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Chessington - The Future
Re: Chessington - The Future
Scruffy Dog have shared this image of a new project, and for some reason it screams Dragons Falls to me. They also noted the name is recognisable which both Chessingtion and Dragons Falls are. It could be entirely unrelated but I wouldn't be surprised seeing as Dragons Falls is expected to have a refurb similar to Scorpion Express at some point...
Team TTSP
Scruffy Dog have confirmed that the image is not related to Dragon Falls, nor any Merlin project for that matter.
What a shame! I was beginning to look forward to some sort of re-vamp of Dargon Falls! I guess it may still get one though a some point hopefully.
Ladyofthelake
Location: Warwickshire
As reported by SouthParks News, Chessington have submitted plans for a 'Forest Segways Tours' attraction to be located next to the Go Ape High Ropes course in the Sixty Acre Woods. This will comprise of a 1600m long circuit which will take guests through the natural woodland in the area. Groups can be up to 14 guests with five, 90 minute sessions a day.
Liam.W
I'm so excited by this! I've done the forest segways at the GoApe located in Sherwood Forest, and it is fantastic! Really glad it's coming to chessie!
Ride count since the beginning of 2015: 1828!
Ride count 2020: 55!
Cred count: 97!
They also offer it at Go Ape Thetford, although I've never been on them there. It has been a while since I've been on a Segway, but when I go biking nearby, they always seem to be in use!
Just found a little video too!
Swarm Chris
Some speculation, as Chessington haven't had a brand new ride in a while. The park is in reasonable need of something new that can add capacity, given that pretty much every weekend Vampire and Dragon's Fury will have queues 40-90 minutes in length, along with Grufallo and Zoofari having similarly long queues.
If I remember correctly, there was some suggestion in the last development plan that they wanted to add a new coaster, with a water coaster being hinted at. Given the re-theme of Tiger Rock this year, I'm not sure they need a water coaster, or that it would give the capacity they need.
My speculation is given the success of Wicker Man, could they build a family oriented woodie? They could even shove an IP in there like Oscar's Wacky Taxi if they really had to.
The field at the corner of the Vampire and Dragon's Fury has been earmarked for development for a fair while, and I could see it nicely housing a wooden coaster, given how they've implemented Wicker Man.
Cwoalover
Hi guys. I totally agree about Chessington not needing a new coaster but I would love to see Samurai return. Though land of the tigers may not be mystic east, samurai would be a perfect addition since the building are a nice surrounding area for samurai. Also, I would like the old colour scheme back. Who knows, it could be orange and black stripes! Really though, rameses revenge needs it's buddy back since it wasn't the only upside down ride when samurai was their.
vanjiematteo
Swarm Chris wrote:
It's to my understanding that they can't build on that green area next to Dragons Fury as it is green belt land. I know someone who works for Merlin and this was the reasoning she gave me.
Stevieg1993
How about a Mack junior launch coaster? Similar to Manta at SeaWorld Diego. I'd probably say it would be a good addition to the park and be a hit with their target audience.
That's a great ride.
However, right about now, any new additions would be welcome at Chessington.
It's coming on 15 years without a new coaster.
(And no, Scorpion Express does not count).
A Mack launched coaster might be a good fit for Chessington in terms of building restrictions.
If I remember correctly they have a similar height restriction to Alton (leading to Rattlesnake being shoved in a hole), along with a noise restriction (in part caused by the very noisy Vampire lift hill), and the inability to build on various amount of greenbelt land (although tearing it up with vehicles on a wet day is fine).
As much as I would love a family woodie at Chessington, they'd probably need to dig another hole and find some way of making it less noisy. I haven't heard a Mack powered launch in real life, but I'd assume it'll be one of the quietest large rollercoaster types available.
A family Mack Launch Coaster would be good,similar to Manta at SeaWorld Diego. Think it's only around 50 feet and 43mph. Add a good theme and you'd have a good family coaster which can pack abit of a punch as well. It be like a small scale Icon but better themed. Take out the inversions or at a push maybe add a barrel.
Location: Black Hollow
Contact Jared
vanjiematteo wrote:
Thankfully that's incorrect. Chessington, thanks to some clever planning and agreements with the local authorities expanded their major development boundary and it allows them to build on that land. Believe it or not, Chessington isn's short of expansion space, theres just a far bigger masterplan in place when it comes to Chessington which is going to take quite sometime to implement. They did have 2020/2021 earmarked as a high investment year and the plan was for a new roller coaster.
obliviongirl
Getting really tired of the IP’s to be honest. I was disappointed when they changed Bubbleworks to Gruffalo but then again I haven't been on Gruffalo so can't really comment.
I understand IP’s are good from the park's perspective for marketing and that but in terms of longevity perhaps not so much. I miss the days when all the rides were based on original ideas... felt a lot more magical that way.
Coaster Chall
Location: Doncaster
I think that with Merlin Entertainments, they like to spread a major investment across their parks. The latest rumours suggests that Gardaland will get it in 2020 with their waterpark and also, rumours suggests that Chessington World Of Adventures will get a new coaster in 2021. We're not sure at the moment whether its the Juvelen type launch coaster or a pirate themed water coaster or anything else that wasn't in the long term development plan, but it is highly speculated that 2021 is the year.
Podulator365098
I think a family woodie would work quite well considering the success of Wicker Man. I think something like switchback at ZDTs could fit quite nicely if you whack a nice theme on it
I think when Vampire retires and its time for it to be removed, a family friendly woody could work in that area, especially given its Wild Woods area name. I still think a rapids ride would be amazing at the park, but highly unlikely now I think.
Just seen this on FB for UK Theme Parks and it seems as if Chessington World Of Adventures have announced that a new four year partnership will bring the Elmer character from the children's book to the relocated Flying Jumbos. Elmer's Flying Jumbos will open in 2020.
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It seems the original press release actually went out at the end of November last year, so this somehow slipped past everyone, until now...
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Angelvamp
Post by Angelvamp » Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:57 am
I don't think it's Bella that keeps people hyperventillating in the kitchen! LOL
Personally, I don't relate to Bella much. I think people like that she has quirks and faults that exemplify human traits, especially when compared to all the super-human hotties she's surrounded with. And she does have redeeming qualities, like bravery and loyalty, that make her a worthy character. It could just be that everyone wants to live vicariously through her because she's found true love.
"Life is pain...anyone who tells you different is selling something."
vampirenerd
Location: In my fantasy world with Edward...and Jacob (why not?)
Post by vampirenerd » Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:24 am
I agree while she is quite annoying sometimes she is very much human. She is surrounded by all of this super human stuff but she's till clumsy little Bella. I think that endears her to people. That she can hold her own surrounded by vamps and wolves. Also, it's the fact she has Edward. If we can't have him ourselves we have to read about the one that can
ringswraith
Running with Leah 'cause she thinks I'm hawt
Post by ringswraith » Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:01 pm
With regards to the posts before me, I agree that human Bella was quite relatable.
But when she got vamped out, I lost that connection. She became this perfect... thing... It was hard to ignore just how wonderful she was.
Post by Angelvamp » Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:45 pm
I agree with Ringswraith, a lot of the traits that made Bella Bella were lost after the transformation. Instead of clumsy, she's the most graceful vampire from the get-go. Instead of being plain, she's breath-taking. I think a lot of people had trouble relating to her after she turned. I know she almost died a bunch of times but it still seems like she got off easy, especially when she didn't have to go through all the newborn vampire stuff. Maybe I'm just being difficult. But the whole second half of BD seemed like it didn't even belong in the same series.
Location: Reading in Bed and listening to Vivaldi
Post by opulent » Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:55 am
While I agree that Bella was somewhat lost in BD, I think that it was somewhat necessary for her to grow up and mature. I mean, we had three books about Bella and her imperfections, as well as her love story with Edward. If Meyer had made BD about the same Bella-being-Bella-loving-Edward story that the first three books were about, the story would begin to seem very repetitive. BD is about Bella losing her human fears that make her much of who she is before the transformation. It's about her family and its difficulties - not about her and Edward any more. While I bemoan the subtle lack of romance in BD, I see why it had to happen. BD as an entirety was a conclusion to the series - it gave us a three-month glimpse of what life would be like for the Cullens after the series ended. Bella is still Bella - but she is the new improved Bella, and I honestly think these are realistic changes considering what she went through to become a vampire, including the loss of physical weakness, fear for her life as a human, and not being able to hold onto Edward as a human. Even in Eclipse she is afraid when Edward leaves her, but in Breaking Dawn she has lost that fear.
I could go on for hours like this. I'll stop while I'm ahead.
"Plus que ma propre vie."
Post by ringswraith » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:13 am
See, that's where I disagree. I don't think her change from human to vampire was realistic (that is, as realistic as you can be, given the setting) at all.
We've been given all these "rules" about newborns, and here Bella comes along and basically breaks them all. She goes from a real character to a total Mary Sue. It's just as Edward said- she's behaving as if she were decades and not days old.
Post by opulent » Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:25 am
All right, Rings, I agree with you on the whole missing the newborn vampire stage part. I was disappointed that she skipped right over that - it seemed a little too convenient that she would do that, and it would have been extremely interesting to see what she would have been like if she had less self control.
But I still maintain that her personality was not out of keeping with her conversion from human to vampire. I think that, even if she did act like a normal newborn, that she still would have acted the way she does after the first few years of bloodlust wears off. Her personality would have been the same after those years, it just wouldn't have been as prominent as it is after her conversion.
opulent wrote: All right, Rings, I agree with you on the whole missing the newborn vampire stage part. I was disappointed that she skipped right over that - it seemed a little too convenient that she would do that, and it would have been extremely interesting to see what she would have been like if she had less self control.
I think we're talking about different things. I think you're talking about her actual personality- like disliking gifts and surprises.
I'm talking about her as a whole, post-transformation. Yes, she's still the same essential person. But now she's just too perfect. What she does flies in the face of everything we've been taught in the series.
No, she's not perfect. But I understand what you are saying. Physically, the fact that she's beautiful post-transformation is no surprise. Her being perfect would have eliminated a lot of the insecurities she felt pre-transformation. Therefore eliminating a lot of who we know as "Bella". Then you have her klutziness. Losing that as a vampire would have changed another set of characteristics - her awkwardness, her self-consciousness to an extent. Yes, she changed overall - a lot, in fact. But this was due to her loss of human traits that made her who she was. You could probably name another human trait she had and figure out how she changed because she lost that in the transformation.
We were talking about two different things, but at the same time, Rings, both aspects still affect Bella and how she perceives herself after the transformation.
Hmm. No, I think we're kind of missing each other, here.
When I say Bella is "perfect," this is what I mean:
1. No "crazed newborn" phase. She skips this altogether.
2. She's able to be around a human with little difficulty- specifically, her father, whom she admits smells much better than those random hikers she caught wind of. Later, she's able to go out on her own to meet humans- J. Jenks for example.
3. She's able to develop her power light-years beyond anyone's expectations- most namely, Kate, who had to devote centuries to learn to push her power out, and all she can manage is putting it on her skin. Then we have Bella, who pretty much single-handedly saves the day during the big confrontation by extending her shield over her entire side.
I have no problem with her being beautiful- she always was, even as a human. (At least, she is to me.) I could understand how she'd lose the clumsiness post-transformation. But it's the above that irks me the most.
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi Spoiler thread
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Chucko_marek
June 19, 2018 6:15PM
rodandreelguy wrote: »
Kelarn wrote: »
I just want to know why (after Carrie passed), Rian didn't have the foresight to change the ending of the movie and keep Luke alive to carry IX in her place. Guess Rey is single handedly taking out the Knights of Ren (if they ever show up).
Because Rian is a terrible writer/director who should've never been allowed anywhere near something as big as Star Wars that's clearly way over his head.
There are several writers that have been used for the last 4 movies, Perhaps they should've streamlined the process and gone with the best one? but I guess there was no way to know until after the scripts were written and the movies made.
CaptainRex
June 19, 2018 10:43PM
Chucko_marek wrote: »
Mark Hamill knew. He started complaining about the script the second he got it.
#CloneHelmets4Life...VICTORY!!!! "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere." The more you tighten your grip, CG/EA, the more whales will slip through your fingers (and go F2P or quit).
June 20, 2018 10:06AM
CaptainRex wrote: »
But he still was in it. Personally, if I was Mark, I would have bailed. But maybe money...
Contract obligation, more likely. They probably signed him for the new trilogy. He did TFA, and by the time he saw the script for TLJ, it was probably more trouble to get out of than it was worth.
But I see his point - the main thing that really bothered me about the movie was that Luke was intending, if even for a second, to kill his nephew - Han and Leia's son. I can forgive spacewalk leia, and even the pretty awful Canto bit (ffwd ftw). But Luke considering murder of a child (?) is just way too out of character. I think it could have been handled in a much better way - such as Luke threatening to expel Ben, Ben leaving, then coming back later with the knights of ren after taking up as Snoke's apprentice. The way it was done in the movie was way too heavy handed.
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kalidor wrote: »
How do we know we can trust Kylo's story? Perhaps it was a fabrication to justify his actions.
DuneSeaFarmer
June 24, 2018 5:54PM edited June 2018
Just add a new rating to include social issues etc, then you can make a decision to watch the film or not.
Post edited by DuneSeaFarmer on June 2018
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ScrawnyKid88
Hamill has said over and over again that his comments about the not liking the script and direction of the character were overblown. To keep acting like he was vehemently opposed to this film is doing a disservice to the man who is Luke Skywalker. Here is just one example: https://www.avclub.com/mark-hamill-regrets-ever-making-his-debates-with-rian-j-1823713825
Because Luke himself later confirmed it in his second recounting of the events.
Something I was not aware of, many have wondered how TLJ would have been with JJ directing. JJ was the executive producer of TLJ. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/
I will have to double check that. I don't remember Luke telling the story again. That would change my perspective. Luke was supposed to represent the light side in a dark galaxy.
But maybe they're blending in the original story, where Luke joins the dark side, taking Vader's place at the end of ROTJ.
DuneSeaFarmer wrote: »
And Christoper Nolan was the executive producer on BvS...
ScrawnyKid88 wrote: »
(From article) "and near-universal praise for Johnson and his installment of the franchise"
Kylo's telling to Rey definitely shows a more rabid looking Luke, but Luke admitted to Rey after she found out that he did indeed have the thought to kill Kylo for a split second. I still have a hard time believing that Luke would choose that solution, even for a moment, after such a huge leap of faith with Vader in RotJ. (I'm in the the "generally liked the movie" camp, btw). The rest of the movies flaws I can generally write off, but that one sticks with me.
I have to admit I had to look him up, then had my Doh moment
It's one of my big ones, and I liked LJ more than FA. It goes back to psychology, we are naturally predispose to believing a good guy and that the bad guy always lies, that's why Yoda had to confirm Vader was Luke's father. Vader was the bad guy and couldn't be trusted.
"Owen, you can't keep him on the farm, he has too much of his father in him"
July 6, 2018 6:39PM
I don't think that means he would kill a child who has done no wrong, compared to saving a sith lord - It just doesn't add up at all.
https://swgoh.gg/u/juzzyforce/collection/
July 9, 2018 10:30AM
Boo wrote: »
That didn't stop him from trying.
I don't understand your point. What do you mean?
For a positive character that believes in good vs evil and how good should triumph decides to try and break his core beliefs into murdering a child in order to be "good"?
That still does not make any sense - Luke Skywalker is broken in TLJ, thanks to Johnson.
That didn't stop him from trying.[/quote]
That still does not make any sense - Luke Skywalker is broken in TLJ, thanks to Johnson.[/quote]
What Luke does in the movie and what we expect from his character are two different things now. No amount of complaining can change that. I don't care for the movies, but it is what it is at this point... At least Solo and Rogue One were decent. lol
What Luke does in the movie and what we expect from his character are two different things now. No amount of complaining can change that. I don't care for the movies, but it is what it is at this point... At least Solo and Rogue One were decent. lol[/quote]
Can't argue with that Bro. It goes to show these new movies just do anything they like to any character no matter what, and that is exactly what they are doing.
I agree with Rogue One - best Disney Star Wars movie yet (didn't see Solo yet - due to boycott).
Rebel_yell
July 9, 2018 10:07PM
Rebel_yell wrote: »
No Star Wars movie has been entirely logical. Most people are comparing the new Star Wars films to not just the old trilogies, but also the plethora of additional content that was released to support a lot of the gaps. (books, interviews, etc)
Here are two other points I want people to consider:
1) a bolt from chewy's blaster is lethal. Kylo was not only unfocused after killing Han, but the rest of his "force" attention was on keeping himself from dying. His arrogance allowed Finn a lucky strike. His damaged state allowed Rey to win.
2) Rey can utilize the force better than Luke could earlier in time because she BELIEVES it can be used that way. Example, Luke doesn't believe he can pull the x-wing from the swamp (it's not like he got a lot of force specific training before yoda asked him to do that). Rey does believe the force is used to "move rocks". So when presented by the challenge, she doesn't doubt that she can harness the force to achieve that task.
Ok, 3 points. All this talk of not knowing Rey's lineage is nonsense. The only other Jedi who's lineage we know are Anakin and Luke. This movie was obviously an attempt to move the franchise from being about this specific family and towards a more overarching theme of good vs. evil. Kylo basically beat us over the head with that theme during TLJ.
Have to argue your points here - as they are extremely flawed.
Yes we do not know lineage of other jedi (other than the skywalkers) because other jedi were pretty generic. It is known that (at the time of the PT) Mace and especially Yoda were extremely gifted with their force potential.
A child Anakin superseded them both - by a lot! This was explained because Anakin was part of an ancient Jedi Prophecy - he was conceived/created by the force itself - he was like force Jesus.
That power (although slightly diluted) was passed to Luke & Leia (Leia never really used her abilities - shame). But Luke did and was the only hope (without Leia rising to the challenge) to end Vader (still the chosen one) and his Sith Master - Yoda and Obi wan could not do this!
(Yoda and Obi wan believed Luke's power was enough to do the deed and did not count on Luke's ability to redeem his father - but that's another issue).
Luke had multiple failures - frm deflecting blaster bolts with training remotes, to moving rocks, R2 and of course his X-Wing. And of course, defeated by Vader having his hand cut off.
Lets remember that Luke trained (briefly) with Obi wan - he then trained for days possibly weeks with Yoda (Luke's time on Dagobah lasted the time it took the Falcon to travel from Hoth to Bespin - without lightspeed!)
Rey had 2 lessons with Luke, over the course of the fuel life expectancy in TLJ (stated by tFirst Order as 18 hours!!!!).
Rey's lineage is important because she never fails. She pulls off amazing force techniques without being taught. She lifts entire sides of mountains - what, because she believes she can????
Yes Kylo was injured, but Vader was in a cumbersome suite, and still not devoting his full strength to Luke and still managed to cut Luke's hand off. And Luke had lightsaber training from Obi wan and the Dagobah cave! Rey had none!!!!
Rey not only defeated Kylo in lightsaber combat but also resisted his mind probed and in fact reversed his mind probe - WHILE HE WAS AT FULL STRENGTH!
Luke's lineage and power in the force comes from the force itself (Anakin aka Force Jesus) - Rey is a nobody.
Your theories and arguments are deeply flawed!
Anakin had a higher ceiling, but he wasn't more powerful than Yoda or Mace. Hence, why Yoda sent Obi-Wan to battle Anakin and Yoda went to battle EP. To quote Yoda, while Anakin was born of the Force, "A prophecy that misread could have been."
Why would Luke's force abilities be slightly diluted? Why can't he be just as or stronger in midachlorians than Anakin? if you're trying to apply genetic logic to a fantasy series, I have bad news for you.
Obi-Wan already beat Anakin. He couldn't bring himself to kill him with his own Saber.
This is actually one of the parts of the TLJ that really bothers me. She wasn't there for 18 hours. She had been there since after they destroyed Starkiller base. The movie had two stories that were following two different time arcs.
Rey had been training with a staff her entire life. Picking up a saber isn't that different.
Rey's lineage is not important. It's just not. Her parent's don't need to be anything. Yoda had no lineage. Mace had no lineage. Obi-wan had no lineage. All were major parts of the SW franchise. To say Kylo should be more powerful than Rey because he's a descendant of Skywalker just has zero basis.
It bugged me that she was able to use the Jedi Mind Trick. I don't mind that she could resist Kylo because mind tricks only work on the "weak minded", but doing a reverse mind trick, and influencing the stormtrooper were a big stretch that doesn't mesh with the universe. However, these are both in TFA and have nothing to do with TLJ.
No they're not, but good try conflating two separate movies to attack TLJ and not using common sense.
Oh dear - please see your flawed arguments responded to in bold below:
Anakin had the most midachlorians ever seen in a life form - does that mean he had more knowledge and experience to use the force to his max potential?...No. Having said that he was trained in the Jedi way (force lightsaber combat, agility etc.) since he was like 10 years old. He also began dabbling in the dark side in ROTS. Rey had no training whatsoever before she could combat Kylo's mind probe, defeat him lightsaber combat and telekinesis and use mind tricks!
Why is it flawed - Lucas brought midachlorians into lore - which form part of a force sensitive person's cells - its genetic! That is why Qui Gon was keen to ask who Anakin's father was and why Luke says the force runs strong in his family. What point can you make as to say my genetic argument is flawed????
Anakin's overconfidence with power was his downfall - He and Obi Wan were actually evenly matched.
Yes there are two story arcs, but she arrived at Ach-To at the same time the Resistance were starting to evacuate their base, following the events of TFA. At best Rey was only there a few days, and we know she only received 2 lessons from Luke (3 if you include the deleted scene - which wasn't much of an actual lesson). Again, Luke was on Dagobah training with Yoda the entire time it took the Falcon to travel from Hoth to Bespin - from one star system to another...without hyperdrive/lightspeed! Luke was likely training with Yoda daily for weeks or months - more than a few days with 2-3 lessons!
Wrong - I have trained in weapons. The mechanics of a staff are very different than a sword...very different. I wouldn't be surprised if Rey builds herself a double bladed saber for E9.
If she was an average Jedi, then I agree that her lineage is not important. However, when comparing her to the Skywalker lineage and she outclasses Kylo, Luke and even Anakin, with little training there's a problem. So, in that regard her lineage is important.
Kylo was using a mind probe not a mind trick. He was pulling information out of her brain - that has nothing to do with being weak minded. She was able to not only shield her thoughts from Kylo but reversed the process onto him, which was crazy, I agree with you there, same with using mind trick on 007, I mean the FOST.
I think you are the one who has flawed logic and lack of common sense...sorry.
July 13, 2018 1:27AM
Kylo trying to probe her mind reminded me of Snape trying to teach Harry to guard his mind against intrusions. Kylo even looks like Snape lol
That's why I call Unmasked Kylo Handsome Snape.
Darknesswon
Why does she have to be related to anyone to be strong in the force , thats just an assinine argument. Jedi didnt have emotional attachments remember, so no family or kids , so how did any of them get their power? The force is in everything in some more than others. Was Maces or yodas families the most powerful before, since they were during the prequels, then everyone should of known of the emporer before hand as someone so powerful in the force wouldve had to have a powerful force family to start with , lets see the movie before we start complaining huh?
And as for movies with plotholes , yall forget the biggest one , the one R1 was created to explain , why the most powerful battlestation in existence ever, had basically a self destruct mechanism built in, hey one torpedo and we can destroy a planet sized ship. So stop overanalyzing and enjoy the movies
July 22, 2018 7:33PM edited July 2018
Why does she have to be related to anyone to be strong in the force
Because Rey's parents were specifically highlighted in Force Awakens, therefore, "nobody's" is an insufficient answer. One of the MANY results of Kathleen Kennedy not planning a narrative for the sequels.
Highlighted by who ?
The movie. Remember when they made multiple mentions to her parents, and made sure when you excited the theater, your 2 biggest questions were "Who are Rey's parents?", and "Who is Snoke?".
July 22, 2018 10:45PM
You mean they mentioned that an orphan ,the main character mind you , wondered who her parents were, omg , thats just so outrageous. Why would an orphan wonder who their parents were smh, has there ever been a movie with an orphan as a main character that didnt care about where they came from.
And if the first movie of a trilogy left you with questions , then it did its job. Thats what they are supposed to do smh. If they answer everything in the first 2 why watch anymore lmao
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Invites and Paper
RSVP no after STD
pbi9994 member
October 2013 in Invites and Paper
I've sent the save the dates and two of my cousins have already told me they cannot attend. Do I still send them invitations? I've read that etiquette says not to, but I feel like I would still want the invitation. Are there exceptions to this rule? Is this one of those weird non-rule rules? Here's the source, it's #6. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/24/wedding-etiquette_n_3806349.html
Re: RSVP no after STD
manateehugger member
Don't use huff post as an etiquette source - they are silly. Try Miss Manners for some good advice.
Yes, you send an invitation to every person who got a save-the-date. Save-the-date=invitation. No exceptions.
Their schedules/finances may change between now and two months before your wedding. When you get ready to send invitations, just shoot them a little note saying, "I know you said you can't make it, but I still wanted to send you an invite in case your schedule changed!"
kitty8403 member
PDKH said:
^Great point, but doesn't that require the guest to RSVP twice to the same event? I realize schedules can change, but it seems like getting a mailing and taking follow-up calls about my plans after I'd already expressed my regrets might be annoying.
gothic_fairy60 member
A Save-the Date does not require an RSVP
JoanE2012 Exit 21 (Jersey!) member
kitty8403 said:
Technically the guest shouldn't have RSVP'd based on the STD. It's informational only and requires nothing more. If they want to express their regrets to the couple beforehand, that's fine.
The invitation is where one expresses acceptance or regrets. And if the host does it properly, there is a prepaid envelope to mail back their response.....it really isn't that hard if the guest has to say no again.
All good points. In this particular case, one cousin is pregnant and will be unable to travel, and the other cousin bought a store, and will be in the midst of a grand opening - neither of these things will change, hopefully. I have no problem adding a note or calling them and asking their preference, but I was just wondering about a rule going forward because I feel like we might have a few more of these situations before the invites go out.
The rule going forward is - you send an invitation to anyone who got a save the date. That's the etiquette rule.
Save the dates aren't supposed to be something to which you RSVP.
OK. Will do. Thanks!
doeydo Southwestern Ontario member
I would still send them invitations. Their plans could always change and it is just nice to let them know they are still welcome to come.
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Galaxy Bloom is the name of next foldable phone from Samsung
We’ve heard quite a lot of rumours about the phone we have called the Galaxy Fold 2. It is difficult to assess the credibility of everyone, but there is no doubt that the device exists and is expected to be available soon. As it turns out, it was also shown at CES 2020. Only that not in public, but behind closed doors – selected partners and journalists.
The new phone won’t be Galaxy Fold 2 according to SamMobile’s publications. Perhaps because its shape differs considerably from that of the currently sold Galaxy Fold. Galaxy Bloom will be a rival to Motorola Razr because it was chosen to mark the new product. A low-quality picture was taken at the meeting also reveals the phone’s clamshell design and the name Galaxy Bloom.
The report also indicates that the Galaxy Bloom will be covered with a new glass material called “Ultra-thin Glass (UTG)” rather than a plastic display like the original Galaxy Fold. It was claimed by SamMobile that this particular design was chosen because the Galaxy Bloom is targeted at a younger, already familiar, female audience. In addition, the Galaxy Bloom is the first smartphone that supports shooting 8K video. Both 4G and 5G Bloom versions will be available.
At this meeting, it was also confirmed that the Galaxy S11 will in fact be launched as the Galaxy S20. It appears that Samsung has decided this launch a new marketing strategy for its devices at the beginning of a new decade. The Flagships will be called Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+ and Galaxy S20 Ultra and launching on February 11. The 108 MP rear camera and support for 100-x zoom is said to be featured in Galaxy S20 Ultra. Each three will also be able to record 8K like Galaxy S20 Ultra.
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Global Media Campaign
We are the Global Media Campaign to End FGM
info@globalmediacampaign.org
The Global Media Campaign is a web of 375 media activists across 7 countries broadcasting directly to their communities where girls are cut. This new generation of grassroots, digitally literate young campaigners are best-placed to end FGM in their communities. And, with relatively modest support, they can make significant change.
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My name is Nastehe Abubakar Aftin. I am part of the Dayaa Women Group, in Tana River, Kenya. We are a Community Based Organisation (CBO) working to end FGM using the media as one of our strategies. I have worked with TBS, TanaFM, AmaniFM radios and Star Television Network (Somali), RTN, NTV and KTN News V station to broadcast the anti-FGM message, teaching more than 10 million people. Follow me on Twitter @NasteheA or @DayaaGroup.
My name is Sadia Hussein. My name is Sadia Hussein I am an FGM survivor and part of the Dayaa Women Group working to end FGM using the media as part of our strategies. In the last 4 years I have appeared on KTN news, Somali TV, KBC TV, Star FM, Radio Midnimo to broadcast the anti-FGM message. I have also been working closely with religious leaders on the media to get the message out clearly that FGM is not a religious practice. So far I have reached more than 30 million people. Follow me on Twitter @SadearH or @DayaaGroup.
My name is Ruth Jepchumba Kilimo. I am part of the Marakwet Girls Foundation working to end FGM using the media. In the last three years I have worked with Kass FM, Chamgei FM, Taach FM, Kass Radio and TV, BBC, KTN TV stations to broadcast the anti-FGM message, reaching more than ten million people. Please follow my work on Facebook on Ruth Jepchumba or on Twitter @ruthKilimo or on the website
My name is Christine Ghati Alfons. I work with Safe Engage Foundation involving young people in stirring up discussions towards abandonment of FGM/C. Since graduating from the GMC Media Training Academy, I have worked with Radio Anyuola and Radio Togotane reaching more than 1 million people. I am on Facebook here or here, also on Twitter @Ghatichristine or @SafeFdn.
My name is Domtila Chesang. I am a grassroots media activist advocating for the eradication of FGM and Child Marriage. Through my organisation the I_Rep Foundation I also champion for girls’ education in my community the Pokot. Apart from community engagements, I also use the power of media to amplify my campaign. I have worked with Radio Maisha, KalyaFM, North Rift, and Kokwo radios. My work has been featured on Citizen TV, NTV, KTN, K24, The Star, The Nation, and The Nairobian newspapers, among others. You can find me and my work on social media; on Facebook, on Twitter @CDomtila or on our website.
My name is Jeremiah Kutanya. In the last 4 years I have worked with Mayian and Nosim radios and Ebru TV station to broadcast the anti-FGM messages reaching more than five million people. To follow my work, please follow on Facebook here or here, on Twitter @Jeremmie2010 or on the Enlighters Youth Initiative website.
My name is Tony Mwebia. I am part of #MenENDFGM movement rallying men and boys to join the fight against FGM using media as one of our strategies. In the last 3 years we have worked with many Media outlets in Kenya to broadcast the anti-FGM message. Reaching more than 10 Million People. Follow us on Twitter @MenEndFGM, like our Facebook page and follow us on Instagram. You can connect personally with me on all social media accounts as (TonyMwebia) or check out my website.
My name is Peter Kemei, working with Adventure Youth Group and also part of the #MenEndFGM Movement, working to end FGM in the Mt Elgon region and Kenya at large. Since graduating from the GMC Media Academy, I have worked with BK Radio, Radio Mambo, Mukwano radio and Sulwe FM radio stations to broadcast the anti-FGM messages, to morethan 5 million people. Follow my work on twitter
@PCKemei or @AdventureYG_Ke and on Facebook.
My name is Samuel Leadismo, Founder and Director Pastoralist Child Foundation. We work to eradicate FGM, child marriage and promote education through scholarships. I have worked with Serian FM, Voice of America, ABC, BBC, KTN, NTV stations to broadcast the anti-FGM message to more than 10 million people. Follow my work on Twitter @kenyachildfund or @Samuelleadismo, on Facebook or on our website.
I am Dominic Kimitta popularly know as Mamboleo. I am a Champion in the fight against FGM and harmful cultural practices, I use media to communicate my messages as well as incorporating art and theatre as a tool to share data and the current situation on FGM in Kenya and Africa. Follow these YouTube links here and here for my works.
Mon nom est Fatoumata Seyba, je fais partie du Réseau des jeunes ambassadeurs pour la santé de la reproduction et la planification familiale au Mali. De décembre 2018 a nos jour, j’ai travaillé avec Énergie chaînes de télévision pour diffuser mon message et mettre fin à l’excision et j’ai atteint plus d’un million personnes au Mali. Bientôt j’animerai un émission débat sur Énergie TV à l’occasion du 16 juin, journée de l’enfant Africain. Grâce a Global Média Campaign je suis reconnue sur le plan national car mes activités sont médiatisés. Pour suivre mon travail, allez sur Twitter @seybafatou et Facebook.
Je suis Aminata Traoré, je fais partie de l’organisation Parole Aux Jeunes. Dans les derniers mois, j’ai travaillée avec la radio Djekafo pour diffuser mon message et mettre fin à l’excision et j’ai atteint plus de 500000 personnes au Mali. Pour suivre mon travail allez sur mon Facebook.
Mon nom est Bintou Traoré une activiste Malienne. De Décembre 2018 à nos jours, j’ai travaillé avec des chaînes de télévision et radio comme ORTM, liberté TV, et radio Énergie. Avec mon projet actuel j’ai travaillé avec la radio Énergie pour faire passer mon message et pour mettre fin à la pratique de l’excision au Mali. J’ai atteint plus d’un million de personnes au Mali. Pour suivre mon travail allez sur mon compte Facebook.
Je suis Fatoumata Bagayoko, la directrice de la compagnie de danse Jiriladon. Dans mes activités, j’ai travaillé beaucoups avec les medias. Je travaille avec la radio: chaine2,TM2,Djekafo,klédou,radio Mali et radio Liberté. Je travaille aussi avec la télé :Liberté et ORTM. Suivez moi sur Facebook ou Twitter @FatoumataBaga10
Mon nom est Assitan Lountandy Keita, je suis infirmière d’Etat. Depuis Décembre 2018 a nos jours, j’ai travaillé avec plusieurs chaînes de radios comme la radio Djekafo, Siguida Kunkan et à la télévision Renouveau TV pour diffuser mon message et mettre fin à l’excision et j’ai atteint plus d’une dizaine de millions de personnes au Mali. Pour suivre mon travail, allez sur Twitter @KLountandy ou sur Facebook.
Mon nom est Issa Sogoba, je suis communicateur à Marie Marie Stopes Mali depuis 2011. Depuis la Formation Médiatique de Global Media Campaign en Novembre, j’ai travaillé avec Energie TV et radio, Diekafo, Koury FM, Siguida, Yelen pour diffuser mon message et mettre fin à l’excision et j’ai atteint plus de 2million personnes au Mali. Récemment j’ai été au camp de réfugiés de faladie avec TM2 une chaine de télé et la chaîne2 la radios national pour faire un reportage et ensuite un débat sur l’excision à la Radio Pace FM. Pour suivre mon travail, aller sur Facebook, ou sur Twitter @sogobaissa
Mon nom est Boubacar Diarra, je fais partie du Réseau des Jeunes Ambassadeurs sur la Santé de la Reproduction et la Planification Familiale du Mali. Dans les derniers mois j’ai travaillé avec deux presses écrites (Journal le confident et le Meguetan info) et avec trois radios (radio id FM, radio Djonakan et radio la partriote) pour diffuser mon message et mettre fin à l’excision et j’ai atteint plus de 1,000,000 de personnes au Mali. Pour suivre mon travail allez sur Facebook, Twitter @Boubacardiarrak, WhatsApp: +223 72 44 71 27.
Je suis André Yallan Sidibe, Je suis André Yallan SIDIBE jeune ambassadeur et responsable chargé du Suivi Évaluation au sein du consortium MSH-CAEB sur le programme Debbo Alafia qui veut dire le bien être de la femme. Nous finançons et renforçons les capacités des organisations de la société civile locale dans la région de Mopti. Elles mènent des activités de promotion de la PF, de sensibilisation pour l’abandon des MGF/Excision et la lutte contre les VBG. Je suis chargé du partenariat, de la communication, du Suivi et de l’évaluation du programme. Pour suivre nos activités avec les radios, les troupes de théâtre, les associations et groupements de femmes et de jeunes, les leaders religieux et politiques, veuillez vous rendre sur www.msh.org ou www.caebmali.org ou Facebook.
My name is Ayodeji Bello. I am a graduate of the Global EndFGM campaign Academy, and founder/ Director of Ladies Circle International-LCI organisation working to End FGM using the media. I am also a beneficiary of the direct action grants by GMC. In the last 4 years, I have worked with 10 radio and 10 TV stations in Nigeria to broadcast the anti- FGM message to more than 150,000,000 people. Follow my work on Facebook or Twitter.
My name is Gift Augustine Abu. I am the President of Center for Social Value and Early Childhood Development working to end FGM using the media. In the last 7 years I have worked with, Mega Band FM Owerri, Orient FM Owerri, NTA Owerri, Sunrise Fm Enugu, Solid FM Enugu, Love FM Abuja, SaltFM Abakaliki, Unity FM Abakaliki, Cross River Broadcasting Cooperation Calabar/ Ikom, Hit FM Calabar, FadFM Calabar, Correct FM Calabar and Orient TV, Cross River Broadcasting Corperation TV and Salt TV Abakaliki to broadcast the anti-FGM message. We have reached more than 70 million people. To follow my work please check on Facebook or on Twitter or on the website.
My name is Shafaatu Said Karaye. I am a journalist and an activist campaigning against gender based violence. Am also a graduate of GMC Media Academy. For the last 5 years I have been working with different media outlets and organisations in Northwestern Nigeria campaigning against Female Genital Mutilation reaching more than four million people. To follow my work visit my Twitter and Facebook pages.
My name is Ayotomiwa Ayodele. I am a graduate of the Global Media Campaign Academy 2016. I am working with MAI Initiative for Human Development to #EndFGM in Nigeria. In the last 4 years I have used several media channels to advocate for eradication of FGM in my state and country, some of which are Radio Nigeria Progress FM, Voice Fm, Ado Ekiti. These radio stations cover 6 southwestern states in Nigeria. To follow my activities on FGM, please follow me on Twitter.
My name is Olaniyan Oluwayomi Rosemary. I am part of the The Light Initiative working to end FGM using the media. In the last year alone I have worked with OSBC radio station to broadcast the anti-FGM message reaching more than one million people. I am also a beneficiary of the GMC Direct Action Grants. To follow my work please follow on Facebook or on Twitter.
My name is Adebukola Akanbi. I am part of the Rhealyz Naija Organization working to end FGM using the media. In the last 4 years I have worked with Orange FM Akure and WFM radio Lagos to broadcast the anti-FGM message reaching more than 10 million people. To follow my work please follow on Facebook, Twitter and our website.
My name is Victor Oton Godpikin. I am part of the Cesved Nigeria organisation working to End FGM using the media. In the last 3 years I have worked with Radio One, Love FM, Correct FM, People’s FM and local TV stations to broadcast the anti-FGM message, reaching more than 20 million people. Please follow my work on Facebook or on Twitter @godpikin_cfr.
My name is Temitayo Awodoyin. I am a film maker and part of the film crew of Africa-FCA organisation working to end FGM using the media. In the last 3 years, I have created End FGM documentaries and also worked with 5 radio stations and 4 TV stations to broadcast the anti-FGM message reaching more than 60,000,000 people. To follow my work go to Facebook or Twitter.
My name is Deji Adefila. I am part of the PD Media Initiative working to #EndFGM through the Media.
In the last 6 years I have worked with Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC) Radio and Television station to broadcast the anti-FGM message reaching more than 6 million people. I am also a beneficiary of Direct Action Media Grants from the GMC team. Follow my work on Facebook and on Twitter @dejiadefila and @osbcng or on our website.
My name is Dr Wilberforce Oti. I am both a university lecturer and a clergyman. In spite of these awesome responsibilities, I am passionate about EndFGM activities in Nigeria and use all my platforms to advocate on the need to EndFGM. In the last 4 years I have worked with Ebonyi Broadcasting Corporation (EBBC) 98.1FM radio and Salt TV stations, in addition to Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) 101.5 FM to broadcast the anti-FGM message. Cumulatively, we have reached more than 10 million people within South East, North Central and South South geopolitical zones of Nigeria and part of Cameroon. Please follow my work on Twitter and on the website.
My name is Ireti Emmanuel Adesida, Team Leader/Program Director of Rhealyz Global Empowerment Initiative. We have used radio, TV and social media to advocate against Female Genital Mutilation. Our weekly radio program ‘Our World Rhealyz Africa’ on FUTA Radio 93.1FM engages with various communities directly. Our periodic social media campaigns, Twitter chats and music advocacy stir up conversations on FGM. So far, we have been able to reach over 30 million people directly and about 100 million indirectly. Follow us via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and our website.
My name is Raymond Okopani. I am a graduate of Global Media Campaign’s Media Training Academy and the founder of Youthspark Pan Africa, a youth organization working to solve social problems including gender related issues like Female Genital Mutilation. In the last 5 years I have worked with Radio Nigeria Unity FM, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State to broadcast the anti-FGM message. We have reached more than 65 million people with strategic EndFGM messages. To follow my work please follow on Facebook on Twitter or on our website.
My name is Olubunmi Afuye. I’m a graduate of Global Media Campaign’s Media Training Academy. I’m an On Air Presenter on both radio and television. In the last 4 years I have worked with Orange 94.5 Fm radio and OSRC stations to broadcast the anti-FGM message to 5 million people. Please follow my work on Facebook and Twitter.
My name is Sarah Kallay. I’m a journalist, activist and lobbyist. I was the Head of Programs of Star radio until January this year and I am now working as Strategic Communications Coordinator in the Office of the President, Republic of Sierra Leone. I started campaigning on issues of human rights especially relating to girls and women whilst doing my show on personal growth and a rape victim called and spoke of her depression to the point of contemplating suicide. I unconsciously shared my own sexual abuse at age eight by an uncle. My work with Female Genital Mutilation/cutting started when a cousin of a two months old baby was cut by my aunt and I reported her to the police. I hope to use my platform and fanbase to teach the disadvantages of some traditional practices and how refraining from these practices can be better for us, our children and society. Follow me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to check out my work.
My name is Adama Bah. I am a senior female journalists and staff of the Shalom Radio in Kabala Town, Koinadugu District. I was fortunate to be one of the Journalists trained by FAHP in 2016. Koinadugu District is one of the FGM hotspot communities in the country. Also, I have been an anti-FGM journalists for decade now and I have worked tirelessly on various radio stations across the district to campaign against FGM. Team Koinadugu has reached out to thousands of people on radio stations in communities through the support of GMC, we have also succeeded in changing the narratives and the myths associated to the practice of FGM. For seven years now, in my personal campaign to end FGM, I have been able to reach over 34,000 people on my Facebook and page and Whatsapp, 53,000 people on Radio.
My name is Lucy-Anne Ganda, journalist and Director of Administration and Human Resources of the State Broadcaster in Sierra Leone, and also coordinating Global Media Campaign’s Direct Action Grants for media activists in Sierra Leone. I started reporting on FGM in 2006. I have contributed greatly by using the media to propagate anti-FGM messages, discussions around the practice and its negative consequences, influenced a good number of journalists to join the campaign through the first ever UN Women sponsored GMC Media Campaign Academy. I represent Safe Hands for Girls in Sierra Leone. Follow me on Facebook.
My name is Mamusu Mansaray. I’m a senior reporter working for radio Shalom in Koinadugu and Falaba district. In the last 6 -7 years I have tirelessly engaged myself in promoting human rights activism. I was trained by the Forum Against Harmful Practices to report on the dangers of Female Genital Mutilation. In the past couple of years I have been an anti-FGM journalist reporting issues about FGM and in my radio program to an audience of over 15,000 people in Koinadugu and Falaba district. My facebook page is among the widely read page, attracting a fellowship of over 900 people. Please follow me on Facebook.
My name is Saidu Dumbuya. I’m a Senior Reporter writing for the New Vision Newspaper and reporting for radio Gbonkolenken in the Tonkolili district. I’m one of the journalists who was fortunate to have been trained by Forum Against Harmful Practices (FAHP) and Global Media Campaign, in reporting FGM related issues. In the past couple of years I have reported both in the newspapers and radio reaching an audience of over 250,000. My Facebook page is among the widely read pages in the country. I’m involved in a number of mass media sensitizations in the Tonkolili district. I’m also part of the media team for Amazonia Initiative Movement (AIM). To follow my work, please go to my Facebook account.
My name is Ragan Conteh. I am a senior journalist working for the New Citizen Newspaper, one of the oldest Newspapers in Sierra Leone. I am also one of the members of the Public Relation Department of the Amazonian Initiative Movement Sierra Leone (AIM-SL) organization. I was trained by the Forum Against Harmful practices and Global Media Campaign to report on the dangers of Female Genital mutilation. Recently as a member of Team Tonkolili, we have reached out to over 50,000-60,000 people on radio and television stations and rescued two girls being taken into Bondo society for FGM initiation. I have reached out to over 200,000 people on my Facebook page and over 50,000 people on my Newspaper and over 89,000 on radio stations. Please follow my work on my Facebook account.
My name is Hassan Bruz. I am a senior resident reporter in the gateway District of Port Loko and the Northern Bureau Chief for the Sierra Leone News Agency [SLENA]. I am also a regular contributor to dozens of local and international social media groups. This includes the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Cooperation [SLBC], Star Radio, Radio Democracy, Sierra News Newspaper, Freetown Post, Sierra Leonean Deserves The Truth, The Righteous Way Forward, Campaign For Peace and Development, Rebranding Sierra Leone, Whistle Blower and Cocorioko Newspaper in theUSA. Thus I am able to service millions and millions of readers globally. You can find my work on Twitter.
My name is Zachariah Azibo Kanu Esq. I’m a Barrister and Solicitor of The High Court of Sierra Leone, and also an Associate in one of the Leading Law Firms in Sierra Leone; Macauley, Bangura & Co. I have been a lead champion for women and girls, and one of the loudest Youth Voices against FGM within and outside Sierra Leone, through meaningful use of print and social media platforms. I have had the opportunity to be trained by The Forum Against Harmful Practices (FAHP) and Global Media Campaign. Please follow my work on Facebook.
My name is Mohamed Adam-Junior Kamara, a seasoned journalist and Production Manager of the regional Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation(SLBC) Magburaka Tonkolili, District Correspondent BBC Media Action Sierra Leone, Amzas Radio Makeni, Butimani Radio Kabala, Starl Line Radio Kenema, Voice of Kono Radio Kono, Eastern Radio Kono among others in the length and breadth of Sierra Leone. I am also part of the PR Team of the Forum Against Harmful Practices (FAHP). I am the first investigative journalist that broke the news of the 10 year old child who went through FGM at Mile 91 Tonkolili District in which 15 girls were rescued from FGM. I’ve been able to reach over 2 million people across the country and the sub-region. Contact me by email.
My name is Johnabass Koroma, Chief News Editor and Production Manager, Radio Bankasoka FM97.5 Port Loko district Northwest of Sierra Leone. I have been an advocate against FGM for over 3 years now and working assiduously with the Forum Against Harmful Practices (FAHP). I have served in the media world for 12 years with vast experience in local community radio broadcasting. The district I serve is the most populated in the country after the capital city with over 630 thousand people (2010 census). Find me on Facebook.
My name is Abdul Conteh. I’m a senior reporter working for radio Shalom in Koinadugu and Falaba district. I was trained by the Forum Against Harmful Practices to report on the dangers of Female Genital Mutilation. My Facebook page is widely read, attracting a fellowship of over 800 people. Just recently as a member of Global Media Campaign ( GMC), Team Koinadugu have reached out to over 40,000 – 50,000 people on radio in hard to reach communities. Please follow me on Facebook.
My name is Maryan Abdulle Hassan. I am a Somali girl who lives in Hiran, Baladweyne. I work for a humanitarian organisation that is for the women and children and against Female Genital Mutilation, GBV, Forced Marriage and all violent acts against women and all those who have Special Needs. I was part of the Global Media Campaign training in Mogadishu. Since then I started working with religious leaders and media in Baladweyne Hiiraan. We have reached over thousands of people on the radio. I was part of the ‘This my story’ Documentary with Ifrah Ahmed, where we visited a girl who was cut and bleeding a lot and with the help of Ifrah Foundation and Global Media Campaign we took her to the hospital and saved her. I am very proud to be part of this campaign as an activist in Baladweyne and I hope will get more support.
My name is Abdikadir Moallim. I am part of Ifrah Foundation for Media Campaign to End FGM and member of FGM ambassador Network untill last year. I am also an independent human rights and youth activist and I am a teacher and vice-principal for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education. I have worked with Benadir regional administration and I was head of community mobilization, training and media affairs for the Benedir regional youth employment project (Face One) and I am very interested to develop my knowledge and experience to support our girls and all women in the world to End FGM. Contact me on Twitter @MeyreYare or email.
My name is Abdinasir Nour Ali. I am a human rights advocate for the last decade working with organizations for Somalia’s protection and development (OSPAD) as protection coordinator and closely work with all service providers if it is INGs, NGOs, UN agencies and local authority so as to keep strengthening of referral pathways that will be easy to respond all services needed by the survivor. So far I am a member of the FGM ambassador network and I participate in cluster meetings such US protection cluster, GBV sub cluster and child protection sub cluster and other prevention events conducted by organisations like Ifrah Foundation. Follow me on Facebook.
My name is Abdinasir Adow and I’m part Ifrah Foundation and Media Camapign to End FGM. The last year I have worked with Radio kulmiye to raise public awareness against FGM, reaching thousands of people in Mogadishu. Contact me by email, or on Twitter @CadeMx2.
My name is Hassan Istiila. I am part of the media industry, I have been spending my time as to end FGM through media. In the last decade I have worked with local and international media outlets to broadcast the anti-FGM message, reaching millions of people. It is for everyone to take action, it is time we, the Somali people, came together to protect our girls. To follow my work, please visit on Facebook, or on Twitter @hassanistiila, Skype Hassan.istiila or email.
The Backroom Team in London
Maggie O’Kane – Executive Director
Naimah Hassan – Programme Director
Dee Lukic – Production & Finance Manager
Mary Carson – Social & Multimedia Producer
Mariam Aliabadi – Projects & Media Production
Charlotte Morlie – Projects
Julia Cook, Change Management Group
Julia Cook is a management consultant with over 20 years of experience supporting charities and building the now internationally renowned charity, Consortia For Street Children. Her company now employs 40 people in the UK and the Middle East.
Jeremy Cox, Chartered Accountant
Jeremy is a Chartered Accountant qualifying with Brebners who specialise in media and entertainment.
Stephen Dawson, Philanthropist and Social Entrepreneur
Stephen Dawson, a former venture capitalist who holds an OBE for his services to philanthropy, is one of the Global Media Campaign’s private funders.
Dexter Dias QC (Chair), Human rights lawyer, Deputy High Court Judge, Special Advisor on Human Rights to Unicef UK, internationally renowned author
Dexter Dias QC is a Barrister (Queen’s Counsel), who has been instructed in some of the biggest cases of recent years involving human rights, murder, crimes against humanity, terrorism, war crimes and genocide. He was Chair and a principal author of the report to the UK Parliament that changed the law on FGM to strengthen its protection of young women and girls.
Martin Doyle, Headmaster and Governor of Riverside School, Haringey, London
Martin has been involved in work for charities for many years: as chair of ‘Out and About’ (a school-based charity funding residential trips for low-income families).
Virginia Henley, Lawyer specialised in charity law and social enterprise
Katrin McMillan, Founder and CEO, Hello World
Katrin is the Founder of Hello World an NGO that provides digital education, power and connectivity, built by the community, for marginalised communities in Nepal and Africa.
Musikilu Mojeed, Editor-in-Chief, Premium Times, Abuja, Nigeria
Alan Rusbridger, former Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian
Now Principal of Lady Margaret College, Oxford University and Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Deborah Botwood Smith is a communications expert with a long track record advising international private sector companies on corporate reputation, ESG issues, thought leadership and crisis management and has also worked in public policy, politics and regulation.
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Jan Holthuis, Li Jiao and Shu Liu
What is the regulatory environment for meat and poultry?
The quality, processing, place of origin and packages of primary agriculture products are regulated by the Law on Agricultural Product Quality Safety and the Administrative Measures on the Quality Safety Monitoring for Agricultural Products.
In addition, the provisions of the Food Safety Law (Order of the President of the People’s Republic of China No. 21) will cover the marketing of edible agricultural products, the formulation of relevant quality safety standards and the release of the relevant safety information for edible agricultural products as well as agricultural inputs.
Further, the processors that produce primary agriculture and food products are requested to follow applicable national quality and industry standards, such as the Quality Standard for Agricultural Products, the Standard and Rules for Storage and Maintenance of Fresh Agricultural Products, and the Technical and Control Standard of Pollution Free Agricultural Products.
What is the regulatory environment for all other human food?
The six fundamental laws that form the basis of the PRC’s food regulatory system include Food Safety Law, the Law and Agricultural Product Quality Safety, the Product Quality Law, the Agriculture Law, the Law of Standardisation and the Law on the Inspection of Import and Export Commodities, among which the Food Safety Law is now considered the most important law. The idea of food safety from farm to fork serves to unify the conditions and standards of each segment and institution, and to avoid overlaps in regulation and enforcement.
The original Food Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China was promulgated and implemented in 2009, and was revised in 2015 and 2018. This legislation applies to the following activities in the People’s Republic of China:
food manufacturing and processing;
manufacturing and business operation of food additives;
manufacturing and business operation of packaging materials, containers, detergents and disinfectants used for foodstuffs, and tools and equipment used in food manufacturing and food business operations;
use of food additives and food-related products by food manufacturers and business operators;
storage and transportation of foodstuffs; and
safety administration of foodstuffs, food additives and food-related products.
The marketing of edible agricultural products, formulation of the relevant quality and safety standards and announcement of information relating to safety of edible agricultural products, and the provisions of this Law on agricultural inputs, shall comply with the Food Safety Law.
Note that the Food Safety Law is not an all-encompassing law covering all aspects of food legislation. It depends on regulatory and technical implementation to fulfil its purpose of food safety and public health. Regulatory implementation depends on the many administrative measures issued by governments at the national and local levels as well as by the various administrative departments in charge of food safety. Technical implementation of the Food Safety Law can be found in the many food safety standards that typify and play an important role in the PRC’s food regulatory system.
Relevant organisations
What are the main non-governmental organisations and non-profit organisations in the agribusiness sector in your jurisdiction?
The main non-governmental organisations and non-profit organisations in the agribusiness sector in China are:
agricultural associations: associations, whether national or regional, that are formally registered to promote agricultural sectors, such as the China Agro-technological Extension Association (CATEA) and China National Seed Association (CNSA); and
commercial associations: associations of business persons for the promotion of commercial interests, such as the China Association of Agricultural Leading Enterprises.
Identify and summarise the enacted legislation addressing agricultural property transactions in your jurisdiction. Outline how farmland is typically held.
Ownership and usage right over agricultural land
In China, agricultural land is either owned by the state or by a rural collective. Since ownership is not transferable, private parties (individuals or enterprises) can obtain usage rights but not ownership of farmland (the term ‘management right of rural contracted land’ is used in Chinese law). Only a usage right to agricultural land is transferable. The usage right to agricultural land can be transferred, leased, sub-leased, swapped or contributed to an entity, such as a farmers’ cooperative, as a share subject to certain conditions (see question 7).
Laws and regulations applicable to the acquisition of usage rights to agricultural land include:
the Constitution;
the General Rules of the Civil Law;
the Land Administration Law;
the Agricultural Law;
the Implementing Rules for the Land Administration Law;
the Property Rights Law;
the Law on the Land Contract in Rural Areas;
the Measures for the Administration of the Certificates of the Right to Contracted Management of Rural Land;
the Measures for the Administration of Allotment of Rural Land under Lease and Management Right; and
the Interim Regulations on Real Estate Registration.
On 30 October 2016, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued Opinions on Improving the Measures for the Division of the Ownership, Contracting Right and Management Right in Rural Land, which separates the management right from the contracted management right of the farmland owned by the farmers, and allows farmers to retain the contract right over their allotted land and only transfer the management right if they choose to lease the land to others.
The key legislation governing land conservation activities in China is the Water and Soil Conservation Law. This law provides for control measures that shall be taken whenever a production or construction project, or any other activity, causes water or soil loss. For instance, where the rehabilitation of barren hills, waste valleys, barren hillocks or desolated beaches, or the rural land in areas suffering from serious water and soil loss is contracted out, the relevant contracts shall include the responsibilities for preventing and controlling water and soil loss.
So far there are no specific provisions in the state-level legislation on the ownership or usage right of waterworks in rural areas. Local governments may enact rules based on the principle of ‘those who invest shall have the ownership and receive the benefits’ set forth in the policy document titled Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Management System of Small-scale Water Conservancy Projects jointly released by the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Finance in 2013 and the Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Water Conservancy of Farmlands issued by the Ministry of Water Conservancy in 2018.
Under Chinese law, if the landowner holds or assumes the easement, the holder of the usage right to such land may continue to hold or assume the established easement. On the other hand, the landowner may not establish any easement without the consent of the existing usage rightholder.
An easement may not be solely transferred. It shall be transferred concurrently, with the usage right unless otherwise stipulated by the contract. Moreover, an easement may not be solely mortgaged. It shall be transferred at the time when the mortgage of land use right is realised.
Non-agricultural land rules
Outline any rules related to use of farmland for non-agricultural uses.
According to Chinese law, farmland shall be kept or used for agricultural purposes and there are stringent restrictions on non-agricultural uses. Moreover, the government set a ‘red line’ that arable land that should form no less than 124 million hectares (by 2020), as anything lower than this may place China’s food security at risk. Where the occupation of land for construction purposes involves the conversion of agricultural land, strict examination and approval procedures will apply.
From 1 January 2020, the Land Administration Law (2019 version) will enter into force, according to the amended Land Administration Law. China implements a permanent basic farmland protection system. Arable land classified as permanent basic farmland according to the general land use plan will be strictly protected. The conversion of permanent basic farmland into construction land shall be approved by the State Council. Within the scope of approved conversion of agricultural land, land for specific construction projects may be approved by the municipal and county people’s governments.
Special protection over arable land is implemented. The central government implements a system of compensation for the use of cultivated land. Where arable land is used for non-agricultural construction, the entities occupying the arable land are obligated to reclaim the same amount and same quality of land as that which they intend to occupy according to the principle of ‘reclaim the same as is used’. Where the conditions for reclamation are not met, or the arable land as reclaimed does not meet requirements, land reclamation fees shall be paid that shall be used for new land reclamation.
What special rules are important to agricultural lending in your jurisdiction?
Permanent residents in the administrative villages administered by a town or a county-level town, or staff of state-owned farms and self-employed businessmen in rural areas, are entitled to apply for a loan from rural financial institutions engaging in the business in respect of loans to farmer households. Qualified farmers can apply for the loans with guarantee, mortgage and pledge, and for loans with combined guarantees. The loans shall be used for specific purpose, production purpose or consumption purpose.
A usage right to state-owned agricultural land can be mortgaged if the following conditions are satisfied:
the land users are companies, enterprises or other economic organisations and individuals;
a certificate for the use of the state-owned land has been obtained; and
a contract to assign the right to use the land is signed and the land user pays the assignment fee to the local municipal or county government or uses the profit resulting from a mortgage to pay the assignment fee.
Owing to legal restrictions, in principle, a usage right over collectively owned agricultural land cannot be mortgaged, unless it relates to collectively owned wasteland for agricultural purposes. With the aim of deepening financial reform and stepping up financial support for farmers, in 2015 China launched a pilot programme allowing farmers to use their land and property as collateral for loans. However, it is still facing many obstacles, in particular, legal restrictions. So far there are only specific administrative rules for the said pilot programme, namely the Interim Measures for the Pilot Programme for Mortgages of Management Right of Rural Contracted Land (the Interim Measures).
Publicly controlled property
Describe any rules relating to public control of farm property in your jurisdiction. What enacted legislation governs them?
Agricultural land is owned either by the state or rural collectives, and a farmer may only transfer the usage right (see question 4). The circulation of usage rights is subject to the principles set forth in the Law on the Land Contract in Rural Areas and Measures for the Administration of Allotment of Rural Land under Lease and Management Right, which include that:
the land shall be kept or used for agricultural purposes, and it shall not be used for non-agricultural development without approval;
the term of contract is limited: the term of contract for arable land is 30 years; the term of contract for grassland ranges from 30 to 50 years; the term of contract for forestland ranges from 30 to 70 years;
the transferee shall have the capability for agricultural operation;
under equal conditions, members of the same rural collective shall enjoy priority; and
the lawful rights and interests of the interested parties and the rural collective shall not be impaired.
Foreign ownership restrictions
Are there any restrictions on foreign ownership of farm property in your jurisdiction? What enacted legislation governs them?
Agricultural land is owned either by the state or by a rural collective. Foreign or foreign-invested parties are eligible to acquire usage rights but not ownership (see question 4).
The land usage right of rural collectively owned agricultural land can only be transferred by farmers to foreign-invested enterprises undertaking agricultural production, processing or research and development (R&D). The applicable legislation includes the Law on the Land Contract in Rural Areas and Measures for the Administration of Allotment of Rural Land under Lease and Management Right (see question 7).
Does the government provide agriculture support programmes to producers, processors or agriculture-related businesses and organisations? Outline the programmes and how they are generally accessed.
The government has put many different agricultural supportive programmes in place in different agricultural sectors. The main general support programmes, including subsidy programmes and price support programmes, are listed as follows.
Agricultural industrialisation project subsidies
The central government, jointly with the provincial governments, provides financial support to industrialisation projects by means of a project subsidy or a loan interest refund. The subsidy is mainly granted to specific projects, such as the improvement of production centres, infrastructure construction, procurement of facilities and import of new varieties or advanced techniques.
‘Leading enterprises’ may apply for the subsidy. This type of enterprise is graded into three levels: national, provincial and city. The level of status will decide the level of government authority from which an enterprise can get support and affects the size and preferential conditions of bank loans.
Agricultural Science and Technology Achievement Industrialisation Fund
The Agricultural Science and Technology Fund was established by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in 2001. It supports the commercialisation of technologies that can be applied in agriculture, with a focus on R&D and promotion of new agricultural technology to the public.
The applicant shall be an incorporated enterprise or an R&D institution that is set up in mainland China. With respect to the incorporated enterprise, the enterprise can either be domestic invested enterprises or enterprises with a majority holding by domestic investors. The enterprise must have existed for at least one year and its registered capital should be larger than the subsidised funds. The project needs to be recommended by the provincial subdivisions of the MOST or the Ministry of Finance in order to apply the fund.
Specific research-oriented subsidy programmes
There are subsidy programmes relating to scientific research on new varieties, genetic modification and breeding techniques of plants. Both the institutions and the enterprises can apply for these programmes. In practice, institutions are more likely to succeed.
Agricultural machinery subsidy
The agricultural machinery subsidy is designed for encouraging and supporting farmers to use advanced agricultural machines, accelerating the process of agricultural mechanisation and improving the capability of production. Farmers buy the subsidised machinery at full prices and settle with the government directly.
Minimum purchase price programme
China’s government introduced a minimum purchase price programme to encourage production of targeted crops in major producing regions. This policy is currently applied to wheat and rice. When the grain market price falls below the set minimum price, Chinese farmers can sell their commodities to state enterprises (eg, COFCO and SINOGRAIN).
Incentives for foreign investors
Are there any programmes addressing assistance or government incentives for investment by foreign ownership in agribusiness?
Foreign investment in agricultural sectors in China is, in general, encouraged. It is stated in the Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Commerce on Attracting Foreign Investment in China in 2013 released by the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) that foreign capital to invest into modern agriculture shall be further encouraged in China. According to the Negative List for the Guidance of Foreign Investment in Industries maintained by MOFCOM and the NDRC in June 2019 (the Negative List), which came into effect on 30 July 2019, foreign direct investment is encouraged in most sectors of the agricultural industry (ie, production of green and organic vegetables, sugar-yielding crops, flowers and plants, traditional Chinese medicine herbs, breeding of aquatic offspring and aquatic products). Foreign investment would only be prohibited in aquatic product fishing, breeding genetically modified varieties of crop seeds, livestock and poultry breeds and aquatic breeds, genetically modified seed (seedling) production, research and development, cultivation and planting of Chinese rare, unique, precious or fine varieties, as well as manufacturing of the relevant propagative materials.
To follow the above-mentioned central government policies, foreign investment in agricultural business is often incentivised by the local governments in China and most incentives include: tax cuts, mainly to lower the corporate income tax rate; the reduction or exemption of the land-use fee and administrative fee; and other preferential policies concerning housing or children’s education for foreign investors.
Livestock legislation
List the main applicable enacted legislation for primary processors of live animals.
The applicable legislation includes:
the Food Safety Law;
the Law on Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products;
the Law on Animal Epidemic Prevention;
the Management Regulations on Slaughtering Live Pigs;
the Interim Management Regulations on Quality of Meat and Meat Products; and
the Measures on the Administration of Animal Quarantine.
Local regulations on slaughtering livestock and poultry also apply (eg, regulations enacted by the Shanghai local government in this respect that govern the livestock slaughtering within Shanghai).
The meat for export is also governed by the following legislation:
the Law on Import and Export Commodity Inspection;
the Law on the Entry and Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine;
the Regulations for the Implementation of the Law on the Entry and Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine;
the Regulations on Imports and Exports Place of Origin;
the Administrative Provisions on the Filing of Export Food Manufacturers; and
the Measures for the Supervision and Administration of the Inspection and Quarantine of Imported and Exported Meat Products.
Food safety regime
Describe food safety regulations for meat and poultry products, and all other food products in your jurisdiction.
The fundamental legislation on food safety in China is the Food Safety Law (FSL) and its implementing regulations. The FSL governs the following activities within China:
food production and processing, food sales and catering services;
production of and trading in food additives;
production of and trading in food-related products, including food packaging materials, containers, detergents, disinfectants, and tools and equipment that are used in the production of and trading in food;
use of food additives and food-related products by food producers or traders;
storage and transport of food; and
management of the safety of food, food additives and food-related products.
The FSL also applies the formulation of relevant quality safety standards and the release of the relevant safety information for edible agricultural products, as well as agricultural inputs, to the marketing of edible agricultural products.
The safety of edible agricultural products is governed by the Law on Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products.
Food safety is administered by the following four ministry-level authorities:
the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR): domestic food production, distribution, consumption and enforcement, etc; import and export supervision of food products, etc;
the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MoA): domestic primary agriculture production, slaughter and genetically modified organism (GMO) oversight, etc; and
the National Health Commission: food safety risk assessment and surveillance, food safety standard development and unification, and outbreak response, etc.
The authorities listed above promulgate the specific regulations in their respective governing fields in the form of administrative regulations, including the following:
Administrative Measures for Food Production Licensing;
Administrative Measures for Food Operation Licensing;
Administrative Measures for the Registration and Recording of Health Food;
Administrative Measures for the Registration of Food for Special Medical Purposes;
Administrative Measures for the Registration of Formulas of Infant Formula Milk Powder;
Administrative Measures for Food Recall;
Administrative Measures for Import and Export of Food;
Relevant Applicable Standards for Inspection on Imported Food and Food Additives;
the Rules on Administrative Licensing of Imported Food without National Food Safety Standards;
Administrative Measures for Registration of Overseas Manufacturers of Imported Food;
Administration Regulations on Label Inspection and Supervision of Import and Export Pre-packaged Food;
Provisions for Administration of the Registration of Foreign Exporters and Agents of Food Products and Consignee of Imported Food Products to China;
Administrative Provisions on Recording of Import and Marketing of Imported Food;
Administrative Provisions for the Record-filing of Export Food Manufacturers;
Rules of Bad Records Administration on Imported Food;
Administrative Measures for New Varieties of Food Additives;
Measures for the Supervision and Administration of the Safety of Food Offered through Online Catering Services; and
Measures of Investigation of Illegal Conducts Concerning the Safety of Food Sold Online.
Another important instrument in the food safety regime is the national food safety standard system. Currently there are more than 600 effective national food safety standards including:
general standards (eg, contaminates and microbial);
product standards (eg, dairy products and beverage);
additive specification (eg, colourant and sweetener);
food-related products (eg, plastic and metals);
good practice (eg, hazard analysis and critical control points); and
testing methods (eg, the physical-chemical method).
Safety enforcement
What enforcement can take place in relation to food safety? What penalties may apply?
Food producers or traders violating the law or regulations on food safety will be subject to civil liabilities, or administrative or criminal penalties.
A consumer who has been harmed by food that does not conform to food safety standards may seek compensatory damages from a responsible producer or trader as well as punitive damages of up to 10 times the original sale price.
The measures of administrative enforcement include:
confiscation of the illegal proceeds, food and food additives illegally produced or traded in, and the tools, equipment, raw materials and other articles used in the illegal production or trading;
revoking relevant licences;
ordering a suspension of production or trading;
an administrative fine; and
cancelling qualifications to engage in food inspection.
Under the criminal law, any food producer or trader that does not comply with food safety standards and any person adding poisonous substances to food is subject to criminal sanctions, including fines, confiscation of property, criminal detention and imprisonment. The death penalty is a potential punishment for very serious food safety incidents.
Describe any certification programmes and regulations for genetically modified foods and organic foods.
Certification of organic foods
The Certification and Accreditation Administration of China (CNCA), a subordinate body to SAMR, is responsible for issuing the official organic label (via certifiers). It also controls and supervises the accreditation process of all certification bodies and grants licences to individual organic inspectors employed by certifiers. The Administrative Measures for Organic Product Certification (AMOPC) cover a wide range of aspects that encompass the competences of the certification bodies as well as the responsibilities of the competent authorities on monitoring the functioning of the certification activities.
The AMOPC set forth the responsibilities of certification institutes and procedures that they must undergo towards the CNCA. Among other responsibilities, a certifier is required to ensure the integrity, objectiveness and truthfulness of the certification process, and make a complete record for archive retention to ensure that the certification process and results are traceable. The records of all activities shall be kept for five years. Further, certification institutes shall implement an effective follow-up inspection of the certified products and their production and processing methods to ensure that the certification conclusions can continue to meet the certification requirements.
In certain cases of non-compliance or fraudulent practice by the producer, the certifier shall suspend or revoke the certificate and publicise the penalty. The certifier can be fined or even disqualified if it fails to do so.
Safety certificate of GMO foods
Thus far, the law on GMOs places emphasis on improving the GM organism cultivation and safety evaluation systems. The purpose of safety evaluation of GMOs is to detect the dangers or potential risks caused by GMOs to humans, animals, plants and microorganisms and the environment. A safety certificate will be issued to a new GMO that has passed the safety evaluation conducted by the Agriculture GMO Safety Committee of the MoA. Under the GMO Regulations, a safety certificate is mandatorily required to conduct the examination, registration, evaluation or approval of certain GMOs including: transgenic planting seeds, livestock and poultry breeds and aquatic fry, pesticides, veterinary drugs, fertilisers, additives and others produced using GMOs or containing GMO ingredients.
Food labelling requirements
What are the food labelling requirements, including the applicable enacted legislation, enforcement and penalties?
The FSL sets out the general requirements of labelling, mandatory particulars for labels of pre-packaged foods, non-pre-packaged foods and food additives, and special rules for health food, infant formula foods and imported foods, etc. Food and food additives that do not conform to the contents stated on their labels and instructions shall not be sold in the market.
The relevant national standards including General Rules for the Labelling of Pre-packaged Foods (GB7718-2011), General Rules for Nutrition Labelling of Pre-packaged Foods (GB28050-2011) and General Rules for the Labelling of Food Additives (GB 29924-2013) provide further detailed guidance in their respective aspects.
If the packaged food or food additive is produced or traded without labels or their labels do not conform to the law, the local branches of the SAMR will confiscate the illegal proceeds, food and food additives that were illegally produced or traded in, and may also confiscate the tools, equipment, raw materials and other articles used in the illegal production or trading. If the value of the food or food additives in the illegal production or trading is less than 10,000 yuan, a fine not less than 5,000 yuan, but not more than 50,000 yuan, will be imposed. If the value of the food or food additives in illegal production or trading is 10,000 yuan or more, a fine not less than five times but not more than 10 times the value of the food shall be imposed. In the event of a serious offence, the production or trading will be suspended until the relevant licence is revoked.
If the labels have a defect that does not affect the foods’ safety or does not mislead consumers, the local branches of the SAMR will order the producer or trader to make corrections. In the case of the refusal to do so, a fine of not more than 2,000 yuan will be imposed.
If the production enterprise of infant formula foods fails to report the labels to the competent local branch of the SAMR for filing as required by law, the local branch of the SAMR will issue a correction order and warning. In the case of a refusal to make corrections, a fine not less than 5,000 yuan, but not more than 50,000 yuan, shall be imposed. In the event of a serious offence, the production or trading shall be suspended until the relevant licence is revoked.
Food animal legislation
List the main applicable enacted legislation regarding health of food animals, including transportation and disease outbreak and management.
The principal legislation dealing with the health of food animals is as follows:
the Animal Husbandry Law;
the Administrative Measures for Animal Quarantine; and
the Law on the Entry and Exit Animals and Plants Quarantine.
Animal movement restrictions
What are the restrictions on the movement of animals within your country?
The movement (transportation) of animals is subject to the following legal requirements.
Quarantine certificate
Before transporting animals, the owner shall submit an application to the local animal health supervision institution for quarantine. For the animals and animal products to be transported by rail, highway, waterway or air, the consignor shall provide the quarantine certificates; otherwise the carriers shall not accept them for transport.
Equipment requirement
The vehicles for carrying animals, as well as the beddings, package and containers, shall satisfy the requirements for animal epidemic prevention laid down by the administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council.
Staff requirement
People who are infected with a zoonosis shall not directly transport susceptible animals.
Prohibited circumstances
It is prohibited to transport animals that:
are in enclosed epidemic areas and related to the outbreak of animal epidemics;
are in an epidemic area and susceptible to infection;
have not undergone the quarantine as required by law or fail to pass the quarantine;
have already contracted epidemics or are suspected of having contracted epidemics;
are deceased (due to illness or uncertain reasons); and
do not conform to the regulations of the administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council governing animal epidemic prevention.
So far China has not enacted any law or regulations dealing with the welfare of animals in transport.
Slaughter legislation
Where would one find the regulations related to livestock slaughtering?
In China, livestock slaughtering is deemed to be part of the primary processing of live animals. With regard to governing regulations, see question 11.
Pest control requirements
Outline the regulatory regime for pesticides in your jurisdiction.
Plant protection products and a majority of biocidal products are regulated by the Regulation on Pesticide Administration, which covers the registration, production, distribution and use of pesticides, and is administered by the MoA.
The Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals (ICAMA), under the MoA, regulates pesticides manufactured and marketed in China. Pursuant to the revised Regulation on Pesticide Administration 2017, the Review and Registration Committee will be established by the MoA to review and register the pesticide before being marketed and exported to China.
There are also other regulations concerning pesticides, including:
the Implementation Measures of the Regulation on Pesticide Administration;
the Management Measures for the Production of Pesticides;
the Provisions on the Administration of the Restricted Use of Pesticides; and
the Measures for the Administration of Pesticide Labels and Manuals.
To ensure food safety, promote producer compliance with good agricultural practices, and eliminate unnecessary pesticide use to protect the ecological environment, the MoA and NHFPC have jointly released a new standard on maximum residue limits: the National Food Safety Standard - Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides in Food (GB 2763-201).
Plant quarantine
The key legislation regulating plant quarantine includes:
the Regulation on Plant Quarantine;
the Rules of Implementation of Regulation on Plant Quarantine;
the Law on the Entry and Exit Animals and Plants Quarantine; and
the Rules of Implementation of the Law on the Entry and Exit Animals and Plants Quarantine.
The MoA, State Forestry Administration and the SAMR are responsible for agricultural plant quarantine, forest plant quarantine and import and export plant quarantine respectively. The surveillance, pest outbreaks and invasive species management is undertaken by the National Agro-Tech Extension and Service Centre, a public institution directly under the MoA.
Animal quarantine
Animal quarantine is mainly governed by the following legislation:
the Quarantine Law on the Entry and Exit Animals and Plants Quarantine;
the Rules of Implementation of the Law on the Entry and Exit Animals and Plants Quarantine;
the Measures on the Administration of Animal Quarantine;
the Measures on the Quarantine and Administration of Hereditary Substance of Inward Animals; and
the Administrative Regulations on Breeding Livestock and Poultry.
Typical organisation
How are agricultural operations typically organised in your jurisdiction?
As agricultural land is either owned by the state or by a rural community, agricultural proprietorships do not exist in China. The basic form of agricultural operation is the rural household contractual operation. A rural family can undertake land contracts with the rural community it belongs to in order to obtain rights to use certain agricultural land. Within the validity of the land contract, the family can organise agricultural production and operations based on its own decisions. Any profit made from the farming activities belongs to the family.
China promotes farmers’ cooperatives in rural areas as a new model of agricultural operations. A farmers’ cooperative shall be set up in accordance with the Farmers’ Cooperatives Law of China. At least 80 per cent of the members of a farmers’ cooperative should be farmers. Other entities who conduct businesses directly in relation to the agricultural activities of the cooperative and are able to serve and contribute to the cooperative can also become a member. Foreign-invested enterprises may join a farmers’ cooperative providing that they adhere to the conditions set out in the Farmers’ Cooperatives Law and the articles of association of the cooperative.
State-owned or private agricultural companies (normally in the forms of a limited liability company or a stock company) incorporated under Company Law play important roles in the modernisation of China’s agriculture sector. Foreign-invested enterprises set up under Company Law and laws of foreign-invested enterprises may enter into agriculture sectors, subject to foreign investment restrictions on specific sectors (see question 21).
Outline any restrictions on foreign ownership of agricultural operations or businesses other than farming operations.
As of 1 October 2016, according to the new amendments to the laws regarding foreign investment enterprises issued on 3 September 2016, foreign investment in sectors where access approval measures do not apply no longer need to be approved by the MOFCOM.
Under the Negative List (see question 10), fields not covered in the Negative List shall be subject to administration pursuant to the principle of consistent treatment for domestic and foreign investments. However, because of the strategic importance of agriculture in China, the controlling stake in new variety breeding and seed production of wheat and maize projects shall be held by the Chinese party. Incorporation of these foreign-invested agricultural enterprises needs to be approved by the MOFCOM or its local counterparts.
In some sectors (eg, the seed sector), enterprises, regardless of whether they are foreign-invested or domestic, need to obtain specific permits or qualifications from the industry regulator, that is, MoA.
Describe any specific rules or laws governing the rights of workers or employees for agricultural operations.
The rights of workers or employees are generally governed by the Labour Law and the Labour Contract Law. There are no specific rules for workers or employees in agricultural operations.
The general rights and interests of self-employed farmers engaged in agricultural operations are regulated in section 9 of the Agricultural Law (Order of the President No. 74 , revised in 2012) of China, aiming to prevent farmers from incurring illegal or unreasonable tax and fines, or raising and collecting of funds.
Immigration regulation
How is farmworker immigration regulated in your jurisdiction?
Immigration of foreign farmworkers into China follows general regulations on immigration. China does not specifically issue agricultural-related visas to foreign farm workers. For permanent stay and work, temporary work and dispatch visa application, the Administration of Embarkation and Disembarkation and Administrative Provisions on Employment of Foreigners in China apply.
The immigration of Chinese farmworkers within China does not have limitations. However, as China applies different social insurance and medical insurance systems to rural residents and city residents, those farmworkers who move to the city seeking non-agricultural work must comply with insurance policies that are mainly regulated by the Social Insurance Law.
Work health and safety regulation
Outline the health and safety regulations relating to farmworkers in your jurisdiction.
There is no specific law focusing on farmworkers’ health and safety.
If a farmworker has an employment relationship with a legal entity, his or her health and safety is covered by the Labour Law, the Labour Contract Law and the Work Safety Law. The employer is obliged to provide a safe working environment, proper working equipment and training. The employer is also requested to purchase insurance for the worker for occupational diseases and labour-related injuries.
If the farmworker is not employed but merely provides labour services to a service receiver, the worker’s health and safety are covered by the General Principles of Civil Law and Tort Law. In the event that the injury or damage is caused by the worker during the labour services, such liability will be borne by the labour service receiver and the worker in light of their respective degree of fault.
A self-employed farmworker is responsible for his or her own health and safety.
Import regulation
Describe the regulatory environment for animal product imports.
The Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Entry and Exit Animal and Plant Quarantine governs animal and animal products imports.
Animals, plants and their products, containers and packaging materials, as well as means of transport from animal or plant epidemic areas shall be subject to quarantine inspection in accordance with this Law. Local animal and plant quarantine offices set up by the state animal and plant quarantine department carry out the quarantine. China prohibits the following objects from entering the country:
pathogenic microorganisms (including seed cultures of bacteria and viruses ) of animals and plants, insect pests and other harmful organisms;
relevant animals and plants, their products and other quarantine objects from countries or regions with prevalent epidemic animal or plant diseases;
animal carcasses; and
soil.
On top of the aforesaid, meat product imports are further regulated by Administration Measures for Meat Product Import Quarantine and Inspection.
The General Administration of Customs, PR China (GACC) formulates and promulgates inspection and quarantine requirements for imported meat products. Local counterparts of GACC would set a record system for qualified consignees of imported meat products. The consignee who has already entered into the record system may be able to import meat products.
The consignor or his agent shall report to the local counterparts of GACC for inspection before the export meat products are shipped. The GACC and its counterparts will inspect the following aspects: pathogenic microorganisms, residues of agricultural and veterinary drugs and environmental pollutants in export meat products on the basis of risk analysis and verify and supervise the quality and safety control system in the whole process of export meat production and processing.
Describe the regulatory environment for all other food imports.
In principle, the food safety requirements under the Food Safety Law equally apply to foods imported into the PRC. To ensure compliance, imported foods are subject to inspection by Bureau of Import and Export Food Safety, GACC, which takes the following responsibilities in relation to food imports:
studying and formulating the provisions and regulations of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine on the safety of imported food as well as the list of imported food under inspection and quarantine;
organising the implementation of the inspection, quarantine, supervision and administration over imported food;
collecting information on food safety, hygiene and quality out of China and organising the implementation of risk assessment and evaluation over import food safety and the implementation of emergency preventive measures; and
administering the investigation and punishment of major accidents of import food safety and quality, together with the disposal of food-borne pollution sources.
More detailed requirements may apply to the import of certain categories of foods into China. Those categories may be extended in the future. Furthermore, responsibilities for legal compliance rest both with overseas exporters and Chinese importers.
Food Import and Export Safety Administrative Measures (2018 Revision)
Import of foods shall comply with the Chinese national standards for food safety inspection and quarantine requirements. When applying for an inspection, the importer or its agent shall declare the imported food by the product name, brand, country of origin (region), specification, quantity or weight, total value, date of manufacture (lot number) and other contents required by GACC. Imported food shall be kept in a supervisory area designated or accepted by the inspection and quarantine authorities before obtaining a certificate certifying that the food passes the inspection and quarantine.
A producer or business operator of exported food shall ensure that its exported food satisfies the standards of the import country (region) or the requirements of the contract concerned. A food exporter or its agent shall, as required, apply for an inspection to the local inspection and quarantine authority by presenting the contract, invoice, packing list, pre-delivery inspection certificate and documents certifying the supply of raw materials for the processing of exported food as well as relevant approval documents. When applying for an inspection, the exported food shall be declared in name, specification, quantity and date of manufacture.
Tariffs and quotas
May tariffs, quotas or similar measures be put in place?
After joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001, China introduced a tariff quota system for the import of agricultural products; the annual quota is subject to an ‘in-quota tax rate’. The import of agricultural products beyond the quota quantities will be treated as per the relevant provisions of the Regulation on Import and Export Duties. The agricultural goods subject to import tariff quotas include wheat, corn and rice (including powder and grains of all three), bean oil, colza oil, palm oil, sugar, cotton, wool and wool tops.
The MOFCOM and the NDRC decide, adjust and announce annual import quotas upon applications by companies. Companies that enjoy tariff quotas are granted a certificate of import tariff quotas of agricultural products. Each quota is valid from 1 January until 31 December of the same year.
Import and export treaties
What treaties apply to the import and export of agricultural products in your jurisdiction?
The WTO’s Agriculture Agreement applies to China.
China has also confirmed its compliance with the international phytosanitary standards developed by the International Plant Protection Convention through the promulgation of AQSIQ Decree No. 41, Provisions for the Administration of Risk Analysis on Entry Plant and Plant Products.
Plant breeder rights
How are plant breeders’ property rights protected in your jurisdiction?
China ratified the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (the UPOV Convention) 1978 on 23 April 1999. Domestic laws and regulations for new plant variety right (PVR) protection include the Seed Law 2015, Regulations on the Protection of New Plant Varieties 2014 and the accompanying Implementation Rules.
The New Plant Variety Protection Office (PVP Office) under the MoA is in charge of agricultural PVR protection. Agricultural PVR protection applications must be filed with the PVP office. Decisions will be based on the review of written documents.
A breeder’s right to apply for PVR protection and the PVR itself are both transferable. Agricultural PVRs are protected for 15 years and fruit tree PVRs are protected for 20 years. A PVR holder enjoys exclusive rights within the duration of the PVR protection and without the consent of the PVR holder, a party cannot:
produce or sell, for commercial purpose, the propagation materials of the protected varieties; or
repeatedly use the propagation material of the protected varieties to produce propagating materials of other varieties for commercial purpose.
Without prejudice to other rights of the PVR holder, using a protected variety for breeding or other scientific purposes does not require consent or licence of the PVR holder.
Under the following circumstances, the licence of the PVR holder is not required and no licence fee needs to be paid: using a protected variety for breeding or other scientific research activities; and farmers’ personal use of the propagation materials of a protected variety.
In the event of a plant variety right infringement, a PVR holder can apply for administrative protection at the provincial Agriculture Department. Administrative protection measures include orders to cease infringement, confiscation of unlawful earnings and propagation materials, and imposing administrative fines. A PVR holder can also lodge a claim at a civil court. Unlike administrative measures in court proceedings, a PVR holder may claim for damages (including loss of revenue).
Access to plant varieties and technologies
How is farmers’ access to crop varieties and plant technologies addressed in your jurisdiction?
The laws and regulations for PVR protection provide privilege to farmers. Farmers who use the propagation materials of a protected variety to breed or plant for self use do not need a licence from the PVR holder. The most recent (draft) revisions to the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Protection of New Varieties of Plants published on 10 May 2019 further provide that ‘farmer’ in ‘farmer’s privilege’ refers to members of rural collective organisations who are party to a rural land contracting agreement under China’s rural household contract system. Farmers can use propagation materials that they have obtained by their own planting, but the quantity of this use shall not exceed the reasonable amount that would be required given the contracting land of the household.
With the purpose of verifying the value for cultivation and use, distinctness, uniformity and stability of a new plant variety, for main crops before being commercialised, a new variety shall be tested following the variety recognition procedure. Main crops refer to rice, wheat, corn, cotton and soybeans.
For non-main crops, a new variety shall be filed for record in accordance with the variety registration formality initially introduced by the Seed Law 2015, before seeds of the crop can be put on the market.
Specific permit procedures are put in place by the MoA and State Administration for Market Regulation for production, processing and trade of (seeds of) GM crops.
In addition, the National Agro-Tech Extension and Service Centre promotes the application of advanced agriculture technologies in rural areas.
Other intellectual property
What other intellectual property considerations apply to agribusiness in your jurisdiction?
The laws on intellectual property right protection, including patent law and trademark law and the accompanying regulations, may provide legal protection for other agriculture-related intellectual property. Know-how or planting technologies that are not patentable are normally protected by parties as trade secrets.
Describe the regulatory agencies that have a role in managing the environmental impact of agricultural production in your jurisdiction.
According to the Environment Protection Law of China, the governments at or above the county level are entitled to take measures to prevent and control pollution of the agricultural ecological environment by waste water and gas and solid waste materials.
According to article 66 of the Agricultural Law, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the MoA are the competent authorities to investigate and to solve pollution in the agricultural ecological environment.
Water and air pollution regulation
Describe how water and air pollution is regulated in relation to primary agriculture in your jurisdiction.
Air pollution from primary agriculture is mainly governed by the Environment Protection Law (Order of the President of the People’s Republic of China No. 9). Agricultural producers and operators are obliged to:
use fertilisers and pesticides properly;
safely and efficiently collect, store, clean, remove and dispose of sewage, livestock and poultry faeces and bodies; and
reduce the emission of air pollutants or malodorous gases.
Burning of stalks, fallen leaves or other substances in the open air that causes smoke pollution is prohibited.
Those who illegally discharge pollutants will be requested to make corrections and are subject to fines according to such factors as operating costs of pollution prevention and control facilities, direct losses arising from violations or illegal gains.
Water pollution in agriculture areas is covered by the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution (Order of the President [2008] No. 87). The Law focuses on the following issues:
the transportation and storage of pesticides and disposal of expired or ineffective pesticides;
the proper application of fertilisers and pesticides;
harmless treatment of faeces from domestic animals and poultry and waste water at the farms of domestic animals and poultries and breeding quarters;
the protection of water in the aquaculture field by determining the breeding density, and casting bait and using medication rationally; and
the discharge of industrial waste water or urban sewage into the farmland irrigation channels.
Waste regulation
Describe how liquid and other waste is regulated in relation to primary agriculture in your jurisdiction.
According to the Environment Protection Law, solid wastes and sewage that fail to meet agricultural standards and environmental protection standards cannot be disposed on farmland. The law encourages scientific application of pesticides, fertilisers and other agricultural inputs and irrigation to prevent the pollution of heavy metal and other hazardous substances.
China is promoting soil protection. A series of laws and regulations regarding soil pollution control is in the process of becoming legislation, and is expected to be published for public review during 2017-2020 (Circular of the State Council on Issuing the Action Plan for Soil Pollution Control, Guo Fa [2016] No. 31).
All acts that pollute the environment, damage ecology and harm public social interests are subject to fines according to detailed factors, such as operating costs of pollution prevention and control facilities, direct losses arising from violations or illegal gains.
Key developments of the past year
35 What are the most noteworthy current trends or primary legal issues of concern in relation to agriculture and agribusiness in your jurisdiction? What future trends in relation to agriculture and agribusiness do you foresee in your jurisdiction?
Abolishment of the 1997 Provisions
The 1997 Provisions (the Provisions on the Administration of the Examination, Approval and Registration of Foreign-invested Crop Seed Enterprises (the 1997 Provisions) were abolished as of 25 April 2019. With the announced abolishment of the 1997 Provisions, the foreign-invested seed enterprises, the business activities of which do not fall in the Negative List, are subject to the Administrative Measures of Production and Operation License of Crop Seeds.
Major (draft) revisions to the PVR Regulations
On 10 May 2019, the Revisions to the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Protection of New Varieties of Plants (Draft for Comments) (the Draft) was published. The Draft disclosed important developments with regard to introducing essentially derived varieties (EDVs) into China’s new variety right protection system. It provided a definition of EDV and formally revealed the legislative trend of extending the scope of PVR protection for the first time since the Seed Law 2015.
Under the current version of the PVR Regulation 2013, a PVR holder has exclusive rights to the protected variety. The authorisation of the PVR holder shall be required for:
the production and sale for commercial purposes of the propagation materials of the protected variety; and
repeated use of the propagation materials of the protected variety to produce propagation materials of another variety for commercial purposes.
In article 6 of the Draft, a PVR holder’s exclusive right was extended. Authorisation of the PVR holder shall be obtained for:
production or multiplication of propagation materials of a protected variety;
promise to sell - and sale or marketing propagation materials of - a protected variety;
handling seeds for the purpose of production, multiplication or sale;
import or export of propagation materials of a protected variety; and
purchase, stock or transport propagation materials of a protected varieties for the purpose to carry out the above listed activities.
In the same article it is further provided that if the PVR holder has not had reasonable opportunity to utilise its rights as provided in this article in relation to the propagation materials of its protected variety, it may exercise these rights on the harvested materials of the propagation materials.
If the PVR holder has not had reasonable opportunity to utilise these rights in relation to the propagation materials or the harvested materials, it may utilise these rights on the products made directly from the harvested materials.
More importantly, pursuant to article 7 of the Draft, the PVR holder of a protected variety shall also have exclusive rights on the varieties:
of which the production and multiplication require repeated use of the protected varieties; and
that are essentially derived from the EDV, provided that the protected variety itself is not an EDV of other variety.
In addition, although China has not ratified the UPOV Convention 1991, the definition of essentially derived varieties is close to that of article 8 of the UPOV Convention 1991 provided that a variety shall be deemed to be essentially derived from another variety (ie, ‘the initial variety’) when, although it is clearly distinguishable from the initial variety, it retains the expression of the essential characteristics or traits of the initial variety, except for the differences that result from the act of derivation.
The consent of the PVR holder of the protected initial variety shall be required for the PVR holder of an EDV of a protected initial variety to exercise its plant variety rights to the EDV.
Planned revamping of regulatory regime on agricultural products quality safety
China is overhauling the Law on Agricultural Product Quality Safety to strengthen the risk control and management of agricultural products and tighten its regulatory requirements for agricultural products, which will be the first major revisions since its enactment in 2006. On 18 June 2019, the MoA introduced a new draft Law on Agricultural Product Quality Safety for public comments.
The proposed revised Law on Agricultural Product Quality Safety would expand the scope of agricultural business operators subject to this Law, build an agricultural product quality tracing system and management and supervision system on the origin of agricultural products, and introduce harsher legal liabilities, among other things.
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Magnetic: Cage Closed Review – Magnets Also Repel
Magnetic might have done more to stymie the obvious attraction to Portal.
Posted By Alex Jackson | On 01st, Jun. 2015 Under Article, Reviews | Follow This Author @teh_jackson
Portal certainly wasn’t the first of its kind, and won’t be the last either, but it sure has inspired a lot of imitators. Magnetic: Cage closed has to be one of the most overt I’ve come across however. Following almost all the tropes without understanding the science that made Portal tick, Magnetic is an unattractive game that can be called a borderline knock off.
Thrown into a deep prison for a non-specific crime, you are a nameless, voiceless, yet decidedly female prisoner, and under the purview of a malicious prison warden and his staff. The dark halls of the prison are your new home for as long as you remain useful to the warden, and comply with the dangerous tests they run, (once again, reason non-specific).
The game can’t quite decide if it wants to go for the “show, don’t tell” storytelling that Portal lets you intuit, or tell a story of its own. The game is purposely vague, yet draws out exposition scenes. It makes you wait for storytelling it doesn’t want to give you and says about as little as it can get away with.
"The jail is dirty and dark, and feels like a place you don’t want to be. Unfortunately I’m not being metaphorical here. You don’t feel like you want to spend your time in this world. "
The jail itself is a dark and depressing backdrop for the gameplay, somehow not unlike the halls of Aperture Science, only with far less charm. While Portal had a sci-fi flavour that made everything look clean, yet foreboding, Magnetic sits a lot more heavy. The jail is dirty and dark, and feels like a place you don’t want to be in. Unfortunately I’m not being metaphorical here. You don’t feel like you want to spend your time in this world.
The physics altering gun the whole game revolves around is the steampunk looking “Magnet gun”, which from the get go lets you apply different levels of two separate polarities to different puzzle objects such as switches, platforms and the ubiquitous boxes. I never found a need to alter my power level, and in general the features of the magnet gun seemed to outstrip what you needed to use it for.
Basic uses for it like flinging around boxes works very well, and Magnetic uses most of its mechanics in interesting ways. Some of the other uses end up being interesting in some ways and hugely misguided in others. Sufficiently heavy objects will pull you in against a magnetic field instead of being pulled, which is used to make higher jumps and fling yourself into far away areas, but in other instances the magnetic kickback can send your careening off a suspended platform into gas below when you didn’t want to, which is simply frustrating and makes you wish they kept the elegance of form from the game they took so much else from.
"The magnetic kickback can send your careening off a suspended platform into gas below when you didn't want to, which is simply frustrating and makes you wish they kept the elegance of form from the game they took so much else from. "
The disembodied voices of the warden and his staff also scream of trying to be GlaDOS without understanding the intricacies of her character. The warden in particular is a gruff man with all the malice and disregard for life that GlaDOS had, but without any of the biting wit that made her memorable. He’s just unpleasant and annoying in turn, and the others in the cast are either no better, or lack any personality at all.
We’ve touched briefly on how Magnetic looks, which is depressing. Audio design is very much the same, with little to no musical accompaniment, and too subtle to be memorable when it is. At least I can say it controls smoothly, and the mistakes you make aren’t going to come from unresponsive aiming.
One of the things the first Portal is most remembered for is the relatively short length it had. It knew how many ideas it had and didn’t outstay its welcome. Magnetic doesn’t have that kind of awareness, and it drags on because of that. The ideas flow with the consistency of that last bit of toothpaste by the third hour, and the chambers seem to run together.
"The almost Hannibal level level infatuation with it’s contemporary feels like it held some interesting play mechanics back, which simultaneously not understanding the softer touch that made Portal so important. "
At the end of each segment, you’re presented with a choice test, which at the end of the day, decides little more than which same feeling gauntlets come up next. Still a fun little, “choose your own adventure” twist that might offer some feeling of replay value I suppose. The in story sections never feel like they have the weight that it expects it to have, rather it feels like choosing a button that decides which series of puzzles you’ll tackle next.
Magnetic: Cage Closed feels like it wants to be Portal so bad that it hurts, which is a shame because it has some really interesting ideas that it might have ran better in a different setting. The almost Hannibal level level infatuation with it’s contemporary feels like it held some interesting play mechanics back, while simultaneously not understanding the softer touch that made Portal so important.
This game was reviewed on the PC.
Magnetic has some unique ideas with the magnet gun, which does almost everything that makes the game unique.
Unfortunately, the ideas run thin far before the game is done, and almost everything else it does is trying to be Portal without a basic understanding of why Portal worked. From presentation to play, Magnetic doesn't feel like it has an identity.
Magnetic has potential, but fails to reach it due to how hard it tries to be Portal. If it had tried to focus ion its own gameplay and kept it as pure as Portal, they might have had something special. As of now, it exists, and that's all that can really be said about it.
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Tag Archives: Pantomime
Hello, hope you’re well and keeping busy. I am delighted that four productions of my pantomimes are underway this Christmas season.
The Bodicote Players in Banbury and Woodhouse Phoenix in Hatfield are staging Rumplestiltskin. You can watch the former between 3rd December and 7th December, and the latter in the new year, January. Meanwhile, down the road from me, in Oldham, there’s a production of Aladdin in January.. Wish I could tell you more about that production but I have not been given any more details. Finally Winterslow Drama Group, in Wiltshire are staging Dick Whittington. Intriguingly their website tells me that they have been filmed by BBC1’s The One Show for a feature in December. You can rest assured I’ll be reporting on that when I know when it’s being broadcast. Many thanks to all these groups for showing faith in my writing, and that of my co-scripters Pam Hope and Adrian Barradell.
November 23, 2019 gazhack Aladdin, Dick Whittington, Pantomime, Rumplestiltskin Leave a comment
Friends visit Battlestar Galactica and Warhammer
Well I’ve been busy with my BSc in Digital Technology and Solutions lately. First term was a success, but that’s a personal challenge but perhaps not engrossing reading for you. However, whilst I do not have much personal creative news, friends of mine have been busy with great new projects.
John Isles (my co-writer on Auton Diaries 2, amongst other things) is kicking off the new year with an ongoing marathon viewing blog of the 21st century version of Battlestar Galactica. Meanwhile Rik Hoskin will have a short story included in the next Warhammer anthology from the Black Library.
In The Caprica Experiment John and our mutual friend Aaron Small embark on a marathon viewing of the whole Battlestar Galactica saga, beginning with the mini-series that successfully relaunched the beloved, if extremely 70’s franchise. John is long time fan, whilst Aaron is watching it for the first time. They will be recording their impressions as they go. Personally it’s a series I’ve seen one or two episodes of, but for some reason I have never got around to watching properly. Certainly I have been aware of it, for years it was the hottest SF show on television, though somehow it never quite broke into the mainstream in the way Game of Thrones or X-Files did. This seems like a great time to rectify that, so I’ve borrowed my dad’s DVD box set and I’ll be trying to accompany them myself.
Another fantasy universe is at war in Warhammer: Age of Sigmar and Rik has written the short story In the Mists of Chaos for the third Warhammer anthology Inferno! Volume Three. This series features tales from across the Games Workshop worlds. The book is due out in May 2019. For more details, pay a visit to the Warhammer Community news pages.
Finally a reminder that the Fairlight Pantomime Group in the village of Fairlight, near Hastings is performing my Rumplestiltskin on 24-26th January. Wishing them all the best. More information about Fairlight and its busy social life can found on the Fairlight village website .
January 11, 2019 gazhack Battlestar Galactica, Blogging, Pantomime, Rumplestiltskin, Science Fiction, Update, Warhammer Leave a comment
Cannot get enough of Aladdin
That plucky young lad from Ancient China seems to keep crossing my path at the moment.
For a start I’ve just been making a video trailer for Bolton Little Theatre’s production of Aladdin in December. This one is based on a script by Alan P Frayne, who has previously provided scripts for BLT’s Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella.
Once again I was in the Forge studio theatre, improvising with the cast, but this time the emphasis was on laughs rather than menace. I had expected to be filming the cast in their civvies, but the wardrobe mistress was marvellously able to dress everyone who turned up in appropriate panto gear. We worked pretty fast, keeping the camera in one place this time and moving the actors in and out of the frame. I did not have much time to work on a polished script or too many takes because the cast were due to hold a full readthrough that evening. Then it was time to put the footage into the ever reliable Cyberlink Power Director to add some effects and a Chinese overlay downloaded for free from the company’s website. Hope folk like the result. It will be going live on Facebook next week.
For more details and to book tickets please visit Bolton Little Theatre’s Aladdin page
Meanwhile I am delighted to announce that there are two productions of my own Aladdin, co-written with Adrian Barradell, coming this Christmas.
November – St Anselm’s College, Wirral, UK
December – 2nd Comber Drama Group, County Down, UK
More details when I get them. If you would like to know more about my take on the famous tale, please visit my page at Lazy Bee Scripts
September 11, 2017 gazhack Adrian Barradell, Aladdin, Bolton Little Theatre, Lazy Bee Scripts, Pantomime Leave a comment
Rumplestiltskin in Lancashire
I went to see Mawdesley Amateur Dramatics Society last Saturday night to see their excellent production of Neighbourhood Watch by Alan Ayckbourn. I used to be a regular member of this group and it was there that I cut my pantomime teeth, both as a performer and later a writer. The visit reminded me that my MADS friends have also set up a website with an excellent gallery of past productions, including the first ever performance of Rumplestiltskin and other scripts of mine, including Dick Whittington where I played Dame Dollop. My last Dame role up until now.
Check them out below:
Rumplestiltskin 2015
Dick Whittington 2007
Good memories and if you are in the Lancashire area, their productions are well recommended. Next up I believe is King Arthur, written by my former collaborator Adrian Barradell.
July 3, 2017 gazhack Aladdin, Dick Whittington, Mawdesley, Pantomime, Rumplestiltskin, Treasure Island Leave a comment
Our Aladdin and Treasure Island lead the way in 2017
It is always exciting and flattering when a theatre group chooses to perform one of my pantomimes. This year the two which I co-wrote with Adrian Barradell definitely seem to have struck a chord with societies. So I can only salute the following brave casts and crews who are performing Aladdin and Treasure Island in the first half of next year. Hope you all have a fantastic time.
Ambitions in Gloucester are putting on a performance of Aladdin in January.
The Wraysbury Players are staging Aladdin in Wraysbury, near Staines, also in January.
January sees Swavesey RADSOC bringing Treasure Island to life in Cambridge.
Tregony Clockhouse Players are putting on Aladdin in Truro in February and finally
Brockweir Amateur Dramatics Society are visitng Treasure Island themselves in March.
November 29, 2016 gazhack Pantomime, Writing Leave a comment
More NODA happiness
I’m interrupting my Out of the Unknown marathon for a bit of housekeeping.
First off, I’ve been updating the Writing and Audio Drama pages on the left, adding web-links so that you find out more about (and maybe even order) some of my work. For example clicking on any of the pantomime scripts now takes you directly to their pages at Lazy Bee Scripts.
Secondly, but more importantly I’m delighted to announce that my lovely actor friend Bridgett Welch has just won the 2016 National Operatic and Drama Association award for Best Female Comedy Performance (Pantomime) after appearing in my own Rumplestiltskin. The show was premiered by Mawdesley Amateur Dramatic Society. She was indeed a wonderful Dame, but then I thought the whole cast were marvelous. It’s especially lovely because I became involved in amateur theater via MADS and I certainly would not have written any of my pantos without their support over the years.
Bridgett is here on the left, next to fellow MADS Debbie and Emma.
And here in character as Dame Dolly!
January 25, 2016 gazhack Award, Mawdesley, Noda, Pantomime, Rumplestiltskin Leave a comment
Pantomime season for me starts in the Summer
It’s been an encouraging time for me lately on the pantomime front. This year I published my first panto as solo writer – Rumplestiltskin – via Lazy Bee Press. It’s always nerve-wracking to send my work out into the world, waiting to see not only if people like it, but will some people actually put real money on the table to stage it. My last panto, a version of Treasure Island co-written with Adrian Barradell, had failed to attract much interest. So it was a pleasant surprise when I received my latest sales report and read that a Washington based group called The British Players had chosen it as their pantomime for this year and will be staging it 4 – 20 December at Kensington Town Hall. Many thanks. Back in the UK, my old comrades at Mawdesley Amateur Dramatic Society are also kindly staging a production of it too. Another community group had bought a review copy, whilst Lowdham Pantomime Group has generously chosen Aladdin the version written by Adrian and myself a few years ago.
Pantomime are curious beasts to write. On one hand they are very formulaic and indeed their audience expects them to be so. A familiar folk tale. a silly dame, heroic boy and girl, completely evil villain, usually with two useless henchmen, and a monster at some point to chase the cast around. On the other hand a good panto also surprises us with its contemporary jokes and its magic. There must be a moment where all seems lost and the bad guy will win. It must entertain children of all ages and their parents too. Plus I know I am writing for companies where not everyone is a great actor or comedian. The characters must have strong identities of their own that can support anyone brave enough to step in front of an audience. There’s real pleasure to be had when I see someone get a big laugh with a joke I wrote for them.
At the moment I am trying to write in a different genre but I may well return to panto in a year or so’s time and choose another fairytale to retell both in my own style, and also with all the trusty pantomime tools in the box too.
August 5, 2015 gazhack Aladdin, Kensington MD, Lowdham, Mawdesley, Pantomime, Rumplestiltskin Leave a comment
Writing Rumplestiltskin the pantomime
Now available for theatre groups of almost any kind is my pantomime version of the Grimm’s fairytale “Rumplestiltskin”. It has been published by Lazy Bee Scripts and I want to thank Stuart Arden for his help. It’s my first solo panto outing, having co-written versions of “Dick Whittington”, “Aladdin” and “Treasure Island”. You can take a look at all of them on the Lazy Bee website – http://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Authors/Author.aspx?iIA=239
Rumplestiltskin has become one of the slightly lesser known of the Grimm’s collection. In fact when I’ve been talking about, its noticeable how many people get it confused with Rapunzel. I suspect its partly because the latter has had the Disney treatment in the marvellous “Tangled”. Another reason is because its inescapably one of the darker stories, with its baby trading plot and few sympathetic characters. I mean even the heroine is someone who offers their baby away, albeit under duress. So adapting it into a frothy family show had some challenges. That was actually one of the reasons I chose to adapt it, because at the time there were no other versions on Lazy Bee’s books (Aladdin by contrast had eight different scripts at the time.) By the time I submitted it however, it was number three.
As someone who has acted in eight panto productions, my philosophy with panto writing is to keep it as fast moving as possible, with the minimum amount of sentimentality and romantic scenes. In my experience romantic duets, even with accomplished singers, can leave the audience shuffling in their seats and similarly dramatic pathos can quickly become tedious bathos. So young love and tragic events are pretty much transparent plot devices to drive the story onwards, and the story is there to hang comedy on to.
Generally I’ve been writing for amateur theatre companies who don’t have much in the way of resources. My first was written in an emergency for a largely inexperienced group of friends, so Pam Hope and I felt obliged to write something with the minimum of props and major scene changes. I’m quite proud that none of my scripts have needed more than three backdrops, as I make extensive use of the half-curtain stage space. In Aladdin, I turned the lack of ability to stage a standard flying carpet sequence into an asset with a scene where the carpet and actors stay still, whilst landmarks are carried past them by the junior chorus, a bit of lo-fi comedy which always seems to go down well.
Whilst panto plots may be more contrived that most, they still have to have internal logic. In the original tale the heroine marries the king who imprisoned her and forced her to spin gold. This struck me has hard to swallow, so I changed to an evil king and queen who had a good son, who eventually confronts them and rescues the girl. Furthermore it is the goblin who has magically made the king and queen evil, so they can freed and become good again, whilst making Rumplestiltskin even nastier. The matter of the heroine offering her first-born, without losing all audience sympathy was another tricky one. I dealt with it by really stacking the deck against her. She makes the deal as much to save her family as herself and also hopes that she may not have a baby. In the second act, she is clearly shown regretting the decision and is also the person who ultimately defeats the goblin.
At the readthrough for the play with some friends, I found that the first act was too long, pushing the whole play over my self-imposed time limit of two hours. My solution was to edit the heroine’s imprisonment from three days to two, thus cutting out two scenes, and also cutting some of the introductory dialogue which was just exposition with no jokes. The result definitely feels tighter. Some readers felt the story was still a bit too frightening, so I took out the goblin’s line – “a real live baby is more precious to me than all the gold in the kingdom.” After that it was ensuring that the jokes come thick and fast. Pantos have a definite formula, which can be helpful for writer, but I have to be careful to watch out for repetition or too many jokes of the same kind. I hope that “Rumplestiltskin” will have a good shelf life for many years to come, and that groups have as much fun putting it on as I’ve had writing. More in fact!
June 7, 2015 gazhack Amateur Dramatic, Community theatre, Lazy Bee Scripts, Pantomime, Rumplestiltskin, Writing 1 Comment
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Why Barzun?
Of Tags
Part I: Books by JB
Part II: Edited by JB
Part III: Translations by JB
Part IV: Contributions by JB
Part V: Introductions by JB
Part VI A: Teaching & Learning
Part VI B: History & Biography
gentle rereader
. . . rediscovering Jacques Barzun
Barzun and the Ford Foundation, continued.
Another lead regarding Jacques Barzun’s role in the second round of Ford Foundation grants in support of higher education, 1964–65:
Box 160: folder “Articles 1956,” Jacques Barzun Papers, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York
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Found: “The Advantages of Inconsistency”
The Ford Foundation invited Jacques Barzun to give an after-dinner talk to their Foundations Group in 1961. Two years earlier Columbia’s provost and dean of faculties had warned in The House of Intellect that philanthropy was one of three unsuspected threats to Intellect, “the capitalized and communal form of live intelligence.” President Grayson Kirk had fielded complaints from university trustees who worried that their friends on the foundation boards might decline to fund Columbia projects. Regarding foundations Barzun had written, “It is an excess of goodwill, of fraternal love, of deep feeling for human life and its reflection in art, that is causing the neglect of mind.” When he addressed the Foundations Group some might have expected fence mending. Instead, Barzun gave advice, beginning with this analogy:
First page of a talk to the Ford Foundations Group, 28 September 1961. Jacques Barzun Papers, Box 142, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York.
“A pleasant meal: our success and ease in carrying food from plate to mouth due to expert control of the forearm, due in turn to opposite and simultaneous action of flexor and extensor muscles. We control the movement for extending one set while contracting the other.
“Yet we live in a mental world where most people want action taken in one direction only – by the pull of one set of ideas. They try hard never to do the opposite of what they ‘believe in,’ be it positive or negative. And it is very true that in many realms consistency is a difficult and desirable goal. In the demonstrations of mathematics, science, and philosophy as well as in the production of plays or the erection of buildings, the happy result springs from unity achieved over diversity.
“But note that in plays and buildings, the various artists and artisans introduce into their plans a good many contrasting elements, a series of subtle opposites to the main idea. This is required to avoid dullness and indifference in the beholder, and the reason seems to be that these creations must somehow correspond to life, and life proceeds like our muscles by oppositions.
“The applicability of this notion to your work is not something I am competent to pursue in detail. I know that I do not know all the difficulties from inside. I know they exist and I know how I feel when I hear some ‘outsider’ to my worries telling me ‘Why don’t you do this?’ I see at once that it’s impossible and I dismiss his suggestion. But I also notice, from time to time, that the suggestion works like a little seed in an ungrateful soil, like a nasty germ in a healthy organism, and I come down with the disease of seeing things differently and I recover by carrying out the suggestion – not as it was made by that ignoramus but in accordance with the facts which I know better than he.
“What I can see from outside is something which in foundation work strives for consistency too hard. The cause lies in 2 things – specialization and the sense of equity. Specialization is to some extent inevitable – no man and no organization can undertake everything. But there is a point where specialization becomes – what shall I say? – asceticism not of the flesh but of the imagination. Policy is then invoked like a legal precedent narrowly interpreted and this is supposed to give equity. There have been among foundations such policies for or against publishing, for or against building, for small grants, for large grants; against overhead always; for matching and not matching, for support at home or abroad, each consistently adhered to. It seems to me there would be immense advantages to deliberate inconsistency.
“I think I appreciate the fact that policy protects, but I believe that if foundations properly assume their role of patrons, then they ought not to think of themselves as institutions in need of protection from the public. They should know more than the public and act on it. It may strike you as a paradox, but a foundation ought to act as much as possible like a person – ondoyant & divers – a free person, of course, which means one who freely and consciously uses his money as an instrument of power guided by judgment.
“Power these days is a bad word, which well-meaning people wish had no reality corresponding to it. But power exists nevertheless and is only another form of ability and money exerts power even when no thought of exercising power is in the user’s mind. There should be such a thought: Let us accept the possession of power and recognize that one of its virtues is precisely the scope it gives to judgment and independence. And just as independence does not mean arbitrariness, so judgment does not mean outward consistency. The best judgment often looks inconsistent, as I started out by saying. It is an old Greek tale that a traveler was given hospitality by some remote peasants, who noticed with horror that the man blew on his hands to keep them warm and again on his soup to make it cool. Being great readers of Euclid and lovers of consistency, the peasants killed their guest, because his inconsistency frightened them. The poor victim, as we know, had a perfectly sensible idea. Life is not geometry. The living have to blow hot and cold, whether they like it or not; whether they are misjudged for it or not. The art of life is to do this with a mind, guided by a lively conscience. With those guides one should not ask for guarantees. Life is a risk, and the people will talk whatever you do. Let them talk – as you have so graciously allowed me to do.”
Did the little seed that he planted that evening grow into something fruitful? Or was the response to the applause line merely polite and his message quickly forgotten? Barzun could be disappointed by the lack of apparent action following even well received speeches. Still he prepared others to keep faith while waiting: “In the artistic or intellectual life,” he wrote in Teacher in America, “you cannot, most often, see the fruit of a day’s work. … It is invisible, and remains so, maybe, for twenty years.”
Five years later a Columbia Spectator headline read: “Columbia Begins $200-Million Drive With Ford Grants Totaling $35 Million: Largest Pledge Ever to a University Launches Central Fund Campaign”. Barzun modestly claimed no credit, saying that the Ford Foundation “had got wind of the changes at Columbia and decided, unsolicited, to award us one of the $25 million grants it was distributing in support of higher education in 1964–65.” Instead, Barzun blamed the Ford Foundation for causing him to postpone retirement as provost for another year and a half in order to administer the grants. Without having access to Ford Foundation files, I think that Barzun’s public efforts – Teacher in America, “Assets to Conceal” in God’s Country and Mine, his Time magazine profile, The House of Intellect, and even “The Advantages of Inconsistency” – contributed to turning the tide. JB also would be quick to mention the later work of his Columbia colleague Richard Hofstadter whose Anti-Intellectualism in American Life won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964.
The Ford Foundation money may have come in unrestricted funds, but the four-to-one matching requirement drove Columbia and Barzun hard. His extended tenure as provost required much additional travel, as he spoke to alumni groups from coast to coast and overseas. (These valuable talks are preserved in Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library.) Ending his days as an administrator, Barzun’s promotion to University Professor coincided with publication of The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going. Adopting Shakespeare’s cadence, Barzun addresses fundraising in the chapter titled “Friends, Donors, Enemies”. The year was 1968 and mischief was afoot already on American campuses. Over four decades later Barzun’s intellect and wisdom remain at our disposal, but only on the shelf … instead of being engraved in our tablets and available online. No wonder Google “Scholar” knows so little of Barzun, and nothing at all of “The Advantages of Inconsistency”.
The quotations in my first paragraph come from The House of Intellect (pages 4 and 179). The concern expressed to Grayson Kirk by at least some Columbia trustees about Barzun’s 1959 bestseller (and National Book Award finalist) appears in Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind, Beil, 2011, pages 175–176. The penultimate paragraph’s quotation comes from Teacher in America (1945, page 301; 1980, page 425). The New York Public Library Book of Twentieth-Century Quotations includes more than a dozen Barzun passages; that collection’s version of the “invisible fruit” quotation works like Barium in the gastrointestinal tract, enabling an Internet scan for teacher websites that skim reference works instead of drinking deeply from Barzun’s original.) JB’s characterization of the Ford Foundation grants appears in “How Columbia Was Restructured, 1958–1965”, Appendix A to Michael Murray’s intellectual biography of Barzun, page 291. The 91st Congress invited the author to testify on student uprisings; Barzun’s insights – national and global – can be found in Campus Unrest, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969, pages 765–781.
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America now
Recent events have called to mind Jacques Barzun’s exertions to influence his own times, and our future. A review of the latest Ken Burns documentary, The Dust Bowl, triggered a memory of America Now, a topical anthology published during the Great Depression. Barzun’s contribution to the book includes a striking example of prejudice that crystallizes the nature of racism.
But I let it go. Would Jacques want anyone to bother with a mere essay from 1938 when the previous year he had published an entire book on the hateful subject? Like Burckhardt and Gibbon, Barzun may well become celebrated for a single work, so why spend time and effort on such a dated piece?
Then a couple of weeks ago Timothy Egan, author of the National Book Award winner The Worst Hard Time, stirred up Dust Bowl history again with “In Ignorance We Trust”. Recalling Barzun’s essay once more, I pulled it off the shelf and reread it. The memorable episode of racism that I first recalled is but one small part of an exegesis that arrays his usual – extraordinary – variety of evidence.
1st Lt. Inouye
Finally, one of many tributes to the late Senator Daniel Inouye included the war hero’s account of a San Francisco barber denying the Japanese-American a haircut, despite the empty right sleeve pinned to Inouye’s Army uniform. That shameful incident might have turned out differently if someone in that shop had read Barzun’s essay. The prospect that such situations could arise motivated Jacques to write something new for America Now, and moves me to resurrect it at last.
Barzun did not simply submit a chapter from his second full-length book, Race: A Study in Modern Superstition (1937). The global, historical perspective of Race remains, however, as he starts fresh with conditions at home: “At the present a wave of anti-Japanese feeling is sweeping over the United States. Everywhere, in high circles and low, condemnation of the Japanese for their war on China is to be heard, and practical effect is given to it in the form of a buyers’ boycott of articles made or originating in Japan, from silk stockings to ten-cent-store cigarette boxes. The Japanese living in this country are put on the defensive and must perforce be apologetic or defiant. They must either uphold the policies of their mother-country or explain them away as the doings of a military clique with which they, the Japanese-Americans, are not in sympathy.”
Barzun then shifts to the plight of German-Americans in the U.S. during World War I to illustrate the first characteristic of race-prejudice, calling it “tribal identification.” Before the first page ends he brings in the third Axis power to provide a concrete example of the superstition’s absurdity and harm: “More recently, Italian imperialism in Abyssinia had its repercussions in Chicago and New York in the form of clashes between Italians and Negroes on the same basis of identification with the two groups warring in the Ethiopian mountains.
“It is easily seen how slight the real bond between the two pairs of opponents in such a racial situation can be. Even on the basis of color the Abyssinians and the American Negroes hardly form a homogeneous group, and on a political or economic or cultural or geographical basis, there is no discoverable similarity between the population of Harlem and that of Addis Ababa.”
Having deflated race-thinking, Barzun replaces it with constructive thought – the imagination of the real. Years before there was a Manzanar, Jacques asks his readers to consider the differences between two men walking side-by-side in Los Angeles, an issei father and nissei son (like young Dan Inouye in Hawai’i) who “are separated by a personal and cultural chasm that it would be hard to exaggerate.” Their expectations and hopes diverge like their legal status. The son’s birth on American soil allows his family “to get around the provisions of the California Alien Land Act, and thus a motive of economic rivalry is introduced into a situation already complicated on the social and cultural sides.”
Barzun examines this second characteristic of race prejudice through the oscillating treatment of Oriental immigrants, beginning with the Chinese: “When the ‘coolies’ were no longer useful and began to offer real competition to white labor they turned from ‘sober and thrifty workers of all-round ability’ to ‘moon-eyed lepers.'” Then by reversing the “racial” perspective, he furnishes the example that has remained vivid for me since the first reading:
“Anglo-Saxon” refugees in California
“Economic status in America is closely allied to social position, and the distinctions, although not embedded in rigid terms or titles, are keenly felt, often with surprising alterations in the form of local race-prejudice. For example, it is generally true that the recent or unassimilated immigrant in this country is felt by the ‘older stock’ to belong to an inferior social and racial group. The ‘hunky,’ ‘Cannuck,’ ‘Mick,’ or ‘Wop’ is a lower sort of animal in comparison with the alleged ‘Anglo-Saxon.’ But observe the effect of economics upon this pattern of thought and feeling: In Fresno, the Armenian population is well established, well-to-do, and thoroughly respectable. When, therefore, during the last depression, Fresno was invaded by homeless immigrants from poverty-stricken regions of the South, these dispossessed ‘Anglo-Saxons,’ whose family trees in some cases had struck roots on this continent before the Revolution, were considered by the Armenians an undesirable alien lot, and the usual batch of contemptuous adjectives rained down upon them in spite of their great past and pedigree. Dirty, shiftless, crooked and criminal were among the milder terms applied to the new ‘race’ huddling across the railroad tracks in improvised shanties and un-American squalor.”
Barzun’s comprehensive treatment of the human race (singular) may account in part for Kenneth Clark’s 1975 remark that Barzun’s Race: A Study in Superstition (2d ed., 1965) is not one of the classics on the subject. The first African-American to earn a Columbia University Ph.D. in psychology (1940) married the first woman (and second African-American) to achieve the same distinction (1943). Drs. Mamie and Kenneth Clark’s long campaign to integrate American society included the studies of children’s responses to “white” and “black” dolls that influenced the unanimous Supreme Court decision to desegregate U.S. schools, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954). By 1975 the history and achievements of the Civil Rights movement dominated discussions of racism, but Barzun’s first edition of Race had as its background not only the 1930s resurgence of lynchings in America, but also the long history of pogroms in Europe that would erupt again during Kristallnacht – the year that America Now came out.
After criticizing the treatment Barzun received in “curiously listless and uninvolved” obituaries and memorials, Mr. Mark Halpern added that “He is being prepared, it seems, for burial in footnotes and bibliographical essays as a very decent sort of chap, almost always on the side of the angels, but perhaps not in the front rank of heroic battlers for truth and freedom.” (Vocabula Review, vol. 14, no. 11, November 2012; published online 18 November 2012 [subscription required]) My use of the bibliographer’s shovel has been to dig up – rather than to bury – Barzun’s brilliance. This gentle rereader’s lamp may not shine as brightly as The Vocabula Review, but it is here for all to see.
Our champion – Mr. Halpern’s and mine – battled heroically on many fronts. Regarding the question of race, Barzun certainly was on the side of the angels, and did not wait for the dust to settle before he engaged. His intelligence mission took him to Germany in 1933–34 (with his new American citizen’s passport) as the Nazis consolidated power. He waited until after the war to thank “the librarians at Dresden, Berlin, and Frankfurt-am-Main—unknown to me by name—who facilitated, in spite of Nazism, researches of which they knew the bearing.” But Jacques did not hide in the stacks. Any fear that the survivor of German shelling during the Great War may have felt did not stop Barzun from attending a Nazi rally and witnessing Ernst Röhm’s threatening ability … that prodded Hitler to have the SA commander assassinated the following year.
Barzun was choosing his next battles even before then. Several visits to the Paris World’s Fair of 1937 gave indications of trouble ahead: “Politically, it was the first attempt of the fascist, communist, and Nazi propaganda machines to make ‘culture’ an instrument of aggressive diplomacy.” Jacques did not settle for the role of passive chronicler of events; his actions included timely production of his penetrating thoughts with Of Human Freedom (1939) and Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941). Anyone who wants a nutshell version of Barzun’s thought on racism, so as to move swiftly on to these works, would do well to read “Race-Prejudice” in America Now.
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Music in American Life
Between editing anthologies like his Pleasures of Music (1951) and The Delights of Detection (1961), Barzun also managed to produce two influential bestsellers, a volume of his critical essays, a research-and-report handbook (still in print with a sixth edition), and a little survey that’s easily overlooked: Music in American Life. His essay of 117 pages was written from January–July 1955, soon after publication of his other American panorama, God’s Country and Mine.
Rereading Music in American Life after “Berlioz and Barzun” recalled my initial expectation that the work would be insubstantial. I found instead that it is fundamental, an ear-witness account of “Music Unlimited”, as an early section title sums up the effects on daily life of ubiquitous broadcasts, canned music, and the mass production of vinyl records. His attitude remains central: “Music shares my devotion with the other arts as well as with ideas and concerns remote from art; so that my aggressive passions and my lust for rationality disperse themselves (harmlessly, I hope) over a wide territory.”
That passion for Reason shows how Barzun made his own the Enlightenment’s driving force. Yet his defense of Romanticism led some to call him a Neo-Romantic. Rather than seeing them as irrational worshipers of emotion, Jacques championed the Romantics for making ‘an intellectual point about the emotional life.’ (Please forgive the paraphrase and lack of a citation; I may add them later.) When first reading Music in American Life, the recognition of Barzun’s Modernist ways prompted this marginalia:
If Shaw’s generation got into the habit of using the inversion trick, it may be said that JB’s talent for showing many sides simultaneously belongs with the Cubists, helping the reader to move from the dogmatic single vantage where truth has a vanishing point and use the mind to hold multiple perspectives in a single pulse of thought.
There are many examples throughout his work of the long sentence or paragraph rapidly assembled from disparate elements that Jacques chose not to break down into a rat-a-tat-tat of simple declarative sentences. There are better examples, but here is the Music in American Life paragraph (p. 82) on LP records (“discs”) that reinforced my view that Barzun is altogether Classic, Romantic, and Modern:
“The moral is simple: any musical addict ought to make a point of balancing his diet. Discs sustain the musical life, but the vitamins of live music make it flourish. To vary the image, the disc is to the amateur an introducer and a reminder; to the performer it is an aid to study; to the critic, a means of comparison and judgment; and to all a source of recreation and refreshment akin to a library of plays. But its auditory and intellectual rigidities are esthetic limitations to be mentally corrected, just like the bad acoustics of a given hall, the bad fingering of a member of the string ensemble, the bad tempo of a manic conductor, the bad mood one may be in from a stomach ache. Music is never perfectly heard or rendered, which is why it has to be ‘monitored’ by the receiving mind, even and especially after it has been monitored in the studio.”
This post marks the 105th anniversary of Jacques Barzun’s birth.
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Twenty years ago I had no inkling of all that I would have to be thankful for in 2012. The thought of writing to my hero was daunting. The prospect of meeting Jacques Barzun seemed impossible. I have wondered since May whether to write about that culmination. I now choose to do so as a way of giving thanks.
Prior to the concert I stood up to take photographs of the Majestic Theatre’s interior and of the great man sitting across the way. I also may have been the first to rise in a standing ovation as Jacques came forward to say a few words in lieu of the planned video tribute. When the symphony’s performance concluded, the applause faded, and the audience started to file out, I stood by my seat and turned to savor the occasion. I saw two smiling women headed my way.
Mary Jane Howe and Diana Hamner wondered who this stand-up character might be, ‘a Berlioz expert’ perhaps? I told them of my enthusiasm for Barzun and touched on a few areas of his expertise, including the life and music of Berlioz. My Barzun train of associations might have become a runaway if not for the impending reception. I listened to the charming ladies describe San Antonio’s attractions, including other handsome theaters. Our delightful chat was cut short as an usher asked us to move to the lobby where Eric Morse waited patiently.
We met and walked up to the mezzanine’s Starlight Lounge. Thanks to Leo Wong’s surprising initiative and Marguerite Barzun’s kindness, we found our names on the guest list. Just inside we were offered champagne. I sipped from the flute and scanned the room. Our benefactor, Charles Butt, stood over in the middle section greeting appreciative guests. Not far from him more people gathered around the center of attention, a smiling Jacques Barzun. It looked to be a while before we might enjoy an audience.
Remaining on the periphery, Eric and I talked about the amazing reality of our presence there, our impressions of San Antonio, and the books I carried: the first volume of Berlioz and the Romantic Century and A Stroll with William James. The focus on conversation resulted in my losing track of the author’s living presence. Then “suddenly” he was rolling near and the gentlemen pushing his wheelchair said, “There’s someone here with books for you to sign.”
The question of how to address him could be put off no longer. How to express reverence and friendship at once? “Professor Barzun … Jacques,” came out as I managed to say, “I’m your amateur bibliographer, John Adams.” I made something like a bow to lower my eyes to the level of his own. “Oh, John …” he responded with warmth and surprise as he reached out for my hand. Having known for some time of the pain writing often caused him, I clasped his hand gently and found that his hands were as large as mine.
Taking a step or two back, I turned to my compatriot, “May I introduce your newest neighbor? This is Eric Robert Morse, direct descendant of Samuel F. B. Morse of telegraph fame, a painter like his ancestor and a published author with several books to his credit.” As Eric stepped forward I added that though a newcomer to San Antonio, he had already formed a reading group, the first Jacques Barzun Book Club.
There were hundreds of questions that I would like to have asked Barzun, most arising from an intimate knowledge of his works. Somehow I skipped them all and landed on an inconsequential detail, his portrait on the “Berlioz and Barzun” program. Lionel Trilling’s photograph of Jacques wearing a summer suit had first appeared on the dust jacket for God’s Country and Mine. Showing Barzun wearing a watch on his right wrist, I had wondered whether he was left-handed. During a rereading years later it occurred to me that the image had been reversed. Of all the foolish words that have passed my lips, the most ridiculous were those that informed my hero, “You never parted your hair on the right side.”
The gracious gentleman overlooked that blunder and our short conversation continued. I noticed Eric crouch so that he too would see eye-to-eye with Barzun. Recognizing his good sense, I gave up my stooped posture and took a knee. (If I had brought my sword I might have asked Jacques to knight me.) Soon thereafter he was answering a question when his throat began to catch. A few moments later his eyes started to water. He managed to collect himself, but the discomfort may have diminished his acuity.
I mentioned something from our letters and he asked, “Have we corresponded?” I could have reminded Jacques of my occasional missives from California, New York, and Alaska, or gifts ranging from smoked wild salmon to a James Agate book of theatre criticism that was new to him. Instead, sensing another admirer standing by to greet Jacques, I simply said, “Maybe a sample of my handwriting will remind you.” I reached into my coat and pulled out a card that I had written that afternoon, thinking that if he was too tired to attend the reception I might find someone who could deliver it to him later.
Barzun opened the envelope then and there. A last small tribute dropped into his lap – a 1921 silver dollar. The grandfather for whom I am named had given it to me on the day I was born – a birthday shared with my father and, as I learned just this year, Barzun’s father, too. Jacques arrived in America the year before the coin was minted. The Liberty head design reminded me of his arrival by steamer in New York harbor, under the welcoming gaze of that other gift from France. I mentioned those connections in my note.
Whether my handwriting jogged his memory I do not know, but he asked whether we might have met before, “perhaps without the beard?” Despite his love for William James, I had noticed over the years a half dozen or so disparagements of beards in Barzun’s writing. Replying to one of my infrequent letters (sent at a longer than usual interval after a move from Kodiak to Juneau), Jacques expressed relief that I hadn’t fallen into a crevasse. My humorous answer included the adjacent photo as proof of life and explained this Alaskan’s preference for facial insulation from the cold. Jacques wrote back: “Do not labor under the misapprehension that I have any objection to beards. Yours shows excellent topiary work. My distaste is only for paucity and straggle when flaunted.”
I assured Jacques that this was our first meeting – one that I had hoped for since at least as early as my first letter to him in 1993 – and expressed my gratitude viva voce and in the note: for the chance to meet him, for permission to work in his Papers at Columbia, and for all that his works have meant to me. I picked up the unsigned books, then Eric and I stepped aside. We moved toward the back of the room where we thanked Marguerite and talked with her briefly. She asked Jack Jackson to join us, made the introductions, and soon excused herself to go check on Jacques.
Jack delighted us by describing his informal conversations with Jacques. I thank him here again for sharing those experiences and his interest in family histories. It was Jack who urged me to write of the trip to San Antonio and include the ridiculous details of my pilgrimage.
This website’s 11-month beginning, my first public attempt to broadcast Barzun’s merits, has brought unexpected pleasures. I hope that there will be more exchanges like Bill Sweetland’s freewheeling appreciation of Jacques. (Thanks, Bill, for the encouragement to reveal more of myself.) I was glad to see an instance of the tags I provide helping someone to discover what Barzun said on a particular subject, in that case the orchestral poet Sebastien Voirol. The details can be found in the post “father and son” and in the comments below “What’s next?“
Sending a “Berlioz and Barzun” program to Leo Wong was the least I could do to show my gratitude for his support. It seems that the instant a gentle rereader post appears Leo has planted a link in the Jacques Barzun Fan Club on Facebook. I imagine that he was the one who added this site to the Jacques Barzun page on Wikipedia, as well. Best of all, his occasional comment (see after “Barzun’s women“) and frequent emails supply Barzun conversation that I have missed for much of my life. Thank you very much indeed, Leo, especially for the gift of how Jacques first greeted me. I would not have been present without your intercession.
Henri Barzun
John at Columbia, 1980
On liberty from Navy Officer Candidate School, with a haircut Jacques would approve.
John at Columbia, 2004, hirsute.
First visit to the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Posted in Biography, Quotations and tagged Bill Sweetland, Charles Butt, Diana Hamner, Eric Robert Morse, Hector Berlioz, Jacques Barzun, James Agate, John L. Adams, Leo Wong, Lionel Trilling, Marguerite Lee Davenport Barzun, Mary Jane Howe, Patrick H. Adams Sr., Samuel F. B. Morse, Sebastien Voirol, William James
musical expression
San Antonio Symphony Music Director Sebastien Lang-Lessing asked guest of honor Jacques Barzun whether he would like to say anything about the evening’s Berlioz selections. Barzun drew applause from musicians and audience alike by deferring to the orchestra’s imminent performance. Jacques made way for the music as he rolled from front-and-center to wheelchair space along the left aisle.
Anyone there unfamiliar with Barzun’s criticism might suppose that the response to music he advocates – even after the last bar has been played – is silence. Thanks to Michael Murray’s Jacques Barzun Reader, his answer to the question “Is Music Unspeakable?” can be heard in full (pages 323–337). Barzun begins with the elemental: “After a concert there is a natural urge to talk. Music is a strong stimulus that calls for outward release. But there is also the wish to be safe, the fear of saying the wrong thing. This awkward relation of words to music is what I hope may be made clearer by considering some neglected facts.” Jacques inoculates listeners against the “snobbish and fallacious” malady of critics and musicians who treat music as “pure” or “mathematical” and beyond the help of words.
I know Barzun much better than Berlioz, so what I have to say about the concert may sound foolish. Though I was attending the same performance as Jacques, his experience of “Berlioz and Barzun” must have been much richer. His keen musical perceptions and profound knowledge of the composer would resonate throughout the performance. The distance between our seats made a difference, too. Jacques saw the back of Concertmaster Ertan Torgul who faced the orchestra; my view from the third row right showed Mr. Torgul in profile. Barzun’s eyes and mine were below stage level so that we could not see many musicians beyond those downstage.
From the first beat of Le Carnaval romain overture I saw the truth of Barzun’s assertion, “That the response is visceral is vividly shown when we look at players and conductors in action.” Lang-Lessing’s baton gamboled along with his entire being. Torgul moved with vigor despite being constrained by the violin under his chin and confined to a chair. Between the two I could clearly see Associate Concertmaster Bonnie Terry whose spirited playing showed both through her bodily motions and the expressions flashing across her beautiful features.
Bonnie Terry
Associate Concertmaster
San Antonio Symphony
Those who have read Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink may recall his last chapter, “Listening with Your Eyes.” He relates the story of trombonist Abbie Conant’s blind audition for the Munich Philharmonic in 1980. A screen made her gender invisible to the judges and her ability won them over. Her unveiling prompted pay discrimination and later demotion to second chair. Eventually vindicated in court and in concert, Conant was a harbinger of the gender balance – through careers open to talent – evident in orchestras like today’s San Antonio Symphony. So I dismissed the lazy conjecture that Ms. Terry had been promoted for her loveliness, or denied the Concertmaster’s chair because of her sex.
Eventually I closed my eyes to her beauty, the better to attend to the entire orchestra. Before then, however, I saw something extraordinary, a look that combined so many feelings that I still struggle to describe them. Seriousness was there, as it had been since tuning her instrument. Concentration focused her eyes like lasers. If the moment had been filmed, I could pause the replay as the crucial passage approached and identify the measure about to move her eyebrows – not into a furrow or frown, but into some configuration of recognition, comprehension, an intense understanding of the composer’s meaning. Remembering her complex expression months later, I better understand Barzun’s assertion: “What is stirred up by music lies below the emotions, or at least at the core of more than one at a time.”
Barzun elaborated his distinction between visceral and emotional responses to music in his 1951 Elson Lecture at the Library of Congress, “Music into Words.” There he also explained by analogy how all true arts provide reverberation beyond their daubs of paint, stone shapes, or strings … of words. Returning to Hamlet, the tragedy that helped to save young Jacques’ life, Barzun chose passages to show how art works after preparing the ground, “… art differs from workaday communication in that it transcends the literal—not excludes or denies it, for it contains it—but goes beyond. If this is so, then another imaginary barrier between music and the other arts disappears: no art denotes or gives out information.” The reflections on Yorick’s skull that follow – one page of twenty-seven devoted to music – should not be missed by anyone who cares about Art, especially literate artists.
No wonder that the final piece by Berlioz that Jacques wanted to hear live was the “Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d’Hamlet” from Tristia (Opus 18). The conductor gave his 21st century listeners advance warning that sounds of gunfire would come from the music – presumably not from the audience or a drive-by shooting. Crackling like fireworks comes about two-thirds of the way through the funeral march, but I do not recall whether the selection halted there or whether the orchestra played the remaining third.
In either case, that was not the last Berlioz composition performed that night. Lang-Lessing chose as an encore the piece that Jacques asked to be excluded from the program: the “Marche Troyenne.” Barzun had adopted the music as Columbia University’s graduation processional and told the conductor that he was tired of it, just as many teachers grow weary of “Pomp and Circumstance.” I hope that this last lagniappe caused Jacques no worse indigestion than the prospect that his legacy may be boiled down to that of an “educationist.”
Barzun deserves a better fate. He has been recognized as a Great Teacher and will remain one for as long as his works continue to be read. That happy thought suggests that more of his works should be inscribed with digital ink. HarperCollins may find it too great a challenge to translate From Dawn to Decadence into e-reader formats. A Jacques Barzun Reader, however, is perfectly suited to Nook, iPad, Libre, Kobo and other devices. The Harper Perennial paperback is currently out of stock at Amazon, but we can encourage HarperCollins to digitize Barzun’s cross-fertilization of the arts by simply clicking on the “Tell the Publisher! I want to read this book on Kindle” link (right column, next to picture of e-reader).
Brief quotations of Barzun can be a disservice to reader and author alike. The lines quoted here apply well enough to the occasion, but they are hardly nutshells of either lecture or essay. I wish that I could link to complete texts of “Is Music Unspeakable?” (originally in The American Scholar, Spring 1996, pp. 193–202); to “Music into Words” (printed in The Score, December 1954; Music and Words: From Addison to Barzun, Jack Sullivan, ed., pp. 14–31) and to Critical Questions, pp. 3–29, as editor Bea Friedland also includes “The Meaning of Meaning in Music” (pp. 75–98; and in The Musical Quarterly, January 1980, pp. 1–20) where Barzun explains:
“Music—and every other art—is expressive in the same sense as a cry or a gesture. We say to the same effect a ‘facial expression’—it has no name, but it means. Music is of course far more complex than cries, faces, or gestures, but like a brilliant pantomime its consecutive intention is immediately perceived and understood. No need of mentally guessing, translating, converting its passing forms into another realm of abstract or concrete perceptions. The better word for this power is not expression but expressiveness, which—to me at least—gets rid of the imagined second term that cannot be named but would be tacked on to ‘of’ if one could name it.”
Posted in Criticism, Literature, Music and tagged Bea Friedland, Bonnie Terry, Ertan Torgul, Hector Berlioz, Jack Sullivan, Jacques Barzun, Michael Murray, San Antonio Symphony, Sebastien Lang-Lessing
a few words before the concert
The Express-News report on the “Berlioz and Barzun” concert came close to accurately quoting the honoree. Jacques compared San Antonio Symphony benefactor Charles Butt to Horace and Virgil’s patron Maecenas, the “wealthy Roman who thought that his compatriots ought to have a more elevated pleasure than having gladiators kill each other.”
Whether an editor snipped column inches or the reporter chose to turn a deaf ear to Barzun’s next remark is impossible to say. Jacques did go on: “I was trying to think of an equivalent of gladiators killing each other and I finally hit upon it,” then he paused before delivering a punchline. He didn’t refer grimly to the UFC’s caged combatants locked in their bloody mixed martial arts. Instead, Barzun made the orchestra and audience laugh with his musical analog to a Colosseum spectacle: “rock and roll.”
Why not rap? Public Enemy’s Chuck D claims that music education budget cuts in New York City during the 1970s deprived youth of Barzun’s “more elevated pleasures.” The musical instrument vacuum was filled by hip-hop and rap. Barzun named rock, though, and the Express-News may have left that out to avoid controversy. Not Jacques. Nor will I.
Free tickets to the Majestic Theatre performance drew a varied crowd, from blue jeans to suits, and from elders to kids. Seeing children in the foyer before the concert reminded me of Jacques’ first public music experience, the premiere of Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps. I have since recalled my own – another free concert – outdoors during the Strawberry Festival in Orange County, California, when I was around ten. A band played the opening electric guitar melody of “Get Together” by the Youngbloods and I felt reverberation for the first time. Songs on the little plastic radio at home did not do that. Popular music was all that I really knew until Barzun’s words opened my ears to Berlioz. Then it was on to Furtwängler’s Beethoven and more.
Having grown up with rock, though, I can imagine how easily others might dismiss Barzun’s joke – especially in print – as the cranky humor of an elitist curmudgeon. JB’s jabs can startle, shove aside timeworn ideas, and create an opening for the unexpected. His barbs are sometimes meant to serve that purpose, as suggested in an epigraph to his Energies of Art from John Jay Chapman: “So long as a man is trying to tell the truth, his remarks will contain a margin which other people will regard as mystifying and irritating exaggeration. It is this very margin of controversy that does the work.”
Barzun achieves surer results when the occasion allows him to better develop his thoughts. When rock-and-roll’s golden oldies were still recent releases, Barzun delivered “A Request for the Loan of Your Ears” (1961) to an audience about to hear for the first time compositions from the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. His listeners in the McMillin Theatre included lovers of classical music and, among the students at least, some fans of rock as well. Strangers to the new creation, Jacques first invited them to take pleasure in the effort to comprehend unknown works, but
“To understand in this fashion does not mean to accept passively because someone says that the stuff is new and therefore good, that many believe in it, that it’s going to succeed anyway, so it’s best to resign oneself to the inevitable. This kind of reasoning has gone on about modern art for some thirty years and nothing has been more harmful to the arts. It is an inverted philistinism, which eliminates judgment and passion just as surely as did the older philistinism of blind opposition to whatever is new.”
Then by combining critical and historical insights with Jamesian psychology he alerted his listeners to their minds’ natural conservatism. Openness and equipoise become the way to discover richer pleasures – old and new.
Barzun’s double-action thought reveals unknown art, delivering democratic access to the best that he’s discovered. The Majestic Theatre audience – almost everyone hearing for the first time at least some of Barzun’s favorite Berlioz marches – included a cross-section of class and culture. I thought of Maya Angelou’s complementary line, “No less to Midas than the mendicant.” Then I heard the music.
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San Antonio scène
After visiting Trinity’s library, I headed for the cleaner’s to pick up my suit. Though the promised delivery time had arrived, my suit had yet to come back from the dry cleaning plant.
Impatience might have gotten the better of me if I’d just stood there waiting, but I remembered a friend’s request to bring back a chili pepper braid. I asked the owner if there was a place nearby that might have one. Advised that it was a tourist item mainly available at the downtown market on weekends, he suggested trying the nearby H-E-B.
What’s the Barzun connection? H-E-B’s Broadway Central Market displayed a banner that read “Passport France”. Beret wearing staff members and customers were having fun with model-and-artist cutouts. Greeted in French as I entered the store, I exchanged kisses with the cheerful stranger. San Antonio had been primed for “Berlioz and Barzun” … and the concert was now only a couple of hours away.
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In memoriam LJM
Publication includes public speaking. Jacques Barzun spoke everywhere from the classrooms of Columbia to the Library of Congress, from New York’s 92nd Street Y to Aspen and Glimmerglass, on radio programs and vinyl records. Barzun’s “blessed year of sabbatical spoils”, 1943–1944, saw him listening and speaking on campuses from coast to coast before dashing off (in just five weeks) his first bestseller, Teacher in America. Never a captive of the Ivory Tower, Barzun still made time for speaking to groups of students and teachers during the ensuing decades, from Princeton to Stanford to Trinity in Texas. There on a visit to San Antonio – around the time that Jacques began writing From Dawn to Decadence – he spoke to a Trinity audience that included a brilliant young woman, Lara Moore. Like Jacques, Lara would go on to graduate first in her class.
I visited Trinity University during the afternoon before the “Berlioz and Barzun” concert. Honoring the memory of Dr. Moore, I had donated a copy of Michael Murray’s Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind to Trinity’s Elizabeth Huth Coates Library. The recently published book had been added to their Special Collections, possibly because of the memorial tribute to a distinguished alumna tipped in:
My hope was that present and future Trinity students might encounter Lara when checking out his biography. So on the day of the Barzun tribute I delivered a second copy of his biography to her collegiate alma mater for circulation. Introducing you to Lara in a similar way recalls cherished memories of a dear friend.
Like Barzun’s French ‘Race’, Dr. Moore’s dissertation was published: Restoring Order: The Ecole des Chartes and the Organization of Archives and Libraries in France, 1820–1870 (Litwin Books, 2008).
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To be responsible for the effective financial management at Impact Arts, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements
Overall accountability for Finance and HR functions at Impact Arts.
To support the Director (as Company Secretary) ensuring compliance with OSCR, Companies Act and other regulatory requirements.
Supporting the Finance Committee and Board through regular communication, meetings and updates
To contribute to the strategic leadership at Impact Arts through input into the strategic plan, promoting the vision and values and representing Impact Arts within networks in the arts, social enterprise, public, private and voluntary sectors
Find out more about Impact Arts on Good HQ
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Google+ App for iPhone
Google's iPhone app for Google+ has been finally approved by Apple and it's the top free app in the US App Store. For some reason, the app is not compatible with iPod Touches and iPads, so it only works if you have an iPhone.
Google+ for iPhone has most of the features of the Android app, but it doesn't support instant uploads and lacks the advanced settings from the Android app.
The app has been criticized for the non-standard interface. "Google+ app uses left-right swiping to change views in your 'Stream'. I see three: Incoming, Circles, and Nearby. The idiomatic iOS design for this would be a tab controller at the bottom with three tabs, one for each view," says John Gruber.
Other users complain that they need an invitation to use Google+ and a surprising number of people say that the app doesn't work well in iOS 5, which is still in beta and can only be installed by developers, at least officially. This shows that many of the 18 million Google+ users are developers and tech enthusiasts.
Labels: Google Plus, Mobile
"For some reason, the app is not compatible with iPod Touches" : which reason please ? It would be very nice to have at least compatibility with the ipod touch... Thanks :)
Eva Yaa Asantewaa July 20, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Yes, get that together soon, please.
My first thought was that the left/right swiping was to keep a consistent interface with the Android app where you can have as many different circle streams as you want (so 3 tabs at the bottom wouldn't work). Then I saw from your picture that they've gratuitously put incoming on the left and nearby on the right which is the exact opposite of the Android app so no consistency there.
Amey July 20, 2011 at 7:41 PM
When can we expect to get one for BB?
SpletniAgent July 20, 2011 at 11:18 PM
What about android app? Is there any out there?
Alex Chitu July 20, 2011 at 11:37 PM
Yes, there is:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus
Satriyo Niti Atmojo July 21, 2011 at 12:38 AM
Great.. i'll try it..
teeth whitening pen July 23, 2011 at 1:11 PM
Thanks for that - been looking for ages
Ryan Lawrence August 21, 2012 at 5:34 AM
Download it again from store. Maybe that’s works.
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February 28, 2018 by GP1 Admin 1310 0 0
Excerpted from The Tribune story by Tyler Silvy
The Greeley City Council on Tuesday directed city staff to conduct national background checks on city council candidates going forward, and asked staff to develop tougher, more punitive language on candidate affidavits in an effort to prevent candidates from lying about qualifications.
The direction, coming during a Tuesday evening work session, takes place in the shadow of Greeley residents electing a convicted felon to the at-large council seat in November 2017.
City council members on Tuesday discussed the timing, process and conclusions of revelations that Eddie Mirick had a felony conviction, news first reported by The Tribune in the days leading up to the election. Mirick was elected four days after The Tribune reported his felony conviction. He took office a month later. He served for one month before a Weld District Court Judge overturned the election and removed him from the Greeley City Council.
In many respects, there’s little that can be done to prevent a similar issue.
» Mirick’s felony, for forgery, is 40 years old and took place in California, which doesn’t allow reporting agencies like one Greeley would hire to report information beyond seven years of the infraction.
» The city can’t change timelines associated with contesting a candidate’s qualifications without opting out of the coordinated election process with Weld County. Opting out would cost $25,000 more per election, on top of costs associated with leasing election equipment and hiring necessary staff to manage elections.
For council members, though, something had to be done. The election put a convicted felon in office for a month and cost the city $12,772 when council members voted to repay residents’ legal expenses after those residents took the case to court.
Further, because the revelations came so late in the process and Mirick was able to win the election and be sworn in to the council, Stacy Suniga, his opponent who was eventually appointed once Mirick was removed, must now run for re-election next year rather than serving the four-year term for which she campaigned.
You can read the full story here.
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EastEnders Spoilers: Habiba Hears Devastating News About Adam
By Nics Abasta On Jul 5, 2019
On EastEnders, Habiba Ahmed (Rukku Nahar) learned some devastating news about her lover, Adam Bateman (Stephen Rahman-Hughes). Viewers know that Habiba’s been pushing Adam to leave Honey Mitchell (Emma Barton) so they could have a proper relationship. But last night’s episode left her heart broken once again.
She was surprised when Adam shared some big news about his future. Habiba was devastated and her sister Iqra Ahmed (Priya Davdra) tried to reach out to console her.
As if that wasn’t enough disappointment, Habiba also learned that Mariam Ahmed (Indira Joshi) has been helping her find a suitable husband. Feeling hurt, Habiba agreed that maybe it is time for her to find a partner. What will Adam do when he finds out about it?
EastEnders Spoilers: Bobby Seeks Support From Mysterious Friend As He Struggles With Being Back Home
EastEnders Spoilers – Adam Bateman Tried To End The Affair
Last month, viewers may recall that Adam tried to end his affair with Habiba. It was the time when Honey was preparing to move in with him even after being told by Billy (Perry Fenwick) that her dentist boyfriend is cheating on her. But Honey simply dismissed Billy’s claims and thought that the father of her children was just jealous.
Meanwhile, Habiba tried to convince Adam to leave Honey, but he argued that it’s not yet time. Later that day, Adam ended their affair. However, Habiba managed to convince Adam to take her back and continue their secret relationship.
Now that Honey and her two children are living in her lover’s flat, what will she do now as she finds out that Honey is planning to propose to Adam? “EastEnders” spoilers revealed that Honey will decide to pop the question next week. However, things won’t go the way she planned.
EastEnders Spoilers – Potential Partner Meeting Is A Disaster
Thanks to Billy, Mariam knows about Adam and Habiba’s affair. She is determined to find a suitable husband for Habiba, thinking that this will put an end to their relationship. Mariam wants everything to be perfect as they meet a potential partner for Habiba.
The wait is over. It’s time to drop our summer trailer. Trust us, it’s hot. 🌞#EastEnders #SummerTrailer pic.twitter.com/oNxvymaCoU
— BBC EastEnders (@bbceastenders) June 6, 2019
However, the meeting ends in a disaster. The pair is a perfect match but there’s no spark between the two. Although things didn’t work out well for Mariam, the failed meeting was a boon for Habiba as she finds Adam leering in jealousy.
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Tag Archives: Ancient Rome
Ten F*cked Up Things That Happen on Spartacus (Starz) – NSFW – Disturbing Content Warning!
SPARTACUS IS A HISTORICAL PORTRAYAL OF ANCIENT ROMAN SOCIETY THAT CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE and adult content. Viewer Discretion is advised.
The above disclaimer (or attention-magnet) is shown along with the usual MA – LSV rating before each episode of Spartacus on Starz. Fans don’t just watch the show for the blood, sex, guts, and sex, but also for the well-written characters and their story arcs, as well as plot twists and reveals that have stunned even some of the more cynical reviewers.
What’s an article on Starz‘s epic series Spartacus doing up on here? Well, it’s in the new issue of Fangoria, for one (even though they didn’t focus on the gore, sadly), and every episode has been brought to you by (among others) Raimi/Tapert/Donen Productions. Yeah, THAT Raimi. Some gladiators look like actual monsters; some characters are beautiful outside and monsters inside.
Just another day at the office for the House of Batiatus…
I’ve tried to keep these vague as far as characters involved, but several of these could be considered spoilers. If you plan on watching Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (prequel 6-episode miniseries) Spartacus: Blood and Sand (Season One) and Spartacus: Vengeance (Season 2) and want to go in completely 100% clean, maybe you should just skim it.*
If you’re considering watching the show but are unsure if it might be too graphic, violent, and disturbing for you, then this is a great way to find out what you’re in for. Hint: if you’re worried it might be too sick for your personal tastes, there’s a 99% chance you are, in fact, correct.
These aren’t the most fucked-up things, or all the fucked-up things, they’re just some memorable highlights. I’m not kidding, this list almost wrote itself, I sure didn’t need to stretch to think of ten bloodcurdling events. If I included every messed-up thing that happened, the list would easily go into triple-digits (and there’s still one season left as of this writing).
1. An especially disgusting character gets interrupted while raping a screaming female slave. When he stands up and faces away from her to turn and confront the interlopers, the woman grabs his sword and rams it all the way up his ass with such force that the tip pokes through his stomach from before she yanks it back out. So there.
2. Soon after, a male character gets information out of that pig by pulling some of his guts out of the aforementioned wound (with his bare hands) and promising him a fast death if he tells him what he wants to know right away (it works).
3. A gladiator kills his opponent by shoving a spear through his opponent’s mouth, out the side of his face, then twisting it until the man’s jaw is literally hanging by a few threads (shown in slow motion, with shots of even the most jaded spectators looking horrified). Extra points to the make-up/FX team for using prosthetics.
4. In one of the most disturbing scenes of the entire goddamned series (which is saying quite a bit), a noblewoman snaps, attacking her (former) friend, and kills her in an enraged frenzy by savagely smashing her skull down against the marble floor countless times. She literally bashes her head in, we’re talking bits of skull and brain within a radius of at least a yard, her eyeball is popped out of the socket, her face caves in, blood everywhere, before someone can intervene and pull her away.
5 .Two gladiators are brought out to fight a giant fat rival gladiator (who may remind viewers a little of Ancient Rome’s Tor Johnson). They win by working as a team, wrapping a chain around his neck and then using all their combined weight to pull the chain from opposite sides until the fat gladiator’s head pops off like a champagne cork.
6. In an underground fighting area, simple referred to as “The Pit”, unofficial fights to the death take place. Fighting dirty is encouraged, bets are placed, and the crowd mostly consists of criminals, compulsive gamblers, etc. Many dead bodies get dragged up and hung upside-down on meat-hooks. One ‘champion’ celebrates every victory by slicing off the skin of his dead of opponent’s faces and wearing it on his own. He doesn’t bother fashioning it into a mask like Leatherface does, he just slices ‘em off with a hooked blade and then slaps that shit right on his face.The skinned faces look really horrifying, and brought the gore-extravaganza also known as the 2010 Piranha* remake to mind for me. Check it out below (sorry, I couldn’t find one without the editorial comments stuck in the action):
7. A noblewoman decides to “sponsor” a new gladiator-in-training and picks the one whose main character trait is that he’s more well-endowed than Dirk Diggler from Boogie Nights. They must have used a prosthetic, otherwise the actor playing him would have been a porn superstar and made enough to retire by now. Later, after he betrays someone, his endowment in chopped off (we don’t see that part, but we see his bloody junk in the sand) then they crucify him in the training square, we see the wound bleeding down his legs (it’ll look familiar if you’ve seen the Italian cannibal flick Make Them Die Slowly )
8. At a party of the city’s richest and most important men and their wives, a captured fighter in the slave rebellion is unlucky enough to be picked to be hog-tied and hung up from the ceiling like a human piñata . Instead of getting hit with sticks, though, people draw numbers to determine which guest gets to step right up to cut off a piece of him first. If that’s not fucked-up enough…
9. This gets worse as the guest who gets first, er, stab at him cuts out his tongue with a sword. Either the sword is about as sharp as a butter knife or the guy who did it was really, really bad with his weapon, as the poor rebel’s tongue is not so much cut out as slowly sawed off. The host jovially tells the second guest not to cut too deeply, “to not deprive others of their turn”. Again, the wealthy party guests (plenty are politicians, with their wives) are drawing numbers out of a goddamned bowl so everyone gets a turn. At one point, you can see a line of smiling guests forming. People eat snacks, chat happily, etc. while watching and waiting for their turn.
10. A man’s face is suddenly chopped off during a fight with an uppercut of a sword starting under his jaw (possibly the most shockingly gory thing I’ve seen in the history of the series, which is no small feat). One second it’s there, the next second CHOP. Not just his face gets liberated from his head, but the whole front of his skull. As he falls forward, dead, his brain slowly slides out of his brain-pan like a gory loaf of bread . Think I’m exagerrating?
Even two of the toughest, most seen-and done-it-all former gladiators who see it are visibly stunned …as you can see if you have the stomach to watch the actual clip below:
The final season of Spartacus, titled Spartacus: War of The Damned premieres tonight, January 25th, on Starz. Find out more here – including the fact that the premiere is online, streaming, for free …now!
The term “blood bath” on Spartacus is often literal.
*Though I am putting a more spoiler-y version later (don’t worry, you will be warned well in advance if you want to avoid spoilers)
**Mainly brought to you by the genius of Greg Nicotero, in some of the best work I’ve ever seen from him and Nicotero-Berger. I still cannot believe that movie got away with an R-Rating, but that’s a piece for another time.
Dedication: This piece goes out to Pete, Cindy, Norm, and all my other friends at Get Glue who asked me to tell them when I wrote it–thanks, you guys. Seriously.
The Women of Spartacus: War of the Damned (wired.com)
Starz wraps up legend of Spartacus (bizjournals.com)
Why The Bloody, Sex-Soaked ‘Spartacus’ Is The Most Progressive Show You’re Not Watching (thinkprogress.org)
‘Spartacus: War Of The Damned’ Premieres This Friday On Starz (pinkbananaworld.com)
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These Terms and Conditions for Event Participation (the "Terms and Conditions") apply to participation in events organised by (or in cooperation with) Growercoach
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1.1 Applicant: each natural or legal person who has submitted an Application Form to be a Participant in an Event, regardless of whether this application has been accepted by Growercoach;
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Terms written in the singular include the plural and vice versa, insofar as the text requires.
2.1 An application to participate in an Event should be made by completing the Application Form, which can be obtained directly from GROWERCOACH in hard copy or through GROWERCOACH’s online application module. The completed and duly signed Application Form must be submitted to GROWERCOACH. If the Application Form is completed and signed by someone other than a legal representative of the Applicant, the correct name and contact details of a legal representative of the Applicant must be filled in on the Application Form.
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3.1 In extenuating circumstances, GROWERCOACH has the right to amend the dates and times of an Event or location allocated to the Participant or, in exceptional circumstances, to change the concept of the Event or to cancel the Event. In such case, the Participant shall not be entitled to claim compensation for any costs and/or loss or damage incurred.
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The Peloton: General Cycling Topic
By Kiffster, July 6, 2014 in Sports
Kiffster 2,198
NEXT Saturday? The Giro started today lol. Orica Greenedge won the opening TTT and Gerrans is in pink
Eram 2,984
Láli Edeh
Maybe I could had just used "Saturday" without the "next" before it, though I did posted it last Friday so it was not misleading imo
2 Giro Stages already gone and Tour of California starting on May 5th 2200 GMT +1, some 25 mins from now
Edited May 10, 2015 by EramVerdes
Yeah I'm not watching the Tour of Cali, only the Giro if I'm home. Contador now in the lead which is awesome
Pretty uneventful stage in the Giro today except for the finishing sprint where Danielle Colli of Nippo whatever had a nasty accident after colliding with a spectator's camera. He dislocated his freakin elbow on impact and it looked sooo painful! Contador was also injured in the resulting pileup, but at least he got back up and made it to the finish.
Contador dislocated his shoulder on the crash (also some damage on the knees), pulled it back on place and then dislocated it again just before the podium ceremony.
You can clearly see at the podium ceremony that he never moves his left arm and even refuses to dress the pink jersey:
http://www.steephill.tv/players/youtube3/?title=Alberto+Contador+injured+in+finish+crash;+unable+to+don+leader%27s+jersey&dashboard=giro-d-italia&id=0G6PrP-Q7tA&yr=2015
Here's his interview (in Spanish) just after he was examined :
http://www.steephill.tv/players/youtube3/?title=Alberto+Contador+Interview+Post+Stage+6+Medical+Exam&dashboard=giro-d-italia&id=ZtxIxr-gw4g&yr=2015
Today's stage will surely be very painful to him, though it's a flat stage it's 264 kms long (some 7hrs on the bike)!
Hopefully he will make it until the end today, though even if he does tomorrow's mountain stage will probably dictate the end of this year's Giro winning prospects for him (I seriously doubt that he will be able to ride off saddle, up the mountains, like he usually does and no way Aru and Porte will show any mercy on him).
Contador seems to be fine today. Doesn't really show any signs of pain or anything. God I still have that image of Colli's arm in my head.
Edited May 15, 2015 by W2B
Don't know if I should just give up on this topic and let it die or not, but..
.. is anyone else watching le Tour this year or is it just me?
Exciting stuff so far. Carnage on the road yesterday with two high speed pile-ups which took out a few riders including Gerrans, and which led to the eventual withdrawals of Spartacus Cancellara and one of my overall favourites, Impey Made front page news in almost all the big newspapers over here today. Oh well, at least we still have MTN-Qhubeka this year!
Edit: also, Paolini (Katusha) was disqualified after st7 after testing positive for cocaine. Made me laugh a little lol.
Also also, (don't know who I'm talking to in here haha) but all the best to Ivan Basso who had to withdraw from the Tour after being diagnosed with testicular cancer.
Edited July 13, 2015 by W2B
f*ck me Froome on stage 10. That's crazy performance.
He's pretty much got it this year methinks.
Hope Ivan makes a full speedy recovery. That news really sucks.
Edited July 15, 2015 by Mark
Yeah only way anyone can beat Froome now is if he suffers some bad luck like last year. Quintana stands the best chance to catch up i think, but there's no way Froome will let that happen.
Still a long way from Paris though
True, with the likes of Geraint and Richie protecting him I feel he'll only go on to extend his lead before the Champs-Élysées. Not enough bunch sprints for a Tony Martin-esque bad luck tumble too.
Fantastic win by Cummings on Mandela's Day. Congrats MTN!
Aww hell yeah MTN-Qhubeka!! \o/
Man they've had an awesome Tour so far with Teklehaimanot and Cummings (and Meintjies had a great day on st12 as well). Fingers crossed for Boasson Hagen on the Champs-Elysees lol.
Also, Froome is a machine. No one can get away from him. Quintana tried though, and at least he rode his way into second place overall.
Just my 2c here...
Froome is really starting to piss me off with his comments and the way he confronts other riders like Nibali (or even Wiggins etc) when things don't go his way. Nibali knows that he cannot win anymore, and yesterday he was going for a stage win, not to try and gain time on Froome.
Edit: but well done to Froome anyway. Well deserved victory. He was unbeatable this year. Next year my money's on Quintana though.
0900 GMT @Place de la Concorde - Paris police officers opened fire on a car that tried to crash through barricades:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/07/26/world/europe/ap-eu-tour-de-france-barricade-crash.html?_r=0
Yeah thankfully no problems during the stage. All c*nts stayed away.
Wasn't the most exciting final stage because of the rain earlier, but great sprint by Greipel at the end (and Boasson Hagen crossing the line in 4th)
Yeah, it kinda sucked. With those "Fantastic 4" I surely did expected more.
1st week was great though and it did make some difference in the end.
I didn't posted since sadly it seems it's just us and Mark every now and then.
Like the song says, the times are changing, hopefully on 2016 there'll be more of "us" around here.
I'll still update any major stuff, if/when appropriate.
It was a good Tour, but I just hope there will be more opportunities for the sprinters next year. We hardly saw any sprints this year.
GTAMilik 64
Amazing WC! Great winner Sagan, but spectacular stage by the Netherlanders
Edited September 27, 2015 by GTAMilik
Only watched the final lap, but a well deserved win for Sagan. Worthy champ
Been long since my last post here (cyc not that pop, I guess), still, after today's Giro stage I just must do it.
Amazing cycling stage, for sure the best I've seen in a long time.
Kruijswijk should win it, I do hope he does, still Fri&Sat stages will surely be attacked by the rest so Kru must be on its best.
Congrats Valverde, you truly deserved your 1st stage win @Giro.
This topic sucks with so few contributors..
But anyway, great performance by Nibali on the penultimate stage to clinch his second Giro win. Exciting stuff!
A shame that Kruijswijk lost his pink jersey after crashing so spectacularly on st19
Also don't really agree with the decision to disqualify Nizzolo on the last stage for changing his sprinting line. Was a chaotic sprint but he didn't do anything wrong imo. At least he won the points classification overall.
So earlier this month, Dimention Data's Keagan Girdlestone was involved in a horrific crash into the back of his own team car at the Coppa della Pace in Italy, and now his management have revealed the extent of his injuries:
Contrary to initial reports, Keagz did not sustain any facial injuries. The critical injuries were
sustained to his neck and throat.
"He severed not only the cartoid artery, but the jugular vein, nerve and muscles, said Girdlestones management team on Sunday.
Due to major loss of blood at the scene as well as the time it took to get him to surgery, the right hand side of his brain was starved of blood and oxygen.
"He also sustained bruising of his brain due to the impact as well as vocal cord damage. At this stage the full extent of his injuries is unknown as well as the period of rehabilitation.
He is breathing on his own, but with difficulty as one of the nerves controlling his diaphragm has been damaged.
"He has limited movement of his left side due to the lack of oxygen to the brain, however, this is showing signs of improvement.
"The right side, which is being affected by nerve damage, is also limited. He is able to move his leg and squeeze his hand, but there is no movement of his arm.
The family thanked the overwhelming support they had received following the incident.
With continued rehabilitation it is hoped that all functionality will improve as time passes.
"However, any possible long term effects are still unknown. Your continued support, prayers and positivity is greatly appreciated by Keagz and his family.
Holy crap! Thankfully his condition is improving though. Still looks really bad, but just hope he eventually makes a full recovery.
Been quite a few horror crashes in cycling in recent months, including Antoine Demoitie fatal collision with a motorbike at Gent-Wevelgem in March.
Edited June 20, 2016 by Kiffster
Edited July 29, 2016 by Eram
Gotta say though that this year's le Tour was a pretty big disappointment. Yes Froome was the overall favourite to win from the start, but with the abandonment of Contador and Quintana's inability to do anything really because of illness/allergies (or so he says...*rolls eyes*), there was just absolutely no one that could challenge Froome for yellow. I was bored (at least with the GC competition) from the first week. Froome definitely made it super difficult for everyone though, like with his crazy descend of Pyresourde on st8 (he sure did have nuts of steel this year). He didn't really have to take risks, but he did and he kept on extending his lead slightly every chance he got till the very end, with no challenges from anyone whatsoever. It's almost as if he was the only one racing for that yellow jersey.
The Tour had its moments though, like the sprint finishes as always, and with brilliant performances by Dimension Data, Valverde (he at least tried. Make him team leader of Movistar instead), and the chaos on the shortened route up Mount Ventoux where Froome abandoned his bike to show off his marathon running skillz (and boxing a bit earlier), as well as Adam Yates' somersault over a collapsed banner, and Alaphilippe's gymnastics in the mountains (seriously, how was he not injured in that crash?? Not even a scratch).
There was also no real challenge for the points classification as Sagan was so damn far ahead of everyone else that no one contested him.
Overall, one of the worst tours I've ever seen. Hopefully thing will be much better next year.
Also, Meintjes on the podium in Paris maybe? Fingers crossed.
Next up olympics and vuelta. Don't even know if there'll be any SA cyclists in rio. I'm sure we've sent someone tho.
In other news, glad to see that Girdlestone is getting better. Hopefully he'll make a full recovery and get back on his bike soon.
https://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/keagan-girdlestone-continues-recovery-horrific-crash-admits-dead-270186
Edited August 3, 2016 by Kiffster
Aaaaand van Avermaet is the new olympic road race champ....
Gold for Spartacus in the TT in his final year as a professional cyclist. Great stuff!
Edited August 10, 2016 by Kiffster
Damn just found out about this... RIP to former Giro champ Michele Scarponi who was killed in a training accident this morning. Very sad news
Hope Froome gets suspended. Dumbass cheating hypocrite.
Mind you, would be entertaining to see how the large crowds in the mountains and on the podiums treat him this year if he doesn't get suspended. But still no question in my mind that he should be banned
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Destination. How Decisions Determine Destiny.
Editor’s Note. July 2014. Written By John A. Anderson
Have you ever wondered where you’d be in life if you had made different choices? Take a moment and perform the “hindsight is 20-20” exercise and review some of the decisions of your life that were critical in getting you where you are today.
Sure, there are the major moments – your wedding day, graduation day, the day your child was born, the day you signed your first mortgage, and so forth. In the late ‘90s I faced a serious decisional crossroad: take the decent job managing physicians in Sherman, TX, or move to Utah for a more entrepreneurial enterprise, which I knew would fail in time. Obviously I chose to move here, the company did fail within the year, but I met my current partner and we’ve been having a ball with the Stardocs vision ever since 1998.
I vividly remember that serendipitous day when I met my wife. While we were young and naïve, there was a spark and an energy that couldn’t be ignored despite all otherwise rational arguments, including lack of education, income, prospects, etc. It was just one of those moments that I can always fall back on as a time in my life when I just ‘knew.’ Eighteen years and five boys later, we’re still in love and better friends than ever. All because of an instinct.
Those are big examples, but let’s think even thinner than that. Slice your decisions a little smaller and get to those very minute, almost inconsequential moments of decision making and it’s then I believe you get to the root of who, why and what you are today. I just finished a really interesting book – Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell – which highlights the power of the moment and the mind’s adaptive unconscious abilities. The premise is that the mind has a decision-making apparatus that’s capable of making very quick judgments based on very little information. It comes into play whenever we meet someone for the first time, interview someone for a job, react to a new idea, decide how good a teacher is on the first day, or decide whether a magazine is worth reading on a quick thumb-through.
Problem is, we don’t really value this split-second decision making; we prefer gathering information and deliberating. The motto is haste makes waste, stop and think, look before you leap. But Gladwell shows that our snap judgments and first impressions are not only vital and valid, but can be educated and controlled to our advantage. He shows multiple examples of coaches, generals, doctors, musicians and salesmen who have honed their subconscious decision making to the point of success.
What’s my point? Simply that when we try to understand ourselves and shape the future of who we want to become, we focus too much on the grand themes and too little to the particulars of fleeting moments and decisions. We try to map out who we are more than we pay attention to our impressions and instincts. Perhaps, in terms of the examination of our life’s journey, we should put away the binoculars and instead focus in on our decisions and behaviors with the most powerful of microscopes. It’s the little daily decisions that add up to our success or failure.
For example, nobody deliberately decides that they want to become a chain smoker or an obese eater. Yet, if you are an addicted smoker today, there was a very thin moment in time – an urge and an instinct either ignored or indulged – when you smoked your first cigarette. The same is true of alcoholism, pornography, obesity, eating disorders, and so forth. It can all be boiled down to the smallest moment of introduction, curiosity and minor indulgence.
Of course, on the flip side, greatness begins with a similar, small moment in time. There are so many examples of people who have achieved prominence that can be traced to the roots of experience and decision. There was a time when Michael Jordan shot his first basketball, Babe Ruth took his first swing, Mozart played his first note, or Lincoln read his first book.
I believe greatness begins today. Now, with the most basic of instincts. It may be simply to put down the Oreo and lace up the sneakers. It may be to order the Grilled Chicken Salad rather than the Big Mac. It may be to take a deep breath and smile rather than lash out and yell. Whatever it is, greatness for each of us begins in this moment in time.
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Healthyton > Celeb Bio & Health > Holly Willoughby
Posted by Mavrick Abbott on December 6, 2019
Holly Willoughby is an English TV moderator, model, entertainer, brand minister, and creator. She is generally renowned for being the co-moderator of the show, This Morning (2009–present) and Dancing on Ice (2006–2011, 2018–present) nearby Phillip Schofield. Willoughby has been a group commander on ITV2’s Celebrity Juice close by Fearne Cotton.
Her Other enormous TV work incorporates BBC’s The Voice UK (2012–2013), Play to the Whistle (2015–2017), The Xtra Factor (2008–2009) and Surprise Surprise(2012 to 2015). Willoughby additionally grabbed wide eye in November 2018 as she co-displayed the eighteenth arrangement of I’m a Celebrity..Get Me Out of Here! Close by Declan Donnelly.
1 Holly Willoughby Bio, Age :
2 What is Holly Willoughby’s Height?
3 Holly Willoughby Career :
4 Who is Holly Willoughby’s Husband?
5 What is Holly Willoughby’s Net Worth?
6 Is Holly Willoughby active on Twitter, Facebook?
Holly Willoughby Bio, Age :
Holly Willoughby was conceived as Holly Marie Willoughby on the 10th of February 1981 in Brighton, East Sussex, England as the more youthful of two girls of Brian R. Willoughby, a project lead of a twofold coating organization, and Linda J. Willoughby, an air attendant. Her senior sister is Kelly who additionally works in the broadcast business. Her nationality is British and her ethnicity is European. Her religion is Christianity and her zodiac is Aquarius. She was instructed at the autonomous Burgess Hill Girls in the town of Burgess Hill in West Sussex, She moved on from The College of Richard Collyer in Horsham. From the age of 14, Holly began doing demonstrating. She showed up in adolescent magazines for young ladies, for example, Mizz, Just Seventeen, Shout, and the sky is the limit from there!.
What is Holly Willoughby’s Height?
Holly Willoughby has a height of 5 feet 7 inches and weighs 66 kg. She has a body measurement of 38-28-38 inches. Her bra size is 34D, her dress size is 12 (US) and her shoe size is 7 (US). Her hair color is blonde and has blue eyes.
Holly Willoughby Career :
Holly Willoughby at first began demonstrating vocation from the early age of 14 out of 1995. She showed up in youngster magazines for young ladies, for example, Mizz, Just Seventeen, Shout, and the sky is the limit from there!. From 1998, at 17 years old, Willoughby began displaying clothing for customers including Pretty Polly. In 2000, Willoughby won a tryout for a show on CITV highlighting S Club 7 called S Club TV. Later from 2000 to 2006, Willoughby facilitated a few kids’ shows for CBBC: X-perimental, CITV: Ministry of Mayhem, CD: UK and CBBC at the Fame Academy.
In acknowledgment of work as a kids’ TV moderator, Holly Willoughby won a BAFTA in 2006. Holly began her large show have from 2006 network show, Dancing on Ice. Her different shows incorporate The Xtra Factor (2008-2009) and Celebrity Juice(2008). Willoughby than began co-displaying ITV’s, This Morning since September 2009. Her other remarkable program incorporates The Voice Uk(2012), Play to the Whistle(2015) and Meet the Parents(2016). Willoughby facilitated the eighteenth arrangement of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! coming in 2018 close by Declan Donnelly.
As a writer, Holly Willoughby has composed a progression of youngsters’ books with her sister Kelly. Their presentation book School for Stars: First Term at L’Etoile turned into the UK’s most elevated selling youngsters’ book of 2013.
Who is Holly Willoughby’s Husband?
The 38 years of age, TV moderator, Holly is a hitched lady. She is hitched to her long-term beau Dan Baldwin, fellow benefactor of Hungry Bear Media and a maker on the Ministry of Mayhem on 4 August 2007. She initially met her better half in 2004 when she had rejoined CITV to co-present their entertainment show Ministry of Mayhem. They have two children and a little girl. Their first kid was conceived on 11 May 2009, their second was conceived on 14 April 2011, and their third was conceived on 29 September 2014.
There is no genuine updates on past undertakings Holly up until this point. Holly and Dan have been hitched 12 years now and they are content with one another’s fellowship and there is no indication of their detachment.h each other’s communion and there is no sign of their separation.
What is Holly Willoughby’s Net Worth?
The well-known co-moderator of the show, This Morning, Holly Willoughby has the assessed net worth of £10 Million which is not out of the ordinary since she draws a rewarding compensation of clean £400,000 total as a moderator from This Morning. Besides, She isn’t constrained to the main spot of TV displaying, Holly has been effective to dispatch and flaunt her very own way of life brand, Truly, with Dragon’s Den star Peter Jones opened in 2018 and M&S garments go.
Holly Willoughby has showed up in various TV plugs also. Willoughby is a brand diplomat for Diet Coke in the UK, just as for Marks and Spencer and Garnier. She is additionally in demonstrating where she has been included since the beginning of 14. Along these lines, considering these assets she is required to amass such an enormous aggregate. Moreover, she is likewise the proprietor of £100,000 worth Mercedes-Benz G-Class. Essentially, Holly Willoughby and Dan Baldwin’s London home is assessed at £3million.
Is Holly Willoughby active on Twitter, Facebook?
Holly Willoughby is active on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. She has 6 million followers on Instagram and has 7.41 million followers on Twitter. Likewise, she has more than 2 million followers on Facebook.
Facts of Holly Willoughby
birthplaceBrighton, East Sussex, England
Date of Birth February 10, 1981
Age 38 years 11 months
Horoscope Aquarius
Lucky Stone Amethyst
Lucky Color Turquoise
Best Match for Marriage Aquarius, Gemini, Sagittarius
ethnicity / ethnic backgroundEuropean
nationalityBritish
net worth$13 Million
weight66 kg
height5 feet 7 inches
body measurements38-28-38 inches
bra size / breast size34D
hair colorBlonde
eye colorBlue
shoe size / feet size7 (US)
dress size12 (US)
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The Uncanny Decline
Posted on July 28, 2010 by hector
It’s uncanny, but one quick view of the headlines can make anyone’s head spin — Afghanistan is a chaotic shambles, a fog, Wall Street gains, Main Street loses, education is heading in the wrong directions (NY just reported record low test scores) and many schools opting out of the dubiously title Race to the Top.
WikiLeaks, the Russians want more biotech corn, an 88 year old former Nazi is charged with the mass murder of Jews, health insurance is in disarray–everywhere–and states want Fed help, no energy legislation, muscle flexing — South Korea and the US began their largest joint war games, Sunday, which includes a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, and North Korea threatens retaliation.
And less we forget, Sheryl Sharrod’s story — the bogus notion that we’re somehow in a post-race America, whisked in by Obama’s magic carpet ride.
No one can make this up! This is who we are.
It’s no wonder we want to put our heads in the sand — or into a tall Vodka! There are no jobs and Americans continue to suffer. There is no future, and Americans are worried sick. There is no leadership, and congress continues to bicker, schoolyard kids arguing for who gets to control the swings, each side trying to bully the other. A great example being set by our alleged leaders.
We are definitely and assuredly spiraling downward.
The first to make us aware was Paul Kennedy, in his The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987!). Readers balked, but, nevertheless, were glued to his chapter, “The United States: The Problem of Number One in Relative Decline”:
the United States … cannot avoid confronting the two great tests which challenge the longevity of every major power that occupies the ‘number one’ position in world affairs: whether, in the military/strategical realm, it can preserve a reasonable balance between the nation’s perceived defense requirements and the means it possesses to maintain those commitments; and whether, as an intimately related point, it can preserve the technological and economic bases of its power from relative erosion in the face of ever-shifting patterns of global production.
Of course, the United States has not been able to adjust to the “ever-shifting patterns of global production.” This is obvious. As Kennedy points out, the “decision-making structure that permits a proper grand strategy to be carried out” has to be robust. It’s not, we know this now too. Why? Because, historically, the United States has relied heavily on the mechanisms of “piracy” and protectionism in its development, ensuring the world view of the United States as a predator. It’s not by chance that the single most problematic piece of military hardware is the predator drone.
What we are experiencing in this global paradigm shift is a crisis in Education, writ large. That is, we are having problems synthesizing information, siphoning through the wreckage that is mass media induced information, communication, and, most importantly, we are having great difficulty analyzing and putting into practice our historical antecedents. We forget them, toss these out. We are therefore in a global crisis of knowledge, lead by the United States — we shun it. I mean, let’s be real, Sarah Palin is a character that can sway people, even perhaps elections and she doesn’t even know Geography, for God’s sake. How can we blame children for not succeeding in school when someone such as Palin can become a mouth piece for democracy (lower case) and our political system?
In Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Chris Hedges, says that, “The multiple failures that beset the country from out mismanaged economy to our shredding of Constitutional rights to our lack of universal health care to our imperial debacles in the Middle East, can be laid at the door of our institutions that produce and sustain our educated elite.” Elite institutions do only a “mediocre job of teaching students to question and think”; their focus, instead, is “on creating hordes of competent systems managers.” All creativity vanishes and hierarchies with clear parameters and highly rewarded specialists blossom. “It destroys, the search for a common good,” says Hedges. In this world, we want TV wrestling and pornography, a reality based on illusion and the notion that consumption is an inner compulsion. The corporation has won.
In 1995, John Ralston Saul already saw this, too, in his The Unconscious Civilization: “What is more contemptible than a civilization that scorns knowledge of itself.” Saul told us that, “The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.” Historically, then, we have shifted from an American culture of production to a culture of consumption; with it, our values and philosophy — community, self-reliance, equal rights and justice — have vanished and we find ourselves in a new a quite harrowing world that embraces, as Saul says, a dominant ideology: corporatism — junk culture and junk politics.
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Dr. Heike Springhart
Second book (Habilitation)
Interests in research
Church work
to read, to listen, to watch
Foto: Gülay Keskin
born in Basel/Switzerland
Abitur at Gymnasium Schönau/Schwarzwald, received the Scheffel-Award
Studied Protestant Theology at the Kirchliche Hochschule in Bethel, University Leipzig, University Basel / Switzerland, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
Student assitant with Prof. Dr. Hans Ruh/Basel (Systematic Theology / Ethics), Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Welker/Heidelberg (Systematic Theology / Dogmatics), and also at the Institute for the academic research of sermons (Predigtforschungsstelle) at Heidelberg University;
student assistant for the craft of research (Abteilung für Schlüsselkompetenzen); student assistant of the Protestant Student Congregation in Bethel
1st Theological Exams (Protestant Church in Baden)
PhD program at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg; stipend of Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg and of Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst e.V.
Research leave in USA, Washington D.C. at National Archives and at the German Historical Institute (GHI), funded by DAAD
PhD: The role of protestant church and religion in the process of Germany’s reeducation and democratization after World War II. Perspectives of the American program of reeducating Germany. Published in German: „Aufbrüche zu neuen Ufern. Der Beitrag von Religion und Kirche für Demokratisierung und Reeducation im Westen Deutschlands nach 1945“ (EVA Leipzig, 2008) – this book was awarded with the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise 2008
training in ministry in Waldwimmersbach and Lobenfeld, finished with 2nd Theological Exams (Protestant Church in Baden)
Ordained minister of the Protestant Church in Baden
Minister (50%) at the Center for Spirituality Klosterkirche Lobenfeld and in the congregations of Waldwimmersbach and Lobenfeld, later in Schönbrunn (with Moosbrunn, Schwanheim, Allemühl and Haag)
Postdoctoral teaching assistant (50%) for Systematic Theology / Dogmatics (with Prof. Dr. Dr. Michael Welker) at the Faculty for Theology of Heidelberg University.
Templeton Award lectures held at the University of Hamburg, Oslo (Det teologiske Menighetsfakultet), University of Helsinki, Chicago (University of Chicago / Divinity School and Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion; Meadville Lombard Theological School), Stellenbosch (Faculty of Theology), Kapstadt (Western Cape University), Port Elizabeth (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University), Potchefstroom (North-West University), Taipei (Taipei Theological Seminary) and Chung-Li/Taiwan (Chung-Yuan Christian University)
Dean of Theologisches Studienhaus in Heidelberg as ordained minister of the Protestant Church in Baden (50%), since 2013 (25%) counseling within the board for human resources within the Protestant Church in Baden.
Visiting Scholar at the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion of the University of Chicago, stipend of Karl-Schlecht-Stiftung
Research Associate and Project Consultant of The Enhancing Life Project (50%)
Venia legendi in Systematic Theology Lecturer (Privatdozentin) at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Heidelberg
Second book: Vulnerable Life. Dying, Death and Finitude in the Horizon of a Realistic Anthrology (will be published in German: Der verwundbare Mensch. Sterben, Tod und Endlichkeit im Horizont einer realistischen Anthropologie, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016)
Adjunct professor for Systematic Theology / Ethics at Ruhr-University Bochum
Lecturer for Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology at Zurich University
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Dan Attias
Adrenaline producing tumor (Pheochromocytoma)
Acceptance is the premier episode of the second season of House which first aired on September 13, 2005.
A death row inmate is in the exercise yard when he starts hallucinating about the people he killed and he collapses.
House interrupts Cuddy and Stacy in a meeting. Stacy leaves and House asks to take the inmate's case. Cuddy finds out that House has stolen her computer password. The patient's heart is beating too fast to pump blood, and House argues the cardiologist couldn't possibly have any diagnoses for that. Cuddy gives House the case.
House runs into his team, who are wondering about the ethics of treating a death row inmate. House shoots them down by saying medical care shouldn't be contingent on past good behavior.
House goes to the prison to see the patient. He's turning blue from lack of oxygen. The patient needs a respirator, but prison doesn't have one and the warden won't let him leave. House gets Stacy to get a court order to take the patient to the hospital, and Stacy finds out that Cuddy didn't clear it. House points out that the court order orders him to make the patient better.
House starts a differential on the inmate. Cameron wants to work on her clinic patient instead. Foreman objects to treating a death row inmate. The obvious thing to check for is drugs, so House orders tests.
The team has a discussion about the death penalty. They go to see the patient, but he is agitated and struggling with them.
The patient is also thirsty. There are no traces of drugs in his system. They argue again whether they should figure out his underlying condition or just treat his symptoms. Stacy is waiting outside and confronts House about lying to her. She wants to know if she can trust House. House points out that he lied to help the patient. Stacy accepts that answer.
The patient notices Foreman has a gang tattoo. The test shows that the patient has acidosis. Foreman guesses that the patient may have taken a drug they don't usually test for. Chase is sent to the prison to look for cut up prescription drugs the patient may have mistaken for narcotics.
However, the patient's vital signs drop. House gives him a stimulant to raise his heart rate. He calls Chase, who is searching the patient's cell. Chase mentions that the cell contains copier fluid.
House goes to the patient's room and offers him some booze. They have several drinks together. Cameron comes in and catches them. House admits he could have had her, and the patient thinks he's crazy for passing her up. House tells the patient he's figured out the patient drank copier fluid, but the ethanol in the booze is binding to the formic acid from the methanol in the copier fluid so that it can pass harmlessly through his liver.
House comes in the next morning with a hangover. Stacy is there to meet him to tell him to send the patient back to prison. However, House still thinks the patient is sick despite the treatment for the poisoning. He goes back to the team to ask them why a healthy man would attempt suicide. He notes that the patient's heart was in distress before he drank copier fluid.
Foreman starts a more thorough examination. The patient wonders why they care about him. Foreman performs a lumbar puncture. The patient starts talking about his younger brother, who he hasn't seen since he went to prison.
Cuddy finds out the patient is still in the hospital. She decides to discharge the patient. However, he is having abdominal pain. Cuddy thinks he is faking, but House finds blood coming out of his groin.
House goes to Stacy about ratting him out. However, he isn't angry, although he did point out that he trusted her. She tells him that she did what she thought was right. House reminds her that's the only reason people ever do things.
The patient has part of his intestine removed, and House starts wondering why the patient killed his fourth victim. The first three had an obvious motive, but the fourth one didn't. House asks the patient, who responds that he just got very nervous and when he saw the other inmate looking at him, he went into a rage.
The team looks at the patient's rage. House thinks it is an adrenal gland tumor - it releases adrenaline at random intervals. They have to do an MRI, but the patient has tattoos with metallic inks. They proceed, but the patient is in pain. They find the tumor and schedule surgery to remove it.
Foreman goes to see House. He thinks that the patient should appeal on the basis that his tumor gave him random rage. However, House is more sanguine - many other people have such rage attacks and don't commit crimes. The episode ends with with Cameron telling her clinic patient that she is terminal, and then comforting her, and Foreman watching on as death row inmate is taken away.
Cameron is filling in for House at the clinic when she meets a young woman with a history of anemia and no surviving family. She realizes the patient may have cancer, but the only symptom is a cough. She seeks out Wilson for a consult but he thinks it's obviously cancer.
Cameron looks to House for a consult, but he agrees with Wilson - it's lung cancer. He orders Cameron to tell the patient she's dying.
However, Cameron tells the patient the tests are inconclusive. She is testing for unlikely but possible diagnoses.
House finds Cameron doing a differential on her patient with the team. She still wants to confirm the diagnosis.
She asks House to do a lavage to look for infections, offering to cover more of his clinic hours. House suggests a biopsy, which would be conclusive. She can't understand why House doesn't care about her patient. He points out that Cameron is going through the five stages of impending death instead of her patient. He agrees to the one procedure if Cameron will do two more of his clinic hours.
However, the lavage shows no infection - Cameron has to do a biopsy.
The biopsy is positive, but Wilson finds out that Cameron still hasn't told her patient. Cameron has been spending time being friendly with her patient. Cameron is upset that she's alone. Wilson tells her that it's not worth it to get emotionally involved with terminal patients; the patient feels good for their last few days, but the doctor isn't the same, maybe for years. She tells Wilson about her husband and how he would have died alone if she hadn't married him and that when a good person dies, there should be an impact. Wilson appears to understand.
Stacy Warner starts working at the hospital, having been appointed Defense Attorney.
At one point in the episode House (while speaking with Wilson about House's ex, Stacy) says:
I know you're friends with her, but there is a code...bros before hos, man.
Robert Sean Leonard, who plays Wilson in the show found this so hilarious that he laughed aloud, although this was not actually scripted.
Acceptance Tập sau:
de:Ihr, ich und Hippokrates
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Langerhans' cell histiocytosis
Merry Little Christmas is a third season episode of House which first aired on December 12, 2006. Tritter offers House a deal and to put pressure on House, Cuddy cuts off both his work and his Vicodin.
Tritter and Wilson greet House. Wilson tells House he has told Tritter about the forged prescriptions. Tritter offers House a deal with no jail time, but House turns them both down flat. Tritter tells him to either take the deal within three days or go to jail and lose his medical license.
Wilson runs after House to tell him that rehab won't be that bad. House breaks in on Cuddy who is treating the short-statured daughter of a dwarf. House can't resist making jokes and starts making a diagnosis of the daughter. He guesses that Cuddy has no idea why the daughter's lungs collapsed.
House gets his team together to talk about the daughter. Cameron thinks the daughter's dwarfism is also suppressing her immune system. This would explain the negative test for tuberculosis. They do a gallium scan to spot any infections. House keeps making fun of the mother's height. The mother gives back as well as she takes it though. House makes a pass at the mother.
Meanwhile, Cuddy is reprimanding Wilson for snitching to Tritter. She thinks House will go to jail out of spite. Wilson suggests taking away House's Vicodin. Cuddy resists, but finally agrees.
The gallium scan is inconclusive. Foreman is thinking about lung cancer. House thinks that there is a problem with the liver - the brightness of the scan in that area is lighter than the brightness of the other parts of the body. House orders his team to ultrasound the liver, but Cuddy bursts in and tells House he is relieved of his duties and his Vicodin is cut off until he takes the deal. He tells Cuddy that she will be begging him to take the case before he begs for pills.
The rest of the team goes to work on the case. They talk about whether Cuddy is doing the right thing. The scan shows it isn't lung cancer, but the patient starts coughing and vomiting. It turns out the patient's liver was failing. They look for anything that might be causing cirrhosis. Cameron confronts Wilson about turning in House, but Wilson defends himself. Cameron reminds Wilson that his own life got easier when he turned in House, and that his pretending his motives were pure is why she has a problem with him.
Foreman catches House trying to break into Cuddy's desk and asks him about the case. House refuses to help. Foreman agrees to help him break into the desk if he helps him with the case. House tells him that whatever is wrong with the liver will spread to the pancreas. Foreman breaks into the desk, but House can't find any Vicodin.
Chase comes back from his environmental scan. Cuddy comes in and asks why Foreman ordered a test of the pancreas. Wilson guesses that Foreman went to House. However, Foreman's test was negative and Wilson tells him that House was acting out of desperation. Cuddy orders more liver tests.
Meanwhile, House goes to a clinic faking an old auto accident injury. The doctor offers him codeine, but House manipulates him into Vicodin, but the doctor won't give opiates to a new patient. The doctor finally figures out House is a doctor and calls security.
As they go to do a test on the daughter, she loses consciousness and her breath smells fruity, an indication of acidosis.
Cuddy comes to House to tell him to take the deal and help the patient - she's producing no insulin, showing the problem has spread to her pancreas. House tells her to give him pills and throws her out, telling her she will have to deal with the patient's mother if she dies.
The team talks to Cuddy about keeping House off the case. They argue about whether cancer or an autoimmune disease is responsible for the disease. Cuddy orders a lumbar puncture and a test for Lupus. The mother feels that the team has no idea what is wrong and asks why House isn't on the case. They tell her that House is sick.
Cameron goes to see House who is suffering from withdrawal. She treats cuts on his arm and asks for help on the case. She realizes House cut himself to release endorphins. House thinks it is Stihl's disease, a minor infection may have triggered an autoimmune response.
Cameron comes back to Cuddy with House's diagnosis. She tells her House is in pain, but his powers of diagnosis aren't affected.
House comes in telling Wilson he only has one day to go before the deal runs out. However, House is clearly suffering from withdrawal and asks for a prescription to help his nausea. Wilson tells him to go to rehab to get it. House sneaks a look at one of Wilson's patient files. He breaks in on Wilson with a recent widow and confronts him about the daughter. The widow asks House to leave. However, Wilson realizes that he came in to steal the patient's oxycodone.
Wilson and Cuddy agree that House's diagnosis makes sense and that they didn't think of it. Wilson goes to Tritter and goes back on the deal because House saves lives others can't save. Tritter argues House doesn't need the Vicodin, but Wilson says he will refuse to testify despite the threat of jail time. Tritter says both Wilson and House will go to jail.
The patient starts bleeding.
House tricks the pharmacist into giving him the oxycodone destined for the dead patient. The pharmacist does get House to sign the log, but House takes the pills himself.
The patient is getting worse, on the verge of a multi-system failure. The team can't agree on a diagnosis and keep arguing between cancer and autoimmune diseases. Cuddy asks for a half-hour to think about it.
House is in the cafeteria when a little girl in a wheelchair asks for one of his French fries. They start arguing about whether her stuffed toy is a bear or dog. Cuddy comes in to tell him that his diagnosis of Stihl's was wrong. Cuddy realizes House got pain meds and tells him the disease is either a cancer or autoimmune. House tells the little girl you can't just call a bear a dog. All of a sudden, House tells Cuddy to X-ray the patient's leg.
The leg shows normal growth, which is impossible for a dwarf. The daughter isn't a dwarf despite her mother being a dwarf and her height. They realize that something is wrong with her pituitary gland and that Chase was right - it was Langerhans' cell histiocytosis. They rejected it because there were no neurological symptoms, except there was - her reduced height. However, like the dog and the bear, being called a dwarf didn't actually make her a dwarf.
House tells the patient and the mother that the condition can be treated and that the daughter will respond to human growth hormone and grow to a taller height. The daughter resists the HGH, but House says there are lots of reasons for her to grow to normal height. The mother confronts House about how she treated her daughter and he confronts her about using her medical condition in a vain attempt to make her a better person. He tells the mother to lie to her daughter if she has to, but to convince her to take the HGH. The mother talks to the daughter and convinces her to take the HGH.
Wilson comes to House to talk about the patient and to remind him it's Christmas Eve. House calls his mother and leaves her a message.
Wilson comes to House's home after calling three times. He finds him passed out on the floor.
House goes to Tritter to take the deal, but Tritter turns him down - he found out about the oxycodone he swiped. He wishes House a Merry Christmas as he leaves.
Wilson and Tritter arrange a deal to help House.
In an attempt to make sure House takes the deal, Cuddy suspends him from the case and becomes the Attending instead. She also revokes his Vicodin.
Cameron confronts Wilson over his betrayal of House.
House goes to St. Sebastain's Hospital in hopes of securing a new script, but eventually fails. He promptly leaves before hospital security can kick him out.
Cameron arrives to see House and learns that he has been cutting himself.
House attempts to steal oxycodone from a dying man, but Wilson catches him before he leaves the room.
House ODs on oxycodone.
Bloopers and continuity errors Sửa đổi
The doctor at the clinic offers House 'Acetaminophen with Codeine', but when asked for Vicodin he refuses, claiming the the clinic has a policy against prescribing opiates to new patients. Codeine IS an opiate, an alkaloid derived directly from the opium poppy.
Merry Little Christmas Tập sau:
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How to Make an RPG
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Unite Us Raises $35 Million to Bridge the Gap Between Health and Social Care
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A stronger economy was a primary factor driving lower Medicaid enrollment growth and relatively steady spending growth as states finished state fiscal year (FY) 2018 and adopted budgets for FY 2019.
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Australian Civilian, Police and Military Female Personnel in Multilateral Peace and Security Operations (the Deployed Women Project)
ISSR was commissioned by the Australian Civil-Military Centre to deliver evidence-based research on the experiences, contributions and impact of Australian civilian, police and military female personnel who have deployed to United Nations, NATO and regional peace and security operations. The research documents the lessons, skills, and practices identified and learned by deployed women during their deployments to facilitate engagement with the local population and other deployed personnel. The project will contribute to wider, ongoing discussions about the unique benefits associated with deployed female personnel in peace and security operations.
We have taken a multi-method approach to this research, using qualitative and quantitative methods. Our face-to-face interviews with deployed women have allowed us to explore their experiences and views in depth and to complex issues associated with their deployment in peace and security operations. Using an online survey, we have tested, cross-checked and further explored the qualitative research findings amongst a wider target population.
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Ukraine’s Cabinet extends ban on imports of Russian goods until 2021
July 16, 09:30
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has extended the ban on the import of Russian goods into territory of Ukraine until December 31, 2020.
The resolution #605 dated July 5, is published on the Cabinet of Ministers website.
The document introduces the corresponding changes in the resolution #1147 “On the ban on the import into the customs territory of Ukraine of goods originating from the Russian Federation” dated December 30, 2015 (as amended by the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers #535 dated May 15, 2019).
In its resolution, the Cabinet of Ministers postponed the ban on the import of cars and other motor vehicles until the end of this year.
The Cabinet also granted the SFS the right to inspect the country of origin of goods, if it is not provided for being inspected at the border checkpoints.
The decision comes into force from the date of its publication and expires on January 1, 2021.
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“La Fontaine” by Rupert Bunny
“La Fontaine” was painted by Rupert Bunny, who was a magnificent colorist and erudite painter of classic themes. This painting is representative of his ambitious Salon paintings. Bunny traveled back and forth between Australia and France on many occasions until 1933, when he returned permanently to Australia and settled in South Yarra, Victoria.
Rupert Bunny (1864 – 1947) was an Australian painter, who achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in fin-de-siècle Paris. He gained an honorable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 and a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. The French state acquired 13 of his works for the Musée du Luxembourg and regional collections.
Title: La Fontaine
Artist: Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny
Dates: 1929-30
Materials: Oil on Canvas
Museum: Queensland Art Gallery
Name: Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny
Born: 1864 – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died: 25 May 1947 (aged 82) – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Gene expression signature of benign prostatic hyperplasia revealed by cDNA microarray analysis
Jun Luo, Thomas Dunn, Charles Ewing, Jurga Sauvageot, Yidong Chen, Jeffrey Trent, William B Isaacs
BACKGROUND. Despite the high prevalence of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in the aging male, little is known regarding the etiology of this disease. A better understanding of the molecular etiology of BPH would be facilitated by a comprehensive analysis of gene expression patterns that are characteristic of benign growth in the prostate gland. Since genes differentially expressed between BPH and normal prostate tissues are likely to reflect underlying pathogenic mechanisms involved in the development of BPH, we performed comparative gene expression analysis using cDNA microarray technology to identify candidate genes associated with BPH. METHODS. Total RNA was extracted from a set of 9 BPH specimens from men with extensive hyperplasia and a set of 12 histologically normal prostate tissues excised from radical prostatectomy specimens. Each of these 21 RNA samples was labeled with Cy3 in a reverse transcription reaction and cohybridized with a Cy5 labeled common reference sample to a cDNA microarray containing 6,500 human genes. Normalized fluorescent intensity ratios from each hybridization experiment were extracted to represent the relative mRNA abundance for each gene in each sample. Weighted gene and random permutation analyses were performed to generate a subset of genes with statistically significant differences in expression between BPH and normal prostate tissues. Semi-quantitative PCR analysis was performed to validate differential expression. RESULTS. A subset of 76 genes involved in a wide range of cellular functions was identified to be differentially expressed between BPH and normal prostate tissues. Semi-quantitative PCR was performed on 10 genes and 8 were validated. Genes consistently upregulated in BPH when compared to normal prostate tissues included: a restricted set of growth factors and their binding proteins (e.g. IGF-1 and -2, TGF-β3, BMP5, latent TGF-β binding protein 1 and -2); hydrolases, proteases, and protease inhibitors (e.g. neuropathy target esterase, MMP2, alpha-2-macroglobulin); stress response enzymes (e.g. COX2, GSTM5); and extracellular matrix molecules (e.g. laminin alpha 4 and beta 1, chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 2, lumican). Genes consistently expressing less mRNA in BPH than in normal prostate tissues were less commonly observed and included the transcription factor KLF4, thrombospondin 4, nitric oxide synthase 2A, transglutaminase 3, and gastrin releasing peptide. CONCLUSIONS. We identified a diverse set of genes that are potentially related to benign prostatic hyperplasia, including genes both previously implicated in BPH pathogenesis as well as others not previously linked to this disease. Further targeted validation and investigations of these genes at the DNA, mRNA, and protein levels are warranted to determine the clinical relevance and possible therapeutic utility of these genes.
https://doi.org/10.1002/pros.10087
Prostatic Hyperplasia
Gastrin-Releasing Peptide
Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans
alpha-Macroglobulins
Transglutaminases
Insulin-Like Growth Factor II
Laminin
Hydrolases
cDNA microarray
Luo, J., Dunn, T., Ewing, C., Sauvageot, J., Chen, Y., Trent, J., & Isaacs, W. B. (2002). Gene expression signature of benign prostatic hyperplasia revealed by cDNA microarray analysis. Prostate, 51(3), 189-200. https://doi.org/10.1002/pros.10087
Gene expression signature of benign prostatic hyperplasia revealed by cDNA microarray analysis. / Luo, Jun; Dunn, Thomas; Ewing, Charles; Sauvageot, Jurga; Chen, Yidong; Trent, Jeffrey; Isaacs, William B.
In: Prostate, Vol. 51, No. 3, 15.05.2002, p. 189-200.
Luo, J, Dunn, T, Ewing, C, Sauvageot, J, Chen, Y, Trent, J & Isaacs, WB 2002, 'Gene expression signature of benign prostatic hyperplasia revealed by cDNA microarray analysis', Prostate, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 189-200. https://doi.org/10.1002/pros.10087
Luo J, Dunn T, Ewing C, Sauvageot J, Chen Y, Trent J et al. Gene expression signature of benign prostatic hyperplasia revealed by cDNA microarray analysis. Prostate. 2002 May 15;51(3):189-200. https://doi.org/10.1002/pros.10087
Luo, Jun ; Dunn, Thomas ; Ewing, Charles ; Sauvageot, Jurga ; Chen, Yidong ; Trent, Jeffrey ; Isaacs, William B. / Gene expression signature of benign prostatic hyperplasia revealed by cDNA microarray analysis. In: Prostate. 2002 ; Vol. 51, No. 3. pp. 189-200.
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AU - Isaacs, William B
N2 - BACKGROUND. Despite the high prevalence of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in the aging male, little is known regarding the etiology of this disease. A better understanding of the molecular etiology of BPH would be facilitated by a comprehensive analysis of gene expression patterns that are characteristic of benign growth in the prostate gland. Since genes differentially expressed between BPH and normal prostate tissues are likely to reflect underlying pathogenic mechanisms involved in the development of BPH, we performed comparative gene expression analysis using cDNA microarray technology to identify candidate genes associated with BPH. METHODS. Total RNA was extracted from a set of 9 BPH specimens from men with extensive hyperplasia and a set of 12 histologically normal prostate tissues excised from radical prostatectomy specimens. Each of these 21 RNA samples was labeled with Cy3 in a reverse transcription reaction and cohybridized with a Cy5 labeled common reference sample to a cDNA microarray containing 6,500 human genes. Normalized fluorescent intensity ratios from each hybridization experiment were extracted to represent the relative mRNA abundance for each gene in each sample. Weighted gene and random permutation analyses were performed to generate a subset of genes with statistically significant differences in expression between BPH and normal prostate tissues. Semi-quantitative PCR analysis was performed to validate differential expression. RESULTS. A subset of 76 genes involved in a wide range of cellular functions was identified to be differentially expressed between BPH and normal prostate tissues. Semi-quantitative PCR was performed on 10 genes and 8 were validated. Genes consistently upregulated in BPH when compared to normal prostate tissues included: a restricted set of growth factors and their binding proteins (e.g. IGF-1 and -2, TGF-β3, BMP5, latent TGF-β binding protein 1 and -2); hydrolases, proteases, and protease inhibitors (e.g. neuropathy target esterase, MMP2, alpha-2-macroglobulin); stress response enzymes (e.g. COX2, GSTM5); and extracellular matrix molecules (e.g. laminin alpha 4 and beta 1, chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 2, lumican). Genes consistently expressing less mRNA in BPH than in normal prostate tissues were less commonly observed and included the transcription factor KLF4, thrombospondin 4, nitric oxide synthase 2A, transglutaminase 3, and gastrin releasing peptide. CONCLUSIONS. We identified a diverse set of genes that are potentially related to benign prostatic hyperplasia, including genes both previously implicated in BPH pathogenesis as well as others not previously linked to this disease. Further targeted validation and investigations of these genes at the DNA, mRNA, and protein levels are warranted to determine the clinical relevance and possible therapeutic utility of these genes.
AB - BACKGROUND. Despite the high prevalence of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in the aging male, little is known regarding the etiology of this disease. A better understanding of the molecular etiology of BPH would be facilitated by a comprehensive analysis of gene expression patterns that are characteristic of benign growth in the prostate gland. Since genes differentially expressed between BPH and normal prostate tissues are likely to reflect underlying pathogenic mechanisms involved in the development of BPH, we performed comparative gene expression analysis using cDNA microarray technology to identify candidate genes associated with BPH. METHODS. Total RNA was extracted from a set of 9 BPH specimens from men with extensive hyperplasia and a set of 12 histologically normal prostate tissues excised from radical prostatectomy specimens. Each of these 21 RNA samples was labeled with Cy3 in a reverse transcription reaction and cohybridized with a Cy5 labeled common reference sample to a cDNA microarray containing 6,500 human genes. Normalized fluorescent intensity ratios from each hybridization experiment were extracted to represent the relative mRNA abundance for each gene in each sample. Weighted gene and random permutation analyses were performed to generate a subset of genes with statistically significant differences in expression between BPH and normal prostate tissues. Semi-quantitative PCR analysis was performed to validate differential expression. RESULTS. A subset of 76 genes involved in a wide range of cellular functions was identified to be differentially expressed between BPH and normal prostate tissues. Semi-quantitative PCR was performed on 10 genes and 8 were validated. Genes consistently upregulated in BPH when compared to normal prostate tissues included: a restricted set of growth factors and their binding proteins (e.g. IGF-1 and -2, TGF-β3, BMP5, latent TGF-β binding protein 1 and -2); hydrolases, proteases, and protease inhibitors (e.g. neuropathy target esterase, MMP2, alpha-2-macroglobulin); stress response enzymes (e.g. COX2, GSTM5); and extracellular matrix molecules (e.g. laminin alpha 4 and beta 1, chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 2, lumican). Genes consistently expressing less mRNA in BPH than in normal prostate tissues were less commonly observed and included the transcription factor KLF4, thrombospondin 4, nitric oxide synthase 2A, transglutaminase 3, and gastrin releasing peptide. CONCLUSIONS. We identified a diverse set of genes that are potentially related to benign prostatic hyperplasia, including genes both previously implicated in BPH pathogenesis as well as others not previously linked to this disease. Further targeted validation and investigations of these genes at the DNA, mRNA, and protein levels are warranted to determine the clinical relevance and possible therapeutic utility of these genes.
KW - Benign prostatic hyperplasia
KW - cDNA microarray
KW - Gene expression profiling
U2 - 10.1002/pros.10087
DO - 10.1002/pros.10087
JO - Prostate
JF - Prostate
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03/10/2016 04/10/2016 Books, Entertainment, Environment, Feature, Life, Lifesytle, Literature, Review AdventurousDonald TrumpEntertainmentInspirational bookLove is strangeMusicTop Of The World
On Top Of The World: Review By Joel Savage
An inspirational and adventurous book, empowered by the values of determination, understanding, and perseverance. Although, the entire book is based on fiction, the experiences, and the lessons continue to live with us every day, as a guide for our own success
Love is strange and complicated. It becomes more complicated when combined with diverse careers and the choices we make. The euphoria can make you feel disorganized and restless and sometimes put one in emotional complex situations.
It’s been three years since Belle walks out of the life of Scrooje but many times she finds herself thinking about him feeling a familiar smile sweeps across her face. That’s something she wants to avoid sometimes but assured herself nothing wrong thinking about ex-lover.At times, things don’t go the way she wants. As the ring girl at her parents’ vow renewal, she stumbles, falls into the grass and lost the rings. That wasn’t the end. As a ballerina, despite being the best in her class, the day of the recital something went wrong as she tumbles down like Humpty Dumpty.
Belle wouldn’t let setbacks be a stumbling block on her chosen path to success. She sees something different in her which motivates her. In the field of music, together with Scrooje and his best friend Marley they rise to success, finding themselves instantly on top of the world.
They enjoyed the best part of life as celebrities. Out of misfortunes come fortune or just greed? Marley dies in a tragic accident and Scrooje uses it as an opportunity to exploit Marley. He sells millions of records and lives a false life by cheating other artists.
The chapter is 28, “Money like Trump, I want that money like Trump. Hey, like I said, it’s only entertainment people, sheds light on a scene that took place during one of the political campaigns of Donald Trump.
My favorite part of the book is at page 166: “Staying up late, reading those books to try and feel what he’d felt and like he’d thought was the reason I’d gotten my first pair of double-wide double thick glasses in the first place. By the time I got to high school, those late night reading binges had instilled a love of books in me.”
‘Top Of The World,’ is an inspirational and adventurous book, empowered by the values of determination, understanding, and perseverance. Although, the entire book is based on fiction, the experiences, and the lessons continue to live with us every day, as a guide for our own success.
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17/09/2016 17/09/2016 Books, Education, History, Life, Literature, Psychology, Review, Society Christmas festivitiesDisciplineFamily issuesGreat days at schoolTeaching staff
Barfield School: Book Review By Joel Savage
The first novel in the trilogy, CALL OF FRANCE, Barfield School. The book is a dramatized portrayal of some of the things which led the author to become a longstanding expat in a country he’s always felt an irresistible attraction for
It’s great to be young because history reveals an entertaining account and discipline based on our lives as students while at school. When reading author Barry A Whittingham’s ‘Barfield School’ the reference sources and some of the scenes engaged my thoughts, reminding me of the great old days at school as the story unfolds.
‘Headmaster Fowler was almost unanimously disliked by his teaching staff and he was even detested by some.’ Are we familiar with such experience at school? This is my first point of interest in this book because at school many hate the authority for mistakenly taken discipline as punishment.
At chapter 26, page 140, the writer shares an interesting story about Christmas festivities. Like many families, we used occasions to solve family issues and here worried Michael knew about the existing tensions between his father and grandfather, hoping the Christmas family gathering would solve this problem which has given him worries for some time, surprisingly, everything went well as expected.
This incredible book is written in the form which suits both adults and teenagers as the author endeavors to bring to the attention of readers common inevitable family problems and how easily they could be solved, above all the choices we make in our lives and careers after leaving school, in the midst of hatred while under discipline.
‘Barfield School’ is arguably one of the best books I have ever read. It’s not only inspiring but educative on moral grounds. I have received many books but I don’t often post reviews. Bringing this review to the attention of book lovers means ‘Barfield School’ is a perfectly written book I will recommend to readers.
https://www.amazon.com/Barfield-School-CALL-FRANCE-1/dp/2954302682/https://www.amazon.com/Barfield-School-CALL-FRANCE-1/dp/2954302682/
30/04/2016 30/04/2016 Blogging, Books, Contemporary Women, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Feature, History, Life, Lifesytle, Literature, Uncategorized A collection of lightBloggerChurch workCompilation of joyfulCultural inequalitiesDark soul proseDifferent walks of lifeDramasEarthyHonestImages of loveJacqueline Oby-ikochaLoving and of GracePoemsProblems in the worldPromise of hopeRich in imageryVulnerable
#POEMS: OUT OF THE SILENT BREATH
Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha’s poems portray images that stare us right in the face. Images of love, joy, death, pain, challenges, violation, and freedom. She writes in a language that’s rich in imagery, earthy, honest, vulnerable, yet full of the promise of hope, of loving and of Grace. A collection of light and dark soulful prose.
Somewhere, sometimes, life takes us through difficult, unexpected pathways that bring us to the edge of a precipice. These life-lessons that knock us down to our knees also become turning and redeeming points in our lives. They open our eyes to the important things and make us to question or find our purpose.
They drive us to wake up, to make the conscious choice to rise and step out and to live fully in the present moments that life brings us. It is the things that we deeply love that saves our sanity in these moments and gives us reason to hope, to open the doors and to fly.
Out of the silent breath is a vivid compilation of joyful, melancholic and hopeful prose through different walks of life.
Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha is a fellow blogger who is originally from Nigeria. Her blog is A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales. She uses this platform to support fellow bloggers and to raise awareness of the many ongoing cultural inequalities and problems in the world. Here is Jacqueline’s story in her own words:
I like to describe myself as a Jacqueline of all trade and a mistress of nothing. Everything is work-in-progress in my life, including me. Nothing is finished for, there’s always room for more improvement.
If all is finished, then that means that I am done on this side of the great divide. I believe that I still have a pretty long way to go with hammering myself into a worthy state before toddling off to sing angelic lullabies.
I was born in Nigeria in the mid 70’s, to a family with one of the best parents that I could have ever asked for.
My growing up years was in University of Nigeria, Nsukka campus. A close-knit community where everyone knew what you had for breakfast, lunch and dinner and pretty much any shenanigans that you got up to. Back then, an honorary auntie could feel enough righteous indignation and would help to straighten you out before sending you home to your parents who will cement the straightening with their own dose of reprimanding.
As a young lady in High school, I was involved in a number of social and community activities. From Church work to participating in dramas at the local theatre, speaking at regular debate contests and contribution to the young writer’s club. At the initial stage, these artistic flairs propelled my interest to further my university education in Theatre or Communication Arts, however, due to the general inclination back then, that artists in Nigeria had no bright future, I leaned towards studying law.
My education in law was closely followed by several professional courses, in Public Relations, Chartered Secretary, and Administrators, an associate degree in the French Language as well as a Diploma in Translation. French is a language that I find not only romantic, but everything just sounds decadently delicious in French even when they are shouting.
Fast forward to my career path and like I had indicated right from the onset, I have done so many things.
I started my working life at The Embassy of Tunisia in Lagos as the Personal Assistant to the Ambassador and after a brief stint in France, I returned and joined the Embassy of France also in Lagos.
My position working with the Cultural Attaché to the Embassy of France paved an opportunity to join The Delegation of the European Union in Abuja, Nigeria. It was a job that offered a lot of training and travel opportunities and during this point in time, I met my dear husband, who whisked me off to the altar after a six-month whirlwind courtship. Our union will turn 16 years in November and we are blessed with three beautiful children.
The natural process of having babies with a stillbirth and several miscarriages in-between meant juggling family life along with my career, cycling through different jobs as I sought to find that which suited my family lifestyle a lot better.
I held job positions ranging from Archivist, Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant, Public Relations Officer, Administrative Manager, Records Manager to School Registrar.
http://www.amazon.com/Out-Silent-Breath-Jacqueline-Oby-Ikocha-ebook/dp/B01EYN38ES
20/04/2016 20/04/2016 Blogging, Books, Digital Market in Europe, E-Commerce, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Feature, Health, History, Life, Lifesytle, Literature, Music, Non-fiction, Planet, Psychology, Review, Society, Writing Aids and EbolaBad people in our societyBelgiumBelgium's Professor Guido van der GroenDignityDiplomatic Aspects NewspaperEvildoersFacebookFears of reprisalGoogle alertHealthHealth sectorsHolland's Professor Johan Van DongenHypocrisyOrigins for Aids and EbolaPhilosophyPiercing the fleshPoliticiansScientistSharp arrowThe pen is mightier than the swordTruth is bitter than the bileWriter Joel Savage
Why I Will Not Sell My Blog For Money
We often hear that: The pen is mightier than the sword, truth is bitter than the bile etc. These sayings are true. I just love to write but never aware that many of my articles are like a sharp arrow piercing through the flesh of the ‘Evildoers.’
On April 16, 2016, I posted an article entitled ‘Why I Stopped Writing For Diplomatic Aspects Newspaper.’ The article was about“Holland’s Professor Johan Van Dongen Challenging Belgium’s Scientist Guido van der Groen over the origins of Ebola, which was submitted to the editor of Diplomatic Aspects Newspaper and the article was published.
Unknowing after the publication, Belgium’s fears of reprisal and exposure of the truth over the two tied diseases, secretly contacted the editor without my knowledge to remove the article from the web. This is a significant evidence that an article can make bad people in our society uncomfortable. Yes, some articles sting more than the scorpion.
I have received many messages from Google alert, Facebook and other apps I have registered people trying to crawl or hack into my blog. Why are they making such efforts to enter my blog? Because this blog has certain articles from the Dutch Microsurgeon and scientist Johan Van Dongen and writer Joel Savage which are making those in the corrupt health sectors and some politicians uncomfortable. Our articles are revealing too much of certain facts which supposed to be secret or confidential documents.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve changed my password, trying to secure and protect my blog against those unseen cyber thieves and rogues. Now that we know (Johan Van Dongen and Joel Savage) we shall continue to make life harder and uncomfortable for them. Even though I’ve no penny in my pocket, I will not sell my soul for money.
If you fear to die, the reason you wouldn’t like to speak against injustice, corruption, crime, including Aids and Ebola crimes, death will find you where ever you’ve hidden to take you away. Die in truth and dignity not in lies and hypocrisy. That’s our (Johan Van Dongen and Joel Savage) philosophy.
20/03/2016 Blogging, Books, Feature, History, Life, Literature, Review, Society, Writing after deathAlzheimer's diseaseFacebookFamily historianFinal testamentGenealogistGood healthIdiosyncraticInfamous and wonderful livesmango-eatingOfficial spokespersonRecordkeepingStepfatherWriting an obituary
ARE YOU READY TO WRITE YOUR OWN OBITUARY?
BY SEAN BRASWELL
Mila Turner is writing an obituary. Her own. After helping put one together for her stepfather as his Alzheimer’s disease worsened, she realized just how important it was to be able to contribute to one’s final testament while still alive and able to do so. “I don’t want anyone to ever have to guess who I was or what I accomplished,” Turner says. “I work too hard in this life to be misunderstood after death.”
As a genealogist and family historian, Turner probably has a finer sense of the value of remembrance and good recordkeeping than most, including what can make standard obituaries these days “quite boring.” But Turner is also in good health, and … she is only 27 years old.
With each passing day, it is becoming an even better time to die. At least if you’re concerned about being remembered in all of your idiosyncratic, mango-eating, dickey-wearing glory. With each selfie your phone collects, each recipe you share on Facebook, each thought you expel into cyberspace, you are amassing not only a larger digital footprint, but also a fuller testimony of what it means to be you. What will be made of this voluminous material, including who might tell your story when you go. Well, that’s a rather good story itself — and one with just as uncertain a future.
Is it time then to start thinking about writing the obit for the obituary itself?
For years, we’ve relied on the obituary to Offical spoeRecordkeeping, be death’s official spokesperson, to give some closure and meaning to our famous, infamous or wonderfully ordinary lives. But many of those on the “dead beat” — the professional obit writers who traffic daily in death so as to help us better appreciate life — are increasingly shuffling off their mortal toil, as layoffs, downsizing and other changes continue to engulf the world of print media.
Meantime, popular memorial websites such as Legacy.com, which now claims over 24 million monthly unique visitors and a database of over 20 million obituaries, continue to expand in size and — along with the Facebook pages of the departed — are quickly becoming the go-to sites for digital condolences and remembrances. Another new player in the field, the self-penned obituaries or “selfie obits” such as Turner’s, continue to multiply.
Is it time then to start thinking about writing the obit for the obituary itself? The First Rule of the Obit, after all, is “Be prepared.” Most significant obits are drafted well in advance of their subject’s actual demise, so why not start assembling the obituary’s file if it is indeed at risk of expiring?
To do so, though, it helps to know a little something about its next of kin. And when you make the relevant inquiries, you run square into an online population that is buzzing with new approaches to death, not to mention into the Second Rule of the Obit: Never pronounce someone dead before their time.
The Obituary, a Pioneer Who Built a Worldwide Following
Full article: http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/are-you-ready-to-write-your-own-obituary/
17/03/2016 17/03/2016 Blogging, Books, Education, Entertainment, Feature, History, Life, Literature, Music, Review, Society, Writing Aldous HuxleyBeautiful reflectionsCarl SaganFriedrich NietzscheGolden recordHuman spiritHumanity's greatest writersJournals and notebooksKurt VonnegutOliver Sackspassion and pathosPsychologistSpectacular volumeSusan SontagVirginia WoolfWalt Whitman
Great Writers On The Power Of Music
Article BY MARIA POPOVA
Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Aldous Huxley, Oliver Sacks, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, and more.
“Music is the best means we have of digesting time,” Igor Stravinsky once remarked (a remark often misattributed to W.H. Auden). “Music is the sound wave of the soul,” the wise and wonderful Morley observed. Psychologists have studied why playing music benefits your brain more than any other activity and how listening to music enraptures the brain. But, more than that, music works over the human spirit and stands as a supreme manifestation of our very humanity — something Carl Sagan knew when he sent the Golden Record into the cosmos as a representation of the most universal truths of our civilization.
Gathered here are uncommonly beautiful reflections on the singular power of music by some of humanity’s greatest writers, collected over years of reading — please enjoy.
Susan Sontag spent the majority of her adult life reading between eight and ten hours a day, and never fewer than four. Her intense love of literature was paralleled by a commensurate love of music. In a diary entry found in Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947–1963 (public library) — the spectacular volume that gave us young Sontag on personal growth, art, marriage, the four people a great writer must be, and her duties for being a twenty-something — she writes at age 15:
Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts — it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure — and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.
Link to full article: http://goo.gl/ttU1ok
13/02/2016 13/02/2016 Blogging, Books, Contemporary Women, Education, Environment, Feature, History, Life, Literature, Non-fiction, Psychology, Religion, Review, Social problems, Society, Writing 3 Comments Advocate of women's rightArab WomenAuthorAutobiographyAyn Shams UniversityCairoCairo UniversityCensoredColonialColumbia UniversityDaughterDismissal from jobEgyptian WomenExiledFeministHealthImprisonedImprisonmentISISLifeMudahakkirat fi sijn-alnisaNeo-colonialNew YorkOppressionPhysicianPilloriedPsychiatristQuoteRacialReligiousSadatSexual DiscriminationStruggleWarWomanWomen in Arab World
“Life Is Very Hard. The Only People Who Really Live Are Those Who Are Harder Than Life Itself.”
There are hundreds of definitions about ‘Life,’ but none gives me its true meaning, than this quote by author Nawal El Salaawi, “Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.” But who is this woman?
Nawal El Saadiaw has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppression imposed on women by gender and class.
In her life and in her writings, this struggle against sexual discrimination has always been linked to a struggle against all forms of oppression: religious, racial, colonial and neo-colonial.
In 1969, she published her first work of non-fiction, Women and Sex ; in 1972, her writings and her struggles led to her dismissal from her job.
From then on there was no respite; imprisonment under Sadat in 1981 was the culmination of the long war she had fought for Egyptian women’s social and intellectual freedom. A Daughter of Isis is the autobiography of this extraordinary woman.
Author Nawal El Salaawi
Nawal El Saadawi, also spelled Nawāl al-Saʿdāwī (born Oct. 27, 1931, Kafr Ṭaḥlah, Egypt), Egyptian public health physician, psychiatrist, author, and advocate of women’s rights. Sometimes described as “the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab world,” El Saadawi was a feminist whose writings and professional career were dedicated to political and sexual rights for women.El Saadawi was educated at Cairo University (M.D., 1955), Columbia University in New York (M.P.H., 1966), and ʿAyn Shams University in Cairo (where she performed psychiatric research in 1972–74). In 1955–65 she worked as a physician at Cairo University and in the Egyptian ministry of health, and in 1966 she became the director-general of the health education department within the ministry.
In 1968 she founded Health magazine, which was shut down by Egyptian authorities several years later, and in 1972 she was expelled from her professional position in the ministry of health because of her book Al-marʾah wa al-jins (1969; Women and Sex), which was condemned by religious and political authorities.
El Saadawi was jailed in September 1981, and during the two months of her imprisonment she wrote Mudhakkirāt fī sijn al-nisāʾ (1984; Memoirs from the Women’s Prison) on a roll of toilet paper using a smuggled cosmetic pencil.
In 1982 El Saadawi founded the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association (AWSA) and later served as editor of the organization’s publication, Al-nūn. In 1991 the government closed down Al-nūn and then, several months later, AWSA itself. Due to her outspoken views, El Saadawi continued to face frequent legal challenges from political and religious opponents, including accusations of apostasy.
In 2002 a legal attempt was made by an Islamist lawyer to forcibly divorce her from her husband, and in May 2008 she won a case that had been brought against her by al-Azhar University, the major centre of Islamic learning, that included charges of apostasy and heresy.
El Saadawi’s novels, short stories, and nonfiction deal chiefly with the status of Arab women, as inMudhakkirāt tabībah (1960; Memoirs of a Woman Doctor), Al-khayt wa al-jidār (1972; The Thread and the Wall), Al-wajh al-ʿarī lī al-marʾah al-arabiyyah (1977; The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World), Al-ḥubb fī zaman al-nafṭ (1993; Love in the Kingdom of Oil), and Al-riwāyah (2004; The Novel).
The oppression of women by men through religion is the underlying theme of El Saadawi’s novel set in a mental institution, Jannāt wa Iblīs (1992; Jannāt and Iblīs). The female protagonists are Jannāt, whose name is the plural of the Arabic word for paradise, and Iblīs, whose name refers to the devil.
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Photos Of Rachel Dolezal Just Resurfaced — You Won’t Believe What She Looks Like Now
Rachel Dolezal was the president of a NAACP branch until her parents outed her as white back in 2015.
Now, two years later, Dolezal published her first memoir titled “Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.”
“You know, the book was a difficult one to write, for sure,” Dolezal said during an interview with Savannah Guthrie. “But I felt like it was kind of a little bit forced upon me as far as just the need to tell the whole truth about my life and the full story.”
“I don’t identify as African American, I identify as black. I am part of the Pan-African diaspora and I definitely feel like in America, even though race is a social construct and we’ve acknowledged this in academia and in science there still is a line drawn in the sides.”
“There still are sides. Politically, there’s a black side and a white side, and I stand unapologetically on the black side. I stand with my own internal sense of self and my own values. I stand with my sons, I stand with my sister, and I also stand really with the greater cause of challenging the myth of white supremacy.”
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November 30, 2014 by Moreland
Simply Fantastic
So here we are with post two on my fandoms. As I mentioned in Fanning All Over the Place there was just too, too many to include in one post so I split them up into a series. Here we go again! 🙂
I first got into Archie Comics through my parents. They had grown up with the comics as kids, and bought my sister and I our first comic books for Christmas one year. We quickly grew to love them.
So the comics came out in the 1940s, and are about a clumsy, accident-prone, redhead, Archie Andrews; who moves to Riverdale meeting a blonde, girl-next-door, Betty Cooper and a food-consuming, girl hater Forsythe “Jughead” Jones. As the series progressed they added more characters, and changed the history to being everyone grew up in Riverdale together. I love the comics from the 1940s-90s. The ones that have been written in the last ten years are not really my favorites as these newer ones seeming to have something missing. So here are the fun characters:
Archie Andrews is the sweet, all around “good guy”. He’s your average male, but has a heart of gold. He is always having issues in his classes, and constantly going to summer school, but is still a pretty clever guy as on more than one occasion he manages to outwit Reggie. He does every sport known to man and also is the school’s newspaper editor. His biggest flaw is that he is girl crazy. Not only does he form a triangle with Betty and Veronica, but he will run after any pretty girl he sees. Add to this a habit of attracting disasters, and he is one funny guy.
Betty Cooper is the girl-next-door. Blonde, sweet, a great cook, and always lends a hand when one is needed. She is not only pretty, but brainy to boot.
She also is a mechanic, school newspaper reporter, sews her own clothes, and a budding writer.
That’s a lot!
Betty is the best. She was always my favorite character and I felt bad about her constant competition with Veronica over Archie. Betty has loved Archie since the first time she saw him, and will wait around, anytime for him. I know they need her to be one of the points in the love triangle, but I aways wanted Betty to say love me or leave me; no more in-between. In one issue she did dump Archie and started dating this guy Adam, but the fans didn’t like it and she and Archie got back together. Betty and Veronica may compete over Archie, but they are also the best of friends. Veronica is the total opposite of Betty, and Betty often uses her morals and kindness to show Veronica a better way to be. Betty is one of the few characters with siblings; having an older brother that works for the FBI, Chip Cooper; and an older sister who is an investigative reporter, Polly Cooper.
Veronica Lodge the final point in the love triangle. Veronica is the only daughter of gazillionaire Hiram Lodge. Mr. Lodge worked up from nothing and now has not only billions, but his fingers in every financial pot. Him and his wife were unable to have children for a while and had her in their old age. Veronica can be nice but is mostly spoiled, conniving, materialistic, and devoid of any skills besides ordering people and looking nice. Unlike Betty who has eyes only for Archie, Veronica flits about with any guy she finds attractive. She is also highly temperamental and can be a major ice queen if one little thing upsets her. Of course this is somehow irresistible to Archie (as with most guys). Her constant scheming to get Archie away from Betty, while dating more wealthier and cuter guys, always brings laughs.
Triangles are not for me:
Forsythe “Jughead” Jones is an interesting character. Jughead pretty much marches to the beat of his own drum. He wears a crown instead of a hat, shirts with the letter “S” on them, is a girl-hater, and an immense lover of food. Yep, he eats nonstop. But hey:
Jughead doesn’t always do well in school, but is one of the cleverest guys out there. I believe that he just has his own way of learning that hasn’t been discovered. He loves to always pull one over on Reggie. Besides eating, his hobbies are sleeping, video games, and almost every sport. Ethel Muggs has the hots for him, and is always trying to get him to date her but Jughead is not interested. Usually if Jughead is “dating”, the girl’s parents own some restaurant he wants free food from. He and Archie have been best buds since day one, and will stay that way until the end.
Reggie Mantle is one of those jerk characters I love anyway. Think Gaston. He’s completely superficial, narcissistic, a prankster, and all around jerk. But all Reggie sees in himself is perfection.
Reggie is also spoiled as he is an only child and also comes from a very wealthy family. He, like Archie and Jughead, doesn’t do the best in school and plays every sport offered. He is an amazing athelete, as he always manages to outscore Archie. He mainly dates Veronica, but also chases any girl he thinks is hot. The other girl he is interested in is Midge Klump, something her boyfriend doesn’t appreciate. What’s interesting about Reggie is that he and Archie have what I call a “Bert and Ernie” relationship. At times they seem to be each other’s enemies and can’t stand one another, but other times they are best buds.
Ethel Muggs is a tall, gangly, girl who has the hots for Jughead. If Betty is a doormat, then Ethel is even lower than that. She doesn’t have too much more of a personality other than her comedy of trying to win Jughead’s heart. She is nice, an athlete, and does well in school.
Dilton Doiley is a genius. Besides being great in school, he is an all around nice guy. He is picked on by Reggie, and finds it hard to get a date. Mostly Dilton comes in the story with some kind of invention he’s made. Sometimes they are great improvements, other times they create big messes, but they always produce something hilarious.
Chuck Clayton is African-American and was introduced into the series with his girlfriend Nancy Wood. Chuck is a great student, one of the best athletes in Riverdale, and a terrific artist (his favorite media is cartooning). His father is the assistant coach at Riverdale High and is always encouraging Chuck and his friends to do well and go to college. While Archie is goofy, Jughead unique, and Reggie deeply into himself; Chuck is more level-headed and less likely to get into crazy scrapes. In fact, he often tries to talk Archie out of them.
Nancy Wood is also African-American and was introduced the same time as Chuck. Like Ethel, she doesn’t have a lot of interaction in the comics besides being Chuck’s girlfriend and a friend of Betty. She is a tremendous athlete and student.
Moose Mason is the brawn to Dilton’s brains. Moose is tall, muscular, and loves sports excelling in everthing. School, however, gives him a lot of trouble. He’s a real nice guy always eager to help out, although he becomes insanely jealous if anyone even looks at his girlfriend Midge.
He and Dilton are best friends.
Midge Klump is Moose’s girlfriend and friend of Betty and Veronica. She is a great student & athlete; although a bit of a gossip. She wavers between liking Moose’s jealousy and constant attention to feeling stifled by how much he “cares”. This is a continuos issue for her, which causes her to time and time again date Reggie to “test” her feelings. This of course hardly ever turns out well for Reggie.
Cheryl Blossom is a redhead, snob, gazillionaire, conniver, and the archenemy of Betty & Veronica. She somehow is irresistible to all the guys in town and is constantly cooking up some strategy to steal them away from their girlfriends. At one point in the story she moved away and the writers introduced her replacement, Ginger, but fortunately they realized that Cheryl was too good to leave her out for long. With Cheryl around, humor abounds.
Besides almost every character having their own actual comic book, there is also Archie’s Weird Mysteries. These stories involved Archie investigating into some strange occurrence in Riverdale. This eventually became a TV series, and I would watch it every Saturday morning.
For more on Archie Comics, go to When Potatoes Go Bad: Attack of the Killer Spuds (1999)
Yes, this show. I love it so much!
I used to watch this show everyday. My friends and I were huge fans and fangirls over it!
So the story is about Cory Matthews, a middle son in a five person family. It covers them and their friends, all living in a suburb not too far from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was funny, sweet, and even hit the really hard issues.
Cory Matthews is our main character and he starts out your average preteen boy. He only cares about sports, food, etc. As he got older he fell for Topanga Lawrence, and the two became inseparable.
Cory is an all around sweet guy. His best friend is Shawn Hunter, and the two were living a bromance before the word was ever invented. Shawn grew up on the “wrong side of the tracks”, but Cory never let that come between them or saw it as a bad thing. The two remain best buds until the end of the series.
Shawn Hunter is Cory’s best bud. He also is the bad boy with the heart of gold that all us ladies love!
Now he was the stereotype of the hot guy who does okay in school and gets all the ladies, but he was also much more than that. His mom and dad ran off and he had to deal with that abandonment along surviving without them. He was afraid to get close to any girl, as he was afraid they would leave him, but at the same time recognized what Topanga and Cory had was really special. He did everything he could to get them together, and keep them together. Eventually he fell for Angela, but they had some problems as he had to once again deal with those issues brought on by his parents’ abandonment. It’s the same reason he had so much trouble letting Cory go when he and Topanga married. He was afraid of losing another person he loved.
Later on in the series he finds out that he has a half-brother Jack (played by Matthew Lawrence). That brings more issues for him as the two try to figure out what it meant to be brothers and how to deal with not having had each other in their lives.
Topanga Lawrence is one of the most unique characters on TV.
She is the youngest daughter in a hippie family that owns a health food store. She wore what she wanted, and just ultimately was herself. However weird it was at times.
As the series progressed her unquie qualities dimmed down, but she always remained the powerhouse she was.
So later on in the series they actually changed her family. Her father was played by three different characters, of which the second and third were high ranking businessmen that only seemed to care about money. At one point her family moves away, but Cory and her are able to convince her aunt to let her finish up high school with him.
Then as the two are planning to get married, Topanga finds out that her parents are getting divorced and she stops believing in love as she saw her parents as an ideal. To make matters worse, the divorce is because of her father’s infidelity. Cory fights hard to win her back, as nothing will stop him from loving Topanga.
Eric Matthews is Cory’s brother and he was played by Will Friedle. He was Cory’s hot older brother.
He wasn’t book smart, as he didn’t do well in school, but was full of brotherly wisdom. He loved the ladies and was a girl chaser, but when he had a women he focused solely on her. He was hilarious, sensitive, and had some great moments. He and Jack become friends, and he helps the socially awkward guy meet the ladies. He and Mr. Feeny have a really great relationship as well. Mr. Feeny mentors all, but he and Eric are even closer than that.
Near the end of the series they made Eric really dumb, which I always hated as I loved the old Eric.
Mr. Feeny, you just can’t have a Boy Meets World post without him. Mr. Feeny lived next door to the Matthews and was the kids’ teacher in middle school. When Cory and Shawn move up to high school, they are thrilled to be done with him, only to find him becoming the principal and teacher at their high school. The year Cory, Shawn, and Topanga graduate, he decides to retires. Luckily the writers decided that was a bad idea and brought him back. He first attends college as a student, and later becomes a professor there.
Besides school teachings, Mr. Feeny was always a great mentor, friend, and grandfather to the kids. He could be hard and strict.
But always encouraged them
and tried to teach them life lessons.
Sarcastic, sweet and ultimately lovable. This series really won a place in everyone’s heart! So much that Disney decided to bring it back (sort-of) with a series chronicling Cory and Topanga’s daughter Girl Meets World. Power of the fans! We rock!
For more on Boy Meets World, go to Who’s Afraid of Cory Wolf
When you become friends with someone one of the first things you do is try and brainwash them into liking everything you like.
It’s not like you are trying to make them into something else, change them, or anything like that. It’s just you love something so much you want to share it with the world. You want everyone to love it as much as you.
This is what happened with my friend Elaine and the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I had heard of Buffy the Vampire Slayer as I like Sarah Michelle Geller, but I was never really into the show. I did see the 1992 film and loved it. It was more of a horror-parody than scary film, and Joss Wheedon decided that with the TV show he wanted to take it to a deeper level.
So in the show we have a blonde, sweet, “damsel in distress like character” be the Slayer. That is the woman who is going to save the world slaying demons, monsters, vampires, aliens, bug creatures, etc.
Buffy is a strong, independent woman that totally kicks butt and goes against every female stereotype. The only thing that I wonder is if you know you are going to be hunting vampires, why not invest in heavy duty turtlenecks?
She is lead by Giles her Watcher or mentor. He’s the type of guy you’d want as a dad or uncle.
One if her best friends is Willow (played by Alison Hannigan) a shy, insecure, brilliant girl. Later she takes care of spells and reversing curses.
We have Xander who is a total goofball. He is the comic relief and has some hilarious moments. He also has some really stupid ones. But that’s to be expected.
Cheating on his girlfriend with his best friend. Going off with Faith and sleeping with her.
But he does have his moments. Like the Halloween episode when everyone turns into their costumes, and he becomes this intense military guy.
Then we have Cordelia, the snooty, rich girl. At first she is Buffy’s nemesis, but she actually ends helping the group out. The more you see her the more you love her. She and Xander date for a while, until Xander screws it up.
And then you have Angel (played by the sexy David Boreanaz).
Oh yeah, one of the best characters in the series.
Angel was a guy living in Ireland in the 19th century. He was turned into a vampire and wrecked havoc on the world. He was cursed by a group of witches in getting his soul back, forcing him to have feelings and a conscious. He turns from his life of killing, to protecting; attempting to atone for his mistakes. He’s just the way I love them:
He’s just one of the most romantic characters ever!
To read more about him, come back next March and check out my Saint Patrick’s Day post.
Besides a great show, great actors, great characters, and great lines; it has one amazing theme song.
Yep, thanks to Elaine this is now my show. 🙂
Go here to see which you belong in
For more on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, go to Every Time I Bring A Girl Over, You Try to Eat Her!: Vampires Suck (2010)
I love Captain America. I just think he is one of the best superheros ever. He is so earnest, sweet, perfect!
I mean he is just everything you want in a guy. 🙂 I loved the film Captain America: The First Avenger. At first I wasn’t going to see it because of Chris Evans. I mean I never hated the actor, it’s just he did a horrible job in the Fantastic Four films, and let’s be honest. Practically every film he’s ever been in he plays an egotistical jerk. Not Another Teen Movie, Cellular, Fantastic Four, The Nanny Diaries, etc. But when I watched the film it was perfect, PERFECT!
I think that prior to The Avengers, it was the best superhero created yet. I completely forgot that it was Chris Evans and instead just saw the Captain America I love!
This past spring break I went to Disneyland as my graduation present to myself. One of the recent changes they have made is that in Tomorrowland you can see the Iron Man suits, Thor props and meet him and MEET CAPTAIN AMERICA! I was thrilled and fangirled out!
I couldn’t wait to meet him. I mean I was like Phil Coulson. Anyways, when we found out, my friend Elaine and I made plans to go asap and get our pictures with him. As we waited in line, I was joking around that I wasn’t sure what I would do. I might even totally fangirl over him and throw myself at him. LOL I’m not that crazy, lol.
So once we reached the second floor that housed the superheros, even though Captain America was to the right they forced you to go all the way around through the Iron Man and Thor exhibits. Elaine and I had already checked those out, so we took off running past Iron Man, Thor, playstation etc. We reached Captain America and were like third in line, excited although really tired.
When we got to Captain America, I totally lost it. Even though I knew that the guy wasn’t the real Captain America he just seemed so real! I threw myself at him and hugged him like five times. I babbled on that he was one of my favorites and how happy I was to see him.
A total fangirl.
He was cool with it. In fact he was perfect. He took the whole thing in stride.
After we took like ten photos (me & Elaine), we were heading out when this happened:
“Captain America: Hey, Moreland.
Me: Yeah?
Captain America: Maybe I’ll see you around.
Me: Okay!”
I was like:
Even though I knew the odds were zilch and not going to happen, there was still a small fraction of me that was hoping maybe, just maybe we would run into each other again.
Yep, the mentality of a fangirl. This is why we have places like tumblr where we can be understood for our irrationalities.
Thank goodness it was Elaine who was with me and understood.
The next day we were heading back to our apartment and stopped off to see Elaine’s parents. We showed her mom all our pictures. She was looking at the Captain America one, and wondered out loud what kind of padding he was wearing. I told her that there wasn’t any padding. Those muscles were real.
If you love Captain America as much as I do, come back in March and check out my St. Patrick’s Day post to hear more on him.
Otherwise: For more Captain America, go to Fanning All Over the Place
So while other kids grew up waiting for a letter to Hogwarts, or Camp Half-Blood, or any of those other places I was like whatever. I wanted to go to Narnia. I read the books and watched all the BBC films. I was so disappointed that I could never find a wardrobe to take me there (no matter how hard I tried).
It was the first fandom I have ever been in and the one I’ll be in until I die. I will never grow tired of C.S. Lewis’ books. You’re never too old for them.
The first book in the series is The Magician’s Nephew (1). It was actually the sixth book, but he wrote it as a prequel to the rest of the series. I thought it was okay, but he introduces a backstory that gives me more questions for the whole series. It’s not bad, but not one of my favorites. In it Digory and a Polly find themselves being sent to multiple worlds, having some of those enter their own world, and even witnessing the creation of Narnia.
The actual book that started it all was The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (2). This is my favorite as it is the first and AWESOME!
The time is the 1940s and four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, are sent to the country to get away from the bombs of London. While staying at the house they go through a wardrobe into a magical world. The four find themselves caught in a battle between the evil White Witch and the Godly Lion, Aslan.
It is an amazing adventure story with magic, animals, swordfighting, everything you love and want! I always wanted to be Peter the High King and Lord of Narnia. I thought that he was just amazing as he fights the White Queen, werewolves, etc. One Christmas my mother bought me a bible cover that had images from the books and one was Peter with his sword held high. I used to joke that the guy I ended up with had to have the inner soul of that. Yeah-not a joke.
The “next book” is A Horse and His Boy (3). I don’t really like this book as it was written fifth and doesn’t fit in the timeline right. In The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe it ends with the kids having lived far into their lives and returning home to discover they are back to their orginal ages and had only been gone a few hours. This book takes place in the middle of that time of them ruling. It bugs me as it just doesn’t go. I could have lived without it.
The next book Prince Caspian (4) was another of my all-time favorites and was orginally the sequel to the first. Time between Narnia and our world is much different. In the first book 40 years passed and it was only a few hours. In this one, hundreds of years have passed in Narnia. The land is ruled by men and talking animals, dwarfs, etc.; no longer roam the area. Prince Caspian is a young prince, about 10-12, who has grown up hearing the stories of King Peter, Queen Susan, King Edmund, and Queen Lucy. His uncle is ruling the land until he comes of age. One night he has to flee for his life as his uncle is set on killing him and making his newborn son the next in line for the throne. He rallies the rest of the magical creatures and calls on the help of the four from the first book.
This was another of my favs as it had the same kind of action and magic of the first one.
Then comes Voyage of the Dawn Treader (5). In this one Peter and Susan are no longer allowed back into Narnia as they are too old. Lucy and Edmond go back, and take along their horrible, annoying cousin Eustace (on accident). They find themselves on the Dawn Treader a boat built by King Caspian, now in his 20s. I loved this book as they are traveling through the lone islands and searching for the lost Lords exiled under his uncle. This has amazing adventures, swordfights, magic, dragons, etc.
In The Silver Chair (6) Lucy and Edmond are also too old to return to Narnia. Instead a bullied Eustace and Jill Pole find there way there. It has been many years in Narnia, as Caspian is now an old man. His son was lost to him years ago, just up and vanished, and Aslan sends Eustace and Jill to find him. They meet up with a Marshwiggle named Puddleglum, who is so negative it is hilarious. In here they continue their adventuring coming upon giants, black knights, underground men, etc.
The last book is The Last Battle (7). This book is the end of the series. It has been hundreds and hundreds of years since Caspian and his son. One day a monkey finds a lion skin, clothes a donkey with it, and proclaims him Aslan. There like in Animal Farm, he begins to use his newly gained power to turn the animals into slaves. Eustace and Jill use the magic rings from the first book to help Narnia, and are soon followed by everyone. Endings are always sad, but this one goes out with a bang.
The BBC films are amazing as they copy the books to a T. The actors are also fantastic. The special effects are so-so, but that was the technology they had and you got to give them props for that. The Disney versions are horrible. HORRIBLE! Trust me, don’t watch them at all. Read instead.
For more on The Chronicles of Narnia, go to 25 Films of Christmas
Copper is one of those shows that was amazing and got canceled far too early (only two seasons). I’m still upset over that.
So I wanted to watch Copper when it first came out as it intrguied me. It was a historical drama and plus it had him:
Let me back, up I’m getting too far ahead of myself. So Copper takes place during the mid 19th century in New York City. New York has a lot of tension not only between the Southerners and Northerners; but the racial clashes between “Americans”, “White” Europeans, Irish, and African-Americans. The main character, Kevin “Corky” Corcoran is an Irish immigrant, who has become a “copper”. He tries to keep the notorious Five Points in line with its murders, thievery, prostitution, opium trade, etc.
During the war, Corky worked with the wealthy Robert Morehouse (played by the hot guy from Alley Cats Strike). Morehouse used his influence to get Corky that job. Matthew Freeman, a freed slave who fought with them during the Civil War, acts as Corky’s pathologist and coroner.
They had the first season free on Amazon Instant Watch and I breezed through it and the second one as well.
The main character is amazing as he is just what I like:
And Irish. 🙂
He also really cares about the people in his neighborhood and protecting him. He not only a honorable man, but one of action who goes out and takes care of things. Super attractive!
Besides all those wonderful things, Copper also has a great intro.
For more on Copper, go to At the End of the Rainbow: 17 More Irish Heros
If people don’t like it, well:
The ones who do understand you, you will have awesome times with.
For Part 1 go to Fanning All Over the Place
And Stay Tuned for Part 3
For more book filled posts, go to Peeta Please!
For more of my favorite quotes, go to I Before E, Especially After P
For more quizzes, go to That Girl is Poison
For more Disney, go to The Little Moreland
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The Right Path is Not the Easiest One
Day 9) A Film you like but everyone hates
Now lots of people hate this movie and I don’t really understand why. Now I know there are all kinds of things about the age and differences in the historical content, but this is just an interpretation of an event. I mean Mulan does similar things but you don’t see people crapping all over that movie. (And they shouldn’t because it is awesome)
So this Disney film is an interpretation of the life of Pocahontas based on legend and stories surrounding her from letters and writings of John Smith and John Rolfe (her husband). The controversy comes over the fact that other people’s account of the time do not confirm that Smith’s story of being saved by Pocahontas, as they say that the tribe was very friendly, something Smith had written himself many times. There is also the fact that Smith had some mistrust surrounding him, as better depicted in the film A New World. Plus when Smith and Pocahontas meet in England she refused to talk to him, no one knowing why, which lead people to wonder what went down between them to make her dislike him. Also when the alleged incident happened Pocahontas was much younger, like 12, so there was no romance between her and John Smith.
But the point of the fact that this is a Disney animated film that contains musical numbers means that it isn’t going to be a biopic. Watch New World if you want that, although I do NOT recommend it, it was one of the MOST BORING films I have ever seen.
I mean you think a film with Colin Farrell and Christian Bale in it would be good, but it wasn’t. [Side Note: Christian Bale is also in Disney’s Pocahontas, he’s the character of Thomas.]
Anyways to get back to the business of the film and today’s post.
So the film starts off with a ship heading off from England to America as the English are eager to get in with the gold that Spain has found mountains of. On the ship is Thomas (played by Christian Bale [I know isn’t it funny that he was in two depictions of the story of Pocahontas?]), a newbie and John Smith (Mel Gibson [pre-crazy]). The other crew members are looking to kill Natives, etc; while John Smith on the other hand wants adventure. He helps Thomas learn the ins and out in sailing.
Meanwhile in what would become Virginia, Pocahontas is the chieftain’s daughter and is reaching of marriageable age. Her father has her whole life planned out for her, but Pocahontas isn’t sure whether or not that is what she really wants. She seeks guidance from a tree spirit, Grandmother Willow, and discovers the settler’s ship.
The crew have picked out a spot to erect their fort and have also decimated the area in digging for gold. Smith, being one for adventure, has been scouting out the area and comes upon Pocahontas. Intrigued by her, he pursues her and the two begin talking, creating a friendship that develops into something else. 😉
All is not going smoothly between the Natives and the Conquerers. They had a battle and both fear the other is determined to kill them. This causes trouble between Smith and Pocahontas, as Pocahontas’ possible fiancé, Kocoum, is killed by Thomas. Smith takes the fall for him, and is taken to be punished. The leader of the settlers, Governor Ratcliffe, uses the fear and unrest as a way to completely decimte the Natives, convincing everyone that they must kill them for Smith.
Smith is taken out to be killed, but before he can be injured, Pocahontas arrives just in time and throws herself on his body, blocking her father’s weapon and laying down her life for him. Her father admires her courage and sees that maybe peace can be achieved between the two, that killing won’t bring the people he lost back, and steps down. Ratcliffe doesn’t like the idea of allowing the Native Americans to roam freely (its their land!) tries to kill the Chief, but is thwarted by Smith who takes the bullet. The settlers leave for England, taking the injured Smith with them.
Why Pocahontas (1995) is Awesome
1) Pocahontas
Pocahontas is awesome. She is the chieftan’s daugter but doesn’t see herself as higher than anyone else in the tribe, working alongside and helping prepare the harvest. When her father tries to get her to conform to his vision of the future, she respectfully declines as she needs to live her own life; rejecting the marriage to Kokoum. She also is bold, strong, smart, wise, and awesome. When she comes upon John Smith she bravely faces him down, causing him to put away his gun as he is so intrigued by her. When Smith calls her people ignorant and savage, she challenges his thinking showing him that what he sees may be different from what he is used to but is not less, stupid, or barbaric; teaching him the importance of learning more about things we find “strange” and viewing them from the eye of the person, as otherwise we may miss something. This is truly important message to teach children, just because someone isn’t like you or does things differently; it doesn’t make them stupid or strange; it just means that everyone does things differently and there are other ways to view the same thing. She also is incredibly brave as she stands down her father and whole tribe, trying to show them that violence is wrong. Many say this:
But I think they are sorely wrong. Pocahontas does that way sooner as she is the one to save her whole tribe from being massacred and her love, John Smith. Also unlike Frozen, Pocahontas doesn’t even end up with the guy, she ends standing on her own two feet; taking on the world and continuing on her uncharted path.
2) John Smith
Now John Smith is one of the sexiest of Disney’s cartoon heros. First of all he is a strong, tough, manly, brave, smart, kind guy. I mean he is the greatest on the ship, the other guys can mess up, but never him. He is a crackshot and never misses his mark. I mean the crew tell all kind of stories about him and his adventures, he’s pretty cool. And so brave and tough, handling the terrain on his own, climbing mountains, crossing streams, etc.; all the while there being all kinds of dangers out there, but he doesn’t care, he’s a man’s man. He also is so kind! He helps Thomas every chance he gets by mentoring him and even taking the blame for him, laying his life down for his friends. He also is so sweet with Pocahontas, as when she blames herself for his upcoming execution, he tells her it isn’t her fault and tries to make her feel better; telling her everything was worth it as he meet her.
So romantic!
But the really awesome thing about John Smith is his willingness to see other’s point of view and to admit he is wrong about things. Similar to Phoebus in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, at the beginning of the film he has a clear view of us and them. We are the smart, improved, evolved people with our cities, technology, ideas; and they are stupid, barbaric, and doing nothing with the land given to them. However, when Pocahontas starts showing him that there are many different views on things, he let’s go of his stereotypes and objectively listens to her arguments, seeing that she is right. What he thought was backwards was actual a very forward and advanced society. Therefore changing his view and trying to help build a relationshipIn between the two groups.
3) Interracial Romance
I don’t care what anyone says, this is HUGE! Even in 2014, very rarely will you have a film that will show an interracial romance as most audiences don’t like it. They prefer like with like, which usually is white with white or black with black. The only other Disney films I can think of that do this are The Hunchback of Notre Dame which came out a year later and has French Phoebus with the racially unknown, but not white, Esmeralda; High School Musical which has white Troy and Latino Gabriella pair up, along with African-American Zeke and white Sharpay; and The Wizards of Waverly Place Movie which has a white and Latino family. Yep, only four films (comment below if you can think of another one) of which Pocahontas was the first. Now for me I grew up in a biracial family and hated how I never could find any books or films that dealt with that issue, and when I was a kid I don’t think I realized it, but as I’m older that is one thing I really appreciate about this film. You don’t have to get with the ethnically same, but can fall in love with whoever.
4) Positive Minority Character
This film comes out during a period called “revisionist history”, that is historians were looking back and checking voices not previously heard, such as minorities and women, challenging previous depictions and notions about these groups. As this film comes after Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans, films had already begun to depict Native Americans as being more than villians or mistreated people. Instead it tried to break previous stereotypes and just show them as people. In Pocahontas, while they do follow some stereotypes, such as talking to trees, animals, etc.; they also show them as being real people who care about each other. In one of the earlier scenes we see a group of warriors returning, saying good-bye to their allies and being greeted by their families; showing that they have positive home lives. The Cheiftan, while wanting to get rid of the settlers, isn’t doing it because he is evil or cruel, but because he is worried for his people. Pocahontas is a wise soul, but instead of having the “Native American wisdom as she is just sooo connected to the planet”, like other films do she is just an observant and smart person, and her personality is not tied to her ethnicity but just who she is; something radically different from earlier depictions of any minority. Even the killing scene is better here than in other films. As with earlier depictions of Native Amerians killing people, you have something like Duel at Diablo, where the guy is on a wheel and roasted/tortured in many different ways. Then you have Lonesome Dove, where Blue Duck, rapes and tortures his victims. At least in this film it was a slightly more humane way than roasting them or having a prolonged death.
5) The songs
So Pocahontas has some of the best songs out of all the disney films.
A) The Virginia Company
Short but a great intro as we not only get a history lesson (you’re children will never forget colonial involvement because of this film) but an understanding into our settler characters.
We get the three reasons why any would sail and take on a hard life (1. Gold, 2. Glory, 3. God [and not really about him at all]
For glory, God, and gold
And how they fanty believed America was going to be like this fairyland or treasure trove or something.
For the New World is like heaven
And we’ll all be rich and free
Yeah. Well most of you will die or be indentured servants. Yeah, not much fun. Click her to listen/watch
B) Steady as the Beating Drum
This song I am particularly fond of as in sixth grade my music class had to learn it on the recorder, and participate in a recital with the older kids. I love this as an intro for the Native Americans, as with Virgina Company it helps give us a view into their life and what they are feeling/doing before the settler’s arrive. Very different from any other film that deicts Native American and white relations as almost all center on when/after the whites arrive not before.
O great spirit, hear our song
Help us keep the ancient ways
Keep the sacred fire strong
Walk in balance all our days
It focuses on the connection with the land and their dependence on it for survival, but it also has a little sad foreshadowing. As these traditional ways, will no longer be kept in the same manner as with the colonists arrival, they bring change.
C) Just Around the River Bend
I love this song as it can connect to everyone. At some point in every one’s life you have a time when you have to make a decision. Often you will have conflicting views of what others want you to do (marry Kokoum) and what you want [something different, i.e. John Smith ;)] Sometimes the thing you want isn’t the most stable thing, sometimes you can’t be cautious but have to take a risk.
Should I choose the smoothest curve
Steady as the beating drum?
Should I marry Kocoum?
Is all my dreaming at an end?
Or do you still wait for me, Dream Giver
Just around the riverbend?
It always made me think of Something’s Coming from West Side Story, there are more things out there than one can see, more choices, paths, rivers. It’s an amazing song!
D) Mine, Mine, Mine
One of the best evil villian songs as it shows how selfish and unscrupulous Ratcliffe is and how he would do just about anything to get what he wants.
And the gold
Is …
The duality of using the word mine for mine as in mining, and mine as in it belongs to me. Plus sneaky Disney also gives us another mini history lesson as it talks about European conquest. But really what you see here is how Ratcliffe just uses and ravages things; working his men crazily, destroying the forest, tearing up the land, etc. It makes you just hate him more.
We also get a view into John Smith and how he differs from Ratcliffe, clearly distinguishing Smith’s “heroic role”.
All of my life, I have searched for a land
A wilder, more challenging country
I couldn’t design
Hundreds of dangers await
And I don’t plan to miss one
In a land I can claim
A land I can tame
The greatest adventure is mine!
He wants the land not to own or dig or find riches, but finds riches in the land itself; exploration, creating a home, farming, etc. We also see here how he wants to claim and tame the land, not having a connection like the Native Americans who love the land and see it as its own entity. This helps with John Smith’s chracter development, as after being with Poahontas and listening to her point of view, he changes his mind and rids himself of his previous stereotypes.
Click here to listen/watch
E) Colors of the Wind
This song is so freakin’ awesome. It’s all about how we can assume so much about a person, but you never really know someone until you get a glimpse of what their world is like.
You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You’ll learn things you never knew you never knew
And Disney always subtlety throwing things in and trying to brainwash our children (but in a good way)
For whether we are white or copper skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
We need to paint with all the colors of the wind
Color doesn’t matter, we all need to work together, all are important. This is why this is such a great movie to show your children, as it tells them that prejudice and racism is bad. Very bad!
And look how beautiful this scene is!
F) Savages
Now this is my favorite song in Pocahontas. I just love the lyrics and the imagery used in this. It actually pulls a lot from West Side Story. West Side Story does this great number Tonight in which the two rival gangs, Sharks and Jets, are going to fight (one group is white and the other is Puerto Rican). While they sing about the upcoming battle, you have Maria and Tony sing about how tonight the fight will be over and they can be together (which doesn’t quite work out). In this you have the two groups, Native Americans and Whites, preparing to fight and it is just an awesome song. I mean this whole song is about how racism is stupid, as these two groups who are going to kill each other are not quite different at all, in what they are (human) and what they think (things different bad, we must fight those diffrent from us, etc) I mean look at the lyrics.
Ratcliffe: Powhatan:
What can you expect This is what we feared
From filthy little heathens? The paleface is a demon
Their whole disgusting race is like a curse The only thing they feel at all is greed
Their skin’s a hellish red Beneath that milky hide
They’re only good when dead There’s emptiness inside
They’re vermin, as I said I wonder if they even bleed
[English Settlers] [Native Americans]
They’re savages! Savages! They’re savages! Savages!
Barely even human Barely even human
See not much difference between the two, which is the whole reason they are fighting.
I also love how they made both groups look evil in this song, making it clear that both sides are bing violent and are both at fault, there is no one villian. As historically both groups did horrible, horrible things to their own people and each other; showing that all people have faults.
Then we have Pocahontas who has finally discoverd her destiny and is trying to run and save everyone from war. And the tension mounts as you are unsure if she will make it in time and then what will happen next.
[Pocahontas]
Is the death of all I love
Carried in the drumming of war?
It’s a horrible situation as if the Native Americans win, John Smith dies and they are villianified and going to kill/die when future settler’s come. If the settlers win, than all the Native Americans will be wiped out, the only thing that can solve this dilemma is if Pocahontas can bring peace between them.
G) If I Never Knew You
I love this song so much, it is my favorite Disney love song so I will actually be saving that for a later post. Sorry!
For more on Pocahontas, go to a Disney Lesson
For more on Disney Princesses, go to A Hidden Wonder
For more on Frozen, go to Frozen Solid
For more on Mulan, go to A Horse’s Tale
For more of my favorite songs, go to The World’s Greatest Criminal Mind
For more on Disney Heroines, go to Belle of the Ball
For more on Disney Heroes, go to Prince of a Man
For more on Disney, go to That Would Make Me Happy
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13-Year-Old’s Rap Talent Defeats Stuttering & Bullying: Lil JaXe Raps for Drake
Thirteen-year-old Jake Zeldin, aka Lil JaXe, of Toronto is making headlines these days much like his idol Drake. When JaXe – whose near-debilitating stutter disappears when he raps – free-styled flawlessly for Drake backstage at a Tyga concert 2011, the Grammy-award-winning rapper was clearly impressed, giving JaXe a high five and plenty of encouragement. A year later, Lil JaXe is performing front stage instead of backstage. He’s also writing and recording music, releasing videos and dedicating time and energy to charities, especially those that combat bullying.
“I was super excited,” Jake said of the performance, “It was a dream, actually. It didn’t feel real.”
This summer, JaXe will be featured alongside rappers like Mos Def and Talib Kweli on Pacha’s Pajamas, a children’s hip-hop album about the environment, set for release in July.
He’s also performed at more than a dozen recent festivals and charity events, and appeared on several Toronto television and radio programs, including Canada AM, Much Music and CTV National. He’s also been featured in newspapers, including the Toronto Star.
Lil JaXe’s battle with stuttering began when he first learned to talk. His family spent thousands on therapy, but nothing helped. Then, about three years ago, JaXe discovered he could rap. In fact, he can deliver rhymes (that he writes himself), with absolutely no hint of a stutter. Before long, he was dazzling his peers – and music industry heavyweights.
No one’s completely sure why JaXe’s stutter disappears while he’s rapping, although it may have to do with the part of the brain he uses while rapping, as opposed to speaking. Science points to complex neurological reasons, but JaXe offers a much simpler explanation: “I'm not sure, but (rapping is) funner.”
Whatever the reason, JaXe’s amazing talents are proof that no matter what challenges kids – and even adults – face, there’s no goal that’s too lofty. And JaXe wants to make sure other kids understand that. That’s why he spends time performing for charities, and plans to start his own anti-bullying charity. As JaXe well knows, kids can be cruel. Bullied and teased from classmates and teachers was something that was part of everyday life for JaXe who simply can’t carry on a conversation the way most people can.
Lil JaXe’s mother, Robyn Zeldin, heralds 2012 as “applauds her son, not just for sharing his talents, but for conquering his fears and finding a way to communicate in a way that lets the world see just how fantastic he is. I believe that his story is one of determination, inspiration and overcoming life's challenges,” Robyn says.
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Inside The Headset: Pat Fitzgerald [PODCAST]
This week on Inside the Headset we speak with Pat Fitzgerald, Head Coach for Northwestern University. We discuss building loyalty in a coaching staff, the uniqueness of being the only private school in the Big Ten Conference, and what it was like becoming the head coach at his alma mater.
Coach Fitzgerald is in his 14th season as the Head Coach of Northwestern, and he was named the Big Ten’s Coach of the Year in 2018. Fitzgerald began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Maryland (1998) after he graduated from Northwestern, where he was a two-time All-American linebacker and winner of the Nagurski Trophy and Bednarik Award (1995 & 1996). After spending the 1999 season at Colorado as a graduate assistant, Coach Fitz joined Idaho’s staff coaching the linebackers. In 2001, he returned to Northwestern working with the defensive backs, but he switched over to the linebackers in 2002, and quickly gained a reputation as a tremendous recruiter. Following the sudden passing of Randy Walker on June 29, 2006, Coach Fitzgerald was named Head Coach of Northwestern. He has led the Wildcats to nine bowl appearances, and four of the program’s five bowl victories have come under his guidance.
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[11:06] Coaching your alma mater
[12:45] Being where your feet are
[14:58] Advice to coaches
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Title Census of Population and Housing, 1972
Statistical agency Central Bureau of Statistics - Israel
Population universe Permanent residents of Israel, including those who were abroad on the census date but had been absent from Israel no longer than one year continuously. Jewish persons living in Jewish localities in administered territories.
Census/survey day May 20, 1972
Field work period May and June 1972
Questionnaire The census was conducted in two stages and for each one there a separate enumeration form. In the first stage (A), the entire population was enumerated. The stage A questionnaire was designed to cover all households and every member in the houusehold.
Type of fieldwork Drop-off and pick up with review and completion of missing information by the enumerator.
Sample design Systematic sample of every 5th household after a random start. 1-in-2 sample drawn from that by IPUMS.
Sample fraction 0.1
Sample size (person records) 315608
Sample weights Self-weighting (expansion factor = 10)
Collective dwellings Included but not identified
Smallest geography Subdistrict
Households A group of persons living together in the same dwelling who prepare most of their meals together. Generally, this term is identical with members of a family who live in the same dwelling. A person living alone is considered to be a household.
Collective dwellings An administrative unit that provides dormitory facilities and usually food services to at least five individuals.
Population universe Persons who on the census night lived at an address in the area covered, including those found abroad on the census night who had been absent from the area covered for less than one year.
Census/survey day June 4, 1983
Field work period Enumeration of the population began at the end of May 1983 and was completed in most places of the country at the beginning of July 1983.Enumeration of the Negev Bedouim continued until the end of August 1983 because of their geographic dispersion.
Questionnaire Two enumeration forms were used: a "short form" and a "long form". The "short form" was given to 80 percent of the families and comprised questions concerning basic demographic topics for each person in the family. The rest of families (20 percent) were given the long form.
Type of fieldwork For households, drop-off and pick up with review and completion of missing information by the enumerator. For institutions and "Qibbuz," enumerators filled out the short form by making use of central registration.
Estimated undercount 2.27%
Smallest geography Subdistrict and metropolitan area classification
Households Each person living alone and each group of related persons living in a single dwelling unit constitutes a household. Unrelated persons living in a single dwelling unit constitute a household if they prepare meals of their meals together.
Population universe Israeli citizens, permanent residents without Israeli citizenship and potential immigrants who, on the census day, lived in the area covered, including those who had been away from the covered area for less than one year. The population also included tourists.
Field work period October and November 1995
Questionnaire Two types of questionnaires were prepared for the census, a short and long questionnaire. The short questionnaire consisted of five question covering basic demographic topics for each person residing in the household. These questionnaries were distributed to 80 percent of the dwellings.
Type of fieldwork For households, drop-off and pick up with review and completion of missing information by the enumerator. For institutions and "Qibbuz," enumerators filled out the short form by making use of centarl registretion.
Estimated undercount 0.7%
Households Persons who share a dwelling and food budget. In general, a household corresponds to family since members of a family usually share a food budget. Usually, most dwelling contain one household.
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Bumblebee Includes Cybertron, Optimus Prime, and Some Decepticon Surprises
Germain Lussier
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Bumblebee is out December 21.
Photo: Paramount
New footage from Bumblebee revealed at Comic-Con today showed us more about why the Transformer is on Earth, what he’s doing in the 1980s, who he’ll be fighting in his solo spin-off movie, and lots, lots more. Unfortunately, it appears the video is solely for Comic-Con attendee, but we can tell you everything we saw.
Director Travis Knight arrived in Hall H armed with stars Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena, and a bunch of new footage that 100 percent makes it feel like Knight has taken the best part of Michael Bay’s Transformers movies—the action—but also added some lots of classic, ‘80s-style heart. This is a good thing indeed.
Bumblebee is set about 20 years before any of the events of the Bay films. And while this one is almost wholly a solo movie about Bumblebee, Knight confirmed at the panel that we will travel to Cybertron in the movie and there will be plenty of nods and winks to franchise favorites throughout. One such example? The panel started with a live performance of “You’ve Got The Touch” by Stan Busch, an iconic song from the original 1986 Transformers: The Movie.
The footage also revealed that early on in the film, Bumblebee has escaped from Cybertron to Earth. He’s being hunted by humans and then a Deception Jet flies down and blows everything up. But it’s not Starscream; Knight was sad to disappoint fans but revealed the character is actually Blitzwing, who just so happens to turn into a jet and have a similar design as a G1 seeker, like Starscream.
Blitzwing and Bumblebee have a knockdown, drag-out fight on the side of a mountain—that Bumblebee loses. Blitzwing grabs him by the neck, says he’s sentenced to death, and drops him off the mountain. Once he hts the ground, Bee is close to death but, just as he shuts down, he catches a glimpse of a yellow beetle, and that’s where Charlie (Steinfeld) comes in. She gets the car for her birthday and things move on from there.
But maybe the coolest reveal is a potential cameo: The basic premise of the film is that Bumblebee escaped from Cybertron for something and now he’s being hunted by Decepticons Shatter and Dropkick, voiced by Angela Basset and Justin Theroux (who, by the way, are triple -changers—robots, muscle cars, as well as a Harrier jet and helicopter, respectively). They team up with humans, lead by John Cena, to find the fugitive and later in the story, Charlie asks Bee if he has friends who can help him and he puts up a hologram... of G1 Optimus Prime. And wouldn’t you know it? Peter Cullen himself, the voice of Prime, closed the panel by asking, “What does it take to get my own movie?”
What does Prime have to do with the movie? Will we see him? “All will be revealed in the movie,” he said.
Bumblebee opens December 21.
Transforming Dino-Cassettes Join a Retro '80s Bumblebee For This Comic-Con Exclusive
Fans Made the Bumblebee Movie Happen and Optimus Prime Could Be Next
The First Bumblebee Trailer Is a Heartfelt Blast From the Past
The Bumblebee Preview Has a Lot of Heart But Keeps the Action of Michael Bay's Transformers
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Sandile Fakudze is a full-time degree student of National Cheng Kung University. He is currently doing his last year of the International Bachelor Degree Program on Energy which is offered by the College of Engineering of NCKU.
Growing up in Pigg’s Peak, a small town in Swaziland, Sandile went to Mhlatane High School, the country’s most prestigious high school. He completed high school in 2010 when he sat for the Cambridge International Examinations. Sandile spent a few months working for his older brother who runs a small computer shop. Meanwhile, he had applied to various universities in different countries to pursue his tertiary studies.Sandile was accepted in all three universities, and moreover he received a scholarship award to pursue his studies in Taiwan.
Coming to Taiwan was one of the toughest decisions he ever made knowing how far apart the two countries are located. Unlike, if he had chosen to stay at the University of Swaziland, this meant no home-visits on weekends. Regardless of all the troubles he would face while studying in a foreign country, Sandile decided to follow his dreams and in September 2011 he enrolled for Chinese Mandarin at Providence University, a Catholic institution located in central Taiwan. While studying Chinese he also had the time to travel around the island and meet new people. In 2012, Sandile applied to a number of Taiwanese universities including National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University and National Cheng Kung University. His first option would be National Cheng Kung University because his desired program, Energy Engineering is entirely taught in English there.
Fortunately, Sandile received an offer from NCKU and in September of the same year he enrolled to the program. Moving from central Taiwan to the south, Sandile noticed a few differences between these two cities. Food in Tainan is a bit sweeter than food from other places in Taiwan, a good example is the popular Taiwanese sausage. The best thing about living in Tainan is that there is a wide variety of food and the living costs are really low compared to the north.
During the past three years Sandile has learnt a lot about sustainable energy science and engineering. In 2014 he joined a research group led by an associate researcher from the Research Center for Energy Technology and Strategy of NCKU. He is currently working on energy-related topics as part of his senior thesis. After his studies, Sandile would like to go back to Swaziland to assist in the development of sustainable energy to meet the country’s power demand.
Sandile believes Taiwanese people are the most generous and he is very happy to have had an opportunity to study in Taiwan.
This talk is sponsored by Mr Chang. He wants to encourage people to be more passionate.
Production assisted by NCKU and IOH Helper Chun-Ting Chang. Edited by Jack Yang, Jessica Lee.
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PART 1：Study Experience in International Bachelor Degree Program on Energy, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan（English）
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Why Taiwan?
Sandile is an international student from Swaziland and studies Energy Engineering in National Cheng Kong University (NCKU). In his introduction, he used three words to describe himself: easy-going, ambitious, and a thinker. Graduated from the most disciplined high school in Swaziland, Sandile became a competitive student.
Swaziland has long-term diplomatic relationship with Taiwan, which allows students from Swaziland to come study in Taiwan. In Taiwan, most of universities have Chinese Learning Centers (CLC), where international students can learn Chinese. When Sandile first arrived Taiwan in 2011, he enrolled in Providence University (靜宜大學) Chinese Language Education Center to learn Chinese before starting his formal degree. The following year, he enrolled in National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and expected to graduate in 2016.
Why NCKU?
Sandile gave a brief introduction on NCKU and mentioned that NCKU ranked No.22 in Engineering and Computer Science around the world in 2014. Also, having 9 colleges, 45 departments, 82 graduate institutes, and 54 research centers makes NCKU one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan.
Sandile decided to study Energy Engineering, formally known as the International Bachelor Degree Program on Energy, and officially established by College of Engineering in 2012.
The International Bachelor Degree Program on Energy is comprised of 50% Taiwanese students and 50% international students around the world. Sandile also mentioned that most of the core courses in Energy Engineering is similar to the core courses in Mechanical Engineering, such as heat transfer, thermodynamics, etc. But what makes the energy program in NCKU special are specialized courses in Renewable Energy, such as Photovoltaic, Wind Energy, Biomass, etc.
In addition to the academic strength, NCKU offers programs to help international students to transition to Taiwanese lifestyle. Amongst those programs is the Language Exchange program and the Buddy-Buddy Program. NCKU Buddy-Buddy Program arranges a Taiwanese student to buddy up with an international student to help the international students to get used to the life abroad and adapt to the local lifestyle.
Why Energy Engineering?
The primary reason behind Sandile’s decision in studying Energy Engineering is the country’s largest challenge – energy shortage. In Swaziland, both academia and professional practice has high demand of energy engineers to resolve major challenges in sustainable energy provision.
Aside from core courses, Sandile also conducted some researches and one of them was a research of Biochar in reducing CO2 emission from traditional energy harvest from coal. He also participated in a research in developing automated solar panel cleaner to tackle the issue of injuries and accidents during the cleaning process. He wants to utilize his knowledge that he gained in Taiwan to make solar water pumps for dry area during drought seasons in Swaziland with other students from Swaziland.
In the talk, Sandile mentioned that one of his favorite courses was Energy System Design, which was a 3-credit required course with a lot of practical works. Students who take the course will need to build a sustainable energy system or device. Aside from working hard on school works, Sandile also served as the captain of Energy Football team and took part in Energy Students Association.
Life in Taiwan
When Sandile first moved to Taiwan for school, he would only eat in McDonald and KFC because he is somewhat familiar with the menu. After he learned to speak Chinese, Taiwanese cuisine like fried rice and beef noodle soon became his favorite. In his years of living in Taiwan, he has adopted the local lifestyle in Tainan quite well that he can give suggestions like: riding a scooter would be much more convenient if you want to get around in Tainan.
In his gaining, Sandile would like to share three things with the viewers of his talk. First, the exposure to the new technology such as smartphones and Internet enabled him to learn more and faster from the Internet. Second, the cultural diversity in NCKU gave him many opportunities to interact with people from different culture. Last but not the least, traveling in Taiwan is one of the greatest experiences in Taiwan and he highly encourages international students take chances to get to know Taiwan by traveling.
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Tai Cantref: Favoured Suitor Named
On 21/04/2016 23/04/2016 By JacIn Demographics, Public Funding, Social Housing, Third Sector, Welsh Government, Welsh Labour, Welsh Language
Tai Cantref, the Newcastle Emlyn-based housing association has been in the news recently, but for all the wrong reasons. It has, I regret to say, found its way up Shit Creek, where it will struggle to find a berth due to all the other wrecks jostling for space.
For Shit Creek is now home port to a whole fleet of rusting hulks that have collectively ripped countless millions from the Welsh public purse in the devolution era, a period that has given us successive administrations believing that handing out billions to the Third Sector and assorted peripatetic shysters is a substitute for an economy.
The troubles at Cantref did not come out of the blue, they’ve been predicted for some time. They seemed to start with a few poor business decisions, such as trying to turn the old government building at the foot of Bronglais Hill in Aber’ into student accommodation.
Though, in fairness, Cantref may have been trying to do the right thing. For here, in the Annual Report 2012 / 2013 (page 16) we read, “To build new homes, Cantref need (sic) to generate more income and rely less on Social Housing Grant. A successful new initiative to Cantref this year was the introduction of our new student accommodation. We were successful with the submission of 65 units to be part of the Welsh Government’s Revenue Grant programme”. Alternatively, Cantref was laying off one teat to start sucking on another.
The old government building though is quite impressive, as you can see . . . but then, white elephants so often are.
Picture courtesy of Herald Group Newspapers
And then, when it began to be realised that Cantref was failing, it seems that a ‘What the hell!’ mentality took over and those responsible for Cantref’s demise decided to invest some of the remaining money in drowning their sorrows.
Or certainly, that’s the impression I gained from this comment to the blog last July. The ‘castle’ referred to is of course Chateau Tucker, the £15m B&B in Cardigan (paid for with public funding, of course), of which I have written many times.
Even though Cantref, a publicly-funded body, was subsequently investigated by persons answering to our democratically-elected representatives we, the public at large, we, whose money is used to fund these bodies, were not allowed to know what had gone wrong. And this from a Labour regime that preaches ‘openness’.
Once it became known that Cantref was in trouble the vultures started circling, among them Mark James, chief executive of Carmarthenshire County Council, though how much the councillors knew of this bid is open to question. For Mr James believes in treating councillors as one would mushrooms. (Keep them in the dark and ply them regularly with shit.)
But there were others interested in taking over Cantref, as we were told by ‘Dai the Post’, in this comment from earlier this month. In particular, note Dai’s reference to “Hillary Jones, from neighbouring ha Bro Myrddin has been trying to self promote herself by persuading Wales and West ha from Cardiff to bail out Cantref and give her a bigger job as head of their western poorer Welsh speaking colony. Perhaps she has been getting advice from her (x Gwalia finance director) husband? More hostels anyone?”
And so it came to pass. Today it was announced by a Cardiff PR company that the option preferred by Cantref is a ‘merger’ with Wales and West Housing of Cardiff. (Read the press release here.)
Extra! Extra! You will note in the press release that the person speaking on behalf of Cantref, and in favour of the merger with Wales and West is, “Kevin Taylor, Interim Chair”. Now I mentioned Taylor in Social Housing Back to Council Control? earlier this month, and I wondered who he is. Here’s what I wrote in that earlier post:
I’m still wondering – Who is Kevin Taylor? Who appointed him to the chair of Cantref? (Here’s his Linkedin profile.)
Returning to Wales and West Housing, I have a number of problems with this proposal:
Why the name, ‘Wales and West’ – is this a cross-border organisation? (I ask because in January 2014 I reported that Wales and West – uniquely among Welsh housing associations – received funding from the UK [i.e. English] government. But why would the English government allow Wales and West £25m to build houses in Wales?)
Judging by this video and other information on the website Wales and West spends a lot of our money building retirement homes for English people, which obviously increases the load on our overburdened NHS and other services. Acquiring Cantref, which operates mainly in Ceredigion, could represent something of a bonanza for a company seeking to attract English retirees.
There is a distinctly ‘unWelsh’ feel to Wales and West that perhaps reflects its areas of operation in the south east and the north east. (Check out the Directors to see what I’m alluding to. This is clearly a business, but not a Welsh business.) No merger should be allowed unless – at the very least – there are firm assurances that Cantref’s existing Welsh staff in Newcastle Emlyn will be retained.
This is clearly a ‘merger’ of the kind that took place between Nazi Germany and Poland, or between Communist China and Tibet . . . or between England and Wales.
That’s all for now but I shall be back next week with more on our housing associations, including RCT Homes and Pembrokeshire Housing and its ‘subsidiary’ Mill Bay Homes. And there will also certainly be more to report on Cantref and Wales and West.
UPDATE 23.04.2016: Here’s a press release put out by Mark James Carmarthenshire County Council expressing disappointment at being kicked in the nuts rejected by Kevin Taylor Cantref. I suspect this story has more twists and turns yet.
Bro MyrddinChateau TuckerMark JamesMill Bay HomesPembrokeshire HousingTai CantrefWales and West Housing
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The FOI Act needs to be extended to Housing Associations. We are entitled to know how our money is being spent by them. With mergers and takeovers on the agenda I suspect chief executives are now focused on self preservation rather than running the business. It is time for many of these over paid executives to do the honourable thing and “spend more time with the family”. Good work again Jac. I look forward to your next one on Pembrokeshire Housing Group and their subsidiary Mill Bay Homes.
22/04/2016 at 08:28 Reply
That is one of the great mysteries of public life; how bodies spending hundreds of millions of pounds of public money are exempt from the FoI Act 2000. Especially as local authorities providing social housing are covered by the Act.
dafis
Wynne, you say that ….”With mergers and takeovers on the agenda I suspect chief executives are now focused on self preservation rather than running the business”. Much of that self preservation work has most probably been done a while ago, like when the bastards were recruited, with appropriately padded service agreements giving exemplary payouts in the event of an ” unfortunate ” outcome. Indeed some of these greedy pigs are serial beneficiaries of such arrangements hopping from one public/3rd sector appointment to another picking up payoffs as they skip along. Lush, in’nit ? .
Yes, I totally agree Dafis.
Brychan
That building in your photo Jac, would make an excellent HQ for a Welsh Energy Commission. We could make the ‘renewables’ sector pay for it. It wouldn’t be the first ‘cheap date’ to be had in Aberystwyth. Leanne Ymlaen.
Of course, there are some staff that could not be recruited locally and I’m sure there are a few staff sucking third/public sector tit that currently own of bijou apartments in the Cardiff Bay who might need to buy accommodation closer to their new office. Property vacated by English students and un-financed residential property notionally owned by Tai Cantref may be available.
Aber’ would be ideal for such an initiative; it’s always had more than its fair share of Earth Botherers and grant-grabbers are already there in abundance. No doubt this could be said of the areas around all universities but with Aberystwyth being a relatively small town one encounters them everywhere.
Given the rate at which Aber is filling up with Anglos it will soon reach a point where the best remedy will be to cut it loose, tow it out 20 miles offshore and scuttle the whole mass. What used to be a fortress of Cymraeg has become a poisonous depot of Anglo Brit colonialism.
And at the heart of it, the fundamental reason for the anglicisation of Aberystwyth, is a third-rate university that has expanded in recent decades for no better reason than to increase the income. Higher education in Wales now has little to do with us, it is an alien enterprise focused solely on making money and boosting egos. Yet those idiots down Cardiff docks – or rather, the English civil servants over which they have no control – are happy to fund this ongoing national insult; happy to promote and glory in the erosion of Welsh identity.
treforus
Swansea is going the same way. The new Bay campus for the University was fair enough because there was no room left in Singleton but the massive relocation of that curious amalgam, Met/Trinity/St Davids to the Docks because Cardiff Bay spent all the Swansea budget on buying and clearing the site to find that no-one seemed to want it is going to leave the town overrun. Presumably two vacant areas locally would be too much. The old Velindre site-supposedly the best development site in Wales, has been on the books for years.
The old Velindre site, centrally located in southern Wales, right by the M4, might be a good site for an airport, a real, working airport that people could get to relatively easily. But of course it’s too far from Cardiff; so we’re stuck with an airport in a location chosen to hide it from the Luftwaffe that costs us hundreds of millions of pounds – and still nobody uses it!
This is so sad.
In the 1980s I became a member of Cymdeithas Tai Cantref (CTC) in the good old days when Cynog Dafis was MP for N.Pembs as well as Ceredigion, and connected with CTC, and when it had a Welsh-speaking grass-roots- up feel to it. I wanted to be a backseat member, not an expert on housing. And I wanted to be able to act if and when the need came to save CTC.
To my regret I allowed myself to lose my membership somehow. Pressures of work and raising a family no doubt. I watched the disastrous transition from Dyfed County Council to Carmarthenshire under Mark James.
My apologies to Wales for doing nothing.
Is it too late?
If you’re the Jonathan Edwards I’m thinking of, the one with whom I was in contact some years ago, trying to convince you of the need for a new party in Wales, then I wondered what had happened to you.
As for your question: No it’s not too late, but those of us with the best interests of our people at heart had better start getting our act together.
Though your encomium for Cynog Dafis does not not fill me with confidence.
Jac your command of English is giving me the creeps ! Encomium – bloody hell, I had to look it up in one of them posh books where they list words in alphabetical order, and even some of the other words used to explain it were themselves “foreign” to me ! Panegyric for instance – that’s a cracker, must find some use for it one day soon, maybe when writing to Carwyn regretting his fall from power. Eulogy was one that rang a bell, and accolade came back to me although there was a time I thought it was some kind of drink but never could figure out what the “accol” was that was processed into the -ade ! ( there again I never found any lucoz growing anywhere yet lucozade used to be peddled as the wonder health drink for years)
You are doing excellent work in bringing literacy and range of vocabulary up to scratch among the post retirement demographic ! I think I’ll go away now and start scribbling a draft of that note to Carwyn. Even if he doesn’t get knocked out it may come in handy as the basis of a note to Ms Wood.
The need for a new party is glaringly obvious, has been for some time. To cap it all, putting the tin hat on the whole show, Ms Wood buggered off to Exeter the other night to spout her f***in’ dull monologue, now what on earth was she doing parading around darkest West Country when there was plenty for her to do in Wales with an election coming up in May ? Or has appearing on telly with BBC expenses become more appealing than confronting some disaffected natives on their own doorstep or at hustings in a draughty hall ? And it did her no good at all, as all those negative Anglo sites that spend much of their time taking the piss out of Ms Sturgeon, Cameron and anybody else that happens to show his face, turned their focus on her and had a real good laugh.
Time to move on babe, and be heckler bait in England if you like the telly so much.
Sibrydionmawr
It seems very strange indeed to me that Cantref have chosen Wales and West HA as their preferred partner. Surely this will lead to yet further erosion of the commitment to the Welsh language that was once one of the cornerstones of Tai Cantref. I read with some dismay that over more recent years the central position of Welsh at Cantref seems to have been eroded, as they once had a very progressive policy. Due to operating internally in Welsh, they of course required Welsh speaking staff, and what was so progressive is that they were quite happy to employ people who were ‘improvers’, i.e. people with some linguistic skill in Welsh, but who would require further language tuition in order to come fully up to speed. I also know that as part of the recruitment conditions, specialist staff, who were often recruited from amongst non-Welsh speakers had to agree to learn Welsh to an agreed standard by an agreed date as part of their conditions of employment. The system worked well, as it was inclusive, but didn’t compromise the position of the Welsh language. How long will this remain the case if Wales and West are allowed to take over? Looking at Wales and West’s website doesn’t bode well, as it seems that the ‘Welsh’ version of their website is merely a Google Translate affair. This is pretty insulting when it’s considered that Wales and West manage some 9000 properties in Wales, many in Welsh speaking areas, but being based in Cardiff, their approach to Welsh is pretty much dismissive – as are all other housing associations based in Cardiff. Sadly, even though housing associations receive huge amounts of public money, housing associations in Wales are still regarded as private sector bodies. In England, housing associations are now regarded as being in the public sector, which means that they are subject to all the usual scrutinies applied to state financed bodies.
But back to Cantref. Why is a merger with Tai Ceredigion not being considered? It’s another local body, run and controlled locally with a remit to provide employment and to support the local economy through it’s purchasing policies, (as is Cantref at the moment) so I would have thought it would have been the ideal choice, especially as Tai Ceredigion seems to have a similar ethos as regards the Welsh language. I can’t somehow see any commitment to using local contractors remaining once Wales and West take over, which will mean that they will manage something like 10 and a half thousand properties. They are already too big, in terms of being too distant from their tenants.
I’m wondering if the dead hand of the Welsh Assembly Government is behind this headlong rush to merge with a Cardiff based behemoth that isn’t exactly too popular with many of it’s current tenants anyway, due to their remoteness, and the fact that they are just too big. (Economy of scale only works to a certain point, after which things start to get very inefficient. Some things, of course, are advantageous when it’s things like large scale purchasing of things like central heating systems, but that kind of thing can be done through group buying).
Are you saying that housing associations in England are subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000?
Having just checked the Homes & Communites website, it would seem that housing associations are not currently subject to FoI. Though it seems from this report, it seems that housing associations in Scotland are to be brought under the scope of the Act, and it seems that in England they might be required to ’embrace it voluntarily’
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/scottish-housing-associations-to-be-subject-to-foi/7012565.article
No mention of Wales, so that’s down to people like us.
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D.R Mason, National Parks Board of Trustees, South Africa
P.A van der Walt, National Parks Board of Trustees, South Africa
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BUFFALO, NY - SEPTEMBER 21: Jack Drury #20 of Team Chelios during the CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game against Team Leetch at the KeyBank Center on September 21, 2017 in Buffalo, New York. (Photo by Kevin Hoffman/Getty Images)
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The hockey bloodlines run deep for Jack Drury. His father, Ted Drury, played 414 NHL games, for the Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers, Ottawa Senators, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, New York Islanders, and Columbus Blue Jackets. While his father was a journeyman, his uncle, Chris Drury, was a star player who won Stanley Cup and Calder Trophy. He is currently an assistant general manager with the New York Rangers.
Jack Drury was the captain of the Waterloo Black Hawks in the USHL. After just 12 points in 44 games as a rookie, he put up 24 goals and 41 assists for 65 points in 56 games this year. He also added three goals and five points in eight playoff games. Drury broke a USHL record with a 22-game scoring streak.
Drury has regularly represented the United States in international competition as well. He scored two goals and three assists for five points in just four games at last summer’s Ivan Hlinka Tournament. Drury also played at the World Junior A Hockey Championships scoring one goal in the five-game tournament. He was a member of Team Chelios at the USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game.
Drury is set to attend his father’s alma mater, as he is committed to play for the Harvard Crimson next season.
Jack Drury Scouting Report
Centre — shoots Left
Born February 3rd, 2000 — Winnetka, Illinois
Height 5’11” — Weight 175 lbs [180 cm / 79 kg]
Drury made improvements in his skating this past season, leading to his increased offensive output. While his first couple of steps could use a bit more work, his top speed has gone from average to good. His long stride generates a lot of power and makes Drury tough to knock off the puck as well as allowing him to fight through checks. He has good agility and edgework, helping him to get by defenders, as well as to defend his own end of the ice.
Offensive Game
Drury has also really improved his wrist shot this season. He clearly spent the off-season adding power to his shot and getting it off with a quicker release. While there are still some strides to be made, he can now score with wrist and snapshots from the slot and the face-off dots. Drury is also willing to get to the front of the net, where he can tip-in shots and pounce on rebounds. He plays a simple, north-south game, generating offensive chances out of a strong forecheck, and from battling in the cycle game.
Drury is an even better playmaker than he is a sniper. He has the very good vision and makes the smart play with the puck. Drury can get the puck through tight spaces, whether it is a saucer pass, or putting the puck through the “triangle” on a defender. He is a smart player who anticipates where his teammates will get open and make a tape-to-tape pass when they do.
Defensive Game
Drury is a hard worker in all three zones. He provides back pressure to the defence and works hard down low against the cycle game. Drury is involved in scrums and puck battles at both ends. His compete level is very high and he almost never cheats on the play. Drury reads the play extremely well. He gets his stick into passing lanes and creates turnovers which he can quickly transition to offence. He is also a responsible penalty killer and strong in the face-off circle.
Projection and Comparison
Drury has the potential to be a two-way middle-six centre at the NHL level. He may never be a top line centre, but he can be an important piece if he develops. He will need to continue to improve his skating and shot but has already made big strides in these areas. Expect to see him be given big minutes and used in all situations at Harvard. If he reaches his upside, he will help an NHL team on both the penalty kill and power play, but there is a bit of a project here. In terms of a style comparison, it’s hard to look at Drury, and not see big part’s of his uncle Chris’ game. This is not meant as a talent evaluation though, just a stylistic comparison.
The following is a compilation of some of the highlight packages of Drury that are available on youtube.
Check back tomorrow for the next prospect on our draft board.
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BUFFALO, NY – SEPTEMBER 21: Jack Drury #20 of Team Chelios during the CCM/USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game against Team Leetch at the KeyBank Center on September 21, 2017, in Buffalo, New York. (Photo by Kevin Hoffman/Getty Images Sport)
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Masha Evans
Masha Evans, DJ Maasha Events Photo by Rachel Gray Media
Masha Evans, 29
DJ Maasha Events in Los Angeles provides DJ, MC and lighting services for private and commercial events in Los Angeles.
Employees: none; hires and collaborates with independent contractors.
Financials: Self-funded.
What led you to start this business?
I was born in Russia and grew up mostly in Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in psychology. My mom was 20 when we immigrated, and she later earned a master’s degree from New York University and ran several of her own businesses. Having her as a model of a flexible, independent life inspired me to do the same. In Los Angeles, DJing special events combines my passion for music with my entrepreneurial spirit.
How did you fund it, and how are you funding it going forward?
Booking more gigs has allowed me to purchase more equipment and expand my offerings.
Are there advantages/disadvantages to starting a business in your 20s, and if so, what are they?
I think in our youth we are often less cautious and less attached to security, and this has given me the freedom to pursue a passion project in a way that may have been more difficult later in life. I intended to visit Los Angeles for six weeks, and have been here for the past five years, largely due to the growth of my business.
Do you have a mentor?
I don’t have one specific mentor, but I have been guided and inspired by a lot of different people, from professors and former bosses to friends in the field. Diane Schlactus taught me bookkeeping in the early stages.
Where do you go for advice regarding your business?
There is an organization in Los Angeles called SCORE that offers free business mentoring and affordable workshops for entrepreneurs. I belong to several Facebook groups; LA Wedding Vendors and Creatives and “Being Boss” have been great resources.
Where do you go for professional services (legal help, accounting, etc.)?
I work with Drisa Carrizo at DAC Advisory Services in El Segundo.
How much time/money do you spend on social media for your business?
During my first year, I spent around 20 hours a week on social media. Having established brand awareness, I usually spend five hours a week on social media. My business has grown primarily due to word of mouth and connections made on Instagram and Yelp.
Does social responsibility play a role in your business?
Absolutely. I volunteer at Safe Place for Youth, which provides resources for homeless and at-risk youth in Venice as well as DJ its annual gala.
Do you feel that your business is particularly tailored to the Los Angeles market, or do you feel you could have launched it in another location?
Los Angeles is a city that can host outdoor events all year long, which makes it a great place to run a special events business. We also have a strong DJ culture – there are live DJs at bars, restaurants and even exercise classes.
Do you encounter skepticism from investors because of your age, and if so, how do you handle it?
I was, and continue to be, self-funded.
What do you do for fun?
I spend time with friends. I like to explore the city, see different DJs perform, and have new experiences.
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Does Blake appeal to his readers' faith in the last stanza of “Holy Thursday”?
Here is the poem "Holy Thursday" from Songs of Experience by William Blake:
Is this a holy thing to see,
In a rich and fruitful land?
Babes reduced to misery,
Fed with cold and usurious hand.
Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty!
And their sun does never shine,
And their fields are bleak and bare,
And their ways are filled with thorns;
It is eternal winter there.
For where-e’er the sun does shine,
And where-e’er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.
In a practice test on the SAT Literature Subject exam, I found a question about the last stanza specifically:
In the final stanza, what does Blake appeal to in his readers?
I. Their emotions
II. Their faith
III. Their reason
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) III only
(D) I and III
(E) I, II, and III
The only choice I am completely sure about here is III because it seems logical to have enough food in the place where "the sun does shine" and "the rain does fall" which is not the case in the reality. Also, I can agree with the choice I since the reader can feel pity for those in the poem who lived in poverty and hunger.
However, I can't find a reason why the choice II may be correct. It is understandable that the poem itself does touch the subject of faith, but does Blake appeal to it in the last stanza specifically?
Here is the test explanation for this question:
First, decide which of the Roman numeral item(s) is or are correct. Blake appeals to his readers’ emotions, so item I is correct. Although there is no mention in the stanza of religion, God, or faith, item II, the title “Holy Thursday” implies a religious context, making item II also correct. Blake does call on his readers’ reason, so item III should be included in the answer. Choice (E), which includes items I, II, and III, is the correct answer.
Here, I couldn't find how Blake appeals to faith in the last stanza. Please explain whether the subject of faith is maybe implied in the final stanza or influences it indirectly.
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the title “Holy Thursday” implies a religious context, making ["Blake appeals to his readers' faith"] also correct.
That sentence from the textbook betrays a remarkable lack of understanding of poetry and of Blake's poetry in particular. Just because the title refers to a religious date, doesn't at all mean the author is appealing to his readers' faith. I could write an anti-religious poem and title it "Ascension Day" without ever appealing to my readers' faith. So the deduction as written is definitely wrong.
It's important to be aware that Blake's poetry contains a lot of religious imagery, symbolism, and commentary, which may sometimes seem contradictory: he may viciously attack the church and priesthood (see for example the last two lines of "The Garden of Love" or the entirety of "A Little Boy Lost") while typically portraying God and Heaven as the wonderful things that religion holds them to be (see for example "The Little Girl Found" or "The Chimney Sweeper"). In fact, there is no contradiction, as long as you're able to perceive God as entirely separate from mainstream religion. Blake is able to distinguish between the two in his poetry, mercilessly criticising one without lessening his love for the other. But the existence of a religious context, specifically with reference to Blake, doesn't necessarily imply that he's appealing to his readers' faith. Some of his poetry is brutally cynical about religious things, nearly the opposite of appealing to readers' faith.
With all that said, is he, in fact, appealing to his readers' faith in the final stanza of this poem?
The deduction of no hunger or poverty from the fact of sunshine and rainfall is one that's based more in reason and faith than reality. It seems reasonable that if there are plenty of natural resources, then children don't need to starve. One might believe that this should be the case, that poverty wouldn't be allowed to happen in a world of plenty. But in reality, as we know, the sun does shine and the rain does fall but children are still poor and hungry. Thus, the point of the poem is to argue (appealing to our reason) that poverty shouldn't exist in a "rich and fruitful land", and to make us feel (appealing to our emotions) pity for hungry children and anger that such conditions exist.
How about faith?
It could be argued that the first stanza ("Is this a holy thing to see ...") implies that if the people in our world were more holy, then favourable natural conditions and poor hungry children could never coexist. Expecting us to believe this might be an appeal to our faith: more holiness is what's needed to improve conditions in the world. It could also be interpreted in a less direct way: in an afterlife which is more holy, there would be no poverty. This again appeals to faith. On the other hand, the poem could also be interpreted as a straightforward description of the horrendousness of our society: saying it's not "holy" to have hungry children in a land of plenty, without necessarily implying that a more holy place exists. (Given that it's Blake - and yes, given the title of the poem - I suspect that implication is intended here. But it's possible to understand and interpret the poem without it.)
TL;DR: I and III are true, II could be argued either way but the book's argument is wrong.
Note: all poems referenced in this answer are from Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. It's important to know that many titles are duplicated between these songs, including in fact the one in your question: there's a "Holy Thursday" of Innocence and another one of Experience.
Surely this poem is ironic? The surface argument appears to be, "in a fruitful land where the people are holy, children would not go hungry; but children are hungry, therefore the land is not fruitful." But it's clear that the logic is incomplete: the correct conclusion needs to be "therefore either the land is not fruitful, or the people are not holy. The rhetorical effect of the irony is to strengthen the argument by making the reader spot the error and correct it. – Gareth Rees Oct 15 '18 at 11:13
@Gareth Of course you're right. My argument regarding faith was pretty weak (too early in the morning ...) I've now edited and hopefully improved it. – Rand al'Thor Oct 15 '18 at 11:34
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I found a snake in my house, what now?
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What not to do when you find a snake in your home
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Don’t judge a snake by its colours. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1925967364110991&id=169194919788253
That’s the advice from snake catchers dealing with confused Queenslanders mistaking potentially deadly snakes for more harmless species.
Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers 24/7 took to Facebook this week to remind its followers to always exercise caution if they come across a snake in their home, after being sent a photo of a man holding a small snake by the tail, seeking to get it identified.
They said unbeknownst to him, he was holding a juvenile eastern brown snake.
Brown snakes are among the most deadly in the world, however fatal bites remain uncommon in Australia.
According to the National Coronial Information Service, about 300 people are bitten by snakes in Australia each year, but between 2000 and 2016, only 35 died.
However less than a month ago a man died within an hour of being bitten by a brown snake in Tamworth.
Snake catcher Max Jackson, who uploaded the photograph of the man holding the snake to Facebook, said the man put himself in unnecessary danger.
“A snake that size has full capabilities to come up and bite him, with much faster reflexes than he would be able to react to,” Mr Jackson said.
I’ve found a snake in my house — what now?
Never attempt to kill any snake you find in your home, Mr Jackson said.
Snakes are protected wildlife in Queensland.
Not only are they important in helping to maintain the natural environment, it’s an offence to kill or injure them.
“They’re purely defensive animals. If you corner them and try kill or capture them, especially inside the house, they can’t kick or punch and there’s only one thing they can do and it’s bite you,” Mr Jackson said.
“They’re never going to hurt anyone if you leave it be. They’re not aggressive animals, there won’t be a snake that will chase you down the street.”
Mr Jackson recommended getting in contact with a local and licenced snake catcher and ask them to identify the snake by a picture, remembering to keep your distance.
“If it’s not venomous and you’re comfortable sweeping it out of the house with a broom, that’s fine,” he said.
“But also you’re able to find out if it is venomous and if you do want to get a professional catcher out to get it and relocate it.
“That way you’re not going to put yourself at risk.”
Surprise! Brown snakes aren’t always brown
Despite the name, there’s more to identifying an eastern brown snake than its colouring.
“Brown snakes can be jet black, they can be spotted … the things we need to look for are the body shape and the head shape, and also the colours underneath.
“There’s plenty of brown-coloured snakes that aren’t brown snakes as well.”
Mr Jackson said green tree snakes, despite the name, can come in a variety of colours.
“Although they do often have a bright yellow belly and dark green on top, they can be any colour under the sun, they can be jet black, they can be gold, bright sky blue, they can be red, grey,” he said.
Noosa snake catcher Luke Huntley said he was always wary when told a snake’s species by someone without any knowledge.
“I never assume they’ve identified something right. Nine times out of 10 times if someone tries to identify something they get it wrong,” Mr Huntley said.
Rough-scaled snakes are a dangerously venomous species with strongly neurotoxic venom.
“That snake could’ve whipped out of there and bitten him anytime,” Mr Huntley said.
In another recent case of mistaken identity, Mr Huntley was called out to a house to remove what he was told to be a green tree snake, only to find it was a venomous red-bellied black snake. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1925967364110991&id=169194919788253
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Heng Sao Tian Ya 1922 2017-01-13
Zhang Xuan traverses into a foreign world and becomes an honorable teacher. A mysterious library appears in his mind. As long as it is something he has seen, regardless of whether it is a human or an object, a book on its weakness would be automatically compiled. Thus, he became formidable.
“Emperor Haotian, why don’t you like to wear underwear? To think that you’re still an emperor, can you pay more attention to your image?”
“Fairy Linglong, if you continue to suffer from insomnia, you can always look for me. I have a way with lullabies!”
“You as well, Qiankun Demon Lord, can you cut down on the garlic? Do you want to stink me to death?”
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Chen Yan traveled through time only to end up in Europe of the medieval period, becoming Roland, a Royal Prince. But this world doesn’t seem to be the same as his former world. Witches are real and they really can use magic?
Follow Roland’s battle for the throne against his silblings. Will he be able to win, even though the king already declared him to be a hopeless case and with the worst starting situation? Only his experiences of modern technologies and with the help of the witches who are known as devils’ servants and hunted by the the Holy Church because of that can help him succeed.
Now, let his journey begin.
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The Soaring Dragon Continent is a world of summons, you can only become strong if you become a summoner! Yue Yang, an average high school boy, was suddenly transported into this world. When he woke up, he was greeted with a lot of worried faces and found out that he had assumed another person’s identity. Turns out he’s the good-for-nothing third son of the Yue Family, who had just recently drowned himself because of a failed engagement. Unlike the third son of the Yue Family who was useless in summoning, Yue Yang succeeded in making a contract with a summoning grimoire on his first try, even when the other guy failed for the past fifteen years. Others would have a headache making contracts with beasts afterwards, but countless beasts tried to gain favour with Yue Yang instead, acting like a good kid before him.
Yue Yang the brat, however, didn’t feel grateful at all: “Scram, Mythical Beasts! Do you think you are cool like that? Go away from me now, I only like beautiful summons!”
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10 restaurants to head to for authentic Peranakan food
Our picks for the best Nyonya food
Posted: 12 Nov 2019 08:30 Updated: 12 Nov 2019 09:10
Defined by its tangy, aromatic, and spicy flavours, Peranakan food is almost guaranteed to make your mouth water. Plus, it brings back memories of warm, hearty dinners as the whole family convenes at the grandparents’. The Peranakans are the descendants of Chinese immigrants who came to the Malay archipelago between the 15th and 17th century, and their cuisine is characterised by a blend of Chinese ingredients with Malay and Indonesian techniques and spices. Here are 10 restaurants in Singapore that do it best.
This story first appeared on City Nomads.
Godmama
Godmama, housed in the newly-refurbished Funan mall, is the brainchild of Peranakan co-owners Christina Keilthy, Derrick Chew, and Fredric Goh. Armed with a knack for classic and modern interpretations of Peranakan fare, Godmama dishes out the good stuff (think heirloom recipes like Assam Babi (S$18.90) and Sotong Masak Hitam (S$20.90)) alongside inspired cocktails. The restaurant gets its namesake because most of the recipes are inherited from both Christina’s mother and godmother, yum!
Godmama is located at #04-07, Funan, 107 North Bridge Rd, Singapore 179105, p. +65 6970 0828. Open Sun-Thu 10am – 10pm, Fri-Sat 10am – 12am.
Indigo Blue Kitchen
A personal tribute dedicated to his grandmother, Indigo Blue Kitchen is a heritage project of sorts by Les Amis Group Chairman Desmond Lim. A recollection of flavours from a bygone era, Indigo Blue Kitchen invites its guest to gather around the table and share a communal dining experience with comforting Peranakan classics as it aims to recreate the tender feeling of dining at home with family. Indigo Blue Kitchen’s signature egg skin Heritage Poh Piah (S$32++), made with a traditional family recipe, is definitely a must-try for all diners.
Indigo Blue Kitchen is located at #03-09/10/11, Shaw Centre, 1 Scotts Rd, Singapore 228208, p. +65 6235 3218. Open Tue-Sun 12pm – 3pm, 6.30pm – 10pm. Closed Tue.
The Peranakan
Executive Chef Raymond Khoo and his team prepare very authentic Peranakan recipes lovingly handed down by their ancestors. It is also the only restaurant to offer the grand Peranakan feast “Tok Panjang“, typically served by wealthy Straits families in the past to mark special occasions. If you can’t get enough of Peranakan cuisine, specialty Nyonya cakes and desserts are also available for takeaway so that you can enjoy them any time.
The Peranakan is located at Level 2 Claymore Connect, 442 Orchard Rd, Singapore 238879, p. +65 6262 4428. Open daily 11am – 10pm.
Candlenut
The Michelin-starred Candlenut is helmed by Chef Malcolm Lee, who discovered his love and passion for Peranakan cuisine since a young age in his mother’s kitchen. As expected, all the rempahs (the spice paste that makes up the base of Peranakan cuisine) he uses are prepared from scratch without any MSG or preservatives, combined with a contemporary approach to the cuisine, resulting in creations such as Red Lion Snapper Fillet with Black Green Mango Sambal (S$32++) and Westholme Wagyu Beef Rib Rendang (S$36++). It’s no wonder Candlenut is the first Peranakan restaurant in the world to win a star.
Candlenut is located at 17 Dempsey Rd, Singapore 249676, p. 1800 304 2288. Open Mon-Thu, Sun 12pm – 3pm, 6pm – 10pm, Fri-Sat 12pm – 3pm, 6pm – 11pm.
Violet Oon Singapore at Bukit Timah
Local culinary celebrity Violet Oon has opened plenty of restaurants around Singapore, but why not try her award-winning food where it all started? The household name brings all her years of expertise and knowledge to the kitchen, resulting in legacy dishes that are cooked the old way without compromising on flavour and aroma. Take a bite of the slow-braised Babi Pong Tay (S$18) pork belly or the signature Aunty Nanny’s Daging Chabek (S$36) – beef cheek braised in a rich tamarind gula melaka gravy. Before you leave, satisfy your sweet tooth with the Bubur Cha Cha Panna Cotta (S$10), generously loaded with sweet potato and yam.
Violet Oon’s Kitchen is located at 881 Bukit Timah Rd, Singapore 279893, p. +65 9781 3144. Open Tue-Sun 12pm – 10.30pm. Closed Mon.
Guan Hoe Soon Restaurant
Guan Hoe Soon is the restaurant of choice for an unpretentious, no-frills Peranakan meal. Ever since its opening in 1953, Guan Hoe Soon has been serving affordable Peranakan fare to its diners and it has now been passed on to the third generation. The restaurant is best known for its Ayam Buah Keluak (S$16.80), Sayor Lodeh (S$11.80), and Udang Assam Pedas (S$15.80). It goes without saying that the restaurant gets very packed at night, so do make reservations if you’re planning to dine here to avoid disappointment.
Guan Hoe Soon Restaurant is located at 38/40 Joo Chiat Place, Singapore 427762, p. +65 6344 2761. Open Mon-Fri 11am – 3pm, 6pm – 9.30pm, Sat-Sun 11am – 3pm, 5.30pm – 9.30pm.
Straits Chinese Restaurant
Straits Chinese Restaurant is a restaurant managed by the previously-mentioned Guan Hoe Soon Group, serving up traditional Peranakan fare in a much more modern setting. Sink your teeth into Peranakan classics like the tangy Udang Assam Goreng spiced with tamarind, and the rich Itek Tim, duck soup with salted pickles. Straits Chinese Restaurant is also known for their catering services, so if you’re looking to impress, you know who to call – and we don’t mean the Ghostbusters.
Straits Chinese Restaurant is located at 133 Cecil St, #B1-01 Keck Seng Tower, Singapore 069535, p. +65 6225 8683. Open daily 11am – 3pm, 6pm – 9pm.
The Blue Ginger
The Blue Ginger is a crowd-favourite among Peranakans in Singapore for its intricately designed interior, ornate furnishings, and overall nostalgic feel. It’s pretty much like a home-cooked family meal. Start off with the traditional Kueh Pie Tee (S$8) prepared with bamboo shoots, turnips, and shrimp, and the signature Duck Salad (S$12.50), smoked and served with a zesty plum sauce. For a true Peranakan experience, try the Nyonya Fish Head Curry (S$32) consisting of a red snapper head, okra, and egg plants stewed in a traditional home-style curry.
The Blue Ginger is located at 97 Tanjong Pagar Rd, Singapore 088518, p. +65 6222 3928. Open daily 12pm – 3pm, 6.30pm – 10.30pm.
Baba Chews
Baba Chews is a stylish Peranakan restaurant located in the former Joo Chiat Police Station, paying homage to the Peranakan culture of the Katong neighbourhood. Baba is an honorific term for Peranakan males and Chew Joo Chiat was the wealthy landowner of the area. The all-day diner serves up a diverse menu of modern cuisine with strong Peranakan influences, coupled with quality brews from Common Man Coffee Roasters and TWG Tea. Dishes to try include the Chilli Crab Tagliatelle (S$20), Pork Belly Char Siew Rice (S$19), and Peranakan Pulled Pork Burger (S$20).
Baba Chews is located at 86 East Coast Rd #01-01 Katong Square, Singapore 428788, p. +65 6723 2025. Open Sun-Thu 6.30am – 11pm, Fri-Sat 6.30am – 12am.
Step into PeraMakan and be transported into a world of nostalgia with a gorgeous setting and intricate Peranakan tableware, including an ornate rice-serving bowl modelled after those used in the olden days. As fantastic as the savouries on the menu are, PeraMakan is also well known for its impressive desserts. Indulge in the Durian Pengat (S$6), or the Apom Berkuah (S$6) – sticky rice pancakes served alongside warm banana sauce.
PeraMakan is located at 10 Bukit Chermin Rd, Keppel Club, Singapore 109918, p. +65 6377 2829. Open daily 11.30am – 3pm, 6pm – 10pm.
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A Luxury Masai Mara Safari with Angama Mara
By Jennifer Dombrowski 14 Comments
It was Kenya’s vast savannas where African wildlife adventures were born. Safari is the Swahili word for journey. Though it was mostly about the thrill of the hunt when Europeans arrived on the continent for wildlife adventures in the 1800s, their expeditions gave way to the modern safari as we know it today. Kenya was the Africa of storybooks. And Angama Mara was practically born out of one of those storybooks with its creation inspired by the true story of Karen Blixen.
Africa is never not alluring, and a safari is often the trip of a lifetime for most travelers. Having been on more than one safari ourselves, it’s a trip we firmly believe is best experienced on a tailor-made luxury safari where you call the shots when it comes to your itinerary. Angama Mara delivers exactly that for a magical trip to Kenya’s Masai Mara.
Angama Mara sits on the hill from Out of Africa overlooking the Masai Mara
Angama Mara: A Luxury Tented Safari Camp
Angama Mara is a special place. The independently owned and operated luxury tented safari camp is located in an idyllic setting in the Masai Mara National Reserve. It’s set inside the Mara Triangle, the stretch of land that makes up one-third of the Masai Mara National Reserve and is divided from the rest of the Masai Mara by the Mara River. The camp sits on an escarpment 1000 feet above the Mara floor.
But not just any escarpment – the very one where the stunning scenes in which Karen Blixen and Denys Finch Hatton share a picnic and where {spoiler alert} Meryl Streep eventually delivers her eulogy after Denys’ death in Out of Africa. You couldn’t ask for a more romantic setting perfect for any couple or a safari honeymoon.
Looking out over the Masai Mara stretching as far as the eye can see, Angama Mara has magical birds-eye views of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. Africa’s big game wildlife like elephants and giraffes, easily the easiest to spot from up at Angama Mara, wander the grassy plains below. The dark green forest that hugs the Mara River is easily spotted from Angama’s clifftop vantage point.
A Mara sunrise is like nothing you’ve ever seen before
And though most mornings you’ll already be on the Mara floor as the sun rises and the Masai Mara comes to life, it’s worth spending at least one morning watching a sunrise from up at Angama. It’s like watching a dream sequence as the morning mist hangs low to the plains. The silhouettes of the hot air balloons and the unmistakable shape of acacia trees are dark contrasts as though an artist painted them on a blazing orange canvas.
It’s such a spectacular setting that you almost don’t want to leave Angama itself. Almost. After all, the Masai Mara lions, elephants, giraffes and hundreds of other species you’re about to discover all await in the magical Mara.
On a game drive with Angama Mara in the Masai Mara, Kenya
Angama Mara Activities
Of course, going on a Masai Mara safari is about seeing the big game animals that can only be found in Sub-Saharan Africa. While we can never get enough of game drives, there’s a whole host of activities you can do at Angama Mara if you don’t want to spend every waking second watching wildlife. From picking your own salad in their shamba to learning a Maasai dance over sundowners, Angama keeps guests entertained with many options for activities both at camp and in the Masai Mara.
A real life Simba and Nala in the Masai Mara National Reserve
Game drives, or what safaris are known as in Africa, are the highlight of any trip to Sub-Saharan Africa. Angama Mara guests have their own personal guide throughout your stay, and guides work with you to ensure you see and do what’s on your Masai Mara bucket list.
The ostrich is the largest living bird and one of 470 species of birds found in the Masai Mara
For some, that might mean checking off all of Africa’s Big Five: the lion, elephant, Cape buffalo, rhino and leopard. For others, the Masai Mara is a birder’s paradise with more than 470 bird species recorded in the Masai Mara National Reserve. For us, we want to see everything from the big to the small since we were previously lucky to check off the Big Five on safari in Tanzania.
But no matter what it is that you hope to see, Angama guides will do their absolute best to seek out those animals for you during your private Masai Mara safari. The guides are incredibly knowledgeable, and you’ll come away learning a lot about the behaviors of your favorite animals.
Masai Mara National Reserve is open from 6:30am – 6:30pm. While it’s best to enter the park right at 6:30am for wildlife viewing when the animals when are at their most active during the cool mornings, you design your time at Angama Mara.
You can plan full day game drives and take both a picnic breakfast and lunch to have in the park. Or opt for half day game drives with breakfast in the park. You can even go out on multiple game drives each day, as we did. We enjoyed leaving early and then returning to camp for lunch, some relaxation and maybe a midday nap, then heading out again for a late afternoon game drive.
Zebras are everywhere in the Masai Mara
We love the big cats, and the Masai Mara delivers plenty. There’s various resident lion prides and aside from the animals like zebra and impala which are everywhere, it’s lions that you’re likely to encounter most often on safari.
The key to catching lions doing something other than sleeping is to go out on game drives at sunrise or late in the afternoon. Otherwise, for the most part, lions sleep in the shade of trees for about 20 hours per day.
This young male lion had lost his pride in the tall grass of the Masai Mara
Those early mornings can be oh-so-worth getting up well before the sun. On our first morning at Angama Mara, we could hear a lion calling somewhere below the camp in the dark as we got ready to leave. Sounds at camp can be a bit deceptive though since sound carries across the Mara plains, and a lion’s roar can be heard up to 5 miles away. But just after we got down to the Mara floor, we saw a young male looking around and calling for his pride.
The call of lion who lost his pride is heart wrenching
He’d walk a few steps, stop, call and look all around. The grass was so tall in the Masai Mara when we visited in late February because the wildebeest that help keep it short have followed the rains to Tanzania in the Great Migration. This makes life a little bit harder for the lions.
Finally we, or we should say our fantastic guide Jackson, spotted the rest of the pride. One of the other pride members climbed up on a log so he could see around better in the tall grass.
It was like something out of a movie as the eyes of the two young male lions met. The lion up on the log jumped down to re-join the other two and then all three rushed toward their lost pride member.
It’s a happy reunion as the young pride all reunite
After a happy reunion, the pride went off together, disappearing back in to the tall grass
As the four young males came together again on the dirt road just in front of us, it was all nuzzles and playful pounces. They were clearly happy to be re-united. It was a Mara moment that just made your heart feel full.
One of the big cats we only got a brief glimpse of on our safari in Tanzania was the cheetah. Jackson drove us all the way to the Tanzania border where cheetah are often spotted hunting on the open plains.
An unsuccessful hunt and the hot midday sun means nap time for this cheetah
The cheetah was hunting when we first found him. But the birds and warthogs he stalked lived to see another day. As it was getting quite hot at midday, the cheetah gave up and found a patch of shade under a tree to take a nap in.
The cheetah can’t rest easy since he’s at the bottom of the food chain when it comes to predators
It wasn’t a very restful sleep. There was a pride of lions sleeping under a tree only a few hundred meters from the cheetah. The cheetah slept with his head up to appear aware, and woke up often to check all around him. It’s when watching these behaviors that you realize just how hard life is, even for the big cats.
Even though the cheetah is the fastest land animal on earth, speed is its only weapon. Cheetah actually aren’t very strong and are at the bottom of the food chain when it comes to the African predators.
There are 49 black rhinos in the Masai Mara according to a survey by the Mara Conservancy
Rhinos were the other animal that we saw in Tanzania, but only from a distance in Ngorongoro Crater. Jackson knew of a mating pair and we managed to see them fairly up close. The mating pair doesn’t stay together for long, only about a week or two. Perhaps the Mara will have a black rhino calf in 15-16 months.
The pair wallowed in a mud hole and it was impressive how a pair of such large rhinos could practically disappear. It was also funny to watch the courtship, because even female rhinos want to be wooed a bit before getting down to business and making babies.
Adult male elephants wander solo until they are ready to mate
Elephants are a common sight in the Masai Mara. It’s the males that like to wander solo until they’re ready to find a mate. The herds are made up of mothers, aunts and the young elephants. The young males leave the herd when they are around 3 – 4 years of age.
Young elephants play-fight
The young elephants in the herd are particularly playful. They often play-fight and we were captivated by a group of youngsters wrestling and tussling while the moms and aunts grazed nearby.
Elephants can become very aggressive while experiencing musth
We learned from Jackson that one of the signs of a male elephant being ready to mate is an elephant experiencing musth, a sort of thick tar-like secretion from their temporal glands. When bulls are experiencing musth, they’re more aggressive as their testosterone levels can increase up to six times that of other elephants. We steered clear of a large male on the move and clearly in musth.
The chameleon has a hilarious walk where they rock back and forth before slowly taking each step
It’s not just about the big game animals, either. One of our favorite sightings we never even expected was a neon green chameleon. It just happened to be crossing the road and it’s hilarious to watch them with their odd walk. They love to live in acacia trees and on the rare occasion you find one out in the open, they do this odd slow walk while rocking back and forth to attempt to mimic how a branch blows in the wind.
The Nile crocodiles in the Masai Mara are the largest in Africa
While the wildebeest have followed the rains to the Serengeti Plains on the constant cycle of the Great Migration in February, the crocs are year round residents of the Mara River. We visited one of the most well-known spots where the wildebeest cross the Mara River. It’s here that National Geographic, Animal Planet and photographers often capture the scenes of the wildebeests’ daring crossing. Sadly, many are snatched up by the waiting crocodiles.
It’s the Nile crocodile that lives in the Masai Mara, and here they are recorded to grow larger than anywhere else in Africa. After the salt water crocodile, the Nile crocodile is the second largest species of crocodile. In the Mara, they typically range in size from 9 – 16 feet in length and can weigh between 70 – 700 kilograms (150 – 1500 pounds).
We also saw dozens of types of deer and antelope, oodles of warthogs, zebra and paid a visit to one of the many hippo pools. Every game drive is a new adventure and you never know what you might come across.
Sundowners are a tradition on African bush safaris
Sundowners with the Maasai
These days sundowners are a tradition on African bush safaris. But as with everything on the luxury safari in Kenya with Angama Mara, simply enjoying a gin & tonic at the lodge while the sun sets simply won’t do.
Guests gather on Angama Mara’s sunset hill while the sun paints the sky with the soft brushstrokes of a watercolor. A drink in hand like the safari classic G&T, which was introduced to East Africa by the British armed forces in the 19th century, is a perfect way to end a day in the Masai Mara.
It’s not long before the sounds of Maasai songs fill the cool night. Their music is incredible and unique; they use no instruments and their songs are by voice only with a melody of clicks, calls and guttural vibrations. The tribe put on a show of songs, dance and a jumping contest before inviting us guests to join in.
It’s energetic and definitely works up an appetite as you jump and dance along with the Maasai tribe.
The family-style bush barbecue is set in the boma
Bush Barbecue in the Boma
While it’s hard to choose a favorite of the experiences at Angama Mara, the weekly family-style bush barbecue is definitely a contender. As with the menus that offer a lot of variety when it comes to the food itself at Angama, the variety of dining locations available is impressive.
A lantern-lit path leads guests into Angama’s boma, which is typical of the Maasai tribes. They build a circular fence around their small community to help protect them and their cattle from predators and other tribes. Fires and lanterns lit up the picnic-style tables as night fell.
Some of the meal, like the salads and side dishes, is served family-style at each table. Guests have a choice for the main course, and it’s cooked to order and served to each guest individually. The bread, which is wound around long sticks and cooked over the grill, is also presented for each guest to pull off the stick.
Towers of mini desserts and cheese await back at the lodge, along with Kenyan coffee or tea, as guests arrive back from the boma.
The Shamba farm-to-table experience is enjoyed with a meal right in the garden and overlooking the Masai Mara
The Shamba
The Shamba, which is Swahili for vegetable garden, is Angama Mara’s 1-acre veggie patch. The Shamba is just one of Angama’s sustainability practices that sets them apart from other Masai Mara safari lodges. It’s just a short walk from the main lodge and a lunch experience in the beautifully landscaped garden is a must.
Guests are invited to help pick their salad in Angama Mara’s Shamba
One of the Shamba keepers meets you at the passion fruit arbor with a basket and scissors in hand. You don’t just enjoy a fresh lunch of salads and veggies in the Shamba, you help pick it while learning about the spiral design.
Shamba keepers like Ignatius help guests pick a delicious salad
We didn’t even know so many types of lettuce alone exist. We cut different varieties, along with edible flowers and some veggies like peppers as we wound our way through the garden with Shamba keeper Ignatius guiding us.
The Shamba lunch experience includes a picnic hamper with cheese, couscous and a bottle of rosé
A table is set up in the shade of the moth trees and it’s quite literally farm-to-table as everything you pick is washed and prepared right there. Some other dishes like the delicious carrot hummus that was so good I had to request the recipe, couscous and fresh baked bread and cheeses are brought in a picnic hamper from the kitchen to accompany the salad. It’s all served with a refreshing bottle of rosé wine and enjoyed between the Shamba and another lovely viewpoint over the Masai Mara.
Sunrise Hot Air Ballooning
One of the most magical things we did during our time at Angama Mara was a sunrise hot air balloon flight over the Mara River. It’s one of the activities offered at an additional cost, and it’s well-worth the price tag and extra-early wake-up call.
We’ve been hot air ballooning all over the world, including being married in a hot air balloon. It will be hard to top this experience of drifting low with a birds-eye view over hippos grunting in the Mara River, herds of elephants and giraffes grazing, and seeing some predators like lions and hyenas on early morning hunts.
A Masai Mara Balloon Safari Needs to Be on Your Bucket List
The flight ends with a champagne bush breakfast near the landing site, where some curious giraffes came to check us and our breakfast out.
Angama Mara sits high on an escarpment overlooking the Masai Mara
Angama Mara Camp
Angama Mara is a boutique luxury Masai Mara lodge with just 30 guest tents that is family-owned and operated. The stand-out difference from other luxury Masai Mara tented camps is their uniquely personal service.
The camp itself is made up of central guest area that includes a pool, photography studio where you can both rent equipment or get safari photography instruction from a resident in-house photographer, Maasai bead workshop and small gift shop divides the property into two guest camps. The two guest camps are known as the north and south camps, with 15 luxury tents each and their own lodges, kitchens and staff.
During the daytime, guests are free to walk about the entire camp on their own. At night, as the camp isn’t fenced, guests are escorted by guards as animals do wander in.
Each main lodge at the North and South camps have a stunning view over the Masai Mara
Angama Mara: The Main Lodge
Both the north and south camps has its own main lodge and library that is the center of everything. It’s here that guests dine, relax, enjoy a cocktail, meet their guides for activities and check-in and out.
Guests are welcomed with a cold local craft beer
Upon arrival, the team that will assist you during your stay including your camp manager and butler are waiting. The first order of business isn’t paperwork, but instead getting you a refreshing drink like a cold local craft beer, glass of wine or soda.
The library for guests to read, watch Out of Africa or just relax outside of their tents
Out of Africa played a role in the inspiration for the owners creating Angama Mara, and guests can even watch Out of Africa in the library. There’s also a selection of books about Africa for guests to borrow during their stay.
Though it’s possible to have meals right in your own tent, we thoroughly enjoyed going to the lodge each evening. There’s rarely any other time that you see Angama guests out and about, but it’s at dinnertime when everyone returns and excitedly compares the day’s game drives and activities.
A spicy shakshouka for breakfast
Chicken parmesan with a cold Tusker beer for lunch
The food at Angama Mara follows the principle of being simple, yet delicious. The menu changes daily and offers a variety of selections, including vegetarian options, for breakfast, lunch and dinner. We were impressed with the variety and quality, as it isn’t easy because of the remote location.
Angama is all about their guests, and offered up sharing recipes for some of our favorite dishes like the chicken and eggplant parmesan, spicy shakshouka and carrot hummus that we loved. Their collection of recipes could be a cookbook with over 400 recipes for everything from homemade sauces to desserts.
The Angama Mara guest tents offer game spotting right from the decks
The Luxury Canvas Tents
The canvas tents at Angama Mara offer a luxury glamping experience with queen size beds, en suite bathrooms and game viewing opportunities right from your deck. The tents are canvas with some fixed walls around the en suite bathroom. Each tent sits on the edge of the escarpment and the entire front is glass with a deck stretching across the entire length.
Our tent with bed, sitting area and separate bath and shower
The bathroom includes a double vanity with outlets
There’s a queen size bed, sitting area, a desk equipped with a power strip for charging up all your cameras and devices and a separate bath and walk-in shower with 24/7 hot water supplied by Angama’s solar energy. The double vanity has outlets and Angama provides a hairdryer, eco-friendly soap flakes for washing out smaller laundry items in your room and locally made bath products.
There’s also some essentials like insect repellent and a flashlight supplied in the room, along with an air horn in case of an emergency and a cell phone in case you need to call your butler.
Sitting on the deck and taking in the view with an afternoon G&T
There’s also in-tent coffee and tea making facilities. A mini-bar is stocked to your preferences with water, soda, wine and alcohol like beer or gin as per the form you fill out prior to your arrival. There’s also some books guests are welcome to read while staying at Angama, and a pair of binoculars for rocking chair safaris from the deck.
Wifi is located throughout the camp, including in the guest tents. Though with views like this of the Masai Mara, it’s not hard to put down your phone and just take it all in.
Drifting over a herd of elephants while hot air ballooning in the Masai Mara
What’s Included at Angama Mara
Angama Mara is among the best of the best when it comes to Masai Mara camps. It’s not a fully all-inclusive African safari, but a safari with Angama is pretty close. The per night rate, which ranges from $1250 per guest per night in the standard season to $1775 per guest per night in peak season includes:
all meals and drinks including alcoholic drinks (excluding French champagne)
transfers to and from Angama Mara Airfield or Kichwa Tembo Airstrip
all guided game drives in the Mara Triangle
There are a few exclusions from the per night rate at Angama Mara, including the Masai Mara park fees:
Maasai Mara park fees, currently $80 per person per 24 hour period
$10 per person per night contribution to the Angama Foundation
Maasai community visits
in-tent massages
Angama Mara is one of the Masai Mara lodges that welcomes children on safari from the age of 6. Angama does have family tents available that are interconnected tent suites. There are also babysitting services included from 6pm – 10pm.
No two giraffes have a coat exactly with the same pattern as another
The Best Time to Visit Masai Mara
The great thing about the Masai Mara is that it is safari destination teeming with wildlife year round. With the exception of the wildebeest that constantly follow a migration pattern following the rains from Kenya to Tanzania and back again, all other wildlife remains in the Masai Mara year round.
If you want to see the wildebeest migration, the best time to visit Masai Mara is from June to October when the wildebeest return. However, realize that this is peak season in the Masai Mara, with July and August being the busiest months. Rates will be higher and it can get a bit crowded.
October is considered one of the best months to visit Masai Mara National Reserve. The days are still filled with sunshine, the wildebeest migration is still going on, the grass is still short and the crowds have gone home.
The rainy season is actually noted by two rainy seasons: the long rains and the short rains. April is, on average, the rainiest month in the Masai Mara when the long rains return. May and August are also rainy months. The short rains come in November and December.
January and February are dry months, though short showers can still occur. The grass is tall during this period as the wildebeest returned to Tanzania by November, making smaller wildlife a bit harder to spot.
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Masai Mara weather is dependent on the precisely where in the you’re visiting. Different climatic conditions consist throughout the national reserve. Generally, daytime temperatures average around 25°C/77°F year round and nighttime temperatures cool off to 12°C/54°F.
Getting ThereBooking
Angama Mara is located in the Masai Mara National Reserve. There are daily flights with Air Kenya and Safarilink from Nairobi to Masai Mara. There is not a central Masai Mara airport, and instead the flights make multiple stops at various airstrips located throughout Masai Mara National Reserve. Angama Mara is served by their own airstrip and can be booked by selecting “Mara – Angama” on the booking sites.
Angama Mara can be booked directly by inquiring via their website, sending an email to [email protected] or calling them at: US : +1 615 524 6198 UK: +44 1865 981 311 KE: +254 730 630 630
Our trip to the Masai Mara was in partnership with Angama Mara in order to bring you this story. However, Luxe Adventure Traveler maintains full editorial control of the content published on this site. As always, all thoughts, opinions, and enthusiasm for travel are entirely our own.
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Very useful information for those interested in going on a Safari expedition. By the way, I had no idea that Safari means journey in Swahili. My husband and I are planning a trip to Africa in August and were debating whether we should do a train trip, or go on our own. Kenia is one of the countries we want to visit, so thanks for sharing this information.
Elaine Masters says
Wonderful post about your luxury safari. Loved reading about the lost young lion and the warm reunion with his mates. I’d definitely be getting up before dawn to take advantage of every bit of wildlife viewing and the hot air balloon would be an ecstatic experience. Would have to adjust to G&T though!
Carol Colborn says
Such a comprehensive post on doing a Luxury Safari in Kenya at Masai Mara. Love your awesome photos of the Big 5 and more!!!
Jennifer Dombrowski says
Well, four of the Big Five. Try as our guide Jackson did to look in every tree, we never did find the leopard. But that’s the thing with wild animals – you never know what you might encounter. Others staying at Angama on the same days as us did see the leopard, so it often really is about being in the right place at the right time.
I had no idea that Safari was the Swahili word for journey. That is rather cool.
The landscape of Masai Mara looks stunning. Generally I just think animals when I think of a safari. Angama mara really does look like the perfect place for the magical birds eye view of the Great Rift Valley.
But along with that landscape there are the animals! Seeing lions, elephants and giraffes in the wild would be so amazing. Plus I love your zebra photo, so cute.
The landscapes are just a awe inspiring as all the animals and birds you see in the Masai Mara. There’s no doubt why this is one of the greatest wildlife destinations on earth.
This is my dream trip! I’m totally up for an early wake up call for the opportunity see those magnificent lions moving about, as well as the other animals as they begin their day on the Masai Mara. Your photos are beautiful – you saw so many incredible animals! Angama Mara look simply amazing, I’ll have to bookmark that location for our future African safari trip.
And these are really only a fraction of the photos we took and the animals we saw! The Masai Mara is truly incredible.
Rhonda Albom says
Angama Mara looks like it has it all when looking for a safari in Kenya. This is the kind of glamping I could really get into. Your photos of the wildlife are stunning.
Thanks Rhonda! Angama is definitely a step above glamping.
Tom Bourlet says
The Masai Mara National Park just looks amazing, we can’t wait to visit in October. I’d be happy to see any animals, but hoping to see all of the big five, but as you point out, there are a huge amount of birds I should keep an eye out for. The cost is the scary part at the mo, the price per night does seem scarily high!
October will be a nice time to be in the Masai Mara. The wildebeest migration is still going on, but it’s the tail end of the peak tourist season. Yes, the cost of a safari is high – which is why it’s the trip of a lifetime for most. You can do a safari for less, but you have to weigh the cost savings on a budget safari with the experience you’ll be getting. We personally prefer to spend more and strongly believe it’s worth the splurge when it comes to a safari. The intimate, curated experience is entirely different than a budget safari that can feel like a crowded bus tour.
sherianne says
A tailor-made luxury safari sounds perfect! That sunrise over Masai Mara is like a dream. Your images are amazing, the pride reuniting and the cheetah yawning, such great memories
Suruchi says
Wow! What a unforgettable experience it is. The customised Safari with personalised guide by Angam Mara sounds perfect. The Masai Mara is beautiful and you can see such a variety of animals and birds there. Your sunset picture with silhouette and animal pictures are too good.
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Something Inked Show Recap: What We Learned From Buyers in the Sports, Music and Entertainment Promotional Markets
By Brendan Menapace
This past week, we had the fun opportunity of attending the Something Inked show in Las Vegas, where promotional products suppliers met with end-buyers from around multiple exciting promotional markets, such as sports, music, entertainment and more.
What stood out to us at a show like this was the size. Being used to the giant, industry-wide shows like the PPAI Expo, a show that fit in one smaller room and with buyers from a smaller pool of verticals, we could zero in a little closer on what these specific types of potential customers are looking for.
Here were some of our main observations from the show floor:
1. Think outside the stadium
When you're working with a sports team or a school, your initial thought as a distributor might be to sell something that they can use as a promo giveaway in the stadium. That's definitely a part of these transactions, but it shouldn't be your only focus. Think about the franchise overall. They are made up of much more than just the team in the stadium. Countless employees need to go to work in embroidered shirts. They want to carry their important documents in nice laptop bags or backpacks. Most of the buyers at the show were easily identified thanks to apparel with a logo. It's easy to forget that the team's logo is also their company's logo.
2. Remember, they're fans, too
You're the distributor, so there's no denying that you know promotional products inside and out. But, when you're working with a marketing director or merchandise buyer for a sports franchise, remember that they likely applied for that job in the first place not because of promo items, but because they grew up a fan of the team. Multiple marketing people from NHL, NBA and MLB franchises told us that just because their team is their employer doesn't make them any less of a fan. Because of this, you should ask what they think the fans are looking for. Who would know better than a fellow supporter, right?
3. Loyalty and relationships are still paramount
We've beaten this point into the ground by now, but we're going to keep talking about it because it bears repeating. For these end-buyers, there are plenty of vendors who can offer a cotton T-shirt, a foam finger or a gym bag. But, they tend to stick with the ones they genuinely like, even if others might be more competitive price-wise. So many of these orders require speedy turn-arounds. So, if the end-buyer knows they can trust the distributor to get it there on time and make sure it's exactly what they want, they're probably inclined to go back for repeat orders.
In addition to the insight into the sales side of this particular category of verticals, we learned about how the nature of a show like this—one that focuses on building personal relationships in addition to professional ones—can make a huge difference for attendees on both side of the trade show booth.
"Everything is based on relationships," said David Schneiderman, vice president of marketing services for Something Inked. "When you can connect a vendor and a client together and not have to worry about either of them being loyal, it truly is a major win. By having them talk about what they want or are looking for in a product saves a massive amount of time in delivering what the client ultimately wants."
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Traces of products of Pauli matrices
Given a matrix $M$ of shape $2^L*2^L$, I would like to compute all the traces $\text{Tr}( M.(\sigma^{n_1}\otimes\sigma^{n_2}\otimes\ldots\otimes\sigma^{n_L})) $ for $n_1=1...4$, $n_2=1...4$, ..., $n_{L}=1...4.$, where $\sigma^n$ are the Pauli Matrices for $n=1..3$ and the identity for $n=4$. I can do this for specific values of $L$, but how do I write a function of $M$ and $L$ only that will perform this computation?
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$\begingroup$ Recalling that there is the PauliMatrix function implemented in Mathematica and you can exploit new in ver.9 tensor capabilities this task should be simple enough. In any case see closely related posts Contracting with Levi-Civita (totally antisymmetric) tensor and Using the epsilon tensor in Mathematica $\endgroup$ – Artes Apr 22 '14 at 16:45
You could define a function that constructs the product of Pauli matrices as follows. I use KroneckerProduct here because you are planning to form the matrix product with a $2L\times2L$ matrix, so we have to have the Pauli matrices arranged in a corresponding block matrix:
pauliProduct[n_] := Module[{l = Length[n]},
Total@MapIndexed[
KroneckerProduct[
DiagonalMatrix[
UnitVector[
l, #] & @@ #2],
PauliMatrix[#]] &, n]
MatrixForm[pauliProduct[{1, 2, 3, 4}]]
$$\left( \begin{array}{cccccccc} 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & -i & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & i & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & -1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 1 \\ \end{array} \right)$$
This has dimension $2L$, where $L$ is the length of the list $\{n_1, \ldots, n_L\}$. Then doing the trace with your matrix is easy with Tr, and the final thing is to loop over all possible lists.
The matrix above has all the 4 matrices of your basis in a row as blocks on the diagonal because I chose the list of indices to be {1, 2, 3, 4}.
Here I define a function that collects the results for all possible Tuples of indices from the range {1,2,3,4}. Although you asked for it to be a function of the matrix and $L$, it really doesn't need $L$ as an extra argument because we can assume that the matrix is of dimension $2L$. So let's just define the desired function like this:
traces[m_] :=
Table[{n, Tr[m.pauliProduct[n]]}, {n, Tuples[{1, 2, 3, 4}, Length[m]/2]}]
As an example matrix, I simply choose one of the outputs of pauliProduct itself:
m = pauliProduct[{2, 1}];
Now compute all possible traces for $L=2$:
traces[m]
==> {{{1, 1}, 2}, {{1, 2}, 4}, {{1, 3}, 2}, {{1, 4}, 2}, {{2, 1},
0}, {{2, 2}, 2}, {{2, 3}, 0}, {{2, 4}, 0}, {{3, 1}, 0}, {{3, 2},
0}, {{4, 4}, 0}}
I wrote it so that it outputs the list of indices together with the result for the trace in one list.
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'Any Human Heart' sur l'Internet
Matthieu le Sam 10 Avr 2010 - 11:59
La page vient enfin d'être créée : IMDb.
Re: 'Any Human Heart' sur l'Internet
Matthieu le Mar 13 Avr 2010 - 14:26
Any Human Heart on TV.com
Matthieu le Mar 4 Mai 2010 - 17:35
A suivre sur Twitter : Any Human Heart.
Just waiting for Matthew Macfadyen to cross the street and start his job in naval intelligence. Looks good in his wavy navy uniform!
Matthieu le Mer 5 Mai 2010 - 12:01
Page spéciale sur le site de Carnival Films.
An epic story is embarked upon by an epic cast in the much-anticipated adaptation of William Boyd’s best-selling novel, Any Human Heart, for Channel 4. The four-part drama is led by Oscar winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Longford), Matthew Macfadyen (Frost/Nixon, Criminal Justice), and newcomer Sam Clafin, who all take on the role of writer Logan Mountstuart at different stages of his ordinary and yet extraordinary life. A life which spans every decade of the twentieth century.
From the idealism and naivety of Logan’s student years at Oxford, to love and heartache, the birth of his first child, scandal in the New York art scene in the ‘50s and ‘60s, to the horrors of war; Logan’s life and loves intertwine with a myriad of historical events and figures, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Ernest Hemingway and Ian Fleming, to produce an exceptional portrait seen through the eyes of one man.
Kim Cattrall, Gillian Anderson, Tom Hollander, Natasha Little, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ed Stoppard and Samuel West are amongst the star-studded cast. Michael Samuels (The Curse of Steptoe, Mrs Mandela) will direct. Lynn Horsford (Boy A, The Mark Of Cain) and Lee Morris (Enid, My Zinc Bed, The Damned United) will produce, with Sally Woodward Gentle (Enid, Whitechapel) as executive producer for Carnival Films.
Matthieu le Jeu 26 Aoû 2010 - 13:36
Site officiel sur Channel 4.
Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and Sam Claflin take on the lead role of Logan Mountstuart in William Boyd's adaptation of his best-selling novel. From one man's emotional, tumultuous and unpredictable journey through the 20th century comes a funny, moving and ambitious four-part drama, coming to Channel 4 in 2010.
Told through Logan's intimate journals - beginning with the idealism and arrogance of his youth, through triumphs and tragedies to the calm wisdom of his twilight years - his story reveals that all our lives are ultimately random and defined by luck and seemingly inconsequential choices.
Hayley Atwell, Natasha Little, Emerald Fennell, Ed Stoppard, Samuel West and Kim Cattrall star alongside Gillian Anderson and Tom Hollander as the lovers, wives, friends and infamous figures he encounters throughout his ordinary and yet utterly extraordinary life.
Matthieu le Sam 6 Nov 2010 - 14:54
Le site ne fonctionne pas encore mais le nom de domaine a bien été déposé le 5 juillet 2010 par General Electric Company [merci à DL].
www.anyhumanheart.co.uk
Matthieu le Jeu 11 Nov 2010 - 4:38
Any Human Heart | Universal Playback [merci à DL] :
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Any Human Heart mini featurette
Marina le Ven 12 Nov 2010 - 13:15
Mise à jour du guide des épisodes sur le site officiel de Channel 4 (épisodes 1 et 2 pour l'instant).
The story begins with Logan, played by Jim Broadbent, an old man in his 80s who, having suffered a heart attack, begins to put his life in order. On going through his diaries he is taken back to his 1920s university days with best friends Peter Scabius and Ben Leeping. The boys are all intent on losing their virginity and place a bet on who will succeed first.
Peter is confident he has found the right girl when he falls for Tess, and Logan takes up with political student Land Fothergill, but loyalties are put to the test when the young Logan has an affair with Tess.
An aspiring writer, Logan is determined to pursue his chosen career after a chance meeting with the charismatic Ernest Hemingway. His first novel is a success and Logan finds himself an agent. But on the rebound from being rejected by Land, he embarks on a whirlwind affair with Lady Lottie Casell and marries her.
Logan soon tires of his role as a society husband and accepts an offer of a journalistic job in Portugal where he meets a beautiful journalist called Freya. They instantly click and as the world prepares for war, Logan is left with a difficult decision - a life with his wife Lottie, or his true love, Freya.
Following an assignment in Portugal, Logan Mountstuart finds himself working as a journalist during the Spanish Civil War where he meets Hemingway again. Shocked by the brutality of war, Logan realises he must make a choice between Freya and Lottie. Logan's return to England heralds a new start.
Meanwhile, Tess and Peter's marriage is falling apart and despite Logan's intervention he doesn't manage to convince Peter to make it work and tragedy ensues.
Impressed with his reporting on the War, Ian Fleming recruits Logan as a British agent where he travels to Portugal to keep an eye on the Duke and Duchess of Windsor who have been flirting with the Nazis.
Logan's next assignment takes him to the Bahamas to keep tabs on the couple. However, not long into his stay he is embroiled in the murder investigation of Harry Oakes. Logan suspects something sinister is afoot and realises he should not have made enemies of the Duke and Duchess.
Finally, Logan travels to Switzerland, where he is required to pose as a Uruguayan businessman in order to trap escaping Nazis, but upon landing, he is immediately arrested and put into solitary confinement. The days pass with no news but finally, in 1945, he is released to discover the war is over. On his return back home he is faced with tragic news, something that will surely change Logan's life forever.
Matthieu le Jeu 18 Nov 2010 - 17:22
Nouvelle mise à jour du site de la série sur Channel 4 : Video extras, avec une interview des principaux acteurs. Matthew Macfadyen apparaît dans chacun des 8 clips vidéo disponibles !
Les interviewes sont celles réalisées par Helen James, dont on reconnaît la voix.
Matthieu le Ven 19 Nov 2010 - 20:57
Nouvelle mise à jour du site de la série sur Channel 4 : More content, incluant une biographie de l'acteur.
Le site http://www.anyhumanheart.co.uk/ se met en branle.
Matthieu le Mar 23 Nov 2010 - 18:35
Kif kif...
Mise à jour du guide des épisodes sur le site officiel de Channel 4.
Logan Mountstuart is a student at Oxford in the 1920s, aspiring to become a great novelist but even more desperate to lose his virginity.
Seemingly trapped by a promise to his dying father to join the family corned beef company, a chance encounter with Ernest Hemingway re-ignites his literary passion.
But when true love really does hit him, how will Logan cope when faced with the fact that life is random and uncontrollable?
Working as a journalist during the Spanish Civil War, Logan confides in Hemingway, knowing he must make decisions about Freya and Lottie.
With the outbreak of WWII, Logan is recruited as a British Agent by Ian Fleming. Foreign assignments lead to encounters with the formidable Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Although the world is in turmoil, Logan's domestic life is bliss. Freya and Stella, their daughter, are thriving and it seems at last that Logan understands the meaning of true love.
Following a failed suicide attempt after the tragic deaths of Freya and Stella, Logan has found success in the art world of New York where he is remarried to Allanah.
On the surface he seems to have the perfect life with Allanah and her young daughter, but he can't come to terms with his loss and the sudden death of his mother takes him back to London where he buys a flat in Pimlico and meets Peter's third wife Gloria.
Logan recovers from his accident and is released from hospital, but times are hard for him and he has to be resourceful in an attempt to live what remains of his life to the full.
For a time he earns a small wage working with an anti-fascist organisation until he discovers that they are rather too closedly connected to the Baader-Meinhof group.
Restless and unhappy in London, Logan decides to move to France where he has inherited a house from his friend Cyprien Dieudonne.
French life suits him and he quickly adapts to become part of the community. It isn't long before Logan's romantic interests also take a turn for the better with the arrival of a new neighbour, Madame Gabrielle Dupetit.
Any Human Heart sur le site d'Hamilton Hodell.
Matthieu le Mar 14 Déc 2010 - 19:55
PBS Pressroom - CLASSIC "Any Human Heart"
La série sera diffusée (aux USA) en 3 épisodes d'une heure et demie.
Deux nouvelles vidéos sont en ligne sur le site de Universal Playback.
Matthieu le Jeu 6 Jan 2011 - 21:39
Le site officiel de 'Any Human Heart' sur Masterpiece est désormais en ligne (mais encore en construction).
Matthieu le Jeu 10 Fév 2011 - 7:30
Mise à jour cette nuit du site Masterpiece PBS.
Luce le Mar 23 Aoû 2011 - 14:09
The Kim Catrall Archives : 685 captures d'écran DVD de Gloria avec Logan.
Matthieu le Mar 23 Aoû 2011 - 14:26
Mais je t'avouerai que, pour ma part, je n'ai pas du tout la religion des captures d'écran à outrance : c'est tellement mieux de regarder directement le film. Les stills, c'est autre chose : il y a un photographe derrière.
Matthieu le Sam 9 Juin 2012 - 7:25
Any Human Heart sur le site de la chaîne australienne W Channel.
Ne pas manquer le profil de l'acteur, avec un portrait inédit.
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Within the group a small youth club and ‘messy play’ have been set up. We also raise funds for further training opportunities for education and medical professionals who support our children and young people throughout South East Wales. However our main fund raising activity has been our May Charity Ball, held every other year. During the Ball (also open to people outside our group), we hold an auction which gives an extra boost to our fundraising.
The Prince’s Trust
The Prince’s Trust helps disadvantaged young people aged 13 to 30 in the UK who are unemployed or struggling at school...
The Prince’s Trust helps disadvantaged young people aged 13 to 30 in the UK who are unemployed or struggling at school. We help young people to transform their lives and get into jobs, education and training. Many of the young people we help are in or leaving care, facing issues such as homelessness or mental health problems or have been in trouble with the law.
Our programmes give young people the practical and financial help needed to stabilise their lives. We give support to build skills and confidence through a range of proven, high-quality education and training schemes which help young people to recognise their strengths and develop key life, workplace and education skills.
We believe that, with the right support, all young people can find the confidence, strength and skills to help them realise their potential. We help vulnerable young people to stay in school, get a job or start their own business.
Three in four young people we support move into a positive next strep of work, education or training. Since 1976 we have helped over 825,000 young people. Last year alone we worked with over 58,000 young people and we continue to help 100 more every day.
The Prince’s Trust Cymru works with over 3,000 young people in Wales each year, providing them with the tools they need to succeed. With dedicated teams working from three offices in Cardiff, Llangennech and Rhyl, we’re well-placed to meet young people’s needs right across the country.
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Thrive Cardiff is a self-funded, registered charity run entirely by Parents and Volunteers. Thrive Cardiff helps support children and families with disabilities...
Thrive Cardiff is a self-funded, registered charity run entirely by Parents and Volunteers. Thrive Cardiff helps support children and families with disabilities. We do not receive any funding from local government and work hard to be able to self-fund our activities and events. Our aim is to offer our very special children, their siblings and families a protective arena where they can play in an exclusive, non-judgmental and supportive environment without prejudice. Without Thrive our children would not have the chance to play and develop as lack of public awareness and understanding prevents them from accessing mainstream recreational activities. We do our very best to ensure that our children don’t miss out on the things that other children perhaps take for granted.
We offer informal support in a positive non-judgmental environment and offer weekly play sessions and holiday activities that cater for the whole family. We seek to reduce the feeling of isolation, depression and lack of self-confidence that parents of disabled children often feel. By supporting us you are helping to raise much needed funds to enable us to continue to provide disabled children with opportunities for play and recreation and allow Thrive Cardiff to continue to offer the regular soft play session throughout Cardiff and the Vale for the foreseeable future.
Touch Trust
Touch Trust is a registered charity based in Cardiff, at the iconic Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay...
Touch Trust is a registered charity based in Cardiff, at the iconic Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay. We provide unique educational and movement programmes for disabled adults and children and other vulnerable groups in the community. Each week over 160 disabled adults and children access Touch Trust sessions in Cardiff Bay. In addition to these sessions, we have a provider membership across Wales. Our Provider Members are adult day services, schools, hospices and residential care homes across Wales. We train and support our Provider Members to deliver our unique programme and this means that an additional 800+ adults and children access Touch Trust in Wales each week. Our programme is sensory based and follows a set structure from which our trained and experienced session leaders can tailor the activities to meet the specific needs of our guests.
We offer a range of one to one, small group work and large group work sessions. The aim of each session is that our guests have a strong sense of achievement; are better able to communicate feelings; have improved self esteem and sense of identity; have fun and learn new skills. We work with some of the most disabled people living in communities across Wales. Each guest will be supported by a carer within their session. In addition to our regular sessions, we also deliver a number of creative projects which focus on developing our guests access to art. We run these sessions regularly throughout the year.
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Google Goes Into Uber Drive: Once An Investor, Google Now Signals It Wants to Switch Lanes
Just when we thought Uber couldn’t encounter any more road hazards … here comes Google. But who could have guessed? Probably Sun Tzu, the 6th century BCE Chinese philosopher and author of the still-read “The Art of War.” “The most significant threat to the app-based transportation company may be much closer to home: one of … Read More
By Mike Randazzo
Just when we thought Uber couldn’t encounter any more road hazards … here comes Google.
But who could have guessed? Probably Sun Tzu, the 6th century BCE Chinese philosopher and author of the still-read “The Art of War.”
“The most significant threat to the app-based transportation company may be much closer to home: one of its biggest investors, Google,” charges Bloomberg in a recent exclusive.
Is Google now going into “uber drive” and signaling it intends to switch lanes?
“Google Ventures, the search giant’s venture capital arm, invested $258 million in Uber in August 2013. It was Google Ventures’ largest investment deal ever, and the company put more money into Uber’s next funding round less than a year later,” notes Bloomberg. “Now there are signs that the companies are more likely to be ferocious competitors than allies. Google is preparing to offer its own ride-hailing service, most likely in conjunction with its long-in-development driverless car project.”
Is nothing safe from the clutches of Google? Go ahead and Google that. You’d be surprised.
For instance, “Google has made no secret of its ambitions to revolutionize transportation with autonomous vehicles,” according to Bloomberg. “CEO Larry Page is said to be personally fascinated by the challenge of making cities operate more efficiently. The company recently said the driverless car technology in development within its Google X research lab is from two to five years from being ready for widespread use.”
Executives at Uber are deeply concerned, according to Bloomberg reporters.
“Google is a deep-pocketed, technically sophisticated competitor, and Uber’s dependence on the search giant goes far beyond capital,” the story explains. “Uber’s smartphone applications for drivers and riders are based on Google Maps, which gives Google a fire hose of data about transportation patterns within cities. Uber would be crippled if it lost access to the industry-leading mapping application, and alternatives— such as AOL’s MapQuest, Apple Maps, and a host of regional players—are widely seen as inferior.”
While Uber sends out a flood of city-sized Hondas and Subarus to tackle urban transportation, Google may look like the oncoming Range Rover with road rage.
Well, as the old adage goes: “Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” That’s Sun Tzu, by the way.
We will soon see which one Uber thinks Google might be.
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Better Together: Restoring the American Community
0.0 0 5 Forfatter: Robert D. Putnam,Lewis Feldstein
In his acclaimed bestselling book, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam described a thirty-year decline in America's social institutions. The book ended with the hope that new forms of social connection might be invented in order to revive our communities.
In Better Together, Putnam and longtime civic activist Lewis Feldstein describe some of the diverse locations and most compelling ways in which civic renewal is taking place today. In response to civic crises and local problems, they say, hardworking, committed people are reweaving the social fabric all across America, often in innovative ways that may turn out to be appropriate for the twenty-first century.
Better Together is a book of stories about people who are building communities to solve specific problems. The examples Putnam and Feldstein describe span the country from big cities such as Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago to the Los Angeles suburbs, small Mississippi and Wisconsin towns, and quiet rural areas. The projects range from the strictly local to that of the men and women of UPS, who cover the nation. Bowling Alone looked at America from a broad and general perspective. Better Together takes us into Catherine Flannery's Roxbury, Massachusetts, living room, a UPS loading dock in Greensboro, North Carolina, a Philadelphia classroom, the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, naval shipyard, and a Bay Area Web site.
We meet activists driven by their visions, each of whom has chosen to succeed by building community: Mexican Americans in the Rio Grande Valley who want paved roads, running water, and decent schools; Harvard University clerical workers searching for respect and improved working conditions; Waupun, Wisconsin, schoolchildren organizing to improve safety at a local railroad crossing; and merchants in Tupelo, Mississippi, joining with farmers to improve their economic status. As the stories in Better Together demonstrate, bringing people together by building on personal relationships remains one of the most effective strategies to enhance America's social health.
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The Comparatist
Comparative Literature Today: Methods and Perspectives (review)
Jeanne J. Smoot
Volume 21, May 1997
10.1353/com.1997.0019
THE COMPAKATIST their declaration of"the death ofeverydiing" (7), as well as their indulgence (by way ofcritical theory) in "meaningless intellectual games" (8). Other proposals for bringing comparative literary study into a broader multicultural perspective include "refounding die humanities on the sciences," developing a semiotic method for cross-cultural study, and using an intertextual approach to contextualize the heterogeneity ofvarious Latin American literatures. The theoretical and methodological differences between the essays in this volume and the ACLA report edited by Bernheimer reveal that defining me current status of comparative literature is fraught with many polemical negations and contestations. The subject clearly needs furtherjudicious study and discussion. Christine Kiebuzinska Virginia Polytechnic andState University YVES CHEVREL· Comparative Literature Today: Methods andPerspectives . Trans. Faruda Elizabeth Dahab. Introd. Gerald Gillespie. Kirksville MO: The Thomas Jefferson UP, 1995. xv + 111 pp. Yves Chevrel intended this work to be a follow-up to a volume ofthe same title written by M.-F. Guyard in 195 1. The Guyard text went through six different editions and for many years was a major reference. Chevrel is unlikely to fill mat void. While he outlines die impact ofvarious French theoreticians ofthe discipline of comparative literature from the 1960s through the 1980s, his work lacks the breadtii and depth expected in treatises on comparative literature today. Chevrel limits his discussion largely to Gallic and German sources. The bibliography at die end ofhis text, while helpful, is in chronological order, with no cross-referencing by author or title. Thus, its utility is diminished. There is no index to the volume. Chevrel's analysis, in a competent translation by a former student, runs only seventy-six pages. The book is fleshed out with two earlier essays, one originally published in a Frenchjournal and illustrating the importance ofcomparative studies that focus on a single year ofliterary activity, the other a discursive look at how the city has been depicted in twentieth-century literature. The date ofthis latter essay is not given. Chevrel, a former officer ofdie International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), correlates various trends in comparative literary criticism with ICLA conferences and research projects through the years. His knowledge ofinternational research centers, while almost exclusively European-based, is also helpful. His best analysis emerges in his treatment oftranslations, when his practical side considers such things as the typography ofa translation or its political impact. While erudite and urbane, Chevrel's perspective remains Eurocentric. As he comes closer to the present day, he sometimes becomes decidedly more tentative, as he does when discussing feminism, which he treats in a one-page section, labeled "A Feminine Writing?" Chevrel has the difficult task ofmoving through uncharted waters. As he explains , the influence studies ofthe past—once the mainstay ofGallic comparatism —have yielded to structuralist, semiotic, or otiier perspectives. While he stresses the Vol/. 21 (1997): 175 BOOK NOTES need to keep an open mind about what lies ahead, he seems to long for absolutes. Tentativeness, as already mentioned, or pedanticism, as he struggles to define comparative literature and its metiiodology, seem to be the Scylla and Charybdis through which he navigates. As he veers toward Charybdis, he writes such words as "Comparatists do not claim to study essentially die relation ofthe creator to his work—which is die concern ofother specialists . . ." (73). His defining comparative literature negatively hurts what should be vibrant and free intellectual inquiry. He also runs the risk oftruisms with statements like, "It is . . . vital to read the texts in the original," or "the comparatist should have active knowledge of two or three languages ..." (14). One would have expected Chevrel to have been a bolder navigator in his exploration ofthe discipline. Nevertheless, the introduction to the volume by ICLA president Gerald Gillespie is extremely laudatory, and suggests that Chevrel is simply writing for a broader audience. Jeanne J. Smoot North Carolina State University BEATRICE MARTINA GUENTHER The Poetics ofDeath: The Short Prose ofKleist andBalzac. Albany: The SU of New York P, 1996. 216 pp. Scenes ofdeath abound in the short fiction ofKleist and Balzac, but Guenther's study does not focus on a thematic study ofthe kinds ofdeath portrayed. She concentrates instead on die narrative structure ofthose scenes and their significance for the...
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Lucy Dacus shares new track “Fool’s Gold” off upcoming EP
John Hutchings November 7, 2019 Headline News, News, Single Leave a comment
Marking the final installment from her 2019 EP, out November 8th on Matador Records, Lucy Dacus has shared New Years-inspired original song “Fool’s Gold”.
An arresting showcase of Dacus’ emotionally incisive songwriting, “Fool’s Gold” sees rhythmic acoustic guitar and Lucy’s crystalline vocals sketch with poignant brushstrokes the latent ambiguity and soul-searching that often accompanies this period of the year, moving deftly to a chorus of goosebumps-inducing emotional gravitas.
“I started writing ‘Fool’s Gold’ the moment after the last person left a New Year’s Eve party I hosted in 2018,” says Dacus, “I did what I said – drank the last of the champagne alone, felt anxious, and locked the door behind everyone. New Year’s has grown to be my favorite holiday, and this may be my favorite song on the EP.”
Following the release of her widely-acclaimed sophomore album, Historian and the collaborative boygenius EP with Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers, Dacus has spent this year rolling out a festive mix of original and cover songs tied to various holidays, including Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Independence Day, Bruce Springsteen’s Birthday, Halloween, Christmas and New Years. Recorded in here-and-there studio spurts over the last two years, Dacus uses her gift as a songwriter to help understand and cope with the world around her, including making sense of notable dates and national holidays. “What is going on,” she asks herself on these days, retreating from heightened expectations to find her own meaning. “I’ve collected some songs from trying to answer that question,” she says, and “this series seems like the right place to put them next to each other. These songs are self-contained, not indicative of a new direction, just a willingness to do something different and sometimes even out of character.”
From the poignant refrain of “My Mother and I”, to the spirited take on “Dancing In The Dark”, politically-charged lyrics of “Forever Half Mast” and spooky atmosphere of “In The Air Tonight”, 2019 is a captivating body of work that foregrounds Lucy’s versatility as both a knockout cover artist and pre-eminent young songwriter voice of today.
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Via Farmworkers, Superbugs Find a Route Away from Drug-Using Farms
September 21, 2014 By Maryn Leave a Comment
Pig farms from the air. Image: Maryn McKenna
One of the persistent questions regarding antibiotic use in meat production, and its effect on the health of humans who live far away from production farms, is: How do the resistant bacteria that result get from one place to another? That is: Most people accept by now that using antibiotics in livestock-raising causes drug resistance to emerge in the systems of those animals, in their guts or on their skin. But whether those newly resistant bacteria leave the farm, and how they make the trip, is both fought over and—despite much investigation—still under-researched.
Some studies have shown that bacteria can move off farms in groundwater, on the feet of flies, and via dust on the wind. What is insufficiently explored—because it is difficult to get large meat-production facilities to cooperate—is whether farm workers themselves are serving as a transport vehicle.
A new study just published (and open-access, so anyone can read it) helps to answer that question. It looks at the possibility that workers on large hog farms are carrying away drug-resistant staph or MRSA, and especially a type of resistant staph — known familiarly as “pig MRSA” and more technically as “livestock-associated MRSA” — that emerged on hog farms a decade ago and is directly linked to farm-drug use.
(If you’ve been visiting Superbug the blog for a while, you might remember pig MRSA; the story of its discovery in a Dutch farmer’s daughter 10 years ago also was told for the first time in Superbug the book. If it’s a new concept to you, you might be interested in this archive here.)
The new study finds that hog farmers are carrying multi-drug resistant livestock-associated MRSA away from the farm and — this is the crucial bit — that their bodies are hanging onto those bacteria, in a way that might allow them to spread, for up to 14 days.
Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: MRSA, North Carolina, ST398
Denmark: Three Deaths from Drug-Resistant "Pig MRSA"
May 12, 2014 By Maryn Leave a Comment
Image: ICStefanescu (CC), Flickr
A troubling and also kind of odd story came out of Denmark this weekend. In a court proceeding, a microbiologist has disclosed that three residents of the country who had no known connection to farming died of MRSA infections caused by ST398, the livestock-associated strain of drug-resistant staph that first appeared among pig farmers in the Netherlands in 2004 and has since moved through Europe, Canada and the United States.
If the report is correct — and sources have told me it is, but I’ve seen no data to confirm it — it reinforces the concern that bacteria which become resistant because of antibiotic use on farms can move off farms and affect the health of people who have no connection to farming.
Livestock MRSA has always one of the best cases for establishing that, because the drug to which it showed the greatest resistance, tetracycline, wasn’t used against human MRSA in the Netherlands, but was used routinely on farms — so the only place the strain could have picked up its unique resistance pattern was in pigs. (Here’s my long archive of posts on pig MRSA, dating back to my book Superbug where the story was told for the first time.)
Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: agriculture, antibiotics, Denmark, food policy, food safety, MRSA, netherlands, Resistance, ST398
Almost Three Times the Risk of Carrying MRSA from Living Near a Mega-Farm
January 22, 2014 By Maryn Leave a Comment
In the long fight over antibiotic use in agriculture, one of the most contentious points is whether the resistant bacteria that inevitably arise can move off the farm to affect humans. Most of the illnesses that have been associated with farm antibiotic use — resistant foodborne illness, for example — occur so far from farms that opponents of antibiotic control find them easy to dismiss. So whenever a research team can link resistant bacteria found in humans with farms that are close to those humans, it is an important contribution to the debate.
A team from the University of Iowa, Iowa City Veterans Affairs, and Kent State University have done just that. In next month’s Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, they survey 1,036 VA patients who lived in rural Iowa and were admitted to the Iowa City facility in 2010 and 2011. Overall, among those patients, 6.8 percent were carrying MRSA, drug-resistant staph, in their nostrils. But the patients’ likelihood of carrying MRSA was 2.76 times higher if they lived within one mile of a farm housing 2,500 or more pigs.
Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: animals, antibiotics, colonization, food policy, hogs, MRSA, Science Blogs, ST398
More on MRSA on Farms and in Farm Workers, and the Arguments for and Against
July 12, 2013 By Maryn Leave a Comment
Photo: ROIrving/ Flickr
In my last post I promised to catch up on some of the other research that has been published on the flow of MRSA (and other resistant organisms) between farm animals and farm workers as a result of farm antibiotic use.
Before I do that, though, I want to nod toward two other great pieces published on this. First, Mark Bittman examined this issue closely at the New York Times. And Clare Leschin-Hoar also covered the new research at Take Part. (Bonus: Don’t miss her dissection of the news that a National Geographic photographer was arrested in Kansas after taking pictures of a feedlot — from the air.)
Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: agriculture, animals, antibiotics, food, food policy, food safety, hogs, MRSA, Science Blogs, ST398
"Pig MRSA" Carried by Workers from North Carolina Intensive Hog Farms
July 5, 2013 By Maryn Leave a Comment
Pig farms from the air. Maryn McKenna,
I saved this post until today to allow everyone to get their holiday hot dogs guilt-free. Now that’s over: An important study has just been published which makes a close connection between the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the use of antibiotics on large-scale conventional hog farms. Bonus: It involves the resistant bacterium MRSA ST398 (known in shorthand as “pig MRSA”), which is widespread in Europe but up to this point has been found mainly in only one state in the US, Iowa. With this paper, the count rises to two(see Update): The study subjects in this paper are hog-farm workers in eastern North Carolina.
A quick explanation of why this is important: “Pig MRSA” is a particular strain of drug-resistant staph that is slightly different from the hospital and community (sports, gym) varieties. It was first spotted in the Netherlands in 2004, in the toddler daughter of pig farmers and in the family’s pigs. Since then, it has spread widely across Europe, not just in agriculture, but in healthcare and in everyday life, and has also been found widely in retail meat.
The question of whether livestock production’s use of antibiotics causes antibiotic-resistant bacteria to move into the wider world is much argued-over, and pig MRSA, or ST398 to be polite, is crucial to that dispute. That’s because, unlike most resistant bacteria, it has a genetic signature that makes an inarguable link back to farm drug use. More on that below. (If you want more, here’s an archive of my posts on ST398; the story of its emergence in 2004 and what happened afterward is told in my 2010 book SUPERBUG.)
Now, the study. Quick summary, with more unpacking to follow: Researchers checked livestock-farm workers in North Carolina to see whether they were carrying staph, and also drug-resistant staph. The workers formed two groups: one group worked at conventional hog operations, which routinely use antibiotics, and the other group at antibiotic-free farms. Both groups carried staph and also drug-resistant staph, which would be expected; about 30 percent of the population carries sensitive staph and about 4 percent carries the drug-resistant form. But, the key difference: Workers from the conventional, antibiotic-using farms were many times more likely to carry staph with the specific signature of farm-drug use.
That illuminates a potential occupational risk to the workers — and it also suggests that the workers could be a channel for that farm-influenced bacterium to move off the farm.
Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: agriculture, animals, antibiotics, food, food policy, food safety, hogs, MRSA, North Carolina, Science Blogs, ST398
To Prevent MRSA In Hospitals, Don't Prevent Only MRSA
Practically since the multi-drug resistant bacterium MRSA became a public health issue in the 1960s, health care has been arguing over how best to prevent its spread — particularly in hospitals, where the bug first became a problem and where the most vulnerable patients are concentrated. The camps break down, more or less, into procedures which look for MRSA specifically, and procedures which reduce the risk of spreading any pathogen in the hospital environment. The MRSA-specific strategies, popular in Europe and in some health-care systems in the US, involve checking patients to see who is carrying the bacterium, and then taking extra care with those who are positive, usually by isolating them within the hospital and making sure health care workers wear protective gear when they encounter them. The more general ones involve mandating actions, usually but not always things that health care workers do — such as washing their hands more regularly and bathing patients with disinfectant — which will reduce the risk of not only MRSA transmission but of any other pathogen as well.
The back and forth between these views has been intense and prolonged; most of the infectious-disease meetings I’ve attended over the past 6 years have staged some sort of debate between representatives of the two sides. In the United States, the “active detection and isolation” strategy (often just called “search and destroy”) has been ascendant; among other things, it has been written into law in at least nine states, and adopted by the VA healthcare system. It has been demonstrated to work (though that demonstration was later challenged), but it is costly in staff time and also in equipment, since detection is usually done by molecular methods; and isolation has been shown to be rough on patients as well.
In the latest round — though given the contentiousness of this debate, probably not the last — a strong study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, describing a careful trial of both systems, establishes that the non-specific strategy works better to reduce not just MRSA, but hospital-associated infections of all kinds.
Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: CDC, MRSA, Science Blogs
News From The Road: No Drugs, Few Strategies, But A Little Good News On Antibiotic Resistance
April 28, 2013 By Maryn Leave a Comment
So, hi, constant readers. Sorry, didn’t mean to disappear for quite that long. I’ve been on the road, first teaching for a week at the University of Wisconsin as their Science Writer in Residence, and then in New York to attend the annual meeting of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, where I received the June Roth Memorial Book Award for Superbug. (Plus, in between those two, I recorded an episode of the Virtually Speaking Science podcast with Tom Levenson, which you can find here, about the looming post-antibiotic disaster; and an episode of Skeptically Speaking with Marie Claire Shanahan, which you can find here, about the emerging story of H7N9 flu; and got tangentially involved in the Boston bomber manhunt.)
While I was offline, a far amount of news happened. In the next few days, I’ll do my best to catch up. Here’s a start, all on infections and antibiotic resistance.
Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: antibiotics, HAI, IDSA, Iowa, MRSA, Resistance, Science Blogs
Gene Sequencing Pinpoints Antibiotic Resistance Moving From Livestock to Humans
March 28, 2013 By Maryn Leave a Comment
The antibiotic era was barely 20 years old when people started raising concerns about using the new “miracle drugs” in agriculture. Penicillin first entered use in 1943, streptomycin in 1944, tetracycline in 1948 — and by 1965, the United Kingdom’s Agricultural Research Council was hearing testimony that organisms common in food animals, especially Salmonella, were becoming resistant to the antibiotics being used on the animals while they were alive. By 1969, the UK government had compiled an official report outlining the danger, and by 1973, a task force of the US Food and Drug Administration had concurred, and concluded the only safe action was to withdraw approval to use antibiotics in animals. (At which, as we now know, they would never be successful.)
The policy difficulty regarding this long-recognized problem has never been the emergence of resistant bacteria on farms; no one seriously disputes that resistance emerges whenever antibiotics exert selective pressure on bacteria, killing the vulnerable and opening an ecological niche into which the surviving not-vulnerable can expand. The sticking point has been the difficulty of proving that those resistant bacteria depart from farms, cross to humans, and cause resistant illness in them. Stuart Levy demonstrated it in 1976, on an experimental farm plot he set up just to make the proof. Most of the rest of the research, though — and after decades, there are hundreds of pieces of research — has been observational and retrospective: Looking at the drugs administered to populations of animals (about which we have very little data), measuring the antibiotic-resistant illness that arises in the human population, and making increasingly sophisticated backward matches between the resistance factors that show up in humans and the drugs that are deployed primarily on farms.
Demonstrating the bacterial traffic prospectively and experimentally, as Levy did, is challenging not just logistically but also ethically. It is difficult to imagine a study design that could trace specific animals, their meat, and their eaters in a large group of free-living humans; and unless you have volunteers, as Levy did, the study would push ethical boundaries as well. But having that lack of definition in the middle of the animal-to-human bacterial flow permits uncertainty — which proponents of continued ag antibiotic use exploit.
A new study of Danish farmers and their livestock may have ended that uncertainty. It is still retrospective, but its observations — using whole-genome sequencing — are so fine-grained that their tracing of the bacterial traffic seems to me to be difficult to challenge.
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Livestock MRSA Found For First Time In UK Milk
December 26, 2012 By Maryn Leave a Comment
This paper almost slipped by me. It was published quietly a few weeks ago, and it’s a little eyebrow-raising. From EuroSurveillance, the open-access peer-reviewed bulletin of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (Europe’s CDC): The ST398 strain of MRSA, better known as “livestock-associated MRSA” or just “pig MRSA,” has been found for the first time in milk in England. (And therefore probably in cows, or at least on farms.)
Apparently there has been an ongoing study looking for any evidence of MRSA in UK cows, possibly because of this news from last year (of which more in a minute). Between last January and July, the program tested 1,500 samples of milk from farms’ bulk tanks — that’s the cooler in which milk from a number of cows is collected until it can be picked up by a truck for processing — and found seven of the samples were contaminated by MRSA. All seven isolates were MRSA ST398, the livestock-associated strain. Three came from one farm, so five farms had MRSA in their tanks. According to the paper, this is the first discovery of ST398 in the UK other than one finding in horses in 2009.
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News Round-Up: Sausage, Soil, Skeeters, Camping, China, Chimps And Other Hazards
August 31, 2012 By Maryn Leave a Comment
This has been my week: Oh, wow: I should write about that. No, wait — that. Damn, new news; I’ll blog this paper instead. Except, hold on — this one is great too…
So to solve my indecision before the week ends, here you go: Most of this week’s most interesting news, in round-up form.
Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: agriculture, antibiotics, China, counterfeit, drugs, food, food policy, food safety, foodborne, meat, MRSA, Reuters, russia, Science Blogs, South Korea, TB
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Drawing heavy influence from Green Day and blink-182 early on, pop-punk quartet All Time Low formed in the suburbs of Baltimore, MD, in 2003 around singer/guitarist Alex Gaskarth and guitarist Jack Barakat. The two soon added bassist Zack Merrick and drummer Rian Dawson to round out their energetic pop-punk sound and rowdy live show, which often included silly string and beach balls. Honing their skills between homework and other teenage commitments, the guys managed to tour across the East Coast and South during school breaks. They released the four-song EP The Three Words to Remember in Dealing with the End through the local label Emerald Moon in 2004 and followed up with a full-length, The Party Scene, a year later. Touring nationwide that summer, the band found itself on bills with similar-minded acts like Motion City Soundtrack, the Early November, and Plain White T's. Along the way, All Time Low also bumped into fellow pop-punkers Amber Pacific, who brought the young band to the attention of their label, Hopeless Records. The label was immediately impressed, and All Time Low were officially part of the Hopeless family by March 2006, just a few months before they graduated from high school. Finally done with schoolwork to concentrate full-time on music, the group issued Put Up or Shut Up -- a seven-song EP that mostly featured new recordings of older material -- that July. Now able to tour freely, the band supported the release on a handful of summer Warped Tour dates before subsequently hitting the road nationwide with Amber Pacific.
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GBSS Idol Final – June 3, 2016
The 2016 GBSS Idol round one competition kicked off at the high school in February with 22 musical acts, the 5th season of IDOL. Groups, duos and solo
Summer Camp Bursaries 2016
The Foundation was able to provide 10 full bursaries for children in 2016. Introducing children to singing and acting in a peer setting helps them deal with all
Friends of the Library Concert Series
Summer 2016 The Foundation was happy to step in and fund this years Sunday evening concert series put on by The Friends of The Library. More than 500 people attended
Meaford Summer Concerts 2016
Summer Night Concerts in Market Square The Foundation was happy to help fund the first “Meaford Summer Concerts 2016” starting with Canada Day, followed by three more free concerts on Friday
Events for Life
The card from the Events for Life participants says it all. Events for Life is an organization for developmentally-challenged youth and adults. The Foundation was especially pleased to cover the cost of theatre and
Meaford Summer Arts Program
Meaford Summer Arts Program, held from July 18 to 22, 2016 was a resounding success. The program is run by retired women teachers who volunteer their time and expertise in
Sandcastle Theatre “Peter Pan the Panto”
This year’s production included 24 children, 20 teenagers & adults. The cast was a wonderful, enthusiastic and talented group, from Meaford and the surrounding area. For just over 14 weeks
Kids in the Meaford Hall present “The Grinch”
“Thanks to the Meaford Hall & Culture Foundation for your support of The Grinch. We were really happy with this year’s play and in many ways it was our best of the
“Racing to Zero” from the “Youth and Zero Waste” project
The Foundation provided funding so that the film “Racing to Zero” from the “Youth and Zero Waste” project could be shown at Meaford Hall free of charge to local students.
Arsenic and Old Lace- April 23, 2016
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Group-Orthogonal Multicarrier CDMA
Xiaodong Cai, Shengli Zhou, Georgios B. Giannakis
In the presence of frequency-selective multipath fading channels, code-division multiple access (CDMA) suffers from multiuser interference (MUI) and intersymbol interference (ISI); but when properly designed, it enjoys multipath diversity. Orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) is MUI-free, but it does not enable the available channel diversity without employing error-control coding. On the other hand, coded OFDMA may achieve lower diversity than a CDMA system employing the same error-control codes. In this paper, we merge the advantages of OFDMA and CDMA to minimize MUI effects, and also enable the maximum available diversity for every user. In our group orthogonal multicarrier CDMA (GO-MC-CDMA) scheme, groups of users share a set of subcarriers. By judiciously choosing group subcarriers, we guarantee that every user transmits with maximum diversity. MUI is only present among users in the same group, and is suppressed via multiuser detection, which becomes practically feasible because we assign a small number of users per group. Performance is analyzed, and simulations are carried out to illustrate the merits of GO-MC-CDMA relative to existing alternatives.
IEEE Transactions on Communications
https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2003.822174
Frequency division multiple access
Multiuser detection
Intersymbol interference
Multipath fading
Multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA)
Multiuser detection (MUD)
Cai, X., Zhou, S., & Giannakis, G. B. (2004). Group-Orthogonal Multicarrier CDMA. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 52(1), 90-99. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2003.822174
Group-Orthogonal Multicarrier CDMA. / Cai, Xiaodong; Zhou, Shengli; Giannakis, Georgios B.
In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 52, No. 1, 01.01.2004, p. 90-99.
Cai, X, Zhou, S & Giannakis, GB 2004, 'Group-Orthogonal Multicarrier CDMA', IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 90-99. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2003.822174
Cai X, Zhou S, Giannakis GB. Group-Orthogonal Multicarrier CDMA. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 2004 Jan 1;52(1):90-99. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2003.822174
Cai, Xiaodong ; Zhou, Shengli ; Giannakis, Georgios B. / Group-Orthogonal Multicarrier CDMA. In: IEEE Transactions on Communications. 2004 ; Vol. 52, No. 1. pp. 90-99.
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ConBravo 2014: D&D Next First Impressions
This is part two of a three part series where Michael reviews his experiences as ConBravo.
I actually didn’t get a chance to play any of the multitude of table-top games available at ConBravo. Sad but true! However, former Spellstorm organizer Dominic Amann was running a newbie table of D&D Next and let me sit in for the first hour to learn the rules and get a feel for the system. I’ve written up some first impressions below:
Simple Is Good
An obvious amalgam of second and third edition, D&D Next does something its predecessors could not: it keeps things pretty simple. A lot of mechanics that were headaches in 3.5 (and continue to be in Pathfinder) have been eliminated or simplified, including attacks of opportunity, ranged combat hindrances, and arbitrary attack bonuses. The straight-forward advantage/disadvantage system is a welcome alternative, allowing players to pick the best roll from two d20s in situations where they have the upper hand. This works in an inverted manner if something is hindering the player’s actions, such as shooting into cover or attacking from prone. It is a relatively simple and elegant system which should up combat greatly.
Tone It Down Everybody
Dominic explained to me that a lot of the “munchkin” elements of the game have been cut back in 5th edition, with one of his favourite changes being the hard cap on ability scores. Players can not start with an ability score above 17 (unless they roll for them), and can never exceed the maximum of 20. It also appears that player power has been mitigated in general, with players having to make tough decisions between feats and ability bonuses as they level up. Min-maxing runs rampantly throughout earlier iterations of the game, so it is very nice to see it reigned in a little bit.
A Good Start, But…
The D&D Starter Set comes with a lot of great stuff, but it seems a bit lacking even for a small beginner’s kit. There were a few times over the course of the game where players had to stop and look up rules, only to learn that weren’t included in the set! I also felt that the lack of at least a single fold-out map was a missed opportunity, as those sorts of add-ons really help to add perspective to the game’s world. I will, however, give big ups for gender neutral character sheets. It’s a small thing, but it is nice to see WoTC at least somewhat embracing an increasingly diverse player base.
Let’s See How Things Play Out
At the end of the day, D&D Next is a solid tabletop RPG that will not be defined by its game-play, but instead by its publishing strategies. 4th edition was widely regarded as a gong show in terms of release schedules and rules bloat, and if 5th edition follows in the same footsteps it will fall flat on its bottom. Players were burned once already, and they certainly won’t put up with it a second time.
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MemeBuster
Busted: 114 tangke de giyera ibinigay ng Amerika sa Pilipinas? But story was reported in February 2016!
Busted: Walang kasalanan ang Tulfo brothers ayon sa imbestigasyon? It’s a misleading headline!
Busted: Legarda sinumbatan si Robredo na mag-resign bago pa lumabas ang resulta na panalo si Marcos? Misleading headline!
Busted: Hollywood actor laughed at Robredo for copying his Independence Day movie speech? It’s fake news!
Busted: Tagumpay si Marcos versus Robredo? It’s a misleading headline!
Busted: Robredo nanlait sa Paoay Church ng Ilocos Norte? It’s a misleading, edited photo by an anti-Robredo FB page!
Netizens slam Duterte for saying women ‘could not stand threats and intimidation’
New DOT chief to ask Montano why he rushed official New York engagement to watch Broadway show
Eldest Tulfo vows to help Wanda clear her name, berates ‘black sheep’ Ben over controversial P60-M DOT ad deal
‘Baduy’: Comelec spox calls out candidates imposing their face on Avenger images for campaign posters
COA report says DOT specifically required P60-M ads to air on Tulfo-produced PTV show
Meme Buster
Some Facebook fan pages are all praises for President Rodrigo Duterte for his intelligence and good leadership skills while sharing the story about how the American government gave the Philippine Army 114 tanks.
The admins of the fan pages wrote “Iba talaga kapag matalino at mahusay ang Pangulo… 114 Tangke De Giyera, Ibinigay ng Amerika para sa Philippine Army!Kahit pinaglumaan na ito ay malaking bagay na ito para sa ating kasundaluan!!SALAMAT po!!”
The story was shared by fan pages, such as “Digong Bato Para sa Pagbabago,” “Sara Duterte Worldwide Supporters,” “Tulfo Brother News,” “President Rodrigo Duterte Movement in the Philippines,” “Pinoy News Huddle,” and “Pres. Rody Duterte “Partner for Change,”” among others.
But it turned out the story was also shared by other Facebook pages in February and June this year, declaring it as good news that they claimed to have recently came out. It was posted on Facebook by pages including “Tatay Digong – Unofficial,” “Pres. Rody Duterte Worldwide Supporters,” and “Kilusang Bagong Lipunan.”
However, the same Facebook search also revealed that the story was actually reported in February 2016 by ABS-CBN News.
According to the report, the US government gave the Philippine Army 114 APCs (Armed Personnel Carriers), which can carry soldiers in and out of war while providing them protection. They were first used by America during Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait in the 1990s but were never used again. They gave it to the Philippines as part of the American government’s Excess Defense Articles program.
In February 2016, then Army spokesman Col. Benjamin Hao said the vehicles will “enhance our speed and our personnel protection and even our firepower.”
The APCs reportedly arrived in the Philippines in two batches – the first batch of 77 vehicles arrived on December 9, 2015 while the second batch of 37 units arrived on December 14. They were formally turned over to the Philippine Army’s Mechanized Infantry Division on February 4, 2016.
This meant that unlike how the fan pages made this news story seem like it was a recent one, what with them saying “Kapapasok lang na balita,” the story is actually an old one that was recycled.
Some netizens called out the fan pages for sharing this piece of old news, but others still fell for the recycled news and thanked the current US President Donald Trump.
It can be recalled that President Rodrigo Duterte himself said that his administration will reject secondhand military equipment from other countries.
Meme Buster also debunked old stories that were deliberately recycled by some blogs and Facebook pages, such as those about the surrender of 154 NPA rebels that actually happened in 2015, Senator Antonio Trillanes arrested for libel, and Duterte being photographed in flooded street after a typhoon.
Sources: ( news.abs-cbn.com , gmanetwork.com )
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Busted: Hontiveros will help female driver who hit taxi driver in viral video file cyberbullying case? It’s fake news!
Busted: Trillanes hired Lascañas, Matobato as personal bodyguards? This is a made-up story!
Busted: Presidents told Duterte he’s the light of their world, will follow his footsteps? It’s a misleading headline!
Duterte supporters score Robredo over meme saying she’s ready to replace Duterte when needed, but that’s her mandate
Busted: Agot Isidro did not say ‘habang tumatagal sa pwesto si Duterte, pabulok nang pabulok ang MRT’
Queen Elizabeth II called Duterte a brave man? Here are other made-up stories forcibly linking the Queen to Duterte
Busted: Duterte halos maiyak sa sinabi ni Queen Elizabeth II na ‘grass to grace’? It’s fake news!
Roque on reason Rappler journo barred from entering Palace: Bwisit sa kanya ang Presidente
An article has claimed that an investigation has found the Tulfo brothers to be not guilty. It says, “Lumabas Sa Imbestigasyon Na Walang Kasalanan Ang Tulfo Brothers,” as published by the website phworkit.top.
The story was even shared by Facebook pages “Ferdinand Emmanual Edralin Marcos” and “Rody Duterte MEDIA.”
However, the article merely contained a 10-minute YouTube video, which was a mix several video clips of different reports, some parts of which touched on the issues involving the P60 million tourism ads that aired on the PTV program of Teo’s brothers, the Tulfos.
One of the video clips showed that the CNN Philippines reported on why nepotism is considered corruption and abused of authority in the case of now-resigned Tourism Secretary Wanda and how her husband, Roberto Teo, served as the board member of the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA). But Roberto was appointed by former President Benigno Aquino III and has tendered his resignation from TIEZA effective June 30, 2018.
Another video clip showing a CNN Philippines report of a Malacañang press briefing, where a reporter asked Presidential Spokesperon Harry Roque if Communications Secretary Martin Andanar would be among those investigated in the controversial placement of P60 million worth of tourism ads on the program of the Tulfos, who are Teo’s brothers, leading people to raise the issue of conflict of interest. As the PCOO chief, he also supervises the state-run PTV-4, where the Tulfos’ programs are a blocktimer.
Asked by yet another reporter what President Rodrigo Duterte’s comment was on the issue with the DOT and the Tulfos, Roque said that he did not know then because he had not talked to the President for a while and the investigation conducted by the Office of the President was ongoing then.
The headline used in the video is misleading. It meant to make people think that the Tulfo brothers have been cleared from the issue involving them with the controversial P60-million tourism ad deal.
However, reports showed that even after Teo resigned from her post on May 7, the Ombudsman will still continue with the probe into the scandal. The body requested from the Commission on Audit (COA) a copy of its DOT report involving the controversial P60-million worth of payments for ads aired on PTV on May 8. The investigation is still ongoing, which meant that they it has not yet cleared the Tulfos.
Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea is also said to be investigating the scandal to determine the officials at fault at the DOT, People’s Television Network Inc. (PTNI), and the PCOO.
Ramon Tulfo, an Inquirer columnist, came out in the defense of his sister Teo and blamed his younger brother Ben Tulfo for the controversy.
Party-list group Akbayan, however, said it was not enough for Teo to step down from her post. They wanted her to be prosecuted.
“The simple firing or resignation of corrupt officials will not put a stop to corruption in the government if this is not followed by swift prosecution and conviction,” the group said in a statement.
Akbayan also challenged President Duterte to file cases against Ben and Erwin Tulfo over the controversial ad transaction. Ben owns Bitag Media, which produced the PTV show “Kilos Pronto,” the program where the DOT ads were aired. His brother, Erwin, co-hosts the show with him.
Sources: ( newsinfo.inquirer.ne , thestandard.com.ph , cnnphilippines.com , rappler.com , news.abs-cbn.com , businessmirror.com.ph )
Senator Loren Legarda allegedly confronted Vice President Leni Robredo and asked her to resign before the results would show former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. as the winner.
The video was posted by blog dailydu30.info on May 15, 2018. The vice presidential vote recount is still ongoing, so the headline must have been referring to the result of the recount. It also made it seem as though Legarda is telling Robredo that she is certain that Marcos would emerge as the winner in the recount.
The YouTube video is 20-minute long and Legarda’s face was immediately shown at the beginning of the video. However, if you finish watching it, you’d know immediately that the video was not taken recently. In fact, it showed a portion of the budget hearing for 2017 for the Office of the Vice President. Further research showed that the hearing was conducted in front of the Senate panel on August 22, 2017 and it lasted less than an hour before it was approved. Robredo herself attended the budget hearing to present an overview of the OVP’s plans for 2018.
Legarda served as the Senate panel’s chair.
During the hearing, Robredo reported how the OVP spent its funds, mainly for poverty alleviation.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer reported that following the presentation on the fund allocation of the OVP, Legarda asked Robredo to send them a yearlong report on the needs of the sectors and areas that the OVP has reached while promising to help out on fulfilling those needs.
So unlike what the headline claimed, Legarda did not tell Robredo to resign from her VP post to make way for Marcos’ imminent victory. The headline is misleading and is merely playing with people’s emotions and gullibility.
However, Facebook page “Sara Duterte Worldwide Supporters” still shared it without verifying the headline’s claims.
There have been several fake stories involving Marcos and Robredo and the VP vote recount that we have busted. We debunked a misleading headline claiming that Marcos has already won, that Marcos won by 1,786 votes over Robredo, that Robredo would perform her tasks as VP until Marcos takes over, and that Marcos will replace Robredo.
Sources: ( philstar.com , newsinfo.inquirer.net )
After Vice President Leni Robredo’s recent “Free the Courts” speech at UP Diliman on May 7, articles abound about how a Hollywood actor laughed at her for copying his speech in a movie.
Actor Bill Pullman, who played the role of a fictional US president in the movie Independence Day, allegedly laughed at the Philippine VP for copying the speech he made during the movie. This is according to the May 8 story on the blog philippineinsidernews.blogspot.com.
The story was also picked up by other blogs, such as balita1.altervista.org, weblogph.tk, and realspotnews.info and shared by Facebook pages, such as Philippine News Courier, Trending News Today, and Like for Donations, among others.
Based on these stories online, Pullman was said to have reacted to a meme made by blogger RJ Nieto, a.k.a. Thinking Pinoy, comparing Pullman’s character’s speech and Robredo’s speech. The actor was shown to have tweeted his reaction to TP’s meme, saying “Creative and very well done. Gave me a good laught this morning.” It was also time-stamped “20m,” marking that the screenshot was made 20 minutes after the tweet went live.
While the time-stamp made it seem like Pullman’s alleged tweet was made recently, it actually wasn’t. The text in Pullman’s tweet that was used in the story above was real, but he posted that tweet in reaction to a completely different thing, not Robredo’s speech. He tweeted that on February 22, 2018 when he reacted to a YouTube video “Lone Starr A Spaceballs TEASER. – Han Solo a Star Wars Story Style.”
But the misleading story did not end there! It even had a Part Two bearing the title “Robredo Won’t Apologize for Copying Bill Pullman Speech at Independence Day Movie” published on May 9 by the same blog, philippineinsidernews.blogspot.com.
In this story, statements were attributed to Robredo’s spokesperson, Georgina Hernandez, who allegedly reacted to Pullman’s reaction to Robredo’s speech.
“The OVP [Office of the Vice President] categorically deny allegations that VP Leni Robredo copied her recent speech from the movie Independence Day. The message might be the same, but the difference in words is very obvious. The vice president also spoke from her heart, and there was no prepared speech for her.”
“The vice president believes that the accusation is only a strategy of her critics to divert the public’s attention from the real issue. It is very clear that the present administration is doing everything to silent its critics, and is using the Constitution in the wrong way. Therefore, the vice president needs to fight against the dictatorship.”
But in Rappler’s fact-checking report, Hernandez denied making the statements above.
“Those statements did not come from me. Definitely fake news,” she said in a text message to Rappler.
While there are similarities in Robredo’s speech and Pullman’s speech while playing his character in the movie, Pullman did not make a reaction over this. His February 2018 tweet was edited to mislead people. Robredo, unlike the claims of the second part of the story, also did not react to this fake news involving Pullman.
This is not the first fake story that the Facebook page Philippine News Courier has helped spread on social media. The said page also shared the fake stories about the late Playboy founder Hugh Heffner donating $5 million to Duterte’s anti-drug campaign, the Supreme Court ordering Kris Aquino to return Imelda Marcos’ diamond necklace, former Senator Bongbong Marcos leading over Robredo by 1,786 votes in the first week of the VP vote recount, and more. The page is also associated to the fake news site philnewscourier.blogspot.com.
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Rep. Greg Gianforte Again Voted Against Protecting Montanans with Preexisting Conditions
Justin Ailport May 17, 2019 News
Helena – For the second week in a row, Rep. Greg Gianforte voted against protecting Montanans with preexisting conditions by voting “no” last night on legislation that would limit the sale of ‘junk’ insurance plans, which can deny health coverage to people with preexisting conditions. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act,” a package of … Read More
Rep. Greg Gianforte Today Voted Against Protecting Montanans with Preexisting Conditions
Justin Ailport May 9, 2019 2019, Gianforte, News, Republicans
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Justin Ailport April 19, 2019 2019, Daines, News
Helena – About 150 Montanans in Bozeman attended one of Sen. Jon Tester’s in-person town halls this week. At the same time, Montana’s junior senator, Sen. Steve Daines, has shown a lack of interest in talking with his constituents at in-person town halls. Last year, Daines called face-to-face town halls with Montanans “big protests” instead of “civil discourse.” “Steve Daines’ disdain for facing Montanans shows … Read More
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Helena – On the deadline for the first tax filing season after Sen. Steve Daines and Rep. Greg Gianforte voted for the GOP tax law that handed hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to corporations and the wealthiest Americans, Montanans are noticing smaller tax refunds — or even owe money to the Internal Revenue Service. And Montanans are not alone. From … Read More
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Knights take down Belington Middle, fall to Elkins
By: Scott Reed, Sports Editor - Updated: 6 days ago
PRUNTYTOWN—After dropping a close contest to Westwood on Monday, the TCMS boys’ basketball team was back in action on Wednesday as they traveled to Elkins to take on Elkins Middle School.
In JV action, the Hornets would defeat the visiting Knights by the score of 36-31. Seven Knights would score two or more points in the contest, with Mason Markley’s nine points leading the way. Rounding out the scoring for TCMS would be Kenny Humphries (7), Cody Cook (5), Adrian Joyce (4), Cam Foley (2), Ethan Dotson (2), and Gavin Hess (2). Elkins was led by Dylan Hinzman’s 11 points.
In the varsity matchup, Elkins would again get the better of the Knights, securing the victory by the score of 50-42. Isaac Lough would lead the Knights will 11 points, followed by Isiah Vanscoy (9), Mason Dunham (7), Dustin Keener (6), Harrison Maier (5), and Jacob Maier (4). Elkins would be led by Griffin Boggs and Brock Holland, who each had 10.
TCMS was back in action on Thursday with a road contest against Belington Middle School as the Knights were able to get back to their winning ways.
In JV action, the Knights would pull away for a 46-17 victory as eleven players were able to get into the scoring column for TCMS. They were led by Mason Markley’s 11 points followed by Ethan Dotson (6), Kenny Humphries (6), Gavin Hess (5), Kaden Keener (4), Cam Foley (4), Jaxson Hall (2), Austin Mayle (2), MJ Niggemyer (2), Nathanial Bailey (2), and McCray Blackwell (1).
In the varsity contest, the Knights would take a 27-15 lead into the locker room at halftime and ultimately win by the score of 54-27.
The Knight were led by Isaac Lough (16), Isaiah Vanscoy (13), Kaden Keener (10), Jacob Maier (6), Harrison Maier (5), and Mason Dunham (4).
TCMS will be back in action on Tuesday as they travel to Shinnston to take on Lincoln Middle School.
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The Collider shifts leadership, seeks path to financial sustainability
Posted on June 5, 2019 June 7, 2019 by Virginia Daffron
THE LONG VIEW: On June 5, The Collider announced that building owner Claire Callen will take over as president and chair of the nonprofit's board, with responsibility for daily operations. The organization has recently been considering its options in light of having failed to achieve financial sustainability over three years of operation. Photo by Virginia Daffron
The Collider, Asheville’s visionary climate-science-focused event convener, office space and meeting venue, has run into some quotidian realities. Despite contributions of over $2.5 million from founder Mack Pearsall spread over three years, the nonprofit “has not yet achieved financial self-sustainability,” according to a press release.
Discussions over the past several weeks about The Collider’s future included an option to suspend the organization’s operations entirely. Instead, The Collider told Xpress on June 5, building owner Claire Callen will take over as the nonprofit’s board chair and president, with all responsibility for operating the space. Pearsall will remain on the board and “continue as a strong supporter of the organization.”
In addition to Pearsall, other board members listed on The Collider’s website include George Briggs, executive director of The North Carolina Arboretum; James McMahon, CEO of The Climate Service; and Michael Tanner.
Callen and Miami-based Ocean-Asheville purchased the Wells Fargo Building at 1 Haywood St. in 2013. On March 11, 2016, The Collider opened in 6,000 square feet on the building’s fourth floor, which totals 25,000 square feet and is known as the Callen Center. According to the press release, “Currently, there are some 60 businesses, organizations and individuals who … range from micro-entrepreneurs who use a coworking desk or small office, to fast-growing companies with projects and clients across the country, to two international organizations with satellite offices at the downtown Asheville location.”
Callen subsidized the space over an 18-month initial startup period to encourage the development of “an ecosystem of climate scientists and entrepreneurs,” according to Callen, Pearsall and Thomas Karl, retired director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information, in a 2017 Xpress article.
While June 5 press release advises that Callen says “it’s business as usual” for those seeking office or meeting space at The Collider, the new president was not immediately available for comment, and information on the future of its signature events, including ClimateCon and [Food + Beverage] Collider, has not been released.
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Enlightened Enigma
Not surprising, as more people become aware of the global hoax of climate change … but they did get to host Hitlary a couple times so it was worth it all…
What is your view on the cause of the changes we’re seeing in the earth’s atmospheric temperature and more energetic climate events??
The Climate has ALWAYS changed and ALWAYS will. Only 20,000 years ago much of North America was iced covered. Human activity has negligible if any impact on long term climate or temperature. (I have a PhD in Math from UNC, an MS in Computer Science, and a BS in Physics. I have spent a career as a research scientist (Professor) at a top 20 public research university with primary research focus on building computer models of physical systems and am still engaged in that activity at 70) — One day the earth WILL experience unsurvivable global warming — google “Sun Red giant”
You’ve been well indoctrinated, Mike , the research are just potential predictions …(and you graduated from Cheater Hill, NC’s biggest embarrassment …)
Exactly WHAT about this do you disagree??
“Human activity has negligible if any impact on long term climate or temperature.”
Peter Robbins
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-temperatures/evidence-for-man-made-global-warming-hits-gold-standard-scientists.
Leaving the “who cares about climate change because I’ll be dead” brigade to talk the usual nonsense among themselves, the Collider has always seemed like a regular ol’ coworking / small office / event space with especially fancy branding, that is, one of those Asheville nonprofits. While a lot of the members are related to climate tech (and some do NOAA work in the federal building) you’ve also got a design studio, a law firm, a “virtual B2B inside sales team” and a photographer. Which is fine enough, because it’s downtown office space, but is it much more than that?
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Kelly McParland: Trudeau wanted to give Canadians coalitions — he may yet do so!
Suddenly NDP leader Jagmeet Singh sees his prospects improving. 'Oh, absolutely,' he said when asked if he’d join forces with other parties, except the Conservatives
Kelly McParland
The Great Almighty — whatever name you might wish to give him or her — obviously likes a joke. With less than a week to go before election day, Canadian voters appear to be the butt of one.
The punchline is “coalition government.” Har har har. Get it?
One of the bigger promises Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau broke after winning the 2015 election was his pledge to introduce electoral reform. Out would go first-past-the-post, in would come something else. No one was entirely sure what that “something else” would entail, but the goal was for a government that more closely reflected the eventual vote count. Some sort of coalition, the character of which could never be predicted until all the percentages were clear, the tradeoffs made and the deals finalized.
In the event, too few Canadians showed any enthusiasm for the options (especially not the one favoured by Trudeau) to give the plan any traction. So the Liberals abandoned it.
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So what do we get instead? If the polls running into the final heated days before next Monday are remotely accurate, the answer is a great deal of uncertainty. And perhaps — hold your guffaws — a coalition government.
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh let it be known on the weekend that he was all in favour of such a thing. And why wouldn’t he be? The NDP has spent much of the past year just trying to avoid being erased from the national memory bank. Singh’s leadership was widely considered a disappointment. The party could find itself wiped out in Quebec, the Orange Wave little more than a blip in time, Canada’s traditional third-place party possibly pushed into fourth place. Then came a surge by the Bloc Québécois, throwing off Liberal calculations and making a minority appear likely.
Suddenly Singh sees his prospects improving. The party could be relevant again. “Oh, absolutely,” he said when asked if he’d join forces with other parties, except the Conservatives.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh takes part in the federal leaders French language debate in Gatineau, Que., on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Chris Wattie/The Canadian Press
“For me, I feel like there’s this false choice being presented that if you only have to choose in an election between bad and worse, it’s not really much of a choice.”
Rather than bad (Liberals) or worse (Tories), evidently, is “totally unpredictable.” Singh may assume he’d be an important part of a coalition, yet that’s far from certain. NDP prospects have risen since he performed well in the English-language debate, but Bloc fortunes have surged as well. Seat projections on the polling analysis website 338.com on Monday had the Bloc and NDP battling for third, though a tie would likely favour the Bloc, given its concentration of seats in Quebec.
So, great news, eh Canadians? Politics would once again be all about appeasing Quebec. A resurgent separatist party would find itself with leverage it couldn’t have imagined. The dreaded troll of national discourse, happily believed on its deathbed, could return to the stage revivified. Doesn’t that make you happy? Aren’t you pleased?
Perhaps Singh doesn’t anticipate the Bloc being included in his coalition (though “we’re ready to do whatever it takes,” sounds pretty definitive). In which case Canadians might face a Liberal-NDP-Green grouping, up against a strong block of Conservatives, with the Bloc on the outside picking and choosing its battles based entirely on what’s good for the Bloc. Is that supposed to be better?
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh shake hands following the federal leaders French language debate at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., on Oct. 10, 2019. ADRIAN WYLD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
This is all entirely speculative, and no one can be sure how the dice might turn up once rolled. Which is entirely the point: coalition governments are a study in unpredictability. It depends on which backroom arrangements can be made, which party is prepared to abandon which principles, how many promises need be sacrificed to ensure a seat at the big table. The Liberals are committed to ensuring a pipeline is built so Canada’s energy industry can continue to act as a backbone of the economy until an alternative to fossil fuels becomes viable. The other three potential coalitionists are dead-set against it, willing to risk whatever economic turmoil should result from their devotion to anti-oil absolutism.
Would the Liberals sign on to such a thing? Who knows? We may find we have yet another thing or two to learn about Justin Trudeau and how much he likes power.
The late-innings shift in direction does underline an issue that has largely escaped serious attention during this campaign: the resurgence under the Trudeau government of national unity as a concern. Western provinces were not always wholly enthralled with Stephen Harper, but at least during his decade in power they had a sense their voices were heard in Ottawa. The past four years have seen a return of the regional anger and resentment, and fuelled the election of provincial governments that once again see Ottawa as a rival rather than an ally. Couple the nationalist duo of Premier François Legault and Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet in Quebec, with Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, and you have a country once again acting more like a collection of competing interests than a community of shared vision and goals.
For me, I feel like there's this false choice being presented that if you only have to choose in an election between bad and worse, it's not really much of a choice
Could anyone blame Kenney if he were to put as firm a focus on Alberta’s agenda as Quebec does on its own? It seems to work, after all. Alberta has become the target of every self-styled climate guru overloaded with opinions and under-supplied with knowledge. The war on its economy is very much an existential issue. If it is to continue to grow and prosper it needs a long-term strategy for shepherding its resources and using them in ways that most benefit its needs. If that means causing the sort of disruption outside its borders as is so deftly deployed elsewhere, they wouldn’t be the first to do so.
It’s taken just four short years of Liberal government to put us in this position. Trudeau has spent most of the campaign railing against Stephen Harper and Doug Ford. But they didn’t create this mess. He did.
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Seeking peace in Libya and Iran, past inaction haunts EU diplomacy
Ulf Laessing and Robin Emmott
After war broke out again in Libya early last year, a special team of EU diplomats in Tripoli was forced back to neighboring Tunisia to do what they had been doing for several years: wait.
As Germany holds a U.N summit on Sunday for a path to end the conflict in Libya, in turmoil since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi, European powers believe they can now begin to overcome such inaction and defend interests on their southern doorstep.
But like the bored EU experts tasked with supporting Libyan ministry officers at their temporary mission offices in Tunis over the past five years, EU diplomacy has often arrived too late to make an impact and, in Iran, been left exposed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America First” policy.
“We Europeans, since we don’t want to participate in a military solution, we barricade ourselves in the belief there is no military solution,” the EU’s new foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told the European Parliament this week.
“Nobody will be very happy if, on the Libyan coast, there is a ring of military bases from the Russian and Turkish navies in front of the Italian coast,” he said.
The economically powerful EU, once able to boast of a soft power that helped transform communist neighbors into thriving market economies, first sent a mission to Libya to train border guards in 2013 but was reduced to running all its training outside of Libya from 2015, returning briefly in 2017 and 2019.
With Libya’s migration routes close to European shores and its energy supplies in the Mediterranean sought by Turkey, policy towards a country that was an EU priority has instead become a symbol of its divisions.
Former colonial power Italy has supported the Tripoli-based, U.N-backed government of Fayez al-Serraj, while France favored Khalifa Haftar, commander of the eastern Libyan National Army.
Paris and Rome held rival peace conferences, while Russia and Turkey, two countries sometimes at odds with the EU’s values of democracy and human rights, sidelined the bloc. First talks on a ceasefire last week took place in Moscow, not Brussels.
Washington, Europe’s closest ally, has been largely absent, a far cry from 2011 when the United States and Europe cooperated under NATO in a bombing campaign that backed the rebels who overthrew Gaddafi.
“In the Middle East and North Africa, the EU never had a clear idea of what its objectives are, so it could not be proactive, only reactive. We have let many opportunities pass,” said Sven Biscop, an analyst at Belgium’s Egmont Institute.
“EUROPEAN APPROACH”
The EU, facing a crisis in Iran over the unraveling of the 2015 nuclear deal, now senses an opportunity in Libya after Moscow failed to reach a ceasefire deal with Haftar.
Shock over the fallout from U.S. drone strike on an Iranian general on Jan. 3 has galvanized Europeans over Libya, some EU envoys say, settling on a new “European approach.”
Britain, France and Germany already this week showed a new determination to pressure Tehran to comply with the Iran accord, triggering a dispute mechanism that could lead to the reimposition of U.N. sanctions.
However, with Sunday’s conference on Libya approaching, Italy and France have yet to put aside their differences and rally behind the government in Tripoli.
Germany, which sees itself as more neutral than France and Italy, has sought to take the lead, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel investing time in seeking the support from her Russian, Turkish and Egyptian counterparts.
The EU’s new leadership in Brussels also wants to be more “geopolitical” and stem the waning of Europe’s influence. It launched into a frenzy of diplomacy in early January amid fears of a Middle East conflagration after the U.S. drone strike in Iran.
Top EU officials held talks with Serraj in Brussels, called an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers, held calls with Iran’s president and joined French President Emmanuel Macron at a conference on the Sahel.
“We are not trying to have an aggressive external policy … but the heads of state need a new mindset to be more assertive,” said a senior EU official involved in foreign policy.
Friendly foreign governments do want to see the European Union succeed in the world, officials and diplomats said. Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has regularly called for EU help to increase pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.
Since Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear accord and reimposed U.S. sanctions, Tehran has repeatedly called on the EU to save a nuclear deal by keeping trade channels open.
But with Britain, one of Europe’s two main military powers with France, leaving the European Union, the EU could find it hard to live up to its ambitions.
Neither the EU nor NATO have plans to deploy troops in Libya. The EU naval operation, Sofia, which rescued migrants off the Libyan coast and helped enforce an arms embargo, has been taken off the water, and European allies have rejected U.S. calls at NATO to help patrol Gulf shipping lanes.
Sometimes just agreeing statements has proved too divisive.
“The positive sign is that everyone now agrees this is unsustainable,” said Bruno Macaes, a former Europe minister for Portugal and now a foreign policy consultant. (Additional reporting by Andreas Rinke in Berlin, Luke Baker in London, Parisa Hafezi in Dubai, John Irish in Paris and John Chalmers in Brussels Editing by Peter Graff)
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Kevin Alfred Strom 2011-01-11
Kevin Alfred Strom · 11 January, 2011
School board member and radio station manager attacked by ADL, receives death threats for MLK commentary
by Kevin Alfred Strom
A GUEST EDITORIAL — based largely on my exposé of Martin Luther King — has been airing on Greeley, Colorado’s KELS-FM twice daily in the days leading up to the federal MLK holiday, and the sparks are flying as the Usual Suspects try to get the truth off the air — and punish the man responsible for the broadcast.
Brett Reese (pictured), who is a school board member and director of the local school district, runs Greeley’s KELS 104.7. He says he regularly broadcasts guest editorials from listeners if their facts check out. And, he adds, in this case the facts did check out when he looked into them: “Martin Luther King, Junior” is an assumed name; King had numerous and intimate connections to high-level agents of the Communist Party; King misappropriated funds contributed to his “religious” charity and spent them on prostitutes and drunken orgies; and King was a plagiarist who cheated to obtain his PhD. You can listen to the editorial by clicking the link below.
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Reese says he’s not a White supremacist (and, of course, neither am I nor are most of the people so accused by the media) and actually admires King’s “civil rights movement,” but believes there are issues with the character of King that make it necessary to question the uncritical adulation and reverence he is accorded today. Reese adds, “I was taught growing up that Martin Luther King Jr. was a hero of history and to question his motivation or integrity was near sacrilege. I support the idea of being able to talk about historical facts. If these facts are out there, then we should be able to talk about them. There should not be a taboo on an honest discussion of history.”
When other school board members expressed their disapproval of the broadcasts and said he shouldn’t be making them, Reese responded: “Just because I am on the school board does not mean I have to accept Martin Luther King Jr. or any figure of history as above reproach or question. Asking a school board member to take an oath of blind allegiance and then check his brain at the door may be the root of the problems in our district today.” Reese did agree to moderate some of the language in the editorial, but said it will continue to run.
The ADL's Scott Levin
The Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which has links to Meyer Lansky’s organized crime syndicate and which once gave their “Torch of Liberty” award to mob boss Moe Dalitz, has attacked Reese and demanded that the guest editorials cease: “The reckless and irresponsible spread of such misleading vitriol only heightens the divisions in our communities….” said ADL Regional Director Scott L. Levin (also a “Torch of Liberty” recipient), adding “We call upon Mr. Reese to desist from his divisive public broadcasts….” Immediately after the ADL’s attacks on him, Reese began receiving death threats that he considered credible. Reese has broadcast the critical MLK editorial for three years running around the MLK holiday, but never received death threats until the ADL, whose “phone tree” notification of Jewish activists is well known, publicized him in the last few days.
Because of the death threats, Mr. Reese has reluctantly decided to attend future school board meetings armed: “Because of the recent school board shooting (in Florida) and the recent death threats, I have to,” he stated to the Greeley Tribune. (Apparently the Tribune itself is fearful of the implications of this story, since they state on their Web site — at the bottom of every article on this subject — “Due to the sensitive nature of this story, the commenting feature has been disabled.”)
Clayborne Carson, the founding director of the “Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute” at Stanford University and the editor of King’s papers, admitted, according to the Tribune, that “many of the claims in the broadcast have been substantiated,” but added that many historical figures are flawed: “The significant thing about King is he did great work as part of a great movement. If you disagree with that, then there is discussion. The thing about plagiarism, yeah we know he plagiarized some academic papers, but how does that relate to the fact that he was one of the great orators of history?”
Although the MLK critique specifically states that opposing viewpoints are welcome, Reese says that in three years not one has been submitted, with opponents preferring to force the guest editorial off the air rather than engage in open debate. But KELS listeners are a different story. Reese says “It was new information to many of our listeners. It promoted discussions within our listening community and we had listeners call and thank us for airing it.”
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thank you for the fm broadcast about martin luther king.
i am aryan/white and did not know these things about mlk.
i am a person who loves my race, knowing everyone thats
white isn’t perfect-just look at bush and cheney etc.
however, the dishonesty and communist stuff really
changes my opinion of mlk. you really can’t trust
a person like that. too bad but i’m not surprised.
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70 Years On, NATO Faces Era of Greater Challenge: Parliamentarians, Experts agree
London, 12 October 2019 – Seventy years after it was founded, NATO faces potentially greater challenges than during the Cold War or the Balkan crises of the 1990s, as cyber and hybrid warfare, climate change and terrorism test the Alliance in new, previously unimagined ways, parliamentarians and experts said Saturday.
Today, NATO no longer has the luxury of fighting one challenge at a time, participants of the NATO PA’s Annual Session agreed in London.
“The problem today is that you need three NATOs, not one,” Jamie Shea, Professor of strategy and security at the University of Essex told the Assembly’s Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security.
Shea, who worked at NATO for 39 years, said these are a classical military NATO, one that is able to tackle hybrid threats, and one that projects stability to the Middle East and the Arab world.
In two draft resolutions, expected to be adopted during the NATO PA plenary session on Monday, Portuguese delegate Julio Miranda Calha and German parliamentarian Ulla Schmidt, highlighted the need to restore imbalances in allied defence spending and to reaffirm commitment to the Alliance’s core values of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law.
In the Political Committee meeting, US Congressman Gerald E. Connolly welcomed the vast improvement in NATO’s ties with the European Union and the Alliance’s intention to keep its doors open to potential new members as a tool “to spread the zone of stability and democratic stands in Europe.”
But he and Schmidt both voiced concern about “destabilising forces that threaten our community,” such as disinformation – both from within and outside the Euro-Atlantic community – which undermines democratic elections and public trust in mainstream political parties.
They urged Allied governments and parliaments to set up a structure within NATO that would monitor and report on the democratic credentials of countries wanting to join, as well as check for any negative trends among the Allies themselves.
“One useful approach could be to increase oversight of democratic backsliding or human rights violations within the Alliance. This could take one or more institutional forms: a new monitoring committee; assigning the responsibility to a senior official; or the creation of a special ombudsperson,” Schmidt said. In a similar vein, the report of Congressman Connolly recommends the creation of a “Democratic Resiliency Coordination Centre” to help NATO member states strengthen democratic institutions.
In the meantime, Connolly said, “we must maintain our focus on cyber and hybrid security— especially with respect to disinformation and elections. At the same time, we should encourage efforts to tackle the root causes of public discontent— from migration to income inequality.”
The draft resolutions call for NATO’s Strategic Concept – its long-term vision for confronting threats and keeping the 29-nation Alliance agile and responsive – to be updated to reflect all these modern challenges and underline the importance of shared democratic values.
“I think the next 70 years are likely to be more dramatic and probably much more interesting than the last 70 years,” Shea said.
Photos of this session are public and can be found on the NATO PA Flickr account.
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Evaluation of visual impairment in Usher syndrome 1b and Usher syndrome 2a
Ronald J.E. Pennings, Patrick L.M. Huygen, Dana J. Orten, Mariette Wagenaar, Annelies van Aarem, Hannie Kremer, William J. Kimberling, Cor W.R.J. Cremers, August F. Deutman
Center for Sensory Neuroscience
Purpose: To evaluate visual impairment in Usher syndrome 1b (USH1b) and Usher syndrome 2a (USH2a). Methods: We carried out a retrospective study of 19 USH1b patients and 40 USH2a patients. Cross-sectional regression analyses of the functional acuity score (FAS), functional field score (FFS) and functional vision score (FVS) related to age were performed. Statistical tests relating to regression lines and Student's t-test were used to compare between (sub)groups of patients. Parts of the available individual longitudinal data were used to obtain individual estimates of progressive deterioration and compare these to those obtained with cross-sectional analysis. Results were compared between subgroups of USH2a patients pertaining to combinations of different types of mutations. Results: Cross-sectional analyses revealed significant deterioration of the FAS (0.7% per year), FFS (1.0% per year) and FVS (1.5% per year) with advancing age in both patient groups, without a significant difference between the USH1b and USH2a patients. Individual estimates of the deterioration rates were substantially and significantly higher than the cross-sectional estimates in some USH2a cases, including values of about 5% per year (or even higher) for the FAS (age 35-50 years), 3-4% per year for the FFS and 4-5% per year for the FVS (age > 20 years). There was no difference in functional vision score behaviour detected between subgroups of patients pertaining to different biallelic combinations of specific types of mutations. Conclusions: The FAS, FFS and FVS deteriorated significantly by 0.7-1.5% per year according to cross-sectional linear regression analysis in both USH1b and USH2a patients. Higher deterioration rates (3-5% per year) in any of these scores were attained, according to longitudinal data collected from individual USH2a patients. Score behaviour was similar across the patient groups and across different biallelic combinations of various types of mutations. However, more elaborate studies, preferably covering longitudinal data, are needed to obtain conclusive evidence.
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Usher Syndromes
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Visual field deterioration
Pennings, R. J. E., Huygen, P. L. M., Orten, D. J., Wagenaar, M., van Aarem, A., Kremer, H., ... Deutman, A. F. (2004). Evaluation of visual impairment in Usher syndrome 1b and Usher syndrome 2a. Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica, 82(2), 131-139. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0420.2004.00234.x
Evaluation of visual impairment in Usher syndrome 1b and Usher syndrome 2a. / Pennings, Ronald J.E.; Huygen, Patrick L.M.; Orten, Dana J.; Wagenaar, Mariette; van Aarem, Annelies; Kremer, Hannie; Kimberling, William J.; Cremers, Cor W.R.J.; Deutman, August F.
In: Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica, Vol. 82, No. 2, 01.04.2004, p. 131-139.
Pennings, RJE, Huygen, PLM, Orten, DJ, Wagenaar, M, van Aarem, A, Kremer, H, Kimberling, WJ, Cremers, CWRJ & Deutman, AF 2004, 'Evaluation of visual impairment in Usher syndrome 1b and Usher syndrome 2a', Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 131-139. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0420.2004.00234.x
Pennings RJE, Huygen PLM, Orten DJ, Wagenaar M, van Aarem A, Kremer H et al. Evaluation of visual impairment in Usher syndrome 1b and Usher syndrome 2a. Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica. 2004 Apr 1;82(2):131-139. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0420.2004.00234.x
Pennings, Ronald J.E. ; Huygen, Patrick L.M. ; Orten, Dana J. ; Wagenaar, Mariette ; van Aarem, Annelies ; Kremer, Hannie ; Kimberling, William J. ; Cremers, Cor W.R.J. ; Deutman, August F. / Evaluation of visual impairment in Usher syndrome 1b and Usher syndrome 2a. In: Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica. 2004 ; Vol. 82, No. 2. pp. 131-139.
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Politics: Keith Olbermann commentary on Bush commutation of Libby sentence
I usually don’t comment on politics here on this blog, but I thought the recent commentary by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann was a clear, powerful, accurate and compelling viewpoint on the current political firestorm our President, George Bush, has created by commuting the sentence of Vice President Dick Cheney’s advisor, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who had committed one of the most egregious crimes against his country–the United States–by outing CIA agent, Valerie Plame, after her husband, the former ambassador Joe Wilson, criticized the Bush administration for the use of faulty intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. Today, over 70% of Americans want this war ended now. Despite what Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and other right wing media outlets report, the war has gone horribly wrong and the recent troop surge is making little impact. The United States needs leadership to solve this war, to curtail Wall Street profiteering at the expense of the average American, and to solve the health care crisis in this country that sees some 40 million of its people without basic coverage.
Our government is beholden to corporate interests, graft and corruption and its time for change.
In this MSNBC segment, Olbermann makes an extraordinary statement about the Bush administration’s willful manipulation and disregard for the American public, our law, due process and any sense of reason. As a United States citizen, I am sharing this so you too can be equally as outraged as I am about what George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and the Republican party are doing to this country. They have complete and utter disregard for the wishes of the American public. The same American public who recently elected a Democratic House and Senate in a sweeping mandate for reform and a change in the direction of the United States of America. At no time in my 40-years of life have I ever lived through such an era, where an administration came to power only to enrich their cronies and party members while destroying the political capital and good the United States had built up coming into the 21st century.
Despite what people say about Bill Clinton, he put this country on the track to grow into a new world order. People believed in Clinton, and he left office with one of the highest approval ratings of any two term President. Today, that vision has been severely impaired. What Bush, Cheney and the Republican party have done to the United States is shameful. If you speak out, they call you “un-American” and accuse you of “siding with the terrorists.” As Rosie O’Donneel pointed out, “who are the terrorists? Are they the Islamic fundamentalists who have set out to harm us, or could they be politicians who use a policy of fear to emotionally freeze a nation that is lulled into a false sense of security and believes its being protected? But, are we?
Now, I don’t necessarily agree with everything Rosie says, but she does do one thing–her speaking out makes you think about the issues. At the very least, it makes you question what you’re being told by the right-controlled media. Is what they’re telling us correct, or are they using disinformation to lull us into a false sense of security for their own political purposes? How do we, as collective nation, rise up and make our voice heard. Whether it be a general strike, a work slowdown or writing your Senators and Congress men and women, Americans need to do something, and they need to do something now. Calling for the resignation of George W. Bush is certainly a good start.
Who profits from the war on terror? I know, I don’t. Nor do the families and loved ones of those killed on the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. Haliburton has the no-bid reconstruction contract, simply because they say no one else has the experience to do the job. The stress on oil reserves and refineries to fuel the military complex fighting the war has caused high prices and record profits for the oil companies. The longer this war goes on, the longer American tax dollars are siphoned away from progress on education, health care and solving our poverty crisis. The longer those in power with special interests profit, the longer the United States loses it standing in the world.
Not that I had any faith left in this President and his administration, but this act wholeheartedly destroyed any support I might have mustered up in a crisis. George W. Bush does not care about what the American people want or what they voted for. Bush & Cheney have torn to shreds the United States Constitution. Everyone I know believes Libby should serve time for outing a CIA agent, one of the most despicable and egregious crimes against the United States one can perpetrate. Libby put the lives of Valerie Plame, her husband, other CIA agents and all Americans at risk when he leaked Plame’s name to the press. Who knows what the real extent of Libby’s crime was? We’ll never know, because the administration has covered it up. And now, the administration is giving Libby a pass after taking one for the team–the Republican party.
Libby should be in jail. Bush and Cheney and should resign. Here, watch and judge for yourself.
7/7/07: Correction: I. Lewis Libby was convicted of Obstruction of Justice. Although he is suspected of outing Plame, he was never charged. See Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Libby
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Russian Presidential Candidate to Accept Bitcoin for Campaign
Bitcoin’s legality is still unclear in Russia, as the local government and authorities avoid to establish unified regulations and money transmission policies for bitcoin users, businesses and investors. However, a Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has significant support from the people, is officially accepting bitcoin donations for his 2018 presidential campaign.
Over the past few years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made several remarks regarding bitcoin usage, censorship and businesses. On national television and various domestic TV networks like Russia 24, he stated that bitcoin can be used as an accounting unit. As Bitcoin.com reported on July 15, Putin also stated that Russia is not opposed to bitcoin or other digital currencies.
Also read: Vladimir Putin Speaks Out in Favor of Bitcoin
Alexei Navalny, Russian Anti-Corruption Leader
Alexei Navalny is a Russian lawyer, financial activist and a strong advocate against corruption and current Russian President Vladimir Putin. Since 2009, Navalny has gained serious prominence and exposure from the Russian mainstream media by leading democratic promotions.
In the past, Nalvany continuously expressed concerns over the possibility of fair elections, stating that the presence of the United Russia party and Putin himself makes it difficult for any candidate in opposing parties to achieve success in presidential campaigns. He also noted that controversy surrounding electoral justice ultimately discouraged him and his team in leading an actual presidential campaign against United Russia.
However, on December 13, Navalny announced his official bid to run for Russian presidency in 2018. In a video released on his official social media channels, Nalvany stated that he firmly believes he can win the polls by publicizing controversial discussions and political regimes that most political leaders in Russia refuse to talk about.
“I am going to the polls, and I am going to fight to win. I am going to speak about things people refuse to talk about, but which it is high time were said,” he said.
Emphasis on the Importance of Bitcoin Donations
On his official campaign website, Nalvany and his team emphasized that it is not easy to achieve fair elections in Russia. To do so, the team needs adequate funds to finance regional headquarters and lawyers to ensure that justice is served during the elections.
The Nalvany campaign management team listed four major methods of donations or funding, including Yandex, Bank Card, Paypal and bitcoin.
“To achieve the participation of Alexei Navalny in the elections is not easy and to achieve fair elections is even more difficult. Your donations [will finance] the work of the regional headquarters and lawyers.
Donations are crucial for an opposition party that has substantially less support compared to Putin’s. More importantly, 46 million people, approximately 32% of the Russian population, are underbanked or don’t have access to banking services. Thus, for the working class seeking for anti-corruption and an advocate for democracy, decentralized currencies like bitcoin could be easier to obtain and facilitate.
“In the Russian Federation, uneven access to financial services and low levels of financial literacy have left approximately one-third (46 million) of the country’s people either unbanked or underbanked. Residents of remote regions are particularly underserved as banks find it costly and unprofitable to set up and operate branches,” said researchers at the Alliance For Financial inclusion.
Interestingly, the bitcoin price in Russia hit new multi-year highs in November, above the peak in 2013. It demonstrated the increasing demand for bitcoin but a lack of infrastructure, bitcoin exchange market and liquidity to support that demand.
Do you think the general population will fund Navalny’s presidential campaign with bitcoin? Let us know in the comments below.
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Jane Doherty (second from left) at The Institute for Science and Policy—a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Doherty steals the show at Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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Colorado Academy Senior, Jane Doherty, was the only student invitee to attend the inaugural symposium of The Institute for Science and Policy—a project of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The Institute provides tools, data, processes, and a safe environment for deliberative, productive dialog on policy issues involving science. The theme of the symposium at the museum was “The Role of Science in Policy Making.”
Doherty was invited to join a panel which included leaders in the field: Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History; Manu Platt, PhD, professor at Georgia Tech and Emory University; Jennifer Reisch, PhD, CU Denver; Roger Pielke, Jr. PhD, CU Boulder; and Charles Mann, author of 1542 and Prophets and Wizards, just to name a few.
George Sparks, President/CEO of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and a CA parent, opened the symposium by challenging all participants to think about how science can play a more prominent and apolitical role in policy-making, thereby giving policy makers more tools to make the best decisions they can for constituents.
‘Jane for President in 2020’
In an afternoon session, Doherty stole the show, as she discussed the roles and responsibilities of “Trend Makers and Trust Builders in Science.” Her fellow panelists were Tamar Haspel, of The Washington Post, and Ann Merchant, from The Science & Entertainment Exchange program of the National Academy of Sciences.
Johnson moderated the thoughtful and passion-filled exchange among the three, and on the live-scrolling Poll Everywhere forum, audience members started a thread “Jane [for President in] 2020.” Doherty’s thoughtful, gracious, and compelling responses to the role that science could play in decision-making drove home the point that the youth in our country must be part of major conversations about science and policy making.
Doherty plans on attending Georgetown University and is currently considering a major in Neurobiology and a minor in Georgetown’s Science, Policy, and International Affairs program.
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CSM Earns Gold, Silver, Bronze at NCMPR Conference
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NCMPR Pacesetter Award recipient College of Southern Maryland President Dr. Brad Gottfried
District 1 Event Awards Pacesetter to President Dr. Brad Gottfried
The College of Southern Maryland was recognized for its marketing and public relations efforts at the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR) District 1 conference Oct. 13. CSM President Dr. Brad Gottfried was awarded the districts Pacesetter Award for his strong focus on the colleges marketing, communications, advocacy and fundraising campaigns. The Pacesetter Award is presented annually in each of NCMPRs seven districts with those winners considered for the national award to be presented during NCMPRs national convention in Portland, Oregon, in March.
The college received five gold, six silver and three bronze Medallion Awards. Honored were Lead Media Relations Coordinator Dorothy Hill, Lead Desktop Publisher/Production Specialist Brenda Jones, Graphic Designer Lisa Jones, Lead Photography Coordinator Valerie Nyce , Junior Graphic Designer Katherine Reyes, Interactive Media Coordinator Marika Taylor and Web Services Director Kristen Titsworth.
Also deserving of recognition are Marketing Coordinator Lena Yates as well as Michael Shelton, former director of Creative Services, for their roles in the development of many of the award-winning marketing pieces.
“It is so rewarding to see our talented and creative marketing and public relations teams receive high honors and awards from such a prestigious organization as NCMPR. The leadership of vice presidents Theresa Johnson and Karen Smith Hupp plays a key role in our success,” said Vice President of Advancement Michelle Goodwin.
For more on Gottfrieds Pacesetter Award, visit http://www.csmd.edu/news/archive/2014/397759b41034a46bab546b0ba972c2331e0c76e1.html
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CUinDenver: CUs can create sustainable value, Radjou says
Above: Author and innovation expert Navi Radjou advises Wednesday's keynote audience to offer products and services with four qualities: affordability, quality, simplicity and sustainability. (CUNA Photo)
DENVER (7/16/15)--People across the globe dream of a more socially equitable and less wasteful way of life, and credit unions may be uniquely positioned among all financial institutions to make that a reality.
That was the message presented by concluding keynote speaker Navi Radjou--recognized internationally for his work in innovation--at this year’s America’s Credit Union Conference and World Credit Union Conference co-hosted by CUNA and the World Council of Credit Unions.
Describing an emerging global marketplace that reflects a shift of values across the world, Radjou said that credit unions could be the most prepared to answer the changing demands of consumers.
Conference attendees have heard from several inspirational keynoters during the conference, including Alan Mulally, a former president/CEO of Ford Motor Co., who led its transformation to the No. 1 automobile brand in the United States, and Luke Williams, executive director of New York University Stearns School of Business, who’s renowned for his insights into disruptive innovation.
In Radjou’s presentation Wednesday, he said that, worldwide, people are becoming more frugal. They seek discounts and better pricing on goods and services, and express a willingness to live with less.
Citizens, he said, are concerned about social inequality, worry about resource scarcity, and are “values” conscious.
Radjou described the existing economic system as “wasteful, inflexible, and disconnected from (consumers’) real needs.” He said big banks are a good example of this model that is “complex, costly, and slow to respond to customers’ needs.”
It is time, the innovation expert said, to do more and better with less; to create more value for more people in a sustainable way. Emerging markets are pioneering frugal innovations by adding value while simultaneously reducing resource cost. In the financial services arena, frugal financing is disrupting the marketplace with availability of crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending.
He offered to the credit union representatives in the room four key takeaways that will help them thrive in the future:
Remember it is possible to do more and better with less, but don’t be afraid to look to existing innovations, build on them and share them;
Offer frugal products and services with four qualities: affordability, quality, simplicity and sustainability;
Learn to play additional and different roles in the frugal economy: put on the hats of the entrepreneur, the transformer, the connector between consumer needs and solutions; and
Turn to your members to be co-creators of solutions: provide a physical space that can attract millennials to come and create solutions to their product and services needs.
Radjou’s final piece of advice was that credit union leaders must evolve from “smart” managers, who are all about ambition, to “wise” managers. This transformation will lead to a “noble purpose” for a credit union and unleash the potential of the entire organization.
For more conference highlights, click here.
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Study: Greek Tourism Generates Rising Revenue
The tourism sector has evolved into a driver of the economy, with Greece receiving 27.2 million tourists in 2017, who generated a total of 14.2 billion euros, according to INSETE's latest report.
Greece and China Aim to Boost Tourism Cooperation
The strengthening of tourism cooperation between Greece and China is a priority in the tourism ministry's strategy, according to Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura.
Eurobank: Peak Interest in Greek Tourism, Energy, Logistics Set to Create Jobs
The tourism, energy and logistics sectors are set to create 605,000 new jobs in Greece over the next decade, according to a study released by Eurobank.
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Greece Ready to Welcome Royal Pair Charles and Camilla
The Prince of Wales, Charles, accompanied by his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla Parker Bowles, will be arriving in Athens on Wednesday.
Greece to See Over 20% Rise in Arrivals from Lebanon in 2018
Greece in 2018 is expected to see tourist arrivals from Lebanon increase by more than 20%, according to the conclusions from the 3rd Greek Tourism Workshop held in Beirut.
Positive 2017 Results Spur Lampsa Group’s Future Activities
Greek hotels group Lampsa is seeing sales, profit and occupancy levels at its units on the rise, paving the way for the further development of its activities.
Greece Continues to Take Home Awards for ‘365-day’ Video
The Greek National Tourism Organization’s video “Greece – A 365-day Destination” has won two awards in tourism film festivals in Latvia and Bulgaria.
Creta Maris Receives ‘Gold Customers Choice Award’ by Sweden’s Apollo Travel
The Creta Maris Beach Resort on Crete has been honored by Apollo Travel with the “Gold Customers Choice Award 2017” for a third year.
Makedonia Palace Logo Wins First Prize at Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2018
The Makedonia Palace hotel in Thessaloniki has received the first prize in the Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2018 for the innovative design of its logo.
4th Big Data Analysis in Earth Sciences Event to Take Place on Rhodes
The island of Rhodes will host the 4th International Summer School on Big Data Analysis in Earth Sciences, which will focus on the simulation of environmental systems.
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Two Bucknell Students from this area named to Dean's List: LEWISBURG, PA (01/13/2020)-- Bucknell University has released the dean's list for outstanding academic achievement during the fall semester of the 2019-20 academic year. A student must earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a scale of 4.0
Maloney Votes to Protect Students and Reject DeVos’ Giveaway to Predatory, For-Profit Colleges: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) voted to reject Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ elimination of student loan borrower protections and rollback of safeguards preventing low-quality schools from scamming students, veterans and taxpayers. The resolution, H.J. Res. 76, will block DeVos’ new Borrower
Maloney announces his 2019 VALENTINES FOR VETS Program: REP. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN HIS 6TH ANNUAL VALENTINES FOR VETS Valentines may be mailed or dropped off at Representative Maloney's Newburgh Office located at 123 Grand St., Second Floor, Newburgh, NY 12550 Valentines are due
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Horror Film Screening: The Thing: Chiller Vision at Mahopac Public Library Horror Film Screening ofTHE THING (1982)Monday, February 36:30 pm Members of an American scientific research outpost in Antarctica find themselves battling a parasitic alien organism capable of perfectly imitating its victims. They soon discover that this
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'Happiness is a Mindset': Happiness is a Mindseta talk presented by Seema VarmaSaturday, February 151:00 pm@ Mahopac Public LibraryHappiness can be fleeting or enduring.By understanding how our choices affect our well-being we can train ourselves to regain control of our reactions to all circumstances. Participants
Maloney Helps Pass Bipartisan Bill Targeting Robocalls
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Today, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) voted in support of S. 151, the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act (TRACED Act), a bipartisan bill cracking down on spam calls, or “robocalls”. Bipartisan companion legislation has broad support in the Senate and is expected to pass this month.
“Robocalls are a nuisance and it’s time we find real solutions. I’m proud to help pass the TRACED Act, which will put an end to the persistent robocalls sent out to families across the Hudson Valley and protect New Yorkers from these scam artists,” said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.
The bill will allow consumers to block calls at no cost and empower the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate robocalls by requiring telecom providers to verify that calls are coming from real numbers, not scam or spoof numbers. It will also require the Department of Justice (DOJ) to take more action against those sending out illegal robocalls.
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Next year, HBO will be airing a new television series, a genre-bending western about killer robots. Said series is called Westworld, and if “western” plus “killer robots” wasn’t enough to excite you (you clearly unexcitable heathen), it’s also got an interesting cast (Ben Barnes, Ed Harris, Anthony Hopkins, James Marsden, Thandie Newton, Jimmi Simpson, Evan Rachel Wood, etc.) and is being helmed by Jonathan Nolan, who, yes, is related to Christopher Nolan, and is also the dude who created the pretty fantastic Person of Interest. So, yeah, I’m definitely hopeful.
But this isn’t a review of that show. This is a review of the source material its adapted from: Westworld, the 1973 western about killer robots.
The pacing is a little rough sometimes and there are some damn silly things about it, but ultimately I enjoyed watching this movie.
Peter (Richard Benjamin) and John (James Brolin) are two rich dudes on vacation in Westworld, an Old West theme park populated by robots. Attendees get the whole gunslinger experience: bar fights, shootouts, visits to brothels, all without the risk of getting injured or killed. But when the robots malfunction and start killing off all the humans, well. The authenticity becomes a little less fun.
1. Okay, so that summary is a little bit of a lie because Westworld, itself, isn’t a theme park. The actual amusement park is called Delos. Westworld is only one of three lands that tourists at Delos can visit. There’s also Medieval World and Roman World right next door. (This is really not a spoiler. You find out in the first two minutes.)
Most of the women tourists seem to be going to Roman World for the hot Roman robot men, which is kind of awesome — but also makes me wish we’d seen at least one woman who went to, say, Westworld so she could be the Sheriff or something. You know, something action-y. This isn’t really a movie for action-y women, or for women with interesting characters, or even for women with more than five lines of dialogue apiece.
My big problem with Medieval and Roman World is that they feel off balance with the rest of the story. We keep checking in with them to see how the Quickly Worsening Robot Situation is going, but since the two main characters we actually care about (well, sorta) are in Westworld, it’s hard to work up much interest in Obnoxious and Obviously Minor Character Dude in Medieval World. I’m not convinced we need to spend so much time in these lands. Or even any, TBH.
2. Also, as a woman? While I suppose feeling up muscly robots in Roman World could be fun, here’s a list of other Imaginary Worlds I’d personally rather go to:
Noir World
Ninja World
Slasher World
Faerie World
Wow, “world” really stops looking like a word after you type it enough times. Moving on.
3. Honestly, I can absolutely see the appeal of going to a place like Westworld. And if it was a real place (and didn’t cost a thousand dollars a day) I would absolutely sign up . . . but I’d have a lot of questions first, questions that this movie does not, in my mind, answer satisfactorily (or in some cases, even pose). Like . . .
A. How do you keep the tourists from dying even when the robots are functioning properly?
So the movie at least does answer my immediate question: what’s to stop the tourists (with their very real guns and bullets) from shooting the other tourists? Well, apparently, the guns only work when fired at robots. (At least, until everything goes all to hell.) So, okay, that’s good.
However, getting shot is far from the only way to get hurt in Westworld.
What keeps one dude from killing another dude with his bare hands? I know Security is watching the tourists’ every move, but it doesn’t take all that long to to fatally injure someone in a bar fight, whether accidentally or on purpose. “Ha-ha, I’m flying across the bar, but I hit my head wrong on the corner of this table and now I’m dead, whoops.” Just how many liability forms do you have to sign to get into this place, anyway?
For that matter, what happens if a man tries to rape a human woman, thinking she’s a pleasure robot, not, say, a tourist in a princess dress or serving wench costume? What if he doesn’t stop even after he finds out, and just pretends he never understood? (“Oh no, Officer, I thought saying, ‘No,’ over and over again was part of her programming! I didn’t even think to look at her hands, I was all in the moment.”) I just feel like there’s a lot of safety concerns here that this place isn’t addressing, besides Killer Robot Problems. (On the upside, Killer Robot Problems is absolutely my newest imaginary band name.)
B. How do you always fulfill your customers’ dream fantasies if two of them have simultaneously opposing desires?
At one point in the movie, Peter and John want to run roughshod over the lawless western town. At the same time, this banker dude (Dick Van Patten) decides to become the Sheriff there. The plot turns so that Killer Robots become the more serious concern here, but say the robots had behaved themselves: what happens when it’s Peter and John versus the Banker Dude? (Or even two dudes who want to be Sheriff at the same time?)
Teaming up with or against the other tourists sounds like it’d be part of the fun, but without an official storyline to keep things moving in an organized fashion, what’s to stop, say, Peter and John from taking over and throwing Banker Dude in a shack for their two weeks? (Or vice versa.) Westworld’s whole premise seems to be “anything goes,” but if anything really does go, how does everyone end up being happy with their experience — because nobody is gonna be like, “Well, I spent a little over ten grand to get locked in a shed, but hey, that’s authenticity right there!” Are there mechanisms in play to keep opposing forces from having the upper hand for too long? Are the robots programmed to join sides?
C. Seriously, just how authentic is too authentic?
And by that I mean is there indoor plumbing? Because I can tell you right now, I’m not paying fourteen thousand dollars to shit in a bucket for two weeks.
I know, I know. I’m not hardcore. This comes up with camping all the time, where I am decidedly middle ground. It doesn’t really seem like camping to me if you’re sleeping in an RV, but if the camping facility doesn’t have running water, dudes, I am OUT. A vacation without a functioning toilet is, in my opinion, a failure of a vacation. I’m aware other people are of different minds about this. I’m just saying. I could forego my strawberry margaritas for some shitty whiskey. I could give up my dream mattress for a lumpy little bed. But I would never willingly sign up for any trip that’s like, “Toilets are for whiners. Be gritty. Be REAL.”
4. At the same time, though . . . Westworld is weirdly, like, not authentic enough? Like, okay, part of the thrill of going to play in the Old West is, undoubtedly, getting into gunfights. I totally get that. But Peter’s first gunfight is so stilted and artificial, I don’t really get how you’d feel any thrill from it.
With mild spoilers, here’s basically how this goes: our chief antagonist, the robot Gunslinger (Yul Brynner) rudely knocks into Peter at a bar, and while Peter’s initially all for letting this slide, John keeps nudging him to get into the spirit of things and shoot that motherfucker. Helpfully, the Gunslinger keeps cueing Peter with barbed one-liners, and Peter eventually decides to (awkwardly) go with it. And while it’s obviously good that the robots are programmed to never actually hit you, the Gunslinger draws his gun at roughly the same speed as a 97-year-old great-grandfather whose holster also happens to be full of viscous honey.
There’s just, there’s no challenge to this at all, like not even the illusion of challenge. Peter shoots the robot dead, and I’m like . . . uh, yay? Where’s the experience in that? The whole thing takes place in under two minutes, and then it’s just done. Peter, at least, seems to get into it (you know, he learns the WILL TO KILL), but I’m like, Dude, if I’m paying so much money for all this, I’d want my true CYOA experience, you know? I want, like, actual plot consequences and whatnot, like, a whole story built around my choices, not just some 3D target practice.
(In the interest of being fair, I should note that Peter’s actions on Day 2 do actually have some – very brief – story consequences, so that’s cool at least. It just doesn’t seem very consistent, and I think the bigwigs at Delos could learn something from checking out, I don’t know, a point-and-click or text adventure game or something.)
5. Let’s talk briefly about our heroes: Peter and John.
In some shots, Brolin is seriously rocking a Christian Bale look.
Here’s what I find interesting about them: when we first meet P&J, I really thought John was the protagonist of the piece, and not just because I’m more familiar with James Brolin than Richard Benjamin. It seemed like John had that whole stoic cowboy thing going on, while Peter seemed far more like the nerdy comic relief who was all excited about the big guns but clearly didn’t know a thing about them.
Once they arrive at Westworld, however, the two friends immediately switch roles. Peter never really becomes stoic, but he does clearly shift from neurotic sidekick to Protagonist with a Moral Compass. John, meanwhile, suddenly turns into the obnoxious frat boy BFF type, not totally awful, but with way more confidence than actual competence. To be clear: this isn’t really a complaint, I just find it interesting, particularly because I doubt it was intentional.
6. Yul Brynner is also kind of interesting here.
Not because he actually displays any real sort of character — he’s pretty much Killer Robot and nothing else — but because of how he moves. There’s a very slow, deliberate pace to all of his movements that immediately reminded me of slasher killers like Michael Myers. Also: the Terminator. And according to IMDb trivia, anyway, both John Carpenter and Arnold Schwarzenegger were influenced by Brynner’s performance, which is pretty cool. I love shit like that.
Also kind of a cool little homage for Western buffs: Yul Brynner is wearing pretty much the exact same thing he wore in The Magnificant Seven. Considering he’s actually a bad guy in this one, the black hat seems particularly fitting.
7. While we’re on the subject of fashion, though, let’s talk about the laughable costumes from Medieval World.
Look, I don’t know a damn thing about historical accuracy when it comes to period piece costumes. If I ever watched Reign, I’d probably be nodding my head and going, “Sure, that looks legit.” But these clothes . . . they’re so colorful and ridiculous. I know this movie was made in the 70’s, but damn. It’s like they’re trying to adapt a Disney cartoon.
8. Also hilarious: bright red blood.
Oh, 70’s. Your pacing sometimes drives me crazy, but your super vibrant blood that pretty much just looks like red paint will always make me smile.
9. As far as pacing goes . . . eh, it’s okay, I guess. A little slow, which isn’t exactly unusual for the decade, but the setup could work (an hour of build, a half-hour of BLOODY ACTION) if I really cared about any of the characters. Unfortunately, my investment in them is so-so at best, so occasionally the story feels like it’s dragging a bit.
There’s a lot of potential in Westworld, though, and the concept’s so enjoyable that I’m really curious to see where a TV show goes with it. Hopefully, they’ll do something with robots’ rights? There are definitely some uncomfortable things in this movie, like when the pleasure robot refuses to have sex with one dude, and the Delos Staff are basically like, “That’s not supposed to happen! Fix that robot bitch immediately!” and I’m like, “Oh-ho, do we have some things to talk about, men.”
10. I’m also hoping they go into this Robot Disease a little more. Generally speaking, I don’t usually want or need a lot of details about why something is happening, like, I rarely care why the zombies have come — the zombies are here. Let’s just deal with them. But in this particular instance, this barely touched upon robot disease felt pretty groundbreaking, like I’m not sure it’s the first computer virus in film, but it’s certainly the first one I can think of — but the movie really only spends about half a minute on it. I’m not usually much for technobabble, but this could have been pretty interesting stuff.
11. And of course I assume that special effects will be significantly better in 2016 than they were in 1973. Actually, some of the effects here are kind of cool, like when they remove the Gunslinger’s face at one point for repairs? That seemed pretty awesome.
Considerably less awesome was Robot Vision:
Apparently, this was a really big deal, like it actually was the first instance of Robot Vision in movies. Which, normally, would be pretty awesome, but all I could think while watching this was, Dude, how does this motherfucker see SHIT if this is his worldview? Everything’s just hideously blurry, like a drunk watching static on an old television screen.
12. Finally, before Spoilers, I just have to mention one cameo:
Her character really only has a couple of short scenes, but my fondness for Lwaxana Troi means that I am pretty much always happy when I find Majel Barrett in something. Here she plays a madam who later gets into a bar fight, and I would happily have watched more scenes with her.
Alas, we spent most of that time in Medieval World instead. Boo, hiss.
First: does Peter really break out of jail with explosive tea? Okay, then.
That settled, let me go ahead and skip to the good stuff: John bites the big one.
It’s actually a pretty decent scene. The robots have been on an overnight killing spree, only Peter and John don’t know anything about it because they’ve been passed out in a bar. (I’m fine with this, though I wish we got to see more violence while they were sleeping. In general, I wish John and Peter weren’t the only real characters to care about, at least if we have to watch Roman and Medieval World. Alternatively, it might be better to just hear about Roman and Medieval World but not actually see either until Peter runs there after escaping Westworld.)
Anyway, Peter and John run into the Gunslinger. Hilariously, they both groan because they’re hungover and too tired for their third encounter with this guy. Since the Gunslinger refuses to leave them alone out of common decency, John decides he’ll kill him this time around. Unfortunately, he basically tells the Gunslinger he can have the first draw (it’s a line the Gunslinger himself says earlier) and the Gunslinger, of course, shoots him dead. Then he turns to Peter.
And the chase is on.
Peter runs for his life through Westworld into Roman and Medieval World. But he must not care very much about his life because he runs like a girl in high heels in a slasher movie. Dude, no. I get that you’re tired and all, but this is entirely unacceptable. Part of the problem, I’m sure, is that the actor never really manages to sell exhausted. Mostly, he just seems like he can’t be bothered to bust out of a light jog, like he’s auditioning for slow motion Baywatch or something. It’s ridiculous.
While Peter’s warm-up jogging for his life, all the scientists at Delos are suffocating/getting boiled to death in the Control Room. Frankly, this feels a little convenient to me, especially since we only see one employee outside of that room in all of the Worlds. (He’s killed by the Gunslinger.) And yeah, I just don’t buy it. Three worlds, and those are really the only employees around? One roaming tech and, like, thirteen dead guys in a room? I call bullshit.
Eventually, Peter manages to make it to the Employees Only section of the park, where he throws acid (handily labelled) at the Gunslinger’s face. He acts like this has 100% killed the robot for sure, even though this dude is still visibly shuffling to the sink. Meanwhile, Peter decides to mosey on out of the room and stand around this hallway for a while. Such an asshole.
Well, of course the Gunslinger isn’t dead and he comes back to life, like, maybe three times or something for One Last Scare — the last of which is totally hysterical.
Mek and I cracked up so hard.
Despite his best efforts, though, Peter continues not to die, even when he decides to untie a woman in a dungeon without checking her fucking palms. (That’s how you tell if a person’s a human or a robot. Robots have, like, wrinkled palms. It’s weird.) The movie ends with Peter walking through Medieval World, presumably the only man left alive, but it should really end with him dead, like, five times over because this dude does not deserve to live.
You are the very worst survivor girl, Peter.
Fun concept and enjoyable enough movie, though I can’t help but think of, like, sixteen different ways I’d like to improve it. Still, it’s a pretty decent little SF western. I’d love to see more in that sub genre.
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Amusement parks are death, at least if Michael Crichton is to believed. I’m trying to decide just how much the Pirates of the Caribbean ride must have traumatized him to have come up with both Westworld AND Jurassic Park.
Also, you need not run screaming from killer robots. A light stroll, apparently, will do just fine.
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8 Responses to “Boy, Have We Got a Vacation For You.”
plunderpuss says:
… I just want you to know that i enjoy your tags SO MUCH.
mygeekblasphemy says:
Yay! I’m glad someone thinks they’re funny besides me. 🙂
skhoot says:
That last scare was terrifying in 1973. I was 4 1/2.
I’ll give 4 1/2 year-olds a pass, I suppose. 🙂
fatpie42 says:
I love this movie. This is ABSOLUTELY a case of ridiculously slow 70s pacing and it’s not on the same level as Jurassic Park. But it’s still a must-see sci-fi classic.
While I find myself nodding and saying “of course he was”, hearing that John Carpenter was inspired by this is really cool.
Yeah, I’m totally glad I watched it. It’s such a fun concept. There are a lot of places to go with the premise, too, which I always find exciting.
Also yeah, I thought that was a pretty neat bit of trivia too. Though now I kind of want to rewatch Halloween and pretend Yul Brynner is stalking after Jamie Lee Curtis. 🙂
Michael John Houghton says:
I remember actually loving how awkward the early “gunfight” is, because the movie was pretty much making fun of its rich boy tourists. It also made me think of playing early video games on the “easy” setting, or like the warm-up missions in games where they’re teaching you how to open doors and switch guns. I took that whole scene as comedy, which may just be me being twisted.
I also remember thinking that the other two worlds were making no attempt at accuracy — they were trying to give people what they WANT from Medieval and Rome worlds, and thus pretty much making fun of those tourists too. But I’m totally one to give filmmakers too much credit for ideas that I read into things…
And I do remember watching it thinking that it must have influenced both Terminator and Jurassic Park.
No, I could see that interpretation about easy settings and warm-up missions. And I do actually like the idea of the creators giving people what they want from the worlds, not what those worlds were actually like. Ideally, though, I’d think you’d have one of the scientists behind-the-scenes comment on this at least once, if that was the filmmaker’s intention. (It’s just those Medieval World costumes, man. They’re so egregiously bad. I’m still laughing at them.)
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Drug evolution : p-aminobenzoic acid as a building block
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The core or the building block is an important component in drug development. In this article, we propose and review p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) as a building block used in the design of drugs or drug candidates. PABA is frequently found as a structure moiety in drugs. For example, in a database of 12111 commercial drugs, 1.5% (184 drugs) were found to contain the PABA moiety. These drugs have a wide range of therapeutic uses, such as: sun-screening, antibacterial, antineoplastic, local anesthetic, anticonvulsant, antiarrhythmic, anti-emetic, gastrokinetic, antipsychotic, neuroleptic, and migraine prophylactic. This article reviews the molecular targets and the mechanisms of these activities. Drugs containing PABA also show a wide range of structural diversity. Of the 184 PABA containing drugs identified, 95 different substitutions were found at the carboxylic group and 61 were found at the amino group of the building block. Substitution on the aromatic ring was also diverse. 13, 3, and 13 different side chains were found to modify positions 2, 3 and 5 of the aromatic ring respectively. In some drugs, the amino group is further substituted to form tertiary amine (4 different side chains). Substitutions at the carboxyl and amino groups of PABA are particularly suitable for the generation of combinatorial libraries. Just by reshuffling the identified side chains of the 184 PABA containing drugs, 4.5 million compounds can be generated. Consequently, PABA fits well as a building block for a general chemical library of 'drug-like' molecules with a wide range of functional and structural diversity.
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Trapeze artist Leona Dare’s real name was Susan Adeline Stewart, though she sometimes appeared as “Zoe” before meeting and marrying Thomas Hall, one half of an acrobatic duo known as The Dare Brothers. In 1879, Thomas took her to court to regain possession of the equipment she used.
“The apparatus with which the beautiful, celebrated and courageous Leona enthralls an admiring public was exhibited in court and witnesses marvelled at its construction, novelty and value. The jury agreed on a valuation of £100.00 for the apparatus, without which Mrs Dare will not be able to continue her triumphant professional career.
Mr Hall did not seem to be favoured with much of the society of his brilliant consort but that perhaps is the lot of those who unite with women of European reputation. An old fashioned song contains an impressive warning against the perils of an alliance with a musical lady and a somewhat similar caution appears to be needed in the case of athletic damsels.
Mrs Hall is at present in Austria but her deposition was read in court stating that she “will not return to my husband as I do not love him”. Mr Justice Denham suggested with judical humour, “this may be the result of teaching your wife to fly.”
In 1884 Leona had an accident during a performance in Spain, where she dropped her partner, who later died of his injuries.
During the act Miss Dare was seized with a nervous fit and dropped the trapeze. M. George and the apparatus dropped whirling to the floor. The audience were horror-stricken. Everyone rushed for the doors, and a panic ensued, in which many people were crushed and otherwise injured.
Miss Dare clung to the roof, screaming hysterically. She was rescued with difficulty after the excitement had somewhat subsided, and is now confined to her bed from exhaustion following the shock. M. George has since, by cable, been reported dead, and Miss Dare in a precarious condition.’
In 1888, Leona Dare recovered to team up with Swiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini. He would take her, suspended under the basket of his balloon, to great heights while she performed her acrobatics. Their ascents in June and July 1888 at the Crystal Palace in London went on to make them world-famous.
Tags: circus, flying, history
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On March 21, 2010 at 7:30 am Seraphine said:
i guess she wasn’t afraid of heights. being able to “fly” is an exquisite skill to have.
you’ll *never* find me on a trapeze. even with a net.
On March 21, 2010 at 11:38 am nursemyra said:
I think I’d give it a go… with the right instructor
On March 21, 2010 at 8:00 am Daddy Papersurfer said:
My Uncle married a slack rope walker. She always insisted that slack rope walking was much harder than tight rope walking …… I’m now wondering how they met – can’t ask them though as they popped their clogs years ago …..
how about yoga slack lining/walking?
On March 21, 2010 at 8:56 am Scott Oglesby said:
Trapeze artists have always inspired and amazed me. I wrote about it jokingly but it is shocking how many were (and are) serious alcoholics. That may impress me more than anything else.
Alcoholic trapeze artists impress you?
How could they not? They have to be the highest functioning alcoholics in the world!
On March 21, 2010 at 11:21 am lulu labonne said:
Handy Bandy – best name ever for a sorcerer.
Man on Wire – best tightrope film ever! Actually it’s one of the best films ever
On March 21, 2010 at 4:03 pm Bearman said:
I preferred Mel Gibson in Bird on a Wire.
Lulu – I LOVED that film! Those wonderful old movies of him and his friends when they were young.
It really pained me that the friendships faded away, the interviews were so sad. Do you remember the part where Annie was trying to explain the feeling of watching him and there were tears in her eyes?
On March 22, 2010 at 12:21 am Fundamental Jelly said:
Agreed, “Man on Wire,” is an awesome classic. Nice wheelbarrow btw.
On March 21, 2010 at 11:44 am Mark Trail said:
Nice to see the etching of the couple excecuting “The Wheelbarrow.” The Mrs. and I like to roll that one out in the garden and we’ve found that if we maintain the right angle we can also transport a six-pack and a 20lb. bag of potting soil for up to 50 yards. I love Springtime.
Dino Kale
I know I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again… your poor wife
On March 21, 2010 at 12:28 pm Mark Trail said:
It’s more romantic than it sounds.
Rocko Tiller
On March 21, 2010 at 12:47 pm daisyfae said:
the ‘man gorilla’ in the photo is my former boss… i’m quite certain of that.
On March 21, 2010 at 2:13 pm renalfailure said:
Funny, I throw caution to the wind when I’m with an athletic damsel.
On March 21, 2010 at 4:56 pm jams O'Donnell said:
Acrobatics from a balloon? I’ll pass on that one. As for the, ahem, wheelbarro, I doubt the not-wife would care to be used to carry garden tools….
On March 21, 2010 at 8:45 pm Laura said:
Letting wives learn to fly has led to all kinds of problems historically!!
On March 21, 2010 at 11:25 pm syncopated eyeball said:
Wheeee! My friend Wolfie does Cloud Swing which is a big loop of rope to sit, stand and do tricks on; sort of like a trapeze without the bar.
I’d like to watch him one day
Ha ha! Wolfie is a she! I’ll see if I can arrange something, Nursie. x
okey dokey 🙂
On March 21, 2010 at 11:52 pm Gropius said:
Oooooh. I can only imagine what might become of myself mentally if I dropped someone to their death. Zoe, a dangerous gal. Although that stand up gig did look enjoyable.
On March 22, 2010 at 1:24 am Malach the Merciless said:
I like trapeeze artists, I do
and I like you, I do.
See? I even put on a special outfit for you!
On March 22, 2010 at 9:13 am sabrina said:
I think i wouldn’t mind ‘going’ that way…falling during a trapeze act…beats the old boring ‘died peacefully in her sleep’ crap
oh saby, I’d rather die in my sleep thanks
On March 22, 2010 at 9:28 am Mitzi G Burger said:
Aerial art was so super-fashionable a few years ago – trapeze acts at parties were de rigeur. I like the trapeze symbolism throughout that Wim Wenders movie ‘Wings of Desire’ (or was it his other one ‘Far Away So Close’?) Either way, it didn’t have a hot air balloon like Leona did!
On March 22, 2010 at 4:14 pm Mike McLaren said:
Leona dared to be different. Good for her!
On March 22, 2010 at 5:53 pm Thomas said:
It makes Chris Angels “hanging from a helicopter suspended by hooks in my flesh” act seem a bit timid.
Did he do that? wow….
On March 22, 2010 at 8:48 pm anaglyph said:
Gotta love that ‘judical humour’….
On March 22, 2010 at 9:56 pm 70steen said:
your research into these heroic women is superb… dropping a partner now has has a whole new meaning!!
On March 23, 2010 at 1:03 am bschooled said:
Nice wheelbarrow, but why does the woman always have to do all the work?
Regardless, I love these stories, NM!
hot air certainly caused their relationship to soar to new highs.
On June 2, 2012 at 8:03 pm Christopher Fox said:
Leona Dare aka Susan Adeline Stuart was my great grandfathers sister. She was a very interesting lady and fearless. In her memorablia at the MAC museum in Spokane, she had articles on wing walking. Laws were enacted because of her, against putting children in harms way. She started when she was 10 or so years old, She is an enigma of sorts to follow her career. She showed what women could do in a man’s world of the time. Some of the details above are not true but alot are. She was her own publicist and could tell a good yarn to bolster her image. At one point she made $1000 dollars a week when men were making a dollar a day. One balloon ride with spelterini was hit by a train, Landing in Russia they were almost killed by peasants shortly after landing. She met most of the crowned heads of Europe and knew many important people. It is said that her brother my great grandfather Meredith Leonard Stuart learned gymnastic from his sister. It is purported that he worked for Buffalo Bill Cody. That is how Leona Dare found where her brother was from wild bill cody. There was another brother John but nothing found of him as yet.
On June 3, 2012 at 1:21 am nursemyra said:
you come from great stock Christopher.
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Black Girls Rock and Rule: The Seshen, Bells Atlas, Zakiya Harris (Live review)
Live review/The Seshen, Bells Atlas, Zakiya Harris, May 8 @ New Parish
Black Vocals Matter: The Seshen’s Akasha Orr
Black women are the new rock stars.
That was the take-away from the recent triple-header bill of The Seshen, Bells Atlas, and Zakiya Harris with Elephantine. When was the last time you saw a lineup with bands all featuring black female frontpeople? The bill worked because all three acts have a similar sound; one could call it a trend, but it seems more like an unintended coincidence.
Zakiya Harris
If we are witnessing the birth of a new genre, let’s call it Emo-Soul. That sounds much better than “Trip-Hop, take two” and avoids the awful, inorganic “neo” prefix applied to urban soul music since the late 90s. Emo-Soul is emotive and soulful; it utilizes electronic treatments and ambient soundscapes to counterbalance the plaintive yet raw emphasis on female vocals. Live instruments are a deciding factor in the Emo-Soul sound, distinguishing it from discofied electronic club music. But there’s something else which is created when it all comes together: a tribal-like sense of togetherness, of holding disparate elements together to form a cohesive whole.
It’s rare to see a show where any of the acts on the bill could have headlined, but this was that show.
An obvious reference point for the Emo-Soul sound is 90s act Morcheeba, who contrasted upfront soul diva musings with ethereal, atmospheric backgrounds. Emo-Soul revisits that period, but provides something new. Or maybe it’s just that the context has shifted, and there’s a more recent immediacy with hearing the voices of black women – call it the #blacklivesmatter effect. This show’s trifecta of women straight up handling thangs in a live context served as a reminder that social justice can extend to a cultural platform as well as a political one.
Zakiya Harris has been on a roll recently, but this might have been the best show yet for her band Elephantine. Although Harris is the featured frontwoman, Elephantine’s sound is very much an ensemble sound which relies on vocal interplay between Harris and singers Tossie Long and Solas B. Lalgee, backed up by musicians Kevin McCann, Ajayi Jackson, and Rashad Pridgen. Their Facebook page describes their music as “Afropunk/Afrobeat/Afropop,” none of which are perfect descriptors. Elephantine is too smooth to be punk, too compact a band to be Afrobeat, and too urban and Americanized to be Afropop; The Afro- part of their sound is mainly reflected in their Afrocentric attitude. With Lalgee absent due to a concurrent gig with the Oakland School for the Arts, Long got some extended stage time, which seemed apt, as it was her birthday. What was most impressive, though, about Harris and Elephantine was their ability to create a mood and set a vibe which engaged the crowd. No matter how emotive a band might want to be, it doesn’t mean diddly unless it translates into audience acceptance. Harris and Long were clearly feeling themselves—but so were the people watching them and hearing their music.
Sandra Lawson-Ndu of Bells Atlas
Bells Atlas came next, and delivered on all the hype surrounding them. They describe their sound as “kaleidosonic soul punch,” whatever that means. In this context, it means they picked up the gauntlet thrown down by Harris and Elephantine and raised the energy level even higher. Frontwoman Sandra Lawson-Ndu was simply divalicious, dropping poetic lyrics which came from a galaxy beyond overly-simplistic R&B, while maintaining a spellbinding stage presence. Fine-tuning the hall’s emotional resonance like aural MDMA, Bells Atlas’ sound made you want to love your neighbor, or at least give them a tight hug. It’s no easy task to make the unfamiliar seem familiar, but Lawson-Ndu was so locked into her groove, she accomplished that with ease, assisted by guitarist Derek Barber, drummer Geneva Harrison, and bassist Doug Stuart. Lawson-Ndu’s fluid voice has plenty of elasticity to twist around lyrical phrases and sounded particularly tasty when trilling the upper register. It’s a potent weapon which was thankfully the focal point of the band’s presentation. If Bells Atlas’ musical backgrounds seemed like a lush rainforest of alternative, yet not inaccessible, tones and melodies, Lawson-Ndu’s vocals were a tropical waterfall of soulful expression.
It’s rare to see a show where any of the acts on the bill could have headlined, but this was that show. The top-billed Seshen are another buzz band who have been building up a following (which extends outside of the Bay; the group has signed to UK label Tru Thoughts), and like the two acts who preceded them, fit into the category of Emo-Soul: a vocal-heavy sound with both electronic and organic elements. At the center of The Seshen’s dynamic is the interplay between vocalists Lalin St. Juste and Akasha Orr. At times, they resemble a Supreme-esque soul duo from the 60s, but with a much more modernistic, even futuristic, take on things. Then again, they could also be called retro in the sense that they do recall the high points of the Trip-Hop era, which, again, revolves around emotional resonance – and in The Seshen’s case, percussion and dub effects instead of electric guitar. On a night when black (female) voices were triumphant and reigning, St. Juste and Orr both wore “Black Lives Matter” t-shirts, emphasizing the point that soulfulness begins with compassion.
Lalin St. Juste of The Seshen
Categories: Events, Music Review | Tags: ambient, Bay Area indie music, Bells Atlas, Black Lives Matter, electronic, Elephantine, Emo Soul, female vocalists, Morcheeba, The Seshen, Trip Hop, Zakiya Harris | Permalink.
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12 More Days of Black History Month! Fall in Love with Black Beauty
So far, 2015’s Black History Month has been an amazing whirlwind of cultural goodness, especially here in the Bay Area — proving the point that Black Art Matters. Here at Oakulture, we thought you might appreciate a handy-dandy guide to the remaining BHM events this month, which include some incredible visual art representations, art workshops, kid-friendly events, musical appreciation nights, tributes to Black Power and Civil Rights martyrs, global reggae, movement-inspired jazz, spoken word, discussions of black love, reflections on Africa, dance exhibitions and classes, second-line parades, drum lessons, food/wine, and much more!!!
ONGOING:
Black Artists on Art Legacy Exhibit celebrates the 46th anniversary of Black Artists on Art Volume 1 and commences a series of activities that will surround the new books in their development phases, Through 3/28, Free Admission, Oakstop, 1721 Broadway, Oakland.
“Heirloom” art by Bryan Keith Thomas
Joyce Gordon Gallery presents “Heirloom” by Bryan Keith Thomas. “Heirloom” is the celebration of the Black experience through its historic symbols; cotton, roses and the African and African American image. Through 2/28. Free Admission. Joyce Gordon Gallery, 406 Fourteenth St, Oakland.
Jeff Blankfort’s ‘Fight the Power!’ photography exhibition. ‘FIGHT THE POWER‘: Exploring similarities in the lived and photographed expressions of Black American and Palestinian resistance movements against ethnic persecution. Through 2/28. Free admission. African American Arts & Culture Complex (AAACC), 762 Fulton Street, SF.
Ryan Nicole Austin stars in “Xtigone”
African-American Shakespeare Company presents Xtigone with Ryan Nicole. Emerging Chicago playwright Nambi E. Kelley’s contemporary urban adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone is an impassioned response to the recent untimely deaths of children in her native city as a result of gang violence, which has risen sharply in the past several years. Through 3/8, $15-34, Buriel Clay Theatre, African-American Art & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton Street, SF.
Motown on Mondays (MOM). This popular weekly dance party plays one thing: music from Motown, the groundbreaking Detroit label which gave us Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder. Of course, that also includes cover versions and rare gems. With resident DJ Platurn and special guest DJs. Monday evenings, 9pm-2am, Free admission, Legionnaire Saloon, 2272 Telegraph Ave, Oakland.
“Palestine Solidarity,” by Deadeyes
“Mindful Visions”: Seven black male visual artists offering positivity as a way from ambiguous obstacles during life’s stage. Featuring Deadeyes, Jarvis Corner, Jimi Evins, Raymond L. Haywood, Raymond Holbert, Bryan Keith Thomas, and TheArthur Wright. CD release party 2/17 for Sound Oasis: Composer Darryl Pulley, Keys Dave Moltzen, Bass Gearon Crockett. Suggested Donation $5/adult. Through 3/3, Public Viewing Hours Mon-Fri 12:30-4:30. Contact (510) 208-5651 or receptionist@prescottjoseph.org. Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Advancement, 920 Peralta St, Oakland.
Oakland is Hellzapoppin #4 Lindy Hop Intensive with legendary Norma Miller and other special guests. Ms. Miller is again inspired to share with the black community the rich legacy of dances from the Harlem Renaissance through dance workshops, films and history talks. All levels welcome. Feb 15-25, Eastside Arts Alliance, 2277 International Blvd, Oakland. Buy Tickets.
The Arts Council of San Leandro presents “The Mind’s Eye” a group photography exhibit by Oakland Renaissance Photographers Collective. The show features the work of Kamau Amen-Ra, Edward Miller, Tasin Sabir, Tumani Onbiyi, Jim Dennis, Malaika H. Kambon and Asual Kwahuumba and is a continuation of a series of exhibits that document the life experience of people from Africa to the Americas and beyond. Free Admission. A reception with the artists will be held on Feb 22nd 12-3pm, San Leandro Main Library Auditorium, 300 Estudillo Avenue, San Leandro. Exhibit extends thru Mar 31st. Contact Missy Brooks (510) 567-2621.
ONE-OFF EVENTS:
MJ’s Brass Boppers
MARDI GRAS DAY PARADE will start at 5:30 pm at Awaken Cafe (1429 Broadway) and proceed towards The New Parish (579 18th St) including the following groups: East Bay Brass Band, MJ’s Brass Boppers, Batala, Blue Bone Express, Dimensions Dance Theater, SambaFunk! Carnaval Explosion, and more. Family-friendly event.
MARDI GRAS AFTER PARTY
Fat Tuesday with Katdelic, MJ’s Brass Boppers, East Bay Brass Band & DJ ManCub. 9pm, $10-15. New Parish, 579 18th St, Oakland.
Afia Walking Tree & Drum Mobile Kick-off FunDRUM Raising Party provide the snacks, drinks, irie ambiance, and great experience. You bring your phone, laptop or ipad and come network, sing, and dance! The DRUM MOBILE will provide self-sufficiency skills for people (including peoples of African descent with limited resources) to feed themselves through learning hands-on permaculture practices and bringing the experience of music (drum, dance, songs of the African Diaspora) to children who would otherwise not have access. Free Admission, 5-9pm, Urban Drum Ranch, 320 Oakland Ave., Oakland.
The Nile Project: more than a dozen instrumentalists and vocalists from Sudan, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda have collaborated to use the power of music to raise awareness of the cultural and environmental challenges along the world’s longest river. The result is a new sound of a shared Nile identity, resulting in the album Aswan, and a world tour which comes to Berkeley in time for BHM. $18-$36, 7:30pm, Zellerbach Hall (UC Berkeley campus).
The Nile Project After-Party: Balkan & Beyond Presents: A Benefit for the Nile Project. Join the Nile Project in a post-Zellerbach homecoming night of celebration with East African music and DJ Zeljko. Proceeds will benefit the Nile Project’s university programs in Africa. Bissap Baobob Oakland, 381 15th St.
Sonido Baylando y Kulcha Latino present ALIKA & NUEVA ALIANZA with Andrés DJ-Stepwise, Deuce Eclipse, DJ EL Kool Kyle, Orlando Torriente, Ras Rican, Erick Santero y mas, Pre-sale $10, 8pm-2am, Berkeley Underground, 2284 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley.
Mau-Mau Tech: The Making of a Black University at Oakland’s Merritt College. On March 15, 1971, Black students took over the administration building at Oakland’s Merritt College to protest the relocation of the campus from the city’s flatlands to the hills. This presentation by journalist and scholar Rasheed Shabazz will cover Oakland history and education politics in the 1950s and 1960s, leading up to the relocation of Merritt College, but will primarily focus on the vision for what might have been called, “Huey P. Newton College.” Free admission, 8pm, Quilombo, 2313 San Pablo Ave.
“Speeches of A Dream: Black History Month Celebration”: A Night of Poetry, Art, and Music celebrating Black History Month. Open Mic welcomed, Free Admission, RSVP Required. 6-8pm, Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, 1428 Alice St, Oakland.
50th Anniversary of the Martyrdom of Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1-10pm, Lighthouse Mosque, 620 42nd St., Oakland
Brass Magic, Zakiya Harris, the Jurassic: Zakiya Harris’ future soul is not to be missed! $7-$10, 8pm, Awaken Cafe, 1429 Broadway, Oakland.
February 21-22nd
The Art of Living Black (TAOLB) Open Studios 2015 is the Bay Area’s longest running annual African American exhibition of its kind showcasing a wide range of visual media. Artists include Tai Belize, Ajuan Mance, Karen Oyekanmi, Atiba Sylvia Thomas, Howard Mackey, Valerie Brown Troutt, Lyn Rockwell, and AJ. 11am-5pm, Mills College Student Union, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland.
The 11th Annual Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now celebrates the legacy of African & African American dance, art and culture with performances, master classes and special events. Weekend 1 features Byb Chanel Bibene, Antoine Hunter in collaboration with Ellen Sebastian Chang, Brontez Purnell (Sat only), Carmen Roman, Phylicia Stroud, Nafi Watson, Kharyshi Wiginton & Jene Levine-Snipes (Sun only), Jamie Wright (Sun only) 7:30pm. Tix $10-20. Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, SF.
Learn to Jook with Ladia Yates. She is a youtube sensation, has danced with Missy Elliott and was most recently featured in Janelle Monae’s music video “Tightrope.” Currently she is dancing with Usher. 12-1:30pm, $15 Advance Tix. Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab, 301 8th St, San Francisco.
Turf Inc. dancers at Art & Soul Festival
TURFinc 14 x The LAB present TURFIN AGAINST THE WORLD Part II All Styles Dance Battle. A 2 on 2 All Style Tournament hosted by Phat Boi & Johnny 5. Special Performances by Oakland Boogaloo Conservatory (OBC) BRYCE – OGMIKE -DOC with special guests YAK Films. All Ages, Family Friendly, Cover $15. 1-8pm, THE LAB, 2948 16th Street, SF.
Amir Sulaiman
Amir Sulaiman I & I Poetry Workshop Spend a day with Amir Sulaiman, Visiting Harvard Fellow, Def Poet, author & performer explores how identity and perception impact the creative process. This workshop is not just for writers and artists, but for everyone interested in exploring the spirituality of creativity. Advance Tix. 10am-4pm, Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California,1433 Madison Street, Oakland.
Honoring El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), 1-4pm, Oakland Islamic Community Center, 7901 Oakport St., Ste. 4400, Oakland.
Opening Night of sfnoir Wine & Food Festival: Shrimp, Grits & Greens. Celebrate Black cuisine, culture, and contributions to the arts. The region’s best in Black Cuisine showcases time-honored dishes with fresh adaptations from within the Diaspora. $30-50. 7-10pm, Impact Hub Oakland, 2323 Broadway.
Afro-vegan chef Bryant Terry
In Defense of Food: A Spoken Word Affair. Hosted by Bryant Terry – Chef, Educator, Author and Food Justice Activist. The spoken word artists this evening all speak about food in very different ways: its power to create and help define culture, how certain life experiences are shaped around the act of coming together to break bread, or the injustices found in people’s access to healthy and nutritious foods. Advance Tix $15. 7-10pm, Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St, SF.
MoAD After Dark in Conversation presents Collaborating Across the Aisles: Continuing the Civil Rights Movement with #BlackLivesMatter featuring keynote speaker Dr. Clarence Jones, Dr. King’s speechwriter, advisor & attorney. Panel and discussion with Dr. Joe Marshall, Dr. Mary J. Wardell-Ghirarduzzi, Ms. Neva Walker, and Mr. Jarvis Givens. 6-9pm, Tix $10-75. Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St, SF.
Feb 27-28th
Yemanja Festival 2015 celebrates the spirit of Yemanja, the African deity that honors the essential, beautiful and sometimes dangerous nature of water. Inspired by the original Yemanja Festival celebrated in Bahia, Brazil the Yemanja Arts Festival brings together celebrated artists and dancers as interpreters of art forms from the African diaspora (Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States) that pay homage to Yemanja through their respective folkloric and spiritual traditions. Featuring Conceisao Damasceno, Kimberly Miguel Mullen, Tania Santiago, Danda da Hora, Ramon Ramos Alayo, Renni Flores, Wagner Santos, Mestre Beicola, Curumins & Borboletas Dance Group. 8pm. Saturday after-party 10pm. Tix $10-22. Casa De Cultura, 1901 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley.
YGB Gold
Black Voices in Love: Africa ft. Marc Bamuthi Jospeh, Antique, YGB Gold, Dayo Milon and Keba Konte. Panel discussion featuring slides from recent journeys to Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa, and Ethiopia, African dance and drumming, and Ethiopian coffee ceremony. 6pm. Tix $12, Malonga Casquelord Center for the Arts, 1428 Alice St, Oakland.
Concha Buika On her latest and most diverse album, La Noche Más Larga, the Spanish-bred singer of African descent continues to break down the walls that surround flamenco, the root source of everything she does, but a tradition that can’t contain her ever-evolving vision. 8pm. $35-100, 8pm, Nourse Theatre, CIIS, 275 Hayes St, SF.
Black History Month Celebration with Terrence Brewer. The American improvised musical art form called jazz doesn’t exist without the roots of the African-American experience and, particularly, without gospel music. Terrence Brewer will explore gospel compositions through the eyes of a modern jazz improviser and share his own stories of growing up playing in the church and how he was inspired by sacred music and the large role gospel music played in his development. Featuring Terrence Brewer on guitar, Kevin Wong on piano and organ, Dan Parenti on acoustic and electric bass and Deszon Claiborne on drums. Tix $15, California Jazz Conservatory,
2087 Addison St, Berkeley.
Feb 28-Mar 1st
The 11th Annual Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now celebrating the legacy of African & African American dance, art and culture with performances, master classes and special events. Weekend 2 features Christal Brown, Gregory Dawson, Mauya Kerr, Robert Moses, Reginald Ray Savage, and Raissa Simpson. 7:30pm. Post-performance Q & A on Mar 1. Cake & Chat following every BCF performance. Tix $10-20. Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St, SF.
Categories: Black History Month 2015 | Tags: Alika, Amir Sulaiman, Bamuthi, Bryan Keith Thomas, Bryant Terry, Concha Buika, Keba Konte, Mardi gras 2015, Motown on Mondays, Norma Miller, The Art of Living Black, Turf Inc., Xtigone, YGB Gold, Zakiya Harris | Permalink.
I, the Jury: Critiquing Musical Mayhem
The Seshen
Sitting in on a juried panel, trying to rate the best in local music is a pretty interesting experience. The occasion? The upcoming Oakland Mayhem (formerly Oaktown Music Fest, not to be confused with Oakland Music Festival), which takes place November 13, 14 and 15 at Awaken Café. A whole host of local acts competed for some great prizes , including studio time, paid shows, free beer, flyers, hoodies, gift certificates from local bars, and swag bags. Clearly, the organizers know what musicians need. Unfortunately, I missed the first night of critical reasoning, which decided the Best Song by a Local Solo Artist. The second night, however, pitted 25 local videos against each other.
Rating videos, especially those by independent or indie-label artists, means deciding on some sort of universal criteria. I quickly determined that my process would be weighted by how well the visuals went with the song, not how good the song was on its own, or how good the video was on its own. Production values, as it turned out, varied widely. So did the stylistic range, although the videos chosen perhaps leaned more toward indie rock, with a few urban-cred vids thrown in for good measure.
On to the videos. First, some overall thoughts: It seems there are some serious quirks getting worked out in the local music scene, creating a normative metric which rests squarely left of the mainstream center. That said, the utter avoidance of cliché is difficult to achieve, even for the most innovative video treatment. At the other end of the spectrum is weirdness for weirdness’ sake, of which there was plenty. Watching some of the videos, I got the feeling some of the directors watched a lot of “Twin Peaks”-era David Lynch. The best videos tended to be the most conceptual, and closer to short films.
Looking back on what scored high on my list, I liked Art Elliot’s “Days Like This” for its unpretentious home video aesthetic and for the shots which matched the lyrics practically word-for-word. The song itself didn’t do much for me, but the video clearly made it better. OTOH, Fantastic Negrito’s “Night Has Turned to Day” resonated strongly on both an aural and visceral level. The song is a foot-stomping, hand-clapping, piano, guitar and harmonica-laced tune with a retro juke joint/voodoo soul feel, which was complemented by live performance shots, B-roll of local locations (always a plus), and montages of the artist singing, playing piano, and walking down the street. The video jump-cuts between black and white, red and blue-filtered, and “normal” lighting, striking an effective balance without getting boring. Kate Lamont’s “Birds of Brooklyn” was super-artsy, with still animation on a chalkboard—which must have been a meticulous task—providing the visual accompaniment to Lamont’s dreamy vocals and stuttering electronic drums. I also liked the use of Oakland’s inner-city streets and scraper bikes on Los Rakas’ “We Dem Rakas,” but the song, a mixtape version of a Wiz Khalifa beat with different vocals, lacked the originality to take it over the top.
Kill Freeman’s “You Wanted” was one of the more innovative videos in the competition, alternating white-screen backgrounds with jarring juxtapositions of dark-toned imagery, from butterfly fingerprints to (simulated) blood splatter. Like Fantastic Negrito, the video enhanced the song, but its austere vocals with minimal backgrounds didn’t quite move me the same way. I liked how the treatment for Saything’s “Mason Jar” used a fisheye lens to emphasize distortion and stop-motion animation for a lo-tech effect. Though it was done well, the visual treatment took on a ultra-violent tone, showing band members hung, decapitated, and self-disemboweled. A lighter feel was recovered by sOul from the O’s jazzy rap cut “Boombastic,” whose video treatment used archival footage of classic analog audio equipment and studios for backgrounds over green-screened foregrounds.
Which brings us to “the Jellybean Song” by the Fuxedos, as seen in the short film “Mimsy.” This was unquestionably the weirdest, most over-the-top video of the bunch, whose visuals could have been the love child of Dr. Demento and Devo. This one also featured violence: another ripped-out heart and a toilet smashed by a hammer, though much of the carnage was thankfully implied. Great visual effects, but in the end, I couldn’t give something that strange and disturbing my highest rating.
Totonko’s “Overgrown” eschewed literalism for abstraction, with a black and white video which emphasized out of focus shots and postmodernist pastoral backgrounds. The video was well done, but took away from the song it was attached to—an inspired mix of nu-folk, indie rock and dubsteppy percussion fills—rather than adding to it. Speaking of Devo, they may be the spiritual forefathers of the Phenomenauts, whose “Broken Robot Jerk” featured sci-fi costumes, postpunk guitar riffage, and lyrics describing a new dance. Very conceptual—and points for the life-size Rock ‘Em Sock’Em Robots—but the song got repetitive and tiring way before its endpoint.
Two of my highest rankings went to the Seshen and Zakiya Harris, who appealed to my judicial sensibilities with songs whose video treatment fit well with the music they highlighted. The Seshen’s “Unravel” is a return to the trip-hop era and everything that made it so great: expansive moodiness and downtempo beats. The “Unravel” video picked up on those themes, cutting between foreground shots of singer Lalin St. Juste and slo-mo interior shots of a house which emphasized the sense of loss and emptiness the song evokes. There’s a slight nod to “The Shining,” although the hallucinatory psychic terror is only briefly implied – just long enough to metaphorically link a haunted house with a broken heart. With lesser source material, the treatment might have seemed pretentious or disjointed, but luckily, “Unravel” is a killer song. The other judges agreed with my ruling; “Unravel” won Best in Show. (A complete list of winners is here.)
Harris’ “Shapeshifter,” OTOH, is much more uptempo, a future-soul banger which features amazingly-voiced, layered vocals and lots of costume changes and fancy dance moves. The video lends the rooftops and sidewalks of Oakland a cosmopolitan, almost Parisian, feel, and Harris’ makeup and hair is absolutely perfect.
Unfortunately, we’re running out of space to talk about the other jury panel session I attended, for Best Song by a Group, so I’ll quickly run down the songs I liked, beginning with Antique Naked Soul’s “Money.” The beatboxed backgrounds, blended with neo-Motownish female vocals and Candice Antique Davis’ powerful leads and “real talk” lyrics make this a strong, original tune – although another song from their album, “Lay Low,” was even better IMO.
Candice Antique Davis of Antique Naked Soul
Candelaria’s “La Cumbia Cienaguera” has an appealing mix of cumbia rhythms and dub effects, but the studio recording lacks the urgency of their live show. “Ghost in the City”’s “Smaller Every Day” was another thrilling discovery: anchored by killer female lead vocals, the song falls nicely into the funky alt.soul category. And the Jennifer Johns/Ryan Nicole/Kev Choice posse cut “Town’d Out” caused one jurist to remark they could visualize the song blasting out of bassy car systems; I liked it because it works as a rap anthem without dumbing down one’s intelligence. La Misa Nigra’s “Por La Bahia” is another find in the Bay’s ongoing cumbia resurgence, a traditionally-oriented tune with lovely interplay between vocals, horns, and accordion that’s ready to fiesta when you are. Maria Jose Montijo’s “Estrella” features a hauntingly beautiful, sparse melody which can send chills up your spine. I also fancied Waterstrider’s “Redwood,” which blended rockish riffs and midtempo EDM grooves nicely.
Overall, it’s a far different experience critiquing music and videos in a room with other esteemed local tastemakers than from the privacy of your own home. There’s the option of bouncing your opinion off of other folks, or hearing their reactions. Jurists were encouraged to be social and even advocate for their favorites, and some did more than others. The best part of the experience, though, was being able to hear (and view) such a wide-ranging spectrum of local artists – and to venture outside of my personal music comfort zone. The Mayhem jury offered a great opportunity to digest tunes I might not have otherwise heard, and not only widened my ears, but also expanded my appreciation for Oakland’s music scene. Shouts out to Awaken Café’s Cortt Dunlap and Oakland Indie Mayhem’s Sarah Sexton for what must have been a tremendous amount of hard work in putting the Mayhem Fest together, and make sure you stop by the Awaken for the Awards presentation.
Categories: Event review, Music Review | Tags: Antique Naked Soul, Awaken Cafe, Bay Area indie music, Candelaria, Fantastic Negrito, Fuxedos, Kill Freeman, Los Rakas, music videos, Oakland Mayhem, Phenomenauts, sOul from the O, The Seshen, Totonko, Unravel, Zakiya Harris | Permalink.
“Clas/sick Hip-Hop”: Female Emcees Show “U.N.I.T.Y” In Landmark Live Performance
Live review/ “Clas/sick Hip-Hop: 1993 Edition,” Nov. 7 & 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
The “Clas/Sick” Crew chilling after the show
In a two-night run filled with memorable moments, “Clas/sick Hip-Hop: 1993 Edition”’s biggest flashpoint came about halfway through the second night. A remarkable set of canonical hip-hop, played live by the Kev Choice Ensemble, segued from Digable Planets’ “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat),” to the Conscious Daughters’ “Fonky Expedition,” to Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.” The first song, performed by Aima the Dreamer and Sayknowledge, sent shivers through the sold-out crowd, as Aima channeled Ladybug Mecca’s cool breeziness over an acoustic bassline originally played by Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. The second, performed by Coco Peila and Ryan Nicole, brought back memories of a time when good local rap regularly earned rotation on commercial stations. And the third, which featured a strident, commanding Zakiya Harris, flanked by Aima, Peila, Nicole and vocalist Viveca Hawkins, evoked a sea of epiphanies, none greater than the notion that Harris and Co. had tapped into hip-hop’s elemental womb and stuck a chord of long-overdue gender balance, releasing a flood of amniotic lyrical fluid which coated the audience’s ears with sticky bliss. Hip-hop may be a mostly male-dominated art form, but in keeping with YBCA’s Left Coast ideology, the Bay Area’s female emcees reigned like queens.
Do the ladies run this mother____er?
As if to underline the point, Coco Peila followed with a jaw-dropping cover of 2Pac’s “Keep Ya Head Up.” The song—one of the rap icon’s most positive and uplifting—took on an even deeper meaning with a woman rapping its words: And since we all came from a woman/ Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman/ I wonder why we take from our women/ Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?/ I think it’s time to kill for our women/ Time to heal our women, be real to our women/ And if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies/ That will hate the ladies, that make the babies/ And since a man can’t make one/ He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one/So will the real men get up/ I know you’re fed up ladies, but you gotta keep your head up.
It Ain’t Hard to Tell: Musical Director Kev Choice
Hawkins killed it on the hook— an interpolation of the Five Heartbeats’ “Ooh Child”—then, after 1-O.A.K. responded with a dead-on Mayfield-esque falsetto during HNRL’s take on Outkast’s “Player’s Ball,” she returned to tackle SWV’s underrated yet seminal R&B hit “Right Here,” completely nailing the high notes of the hook. As if that wasn’t enough, bandleader Kev Choice crept out from behind his array of keyboards to rap a verse from Nas’ “It Ain’t Hard to Tell” – whose remix sampled the same Michael Jackson “Human Nature” melody as the SWV song. It was that kind of night.
If social media chatter is to be believed, “Clas/sick Hip-Hop: 1993 Edition” is already being talked about as being legendary. It’s difficult to disagree with that assessment, although the word “epic” might work equally as well. The brainchild of YBCA’s Marc Bamuthi Joseph, the impetus for the production was simple but brilliant: revisit 1993, a particularly great year for hip-hop albums, with not one but two live bands and a gaggle of local emcees – all doing music which came out that year. Into that mix, add an a cappella youth chorus, some of the best local deejays and hip-hop dancers, montages of music videos of the songs performed by artists, and interviews with local culturati explaining the significance of ’93 in a cultural, social, political, and personal sense.
DJ Fuze on the 1 and 2’s
Both nights started out with a DJ set – Kevvy Kev on Friday; DJ Fuze on Saturday – which was punctuated by a flash mob consisting of the YGB Gold a cappella singers, who performed a medley of KRS-One’s “Black Cop” and “Sound of Da Police.” The medley underscored the relevance and timelessness of the ‘93 hip-hop canon (though it’s somewhat dubious to note both songs address police misconduct, of which the latest flashpoint is #Ferguson).
Howard Wiley and Geechi Taylor
The set list flowed like a mix tape; Calafia Zulu member K-Swift followed with Black Moon’s “How Many Emcees,” a song based around a KRS sample, then jumped into “I Got Cha Opin,” which afforded the musicians the opportunity to wrap their instruments around the Barry White sample which informs the song. Hornsmen Geechi Taylor and Howard Wiley were up to the challenge.
Coco Peila and Ryan Nicole
Two braggadoccious epochs of masculine bravado, Masta Ace’s “Born to Roll” and Dr. Dre’s “Ain’t Nothing But a G Thing” were sandwiched around Del’s lyrical sucker punch, “Catch a Bad One” (performed by Wonway Posibul of the Latin Soul Brothers). Not that the Del track lacks for boastfulness, but it’s decidedly less commercial and contrived, and built around a sublime Eric Dolphy sample – replayed with aplomb by the KCE, who had the daunting task of having to learn 20 songs in a short period.
The other live band performing was Ensemble Mik Nawooj. The hip-hop/classical fusion outfit performed songs by Wu-Tang and Snoop Dogg, and emcees Do D.A.T. and Sandman were energetic and animated. However, an opera singer notwithstanding, the static nature of their set (and, perhaps, the absence of a bass player) couldn’t compare to the vibrant dynamic laid down by Choice, his band, and their guests at the other stage. By the second night, the differences were painfully apparent; some people walked out during Mik Nawooj’s second set. Which was unfortunate, because they missed the Tribe Called Quest medley which vamped around the bassline from Freddie Hubbard’s “Red Clay” and brought the show to a groovy simmer, as well as the closing free-for-all freestyle rhyme cipher. Which was ridiculous on both nights.
Conscious curation: Marc Bamuthi Joseph
The female emcees brought the spark which ignited the show’s flame. But credit must be given to Choice as a musical director for the way things turned out. The KCE flipped samples inside-out, returning breakbeats to their jazzy essence and reminding folks that the ‘93 flavor was as musical as it was lyrical. Choice himself spent most of the night behind the keyboards, paying tribute to the Bay Area’s contribution to the year by rapping on Saafir’s “Light Sleeper” and Souls of Mischief’s “93 til Infinity.” There were other subtle nods to the Bay, like the melodies from Mac Mall’s “Sick Wit Tis” and Too $hort’s “Getting It” the band played during the freestyle cipher.
A young hip-hop dancer at YBCA
The night was billed as one which gave long overdue props to the poets of one of the most remarkable years in hip-hop’s Golden Era. But it ended up being much more than that. True, ’93 was a year when hip-hop’s creative expression was at its peak and the music industry hadn’t yet figured out what parts of the culture it wanted to emphasize and what parts it wanted to suppress. Yet in retrospect, the beats emcees rapped on back then were at least as much a part of the era’s greatness as the rhymes. We’ll never see those days again, not just because rap has changed, but also because the sampling aesthetic no longer plays such a central part in hip-hop.
Trackademics in the cipher
“Clas/sick Hip-Hop: 1993 Edition” reveled in nostalgia for a bygone era, but that’s not all it did. It brought an appreciation of hip-hop culture to an institutional space without killing the jazzy, funky, lyrical vibe of that culture. And it did so through live instrumentation, in effect going above and beyond how the music was presented at the time of its emergence. By raising the musical bar, the production ushered in another refutation of space and time, to paraphrase Digable Planets, which shone a bright spotlight on the current generation of Bay Area hip-hop artists (most of whom hailed from Oakland). But the brightest lights blazed on the local female emcee contingent. So often an afterthought on hip-hop bills, or consigned to a segregated performance space, in “Clas/sick Hip-Hop’s” re-envisioning of ‘93’s cultural legacy, the women of hip-hop not only played a central role, but manifested a sisterhood of solidarity while showing that they indeed had the props.
Categories: Event review, Live review, Music Review | Tags: 2Pac, 93 til Infinity, Aima the Dreamer, bay area hip hop, Catch a Bad One, Clas/Sick Hip Hop, Eric Dolphy, female emcees, freestyle cipher, Kev Choice, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Ryan Nicole, YBCA, Zakiya Harris | Permalink.
OMF Report-back: In Its 2nd Year, the Oakland Music Festival Gets It Mostly Right
Live review: Oakland Music Festival, Sept. 27, Uptown Oakland
The view from Era’s balcony
Imagine a music festival which takes place right in the heart of Oakland’s Uptown area which activates multiple venues, incorporates local businesses, and features a diverse array of both local and national talent. Sounds good, right? Well, that’s just what the Oakland Music Festival, or OMF, turned out to be. Now in its second year, the sophomore edition of OMF was a huge improvement over the inaugural effort in just about every way: the location, centered around 21st St., was more fitting; the stage itself was more impressive, right down to the massive speakers which emanated earthquake levels of bass vibrations; the lineup had a nice mix of stylistic genres, from indie rock to hip-hop to EDM to R&B/soul to Latin music, in addition to featuring some of the tightest local DJs around. And best of all, it didn’t rain this year.
Namorados Da Lua
Undertaking something like OMF is an ambitious project, to say the least. The brainchild of Era/Tamarindo/Pop-Up Hood impresario Alfonso Dominguez, OMF wanted to be a must-see festival, and one which further established Oakland as a cultural destination. He mostly succeeded; although there are still a few kinks to be worked out, OMF generated enough momentum to make it an event which could conceivably be exciting and entertaining for years to come. Sponsors included local companies Oaklandish, Pandora, and Ex’pression College, which seemed sensible and quite appropriate. There were four music staging areas, all located between 21st St. and Grand Ave., as well as an offsite venue, the Legionnaire, which hosted a hip-hop showcase. And OMF even had its own downloadable app .
Mara Hruby, right before her set
It took a little while for the crowd to arrive, which meant that the early performances on the main “Town Stage” were rather lightly-attended. That didn’t faze indie rockers Part Time, who delivered a jaunty set highlighted by a cover of the Pretenders’ “Back on the Chain Gang,” or veteran power-pop act the Lovemakers, who mixed 80s New Wave influences with sexual exhibitionist tendencies – which makes them a fun band to see live. DJs Fuze and D-Sharp both rocked their sets, and by the time Jesse Boykins III took the stage, the crowd was fairly thick, and growing by the minute. Boykins won the crowd over with his alternative R&B stylings, five-octave range, and infectious smile, while up-and-coming female vocalist SZA showed why she’s an artist to watch. By the time headliner Dom Kennedy closed out the main stage performances, the crowd was at elbow room capacity. Unfortunately, Oakulture had to leave before Kennedy’s performance, but the word of mouth is that he rocked it.
Things were a bit more chaotic at the “Hella Tight” stage, inside Era. The schedule was pushed back by almost two hours at one point, which led to some confusion, especially for people who were trying to move between the festival’s multiple stages to catch specific artists. And though Era is a beautiful space and one of Oakland’s most aesthetically-pleasing nightclub venues, it felt straight-up weird to be inside a dark room during daylight hours (ditto with the “High Sidin’” stage, located inside Club 21). Besides being dimly-lit, the stage at Era is super tiny, and with the venue at capacity, it was a bit difficult to see the live acts playing on it. Highlights included the sets by Latin fusionistas Namorados de Lua, future-soul diva Zakiya Harris and Elephantine, and retro-soulstress Mara Hruby.
Which brings us to the main criticism of OMF: to Oakulture, it made very little sense to have non-local groups featured at prime time on the main stage, while some of the most talented local artists were shoehorned into a stage the size of a small closet. Simply put, a music festival based around branding Oakland as a destination doesn’t really need to have any out-of-town artists, does it?
Another thing which didn’t completely work out was the hip-hop showcase at Legionnaire Saloon. Though the idea of having a free event complementing a paid ticketed festival is a good one in theory, in practice it meant that some of the most-deserving local talent—the bill included female emcees par excellence Dom Jones and Ryan Nicole (performing with Nu Dekades) —was ghettoized and segregated from the majority of attendees. It’s just not realistic to expect folks to go back and forth from the central festival grounds to an offsite location, especially since doing so means wading through dense crowds and crossing a major intersection. And Oakland’s hip-hop scene is one of the most-celebrated in the nation, so why not make it a bigger part of the proceedings?
Overall, though, those gripes were relatively minor ones in the larger scheme of things. There were plenty of things to like, maybe even love, about OMF: the smoking patio balcony at Club 21, for example, was a people-watchers’ dream. And the close proximity of so many eateries—some even located inside the staging area—meant there were numerous and serendipitous food options. All in all, OMF may need a little further refinement in key areas, but this year’s festival has to be considered a success. There’s definitely room to improve and make the experience even better, yet for a festival in only its second year, OMF appears to be well on its way to becoming a much-anticipated annual event.
Categories: Live review | Tags: Alfonso Dominguez, DJ D-Sharp, DJ Fuze, Era, Jesse Boykins III, Mara Hruby, Namorados Da Lua, Oakland Music Festival, Oaklandish, OMF, Pandora, SZA, The Lovemakers, Trill Team, Zakiya Harris | Permalink.
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In Amazon’s ‘Forever,’ Everlasting Love Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
By Helen Holmes • 09/20/18 6:45am
Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph in Amazon’s Forever. Amazon Studios
At one point late in the first season of Amazon Prime’s Forever, an eight-episode exploration of the agonies, ecstasies and mysteries of cohabitation and marriage, Kase (Catherine Keener) asks her friend June (Maya Rudolph) whether their new castle existence in the bubbly Oceanside community they’ve found themselves in has lived up to her expectations.
June says she’s thrilled by all the Gatsby-like parties and risky escapades, but you get the sense that she might grow restless. Maybe she misses her estranged husband, Oscar, played by Portlandia and Saturday Night Live veteran Fred Armisen, or maybe she just wants to be elsewhere. As with much of this new series, which is now streaming in its entirety, it’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on or what’s about to happen.
Initially, this ambiguity is rather appealing. June and Oscar are a couple who’ve been married for more than a decade, mostly happily so. They banter, play shuffleboard and go fishing together. But the ennui of long-term monotony is settling in: June is deeply bored—a pained expression seems permanently carved into Rudolph’s usually expressive face. For his part, Armisen tones down his usual slapstick-y effusiveness to generally good effect. He’s so dull here.
That’s the tricky thing with this show, which is often quite absorbing and occasionally hilarious (I loved June and Oscar’s obsession with Edie Falco). But much like how June is plagued with ennui, the narrative’s languor can weigh it down.
[Warning: Spoiler alerts ahead.]
After June and Oscar both accidentally die—Oscar first (in a skiing accident), then June a year later (when she chokes on a macadamia nut)—they are reunited in a suburban purgatory, where they quickly return to the same old stifling routine that left June feeling so suffocated when she was alive (maybe that nut was a metaphor). Oscar cooks elaborate dinners he’s made countless times before; to shake things up, June gets really good at pottery and sets furniture on fire.
The repetition is maddening, but the people they meet in the afterlife make up for some of the doldrums. Particularly good is Noah Robbins as Mark, a disaffected skateboarder kid with a sensitive side who died as a teenager in the 1970s and who has been stuck in perpetual adolescence ever since. His “disco sucks” vibe and disgust for actual tenderness produce some of the series’ best laughs. In their state of limbo, Mark and Oscar are each other’s best friends, basically because the two extremely dissimilar men just need someone else to talk to.
But it’s Maya Rudolph who does the heavy lifting here, and the series is worth watching just to witness the broad range of emotions that pass over her like rainstorms. Even when Forever doubles back on its promise to take June and Oscar’s relationship somewhere it had never been before, June’s personal evolution feels genuine. Whether or not you think June ends up with the right person, you can tell she feels like she made the right decision, which is a satisfying kind of resolution in and of itself.
The entire first season of Forever is streaming now on Amazon Prime.
Filed Under: Business, Celebrity, Lifestyle, TV, Media, Entertainment, Marriage, Death, amazon prime, Fred Armisen, Maya Rudolph, Catherine Keener, Television
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Stable Isotope Laboratory
New Mexico Tech Stable Isotope Lab
Welcome to the New Mexico Tech Stable Isotope Lab Webpage. The lab is equipped with a Thermo Finnigan Delta Plus XP mass spectrometer and several peripheral units. Scroll down to read about the capabilities of the Stable Isotope Lab and the classes offered at Tech relevant to Stable Isotope work.
If you have any questions about the lab please email Andrew Campbell and if you have any questions about the website please email webmaster@ees.nmt.edu
Dr. Andrew Campbell
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science
email: campbell@nmt.edu
office and lab phone: 505-835-5327
The stable isotope lab at New Mexico Tech is equipped with a Thermo Finnigan Delta Plus XP isotope ratio mass spectrometer.
We have the mass spec set up with several peripherals.
H-Device
The H-Device is used to run D/H isotopes on water samples. It uses a chromium reactor at 850° C. Water reacts with the chromium to produce chromium oxide and hydrogen gas. The hydrogen gas proceeds to the mass spec to be analyzed. The H-Device is connected to the mass spec through the dual inlet system. The gas from the H-Device is stored in a bellows, and run against a standard Hydrogen gas stored in another bellows.
The EA is set up to measure sulfur and oxygen isotopes in sulfides and sulfates. It is connected to the mass spec through the ConFlo unit, which uses a constant flow of Argon gas as a carrier. The argon moves the sulfur and oxygen to the mass spec for analysis.
The EA can also function as a stand-alone unit. It is equipped with a laptop computer, and can return elemental percentages of Nitrogen, Oxygen and Sulfur for various samples.
TCEA
The TCEA measures oxygen and hydrogen isotopes on hydrous minerals and on fluid inclusion waters. It is also connected to the mass spec through the ConFlo, using argon gas as a carrier.
Gasbench with heating block
The heating block can run oxygen isotopes on both water samples and carbonate rock samples. The samples react in sealed containers, from which the equilibrated CO2 is extracted through a needle and into the Gasbench. The Gasbench is connected to the mass spec. The Gasbench does not use a continuous flow of argon like the ConFlo, rather it regulates the flow of gases into the mass spec, one gas from the heating block, and one standard.
Both the heating block and the H-Device utilize the autosampler. The autosampler is an apparatus that moves a needle around to automatically sample from either the heating block or the H-Device. For the H-Device, the autosampler uses a 10 microliter syringe that it extracts water from vials with, and injects that water into the reactor. For the heating block, the autosampler uses a needle attached to capillary tube running to the Gasbench. This needle simply remains in the sample vial while the Gasbench controls the flow of gas from the needle into the mass spec.
Vacuum Extraction Lines
Our lab is also equipped with two vacuum extraction lines. One is used strictly for reacting silicate minerals to measure oxygen isotope ratios. The other line can be used for a number of different analyses. When a sample gas is extracted from a vacuum line, it can be run through the dual inlet system on the mass spec, where sample gas is stored in one bellows, and is measured against a standard gas in the other bellows.
Courses about Stable Isotopes at New Mexico Tech
There are two classes centered around stable isotope geochemistry at New Mexico Tech, both taught by Andrew Campbell.
GEOC 565
Stable Isotope Geochemistry Principles of stable isotope geochemistry with applications to geologic systems. (From NMT catalog)
Practical Aspects of Mass Spectrometry Theory and application of stable isotope mass spectrometry. Through lectures, problem sets, and laboratory exercises, students learn how to analyze geologic samples to determine stable isotope composition (From NMT catalog)
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Arts Professionals Use Social Media to Keep Abreast of the Arts Scene
October 21, 2011; Source: New York Times | Although social media can sometimes limit interactions outside of the cyber world, artists are using social networking to branch out, see new exhibits, and meet fellow art aficionados. Museums and arts organizations are also starting to use the Web and social media as an outlet to produce interactive exhibits and build relationships with visitors and supporters.
“We use Twitter not only to connect with one another, but to share what we feel brings value to a larger online arts community,” said Ms. Merlino, senior marketing manager at the Guggenheim Museum. It has enabled us to form both professional and personal relationships that has provided countless opportunities for learning and collaboration.”
Art professionals throughout the city keep up to date on creative new exhibits and lectures by following one another’s updates on Twitter and using the hashtag #artstech. Recent twitter conversations have resulted in groups attending a lecture on digitally “connected consumption” and visiting I.B.M. THINK Exhibit NYC, an interactive exhibition honoring I.B.M.’s 100th anniversary.
Meetup.com has also been introduced into the urban arts scene, and is bringing together large crowds of similar-minded audiences. Kathryn Fink claims that within just the last 30 days, around 1,000 visits to museums or art galleries were organized. There are dozens of possible arts-minded groups to join on Meetup—from New York Brainiacs to Culture Seekers, in London. Social media makes it possible to find hundreds of people with the same artistic interests, and take it one step further—have company while engaging in cultural pursuits.
Andreya Vivaldi, who organizes New York Brainiacs, spoke of the great success her Meetup group has had. The group has just under 3,000 members, who have organized over five hundred events in the past few years, including philosophy lectures, museum visits, dinners, and screenings at the New York Film Festival. Vivaldi exclaims, “Art is culture. Art is communication. It is about how you respond to it and it is important to be able to have a voice and a forum.”
Are social media sites like Meetup and Twitter encouraging more or less tangible interactions with art and art enthusiasts? The hope is that these social media initiatives will connect innovative artistic dialogues happening on the Web, and bring groups together to experience multiple art forms face to face.—Aine Creedon
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RBC recruits $308M adviser from Morgan Stanley
May 24, 2017, 4:25 p.m. EDT
RBC lured away an adviser managing $308 million in client assets from Morgan Stanley, the firm said.
Kevin Roberts joined RBC's branch in Houston this week, making him one of regional brokerage firm's latest hires. In recent weeks, the Canadian firm has picked up several advisers from larger wirehouse rivals as those firms retreat from recruiting.
Advisers on the move: Merrill Lynch brokers with over $1.8B jump ship
Raymond James, RBC and Ameriprise were among the industry players to lure away talent from Merrill Lynch.
Morgan Stanley told branch managers this week it would significantly reduce recruiting in order to boost digital initiatives, training efforts and resources for its existing advisers.
While at Morgan Stanley, Roberts generated $1.4 million in annual revenue, RBC says.
Roberts said in a statement he joined the Canadian firm for its culture and platform. He reports to Jeb Bundock, director of RBC's West Houston complex.
Roberts had been with the wirehouse since 2008, according to FINRA BrokerCheck records. He previously worked at Merrill Lynch.
A Morgan Stanley spokeswoman declined to comment.
Among its other recent hires, RBC grabbed another Morgan Stanley team that generated $5.5 million in annual revenue. The group joined in both Boston and Century City, California.
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