devils broke through the first layer seal of the Devil Sealing Grounds, not a single one of those phoenix clansmen who died on the frontlines had reincarnated. Initially, a phoenix whose lifespan was depleted would reincarnate from the flames of Nirvana. However, a month had passed, yet not a single one of those phoenixes who passed away had summoned the Nirvana’s flames.
And not just that, even the children of the Dragon Clan had encountered problems. The dragon eggs within Dragon Mountain had long reached their dates of birth, yet, the little dragons within their eggs had yet to break out from their shells. And the presences within were growing weaker each day, as though they could disappear at any moment.
Although the qilins had always been given birth through the mothers’ wombs, and it was still unknown if there’s any birth crisis, seeing that two out of three God Races had encountered problems, they could not help but feel flustered as well.
Yue Gu was the only remaining ancient God in the world. If there’s anyone who could give them answers for this strange phenomenon, it could only be him. Hence, after a lengthy discussion, the three Patriarchs decided to visit the furthest northern lands.
“Highgod, the bloodline of the God Races cannot be severed. Without the protection of the God Races, I’m afraid the Devils will no longer have any obstacles once they return to the world.” Xian Yu carried a heavy expression, her brows clearly showed her anxiety.
Unfortunately, even Yue Gu was unable to give them an answer. He simply raised his head and looked into the distant skies, letting out a light sigh. “Everything is dictated by the Heavenly Dao. Even we are powerless to resist it.”
The three Patriarchs could only return with disappointment on their faces.
Seeing the three ashen figures, Zhu Yao faintly felt a little depressed. Generations of the three God races had guarded the seal for so many years, and in the end, they had to welcome the crisis of the end. No matter who it was, he or she wouldn’t be able to wrap their heads around it.
“Teacher, is there really no way?”
Yue Gu turned his head, and stared at her for a few moments. He then reached out his hand to stroke her head, and gently said. “There might be one, and there might not be one…”
Zhu Yao did not understand. However, in the following days, the situation seemed to have grown even worse. The earth-shaking situation that happened before, occurred once again. It was as though the entire world was shaking. Back then during such a situation, the Parasol Tree fell, and the Devils even broke out from the seal.
This time, she still did not know what the consequences were, but evidently, they wouldn’t be too hopeful either.
However, her teacher was not as anxious as before. Instead, he stayed in the furthest northern lands with a calm look, seriously practicing his messy life skills. And, he even became especially tolerant with her, as though his ‘disciple trolling’ buff had been removed. Not only had he evidently improved from his studies, he was beginning to worry about her when it came to living necessities. He was becoming more like her actual master Yu Yan.
Zhu Yao felt that this was a little strange. She had an inkling that there was something wrong with his attitude, but she couldn’t put it into words.
But she was beginning to grow restless. It was impossible for the Devil Sealing Grounds to be completely intact, and she was worried about Little Sixth and Shao Bai. Thus, she tried bringing up the topic of heading over there to take a look.
Yue Gu stared at her for a long while, to the point where she thought that he was going to object her decision. However, what she got in reply was a heavy sigh. “Do you truly want to go?”
Yue Gu turned solemn, and the eyes he was looking at her with was mixed with various emotions, which was hard to discern by others. Finally, he still reached out to stroke her head, and said these two words. “Go then.”
Zhu Yao’s mixed emotions miraculously calmed down, though, even after flying out of the furthest northern lands, she still could not understand what’s the meaning behind the look in his eyes. Raising her head, she looked at the approaching skies, and for some reason, she suddenly recalled the man who was standing on top of that gigantic tortoise head. Her feet stopped, and then, she turned and headed in that direction.
She did not know why she wanted to head there either. But she faintly sensed that she would be able to obtain the things she wanted over there.
As she approached that place, all the events that happened ever since she first came into this world suddenly appeared in her mind. When she broke out of the egg shell prematurely, the inheritance stones at the Pavilion of Revelations, the earth-shaking phenomenon, the gigantic ‘bug’ on the tortoise’s head, that strangely intimate-looking man, the words in the Revelation, and the pool of godly energy that suddenly came when she was restoring the seal…
Her mind was in a mess, until the shadow of the gigantic tortoise gradually revealed itself before her eyes, along with the man who was still smiling warmly at her within the fog.
The sound of a ringing bell suddenly reverberated in her mind. All the dots had been connected. All of the things that she was confused about and did not understand, became as clear as day.
Zhu Yao, who found out the truth, simply wanted to cuss out!
What the freaking hell!
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Step Up for Mental Health
On October 7th, the Students Society of Psychology at the University at Kwa-Zulu Natal volunteered at the 3rd Annual Mental Health Walk. This event is held in the lead-up to Mental Health Day, and there were more than 600 participants. PsySSA SD Executive Committee Additional Member, Rivendri Govender was present at the event.
The walk is hosted by Mental Health Advocacy Group together with the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) in Kwa-Zulu Natal. It is organized by Dr Lynn Norton, Dr Suvira Ramlall and Mr Suntosh Pillay. The annual walk aims to promote mental health and diminish the stigma.
University of Witswaterand – Mental Health Talk.
In preparation for World Mental Health Day, on the 9th of October, Psyssa Student Division Vice-chairperson, Muhammed Yaeesh Cassim, and Executive Committee Additional Member, Andrea Jacobs, facilitated a talk on Mental Health & The Law, at the law faculty of the University of Witswaterand, in preparation of Mental Health day. The talk was delivered to Law & Commence students.
Divisional Awards
The Student Division believes in recognizing the effort and dedication of all our leadership structures and members, it was on this note that the Executive Committee decided to award four Divisional Awards voted on by the Executives, and one Divisional Award voted on by all members.
The awards were presented at the Annual General Meeting with the recipients commanded for their efforts:
Most Active Subcommittee Member:
Ms Bridget Greenslade & Ms Maham Hasan
Outstanding Subcommittee:
Community Development – Chaired by Ms Tamaryn Wilde
Outstanding Student Society:
PsySSA@SACAP – Chaired by Ms Nayana George
Outstanding Executive Portfolio:
Social Media & Marketing – Ms Genevieve Burrow
PsySSA Student of the Year
The Mamela Psychology Conference saw the introduction of the prestigious “PsySSA Student of the Year” award. This award can be given to any member part of the Executive Committee, subcommittees or chairpersons of the university societies that are affiliated with the SD. The individual represents the epitome of a psychology student, and a “PsySSA” Student. Student Division members had to nominate and vote for their choice, results were moderated and announced by Dr Ewald Crause (PsySSA Executive and representative to the Student Division) and presented by Ms Fatima Seedat, Executive Director of PsySSA.
We are proud to announce that Muhammed Yaeesh Cassim, Vice-chair and Student Division champion, was the proud recipient of this award. A special prize accompanied the award for 2018: Full membership fees paid for 2019 as well as free conference registration to the 25th Annual PsySSA Congress, due to take place September 2019. We would like to express our immense gratitude to Dr Crause and Ms Seedat for making all this possible and sharing the moment with us at our annual AGM.
We noted quite a few votes were cast by non-members and we urge these nominees to rope them into the SD team in 2019. A final big thank you goes out to all our members who participated in this endeavor and we hope to see you as nominees next year.
Implementation of a Divisional Theme
Ahead of 2019, the Executive Committee has decided to implement a theme that will be the central idea around all the projects that the division undertakes next year, so that the division can be more relevant to members.
Attention Members!
That’s right. You over there! We are calling on you!
As we are reaching the last year of this tenure, we invite all our members to become actively involved with us in any of structures and join our leadership team. We have various portfolios open and invite members to bring us any other portfolio ideas.
To get involved, email us at psyssastudentsecretary@gmail.com or psyssastudentvice@gmail.com.
6th Southern African Students’ Psychology Conference
Teddy Bear Drive
The Student Division has partnered with Girls on the Move to provide teddy bears and soft toys to children who are victims of violent crime and sexual abuse. As these children find themselves in a traumatic situation further worsened by poverty, the aim is to provide an object of comfort and a tool for play therapy.
Members of PsySSA and the community can help by donating a new or previously loved teddy bear. There are drop-off points and collection options in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. Girls on the Move have agreed to help us courier between the major cities and in and around Gauteng. The Student Division will ensure that these donations make their way to children in need.
Our first cause is the Kagoshima Women Development Center in Soweto. They need 120 teddies for children who would be thrilled to have what they consider a luxury – a soft, fluffy toy. Once we have fulfilled their wish list we will move onto the next charity on our list of children’s homes that need help.
To donate and participate please contact our student secretary Jané at teddies@sillymoose.co.za.
Donate a teddy and add hope to little lives.
Divisional news
At the 24th annual congress of PsySSA, the Student Division hosted its Annual General Meeting. This allowed the Student Division to fill vacant Executive Committee positions. Ms Queeneth Dudu Nkosi, previously an Additional Member of the Executive Committee, was nominated and voted in as the Treasurer of the Student Division. Congratulations Ms Nkosi, we look forward to seeing what you do as Treasurer.
With Ms Nkosi, accepting the above-mentioned position, she vacated the position of Additional Member. Ms Rivendri Govender was then nominated and voted in as the final Additional Member of the Executive Committee of the division.
Congratulations Ms Govender, we look forward to working with you.
Executive introduction
Rivendri Govender
Rivendri Govender is currently studying towards her honour’s degree, majoring in general psychology, at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is also a member of the Students Society of Psychology at UKZN. Over the course of her studies she has also had the opportunity to work with people who are mentally impaired. This experience has shown her how people with mental disabilities are looked down upon, yet they are so full of love.
Working with people who are mentally impaired has fueled her passion to work towards advocating for the well-being of people with mental disabilities, especially children. She believes that psychology in South Africa can be used to transform the mindsets of the youth of our country. She is passionate about working with the community and therefore hopes that one day she can also be a part of moving psychology from the couch to the communities.
To get involved with Rivendri in KZN please feel free to contact her at psyssastudentred@gmail.com.
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01/13/20 In order help Koala bears, we need to stop eat meat
10/05/19 Vegan picnic
06/15/19 Love is Not for Sale!
06/01/19 Horses in Zagreb Turned into Walking Trucks
05/14/19 Vegan Meals are Good for Everyone
05/10/19 Find a Solution for Yourself and the Environment
04/26/19 Another Support to the Firecrackers Ban
04/23/19 Let's Ban Lightweight Plastic Bags!
01/29/19 A Delicious and Bountiful Vegan Dinner
12/24/18 Luka Oman Receives a Peace Prize
12/24/18 Second March for the Animals was a Success
12/19/18 Let's Put a Stop to Hurting People and Animals
12/08/18 Second March for the Animals in Zagreb
12/05/18 For the establishment of an Animal protection inspection!
08/16/18 When I Say Kindness, I Mean Veganism
08/03/18 11th ZeGeVege festival - Croatian Veganmania
05/12/18 Firecrackers are dangerous for both kids and animals
01/31/18 Appeal: Ban firecrackers
01/18/18 Allowing Cities to Ban Pyrotechnics
12/29/17 Be Kinder to Animals
12/26/17 Stop the Firecracker Terror!
12/09/17 March - International Animal Rights Day
12/04/17 Coordination working groups in each county
12/01/17 March for Animal Rights!
10/26/17 Enforcement of a New Act
10/04/17 Parliament Ratified the New Act
09/22/17 Animal Protection Act passes 2nd reading in Parliament
09/06/17 Everyone to 10th ZeGeVege festival
08/18/17 Vegan pizza looks good on everyone
08/02/17 Veganism Looks Good on Everyone
07/27/17 The Act On Explosive Substances Has Come Into Force
07/14/17 Invitation to the 10th ZegeVege festival!
06/30/17 Act Proposal Receives Approval
05/17/17 Animal Protection Act before the Government
04/20/17 Exhibition on Earth Day
03/30/17 Living in Harmony with Wild Animals
03/17/17 People and Wild Animals Must Coexist
03/09/17 Plastic Bags won't be Free!
12/10/16 The Earthlings Experience
12/03/16 Getting Closer to Plastic Bags Ban
10/16/16 Less Meat for Less Hunger and Poverty
10/04/16 Crvena Jabuka at Veggie Picnic!
09/09/16 Call for participation in public discussion
09/08/16 For the better Animal Protection Act
08/31/16 ZeGeVege 2016 is here!
04/23/16 Food and Ecology
02/25/16 Ayurvedic Vegan Delicacies
01/12/16 Plant-based Diet During Pregnancy
12/10/15 Animal Rights Day
11/03/15 Political Parties and Animals
10/20/15 Political Parties On Animal Welfare
09/02/15 ZeGeVege Veganmania Is Just Around the Corner
08/20/15 For a Positive list
07/15/15 Create the Law for Animals
06/18/15 Tell Them My Story, Friend
05/11/15 None Should Be Free!
04/23/15 New Victories
02/09/15 No to Fireworks and Firearms!
01/28/15 Volunteer for Animals!
01/16/15 Let Firecrackers Become History!
11/26/14 Tortured Horses on Velebit
11/03/14 Croatia is not Protecting Our Environment
09/03/14 ZeGeVege Festival
08/11/14 ZeGeVege 2014
05/27/14 The Rescued Animals Need Help!
05/21/14 People of Gunja: Rescue Our Animals!
05/19/14 Save the Animals in the Floods!
01/22/14 Animal Welfare at the European Elections!
01/03/14 Firecrackers
12/10/13 A Fight for the Rights of the Oppressed Majority
12/05/13 Our Environment is Paying for the Free Bag
10/01/13 Animal Friends Days 2013
09/06/13 Kebab Also At the ZeGeVege Festival!
08/23/13 Hempburghers at the ZeGeVege Festival!
08/14/13 ZeGeVege Festival of Sustainable Living!
06/12/13 Be an Animal Friend!
04/22/13 Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist
03/15/13 The Amendments have Helped Animals!
02/21/13 Animals as Political Questions!
02/15/13 Legislators Betrayed Animals!
02/01/13 Tell My Story, Friend!
01/25/13 Veterinary Inspectors Sue Animal Friends for Mental Distress!
01/08/13 Black Chronicle 2012
01/04/13 New Penal Code
12/20/12 Let's Give Anima as Gift!
11/09/12 Animal Friends Needs Your Help!
10/19/12 How to Help Animals?
10/16/12 More Meat, the Hungrier the World!
10/04/12 Changes Of The Animal Protection Act
09/07/12 Come All to the ZeGeVege!
08/09/12 ZeGeVege Festival 2012
05/23/12 S.O.S. for Captain Paul Watson
05/10/12 Plastic Bags are no Longer Free
04/22/12 Change Habits and Save the Planet
12/29/11 Life Saving New Year's Resolutions!
12/14/11 Youth for Animal Rights
06/30/11 Free the Spanish 12
05/15/11 Share the World
10/27/10 Stop Violating Human Rights In Austria
10/01/10 Animal Friends Days
09/17/10 ZeGeVege Festival of Sustainable Living
08/06/10 Stop Political Repression!
12/16/09 The Continuity of Consciousness
09/24/09 For the Ban of Plastic Bags
09/16/09 Speciesism
06/03/09 Animal Friends YouTube Channel
04/17/09 Cotton Bags Instead of Plastic Ones
04/14/09 Bag Monsters Against Plastic Bags
01/30/09 Shopping without Free Bags
12/19/08 With Plastic Bag Monsters Against Plastic Bags
09/20/08 Invitation to ZeGeVege Festival
09/16/08 Goodbye to Plastic Bags!
09/03/08 From Prison to the Austrian Parliament
07/30/08 Animal Friends Goes on YouTube
07/15/08 Ban Plastic Bags!
06/19/08 Austria Violates Human Rights?
06/13/08 Abolition and Moral Progress
04/22/08 Our Daily Waste
12/12/07 That Equal Creatures
11/09/07 Animal Rights on a Projection Screen
10/22/07 Animals Matter to Me
10/14/07 Salsa and Salsa
09/23/07 Earthlings and 3o/4tet
08/10/07 Death of Sheep on Kornati
07/09/07 Author of the Book "When Elephants Weep" in Croatia!
05/22/07 Protect Nature, Protect the Dolphins
02/04/07 Let's Save Wilbur's Friends
12/15/06 P!nk - Animal Rights Rebel
12/14/06 Animal Protection Act Has Been Passed
11/30/06 Parliament Voice for Animals
10/26/06 Animal Protection on Government's Agenda
07/16/06 Give the Horses a Life, Not New Wounds and Death!
07/03/06 Horses With Open Wounds Pull Wood
06/19/06 Horses in HNK???
05/25/06 The Animal Protection Act in the Parliament
05/04/06 Suffocation for Profit
03/27/06 Animal Protection According to the New Act
11/09/05 Horses in the 21st Century?!?
11/05/05 Performance "T4 - Work in Progress"
09/30/05 Wolves are not Numbers
09/16/05 Frida Becomes a Family Member!
09/14/05 Project Stado
08/24/05 Live Fish as Objects
07/25/05 Inspections are Sham or Non-Existing
05/12/05 Youth Associations Fair
01/08/05 Victims of Tsunami
12/21/04 Pre-Holiday Black Chronicle
10/13/04 Parliamentary Debate on Animal Welfare
09/09/04 Blood Drive
06/17/04 Animal Friends in Front of Parliament
06/03/04 Croatian Animals are Part of Europe Too!
04/22/04 For Clean Environment and Empty Labs
01/30/04 How Do I Understand Animal Protection
01/22/04 Animal Friends Virovitica
08/30/03 Say No to the Massacre of Kangaroos for Football Boots
08/04/03 A Moment in Time
06/26/03 Save the Kangaroos
03/07/03 Animal Welfare Act
02/02/03 Branches in Koprivnica and Osijek
10/14/02 Lecture About Animal Status
10/10/02 Promotion of the Web Site
10/09/02 Compassion is the Fashion
10/04/02 World Animal Protection Day
07/25/02 Tourism
05/29/02 Cruelties of High-Graduates
04/23/02 World Book Day
04/01/02 Six Months of Animal Friends
03/25/02 Hen and Chickens in a Shop Window
03/22/02 Water Protection Day
03/10/02 Statement
03/08/02 Press Conference
01/10/02 GMO
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Active Veggie is a Superveggie!
Films on Animal Friends YouTube channel got more than 100,000 hits
- After Animal Friends YouTube channel getting more than 100,000 hits a film "A Life Connected" is uploaded
Animal Friends presents short educational films on its channel on the Internet portal YouTube, in order to make information on animal rights, vegetarianism and ecology translated into Croatian available to the public.
Films thematically cover topics like circuses, zoos, companion animal trade, horse races, fur and leather industry, animal experimentation, meat industry, global warming and environment pollution, giving useful information and practical solutions.
Animal Friends YouTube channel www.youtube.com/afcroatia has more than 30 films and their number is continually increasing. The channel got over 100,000 hits, which was the reason to translate and upload the new film "A Life Connected" which in 12 minutes shows us how much each of us can do for humans, other animal species and the environment we live in and depend upon.
The most viewed film on the Animal Friends YouTube channel is "No Heart for Lucy," whilst the good reviews went to the recently uploaded film "Veni Vidi Vegani." Besides films, one can find video footage from the protests and invitations to events on the channel.
Most of the films are also available on DVD as compilations, which can be ordered free of charge on the web portal www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr and are copyright free.
We invite everyone interested to visit the Animal Friends YouTube channel, watch the new film and inform their friends and acquaintances about www.youtube.com/afcroatia. The channel offers the possibility to register for getting information about new films.
Everyone who can help in developing the channel by translating, subtitling, dubbing and editing of videos that have not yet been translated and edited.
Thoughts About Vegetarianism II
Veganism and the Issue of Protein
Vegan Children
Pass the Milk?
Food for Thought About Global Warming
A Critical Look at Animal Experimentation
Shock Collars are Cruel to Dogs
Summer and Animals
ZeGeVege Festival 2009 [ Gallery ]
New Office Adaptation [ Gallery ]
05/20/09 Another Inconvenient Truth
04/22/09 Meat Industry Causes Global Warming
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The Super Mario Maker Thread
NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii
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Re: The Super Mario Maker Thread
by Michi Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:56 pm
I'm looking forward to this game. I'm really curious to see what everyone comes up with (beyond the obligatory obscene block statues.)
I ordered from Amazon on account of the discount, so my copy won't be coming until the 15th Until then I'll just have to live vicariously through the rest of you
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by BoneSnapDeez Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:22 pm
Luke wrote: Is this game worth getting a new console as well?
I play retro stuff like 90% of the time. I still think the Wii U, 3DS, and Vita are all worth owning.
As for this game, looks amazing. I'll probably ask for it for Christmas.
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by BogusMeatFactory Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:08 pm
Hey I totally forgot about this. Nintendo is releasing the game with a physical book that isn't a manual. Instead it showcases levels made by nintendo and codes to play it, plus a lot of cool twists.
Nintendo making physical copies of games with little added bonuses? Whoah the whole world is coming to an end. Wink wink.
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by prfsnl_gmr Wed Sep 09, 2015 10:56 pm
BoneSnapDeez wrote: I play retro stuff like 90% of the time. I still think the Wii U, 3DS, and Vita are all worth owning.
I don't have a Vita. Otherwise, we are identical. (WiiU and 3Ds are awesome.) I will also ask for this for Christmas (if I don't already have it by then).
Based on my knowledge of Luke's tastes...He should get a WiiU, buy copies of DuckTales Remastered, NES Remix Pack, New Super Mario Bros U + New Super Luigi U, Rayman Legends, and Super Mario Maker, and download Runner 2. That will keep him busy for a while.
by Blu Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:20 pm
Michi wrote: I ordered from Amazon on account of the discount, so my copy won't be coming until the 15th Until then I'll just have to live vicariously through the rest of you
What is this discount you speak of!?
I think I'm going to order from Amazon also, otherwise I'll go get it Midnight on Thursday/Friday morning. BMF are you doing a midnight release?
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by KalessinDB Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:27 pm
prfsnl_gmr wrote:
So... I don't have Rayman Legends yet, and I don't know what Runner 2 is, but otherwise you just described my library (+ Bayonetta 2)... apparently Luke and I have similar tastes.
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KalessinDB wrote: So... I don't have Rayman Legends yet, and I don't know what Runner 2 is, but otherwise you just described my library (+ Bayonetta 2)... apparently Luke and I have similar tastes.
Runner 2 is the best rhythm-based platformer. You should definitely pick it up from the eShop.
Also, you shoudl play Rayman Legends. It is probably the best 2D platformer on any system. It is simply amazing, and the WiiU version is the best version of the game.
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by Cronozilla Thu Sep 10, 2015 1:17 am
Also, Rayman Origins is unlockable in Rayman Legends. Big plus. The Wii U version is definitely the one to get (entire game was built around it, and it shows on other platforms)
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Cronozilla wrote: Also, Rayman Origins is unlockable in Rayman Legends. Big plus. The Wii U version is definitely the one to get (entire game was built around it, and it shows on other platforms)
Shout-out to the Vita version for retaining the stuff that makes the Wii U version worthwhile sans the local multiplayer component.
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President Barack Obama spoke about the killing of Trayvon Martin on March 23, 2012 at the White House.
Obama says Martin's death a tragedy, asks nation to respect call for calm
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Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama called on Sunday for "calm reflection" following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
The president, in a statement, acknowledged an emotionally charged climate but concluded that "we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken."
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Gun violence? Self defense! Jury has spoken.
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Maybe if more parents spent quality time with their children and tought them right from wrong, we wouldn't have thugs out at night doing what they should not do. Travon M spent 14 yrs with a step mom. Where was "mom" during this time?
And no mention of the much broader problem of black violence on blacks which claims over 10,000 lives per year in the U.S.
Vagueness never helped anymore, Mr. President.
Why is it always the guns? We need guns to protect our selves from thugs,car jackers and violent crimanals. The president and the rest of the nation needs to look at his formrer city of chicago. No guns for innocent people to protect them selves equals murder capitoal of our nation. Its the people not the guns.
Asking Americans to be thoughtful is like asking Birds to walk.
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Mr. President:
Have you no words for George? To avoid serious bodily injury or being killed, he was forced to take a human life...something he will have to live with for the rest of his life. Mr. President. You forgot about George.
Joanie768
Very well said Mr President...i still feel, in my heart, this Jury got the verdict wrong. No person, I don't care who they are deserves to be shot and killed for just walking home from a market. This verdict only gives the haters a reason to approach someone they feel is not "normal". To confront them, fight them and if the innocent is getting the best of the fighting, they have the right to shoot them dead because they fear for their lives...all wrong...WE THE PEOPLE need to talk about this now before any more innocents get gunned down for no reason.
David Hazlett
Right on Mr President! I totally agree
How about we actually enforce laws? How about we change our prison system around so we aren't sending people in there to be turned into harden criminals when they come out? How about we actually punish our kids and enforce rules for our kids? How about we improve our educational system? Banning guns is not the answer to anything. We need to look at why people commit acts of violence. Poor education, poverty, inattentive parents all play a key role in someone resorting to crime.
This had nothing to do with gun violence....It was self defense, and zimmerman was within his legal right to bear arms......IDIOT!!!
Only in America can you stalk someone you think is suspicious, call the police, have the police tell you to just back off, continue to follow them, and then the suspect defend themselves after noticing you follow them, then you kill them, and then you get away with it scott free. 'MERICA!
Yes, this was a tragedy. Zimmerman apparently made some mistakes. But Martin should not have attacked, beating the guy's head into the pavement. There's nothing here to honor either Martin or Zimmerman with.
What a joke of a statement. No mention of the media storm that convicted Zimmerman a year ago and how his statements inflamed it. This wasn't random gun violence like that in his own Chi City. This was a man excercising his right to defend himself. Plain and simple. A joke this is.
RanLo
Oh for crying out loud!
You act like a 'Thug', You get 'Thug' treatment................
If this was black on black, we wouldn't be hearing a thing!
templeknight
As with everything else this pathetic excuse for a leader does, wrong place, twisted political statement. Where is he and the NAACP, Sharpton, Jackson, the quisling press(that tried and convicted Zimmerman, with out benefit of due process and then when presented with the facts the JURY found him innocent), and the rest of the media; on Chicago, where blacks kill and wound blacks daily? All you hear is silence, none of them care, no mileage, no political gain from these deaths. And then he makes it truly political (brings guns back into the equation); oh a mr out of touch, party/golf
outing president, they just gave Illinois citizens the right of self defense, they can now concealed carry, maybe the inner city death toll will abate, only time will tell.
kslalake
I would certainly honor our justice system, and the common sense displayed by those strong willed six women of the jury, rather than honoring a 17 year old who had a checked past, chose to violently attack a guy who was concerned about the safety of his neighborhood!
About time as President, O should have the guts to acknowledge the cultural and social issues existing in black community rather than diverting attention from this issue and using this tragedy as one of his political tools.
J Beemer
What gun violence, George Zimmerman used his gun to stop a act of violence.
First the POTUS stirs the racial issue by saying if he had a son he would look like the 12 year old picture of Martin not a picture of Martin the day he died.
Than the news media cuts and pastes the evidence in their news reports to help stir the racial divide of this country.
Now POTUS makes this lame statement. When is the POTUS going to learn to keep his nose out of local law. Every time he opens his mouth on this type of issue he looks terrible in the eyes of the nation.
Mr president, why is travon the only kid that gets killed a problem for you? I don't see you naming all the other kids that have been killed. Please tell us I think we should know as Anericans. Can you comment?
misterrandywatson
Whatever Mr. President! I just wish he would stay on the most relevant topic of racial profiling and not take this as an opportunity to further vilify and forward his party's agenda on gun control. Zimmerman's gun would've never shot a White teenager so let's factor out the common denominator and add up the facts.
What about curbing fist violence?
rightstuff1944
Barack Obama's brain rattles around like a B-B in a box car. He is the one who stirred up all the hysteria about the Zimmerman case, hoping to further divide this country down racial lines.
Momx4
It is beyond me why our President ever felt the need to interject himself into this whole mess. This was & remains a matter for the state of Florida...actually, it should have stayed a matter for the local officials to handle. Thanks to politicians and the media, our country becomes more divided rather than united. My prayers go out to Trayvon's family, the Zimmerman's, the jurors, and all those on both sides of the issue that cannot see past their own prejudices. Such hate filled comments are not the path to healing....
Lesson learned: Don't bring a bag of skittles and a watermelon iced tea to a gun fight.
Obama hasn't demonstrated much proficiency during his reign as President except that he successfully convinced low information voters to vote for him in the prior two elections and play the race card to affirm the Zimmerman legal lynching. Gun violence? Seriously? It was justifiable self defense, Mr. President.
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Interview with Jeri Ryan of "Helix" on Syfy 1/10/14
Jeri Ryan is always so warm and funny on these conference calls. I think this is the 3rd time I've been lucky enough to speak with her. She's been in so many great shows.
Moderator: Stephen Cox
1:00 pm CT
Operator: Ladies and gentlemen thank you for standing by and welcome to the Helix Syfy Conference Call.
Stephen Cox: Hi everyone. Thank you for joining us today. We’re very excited to have Helix guest star Jeri Ryan on the phone as well as our Executive Producer/Show Owner Steve Maeda.
So without further adieu, I'll remind you that Helix airs Fridays at 10:00 pm only on Syfy. Jeri’s first episode is airing this Friday, and we’ll hand it over to your questions.
Operator: Our first question comes from the line of Jamie Ruby with Scifivision.com. Please go ahead.
Jamie Ruby: Hi guys. Thanks for doing the call. It’s great to talk to you again.
Jeri Ryan: You too. Thanks.
Jamie Ruby: So Jeri, can you talk about - obviously when we first - because we’ve gotten the screener, when we first see Sutton, she pretends to be kind of this nice you know woman who’s there to help, and which we know isn’t true pretty quickly. Can you talk about playing the more cold calculated side? Like is there anyone that you - particularly a character you got inspiration for? Or how did you kind of you know, become her?
Jeri Ryan: That wouldn't be a real complimentary thing to say about somebody that’s...
Jamie Ruby: Well I mean another character, not another model, but...
Jeri Ryan: No. She was just fun. This was a really fun role to play because it’s - she’s kind of out there. You know, she’s not subtle, which I love.
Jeri Ryan: So it was fun to just sort of let go and just really play and let her go to those places. It was - that was a treat as an actor.
Steve Maeda: Yes. Sutton for us was someone who put on a very sort of benign and corporate face, which is why she does a lot of corporate speak, but then underneath there’s obviously a lot more going on, and Jeri just ate it up. It was fantastic.
Jamie Ruby: Okay. Great.
Jeri Ryan: Are you implying scenery chewing?
Steve Maeda: No. No. It’s just awesome.
Jeri Ryan: Scenery nibbling perhaps.
Steve Maeda: A little nibbling.
Jamie Ruby: Great. And then my second question, I guess this is more clarification of something maybe, I don’t know. But we see obviously that Julia has the silver eyes and now your character has the silver eyes. I would’ve thought that was supposed to be a result of the cure, so does that mean that possibly she’s had the virus, or is it something else all - completely, entirely different that has nothing to do with the cure? Or, can you not even tell me that?
Steve Maeda: You're asking all the right questions.
Jeri Ryan: Well that’s part of the mystery isn’t it?
Steve Maeda: Yes. You're asking all the right questions and answers will be forthcoming, I promise. It’s going to be answered really quickly. But, yes, those are the questions we want you to be wondering about.
Jamie Ruby: Okay. I just wanted to make sure I was understanding. All right, thanks a lot guys.
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Erin Willard with SciFi Mafia. Please go ahead.
Erin Willard: Thanks so much to both of you for taking the time today, and wow, I so love the show.
And Jeri, I love you in this role. So what first attracted you to it?
Jeri Ryan: You know, it was fun - well the concept of the show to begin with was sort of intriguing to me. I hadn’t seen any of it at that point because it was just being shot. And, I loved you know the people that were involved in it. So that was all really cool.
And then when I sort of was hearing a little bit more about the character and I was seeing how she was written, then it was fun.
You know what? It’s fun. This is my sort of first foray back into sci-fi in a number of years, so it was nice. It was a lot of fun to get back into it.
Erin Willard: How much did you know about it...?
Jeri Ryan: And it's a fantastic show.
Oh, I knew very little about it because they were - you know, they were just shooting you know the season. Nothing had aired. Nobody had seen anything, so I think I was three or four days into shooting my first episode when they did the screening for the cast and crew of the pilot.
Erin Willard: Right. Right. I guess it was then more how secretive were they about what was going to happen with your character?
Jeri Ryan: They were very secretive.
Oh, they were extremely secretive. I was asking really direct questions about what the hell am I and who am I, and they were like, “Oh, I don’t know. It’s really cool. You'll have to wait.” I was like, “Come on.”
Steve Maeda: Yes. We played a little close to the vest.
Jeri Ryan: They’re very secretive about it. They were holding their cards very close to the vest.
Steve Maeda: And some of it we’re just trying to kind of keep the mysteries in obviously, and we’re trying to help the actors as much as we can while still not revealing everything at the end of the day. And part of it is, you know it’s a work in progress. That’s the thing about a series is you don’t have everything figured out from - you know, even the half way point. We’re still working through things.
And you know, we knew where her character was going, but you know other things came up in the breaking of the show, so we tried to give as much direction as we possibly could.
Erin Willard: And Steve I wanted to ask are you completely done with Season 1? Have you finished it in it’s totally out of your hands now?
Steve Maeda: Not totally. We are locking our last episode, Episode 13, today, and then we are actually on the mix stage right now. We are watching a playback - a sound playback of Episode 8, which is the second episode that Jeri is in, and we’re working through those. So that’ll be going on almost until - you know, a couple weeks before we air this last episode.
Erin Willard: Right. I guess one of the reasons I'm asking is are you waiting to finalize this finale until after you hear about a Season 2 pickup?
Steve Maeda: You know what? We’re locked into our finale. We don’t have the luxury. So we are cautiously optimistic on a Season 2 pickup and 13 is going to lock today, so we’re crossing our fingers and toes.
Erin Willard: That’d be great. Yes, me too.
Jeri Ryan: I'm not cautious. I'm not cautious. I'm going out there. They’re picked up.
Steve Maeda: Awesome. I like that.
Jeri Ryan: I'm making the prediction right now.
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Greg David with TV Guide Canada. Please go ahead.
Greg David: Hey guys, thanks for taking the time today.
Jeri Ryan: Thank you.
Greg David: So Steve, whose idea was it to have Constance have to file her teeth down? And did that have anything to do with...
Jeri Ryan: Yes. I want to know that too.
Greg David: Is it - is that like a - is that a hint that maybe she has to keep doing that otherwise it’ll grow longer and longer?
Steve Maeda: That’s absolutely the hint, and that idea I think that was something that came from Cameron’s original script. It may have actually been in the original pilot. I don’t remember, but it’s something that we always liked because it was so freaking weird. And we just had to put it in. It’s just the best, so yes; it was there originally. It was something that fell out of the pilot I think, and then we ended up finding a nice place for it.
Greg David: And then as a follow-up, can you - you know, this show can be very tension-filled, and I love the way that you guys break it up either with Alan and Sarah being all unsure of themselves after having sex in this Friday’s episode or the music. The music has been really great. Like Fever being used in this Friday’s episode.
Steve Maeda: Really? Oh, thanks.
Greg David: So can you talk a little bit about that? Because I know you Lost where music in some places where used to great effect, so can you talk a little bit about that?
Steve Maeda: Sure.
We decided from the get go that we wanted to do some things a little bit differently and be unsettling not only in you know storytelling and how we were shooting the show, but also in post and in how we cut the show and in music. And so part of that came from I think the whole Do You Know the Way to San Jose? which started the whole thing, came from Ron when we were sitting in post on the pilot. And that idea came from one of our other producers that (unintelligible) her to use that song and we bought it on iTunes and watched it. Just kind of temped in and it was like, “Wow. That works really well.”
So it was something we had talked about. When we saw it, we thought it was great, and so that’s why we you know continued to do it. And Fever is the perfect one. That’s probably the best song we’re using in the entire show.
Greg David: Great. Thank you.
Steve Maeda: You're welcome.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Robin Burke with FanGirlConfessions.com. Please go ahead.
Robin Burke: Hi. Thank you for talking to us today.
Jeri Ryan: Hi. Thank you.
Robin Burke: How would you best describe Constance and what motivates her?
Jeri Ryan: She’s kind of a ball-buster.
Steve Maeda: That’s a good question. She is a ball-buster.
Jeri Ryan: I think that’s the best way to describe her, which I love. What motivates her? Well, I can’t - see, I can’t really tell you exactly what motivates her. That you sort of find out.
Steve Maeda: Yes, I mean she’s - but she’s a company employee, and so I would say she is trying to be loyal to - you know, to the corporation and to the folks that she has been working with and been developing this whole plan with. And once she finds out that Hatake has since been working on his own agenda, she gets pretty damn angry about that.
And it’s an interesting thing, which I though Jeri really walked that line really well, that line between the corporate kind of niceties and the polite things that you say versus the things that you actually do. And once the fangs came out, it’s all over. So it was a lot of fun to watch.
Jeri Ryan: It was a lot of fun to play.
And I also love, as you'll see without trying to give too much away, she’s definitely, as Steve said, in the corporate world, and very much looking out for the best interests of Alaria, but you find out that there’s a little more personal issue for her at stake as well, which I really loved as well.
Steve Maeda: We tried to do with characters even if they seem to be, both with Hatake and with Sutton, even if they seem to be very kind of on point and you know their agenda comes first, we try to infuse them with some emotion down the road so you understand where they’re coming from and it’s not just about money. It’s not just about greed or this sci-fi illness of the show, but there’s an emotional component as well.
Jeri Ryan: And I love that.
Robin Burke: What was it like to work on a series that’s sometimes kind of gory and gross?
Jeri Ryan: Oh, I love the gore. Are you kidding me? Oh, God, more gore. I love it. The goo and the guts, and all of it. I love it. So much fun.
Come on. I observed autopsies when I was on Body of Proof. I love this stuff. I love the science of it. I love the gore. I love all of it.
Robin Burke: Great. Thank you.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Diana Price with CableTV.com. Please go ahead.
Diana Price: Thanks for chatting with us today guys. I did want to tell you, Steve, my niece is a huge - she’s become obsessed with the X-Files, and she was going on about it on her Facebook yesterday, so I just wanted to let you know that people are still tuning in.
Steve Maeda: Oh, thank you.
Diana Price: But I do want to ask, because you know, the X-Files was very dark and it was you know certainly kind of a pioneer in that sort of vibe, and Helix has a really dark edge. But unlike you know the X-Files, you had at least a little humor in that show with the interplay between Scully and Mulder, but this one is just relentless.
Do you plan to keep up this intensity or are you going to maybe let us breathe every now and then somewhere in the series?
Steve Maeda: No. We want to keep up the intensity. There are light moments coming, but they tend to be kind of in the service of - it's black humor definitely, and they tend to be in service of keeping everything moving and just sometimes you find those moments you know in the worst situations. So yes, we have 13 episodes and we really want to - our mantra was to keep the show moving, and so we want to have down time, we want to have character time, but we definitely want to keep everything twisting and turning and keep you coming back for more hopefully.
Diana Price: Great.
Yes, there is I guess humor in some of the musical irony, so...
Steve Maeda: Yes. There’s definitely.
Diana Price: And Jeri, I just wanted to ask real quick - I was going to ask you about genre, but you've sort of already answered that.
But you got to kind of get rough with Hatake there when you were mad at him. Would you like to maybe explore some more action and physical roles after getting a little taste of that?
Jeri Ryan: Oh, yes. It’s not my first taste of it either. I mean I did Mortal Combat and I've done some other roles with a little bit of action here and there. Yes, it’s a lot of fun. I always enjoy those scenes.
But he - I have to tell you, I have to brag about Hiro for a minute. That man is unbelievable. I was in awe of him. I still am in awe of him. He’s - the man is a ninja.
Steve Maeda: He is. Really, yes.
Jeri Ryan: The scene where I had to throw the book at his head, and I have to throw it directly at his face, and there - you know, it’s on me. I can’t like pretend to throw it. I have to wail it at him and he’s standing like six feet away from me.
And I was a wreck shooting the scene. I was so nervous. I was like, “Dude, I have no aim. I can’t.” He was like, “Just throw it. Just do it. Just right at my face. Just go.”
And there’s cameras set up right behind him, and so he has to knock the book away, and we’re worried about hitting the lens and all this expensive equipment. He never even blinked. Never flinched. Never breathed heavy. Nothing. Every take, he just batted it out of the way like it was nothing in the exact spot that it was supposed to land so it didn’t hit any equipment. He is amazing. He is amazing.
Steve Maeda: He pretty much - yes, he pretty didn’t flinch for the entire series.
Jeri Ryan: God. He’s just...
Steve Maeda: It was everything he was asked to do. Yes. He really is amazing. And just - was he dancing on set at all?
Jeri Ryan: No. I didn’t see the dancing.
Steve Maeda: Because the last time I was there, he’s also really graceful. I mean he can dance and sing. It’s unbelievable. He’s really talented.
Jeri Ryan: Yes. He’s amazing.
Diana Price: So, he really is a bad ass and he plays one on TV.
Jeri Ryan: Oh, my God.
Steve Maeda: Oh, yes.
Jeri Ryan: No, honest to God, I am such a fan girl about him. I just like follow him a round. I'm like, “Oh, my God, you're so cool. You're so cool.”
Steve Maeda: I'll tell you a little Hiro story. The first time he did - he does that thing with the gun where he hands the gun over butt first and he does this little flip with it.
Jeri Ryan: Yes.
Steve Maeda: The first time I saw that, because that was not scripted, he just did it, and I was like, “What did he just do?” And I went back and I liked watched it three times because it was so cool, and then sent him an email and said how bad ass that was.
Jeri Ryan: He’s so awesome.
Steve Maeda: Yes.
Diana Price: Thanks so much guys. Love the show.
Steve Maeda: Thank you.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Joshua Maloney with Niagara Frontier Publications. Please go ahead.
Joshua Maloney: Thank you.
Jeri, you talked about the fact that you enjoyed playing this part. You talked a lot about sort of what the character does, but could you tell us a little bit - at the end of the day, who is this character? How would you sort of describe this character for those people who are going to see her for the first time this week?
Jeri Ryan: I'm not - trying to tiptoe the line about not giving too much away, but she’s certainly driven, and she definitely has an agenda that she is there to do. Hatake has gone off the rails. He is supposed to be finding them a virus and a cure, and he’s screwed up. He’s messing around and doing his own thing, and that’s not okay, so she’s there to fix it, and whatever she has to do to make that happen is what has to happen.
Steve Maeda: Yes. She’s a fixer.
Joshua Maloney: All right.
Steve Maeda: She comes in and she takes care of things. And you know under the guise of corporate benevolence, she really has this very, very clear agenda and you know if Hatake has gone off the rails a little bit, Sutton has not gone off the rails of this. Firmly on the rails and is trying to make sure that everything happens the way it’s supposed to be happening and try to figure out what Hatake’s game is.
And Jeri, you mentioned that this is sort of your return back to sci-fi and you know this kind of a role. Obviously, you know, you're one of those iconic sci-fi actors. Is that sort of one of the reasons why maybe you've shied away from it, or have you just not found you know scripts or material that has really interested you to this point?
Jeri Ryan: In the very beginning when I had first ended Voyager, then yes, that was a conscious decision, because one of my concerns when I signed on to Voyager to begin with was that Star Trek is kind of notorious for its actors getting pigeonholed and not really being able to break out and do other things.
And so that was a big concern of mine in the beginning, which thank God has turned out to be completely unfounded and you know I've been very lucky.
More recently, it’s just because it’s just - you know, the - I go where the - you know, the interesting roles are, and this was the first one that really sort of caught my interest.
Steve Maeda: And we were thrilled, I should add, because we you know were hoping that we could get someone of Jeri’s caliber, but you never know. And when she signed on, we were over the moon.
Joshua Maloney: Yes.
And then finally, Steve, what can you tell us about Ikaria?
Steve Maeda: Oh, well they’re a pharmaceutical giant. They are - you know, they do good work and they make lots of drugs and they - you know, they - their public face is actually benevolent. But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on than what you might expect.
And I can’t tell too much more than that, but the foundation of Ikaria, the origin story of - you know, and how all that happened and how the company became what it is, is something that we’re going to see over the back half of the season.
Joshua Maloney: Great. Thanks guys. Appreciate it.
Operator: Thank you.
And our next question comes from the line of Tony Tellado with Scifi Talk. Please go ahead.
Tony Tellado: Hi guys. Steve, it’s good to talk to you again, and Jeri, a first time pleasure.
Wanted to ask you as far as an arc for her, I guess you haven’t been given too much, but do you - as you shot you shot a few episodes, do you kind of know where she’s going?
Steve Maeda: Oh, yes. We know where she’s going. We know exactly.
No, it was something - Sutton was a character who we knew very early on that we wanted to get into the show, that we wanted to have someone come from the corporation. And then the idea of Sutton was something that we talked about very early on. And then the rest of it just sort of you know came in kind of discussing and breaking stories with her.
Tony Tellado: Well Jeri, you certainly know how to make an entrance in the first episode. That was really cool.
Jeri Ryan: Yes. That’s actually not subtle.
Tony Tellado: No. No, she’s not.
And what’s it like that - you've obviously worked in ensembles. What’s it like to step into this ensemble cast?
Jeri Ryan: Well, it’s a great group of people. I mean, I've been really luck that - because I've sort of had to do that a lot. I kind of just that I'm sort of a pinch hitter because I've kind of jumped into a lot of shows that they were already in the middle of the run.
And it’s a - I've been really lucky to work with great casts, and this is another in a long line of really wonderful, welcoming, warm, just cool people who enjoy being together. Who genuinely enjoy working with each other.
Tony Tellado: And lastly, have you had a chance to go into the cold room yet?
Jeri Ryan: I did. I only had one brief scene in the cold room. I was lucky. But it is so cool. It’s really, really, really cool.
Tony Tellado: Yes, definitely. Thank you both, and great season so far. I just don’t know what to expect, and that’s the best way to watch a show.
Steve Maeda: That’s great. Thank you.
Our next question comes from the line of Tim Holquinn with Screenside. Please go ahead.
Tim Holquinn: Hi. It’s so great to get to speak with both of you today.
Jeri Ryan: Hi.
Steve Maeda: Thanks.
Tim Holquinn: It’s also my first time speaking with you, Jeri.
I have a couple quick questions for both of you. For Steve first, do you ever see what gets posted to Helix’s Access Granted Web site? And how consequential or crucial do you think the content of that site is to understanding what’s going on with the show?
Steve Maeda: It’s not critical to understand the show, but we do try to kind of add some value to that experience. And yes, we - I did not do all that material myself, but I certainly saw all of it and approved it all. But it’s something that you know if you watch the show, if you really like the show, the Access Granted stuff is something that can add a little more insight and give you a little bit of - you know, it’s planting clues and little things.
If you don’t watch it, you're still going to enjoy the show I think, but if you do, you'll get other little hints of things and get a little more background.
Tim Holquinn: So it’s more a clues and hints rather than answers directly?
Steve Maeda: Correct. Correct. Yes, the answers will all be in the show.
Tim Holquinn: And will the reason why Hatake’s so obsessed with Walker be fully explained this season, or is that a mystery that might carry over until the next season if there is one.
Steve Maeda: It will be fully explained this season.
Tim Holquinn: Okay.
And Jeri, you mentioned that joining the cast this late, did you bond with or become especially good friends with any particular members of the cast or crew during your time on Helix?
Jeri Ryan: You know what, everybody was great, but I absolutely fell in love with Kyra Zagorsky. She is amazing, and we didn’t get that many scenes together. Actually, we sort of bonded before we even got to technically work together.
She’s amazing, amazing, amazing. So talented. I'm so excited for people to see her in this and discover her, and she’s just the coolest lady in real life as well, so that’s been really fun.
Steve Maeda: Yes, I'll second that. She’s - yes, we really feel like she was a find in that she had never been a series regular before, and she’s terrific.
Tim Holquinn: I agree. She’s a standout.
Jeri Ryan: Actually when we watched the pilot, I was saying that they had screened the pilot for the cast and crew at lunch one day when I was shooting, and I hadn’t met her yet, but I was watching the show, and I was like, “Who is that?” Because you can’t take your eyes off her. She’s just - her performance is so good in this and she’s just kind of mesmerizing. Really impressive.
Tim Holquinn: Had you worked with any of this cast before, Jeri?
Jeri Ryan: I did an episode, I think it was Shark actually, with Billy a long time ago, but that was it, so it was my first interaction with everybody else, and it’s a great group and so talented.
Tim Holquinn: And lastly, how would you say playing this character compares to the character of Juliet that you played in Dark Skies? That remains one of my all time favorite shows.
Jeri Ryan: Juliet?
Tim Holquinn: Yes.
Jeri Ryan: Yes, that was fun.
Yes. Well Juliet was much more - okay, let me say this again. Wait a minute. I got to not get myself in trouble here.
Juliet was a Russian agent who worked with (Majestic). She was a little more cut and dry, her emotion. I mean she kind of hid her emotions, but she certainly had them and they were on the surface, and she was just you know a person who is doing her thing.
There’s a little different situation than what we’ve got on Helix. There’s a little less - well a lot less mystery surrounding Juliet I think.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Sabienna Bowman with TV Equals. Please go ahead.
Sabienna Bowman: Hi guys. Thanks so much for talking with us today.
Jeri Ryan: You're welcome.
Sabienna Bowman: My first question is how does the other - or how do the other characters react to Sutton’s character?
Steve Maeda: Oh, gosh. I mean you know I think that they are all sort of dismayed in their own - for their own reasons because I think very quickly very early on you discover that Sutton is you know putting on a performance for the gang. And so Hatake certainly knows who she is and where she’s coming from. I think that Daniel has an idea. And I think that Alan and company learn very quickly what’s going on. So it’s - you know, what appears to be you know, “Oh, good, help is here,” is really not help at all.
I mean look, she arrives with you know gun-toting soldiers too.
Sabienna Bowman: I love that.
Steve Maeda: She comes loaded for bear.
Sabienna Bowman: And will this also kind of shift some of the bad guy image away from Hatake? Because so far he’s sort of seemed like our villain? Will he be teaming up with Billy and things now?
Steve Maeda: Absolutely. We - one of the things we wanted to do was take our characters who seemed to be villains and try to humanize them and create some kind of unlikely pairings. And also, take our characters who seem to be you know on the side of the angles and turn them a little bit and twist them and give them some unsavory motives perhaps. And so yes, we’re trying to find those balances, and I think you'll see them.
Sabienna Bowman: Awesome. Thank you both so much. I'm really enjoying the show.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Suzanne Lanoue with The TV MegaSite. Please go ahead.
Suzanne Lanoue: Hi. It’s nice to speak with you both.
Suzanne Lanoue: Jeri, I was going to ask you, I haven’t seen the show. Syfy lost my address when I moved, but - yes - so I was going to ask you, I saw the trailer where you come in and say, “Oh, I'm just here to help you,” and then it shows you shooting people. So is it safe to say - shooting someone. I can’t tell who. So is it safe to say that you're not who you seem to be when you first come on the show?
Jeri Ryan: I think it’s very safe to say that she’s - I mean she certainly is there representing Ikaria Corporation. There’s no question about that. But yes, being there to help is not necessarily...
Steve Maeda: Well help her own interests.
Jeri Ryan: I mean, yes, she’s helping herself. And she certainly wants the cure. That is very sincere.
Steve Maeda: Right.
Suzanne Lanoue: And so can you tell me do you get to wear any interesting makeup while you're on the show?
Jeri Ryan: Maybe.
Steve Maeda: Good answer. I like that. Well put.
Suzanne Lanoue: You saw around my crafty question.
Steve Maeda: Yes. So there could be some interesting makeup.
Suzanne Lanoue: All right.
And Steve, can you tell us how is the show being received in terms of the ratings? Is it doing pretty well, or...
Steve Maeda: Yes. I think we’re doing very well. We have a very dedicated fan base I think after airing the first six - or the first five airings, and so far the response has been terrific. We’re - you know, cautiously optimistic on getting a Season 2, but so far the response has really been great. We’re very proud of the show and very happy that the response has been so good.
Suzanne Lanoue: Well cool, and I hope it gets a second season.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Mynda Bullock with Nice Girls TV. Please go ahead.
Mynda Bullock: Hi guys. Thank you so much for taking the time today.
Jeri Ryan: No, thank you.
Mynda Bullock: Mine is similar to the previous question a little bit. This show has been so - evolved quickly into my new favorite obsession. And Tweeting with some of the cast and characters during each episode is just amazing.
How do you feel about the fan reaction that you're getting you know in social media and online?
Steve Maeda: Oh, I think it’s marvelous. This is the first show I've worked on where we are - I've had that kind of reaction. I think that - I was on Lost for a season and Twitter was a lot more kind of in its birth stages, so it’s really gratifying. It’s really nice. It’s almost like you know I tend to watch Twitter while the show’s on.
Mynda Bullock: Yes.
Steve Maeda: And it’s really interesting to see - it’s almost like a live audience type of reaction. It’s like a 30-second delay for the Tweets to hit, but it’s really cool and you get to play along and you see what people like and what they don’t like, and it’s been really fun and interesting.
Jeri Ryan: Yes, social media’s been a game changer for television, I have to say.
Mynda Bullock: Yes, I think so.
Jeri Ryan: In the last few years, the way it’s evolved is amazing.
Mynda Bullock: Yes. You guys have gave me so - I was shouting at the TV about the frozen monkeys and the rats, and oh...
Steve Maeda: Great.
Mynda Bullock: Yes. I've got moments that’ll never leave because of that. And everybody was screaming online too.
So Jeri, will you be Tweeting on Friday?
Jeri Ryan: I am going to try. I don’t - we have a Valentine’s party that we have to go to, my husband and I, so I'm not sure how much and which time zone and all of that, but I'm going to do my best.
Mynda Bullock: Oh, that’s cool. I look forward to...
Jeri Ryan: The next episode I definitely can, but I'll do as much Tweeting as I can for this one, but that’s a tough night.
Mynda Bullock: So I'm hearing about this makeup that you may or may not be wearing, so you're going to be like a human Skittle like Neil? Poor guy.
Jeri Ryan: No. Not necessarily. We don’t know. You guys are just going to have to watch.
Steve Maeda: That’s right.
Jeri Ryan: It could be that. It could be something very, very different.
Mynda Bullock: Oh, that - this show has more twists than a pig’s tail, so it is just amazing. I love it. Thank you so much.
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of (Stephen Dultry) with (Flipside). Please go ahead.
Stephen Dultry: Hi guys. Greetings from rainy England.
Steve Maeda: Hello.
Stephen Dultry: I've got a few general questions - sci-fi questions for Jeri. As you mentioned a couple of times, it’s your return to science-fiction. (Unintelligible) kind of working on Star Trek Voyager and how does it - what differs to the set of Helix?
Jeri Ryan: Well God, I mean I was there for four years. It was a long time. I mean it was a big difference. There’s a lot of - everything about it is different. The character is very different.
Seven of Nine, you know, her emotions were very internal. Constance’s are not. She’s a little more demonstrative with her feelings. She doesn’t quite hide it as much as Seven, so that’s kind of the biggest difference right off the bat.
Stephen Dultry: Working on the set as well. I mean is it quite a different experience? I mean with the kind of people that you're working with and the costumes that you have to wear and the kind of scenes that you had to shoot?
Jeri Ryan: Well yes, I mean they’re completely different shows and you know different groups of people, and the costumes are certainly infinitely more comfortable than they were on Star Trek. There’s no corset involved in this one. So yes, I'd take this costume every day over the other one.
Stephen Dultry: Given your kind of iconic status within the science-fiction world, I'm guessing you get a lot of fan mail and stuff. I was just wondering what was kind of the weirdest or most memorable thing that a science-fiction fan has sent you or asked you to sign?
Jeri Ryan: I've had to sign a life-sized statue before, which is a little weird.
Stephen Dultry: Of yourself?
Jeri Ryan: Actually a couple of times I've signed one.
They bring in pieces of it. They either bring like the head - they take the head off or they bring the base with like a foot attached or something random.
Steve Maeda: Wow.
Jeri Ryan: It’s a little strange.
Stephen Dultry: That’s great. I presume the statue is of yourself?
Jeri Ryan: Yes. Well of Seven of Nine, yes.
Stephen Dultry: What do you think of science-fiction today though? Are you kind of a science-fiction fan? Do you watch a lot of science-fiction films and...
Jeri Ryan: You know it’s funny, I never - when I started on Voyager I had never ever been interested in science-fiction. I just - it just wasn’t my genre to watch.
And now I've - you know, my son grew up loving Star Trek and loving Star Wars and all of that, and I just was never really interested. And now I've got a daughter who’s now almost six and so I sort of watching things with her with her big brother showing her Star Wars, for example, and she loves it. She’s obsessed with Star Wars, and I became a big fan of it through her eyes, watching it with her. And I've really started to enjoy it, so we have a great time.
And so yes, I'm actually getting into science-fiction now as an adult, which is really kind of crazy at this point in my life to start to be a fan. And all the, you know, Avengers and Iron Man, and all those movies I love, so yes it’s fun. Discovered a new interest.
Stephen Dultry: From kind of starring in Helix and other shows, did you learn like some impressive techno-babble and scientific knowledge that you can impress your friends with?
Jeri Ryan: Well some of the medical knowledge from Body of Proof, not so much from the science-fiction. Science-fiction is a lot of exactly that, techno-babble, which you sort of memorize like you're memorizing a foreign language. You memorize it (unintelligible) basically. So no, it’s nothing that stuck with me. The science from Body of Proof, which was real science, I learned a lot more about.
Stephen Dultry: I guess a final question is what’s the best action scene you've been involved in?
Jeri Ryan: The best action scene?
Stephen Dultry: Yes.
Jeri Ryan: I don’t know. There’s been some fun ones over the years. I think in Dark Skies was some of the most fun. I got to shoot an AK47, which was a little - which was interesting. Or was it an M16? Now I don’t remember. Whichever the period gun was from that period, that’s what I shot. It was fun.
Stephen Dultry: Actually I did have one very last question. Who’s your favorite science-fiction heroine of all time?
Jeri Ryan: Oh, Lord, well if you're going to make me stick with a heroine, I guess I got to go with Leia. I would say Darth Vader. He was much cooler. He had a better costume, but we’ll go with Leia.
Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Barbara Barnett with Blog Critics Magazine. Please go ahead.
Barbara Barnett: Hi. It’s Barnett, not Bennett.
Thank you for speaking with us today. Steve, happy 20th anniversary of X-Files.
Barbara Barnett: It was a great show.
I wanted to start out with asking you - obviously the X-Files was iconic for the 1990’s, and here we are in 2014, how is the state of the genre - of genre TV changed? To me, it’s almost gone to the point where it’s almost mainstream. Has that been your...
Steve Maeda: Yes. I think it definitely has gone more mainstream, and there’s so much good stuff out there I think both in TV and movies. It’s so great. The thing I've done genre shows and shows that are not genre, and I just love these because the storytelling, you get to first off come up with whatever you can imagine and put it out there.
But then also when you do want to you know get a theme in, it’s so much easier to couch that in science-fiction or in genre because it doesn’t - for some reason, it just doesn’t feel as heavy-handed and you can tell stories that are much more - you know, you can layer in something without feeling preachy because you have the genre kind of as your shield and still do a really entertaining, but have something to say. So, it’s a lot of fun. I really enjoy it.
Barbara Barnett: Good. That actually kind of leads me to my next question, which is the theme of Helix - by the way, my husband sometimes - I generally force my husband to watch TV shows with me because I hate watching by myself. And, this is one he actually is really enjoying. “Oh, isn’t it time for Helix?”
Steve Maeda: That’s great.
Barbara Barnett: So, he’s really enjoying it. One of the few he does.
But it leads me to the next question, which is the themes of Helix are very much to me a cautionary tale about where we’re going with genetic research, and medicine, and pharmaceuticals. Where do you guys - where do you mine the science for the show? And I have a specific reason for asking, which I'll ask after you answer this question. But do you guys have science advisors? Where do you get the science?
Steve Maeda: We do, and we’ve done a lot of research ourselves. We do have an advisor who reads all of our scripts. We have an advisor on set as well, but we have a CDC doctor who reads all our scripts and then comes back to us with, “You know what? It would really be this way guys and not that way,” and we try to take those cues when we can.
Dramatically, we’re always trying to tell the best story, but we also want to be as grounded as possible. And yes, sometimes we take flights of fancy, but in doing so the - it’s something I actually learned on X-Files, which is the more you tie your fantastic story, your science-fiction story into actual science, the easier it is to buy. And so, that’s what we’re trying to do.
You know, we may not hit it all the time, but it’s something we certainly are mindful of.
Barbara Barnett: Yes.
Dr. Hatake was - obviously stabbed himself, which was shocking. One of the many shocking things that (unintelligible) has happened in the show.
Barbara Barnett: He stabbed himself, and yet his wound healed really, really quickly. Shockingly so.
Steve Maeda: Yes, it did.
Barbara Barnett: And - yes. And I know that there’s a lot of genetic research in the (unintelligible) of the chromosomes, and the idea of this virus being a delivery system or something genetic leads me to wonder if it has to do with Hatake’s ability to heal quickly and his own chromosomes and what experiments he’s been doing on himself?
Steve Maeda: I would say it very much has something to do with that, without you know giving too much away. It’s part of just who he is and what will be revealed in later episodes. But yes, we you know delved as deeply as we could into (unintelligible) research and into you know trying to take a lot of really arcane science and make it understandable to us, understandable to the audience.
And without dumbing it down too much, to get in as much real stuff as we could.
Barbara Barnett: Cool.
I have a last question, going back to the idea of social media and Twitter. Is having that kind of access to audience reaction, do you find it at all a double-edged sword?
Steve Maeda: Yes, it is I think, in that you don’t want to ever get to the place where you're checking yourself or like trying to - I guess the word - you know, you want to please, but at the same time you don’t want to be too reactionary. So I think you have to take it all with a grain of salt because you get very, very strong opinions.
And so I try to take it all as kind of a whole and then kind of toss it away and not think about it when we’re actually sitting there breaking a story. I don’t want, you know, the specter of what someone might think you know kind of clouding you know what - the story we’re trying to tell. But it is definitely nice to get feedback, and especially nice feedback, which we’ve had a lot of on the show.
So it seeps in you know, but you just got - can’t let it seep in too deep.
Barbara Barnett: Great. Well thank you so much, and good luck and congratulations on a great show.
Our next question comes from the line of (Suzanne Doke) with Syfy Germany. Please go ahead.
Suzanne Doke: Yes, hello. I've got a question for Jeri. I was wondering, after Voyager, we didn’t see you in any sci-fi roles. I was wondering if - one, if you got very many offers from the direction of sci-fi? And if you have consciously avoided those because we didn’t see you in any of the shows.
Jeri Ryan: Well I kind of answered that earlier. Someone asked a similar question. Yes, I did in the very beginning after I had just finished Voyager. It was a conscious decision, because one of my concerns when I signed on to Voyager to begin with was getting pigeonholed into that role and not being able to break out and do something else after. That’d been a big concern of mine then.
And so you know, my first several jobs after Voyager were very consciously avoiding science-fiction.
But you know within a very short time, within a couple of years, I realized that it wasn’t a problem and I was very lucky, and it’s just - you know, I've just taken the roles that seemed interesting to me at the time, and this is the first sci-fi role that’s really jumped out at me since then. So, it was fun to get back into it. It was a lot of fun.
Suzanne Doke: Okay.
Also you probably have been to some of the fan conventions, and are you - they are more involved with sci-fi things. Are you looking forward to hit the convention circle maybe once again?
Jeri Ryan: I have been. I didn’t - wasn’t able to do them for a few years because I have stalkers, and so I had security issues. And then Creation Entertainment, who organizes most of the Star Trek conventions got a really great security detail for me, and so I was able to start doing them again, and it’s a lot of fun. That’s a great way to - you know, to see the fans and to meet them. It’s fun. I mean it’s a lot of - it’s a great treat to get to meet the fans. They’re very enthusiastic, very loyal, very passionate group of people, and they’re amazing.
And you know, none of us would be anywhere without the fans. It’s another reason why I love social media so much now.
Suzanne Doke: Thank you.
Jeri Ryan: It’s another way to safely interact with your fans.
Steve Maeda: Yes. I would second that. The sci-fi fans are so passionate. I mean, that’s the really great thing too about the response we’re getting. Science-fiction fans either love you or hate you, and so - but very, very passionate. And you know, going after those fans is - it’s a great fan base.
Operator: Our next question is a follow-up question from the line of Greg David with TV Guide Canada. Please go ahead.
Greg David: Hey, have either of you picked up like an unnatural fear of needles as a result of working on this show?
Jeri Ryan: Oh, I've always been needle-phobic. Hideously needle-phobic. That’s the one thing that I have a hard time with.
Greg David: Steve, what about you?
Steve Maeda: No, not so much. Although, you know, it certainly - the show does make you think twice about you know any time there’s a - you know, a new flu strain or anything like that. But no, not overtly I would say, but no; it’s not my favorite thing.
Greg David: Okay.
And both of you were speaking earlier about Kyra’s acting on the show, and it really is in some cases like she’s doing a one-woman show. Can you just talk a little bit about that? I mean, Steve, I guess maybe, can you talk a little bit about that?
Steve Maeda: I mean, Kyra very early on, you know brought a really nice humanity I think to Dr. Walker, and to that character and really fleshed her out, and we just started writing toward that because we saw what we had, and it was part of our whole story-writing process to - you know obviously Walker is very central to the story and maybe even more central to than we’re letting on; although, we certainly are hinting at that.
I think that by the end of the season you'll see just how central, because she’s a very, very important character in the show.
Greg David: Great, thanks.
And our final question comes from the line of Robin Burke with FanGirlConfessions.com. Please go ahead.
Robin Burke: Hi. Great to talk to you again.
This question is probably more for Jeri. What has been your favorite experience working on Helix?
Jeri Ryan: Well I think again working with Hiro Sanada, he’s just - he’s incredible. This man is such - I mean everybody, the entire cast is fantastic, but he’s just - he’s in another world. He’s not even human. It’s crazy.
Seriously, he is such a professional and he’s so dedicated, and he’s so - he’s just so good, and so connected, and so right there with you in any kind of scene. And whatever you have to do, you just - he’s amazing to act with. You just feel so supported as an actor to work with him.
Steve Maeda: But so - also I think, unlike the Hatake character, when - you know, in person.
Jeri Ryan: Yes. Exactly. He couldn’t be more the antithesis of Hatake in real life.
Steve Maeda: Yes, he’s just charming. Yes.
Robin Burke: How many episodes will Constance be appearing in, and will there be a chance for the character returning in future episodes or seasons?
Steve Maeda: This is Syfy, there’s always a chance. Yes. Without giving too much away, she’s - I don’t want to say how many episodes or you know the why or the why not; all that will come to bear, but we love having Jeri and you know she’s in a number of episodes and we’ll just leave it at that.
Robin Burke: Okay. Great, thank you.
Stephen Cox: Thank you all for joining us today. We were very excited to have your questions and hear the great answers from Jeri and Steve.
And just a reminder, Helix airs Fridays at 10:00 pm only on Syfy. Have a great day everyone.
Jeri Ryan: Thanks guys.
Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude the conference call for today. We thank you for your participation and ask that you please disconnect your lines.
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An interview with ReSka
>>>>> DoIndie has some concert tickets (Nov 1st) and signed CDs from Re-ska to give away. Details on how to win can be found at the bottom of this article! <<<<<
# Hey! Congratulations on the new EP! Firstly, can you please introduce ReSka to our readers?
Wooja : Hello everyone. We are ReSka. We are still here! We have been around for a while now, but not been doing much recently. The new album is finally ready, it’s been about three years since the last one. We have loads of excuses to explain the long gap between albums, but at the end of the day, they are just excuses. Please. Buy. Our. Album! (haha)
# These days there are a bunch of established ska and reggae bands in Korea. In your opinion, what makes you stand out from the crowd?
Wooja : If I had to choose something that is distinct about our music, it would be this: reggae is an unusual genre to be playing in Korea anyway (These days, in Korea at least, reggae is pretty unusual, but actually in the early 90s there was a fair amount of artists playing this genre, musicians like 김건모 [Kim Gun-Mo], 투투 [ToTo], 룰라 [Roo’ra] etc.), but on top of that when you listen to the songs that Hong-ki writes they are usually about very trivial things from daily life (things people can easily relate to) and the melodies are also very simple to sing along with. Although our music can sometimes sound a little heavy, once you have heard them, the melodies tend to stick in your head for a long time. Our music is easy to get into, that’s one of our best points.
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# Tell us about this new EP [Wi Dem A Free] of yours. How do you go about producing new work?
Wooja : The new EP is quite different from our first release "여~전히 그리워하네" [I Still Miss You] all those years ago. We tried to make sure the new songs had a bit more originality than our previous releases. All our tracks are written, arranged, recorded and mixed by Hong-ki, he always works hard on our stuff but he worked particularly hard making the song “서쪽하늘 눈 붉어지면 [The Snow in the West Sky is Clearer - please note, we are not 100% sure of this translation]” off our new album. We all really like this song a lot. Also, we actually made the song called ‘Mama’ right back when we started out as a band. It is great to have a song we have been playing live for ages finally on an album.
When we make music, it is mostly all done by Hong-ki. However, the track ‘밤의 등대’ [The Night’s Lighthouse] was written and composed by our keyboardist 혜림 [Hye-Lim]. When you hear her track it is fun to listen to and compare the differences with the other tracks we have made.
You can compare the two songs at our EP release show, reserve tickets here : http://www.bgbg.co.kr/ticket/reska_concert
Buy 'Wi Dem A Free' (Digital) :
Daum Music / Naver Music / Olleh Music / Bugs / Gene / M-Net / Melon / iTunes (USA) / iTunes (UK) - Coming soon
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Hyang Music / Yes Asia (International Delivery) / Yes 24 / Alidan / Kyobo Bookstore (Online) / Hot Tracks (Online)
# What music are you listening to these days? What did you used to listen to when you were growing up?
Wooja : I don’t have anything I would say I always listen to. I tend to listen to different kinds of music depending on my moods each day. My mom used to play cassette tapes to me when I was young, I remember it well. She used to play me music by Eric Clapton, Smokie, traditional Japanese pop (Enka), The Bee Gees, Louis Armstrong, Songolmae etc. When I started playing guitar at highschool I was into Green Day, Sum 41, Nirvana and Blink 182. I listened to that kind of music a lot.
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# Why did you originally want to be in a band?
Wooja : Honestly, there was no special reason that led to the band forming. Ever since I was young my mom sent me to early education schools to learn piano. I guess i’ve been playing music since I was five(ish). When I was in second grade at middle school, it became clear to me that I wanted to be involved in music. Hong-ki was a massive influence for my learning how to play the guitar. Hong-ki was also the reason for us starting ReSka. When we were 20/21 Hong-ki and I were playing in different bands. By coincidence both of our bands broke up at the same time. At that time he contacted me and suggested we formed a new band together. That band was ReSka.
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# If you had to tell us about the album in one sentence, what would you say?
Wooja : Let’s be free! - That statement doesn’t seem to have much of a connection to the songs, does it? When we were in our early to middle 20s Hong-ki was going through some hard times emotionally. At that time he downloaded a Jamaican translation app. While playing with that app translating random things one of the sentences that came up was ‘Let’s be free!’.
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# I guess this is ReSka’s first ever showcase concert. Have you prepared anything special for the show? How do you feel about the show?
Wooja : It is the first time we have ever stuck the word ‘showcase’ on one of our concerts, that’s for sure. Actually, back on Oct 16th, 2011 we did a release party for our first ever EP. Haha. It feels weird thinking about our showcase concert now. I’m not super excited, nor am I particularly calm. It’s our first big showcase in a while, so yeh of course we have prepared a bunch of things, but it would not be any fun if we told you everything now. Come and check out the show, you can see for yourselves!
Reserve tickets here : http://www.bgbg.co.kr/ticket/reska_concert
# What are ReSka’s plans and aims for the future?
Wooja : - Firstly, our most basic aim is to become a band people think of when they talk about reggae music in Hongdae. To achieve that we need to continue working hard and producing good music for people to listen to. If you compare us now to when we released our first EP in 2011, we have gotten a lot better as a band. We will be trying our best to continue improving like this as time goes on, so please continue to support us.
# Anything you want to say to our readers before we finish?
Wooja : Please buy lots of copies of our new EP! Please come with all your friends to our EP release show. Mom, Dad … I love you! hahahahahahahahahaha We think DoIndie is a great way of finding out about and meeting new artists / musicians. Make sure you keep coming back and using their site. Help them, and help us keep making the Korean scene what it is.
Interview : Il Hwa Choi
English Translation : Patrick Connor
Editing : Jamie Leigh Gilbert
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* We will notify winners on our facebook page on Oct 31st
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To celebrate the release of their new album, Re-Ska has a showcase at Ta. Check out the information below :
http://www.doindie.co.kr/en/events/reskas-ep-wi-dem-a-free-release-party
Date : Nov 1st (Sat) 18:30
Venue : Club TA
Adv : 15,000won
Door : 22,000won
Guest : Love X Stereo / Jeong Seokyoung
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A Nurse’s Guide to Minimizing Their Use
Atul Sunny Luthra
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Man U
Harneet Singh
Tim Lefort
‘Fantastic? No, not for me’: Manchester United manager trying to bore the opposition to sleep with the wrong Style for The Premier League?
By soccersweep
Louis van Gaal has now been managing Manchester United for over a year.
In that time he has made an almost compete overhaul of the squad.
And, with the composed and technically astute signings that he has made, there is now clearly a greater measure of ‘control’ in this Manchester United team.
They keep the ball very well and the possession stats have rarely been higher for Manchester United.
But the problem remains that they aren’t doing enough with the possession that they have.
As with the David Moyes era, Manchester United players are opting to go backwards more often than not. The tactic seems to be that you can’t score when you don’t have possession so, rather than make a risky forwards pass, United players are instructed to pass backwards and build again.
But does this work in The Premier League?
Certainly Sir Alex Ferguson’s teams weren’t that concerned with the amount of possession they had but the speed at which they got forward when they did have the ball.
Indeed, it could often be seen as an advantage to let the opposition have the ball and then hit them on the break.
Manchester United are more defensively solid under Louis. But, after a year at the club we are beginning to wonder whether his style of management actually suits this team or this league.
Because, far all Manchester United’s pressure against Newcastle – they had the opponent pinned in their own half for most of the second 45 – The Toon Army weren’t particularly troubled by United.
The Newcastle players always had time to get back into position and they never really looked at sixes and sevens.
United failed to get behind the defence regularly and we can’t remember one decent counter attack in the whole game.
This tactic of zig-zagging the ball in a pedestrian fashion up to the opposition penalty area just isn’t paying dividends right now.
What is needed is a faster pass forward. A more direct style of play.
Because Manchester United’s best way of scoring right now seems to be boring the opposition to sleep.
The performance certainly didn’t please Manchester United legend Paul Scholes who said:
‘He said “fantastic” a few times. I didn’t really think there was anything fantastic about it at all,’ Scholes said on BT Sport. ‘You are at home to Newcastle, you are expected to win the game. The visiting keeper has one save to make. Fantastic? No, not for me.’
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Social Indicators
Why social indicators
Social Development Index
Index and Report
SD Highlights
Percentage of days in which air quality in Hong Kong falls below acceptable standard
% 2 1 6.30 15 7.92 11.23 11.23 14.52
% 23.84 13.15 13.70 19.50 25.20 29 38.90
Operational Definitions
The percentage of days in which air quality of Hong Kong, as expressed in terms of the Air Pollution Index, reaches a level of pollution of either “very high” or “severe”. Since June 1995, the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) has been reporting the API and making forecast for the following day. In Hong Kong, the API converts air pollution data from several types of pollutants into a value ranging from 0 to 500, which is divided into 5 bands (Low 0-25, Medium 26-50, High 51-100, Very High 101-200, Severe 201-500) according to the potential effects on health. Generally speaking, an API higher than 100 means that one or more pollutants may pose immediate health effects to some susceptible members of our community (for details, please go directly to http://www.info.gov.hk/epd/air/tell.html) The latest general and roadside APIs are reported hourly. These indices are calculated by comparing the measured concentrations of the major air pollutants with their respective health related Air Quality Objectives (AQOs) established under the Air Pollution Control Ordinance. These pollutants are nitrogen dioxide, sulphur, dioxide, ozone, carbon monoxide and respirable suspended particulates. APIs for each of these five pollutants are recorded and the highest API number is reported as the API of that hour.
All figures are collected from Environmental Protection Department since 1981.
Since the API was established in 1995, figures for years before 1995 are not available.
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Ten Parties
Update, 2 January 2013: competition over. Answers now added at the foot of this post. Five female authors and five male: this wasn't deliberate, it's just how it happened, but it works nicely and ideally I'd like to invite them all to an eleventh party. Congratulations to the winner, Averill Buchanan, who got every one correct. It's reassuring to know that there is someone in the world who has read everything.
First correct naming of author & novel/story from which all the following extracts are taken wins £50 of CBe books. Email to info@cbeditions.com.
Actually I think I’m pretty safe here. One or two are obvious but several are well off the beaten track. So a couple of free CBe books to the highest score over five received by 2 January.
The Prime Minister was coming, Agnes said: so she had heard them say in the dining-room, she said, coming in with a tray of glasses. Did it matter, did it matter in the least, one Prime Minister more or less? It made no difference at this hour of the night to Mrs Walker among the plates, saucepans, cullenders, frying-pans, chicken in aspic, ice-cream freezers, pared crusts of bread, lemons, soup tureens, and pudding basins which, however hard they washed up in the scullery, seemed to be all on top of her, on the kitchen table, on chairs, while the fire blared and roared, the electric lights glared, and still supper to be laid. All she felt was, one Prime Minister more or less made not a scrap of difference to Mrs Walker.
Mary smoothed the skirt of her party frock and taking short steps crossed swiftly to the table on which rested sandwiches, glasses, soft drinks and a bottle of Gloag’s Old Grouse Malt Whisky. She said, very quickly:
‘It’s rather smelly, but never mind. They seem to have organised the eats.’
Vaguely, Pink looked round at the pine panelling, the scrubbed floorboards, the glassy blackboard and the narrow gothic windows set safely above boys’ eye-level. He tried to define the missing ingredient.
‘Sex?’ he suggested, sniffing once or twice and looking up at the dark space between the overhead lights and the high vaulted roof. Mary, grabbing a sandwich, shook her head, then spoke with her mouth full.
‘We’re jolly lucky to have it.’
Pink put his thumbs in his pockets. He was still sniffing the air. He made a further suggestion.
‘Sex cruelly denied?’
On this blue night, this starry night, the best of our contraband, everything for which our region is celebrated far and wide, plied its seductive, destructive craft. Wine from afar heated stomachs, sweetly numbed legs, dulled brains, and summoned belches as resonant as the call of battle horns. The black cook from the Plutarch, which had pulled in three days before from Port Said, had smuggled in big-bellied bottles of Jamaican rum, oily Madeira, cigars from the plantation of Pierpont Morgan, and oranges from the groves of Jerusalem. This is what the foamy waves of the Odessan Sea throw onto the shore, and this is what Odessan beggars sometimes get at Jewish weddings. They got Jamaican rum at Dvoira Krik’s wedding, and that’s why the Jewish beggars got as drunk as unkosher pigs and began loudly banging their crutches. Eichbaum unbuttoned his vest, mustered the raging crowd with a squinting eye, and hiccuped affectionately.
‘What – ?!’ I gasped. Naomi’s bottom reared above me, seeming to watch me with a suspicious one-eyed stare, pink mouth agape below as though in astonished disbelief.
‘A bidet. It’s what they’re for, you know, washing bottoms.’
‘Yes, sure, but oddly I was just thinking about –’
‘Can you beat that,’ said Dickie, tossing the towel over Naomi’s bent back. ‘I always thought they were for cooling beer in.’ He leaned close to the mirror, scraped at a fleck of blood in front of his golden sideburns. ‘Oh, by the way, Ger, I don’t know if you saw what’s left of the poor bastard on the way up, but Roger’s no longer with us, you know.’
‘Roger – ?!’ It was like a series of heavy gates crashing shut, locks closing like meshing gears. I stumbled to my feet.
‘I knew it!’ gasped Tania, clutching her arms with wet hands.
Dickie unzipped his trousers and tucked his shirttails in, frowning at the bloodstains on his vest. I braced myself on the cupboard shelves. ‘But … but who – ?’
He raised his eyebrows at me in the mirror as though to say I already knew. And I did. ‘They used croquet mallets,’ he said with a grimace, zipping up.
General Lowenhielm, who was to dominate the conversation of the dinner table, related how the Dean’s collection of sermons was a favourite book of the Queen’s. But as a new dish was served he was silenced. ‘Incredible,' he told himself. ‘It is Blinis Demidoff.’ He looked around at his fellow diners. They were all quietly eating their Blinis Demidoff, without any sign of either surprise or approval, as if they had been doing so every day for thirty years.
She was working for the caterer of this affair, helping in the kitchen and bringing around the food. She wore a gray-and-white uniform and had her hair bunched under a black net and she looked very plain. But that only accentuated the aura of her mischief. She moved among us with a tray like the secret queen of some criminal enclave, casing the joint. As I reached for one of her hors d'oeuvres, she smiled and said, ‘Hello, Michael Reed.’
It had been a month or so since we’d met at Ted MacKey’s, and then only briefly. Tonight I’d noticed her right away, but I hadn’t expected to be remembered. I was astonished. I probably looked it. She smiled and passed by.
Before we all sat down to eat, I made sure to find out her name. This was a nerve-racking endeavor, not entirely to my surprise. Less than two weeks earlier, I’d been staring at her naked privates. I tried to intersect her path as if by accident.
Houda was simultaneously aware that she was in a room full of creaking chairs and hot bodies. Toby, pawing at a dish of cold leavings, looked ugly; his lips were greasy. Those people who sat nearest the guitar had already begun rocking their heads and bouncing their knees like marionettes; while others suffered a certain milky washing of the eyeball, undeniable symptom of that condition when being bored to death is synonymous with being moved to tears, since the second is the natural outcome of the first. ‘And I had been turning over in my mind the benefit to be gained from knowing these people, and whether it might be possible for me to lead a “normal” (Good God, “normal”!) life!’
It was necessary to leave at once, if she was to show Eugene the full extent of her contempt.
She could accept his going away. These things happened to women. It was something else that bothered her. At first glance he seemed all of a piece and in complete control. But then, if you were a woman and looked a little closer, you saw that he was little vague, a little careless, a little scattered. Why was one of his silver cufflinks missing? Why hadn’t he brushed the dandruff from his shoulders? Why was it that the colour of his socks didn’t quite match? There was something odd too about his behaviour. While chatting away with Imelda, Boniface was simultaneously smiling at the Cardinal and being stern with the American Ambassador. It was as if different bits of him were going off in different directions. This was what perturbed Zuna as they stood in the Nuncio’s garden ablaze with orchids, smiling, sweet-faced Monsignori and beautiful bra-less women.
Gerda’s line as a hostess was of adorable inefficiency; with the air of a lost child she tottered among her guests, in one hand a glass dripping sherry, in the other a semi-opaque yellow drink in which the skewered cherry appeared as a threatening shadow. Wherever a glass was put down a small sticky ring stamped itself: she pounced on these rings with her handkerchief with little reproachful cries (no one advised her to wipe the underneaths of the glasses). She bewailed the quality of the cigerettes, the heat of the room, the (so far) absence of Gilbert; she upset a saucer of olives. She was followed around by a young man she had known in the Navy, who each time she succeeded in placing a drink with a guest smiled proudly, as though she had sold a raffle ticket.
Finally, she vomited. It all came up, the salt water and the gin and the food she’d had, a mess. She wasn’t pretty at all. It was a nuisance, and ugly. Of course, the dogs had to come over and smell it.
But at least she could breathe now; or rather, wheeze.
They wrapped her in blankets and took her into the house and gave her a cup of hot coffee. Nobody seemed too intensely upset. I got the impression they more or less expected climaxes like these at the parties they gave.
‘Who brought her?’
‘Benson, wasn’t it? She’s going to taste salty for a week.’
‘Somebody ought to put a picket fence around that ocean. It’s a public menace.’
Answers (added 2 January 2013):
1. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
2. James Kennaway, Household Ghosts
3. Isaac Babel, 'The King'
4. Robert Coover, Gerald's Party
5. Isak Dinesen, Babette's Feast
6. Denis Johnson, The Name of the World
7. Rosemary Tonks, Emir
8. Nina Fitzpatrick, Fables of the Irish Intelligentsia
9. Elizabeth Bowen, To the North
10. Alfred Hayes, My Face for the World to See
Some prose in 2012
(or, ‘Couldn’t something temporary be done with a teapot?’)
For starters, a sentence, a question, from the early pages of The Uprising by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, a book a friend sent me I think because of the subtitle, ‘Poetry and Finance’, which suggests something useful to my predicament (or one of them): ‘How can we think of a process of subjectivation when precarity is jeopardizing social solidarity and when the social body is wired by techno-linguistic automatisms which reduce its activity to a repetition of embedded patterns of behaviour?’
I haven’t got much further. I like the deep orangey-yellow cover. I keep thinking I should go further – I suspect there’s an intelligence operating here on a range of topical matters that interest me – but it’s an effort. I may just give up, because the end does not justify the means, ever.
I hadn’t fully realised what a sensitive and sheltered soul I am, how allergic to bad prose, until my past few months as a novice RLF Fellow – that is, as a writer embedded in an academic institution whose role is to advise students on their written work. There are exceptions – the Swedish History MA student whose prose lightens my mood for the whole day – but most of what’s offered across the desk makes me flinch. We find a level, the student and I, at which we can talk, and this can be fun and enlightening, but when we look again at the prose we’re back to hard labour and soon reach a point at which I suggest that I don’t think I offer any more help. Sometimes I ask: What writers do you read for pleasure? They look at me as if I’m mad.
Here’s the rub, of course. I’m of the last generation in Western history which, as children, when there wasn’t much going on and it was raining outside, picked up a book. What else was there to do? Television barely existed; some card games; no internet, no games consoles. No one cooks well until they’ve eaten good food; no one writes good sentences until they’ve read those of others. The reading lists given to the students I encounter don’t make up for that. The research for many of their essays is focused on papers in academic journals whose main message is that reading neither is nor can be a pleasure.
(In the given conditions, I doubt that the written essay, a thing culturally specific to the UK and US education systems and wholly alien to students arriving out of many other systems, even within Europe, is in most subjects an appropriate main means of assessing a student’s intelligence and potential. But that’s an aside.)
Obvious statement: if reading isn’t central to the culture – I mean reading freestyle, reading beyond anything one is required to read for specific purposes – then there’s no hope that good writing will be. And even before, well before, the library closures, it was clear that reading isn’t central. So-called literary fiction gets column inches, but Philip Roth’s 2009 prediction that its reading will soon become ‘cultic’ – ‘Maybe more people than now read Latin poetry, but somewhere in that range’ – may already have come about. Poetry, poetry written for the page, hasn’t been even near central for decades, and never will be again. (So why – obvious question – am I a book publisher? You might as well ask how can we think of subjectivation when precarity is jeopardizing social solidarity. I did mention pleasure, I think.)
To set against the above, three writers read this year, and none of their books exactly new. Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams, first published in the UK in 2012 but first read by me in a 2005 Paris Review anthology; it’s been reviewed, but no one seems to have noticed that it’s a kind of companion piece to Johnson’s equally concise and wonderful The Name of the World (2000), whose main character also has to deal with – but in this book in a contemporary academic setting – the violent deaths of his wife and daughter. A re-read of Renata Adler’s Speedboat (1977) and a first read of her Pitch Dark (1984): bliss. A late-arrival read – courtesy of the gift of the book by Helena Nelson: deep bows and salutations – of The End of Me (1968) by Alfred Hayes, who to me is a god.
Others too; the above are just those coming to mind this evening. Petrol by Martina Evans. Essays by Eliot Weinberger. I do tend to read off the side and behind the back of the prize shortlists, but not deliberately. The difference between what I can like and what I wholly surrender to seems to be this, whatever the genre: with former I have the feeling I’m being asked to admire – look at me, I’m writing a writing a novel/poem, see what I’m doing here – and with the latter that feeling evaporates.
Here is a link to this year’s TLS Christmas Quiz, set (as in past years) by Tony Lurcock. One review of Lurcock’s compilation of writing by British travellers in Finland, 1760–1830, published by CBe in 2010, mentioned that his own commentary is ‘at least as worth reading as the texts themselves’. A second book, covering the years 1830 to 1917, will be published by CBe in April.
The photo above is by Abelardo Morell. While the bird cooks, hours of pleasure may be spent exploring his photographs.
X came round this morning – early, before I was dressed – to buy four of the David Wheatley pamphlets for Christmas presents. Earlier this week I went up to north London to take three of the Nick Wadley pamphlets to Y, who doesn’t do email. Coffee is made, gossip is swapped. This is pleasant, in an olde worlde way. I am a purveyor of quality literature to the gentry. The books should be priced in guineas.
Whether the practice is sustainable in its present form I doubt. This week was another of those (many) weeks in which more submissions pinged into my in-box than orders from the website. If CBe is known about at all it’s as a personal, idiosyncratic venture, and that’s fine, because that’s what it is, but somehow the books have to be sold – therefore today’s application to ACE for support for paying someone with a bit of marketing and sales know-how to come into the frame. Next year will be, I hope, a little different. More professional, you might say; while not doing without the coffee and the gossip.
It’s easy to start feeling old. The first CBe book for next year is a book of essays, anecdotal memoirs, poems, in celebration of Michael Hofmann, and the first piece, by James Lasdun, begins thus: ‘In the early eighties I was employed as one of half a dozen in-house readers at Jonathan Cape, in their old Bedford Square offices. We were all writers and it seemed to be understood that we would spend as much time keeping up with our literary pals as we did reading manuscripts. Poets and novelists would drop in for coffee, or we’d spend hours nattering with them on the phone …’ There’s that coffee again. Not just a job, and as an ‘in-house reader’ at that, but a job in which you got paid to sit around and chat.
In the bibliography in the Hofmann book, this is conspicuous: that he has published just four collections of poetry in thirty years. The first was 48 pages: slim is the usual adjective. (That’s it up above, with a review-copy slip: publication date 7 November 1983 and typed, remember typewriters? The cover colour background to the ffs is pink; the spine has faded to, as one of the contributors to the book says, peppermint green.) Nor did the other collections really test your shelf-space. Compare and contrast today: poem-writing as an academic growth industry, the Facebook groups where you sign up to writing a poem per day for a month. Is it too late to – as well as disinventing the database – start a slow poetry movement?
The mention of Christmas presents above was intended as a hint: three pamphlets for a tenner, send them as cards, they’re barely more expensive. The Nick Wadley drawings one for those who have read either everything or nothing. The Dai Vaughan poems one: love, hardly an exclusively seasonal activity but don’t rule it out. The David Wheatley one: slow drinking. The pamphlets page; or you could buy a book, a whole book.
Why they’re looking demonic – above, the entire staff of CBe – is because they’re overworked, tired, down to focusing on one thing, which is not what I need from them.
Meanwhile, there was the small-press event at the London Review bookshop last week, packed out: see Ross Bradshaw of Five Leaves Press on this.
Meanwhile, though I broadcast a need for paid sales/marketing help here and on Facebook a week or so back, and that thing was variously tweeted and re-tweeted, not a single response. Which kind of proves the point. But moves are afoot.
Meanwhile, CBe books will be in a pop-shop off Portobello Road from 10 December organised by Julian Rothenstein of the Redstone Press (you know, the diaries; but more than that). More on this in a newsletter when I get round to it.
‘Meanwhile’ used to be a word that Mark Ford used a little too often – a back-stop, a stop-gap – in his poems that rightly refused to rely on narrative or the other obvious ways of moving from here to there, but now less so.
Meanwhile, yesterday I was in Oxford for a reading at the Albion Beatnik bookshop – which has put on a readings programme that puts far bigger places to shame – by one writer (Richard Gwyn) CBe has published this year, one (Patrick Guinness) CBe will publish next year, and one (Philip Morre) whose book CBe has designed and typeset.
Meanwhile, tomorrow I seem to have committed to a 2-hour workshop on academic writing, a genre which, the more I’ve come into contact with (over the past couple of months, as an RLF Fellow), the more I flinch from. We shall start with a couple of poems.
Meanwhile, I’ve been reading Cusp, published by Shearsman and edited by Geraldine Monk. From the blurb: ‘a collective autobiography’ of ‘a brief era which, in retrospect, was exceptional in its momentum towards the democratisation and dissemination of poetry’; that era being located ‘between World War II and the advent of the World Wide Web’. The North, the Midlands, Wales, the South-west (not London/Oxbridge). I haven’t finished it. There’s some sloppy writing and there’s some good writing (a fine essay by Peter Riley). That’s not quite the point. The point is to do with a number of people from a dun-coloured background (the 11-plus, engrained sexism, not an aubergine in sight) finding a way through (exceptional teachers, independent bookshops, libraries) into the excitement of reading and writing. They meet by chance, form groups and start magazines and presses and split apart (‘the difference is still the same: the old versus the new, the safe versus the experimental, the formal versus the expansive. The strain finally breaks the group …’: Tim Allen) and start from base again. Pound and W. C. Williams score heavily in the index. The avant-garde, as is pointed out more than once, can be as conservative as the mainstream, but there was a collective energy here, veering between abrasive and comfy in its oppositional stance, that makes for an instructional read. Fun, too.
Meanwhile, the TSE shortlist and the Costa shortlist and no comment. For starters, Armitage’s Death of King Arthur is billed as a translation on the title page and shouldn’t be there for that reason alone, it’s taking up someone else’s place, even besides that for all the Armitage brio it’s a dull, dull, archaic poem, leave it to the scholars. And the Poetry Book Society really does need a shake-up. For example, the idea of a book fair bringing together, inclusively, poetry publishers from across the UK – a no-brainer, and their remit, and they have an office and staff – why did they leave it to unpaid amateurs? Just saying. Why – it’s theirs on a plate if they want it – have they shown no interest at all in pulling it into what they do? And playing with it. Doesn’t have to be London: Norwich next year, then Birmingham, then X and then Y. It’s how it used to be done. No comment.
Meanwhile, I forgot to say in my record of the first dream in the last post that my children were constantly barging in during the phone call, and when I told them to clear out they went downstairs and hammered on the piano directly underneath my desk. There is no piano.
Meanwhile. The things that are happening off-stage, in the dark.
The dream life of an editor
3 a.m. – this was real time, I think, because when I woke up (someone in the house coming home late) I looked at the clock and it was 3.30 a.m. A man standing outside WH Smiths in York (he must be cold, I think) phones to tell me that he’s disappointed in my editing of his book. A word misspelt (‘sanatorium’) and a misleading sentence involving a mathematical formula (nothing wrong with the formula itself, which involved square roots and brackets and xs and ys, but the way the sentence was phrased). I remember this man, a bit: we talked, around three years ago, about his book. I didn’t copy-edit it. What I did recently was a simple typesetting job, re-running the text of the hardback edition for the new A-format paperback, and editing was not involved. I explain that I haven’t even read the book, except for for checking for bad word breaks and the like, and besides, the mistakes must have been there in the original text. But it is still my fault, apparently. And now he won’t be able to get me teaching work at Morley College of Education. I tell him even if he did, I’m so busy at present that I wouldn’t be able to do that job, which takes some of the wind out his sails (this is first time, I think, that I have ever used that expression, in either writing or speech), but he still maintains that I am in the wrong and he is the right.
Later, after I go back to sleep, another dream, a much nicer one this time, in which I become more than intimate with a woman I used to work with in the early 1980s in the copy-editing department at Time-Life. Where has she suddenly arrived from?
bookartbookshop
I went to bookartbookshop in Pitfield Street, just off Old Street tube station, because they’d asked to stock three copies of the Nick Wadley pamphlet, and they also took two copies – no, three, because someone bought one before I’d left the shop – of Days and Nights in W12, because it has images as well as text and so sneaks in. But they’re not averse to text: lots of, for example, Atlas Press books, Oulipo, Alfred Jarry, Raymond Roussel, etc. It’s a lovely shop, not least because everything’s displayed according to more arbitrary/inventive codes than basic alphabetical order. It’s hard to get out of that shop without buying. I failed. In other words, expenses exceeded income.
Which is generally the case. Twos and threes? Some double figures wouldn’t come amiss. Someone steer me out of this? See the last post, Vacancy. I’m serious.
Meanwhile: they still had, on the shelves at bookartbookshop, a couple of copies of Christopher Reid’s The Song of Lunch from when I last trekked in there. First edition, CBe, 2009. I brought them home. Buy five books from the website and write Lunch in the ‘instructions to merchant’ box in the check-through and I’ll add in one of these copies – a hike, I know, but these books are worth something: rare, very, and anyway I’m not officially allowed to sell them because Faber now have rights.
Meanwhile: CBe has committed to more titles for 2013 than in any previous year, and is about to agree on another that will be one of those books that define what the whole thing’s about.
Vacancy (or, teach me how to sell books)
Those who buy CBe books (Stendhal’s ‘happy few’?) know that they’re not buying from Random House. For good or ill, these words apply: niche, reticent (the brown card covers), amateurish (all the numbers are written down in a big red book, I’ve never made a spreadsheet in my life). A reason that CBe has survived for five years is that it is not a business: editing, design, typesetting and general running around are done on a voluntary basis, i.e. not costed against income. (On the other hand, the authors do get advances: pocket money, not enough to keep wolves from the door, but some recognition of an author’s dignity. I mention this only because the practice of not paying any advance at all seems to be spreading.) Another reason for survival is that a number of the books have had a good press. But you’d never guess that from the sales figures.
Sales, marketing and publicity are fields in which I’ve had zero experience. So, given that next year CBe will be publishing more titles than in any previous year, and I owe it to the authors, I’m intending to apply for funding to pay a part-time freelance Person in the coming year – a Person, ideally, who has kept track of the musical chairs of lit eds and knows without checking who is currently sitting in which seat; who knows how to bend their ears, and the ears of festival managers too; who can knock down the price for a decent reading venue, and then pull in enough people to fill it; who has a proven knack of getting books to new readers and persuading them they can’t not buy. A Person, in other words, who is not just enthusiastic about this form of publishing but who has experience (yet doesn’t mind operating out of kitchens and cafés, not an office). A Person who can set up contact networks and procedures that a less experienced other person may then be able to follow up and develop at a cost more sustainable by CBe itself.
If anyone happening to read this knows of such a Person, or has a friend of a friend who may know, give them the CBe email: info@cbeditions.com. Inquiries from retired bankers with literary interests and a willingness to fund parties will also be welcome.
Post-Aldeburgh
There’s a sign outside the café at Snape Maltings, which is where the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival was held this year, that tells you not to climb on the benches because you might fall off. There are a LOT of signs. It’s an arts centre, encompassing an array of different halls and studios and cafés and shops and car parks. The halls and the studios are lovely. The whole thing is six miles inland from Aldeburgh.
In its first year the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival was attended by a few hundred people; now in its 24th year, the attendance is around 5,000. (I’m not sure if that is number of people attending or number of ticket sales, which are very different things, but that’s still a big achievement.) This growth is itself the reason for the move from Aldeburgh to Snape – where the venues are more comfortable and can accommodate bigger audiences, where the whole thing has a more ‘professional’ sheen. No longer need the organisers apologise to the invited poets (a number of whom have travelled half the world to be here) for the buckets on the floor catching rainwater.
The move: good thing or bad? Me, I think they should have stayed in Aldeburgh, and fixed the roof. Among the things lost: after a reading, strolling directly onto the beach, or into the nearest pub or chip shop. The trestle tables stacked with books that were part of the set in the main reading hall, where you browsed as you chatted. The hugger-mugger of everyone being in one location (as opposed to, this year, swinging back and forth on the shuttle bus between Snape and Aldeburgh, where almost everyone staying for the weekend still lodged). Not least, and especially for townies, the SEA. But I’m not representative of the main audience the festival now attracts: regular lit&music-festival-goers, with cars, and with incomes that seem not to be severely dented by the price of tickets (£15 for a three-person reading, £7.50 for the half-hour slots, and these on top of travel and accommodation). It’s this audience that is growing, and that is quantifiable – in terms of numbers in columns on applications for funding. Neither the sea nor the old huggermuggerness can be counted in the same way.
Absolutely no criticism is implied here of those who put on the festival – who remain, as ever, wonderfully welcoming, friendly, adventurous and inventive in their programming, committed with all their hearts to the work they present, non-corporate. They themselves are a big part of the joy. There is at least this continuity. (In its 24 years, the festival has had just two directors, Michael Laskey and Naomi Jaffa.)
Little waves of idealism or contrariness are what small presses arise on, and probably festivals too, and if they’re to stay true to their roots most have a lifespan of no more than a decade. Aldeburgh has had an amazing and glorious run of over two decades. The tricky thing is the momentum of success, that it can – but doesn't have to? – put at risk the essential character of the enterprise.
Chocolate (and publishing)
The JC column in this week’s Times Lit Supplement gives a nice, and I hope helpful, mention to the new pamphlets. Five years ago I mentioned to JC that the design, indeed the whole mini-venture (inclusive of poetry, prose, whatever took my fancy), was modelled on Alan Ross’s London Magazine Editions of the late 1960s, early 1970s. But Ross, he said, did have this advantage: he married a chocolate heiress. (Have they all been snapped up?) I admit that the books might benefit from a push, the kind of push some chocolate money might facilitate, but I’ll admit too to a stubborn, even perverse satisfaction that the thing has survived for five years without any external funding.
Despite the presence of small-press books on the Forward and Booker shortlists this year, I don’t think anyone, rightly, has got round to defining what a small press IS: you just know one when you come across one. But talking about them, and what they are for, is fun, and anyone who wants to join in, please come to this event at the London Review Bookshop on Thrusday, 15 November at 7 p.m.: the panel has David Lea of the LR shop, Nicholas Lezard, Patrick McGuinness, Nicholas Murray of Rack Press, and me.
(I read a piece this week on James Laughlin, whose New Directions press, founded in 1936, published – in most cases for the first time in the US – Apollinaire, Djuna Barnes, Borges, Paul Bowles, Brecht, Camus, Céline, Lorca, Hesse, Jarry, Joyce, Kafka, Michaux, Henry Miller, Montale, Nabokov, Neruda, Pasternak, Paz, Queneau, Rilke, Sartre, Svevo, Valéry, etc. And brought back into print Henry James, Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Faulkner, etc. Plus poetry by Pound, Williams, Rexroth, Patchen, Oppen, Reznikoff, Olsen, Duncan, Creeley, Snyder, Levertov, etc. He didn’t turn a profit for ten years. He had steel money rather than chocolate money, but who’s fussing. As the writer points out, ‘Money is usually wasted on the rich’, but in this case not.)
Poet browsing, and a birthday
Beverley Bie Brahic in the Broadway Bookshop in Hackney last week; her own White Sheets – reviewed in this week’s TLS (‘Each poem reveals a glowing core underneath the tired formulas …’) lurks unnoticed on the shelf beside her. I hope Beverley doesn’t expect to find the book in every bookshop she might wander into, but this was a nice coincidence, and thank you to the Broadway Bookshop for stocking it.
There is, just about – otherwise they wouldn’t be still be happening – a niche readership for CBe books. I don’t especially like the word niche – it’s on a par with boutique – and readership neither, but, sticking with it for just this sentence, there are niches within niches, ever receding, and they can be hard to find. A few people discover the books while browsing in a flesh-and-blood bookshop, such as the Broadway. Some I can perhaps reach via Facebook, and a precious few through here. The categories don’t often overlap.
A new page on the website offers the three pamphlets – poems, prose, drawings – published this month to mark CBe’s fifth birthday (see below). For the incorrigibly curious, a couple of my own stories can be read online – here and here.
The Puritan ethic
The things you want to do and the things you think you should be doing . . . I’m English, my mother was a Methodist, and there’s this Puritan strain I subscribed to for a very long time: that pleasure is something to be earned, that work comes before play. But it doesn’t work like that: you do the work, and then there’s more work, and the pleasure gets deferred, squeezed out.
I’m getting better at this, a lot better, but this week I had a relapse: as well as sitting for two days ten-to-five in a very dull office (something I seem to have to signed up to), and paying some bills, and blah, I’ve typeset (and done a rough copy-edit on) four books (with footnotes, running heads, the works) that are not CBe books, and still, past midnight on Friday, I haven’t got round to the things I want to do. And now of course I’m too tired to do those things, so instead I go looking for a particular Hugo Williams poem.
I’ve found it. It’s called ‘Everyone Knows This’. He has at least two poems with that title, but this is the one I was looking for: ‘You get to your feet, having accumulated / one nice and one nasty thing to do / and do the nice thing first.’ Yes.
Years ago I photocopied this poem from a magazine. I still like it very much. ‘Half-Sized Violin’ by Yehuda Amichai, translated by Chana Bloch:
I sat in the playgound where I played as a child.
The child went on playing in the sand. His hands went on
making pat-pat, then dig then destroy,
then pat-pat again.
Between the trees that little house is still standing
where the high voltage hums and threatens.
On the iron door a skull and crossbones: another
old childhood acquaintance.
When I was nine they gave me
a half-sized violin and half-sized feelings.
Sometimes I’m still overcome by pride
and a great joy: I already know
how to dress and undress
all by myself.
Today I received a letter from a local company (someone must have tipped them off) that begins: ‘Dear Mr Boyle, Imagine having someone available to help you with day-to-day tasks you struggle with such as cooking, cleaning or getting dressed . . .’
PS – There’s a new review of Andrzej Bursa’s Killing Auntie on the Book Sbob blog. The word missed out in line 3 of the short poem she quotes is ‘bladder’.
Reviews of Brahic and Gaffield
An online review this week of Berverly Bie Brahic’s White Sheets (shortlisted for this year’s Forward Prize): ‘Brahic’s poems are lyrics of various residences. Shifts of place in White Sheets follow her trajectory of living abroad, through French, Italian, American, and Irish locales. Her shifts are more thorough than that, though . . . In addition to poetic shape-shifting, subtle confrontations often lurk deceptively behind the ordinary. The title poem “White Sheets” opens Brahic’s collection, and its epigram, Airstrike hits wedding party, creates tension in what appears to be the everyday – a domestic scene troubled only by the anxiety of one line against the ominous instinctive movements of the woman collecting laundry . . . In some poems, such as “The Annunciations”, a change in point of view may result in intrusion, but Brahic rejoices, as Bellini does, in what is divulged . . . The rhythms of her lines are disturbed almost imperceptibly with dashes, parentheticals, and lacunae as object (or subject) resists. Here as elsewhere, Brahic scrutinizes, offers us a language of post-exposure reparation.’
This week’s TLS has a belated review of Nancy Gaffield’s Tokaido Road, which won last year’s Aldeburgh First Collection Prize: ‘Employing a variety of stanza forms and the prose poem, Tokaido Road invites the reader, poem by delicately delineated poem, to enter the old scenes as well as the poet’s mind and if, at first reading, the poems feel quiet and meditative, we learn to spot each slight ripple of emotion . . . Gaffield’s collection is a fascinating fusion of Western and Eastern art by someone who is respectful of both.’
Who’d’ve thought?
Congratulations to Salt for the Booker shortlisting of Alison Moore’s The Lighthouse. Half the books on that shortlist are from small independent publishers. Half the books on the Forward Prize shortlists are from ditto.
Cue some generalising statement about the increasing prominence of small presses on the big stages, but I’ll resist that temptation. The joy/frustration of the whole business is its unpredictability. Among the feedback comments on last Saturday’s Free Verse book fair are some pointing out that those publishers with tables on the upper floor were at a disadvantage, as a number of potential buyers never made it upstairs – yet the highest sales so far reported were from an upstairs table. There are comments too about styles of selling, suggesting that it’s not enough for publishers to just lay out the books and then sit behind the table and wait – yet the CBe table, staffed through the whole day by volunteers who hadn’t read the books and couldn’t answer questions, sold far more than last year.
Brooke Sharkey (above), who at last year’s book fair sang to a listening, attentive audience, this year could hardly be heard above the continuing talk and movement. She didn’t mind, she’s used to this. There’ve been times, she says, when she’s sung to an appreciative audience of several hundred, who’ve then bought the music, and then the next day she’s busking and everyone walks straight past.
Q: Which title is third in the rankings of CBe books sold to date in this financial year? A: ‘Not So Barren or Uncultivated’: British Travellers in Finland 1760–1830. Another volume, covering 1830 to 1917, is planned for later this year.
After the book fair
For me, the joy of last year’s event was that no one knew what to expect, and the consequent surprise when it all seemed to work – something that couldn’t be replicated for a repeat show. Does this explain my slight feeling of anticlimax, dissatisfaction? Something of that, something to do with how lousy I am at organising myself – far too much bell-ringing, and checking of watch for the half-hours, with result that I hardly got to graze, even to see, many of the tables, let alone the people behind them. There were particular tables I’d been looking forward to – Like This Press, for one – but I never got round to. Apologies to those people. My loss.
Among the things that worked, I think:
- The volunteers: brilliant, they just sensed what needed doing and got on and did it. It was hugely important that the publishers who made the effort – in many cases a long-range effort, involving hours and hours of travel – weren’t stuck behind their tables all day: a main thing the volunteers were there for was to take up the reins, let the publishers wander. This happened, and could happen more, could be pushed further. (It’s the books that matter, not who’s behind the table; I wasn’t once behind the CBe table myself, not even for a few minutes, but 40 books were sold.) One of the volunteers, unprompted, took a wadge of programmes and went out onto the street to lure strangers: necessary, and brave.
- The venue: the space afforded much better display room for the publishers than last year; on a hot day, the courtyard café space was perfect; the readings room – right size, not blandly functional.
- The range of publishers: as Ross Bradshaw says on his own Five Leaves blog, ACE support enabled us to ‘pay the fares of out of London presses. And this meant many presses that could not have afforded a train fare and stall hire were represented. So as well as being the biggest gathering of presses, this was probably the most representative, with people from Manchester, Norwich, Edinburgh, Hastings, Bristol, Bridgend - everywhere, really, including three from Nottingham.’ And one from Belgium. And A Midsummer Night’s Press, from (I think) New York via Spain, and selling another 40 books.
(Parenthesis: the point was, and still is, the full range. ((Sub-parenthesis: introducing Christopher Reid to open the day, I did manage to stutter the word inimitable, but on the way lost the word I’d wanted: indivisible. Reid has published with OUP, Faber, and with Arete, Rack, Prospero, Ondt & Gracehoper, etc. One world.)) We invited Picador, and got enthusiasm, and they came. We invited Cape: prevarication over whether the table hire should come out of the sales or the marketing budget, and that’s where it stuck. We invited Faber, since before last Christmas: unanswered emails and phone messages, and twice when we got through were told they’d have a meeting and would ‘get back’. Huh. Someone finally phones in late August from one of their branded offshoots, Faber Factory, which represents Bloodaxe and Carcanet as well as Faber, and wants a table, but there’s going to be some difficulty staffing that table, I should understand, because the fair is on a Saturday. Bless.)
Among the things that didn’t work:
- Too much bell-ringing, as I’ve mentioned. We can sort this.
- More people came than last year, many more, but still more would have been good. The more publishers participating, the more there is, as Ross Bradshaw neatly puts it in his blog post, ‘competition for sales’. At the very least, every single person from the growth industry of creative-writing courses has to feel it necessary to come. Has to want to come. (Unless books are bought, publishers kept alive, their work won’t see daylight.)
- The workshops, run by the Poetry School and taking place in the upstairs cafe, were sold out long before the day and though those taking part also called by downstairs, I hope, the workshops were not integrated into the main event.
We’ll be sending out forms asking for feedback from the presses who took part: what was bad, what was good, how much sales, how better, etc.
The photos above are courtesy of Véronique Dubois – see more on Flickr and contact her if you want to use any of them. I’ve an inkling to make the second one the signature photo: for the infant clinging, for the fine red dress, for the lovely Donut Press books in the foreground. Beneath that one, Eddie Linden. The last one shows a buyer getting out her cash while the seller looks bashfully away - many of us are embarrassed by money, while at the same time in desperate need of it.
There are more photos – of wine & ham as well as books & poets – on Helena Nelson’s HappensStance blog. There’s another report on Todd Swift’s Eyewear blog. The latter needs this essential correction: while I’ve been humming old tunes in the background, it was Chrissy Williams who took the lead on organising this year’s book fair, single-handedly battling the railway networks and spurring the whole thing on. She could run the whole country. She has better things to do.
Free Verse 2012: why?
IF independent bookshops were thriving up and down the land; and if Amazon et el – rather than mashing smaller presses in their systems and charging them the earth for the privilege – had some fine-toothed gears to help get their books to readers; and if the internet had an add-on that enabled you browse books in your hands before committing; and if the Net Book Agreement was still in force; and if everyone who sent poems to a press actually bought a book from that press . . .
THEN the book fair might not be needed at all and we could all have a long lie-in tomorrow.
Candid Arts, EC1V 1NQ, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free, the readings too.
Did I mention that there’ll be Spanish ham, and clothespegs, and that Brooke Sharkey, the busker who stepped into last year’s fair and onto the stage, will be back again? And cards too, of drawings including the one above, by Nick Wadley.
They organise these matters better in France and Germany, where laws limiting the discounting of books both restrict the power of companies that deal in mass volumes of sales to overwhelm the smaller fry and also help sustain a wide variety of independent bookshops. In America, amazon.com doles out grants every year to a large number of small presses and literary groups. In the UK we had Jeremy Hunt, and now we have Maria Miller.
Other things that might help the smaller presses survive:
- book tokens valid for buying from a range of small presses (probably an online venture: you have an account into which money is gifted and from which you buy from the websites of the participating presses);
- local bookshops hosting small presses on a couple of tables on occasional Saturdays, with all sales through the bookshop’s till;
- partner bookshops, which commit to ordering all a press’s new titles, and probably some backlist too, in return for a negotiated discount.
At tomorrow’s book fair there’ll be a book on the welcome desk in which you can write comments and add your name to the mailing list. Do feel free to go on a bit. Should the book fair last longer than one day? Is London the right place for it? Should it include all publishers, irrespective of size? Should it include fiction as well as poetry? Etc.
Exit stage right, enter stage left
The desk has an abandoned look about it. It’s no longer mine, not that it ever was mine to begin with: I was sitting in, I was a temp. That bundle is the printer’s proofs of the autumn issue of Poetry Review, with a few yellow stickies peeping out – there’s always some of those (imagine being Arthur Fry, inventor of the Post-It note) – and the magazine has now gone to press.
Coming home, as I was going down the long escalator at Holborn tube, I saw a poet I haven’t seen for months ascending on the up-escalator. We went for coffee. Why hadn’t I asked him for a poem? A poem of his, a good one, would have fitted this issue fine. Too late. But overall, no regrets. It’s out of my hands now, and in a couple of weeks’ time will belong to its readers.
Meanwhile, next Saturday, the 8th: the Free Verse 2012 Poetry Book Fair at Candid Arts, London EC1V 1NQ – another thing about to be put into the world, and that will belong on Saturday to whoever comes. Please do.
Grace Paley (1922–2007): ‘Then the flowers became very wild / because it was early September / and they had nothing to lose’
More from Colloquial Persian, 1941: I’ve just noticed that there are ‘exercises’ at the end of each chapter. (Homework, perhaps, in the same way that in the early 60s I had to translate sentences into Latin: ‘O Labienus, I have been wounded by an arrow.’)
‘Sit down here; now tell me, what did you see on the road?’
‘Sir, I was asleep in the back of the car; I saw nothing.’
‘You always tell lies; the road has many holes – how could you sleep?’
‘The sale of cigarettes in Iran is in the hands of a monopoly.’
‘Which of these houses do you prefer?’
‘I have no choice, sir; whichever you order.’
‘I am surprised that no one has seen this mistake.’
‘I hope the weather will be better tomorrow; it is not usually like this in spring.’
‘If I had known that it would be like this, I would never have come here.’
‘Good heavens, what has happened to this meat?’
When I was teaching English in Egypt in the 1970s there were taxi-drivers who spoke a perfectly preserved 1940s/1950s English – which they’d learned as batmen to officers in the British army, before Nasser arrived and kicked out the British. Above is a scan from ‘Conversations’ section of Colloquial Persian by L. P. Elwell-Sutton, first published in 1941 (‘… there is a growing realisation among careful students of foreign affairs that the new Iran is a portent of some significance in the Middle East of today. In part this is due to its strategic importance, in part to its importance as an oil producer …’) and picked up in a second-hand bookshop. Below are bits of some of the Conversations (‘intended to improve the student’s command of vocabulary and colloquial expressions’).
(At the end of his preface, by the way, L. P. Elwell-Sutton thanks his wife, ‘who patiently undertook many of the more arduous duties involved’. When I worked at Faber only a few years ago, it was not at all uncommon for male authors to thank their wives for doing the indexing, the filing, the permissions letters, etc.)
‘What is the matter with this house-boy? Why is he shouting?’
‘He is fighting with the cook; I don’t know what is the matter.’
‘Then tell him to come and do his work; there is a lot of dust on this table.’
‘Would you like anything, sir?’
‘Yes, bring me a glass of beer.’
‘How many workmen are here?’
‘Only twenty-five have come; those other three have not arrived in time.’
‘All right, put these pipes on the lorry.’
‘What are you doing? Do you need eight men for one pipe?’
‘Driver, take this lorry to the top of the hill. Ten men go with it.’
‘What is wrong? I have done nothing.’
‘You are right, but here you must work or go.’
‘Look out! Get out of the way! That pipe is falling!’
‘I want to go to Isfahan: how can it be done?’
‘Do you want to go by taxi or by charabanc?’
‘What is the hire of a taxi?’
‘A taxi is going this afternoon in which there is room.’
‘The hire of one seat is 75 rials.’
‘But I cannot start today.’
‘Then, if you want a whole taxi to yourself, the hire will be 300 rials.’
‘Isn’t there a charabanc tomorrow?’
‘Yes, there is a charabanc; the cost of one seat is only 20 rials. But it is not comfortable.’
In camp
‘Sir, this stove was in the lorry and has got broken. What shall we do for supper?’
‘Sir, however much we have searched, we have not found the spades.’
‘The sky is very cloudy; I think it will rain directly.’
‘Then go and pitch the tents quickly. Why are you standing there?’
‘Sir, we don’t know where our kit has gone; perhaps we left it in the town.’
‘Sir, I am feeling very ill; please give me a little medicine.’
‘Now all of you go to sleep, and be ready for work at seven in the morning.’
‘Supper is ready, sir.’
‘Thank goodness. Good heavens, what has happened to this meat?’
Triangular thing with flanges
Above is what holds the shelves together / fixes them to the sides / allows the tilt. The thing I was trying to tell Ken Edwards about in the comments to the post below the one below.
When I was around ten I had a French teacher who, having given us certain vocab, asked us to describe - orally, and in French - something three-dimensional - a spiral staircase, say - without using our hands. This is, I think, a fine teaching technique. It's a tricky thing to do. (Almost as tricky as writing a blurb, which I'm trying and failing to do today.) One of the reasons I enjoy my local hardware shop is overhearing customers trying to describe to Clare, wonderfully patient behind the counter, the specific fixture or fitting they want, and which they don't have the technical name for. I'd like to be in the hardware shop in Hastings when Ken goes in (for two shelves you'll need four of these). Copying and printing out the above photo is cheating.
‘Sitting at a desk with my feet up / on the bottom drawer, reading manuscripts’ – the opening lines of Louis Simpson’s poem ‘Publishing Days’. This is still my default position. Sometimes with the feet a bit higher (above, this morning). Sometimes my toenails need a trim.
(Remember the notion of the ‘paperless office’? Wikipedia cites a journal using this phrase in 1975, then another journal reporting that worldwide use of office paper more than doubled between 1980 and 2000. Bookless publishers? Unlikely. It’s not as if books are going to just go away.)
The CBe website has no submission guidelines, so what comes in is a mix of email attachments and hard copy, sample pages and whole books, which is fine, but if I’m going read anything – as opposed to skim onscreen to decide whether or not I do want to read it – then I need it on paper. Resting your feet on is what bottom drawers, windowsills too, are for.
A holding post, a thing of bits and pieces.
Above is a bookfair display shelf I knocked up the other day. One hour, pretty much, inclusive of the trip to the hardware shop, and a tenner for all materials. It comes apart and folds flat, almost. I should market these. One of the delights of running a press, a tiny one, is that, in addition to the text, there is manual labour involved – lifting, carrying, lugging boxes from one place to another, the envelope-stuffing and the trips to the post office, with the above as an optional extra. This may be why I have no interest in ebooks. (I’m not against them. That would be plain silly. Everyone please enjoy them. It’s just that I can’t see I’m going to get any pleasure at all from producing them.)
(The increasing absence of physical labour in most people’s lives – it’s why sport has taken the place it has in the culture, no? Why we pay the footballers millions. Sweat, physical exhaustion – Villiers de L’Isle Adam: ‘As for living, our servants will do that for us.’ Now the athletes. Yeats quoted that in an essay from which here’s another quote: ‘We have grown jealous of the body.’ The stereotypical English suspicion of ‘intellectuals’ is not something I laugh at: why aren’t they carrying things, making things?)
The autumn issue of Poetry Review is almost to bed – some proof queries to be resolved, the cover to be approved – and the Poetry Society has started Facebook come-on posts. It’s by no means perfect, and it’s certainly not a revolution, but I’m pleased with it. To say that editing it has been a form a journalism – deadlines, frustrations with time and wordcounts – is not to put it down at all. All jobs (prime minister, roadsweeper) are there to be done well, or not. I’ll just mention here that the lead poem – a spot traditionally given to X or Y, some known name – is in this issue by someone I’d never heard of before I opened his envelope, and who is not primarily a poet. This is not a conspicuous thing, and I don’t want it to be, but it pleases me.
Free Verse 2012: the poetry book fair. Countdown is now in weeks, days. Those who’ve been following will know that this got started last year: a late-night hunch that it would be nice to get the presses affected by the Arts Council cuts together in a room, to show what they were doing, and which ended up with 22 presses crammed into a church hall with an impromptu set by a busker from the street outside and a readings programme put together by Chrissy Williams. Somehow – not by deliberate intention – this year’s event is set to be biggest of its kind in London for some time, perhaps ever. 50 publishers, the national poetry organisations, readings, workshops. Chrissy has been magnificent. We have some ACE funding, most of which has gone on travel costs for the presses travelling from afar. (Neither Chrissy nor I are taking a cent: no nobility here, it’s simply that this is how most of the presses themselves operate, and to have the event run by paid administrators would be counter to the spirit.) The fearsome thing is this: because we don’t have previous access to the venue, at 9 a.m. on the 8 September there will be nothing, not even tables or chairs, no posters or signs, and by 10 a.m. there will have to be everything. Whether this works or not will depend on, first, volunteer helpers (we have some wonderful ones committed, but more welcome; email poetrybookfair@gmail.com; £10 expenses paid); and, second, whether folk come along and stick around and chat and buy.
CB editions. A poem from Stephen Knight’s new book, The Prince of Wails, will be in Saturday’s Guardian. In November there will be three pamphlets, exclusive from the website, to mark the odd fact that CBe will have been alive for five years – again, not by deliberate intention: there was never a business plan, and there still isn’t. Given a fair wind, six manuscripts now on my desk will make it to book next year. No more, please.
Last year I sent a short story to a friend for comment. The last line was a character saying, ‘I have other things to do.’ He told me to cut that line. I have done. But I do have other things to do, such as earning a living. Or writing. Or reading, or listening to music, or staring at the ceiling. Much of the above – CBe, the book fair – is distraction activity; this is a luxury position, I know, but much of what I do to earn money feels also, even while being financially necessary, like distraction activity. Jobs, ‘work’, need some redefining, way beyond the unemployment statistics. I keep meaning to read more Richard Sennett.
Post-Olympics
Robinson, above, in the men’s changing area of the pools on Hampstead Heath on Saturday. He went in the water, he puttered about, he didn’t win any medals but he felt good.
The so-called feel-good factor has been around in plenty these past weeks. Medals help, but the main thing has been the smiles, not least on the faces of those who’ve won the medals: people dedicated to their chosen sports to a fanatical degree but who, put in front of the camera, turn out to be the girl-next-door, the boy-next-door. The £9.3 billion, the corporate sponsorship, the blanking-out of dissent, are one thing, the expressions on the faces another. And the smiles are infectious.
This is what they – those with the billions to spend – were gambling on. And they won. The competitors, and the volunteers, swung it. In fact as long as they kept drugs out of it, and ensured the money was going into structural support rather than directly into the pockets of the athletes, they couldn’t lose. The faces, but the bodies too: gorgeous ones, bodies at their peak, showing what extreme and sometimes bizarre things they are capable of. The Olympics are a celebration of the body, and there’s nothing unlovely in that (next time they’re in London, can there please be a poet-in-residence in the Olympic village, and can Robinson apply?). And I have no problem at all with government (my, your) money going into the promotion of beautiful bodies, especially in a culture where a joke in the early days of the Games seemed valid: that the Brits won medals only in sports where they were sitting down. As long as someone up there – someone at the table where they talk about the 'legacy' – remembers that there are also such things as beautiful minds, which are not less lovely but not as tele-genic as beautiful bodies, and which therefore, for their development, to enable them to get even near what they may be capable of, may need even more structural support.
The Gaberbocchus Press
This afternoon, invited by Jasia Reichardt and Nick Wadley, I went round to the Themerson Archive to talk about what books might be on the Gaberbocchus Press table at the Free Verse book fair on 8 September. If the name’s unfamiliar, the draft of a note about Gaberbocchus, to go into the book-fair programme, is below. I have a list of around 30 books – all rare, out-of-print editions – plus cards and catalogues, which will be not just on display but for sale. This is a piece of history; for book addicts, it’s a pretty exciting piece of history.
The Gaberbocchus Press – named after a Latin translation of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’ – was founded by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson in 1948 in London and ran until 1979. All publications were individually designed, on the principle that design should be an expression of content. Their titles, many of them illustrated by Franciszka, included work by Kurt Schwitters, Raymond Queneau, C. H. Sisson, Bertrand Russell, Anatol Stern, Stevie Smith, novels by Stefan Themerson and drawings by Franciszka, and the first English translation (1951) of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi by Barbara Wright – who wrote the text directly onto litho plates, on which Franciszka then drew 204 illustrations. Franciszka Themerson’s continuing involvement with Ubu Roi culminated in a comic-strip version (1967–70) comprising 90 one-metre-long drawings.
The Themersons’ films included a 10-minute anti-war film denouncing the destruction of Polish national culture under the Nazis, and a translation of sound into images based on four songs by Szymanowski. Both Stefan and Franciszka Themerson died in 1988.
The Themerson Archive, maintained by Jasia Reichardt and Nick Wadley, comprises books, manuscripts, drawings, paintings, films, photographs, audio tapes, cards, posters and memorabilia. For anyone interested in the history of small-press achievements, it is one of the richest resources in the UK.
Flyers, press release, readings programme, etc, for the book fair will be available next week.
Robinson: a rare photo
Here is Robinson doing exactly what the second Weldon Kees quote in the post below says he is doing, admiring the elephant.
The pages in the books are blank,
The books that Robinson has read. That is his favorite chair,
Or where the chair would be if Robinson were here.
All day the phone rings. It could be Robinson
Calling. It never rings when he is here.
(Weldon Kees, ‘Robinson’)
Jack Robinson, author of Days and Nights in W12 and Recessional, didn’t come out of just nowhere. Robinson is in Céline’s Journey to the End of Night (1932), a sort of alter-ego of Bardamu, the main autobiographical character. He returns, also alter-ego-ish, in the poems of Weldon Kees (1914–55), who himself didn’t so much die as disappear: his car was found abandoned near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and there have been reported sightings. Kees’s Robinson reappears in poems by Simon Armitage. In Chris Petit’s 1993 novel Robinson he’s a a Soho fixer, dealer and pornographer. He’s back again in three films by Patrick Keiller, London (1994), Robinson in Space (1997; the above image from this film) and Robinson in Ruins (2010), in which – quote from the Tate website on a current exhibition at Tate Britain entitled ‘The Robinson Institute’ – ‘a fictional, unseen scholar Robinson undertakes exploratory journeys around England’. (An LRB piece on that exhibition describes Keiller’s practice as combining ‘extremely laconic imagery … with more or less ironised, more or less fictional, increasingly erudite voiceovers’ – which could also apply to Days and Nights in W12.) I doubt we’ve seen the last of Robinson. From Kees, ‘Aspects of Robinson’:
Robinson walking in the Park, admiring the elephant.
Robinson buying the Tribune, Robinson buying the Times. Robinson
Saying, “Hello. Yes, this is Robinson. Sunday
At five? I’d love to. Pretty well. And you?”
About time I praised the postman, and the whole UK postal service behind him. On Wednesday afternoon I posted a copy of BBB’s White Sheets to an address in Wales, on Thursday morning I got an email from the addressee: ‘It’s very good and I’m ½ way through it.’ For various reasons Royal Mail – like the NHS, the schools, you name it – seems to be generally viewed as in crisis. But it works. And my postman is friendly and so are the folk at the post office and as far as I know the system has never, ever, lost anything I’ve sent or been sent. And of course it’s responsible, in an earlier incarnation, for arguably the best poetry commission of the last century, Auden’s 1936 ‘Night Mail’ – link to YouTube here.
Reviews. There’ll be many people who’ll be disappointed that their book isn’t reviewed in the autumn issue of Poetry Review. It’s odd how most authors assume a review will be a good one. The one review to date, in the The Warwick Review, of Miha Mazzini’s The German Lottery, isn’t going to sell many copies: ‘. . . an interesting comic novel. And it will make an excellent film.’ It’s worth more than that.
More than a year and a half after its publication, J. O. Morgan’s Long Cuts has a review in this week’s TLS, concluding thus: ‘Long Cuts is a book of human connections and missed opportunities, of love and missed opportunities to show love, and is as compressed, free-flowing, rambunctious, tender and at times unapologetically unrefined as its predecessor.’ (The predecessor being, of course, Natural Mechanical.) Much better. Thank you, Rory Waterman.
Will that review help to sell the book? What does sell copies? What is the meaning of life? I’m ticking the don’t-know box. Prize shortlistings? Last year, when D. Nurkse’s Voices over Water was shortlisted for the main Forward prize along with some well-known names, Waterstones immediately phoned the warehouse and ordered the 90 in stock and I was scurrying around. This year, when Beverley Bie Brahic’s White Sheets was also shortlisted for the main Forward prize, but among (apart from Geoffrey Hill) some far less-known names, no phone call, no surge in sales. Booksellers (whose job is to sell, not read) tend to like lists of familiar names, maybe spiced with the occasional unknown.
This morning I took two boxes of books to the Central warehouse in Hackney Wick, across a canal from the Olympics site. A couple of police cars were cruising the empty streets, a man drunk at 8 a.m. was looking for someone to argue with. Quiet days.
I arrived back home as the postman was delivering the programme for the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in November, which will feature CBe poets Nancy Gaffield (winner of last year’s Aldeburgh First Collection Prize) and, over from the US, D. Nurkse. Also Christopher Reid and a screening of the film of The Song of Lunch, first published in book form by CBe. Aldeburgh, like the post, works. White Sheets on the Forward shortlist comes out of Christopher Reid and Beverley Bie Brahic happening to have breakfast together in Aldeburgh a few years ago, and the name Francis Ponge coming up in conversation, which led to BBB’s CBe Ponge book and then her Apollinaire book and then . . .
‘We’ll get back to you’
Things are bubbling along. The autumn issue of Poetry Review is pretty well sealed up: a tight fit, more than tight, even after cuts and slashes. Flyers etc for the Free Verse bookfair will be done next week, as also the sorting out of the readings programme for that day – and here again, because there is no possible way that all the proposals for readings put forward by the presses can possibly be fitted in, there will have to be – as I’m sure Cameron has said, and Brown before him, and Blair too – tough choices. A lot of people will be disappointed.
Extras at the book fair (none of these will eat into the time available for the readings) will include workshops run by Daljit Nagra and Nancy Campbell, put on in association with the Poetry School and held in the sublime setting of the upstairs café at Candid Arts, the bookfair venue. Links to those here and here. Also (not finally confirmed, but hoping) a set by Brooke Sharkey, who at last year’s book fair in Exmouth Market came in from busking on the street to go up on the stage.
CBe is pleased and proud this week to learn that Beverley Bie Brahic’s White Sheets is shortlisted for the 2012 Forward Prize. If you go to the foot of the Books page on the CBe website, you can buy White Sheets and Brahic’s translations of Francis Ponge and of Apollinaire all for £20.
The Forward shortlists, both for the main prize and the first-collection prize, have been greeted with some delight and surprise. One Faber book on the first-collection list; nothing from Cape or Picador. This may be timely. There’s an arrogance in certain places that could do with taking a knock. Wanting the Free Verse book fair to be inclusive, to show the whole range, we invited Picador, Cape and Faber. Picador eventually replied, and it looks like they’ll be there. Emails to Cape were not replied to; eventually I got through to someone in sales who was interested but said the table hire would have to come out of the marketing and not the sales budget, and gave me another number; despite messages left on an answerphone, the trail went dead. With Faber, more unanswered emails; I’ve been asking them since before Christmas; they’d need to have a ‘meeting’, they eventually said, before they could decide; that meeting still hasn’t taken place, or if it has they haven’t bothered to tell me.
Status report (Poetry Review, autumn issue)
You start a new job and to begin with you’re a little befuddled because the where, how, who and when (now) cloud the what, never mind the why, and maybe you force things a bit and in doing so make mistakes, of course you do, but in time the wheres & the hows etc recede and the what begins to reveal itself, the thing you had been stumbling towards without it ever being clearly in view, with the why in tow.
That’s where I am. There’s a schedule for this thing and the first date on it is today, 10 July: ‘handover poems’. Poems have been handed over. Reviews and essays have been handed over too (well, most of them). With the result that I’ve spent much of this afternoon doing things I haven’t done, digging down into the layers that for weeks and weeks have been covered by poems and finding (on the desk) bills that should have been paid ages ago, and (on the window sill) books that have been eaten by snails.
Pains: saying no to certain poems. There is only so much room; there may in fact be not enough room for everything I’ve said yes too, but we’ll deal with that little crisis when it announces itself. Joys: asking for material (mainly for the reviews/essays, but for the poetry pages too) and receiving what I hadn’t quite expected to receive. I tend to want to do everything, and therefore for this magazine to do everything too, while knowing it can’t, and one of the incoming contributions unwittingly gave me a perspective on how to resolve that in my own head, so that I’m happy now with both the what and the why.
Meanwhile, up above is a photo (of Brighton graffiti) by Ken Garland of which I recently bought a print. I floated this as an image for the flyers for the Free Verse book fair but was told it was too scary, it would put people off. I’m not so sure; I think she may be having a very good time indeed. But more attention to the book fair is now needed. As for the Poetry Review issue, an awful lot of trust is involved (others of me, me of me too) and some of it will turn out to have been misplaced, but it will be fine, will be more than fine.
I’ve just had my eyes washed by some emotional joy at the wit & grit & skill & passion of some teenage poets from Leeds – in the film We Are Poets, which focuses on a made trip by a group of them to poetry slam event in the US. For the pre-title slow-motion sequence with voice-over, see here.
Meanwhile, back in the polite little, tight little world of books, this: someone went into a branch of Blackwells, seeking J. O. Morgan’s Natural Mechanical. It wasn’t on the shelves, even though the system said it was. And the second book, Long Cuts? They explained that they don’t order a second book unless the first book has sold a certain numbers of copies in a year. The search for the first continued; it was found; it had fallen off the back of the shelf, so was invisible to any browser. Moral: persist, insist. What you’re looking for may not be visible, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.
On Dai Vaughan, and editing
An obituary of Dai Vaughan – author of Sister of the Artist, published by CBe in February – is in today’s Independent: see here. Another piece, mainly on Dai’s work as a film editor, here.
Meanwhile, I might warm a little – doubtful, but who knows – to Alan Sugar if just occasionally, after firing one of his would-be apprentices, he’d admit that on a different day he might have fired a different one, with just as good/bad reasons. This week I’m making the final selection of poems for the autumn Poetry Review. Wobbly heaps; return envelopes coming un-paperclipped and falling off the back of the desk. That’s the least of it.
There’s a yes pile and a no pile, and there were two maybe piles, now amalgamated into one but it still keeps changing shape and size. Poems call across to one another. One from the maybe pile veers towards the no, then suddenly switches direction and heads for the yes. They are laughing at me. The maybe pile is deeply interesting; sometimes, out of pure curiosity, I google a name I’m not familiar with and discover more.
To have the riches of the internet at my fingertips makes the messy process of hard-copy submissions (with covering letters and stamped addressed envelopes for return) seem even more antiquated than it actually is – and also, of course, raises the question of what a slim quarterly print magazine is for, what it can even begin to attempt to do. When photography arrived, some folk thought painting was dead, and they were wrong. Neither is online/print an either/or. The internet doesn’t make Poetry Review redundant; it does require it to think about its function, about what things it can do that the net can’t, and having this transitional phase of a series of guest-editors may be timely.
Dai V, incidentally, was (as well as a novelist and poet) a film editor. Among several tributes quoted in the Independent obituary, there is this: ‘No matter how hard I studied just how he had achieved such a perfectly natural flow, rhythm and emotional development in a sequence, it remained somehow beyond precise comprehension – it was always so simple, unostentatious and yet so perfect.’
On modesty
The job of writers, it seems now to be accepted, includes promoting themselves and their wonderfulness on Facebook and blogs and in all other possible ways. No: the job of a writer is simply to write.
On the day in February when I took round to Dai Vaughan the printed copies of Sister of the artist, he suggested I call by his local bookshop, where he’d been a regular customer over a long time and which might take a couple of copies for the shop. I went there and mentioned his name and they were clearly fond of him. I showed the book. ‘He’s a writer?’ They hadn’t known.
From Tony Lurcock’s introduction to his book ‘Not So Barren or Uncultivated’: British Travellers in Finland 1760–1830, published by CBe in 2010: ‘It is by no means necessary to read the introduction to enjoy the contents of the book, nor need the book be read chronologically, in full, or indeed at all.’
Modesty is not the same as reticence, can still partake of a flourish. Tony Lurcock pointed me to this, from a travel book published in 1848: ‘In thus presenting to you what you are likely to meet with on the road, this unpretending volume may afford some little guidance, and therefore to you, indulgent reader, I dedicate it. Conscious that brighter and more lasting constellations dazzle around with superior radiance, I nevertheless venture to launch it – like some tiny fire-balloon, into the wide world of starry night, feeling assured that the blast of criticism would be its destruction; but, if favoured with approving zephyrs, it may be wafted on for a brief season, affording some glimmer of light to the passing traveller on his way.’
Poetry Olympics, the Horovitz version
Yesterday evening at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London Michael Horovitz put on one of the events that have been running for many years under the title Poetry Olympics (Horovitz’s title, not anyone else’s, and nothing to with the poetry events coming up soon on the South Bank that form part of the cultural add-on to the Olympic Games). Poets and musicians of all stripes and colours and ages. I’m not going to list them here, partly because it’s too late now to use those names to make you interested enough to buy a ticket, mainly because in the end the sum was greater than the parts: the whole thing cohered, and was seamless while also offering huge variety. Timing was relaxed but controlled: each participant finished leaving you wanting more. Those contributing included a 32-piece band with a wild mix of instruments; as they played, sometimes one of the musicians would come forward and do a solo, and then he/she would merge back into the group and another would step forward. All the performers yesterday were part of one band.
What I’ve just described is very similar to what Terry Eagleton offers as ‘an image of the good life’ in his book (in the Oxford ‘Very Short Introduction’ series) The Meaning of Life: an improvising jazz group, in which ‘the collective harmony they fashion comes not from playing a collective score, but from the free musical expression of each member acting as the basis for the free expression of the others. As each player grows more musically eloquent, the others draw inspiration from this . . . There is no conflict here between freedom and the “good of the whole”, yet the image is the reverse of totalitarian . . . One could do worse, surely, than propose such a situation as the meaning of life – both in the sense that it is what makes life meaningful, and – more controversially – in the sense that when we act in this way, we realise our natures at our finest.’
Eagleton goes on: ‘Is jazz, then, the meaning of life? Not exactly. The goal would be to construct this kind of community on a wider scale, which is a problem of politics. It is, to be sure, a utopian aspiration, but it is none the worse for that. The point of such aspirations is to indicate a direction, however lamentably we are bound to fall short of the goal . . .’ I think this is what Horovitz is about. Seriously and playfully (the two go together; if they don't, something has gone wrong). I don't think he's naive or sentimental in the slightest. At the beginning of yesterday evening’s event he tripped over trailing cables and fell spectacularly, but he’s not going to be put off by a few bruises, and watching him perform and enabling others to perform – both – is inspiring.
PS. In the audience yesterday was Emily, a neighbour, whose father was a poet. Here’s a verse from George Buchanan’s Minute-Book of a City, published 40 years ago:
Absence of ideas in the Cabinet. Dust fell
from the ceiling in a slow shower. They rang and sent
for another basket of statistics. Could no one find
the document that would increase the amount of hope?
The poets’ message read: ‘If we’re to avoid disaster
it may be enough to make existence attractive.’
The Prime Minister walked crossly to the window.
‘Pleasure? Are they cuckoo?’ He smacked one
clenched hand into another. ‘We must be tough!’
There’s also online editing, or more specifically the editing of Wikipedia. Someone with editing privileges doctored the short entry on myself last week: I am now, within the article, ‘A42’, and I published the novel 24 for 3 ‘under the pseudonym Bill Nye’.
As if two pen-names were not enough. Checking this out, I find that the same person who edited my entry also edited, on the same day, Wiki articles on ‘Islam’s response to contemporary issues’, on 'Killing Addiction' (a ‘death metal-grindcore band’), and on ‘Nyotaimori’ (which is – but you knew this? – the practice of serving sushi on the body of a naked woman).
PS: A couple of hours after I posted the above, the Wiki entry was re-edited, with A42 reverting to me and Bill Nye reverting to Jennie Walker. The real Bill Nye, by the way (or at least a Bill Nye, the one who pops up first on a google search) - I mean not the one who is not a pseudonym of me - appears to be a science journalist/ comedian/ TV-show host. He married in 2006; seven weeks later the marriage was declared invalid; he later took out a restraining order on his ex-wife (or ex-not-wife) after she entered his property and poured weedkiller on his rose bushes. All the above is true; I got it from Wiki.
Editing again (books)
Why the post before last strayed off-track was because I got wandered into a long quote on book editing, as opposed to magazine editing . . .
On the one hand, Gordon Lish edited Raymond Carver almost to the point of creating a writer, the one we thought we knew, until the un-Lished work was posthumously published. On the other hand, here is Barbara Epler, chief editor at New Directions: ‘Actual editing consists so much of petting and patting beautiful writing . . . With the poets, that means allowing for differences. One poet, alive like the inside of a light bulb, requires five or six sets of proofs: allow time. One might need a suggested re-jigging of the order of contents: allow possible irritation. Allow “grey”and “gray” in the same volume (the former greenish and the latter more blue: the opposite of what I'd guessed). Also allow the fact that many poets don’t need you at all, except to run interference with the designers for fonts and cover art . . . Translations allow and need the most tinkering. The one thing I know for sure is that the better the translators, the more they enjoy editing. They like the queries and the complicity: the turning their new fabric to the light together, looking at its play, showing the gorgeous weave and colors and also maybe a few snags here and there. The best translators love pouncing on that snag: they might not pull it then in the direction you suggest, but they carefully undertake a new phrase. You fiddle with long, multi-clausal snakes of sentences, questioning colons and semi-colons and dashes, or eliminating serial commas between multiple adjectives when the sentence winds more than a half a page. You allow the utter twigginess of Robert Walser or the multiplicities of Bolaño but ask about this “saw-in-the-pants” (and the translator from the Hebrew says, “Ah yes, I thought you'd ask about that – the author doesn't know”). You might suggest monkeying with the verb tense or the tone or atmosphere or dialogue – how it might sound more idiomatic – but in the end a lot boils down to six-of-one, half-a-dozen-of-the-other; your name’s not on the book, you did your job by mentioning those spots . . . Your job is just to worry, to check and double-check. One study pointed out that the difference between competent people and incompetent people is that competent people know they might be wrong and double- and triple-check; incompetent people know they’re right. (Or, as a Brazilian publisher joked, What’s the difference between ignorance and arrogance? “I don’t know and I don’t care.”) Editing doesn’t seem to be a process of knowing but of asking. You just do the best you can . . . And after you do the best you can, you enjoy the beautiful book and people’s pleasure in it.’
I like that. I’m in the Epler camp. (Though I can veer wildly, when in the mood.) But magazine editing, and more specifically the Poetry Review issue, is a different thing. More on that next month, perhaps.
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An Open Letter to Cis Women
By Hayley Van Allen ’21
Queer Columnist
For a student body that considers itself to be radical and accepting, Scripps college students continue to ignore and perpetuate transphobia on campus. Straight, cis women on campus laugh about “loving dick too much” to be gay as much as they’d love to date women. Gay, cis women on campus joke about “hating dick” being the root of their gay identity. Nearly every time I correct this kind of trans-exclusive language, I’m met with eyerolls, nervous laughs, or an insistence from the person I’ve corrected that they’re not transphobic.
These reactions are always dripping with guilt and discomfort because no one at Scripps wants to be called out on their ignorance. As a result, I, and many others, have to force a laugh and smile to make you feel better, despite the fact that you just implied that my genitals define who I am, that the reason I don’t date men is because they have penises, that you yourself would never date a trans person.
The language that you use matters. When you continue to use language that excludes trans and non-binary people, your transphobia, whether it was intentional or not, exposes itself. We have all been raised in a transphobic society and as a result have all internalized transphobic ideas and beliefs. Like with any internalized xenophobia/bigotry, we all have an obligation to unlearn this rhetoric and actively work to dismantle the transphobia present in the systems around us.
If you make a mistake sometimes it’s ok, but if you react with guilt or defensiveness, you’re trivializing the actual pain and discrimination that trans people go through. All your reaction has done is exposed your own transphobia. As Audre Lorde said in The Uses of Anger, “Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of actions.” Your discomfort from being called out on your transphobia is not worse than experiencing actual transphobia, the same way that being called out on your racism is not worse than experiencing actual racism. When called out on your transphobic language, try to instead learn from the experience and work harder to validate and include trans people when you speak.
In order to truly be an ally to your trans siblings, it’s not enough to just say that you support them. You should be actively fighting against the transphobia you see in your life and working to support members of the trans community. This can be done in many different ways: whether on an individual level you support and respect the pronouns, names, and identities of your trans and non-binary friends, or on a larger level fight against the structures at Scripps that continue to create a culture where trans people feel unwelcome.
On an individual level, truly respecting and supporting your trans friends means more than just using their preferred name and pronouns. It means correcting others when they use the wrong language to refer to someone you know. It means not outing your trans friends.
I don’t need you to tell me that your friend is trans. The only person who should tell me (if they even want it known!) is your friend. I don’t need to know your trans friend’s deadname. I don’t need to know that “he used to be a she”. I don’t need to know anything other than their current name and pronouns because it’s none of my business. Unless someone wants to be open about their identity and experience as a trans person, stop outing them to other people.
On a more structural level, work to expose the transphobia and trans exclusive rhetoric that you see at Scripps and in other systems. Pay attention to the language Scripps uses and how it works to erase trans-masculine and non binary people on campus, as well as trans women. Join organizing work on campus that uplifts trans students and fights to change structures at the 5C’s that perpetuate transphobia.
As students at a historically women’s college, we should all be working to better support and uplift trans folk at Scripps and the broader Claremont Colleges. White cis women especially cannot remain silent when given the privilege and ability to fight against transphobia with few repercussions. Trans people, especially trans POC, are far too often not listened to or given a voice, which is why it’s so important for those with privilege to amplify the voices of trans folks.
Cis women have to start organizing and showing up for protests that center trans folks, especially trans women of color, and use their cis privilege on behalf of their trans siblings. They need to start viewing their trans sisters and brothers as allies and empathize with and memorialize their loses the same way cis women do for their cis sisters.
If feminism and activism at a historically (white) women’s college is to mean anything, it must be explicitly inclusive of the full range of trans folks that exist and are hurt by cissexism here at the Claremont Colleges.
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Wire, Beads, and… Yarn? A Spotlight on Three Jewelry Artists at the 5Cs
Vivian Monteiro ’23
Staff Writer/Art Columnist
You may have noticed fellow students with brightly colored yarn dangling from their ears, woven into hoops or ruffled shapes reminiscent of flowers. You’ve probably seen the wire sculpture jewelry that bends and twists into abstract figures or takes on geometric forms as it frames stones and beads. Many of these unique pieces are the work of 5C students.
I had the pleasure of talking with three popular jewelry makers on campus and asked them about their businesses. Carrie Young ’21 and Becca Magnan PO ’22 have been selling their work for years, while Sophia Frye ’23 is an up-and-coming initiate. All three strive to create unique pieces of wearable art that are both striking and expressive.
Magnan started making jewelry with her mom when she was 10 years old. “We would always go visit Brazil over the summer and where my grandma lived there wasn’t really much to do, but there were two jewelry places that were going out of business, so my mom and I stocked up on supplies and that’s all we did that summer,” Magnan said. “Then I got back home and I started making wire doodles and stuff. The next time I went to Brazil I did the same thing—the entire summer I made earrings. I came back and people were like ‘you should sell them’ and I was like: ‘umm… okay!’”
At first, Magnan struggled with selling her work. “I made an Etsy my senior year of highschool and expected to find a huge following without any advertising or anything,” Mangan said. “So I was super unsuccessful on Etsy for so long and just sold to friends in person. No one was buying online because they didn’t know it existed.” Things began to improve that summer when a friend’s mom, who had her own business involving shibori dying, let Mangan sell some of her work on her market stand. “That really got the word out,” said Mangan.
As Mangan gained more success, she has adapted her business model. “I would do this thing last year where everything was super customizable. I found that it was exhausting and creatively stifling to make the same pieces over and over again,” Mangan said. “I didn’t want to feel like I was mass producing. I started to transition into something more personal, where my goal wasn’t the satisfaction of buyers, but also my own–once again creating to nurture myself and meditate on my own expression.”
Mangan’s work resembles a thought captured in wire. The way each line swirls and overlaps closely together in her most recent pieces seems almost impossible; I didn’t know jewelry could make you think until I more closely examined her earrings.
Another wire jewelry artist is Carrie Young, a Scripps student. Young started selling her wire earrings during her first year at Scripps in order to fulfill her need to create without room in her schedule for an art class. She chose to use wire because of its accessibility and portability, and eventually what started out as a matter of convenience grew into a love for the material. “To me it feels like drawing but with wire,” Young said. “The way you can bend it makes it really malleable. It’s easy and fun to doodle with.”
Her art is reminiscent of Picasso’s cubist portraits, oftentimes with figures or faces broken down into shapes that capture the essence of her subject. Remember those drawing exercises you were forced to do in your middle school art class where you drew something without lifting your pencil? Young bends wire into sculptures in a similar manner– except somehow she makes it look like something that should be framed and hung on a wall.
For Young, her art isn’t just gratifying for her wallet and her mind. “I’m really surprised by how many friendships or relationships I’ve formed through people coming up to me and asking about or buying my jewelry. I love when people start using wire because they got inspired,” Young said.
One of the people inspired by Young is first-year Frye, who has admired her work since before her arrival at Scripps. The two ended up in the same Italian class, and Young noticed Frye’s earrings. “[Carrie] was like, ‘I love your earrings, I also make earrings!’ I was starstruck,” said Frye. “And she was my first customer here. She practically threw the money at me, she was so excited! So that’s what gave me the confidence to sell. She just inspired me.”
Frye has been making earrings for ten years, but the ones she sells now are a recent invention. “I just love to make things… I kinda go through these phases,” said Frye. “This summer I was doing macrame, and I had this idea that I should make earrings that way. So my first prototypes were macrame. I eventually ran out of wire that I would macrame the string around, and I realized that I could just crochet it instead,” Though she has only been at Scripps for roughly eight weeks, Frye has already gained quite a following among her peers. The fact that her earrings are distinctive and eye catching no doubt plays a role in her business’ growing popularity. “I want to be original,” Frye said. “I want to be the first person to make something.”
With brightly colored yarn, Frye crochets circles and ovals, occasionally intertwining or connecting them to form different shapes. They are big and bold but as light as a feather. Never will you wear softer earrings.
Frye’s business, Moomucca, is all about aplomb and courage. “The earrings are so bold that you have to have a little bit of confidence to wear them,” said Frye. “And it gives you confidence to wear them. I think it’s so cool that earrings do that. I hope other people want to stand out and not be afraid to be themselves.”
So, what’s next for these three entrepreneurs? Young hopes to become an art teacher and combine her passion for art with her love for kids. She wants to keep expanding and combining new mediums when it comes to the jewelry she makes. Frye doesn’t know if she will keep making jewelry her whole life, but she is certain she will always be making something. “I cannot imagine being happy and not doing something that involves creativity. I really want to pursue my passions and make that my career,” said Frye. As for Mangan, she is currently spending more time on other creative pursuits such as designing clothing, and she may take up metal soldering in the near future.
If you feel moved by these dazzling artists and your inner jewelry-maker has been ignited, there’s no better time to start than now.
“So many people on these campuses do really amazing art, but they don’t see it as a thing to share because it feels more personal,” Young said. “It’s always really wonderful seeing what people create that they wouldn’t usually broadcast.”
The work of Young and Magnan may be found on Etsy as @youngwire and @TheCrystalist. Frye’s work can be purchased through her Instagram, @bymoomucca.
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Spending time frolicking in the urban playground that is Cleveland, Ohio can often cause one to forget about the miles of fun lying outside the city's borders. Bono once sang, "Outside it's America," and outside of Cleveland—especially to the southeast—lies flourishing forests, as well as those who work and play there. Should this sound like the stuff of myth and legend (or just plain gobbledygook), let's break it down. We're talking about lovely Chagrin Falls, and its truly legendary bar, the Greenville Inn. A winter trip from the heart of the 216 in the Greenville's direction is gonna feel like you're in a mush-dog- and-sled adventure flick. Fittingly enough, you'd better have the appetite of a mountain man/woman when you hit this spot. The good times and good spirits at the Greenville are for hearty folk. No lightweights............As a drinker, you can enjoy $1.50 drafts on Thursday, beer bucket specials, discount pitchers, and other ways to cut your thirst. A well-stocked bar, full of fine liquors and choice wines, is also there to help you along. What makes the Greenville truly special isn't just its nicely-priced assortment of grub and booze. It's that hearty, rustic feeling of a hard-drinking history. The official story of the Greenville dates back to an almost immemorable time—maybe the 1800s? No one really seems to know, but the Greenville Inn's barn-like look, its tough but tidy wood, and its stouthearted attitude bring to mind railroad workers, barges, horse-drawn carts, and mustachioed dudes from the Civil War. No such dudes were present on a recent Greenville Friday night; however, the revelers in attendance whooped it up like they'd just beaten back the Confederates. A band played, guys pounded shots, girls danced on tables, and the whole bar reeled from a century-plus history of good times behind and in front of them. History lesson notwithstanding, the Greenville's a great place to get loose in the wilds of Chagrin
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People Who Got Rich through Gambling
Gambling is one of the most oldest activities that has made its presence in various fields of entertainment and sports. The process made famous by people continues to dominate all around the world. Due to that, there are specific people who became millions through the process, and their lives took off. By playing games at various venues, these individuals have made money like never before. So, let’s look into more about the gamblers who made big money.
Billy Walters
Billy Walters is a rare all-around gambler, known explicitly for Roulette. He understands the game to a large extent, as he once made $3.8 million by playing it. Billy Walters also has a team that was involved in professional gambling, who mainly operated in the Atlantic City’s Golden Nugget Casino. Their unique สล็อต ฟรี เครดิต ไม่ ต้อง ฝาก เงิน plan was to record results from various wheels in order to find out whether they favoured certain numbers. This method accordingly, as they took home a sum of $4 million.
The name ‘Don Johnson’ might be similar to the iconic Rock, but they have different talents and tastes. While he might not be a famous wrestler or talented actor, he is indeed a famous gambler. He began as a state gaming regulator, developing horse racing software and managing racing. Through experiences, he built the right kind of skills that equipped him to be a famous Blackjack dealer. Johnson was successful when he won a total of $15 million by playing Blackjack.
MIT Blackjack Team
Students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School and Harvard University were all members of the famous MIT Blackjack team. Their activities and moves accounted for global attention when Hollywood decided to make a movie about them, known as ’21’. Few of its members even began counting way back in the early 1960s, and this opened the door for renowned professionalism. They were so successful that they lasted together as a team from 1979 to 2000s.
Patricia Demauro
Patricia Demauro is a unique gambler from New Jersey and one that nobody expected. Her skills and fame put together made people call her as the ‘Dice-Rolling Granny. When it came to Craps, there were very few in the table that could match up to Patricia. She has won around $180,000 through Craps, but these figures might be estimates, as she has never disclosed her actual earnings. To this day, everyone is aware of her traits at the Borgata Hotel & Casino, where she played with her friend John Capra. The game escalated to an extent where Demauro rolled 154-straight times without sevening out. Now that is known as the longest craps rolling streak in history.
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Judy Brown
Judy Brown’s second collection, Crowd Sensations, (Seren, 2016) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her first book Loudness (Seren 2011) was shortlisted for the Forward and Fenton/Aldeburgh prizes for best first collection. She has won the Manchester Poetry Prize, the Poetry London Competition and the Templar Pamphlet Competition. Judy was Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust in 2013 and a 2014 Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone’s Library. She lives in a churchyard in Derbyshire. Website: judy-brown.co.uk
From Platform 1, Blackfriars Station
There’s something over-familiar about the cranes
rising through the city. For centuries its huddle
was spiked only by the paraphernalia of spires.
Through the river-soaked glass of the new station
we can measure the torturer’s bamboo as it grows
into a friable body. The shallow-rooted boroughs
might be peeled off, easy as a roll of turf.
Here the earth has already crumpled, spills skeletons
which are coppery-blue from buried money.
Skyscapes are a story I’m bored being bored with.
Still, the latest towers are eating light like plants,
donating grace as they hurry into their final poise.
A confession has been exacted, then simplified.
All that remains as we sink down into the tunnel
between platforms is the city’s current heraldry,
its long bones opening our skulls to the air.
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Ready to Attack Obama, But Geez...NO MONEY
Slo Mo....
Evening Wrap Up...
Morning Break...and that Michelle dress...
Afternoon Break....with Michelle stuff
Cindy McCain, Doing the Heavy Lifting Against Mich...
Morning Break....
Evening Wrapup.......
Afternoon Break...with Gore stuff....
This Week With Barack Obama, The Presumptive Democ...
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to campaign together on Friday, June 27, 2008.
Senator Barack Obama will be joined by his one-time rival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, on the campaign trail on Friday June 27, his campaign announced.
A spokesman for Mr. Obama said more details would be announced soon.
The two Democrats had already agreed to appear together at a fund-raiser on June 26 at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel.
After a bruising primary fight, Mrs. Clinton suspended her campaign and endorsed Mr. Obama earlier this month, asking her supporters to join her “in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me.”
And Hillary tell her top fundraisers to get behind Barack Obama.
On a private conference call moments ago, Hillary urged her top fundraisers in no uncertain terms to throw their weight behind Barack Obama, and directly asked them in surprisingly candid terms to give or raise money to help her pay off her campaign's debt.
At the same time, in a move that took some participants on the call by surprise, she also clarified that she was not asking their help in paying off her personal loans to the campaign.
Did GOP Senator Fake An Ad Showing Him Cozy With Wife?
you decide, this is the ad for senator norm coleman (r-mn) and his absent wife, laurie
Barack Obama poised to rake in about 500M for White House bid
Sen. Barack Obama's decision to forgo public financing for his presidential campaign clears the way for him to outspend Sen. John McCain by 3-to-1 or substantially more in the general election, a financial edge that dramatically rewrites the playbooks for both candidates.
With the possibility of spending perhaps $500 million just in the final two months of the campaign, Obama will be the first major-party candidate to enjoy a spending edge in the general election in more than 30 years. The comparison with the consistently cash-strapped McCain campaign could hardly be more stark.
John McCain has decided, or was forced, to accept public funding which is about 80M. Let us be clear, Barack Obama did say he would accept public funding if the Republican opponent did. Now, this was prior to Obama becoming a juggernaut on the internet. Will he have a hard time on this decision and label a flip-flopper? Yes. But this will be a short-term affect in my view and the truth is that the public is just not engaged about campaign financing, which we should be.
By Obama opting out of this opens up doors for the future of campaign financing.
But Mr. Obama’s decision to opt out of public financing — along with the ability of the Internet to let candidates raise large sums of money from small donors — may do more to shatter the system than all of the loopholes it has spawned.
As structured, each presidential candidate stands to receive $84 million in public money. This money is gained from the $3 check-off on federal taxpayer returns, which the major party candidates can use to run a general presidential campaign from the end of each party’s convention to the November election.
Each political party can also raise and spend money to support its candidate. Donors can give up to $28,500 to party committees, as well as often-unlimited amounts to 527s, nonprofits and a bevy of other committees that exist outside the formal party structure, to influence the election.
Yet even candidates with as many wealthy connections as George W. Bush or who are as adept at fund-raising as Bill Clinton took public money for their general presidential campaigns. Senator John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee, has said he would remain committed to the public finance system, but he may well be the last major candidate to do so.
My take, Obama did the right thing. Many of us, many first time donors became engaged in the Obama for America Campaign. Many of us volunteered, donated money reguarly, became advocates for the Obama for America Campaign.
It is only fair that Barack Obama opt out of public fianancing and let us, his small donor base fund and fuel this campaign. Let me be clear again, he has already raised over 272M just for the primaries and he depended on us. We know the mountain before us and we fully understand that from the degrading Fox News to the forthcoming 527 groups that negative ads are coming. These ads will not only attack Obama but the Obama Family. Accepting public financing, at this point, is only cutting the hand that feed you.
Barack Obama will shatter records in raising money to march to the White House and we are the ones who will put him there.
In the end, the documentation for this campaign from primary to the end of the general election will be the campaign model for many to use for the future.
Yesterday, I wrote about the embarrassment of the Obama Campaign to ask two young Muslim women in their garb to not stand behind the stage that Obama would grace with former Vice President Al Gore. Basically, we don't want you in the television shot. That is what that was about.
Things happen on campaigns that the candidate are not aware about, this was one of them. Who ever the staff was that made that decision, I am sure have been reprimanded. The good thing is that Obama apologized directly to the young ladies and they accepted his apology.
At the rally for Senator Obama in Detroit on Monday, June 16, two volunteers denied us seating behind the stage the Senator would soon take. The volunteers informed us that we were not allowed to sit in that area due to the hijab, the headscarf that each of us was wearing.
This incident was unfortunate and extremely disappointing. Senator Obama has called us each to personally convey his deepest apologies and acknowledge that this was inexcusable. We both immensely appreciate the Senator's phone call and his commitment to remedy this issue. We commend him for displaying qualities befitting an effective President. We acknowledge that this injustice has been taken seriously and that Senator Obama does not tolerate discrimination against Arabs, Muslims or any community. We are assured that he and his staff are committed to upholding the principles of justice for all peoples and bringing about change we can believe in. The infringement on our rights occurred and has been addressed; now we are ready to move forward. We will continue to support Senator Obama in his campaign and wish him the best as the race continues.
and Obama's statement:
I reached out to Ms. Aref and Ms. Abdelfadeel this afternoon. I spoke with Ms. Abdelfadeel, and expressed my deepest apologies for the incident that occurred with volunteers at the event in Detroit. The actions of these volunteers were unacceptable and in no way reflect any policy of my campaign. I take deepest offense to and will continue to fight against discrimination against people of any religious group or background. Our campaign is about bringing people together, and I'm grateful that Ms. Abdelfadeel accepted our apology and I hope Ms. Aref and any who were offended accept my apology as well.
Barack Obama will be the President of the United States for all of us, not some of us.
Georgia, it is all tied up there. No wonder the Obama Campaign has put this state on the map for a battleground state. Poll is here.
Indiana is in play.
Now McCain is being questioned about loving his country. Yes, it came out of his mouth. Can we get off of Michelle now?
They LOVE Michelle Obama's dress!!!!
You can get this dress at White House|Black Market for $148.00, a deal.
Bloomberg defends Obama before Jewish group
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is urging Jewish voters to denounce the online whisper campaign that for months has pushed the false rumor that Democrat Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim.
Bloomberg is speaking to members of a Jewish group in Boca Raton, Fla. He's warning them that the attempt to portray Obama as a shadowy Muslim with a hidden agenda often targets Jewish voters online and with e-mails.
The mayor says the deceptive campaign against Obama, who is a Christian, threatens to undo the strides that Jews and Muslims have made together.
Rise and Fall of Karl Rove
listen to this, especially about the author's take on john kerry
And the Telecom Companies are spared that they spied on Americans. What is up with these damn democrats in charge? sigh, read it all here.
Oh, John McCain was asked NOT TO COME TO IOWA by the Governor.
Missed yesterday's break? Read here.
And how is your day going?
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when honesty is lost
Timeless wisdom found in the words of the Prophet Muhammad. I personally expand it to remind me the mark found of the end in many important things. I find the link to honesty profound.
When asked, “When would the Hour (Doomsday) take place?”
The Prophet said, “When honesty is lost, then wait for the Hour.” The Bedouin said, “How will that be lost?” The Prophet said, “When the power or authority comes in the hands of unfit persons, then wait for the Hour.”
: Sahih al-Bukhari 59 : Book 3, Hadith 1
– full, original, text at http://sunnah.com/bukhari/3
–Sahih al-Bukhari is a collection of hadith compiled by Imam Muhammad al-Bukhari (d. 256 AH/870 AD) (rahimahullah – May Allah have mercy on him), in the Sunni tradition.
Note: I find beauty, wisdom and strength in many faiths. I am not a Muslim and have little knowledge of Islam. I hope that I have not offended anyone. If I have offended or misinterpreted please tell me so in a comment or on my page – Enlighten Me, so that I may personally offer an apology and learn more.
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Added interest and photos:
Photos of Al-Bukhari’s mausoleum erected over his grave, in 1998, near Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It exihibits stunning aesthetic and detail, which in general are characteristics typical of Islamic architecture.
The Necropolis of outstanding Sunni theologian Imam Muhammad al-Bukhari (died in 870) was built near Samarkand.
Al-Bukhari had a phenomenal memory and analyzed thousands of hadiths—stories about the Prophet. His work resulted in summa of hadiths—”Al-Diami as-Sahih” which was canonized in the 10th century as the main hadith anthology in Sunni tradition.
In the 16th century the small mausoleum and mosque were built above the tomb of Imam al-Bukhari. In connection with the 1225th anniversary of Imam al-Bukhari and according to the decree of the government of Uzbekistan the new memorial complex was built in 1998 at the site of the old mausoleum. – from Jahongir
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AULD LANG ZONK
'MY FAMILY', 'THE SOPRANOS'
This will be my last post of the year, as I'll be away from Toobworld Central for the day tomorrow. So I thought I'd take this moment to dismantle one last Zonk threat to the integrity of the TV Universe....
SUSAN HARPER:
"You're a suburban dentist, not Tony Soprano."
BEN HARPER:
"We both kill people."
'My Family'
For the benefit of the audience viewing at home, that was meant to be just a joke reference to HBO's 'The Sopranos', which I guess has found a home on British TV. But within their own reality, Tony Soprano is a real American mobster who has gained fame - and infamy! - not just in New Jersey, but in England as well.
This shouldn't be a surprise, as American gangsters, both real and imagined, have long held the attention of the world. I'll bet that even in Calcutta, people know of Al Capone, Don Corleone, and John Gotti.
So why not Tony Soprano? He's certainly gaining more notoriety even as he tries to maintain a low profile behind the scenes in the mob. But after being shot and nearly murdered by his uncle Corrado Soprano, Tony's story was broadcast as news and probably transmitted across the wires to be picked up by news services all around the globe, if they desired.
Therefore, Ben and Susan Harper would have heard of Tony Soprano and his reputation as a mobster, and so both of them were able to play off of that.
And therefore, no Zonk!
THE TOOBITS OF 2006
It's the end of the year as we view it, and time once again to present the Toobits!
The Toobits are my little awards for those achievements that best represented the TV Universe.
These are not meant to be seen necessarily as the best in quality when it comes to direction, acting or their scripts. I'll leave that to other end-of-the-year lists and awards. The Toobits celebrate those characters and programs that helped to expand and connect the TV Universe. The show could be total drek (and I don't think any of my choices fall into that category, really - well, not totally), but if they can keep the Great Link thrumming then they're just as worthy as anything written by an up-and-coming Paddy Chayevsky.
Last year I disqualified a lot of shows that came over from England because they were from years earlier; they just didn't get seen here in the U.S. in time for qualifying for 2005. Since then I realized that I would always be discriminating against some high quality productions that have provided marvelous material for Toobworld.
So instead, this year the only qualification is that it had to debut on American screens in 2006, since I am the only arbiter when it comes to the choices. I accept that those imported programs will have occurred in Toobworld history at an earlier date, but I'm dealing with a personal, Real World timeline when it comes to judging them.
So "Casanova" and 'Murder City' and the 'Jericho' starring Robert Lindsey could be considered, even though they were produced and shown in Great Britain earlier than 2006. ("Casanova" and 'Jericho' obviously would have to be placed far earlier on the Toobworld timeline anyway.)
Several categories from last year have been dropped; others have been added. The Toobits will always be in flux, depending on the needs of that year.
So with all that out of the way, here's a review of the best new shows and characters (no reruns!) serving the greater glory of Toobworld in 2006: Some of these should be o'bvious as to why I chose them, but for many of the categories I have added my two bits about the Toobits.
Sorry about that, Chief. Couldn't resist.
By the way, there is a spoiler in here for the American audiences. I'll give you fair warning to look away when the time comes......
COMEDY: '30 Rock'
Being set in the televersion of NBC, rather than some fake TV network, '30 Rock' has already taken advantage of a guest appearance by Cousin Conan. I'd be surprised if NBC's indomitable workhorse, Jay Leno, doesn't eventually show up in the hallways of 'The Girlie Show'. Or maybe even Lorne Michaels! And it's a great show for plugging other NBC shows - they already did a fantastic job for the GE trivection oven!
DRAMA: 'Heroes'
It didn't take them long to make an actual crossover - with 'Las Vegas' via the Montecito. I'll be curious to see what other shows may be in store for a ride on this phenom's coat-tails. ('Scrubs' might even jump on the bandwagon. And Masi Oka's appearance on 'Studio 60' will be just cross-promotional, not a crossover.)
Runners-up: 'Kyle XY' & 'Eureka'
"Casanova"
David Tennant has a sensibility that seems to say "I know I'm not the real Casanova, I am the legend." And even then, he knows he's the legend for the TV Universe.
BEST MINI-SERIES
'The Lost Room'
After six hours, there were still nearly 100 objects we never got to see from that motel room.
Or did we, but in some other show?
Think of all those magical objects we've seen in shows like 'The Twilight Zone' or 'Friday The Thirteenth - The Series': shoes, a stopwatch, a radio, a diary. Could they have been present at the event of May 4th, 1961? And where else might we find some of these objects? Could Van Stratten ('Doctor Who' - "Dalek") be a Collector? Could one of the objects have crossed the ocean and found itself tucked away in the warrens of 'Torchwood'?
'Life On Mars'
This will be a finite series, wrapping it all up with the second season. I have no clue as to which direction it will take but don't you wish it's actually happening? I want "The Gene Genie" and sweet Annie Cartwright to be real, dammit!
With all the roadblocks against them, from a lack of Aaron Sorkin's input to the death of John Spencer, they were still able to rise above the obstacles and deliver a very moving send-off.
'Prime Suspect'
It wasn't just the fact that Jane Tennyson was able to return and wrap up her career in Toobworld. They also brought back an integral character from the show's earlier seasons. Sadly, had they waited, it would have been too late.......
As I mentioned earlier, it gave History the playful sheen of television, which is why I chose it over 'Elizabeth I'.
My only regret - the real-life meeting between Casanova and Ben Franklin was never dramatized. It would have been nice to see Tom Bosley assay the role one last time; not sure who else might have filled his shoes....
Runner-Up: 'Doctor Who' ("Tooth And Claw" & "The Girl In The Fireplace")
'Torchwood'
Some episodes have been a bit off, and the team can be the 21st Century equivalent to 'F Troop' at times. But it's always been gripping, since we know no one is safe. And it's one spin-off that isn't just a carbon copy of the show that spawned it. Even with references back to 'Doctor Who', 'Torchwood' has gone off on its own original path.
'Conviction'
They couldn't even bother to stick on the 'Law & Order' prefix. And no good splainin as to how ADA Cabot was back from the protection program.
BEST SERIES REVIVAL
'Cracker'
Just a note here - what won me over this year was the lack of blatant promotion for many of the crossovers chosen. They were usually in-jokes, subtle references to other shows.
TIE:
'The Wire' & 'Homicide: Life On The Street'
A mention of Junior Bunk
'Studio 60' & 'Brothers & Sisters'
Kitty works for NBS
'Las Vegas' & 'The Office'
Dunder-Mifflin had a conference at the Montecito
'The O.C.' & 'Grey's Anatomy'
A character from California was going to work at Seattle Grace
'Heroes' & 'Las Vegas'
Ando and Hiro were at the Montecito
'Boston Legal' & 'Cheers'
Shirley and Ivan had dinner at Melville's restaurant above the bar
'Las Vegas' & 'Crossing Jordan'
Too many times to the well for these shows, going way beyond coincidence. But the deciding factor was in broadcasting the second half of a crossover on 'Las Vegas' when 'Crossing Jordan' hasn't even returned to the schedule yet to present the first part!
BEST ADAPTATION FROM ANOTHER UNIVERSE (aka MEDIUM)
'Bleak House'
COMEDY: Jack Donaghy - '30 Rock'
He's dating Condoleeza Rice. His mentor is Jack Welch. He went to Ann Coulter's 60th birthday party. For that one alone - and for making it FACT in the TV Universe - he should be rewarded. Bwahahahaha!
DRAMA: Hiro Nakamura - 'Heroes'
Already he has one crossover under his belt with his visit to the Montecito. Will we eventually see him in the audience at 'TGS with Tracy Jordan'?
David Swain - 'InJustice'
Kyle - 'Kyle XY'
DRAMA - Kitty Walker, 'Brothers & Sisters'
Sally Field as Nora Walker is the more interesting character, but Kitty works for NBS, which means she links to 'Studio 60'!
COMEDY - Betty Suarez, 'Ugly Betty'
COMEDY - Frank Reynolds, 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia'
DRAMA - DCI Gene Hunt, 'Life On Mars'
DRAMA - Thelma, 'Hex'
Even if she can't stay a teen ghost forever, ghosts don't always have to be seen. We could always just hear her voice doing a bit of haunting in another series.....
COMEDY - S.A.R.A.H. (the smart house), 'Eureka'
'Hustle'
Martin Landau - Bob Ryan, 'Entourage'
Frances Sternhagen - Willi Rae Johnson, 'The Closer'
Reinette Poisson, Madame de Pompadour ('Doctor Who' - "The Girl In The Fireplace")
BEST LEAGUE OF THEMSELVES APPEARANCE
Sally Kellerman, 'The Minor Accomplishments Of Jackie Woodman'
PC Guy and Mac Guy - Apple Mac
BEST CHARACTER RETURN
Sarah Jane Smith & K9, 'Doctor Who' ("School Reunion")
Sam Seaborn 'The West Wing'
Dr. Noah Drake, 'General Hospital'
Robert Scorpio, 'General Hospital'
Holly Sutton, 'General Hospital'
Anna Devane, 'General Hospital'
Patch 'Days Of Our Lives'
Kayla 'Days Of Our Lives'
Cassie Newman 'The Young & The Restless'
Jordan Callier, 'The 4400'
BEST NEW TOOBWORLD LOCATION
'Eureka', Oregon
Elmo, Alaska, 'Men In Trees'
Sunshine Motel, New Mexico, 'The Lost Room'
Allttel phone service blending TMobile, Verizon, and Sprint
'So NoTORIous'
President Charles Logan - '24'
Runner-up: Lincoln Meyer, 'Boston Legal'
Isabelle, 'The 4400'
Runner-up: The Empress of Racnoss, 'Doctor Who': "The Runaway Bride'
"Drop your weapons!
You are surrounded by armed bastards!"
DCI Gene Hunt
"I don't know what is more disquieting,
the fact that the statue is missing
or that it has four toes."
Sayid Jarrah
Okay, spoiler alert! Best to skip over these next few awards.....
BEST INTRODUCTION OF A CHARACTER
Peter Petrelli, 'Heroes'
BEST EXIT FOR A CHARACTER
BEST DEATH SCENE
Mr. Eko, 'Lost'
FBI Agent Graham Kelton, 'Vanished'
Suzy Costello, 'Torchwood'
Reasoning for both: No one is safe!
WORST DEATH SCENE
Reasoning: As highly dramatic as it was to see Mr. Eko be battered to death by the smoke monster, we ended up losing one of the most interesting and charismatic characters on TV this season.
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT
'Studio 60'
Although the scripts have been getting better, nothing will erase the bad taste in my mouth from episodes 2 through about 5. Aaron Sorkin has the makings for an interesting behind the scenes look at a TV show. What he needs to do now is to let it go, let others write it instead. Otherwise, he's going to stay on his soapbox to get revenge against everybody who's wronged him.
Runner-up: 'The Nine'
The only saving grace to this show was the performance of John Billingsley as Egan Foote. Just for his introductory scene in the bank as he applies for a loan, Mr. Billingsley should get nominated for an Emmy.
So those are the 2006 Toobits. As always with lists like this, somebody might take umbrage at my choices over other candidates. If so, let me know what you thought. I won't change my choices, but I'd still like to hear what you liked/disliked.
The Stage's TV Today has their awards for the most interesting TV characters of the year. They can be found here.
'TWAS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS.....
And if all is right with the world, then agents in Hollywood should be ringing up Karen Zautyk in order to buy the rights to the story she wrote about the First Christmas, which was featured in yesterday's edition of the New York Daily News.
Ms. Zautyk is a member of the Daily News editorial staff, and the editorial page featured her bedtime story about a scared little lamb in the manger who came to play a vital role in the life of Baby Jesus.
No, not as chops and kabobs, you sick puppies!
I read "O Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?" and the first notion that came to mind was that it would make for a great holiday special - with classic animation or stop-motion puppetry or even 'Shrek'-like computer animation.
"O Little Lamb Of Bethlehem" would make for a great title. And there would be some choice voice-over roles to be found among the other animals in the manger for a few stars with recognizable voices.
Hopefully, the Daily News will see fit to run this story every year, so that it will gain classic status. But in the meantime, if you wish to read it for yourselves, click here.
"It's Christmas, Toby...."
Dwight Schrute
'The Office'
Yes. Yes, it is.....
When there's holly in the halls,
And the wreath's upon the wall,
When the night is filled with fallen snow...
And the candles are set forth
And the star shines in the north,
Upon a quiet world below...
Then you know it's Christmas time,
By the laughter everywhere...
By the magic in the air.
When a tree is brought inside,
With its branches spreading wide,
Fresh from summer sun, and winter snow...
When it shimmers silver bright
With tiny stars of light,
When it's hung with bells and balls and bows...
'The Great Santa Claus Switch'
Written by Jerry Juhl
Music by Joe Raposo
Special thanks to Tough Pigs for the transcription.
Merry Christmas and all the best for 2007 from all of me at Toobworld Central!
CHRISTMAS IN TOOBWORLD: DAY TWELVE
Well, well, well......
Here it is, Christmas Eve, and you still don't have a gift for that special someone on your list.
Okay. Here's the thing. If you're reading this blog on a regular basis, you can count yourself as a televisiologist. And if that special someone is also a televisiologist, well! Not only are you a very lucky git, but I have just the gift idea that you'll enjoy just as much as they will.
Of course, they won't be getting it in time for Christmas, but hey! You're a televisiologist! Surely you've watched enough TV in your lifetime to have figured out a way to get out of that potential argument!
In the meantime, order the book "Christmas On Television" by Newsday TV columnist and special Christmas episode junkie Diane Werts.
Here's a description of the book from Greenwood Publishing:
Christmas just isn't Christmas without Christmas on TV. Whether it's the made-for-television specials of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman," a "M*A*S*H*" Christmas in Korea, Kramer playing Santa on "Seinfeld," or the annual holiday disaster on "The Simpsons" or "South Park," television's many representations of this beloved holiday have become as essential a part of our holiday season as lights, gifts, or mistletoe. In this entertaining chronicle of television and the Christmas season, former Television Critics Association President Diane Werts weaves discussion of the many programs that have appeared during the holiday season throughout the years with interviews with writers, producers, and stars. Not only are readers given a chance to re-live their favorite holiday moments on TV, but also to gain illuminating cultural insights into the increasingly strong bond that unites these two American traditions.
For more reviews of the book by other TV critics as well as noted TV producer and writer Lee Goldberg, click here:
If I may, I'd like to suggest that you order the book through TV Shows On DVD, so that they might benefit from you supporting their sponsors. That's a great website that really goes the extra mile to find out all the details about the upcoming releases of your favorite shows on DVD.
My only complaint about "Christmas On Television" is that it was outdated as soon as it was published. So long as there are TV shows being produced (which have a life expectancy past thirteen weeks!), there will always be new Christmas episodes expanding the TV Universe in one way or another. (And this book has all those categories neatly assembled!)
I get the feeling that Ms. Werts will update the book again in a few years, as happens with the various TV encyclopediae. In the meantime, she hasn't lost her enthusiasm for the topic since writing the book as she still writes up a complete list of Christmas episodes and where/when to find them - even when they're outside her readers' viewing area. (She urged her readers to find somebody in Philadelphia to tape the vintage episodes - from Jack Benny to Ozzie and Harriet - that were going to be broadcast down there this holiday.)
Okay, guys - you say your special someone isn't that into Television. Well, normally I'd say dump the frakkin' grinch (I didn't actually type "grinch") and find someone who better understands you; someone you can more easily assimilate..
But it's Christmas. Not enough time to really go out and find a replacement for some under-the-mistletoe canoodling. So you better go for broke with what you've got and save the CSI scenario for a later date.
I'm not reporting anything new here - this Christmas gift suggestion has swept the Internet like wildfire in just one week, with even play by play analysis about its creation in the New York Times.
I am, of course, referring to the music video "Dick In A Box" from 'Saturday Night Live'. Let Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake show you exactly how to please that special someone with your personal Yule Log.
You want to wrap a bow around it, that's your business.....
You can find the video uncensored at either nbc.com or at YouTube.com.
Okay, so that's our inaugural Twelve Days of Christmas in Toobworld for 2006. If you enjoyed it half as much as I did in preparing it, then I had twice as much fun as you did. Sounds fair.
So as the Two Ronnies might have said,
It's Merry Christmas from me, and it's Merry Christmas from him.....
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Samurai Experience
Kyoto Samurai Experience
Introduced on “We are the Earth”
We are very honored to be introduced on a outstanding traveling blog “We are the Earth”.
De samoerai leeft voort in Kyoto
Yalou was a kind and great person, with pure interest and respect towards the Samurai culture.
We hope you can take a look at the blog, and visit her Instagram as well.
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-English translation of the blog-
The samurai lives on in Kyoto
With a little effort I manage to open the small, wooden door. It creaks as if it’s about to break. When the passage is just big enough I slip through and enter a 250 year old samurai house. With a deep bow the Waraku team gives me a warm welcome. Today they are going to teach me all about samurais and I can try my luck using a katana sword.
I change into a comfortable kimono. The wide trouser legs are more like a skirt, which made it impossible for the opponent of a samurai to follow his steps. With two other samurai’s, I take a seat on the tatami mats while our teacher Shogo starts talking about the samurai.
Samurais nowadays
Although the samurai officially no longer exists since 1868, can you visit Waraku in Kyoto for a real samurai experience. Samurais – meaning ‘those who serve’ – formed their own class in Japan. They were armed groups that protected their shogun (warlord).
However, with the modernization of the country at the end of the 19th century, the samurai class was abolished and the wearing of katanas was forbidden. Yet the samurai continues to live on in the imagination of many people. Something the Waraku cleverly anticipates to. Not only do they teach you the practical things that come with using a katana, they also give you an impressive history lesson and teach the basics of Zen Buddhism.
The soul of the samurai
When our samurai master Shogo takes his position to show us some katana techniques, his otherwise contagious smile abruptly disappears from his face. His eyes focus on nothing. Swords are serious business and he treats his katana extremely respectful. He places his hands in a triangle form in front of him on the floor, and he lowers his head on the back of his hands. He tells us that the sword is not used just like that, but that you ask for its permission; “The katana is the soul of the samurai” he says mysteriously. He comes up from his bow. His gaze still focusing into infinity.
Shogo knows exactly how to use his katana and he is not afraid to show us only a few centimetres in front of our noses. After a demonstration of some impressive defense techniques and again a bow to the sword, the smile returns to his face. “So, now it’s your turn” he says, and gets up.
Samurai rarely attacked. Their tactic was that of the counterattack, to let the peace return as soon as possible. At any time, they had to be ready to fight, which made the arrival of Zen Buddhism an important part of the samurai’s training. Besides the agility of the sword, the samurai also had to be deftly in their thoughts. Only then, with utmost concentration and focus, is it possible to string the sharp blade through limbs with a seemingly smooth movement. Samurai and sword are one in these moments.
The samurai in me
In the courtyard, one of the Waraku crew members gives a demonstration of what I will be learning in a few minutes. In his eyes I see the same concentration as in Shogo’s. With a smooth movement his katana slides through the wet, rolled-up tatami mat. The three pieces fall on the ground as if it were nothing. “The tatami mat may look smooth, but rolled up and slightly wet, it has the same structure as a human shoulder.” Shogo says.
*video*
Not much later it is my turn. The crew explained the basic techniques: right hand above the left. Smooth grip. Three steps. Three arm movements. In full concentration you hit your target quickly and effectively. I hand my wooden katana to Shogo in an the appropriate manner and receive a real katana in return. Heavier than I expected. And more exciting than I expected. Now it is my turn to be the samurai.
I take in position and take a deep breath to regain concentration. I raise my arms above my head as I take the first step and swing the sword into the mat with my final step. No cut off limbs during my turn. If this had been a real person, he would have gotten away with just a few scratches. Yet I receive an applause from the Waraku crew and after a few words of advice I may try again. Although my cuts get deeper each time, I don’t manage to cut off a ‘limb’ entirely. Somewhat disappointed, but with even more respect for the Waraku crew members and the former samurais, I hand Shogo his katana.
When we go back inside, we leave our shoes at the door, since that’s how it works in Japan. We tip toe over the tatami mats to the room in the back of the house. The meditation cushions are already stalled out for the last part of today: Zen meditation. As we sit down in lotus position, Shogo puts the singing bowls behind us. We meditate briefly under the guidance of the echoes of the singing bowls. We try to reach a state of nothingness – a state of absolute emptiness – but of course this is a first step towards many years, if not a human lifetime of meditation to achieve that. Instead of emptiness I think about the experience of today and how special it was!
Thank you for having me Waraku!
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ASF Conservation Commission - WA Report - 2009
The Summary of Cave and Karst Conservation and Management Issues in WA.
This year has been a busy one, however a number of outstanding issues have had little progress. The full report and "summary" from 2008 is still accurate and rather than repeating the issues for each region again, we refer the reader to the 2007 report for further information.
Of significant note, Western Australian speleologists hosted the ACKMA Conference (Margaret River region May 2009) and a number of papers on WA karst management issues were presented. In particular, there was a workshop on "Planning and Urbanization in Karst Lands" which was well attended by local planners and Government agency staff. Several post conference field trips were arranged, which allowed participants and ACKMA members to visit karst areas and consider conservation and management issues.
There has been communication with the Cape Conservation Group on involving their group in groundwater monitoring. There is concern about the growth around Exmouth & the allocated allowances for water abstraction. The project was inspired as part of the Conservation Council's launching of their Citizen Science initiative. The monitoring program could be an important local grass roots strategy to raise the issue of water sensitivities on the range & involve the local schools in monitoring the groundwater & the associated communities.
In June, a karst ‘ground-truthing’ of Nowergup Lot 1, 2350 Wanneroo Road was undertaken at a site proposed for limestone extraction, batching & block cutting. A submission was forwarded from both WASG & the ASF Conservation Commission, as part of the public comment phase objecting to the proposal as it stood. The proposal also received significant local objection & council has now recommended to the DPI that the application be rejected.
A private cave at Guilderton has been opened up for ease of access where it was found through a borehole intersection. The cave (Rosewood Cave) has been track marked & surveyed. The remedial work recommended on the cave has been undertaken by the landowner at their own expense. This included walling up the cave to help preserve the atmosphere & the installation of a door. Rehabilitation of the exterior is expected to follow with revegetation including perennial tree species for slope stabilisation. The land owner supports this preservation and has been working with speleologists.
Also of note conservation wise is the efforts of WASG Trip Leaders in cave rehabilitation works in Blackboy Hollow Cave and speleothem repairs at Yanchep (Crystal Cave). The speleothem repairs were from that vandalism that occurred a few years back now.
In June, contact was made by the Shire of Augusta Margaret River regarding a proposed timber plantation at Cowaramup – no issues were raised and no further action was required. In December
2008, a submission was made to the City of Wanneroo on the local biodiversity strategy and the draft loca environmental plan (2009-1014). In April, public comment was sought in relation to the planned mining expansion of land near a mining site.
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Terms: Electromagnetism
Terms: Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation
Terms: Subjects
Terms: Galvanometers
Terms: C3-F4
Leeds & Northrup Company, Philadelphia (29)
Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation, Newark, NJ (6)
Apps, London (2)
James J. Hicks, London (2)
Universal Scientific Company, Inc., Vincennes, IN (2)
Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc., Passaic, NJ (1)
B. L. Makepeace, Inc., Boston (1)
Bachelier, Paris (1)
Bureau of Naval Personnel, Navy Dept., Washington D. C. (1)
Central Scientific Company, Chicago (1)
Dings Magnetic Separator Co., Milwaukee (1)
E. Leybold's Nachfolger, Cologne, Germany (1)
Educational Electric Manufacturing Co., Vincennes, IN (1)
Edward G. Herbert Limited, Manchester (1)
G. Cussons, Ltd., Manchester (1)
General Electric Vapor Lamp Co., Hoboken, NJ (1)
General Radio Company, Cambridge, MA (1)
Henry Hughes & Son, Ltd., London (1)
J. Carpentier, Paris (1)
J. H. Steward, London (1)
Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute/? (1)
Kipp & Zonen, Delft, Holland (1)
Leaders and Sons, Printers, Sheffield, UK (1)
Leeds & Northrup, Philadelphia (1)
Murray Manufacturing Corporation, Brooklyn (1)
R. Fuess, Berlin (1)
RCA Manufacturing Company, Inc., Camden, NJ (1)
Siemens Brothers & Co., Limited, London (1)
Spindler & Hoyer, Göttingen (1)
The Dietze & Dietze Co. Not Inc., Chicago (1)
Thordarson Electric Mfg. Co., Chicago (1)
W. G. Pye & Co. Ltd., Cambridge (1)
William D. Hart, Edinburgh, UK (1)
Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie (1)
Leeds & Northrup Company (26)
Galvanometers (17)
Scientific Instruments (12)
Electrical Instruments (6)
Weston Electrical Instrument Corporation (6)
scientific instruments -- optical (4)
Time-keeping (4)
Aug. Bel and Co. (3)
Leeds & Northrup (3)
Potentiometers (3)
Meteorological Instruments (2)
James J. Hicks (2)
Universal Scientific Company (2)
Line testing (2)
Drawing Instruments (1)
Sextants (1)
Engineering - Electrical (1)
Steinmetz (1)
Accurate Speed, Frequency and Acceleration Measurements
Advertising, Class, and the Inner Workings of a Great Watch
Apparate zur Elektrizitätslehre
Apps' Patent Inductorium
The Blessing of the Sun: Sociology over Astronomy
Bridge for Locating Faults in Power Circuits, 536A
British Association. Electricity as a Motive Power: Discourse, Delivered to the Working Men of Sheffield
The Brooks Inductometer, Bulletin No. 152
Bulletin No. 680, p. 15
Care and Maintenance of the Sextant
Catalogue: Artist and Drawing Materials
Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, & Philosophical Instruments
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Beyond USA
Central East
John Aaron
Sham Ali
Orville Hall
Dervon Wallace
Sam Soopersaud
Orin Davidson
Ravendra Madholall
New Competition Same Woes For U.S. Seniors
NewsOrin DavidsonOrin Davidson May 31, 2010 admin 0
Brooklyn Cricket League is definitely on the rise in New York. Photo by Shiek Mohamed
By Orin Davidson
Sri Lanka and New Zealand played to an historic 1-1 series draw which amidst enthusiastic crowds, launched the first ever international series staged in the United States last weekend. In the process the United States national team’s three-match competition against Jamaica revealed the team still has a long way to go to attain acceptable levels of play worldwide. They lost the solitary 50 overs and both twenty20 games by wide margins at the Lauderhill stadium in Florida. The team was without a number of its regular players and the replacements left a lot to be desired against a strong Jamaica lineup. The batting, bowling and fielding were poor in equal measure as star players Lennox Cush, Steve Massiah, Carl Wright , Orlando Baker and Aditya Thayagaranjan were made to struggle for the most part.
The team is now in Bermuda where it is on the verge of losing the ICC Americas title, having been thrashed by Canada in the game which is expected to determine this year’s championship winner.
Without top bowlers Kevin Darlington and Sudesh Dhaniram and Usman Shuja, the U.S. attack was made mincemeat of by a much improved Canada lineup.
The absences of those players due to time off and injury issues exposes no depth in for this U.S. national team.
Also against,Jamaica, considered the best team from the once great but now abject West Indies regional squad, yet the visitors were hardly made to break a sweat in sweeping the United States 3-0 in their 3-0 sweep over America.
Although the U.S, recently competed in two international tournaments in the United Arab Emirates and Nepal, and the fact that the domestic leagues have started in the northern regions, the batsmen were made to look out of touch and awkward against Jamaica in much the same way they struggled in the Twenty20 World Cup qualifiers and to a lesser extent at the ICC Division Four championship in February.
The reasons are obvious- United States playing standard is several notches below that of the world’s recognizable teams and unless the national ruling body acts fast, we will continue to struggle for a while yet.
USACA can begin by examining and restructuring its domestic competitions to improve play among the regions and clubs from which the national team members are selected.
There is way too much fragmentation in the current structures from New York to California which comprises a ton of different leagues that yield putrid competition.
New York, alone has seven leagues that comprise close to 100 teams who play every weekend of the summer, yet it produces the same low standard of play year after year. The same situation presents itself in Florida, Texas, California, New Jersey and Atlanta.
Nothing is wrong with a high level of participation of players in competition, but if one expects the current prevailing system to improve competitors and teams, we are living a pipe dream.
USACA needs quality than quantity more than ever now in competition if its ambitious development plan is to achieve its goals.
Combining the country’s best talent in groups representing teams will boost the playing levels and USACA can start with the national regional championship. By expanding it to a two –round, round robin home and away series among the eight teams will offer players greater exposure to the highest level of possible competition in the country. At the same time the national body has to ensure that the best possible players from the various leagues represent the various regions.
In so doing,the top players from the country will compete at a higher level and bring out the best in each other . Yet this change can only be realized with substantial funding of which USACA is sorely lacking presently. Tuft pitches for the playing venues and specialist technical personnel for the teams will add to the expenditure required to derive the full benefits But it is a plan USACA must prepare for, as soon the money will be flowing.
The just concluded Sri Lanka/New Zealand T20 series in Florida was televised by ESPN and had good attendance. Also the national team is moving up the ICC rankings that could lead to maximum associate member funding of more than a million dollars annually from the world ruling body.
The ball is squarely in USACA’s court from now onwards.
Bermuda Canada ESPN ICC Jamaica Kevin Darlington Lennox Cush Nepal New Jersey New York Orlando Baker Steve Massiah Sudesh Dhaniram Twenty20 World Cup United Arab Emirates United States USACA Usman Shuja West Indies
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Alba-Golden
Annual co-op meeting draws crowd in Quitman
Earl Cash of Winnsboro was grand prize winner in the Wood County Electric Co-op’s annual drawing at its memership meeting Friday. (Monitor photo by Larry Tucker)
Posted Thursday, October 17, 2019 12:10 am
Nearly 400 members braved the rain and cooler temperatures to attend the 81st annual meeting of Wood County Electric Cooperative Friday afternoon, Oct. 11 at Governor Jim Hogg City Park in Quitman. Prior to the meeting a free concert featuring singer/songwriters and sibling group, The Swoapes, was a crowd pleaser.
Debbie Robinson, CEO/general manager of WCEC, introduced the keynote speaker, State Rep. Cole Hefner (House District 5), who gave a legislative update. She then spoke to the crowd about the cooperative’s changing fuel mix. The cooperative’s mix traditionally has been natural gas, coal and hydro power.
“The cost of using renewable sources is coming down as technology improves,” she said. “Because of that, wind generation is now part of our mix. We are also currently studying how we can bring solar power into our generation mix to add to the already low cost of natural gas generation that we have. Being good stewards of our environment and good stewards of our pocketbooks are always at the forefront of our decisions.”
WCEC Board President and District One Director Pat Lindley also welcomed the crowd and announced the results of the board of director’s election, which was conducted by mail and tabulated by Survey and Ballots Systems. He reported the reelection of Cathy Roberts for District 5 and Jane Roberson for District 6, both for three-year terms.
Lindley also announced that the board of directors contemplates retiring capital credits, saying, “We will retire $1.5 million in capital credits which is an increase of $500K over last year. As is our tradition, checks will be mailed in December. In total, over the last 30 years over $26 million dollars has been returned to our members. We appreciate you supporting our electric co-op and in turn our ability to return capital credits to you.”
Once the business meeting closed, the prize drawing was conducted by Director of Operations, Rusty Mask. Prizes included a wooden rocker, tools and household items, and many gift certificates. These prizes were made possible through the generous donations of WCEC’s vendors.
Prior to the annual meeting, ten lucky members were awarded $100 in credit to their electric bills. These names were drawn from returned election ballots. Those winners were John Redmon, Red Springs; Catherine Maddox, East Point; Darrell Galyean, Alba; Gary Krell, Quitman; Willie Cicero, Red Land; Janet Johnson, South Franklin; Gary Gibson, Winnsboro; Larry Lewis, Yantis; Carolynn Null, Hoard; and Heather French, Winona. And an early bird prize of an iPad Air 64 GB was drawn from ballots received before Sept 27. The winner was Living Water Fellowship of Quitman. The grand prize, drawn from members at the meeting, was a $500 VISA gift card and the winner was Earl Cash of Winnsboro.
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Biomarker identified for early beta cell death in Type 1 diabetes
The biomarker can identify beta cell death in children and adults with recent-onset Type 1 diabetes and in antibody-positive at-risk subjects before disease onset.
6-Sep-2019 12:05 PM EDT
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Newswise — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Beta cells in the pancreas produce insulin. Their death is a key feature of Type 1 diabetes, and that loss starts long before diagnosis. However, there has been no straightforward way to measure that early loss.
Anath Shalev, M.D., and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham now have identified an early biomarker of Type 1 diabetes-associated beta-cell loss in humans — microRNA-204, or miR-204.
“Serum miR-204,” Shalev said, “may provide a much needed novel approach to assess early Type 1 diabetes-associated human beta-cell loss, even before onset of overt disease.”
MicroRNAs are found in animal and plant cells, where they help control gene expression. In previous work, Shalev found that miR-204 plays key roles in regulating insulin production and other critical beta-cell processes.
Now, in a study published in the American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shalev and colleagues report that miR-204, which is highly enriched in human beta cells, is released by dying beta cells. After that release, it becomes detectable in circulating blood.
Measurements using human blood samples showed that serum miR-204 was elevated in children and adults with early Type 1 diabetes, and in people with autoantibodies who are at risk for Type 1 diabetes, but it was not elevated in Type 2 diabetes or another autoimmune disease. Furthermore, serum miR-204 levels were inversely correlated with remaining beta-cell function in recent-onset Type 1 diabetes.
“Having a non-invasive, straightforward method sensitive enough to detect early beta-cell loss — especially prior to the diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes — is critical in order to allow for any therapeutic intervention to be started as early as possible in the disease process and ideally before the majority of beta cells has been destroyed,” Shalev said.
Shalev is a professor in the UAB Department of Medicine’s Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and she directs the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center.
Discovery of the biomarker was a step-by-step, hypothesis-driven process, starting from the observation that miR-204 had 108-fold higher expression in pancreatic islet beta cells as compared to pancreatic alpha cells.
The researchers first showed that miR-204 was released by cultured rat beta cells after induction of cell death by streptozotocin. Then they showed that killing of beta cells in mice given streptozotocin led both to diabetes, as expected, and to a massive increase in serum miR-204 levels.
Next, they showed that Type 1 diabetes-associated inflammatory cytokines, which induce beta cell death, caused release of miR-204 from both cultured rat beta cells and primary human pancreatic islets.
To test miR-204 in humans, they looked at serum from people receiving autologous pancreatic islet transplantations. It is known that islet transplantation is associated with massive beta-cell death shortly after the transplantation. The researchers found that miR-204 levels in serum rose sharply, 20 to 40 minutes after islet infusion.
The researchers next found that serum miR-204 was significantly elevated in children with recent-onset Type 1 diabetes. It was also elevated nearly threefold in adults with recent onset Type 1 diabetes and more than twofold in people with autoantibodies that put them at risk for Type 1 diabetes.
In contrast, it was not significantly elevated in people with Type 2 diabetes or people with the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis. It was not significantly elevated in people who have had Type 1 diabetes for a long time and have lost most of their beta cells.
Serum miR-204, Shalev and colleagues found, correlated with remaining beta-cell function, as measured by the “gold standard” of mixed-meal stimulated C-peptide area under the curve. Serum miR-204 also showed good predictive diagnostic power in the context of early Type 1 diabetes, including the ability to differentiate adult recent-onset Type 1 diabetes from Type 2 diabetes. That is useful because adults with Type 1 diabetes are often misdiagnosed when first found to have diabetes.
Shalev says the study at UAB was highly interdisciplinary. Co-authors with her on the paper, “Serum miR-204 is an early biomarker of type 1 diabetes-associated pancreatic beta-cell loss,” are Guanlan Xu, Lance A. Thielen, Junqin Chen, Truman B. Grayson, Tiffany Grimes and Fernando Ovalle, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, UAB Department of Medicine; S. Louis Bridges Jr., Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, UAB Department of Medicine; Hubert M. Tse, UAB Department of Microbiology; Blair Smith, UAB Department of Surgery; Rakesh Patel, UAB Department of Pathology; Peng Li, UAB Department of Biostatistics; and Carmella Evans-Molina, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Support came from National Institutes of Health Human Islet Research Network U01DK120379 award and R01DK078752 grant and from JDRF grant 3-SRA-2014-302-M-R.
At UAB, Shalev holds the Nancy R. and Eugene C. Gwaltney Family Endowed Chair in Juvenile Diabetes Research.
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India is only the ninth largest country market outside Europe for international airline seats from Europe in 2018, reports a study by CAPA – Centre for Aviation. However, if North Africa and the Middle East are excluded, India is Europe’s number four long haul market, behind only the US, China and Canada. Among these leading long haul markets, Europe-India seat numbers grew fastest in 2018 versus 2017, with an increase of 12.9 per cent compared with 6.7% for the US, 10.9% for China and 7.3% for Canada. The annual seat capacity from Europe to India has enjoyed strong growth in each of the past two years, increasing by 9.4% in 2017 and 12.9% in 2018. The total number of seats (one way) in this market reached 5.0 million in 2018 (compared with 45 million for Europe-US) – a 30% increase from the low point of 3.8 million in 2013.
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History and
Traditions and
Decorations and
Contacts and
Forum and
Asociația
Tradiție și Onoare, Seriozitate și Efort, Camaraderie și Respect
Primul grup de Reconstituire Istorico-Militară din România membru în
UNIUNEA EUROPEANĂ A ASOCIAȚIILOR ISTORICO-MILITARE
1st Mountain
Troops Battalion
2nd Guard Rifles
Battalion “Queen
4th Paratroopers
1st Border Guard
Marine Infantry
4th Line – 21st
Infantry Regiment
4th Dorobantzes
Regiment “Arges”
Military Firemen
Comapany
2nd Romanian
Border Guards
Regiment nr.17
Royal Guard Battalion
By request of King Carol ll., the General Staff issued the Order 1967 / 20 June 1930, which created the Palace Guard Company. It was formed by detaching the1st Company of the Gendarmerie Regiment. The command of the new unit was entrusted to a captain of he 1st Mountain Troops Battalion, that already had had the mission to guard the Royal Residence of Peles Castle in Sinaia. Until January 1931, the company was subordinated to the Royal Military House, but also, from the point of view of administration and training, to the Gendarmerie Regiment. It became independent in 1931, renamed the Palace Guard, and logistically attached to the Royal Escort Regiment. By the end of the same year, the Palace Guard was increased to 2 companies.
By IDR 3097/04 September 1935, the Palace Guard was augmented to 4 companies (758 men), hence renamed the Palace Guard Battalion. Until 1936, recruitment and training for this outfit were made by the gendarmerie and border guards, but at this point the PGB became autonomous also under this aspect. Recruits had to be peasants – members of the German ethnic minority were admitted. Officers and NCOs were chosen amongst the best of these specific schools. The duration of military training for the PGB, 3 years, was the longest of the Romanian army, along with the border guards, gendarmes and navy).Battle training was more intense even than that of operational troops. The composition was: command, 4 rifle companies, 1 heavy weapons company (machine guns and mortars), an administrative platoon and a state of the art communications section; in 1941 pioneers platoon was added. The Battalion covered, among others, 13 sentry posts at the Royal Palace and the Peles Castle.
King Michael I., while he was still Grand Prince of Alba Iulia, has completed a part of his military service, obtaining the ranks of corporal, sergeant and then 1stlieutenant; he had made it to 2nd lieutenant and was sworn to the colours in the 1st Battalion Mountain Troops in Sinaia.
In September 1940, after the abdication of King Carol ll., a detachment of the Palace Guard Battalion escorted him to the the border, having had during this mission several shootouts with Legionnaires who had attacked the Royal Train.
The name of the unit was changed, on 15 August 1941, to Royal Guard Battalion. During the Second World War, due to the drafting of reservists, an Operational Battalion of the Royal Guard was created, but it did not come to see action at the front. For this reason, many members of the RGB have requested the transfer to operational units (Mountain Troops, Border Guards, Infantry), thus managing to distinguish themselves and showing the true measure of their training.
On August 23rd 1944, during the German attack which destroyed a wing of the Royal Palace, 1 officer and 13 troops were killed and 2 officers, 3 NCOs and 20 soldiers were wounded.
On 30 December 1947, when King Michael I. was forced into exile by the Soviet occupants, the Royal Guard Battalion was disbanded.
> The Royal Palace Guard uniform consists of: pointed shiny steel helmet with the monogram of King Carol I. in front, dark blue tunic, gray pants, black boots, white gloves and belt, Royal crown on the belt buckle and on the epaulettes, white collar patches and officer’s epaulettes, gold colour braided fourragere, speckled with white. For certain ceremonies, in the ‘30s, Palace Guards donned halberdier uniforms, with white vests bearing the royal monogram on the chest. In 1941 RGB was issued with regular, kaki combat infantry uniforms, with Dutch type kaki combat steel helmets, but with white leather belts and suspenders and white collar patches. The traditional pointed helmet was reintroduced in 1945.
> Distinctive elements:
– 7 years silver badge (an oval crown of oak and laurel leaves, 2 crossed swords and a royal crown in the center, with a ribbon bearing the unit’s initials BGR)
– Pendant, worn on the chest on a blue ribbon rimmed with silver (a Romanian cross enameled white, with the royal monogram in the center and the outfit’s name initials on the arms of the cross (B, G, and R)
– gold colour braided fourragere, speckled with white
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Wara art drawcard at The York Festival
http://www.24australia.xyz/lifestyle/wara-art-drawcard-at-the-york-festival/601425-news September 17, 2019 25
YORK may offer residents of the Wheatbelt town a relaxed lifestyle but it keeps Jenny Garroun busier than she has ever been before.
Six years ago, the cafe and gallery owner noticed WA’s oldest inland town, once known for its festivals, had gone quiet after events had either dissipated or moved to other locations.
Her response was to start The York Festival which gets bigger and better each year.
“It’s a festival that celebrates its location in the Wheatbelt,” festival director Garroun said.
“The atmosphere of the festival is different to a lot of events where there is a central energy with lots of activities happening in that location.
“Our activities are spread right across the town and more and more of the York community are involved.
“The York Festival is presented by LiveLighter so we’re encouraging people to park their car, grab the trail map from Town Hall and walk to as many of those locations as they possibly can.”
This year’s events run across three weekends from September 28 to October 13, with music, art, food, performance, workshops, exhibitions and activities for all ages.
Wara art at The York Festival.
The main attraction will be the Japanese Wara art sculptures around the town centre.
“A few years ago we had a hay bale challenge which was a sculpture competition that invited artists to make a sculpture using a small bale of hay,” Garroun said.
“After the 2017 festival I was introduced to Wara art (using rice straw) which they’d been doing in Japan for nine years.
“I thought it was amazing and wondered if we could do that with wheat straw, so we invited them to help us last year.”
The designs were done in Japan and then the Wara artists travelled to York, staying for five weeks to work with Australian artists and lots of volunteers.
The result was three sculptures of endangered fauna that proved incredibly popular.
“You can’t believe something so big could be made out of such a flimsy material,” Garroun said.
“We didn’t have a long-term game plan and thought they’d just be pulled down and taken apart at the end of the festival, but people loved them so much that we left them up.
“At the moment they’re looking rather shabby because they’ve been through the winter rain but structurally they’re quite sound and are about to have a bit of a facelift.
“We’re aiming by the time this year’s festival opens that there will be six sculptures; two from last year and four new ones from this year.
“People can learn a little bit about Japanese culture and endangered Australian fauna at the same time.”
Japanese culture will also be celebrated at A Day in Japan on October 5 with tea ceremonies, martial arts, origami, bonsai and other events.
“WA exports more than 50 per cent of Japan’s annual consumption of noodle wheat,” Garroun said.
“With increasingly more Japanese visitors coming to see what we’re doing, we thought it would be nice to celebrate Japanese culture.”
Entry to festival events is free or by gold coin donation.
The program is at www.yorkfestival.com.au.
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