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Tag Archives: Larry Salley
The Last Weekend In February Has Arrived
The last weekend of February is here which means winter is almost over. It’s time to celebrate so go out and take in all the sights and sounds that the cities, towns and villages of the 88th Assembly District have to offer.
The College of New Rochelle (29 Castle Place, New Rochelle), along with the African-American Arts & Cultural Appreciation Council, will celebrate Black History Month by presenting “Black in America Symposium” at 5:30 p.m. Visit nrca.org for more information.
The Alliance Francaise of Westchester will hold its Winter Break Camp on Thursday and Friday from 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. The children will enjoy learning French in a fun atmosphere. Visit afwestchesterny.org for more information.
The Church in the Highlands (35 Bryant Avenue, White Plains) will host English Country Dancin
Larry Salley
g at 7:30 p.m. Wear low-heeled, soft-sole shoes and arrive early for some beginner instruction. Call Christiane at 845-642-2074 for more information.
ArtsWestchester (31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains) will host an opening reception and fundraiser in memory of photographer Larry Salley. ArtsWestchester and African American Men of Westchester will co-host the 6 p.m. event, which is a retrospective of Salley’s work. Visit artswestchester.org for more information.
The Westchester Shooting Stars will take on the Connecticut Stars in a 5 p.m. contest at the Westchester County Center in White Plains. Both teams are part of the WSS Basketball Women’s Developmental League. Visit countycenter.biz for more information.
The White Plains Performing Arts Center (11 City Place, White Plains) will present “The Jungle Book Kids” at 5 p.m. as a culmination of a weeklong workshop. Visit wppac.com for more information.
International Gem and Jewelry Show
The Alliance Francaise de Westchester (31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains) will host French Immersion Day, from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Visit afwestchesterny.org for more information.
The International Gem and Jewelry Show will take place at The Westchester County Center in White Plains from noon-6 p.m. and again on Saturday (10 a.m.-6 p.m.) and Sunday (11 a.m.-5 p.m.). Visit intergem.com for more information.
The Victor LaGamma Trio return to Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Highway, New Rochelle) for a 7 p.m. performance. Visit alvinandfriendsrestaurant.com for more information.
The White Plains Performing Arts Center (11 City Place, White Plains) will host Bubble Extravaganza: An Interactive Bubble Show at 2 p.m. Visit wppac.com for more information.
The Westchester Italian Cultural Center (One Generoso Pope Place, Tuckahoe) will host “Carnevale per Bambini” at 2 p.m. Children can make masks, celebrate the holiday and learn about its history. Visit wiccny.org for more information.
The Bokandeye African Dance and Drum Troupe will perform at the New Rochelle Library (1 Library
Leslie Pintchik
Plaza, New Rochelle) at 2 p.m. Visit nrpl.org for more information.
Alliance Francaise de Westchester (31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains) will host “A Virtual Afternoon in Paris” at 1:30 p.m. Visit afwestchesterny.org for more information.
Beth-El Synagogue Center (1324 North Avenue, New Rochelle) will host scholar-in-residence Rabbi Benjamin Segal as he delivers a sermon on faith and doubt in Ecclesiastes. Visit bethelnr.org for more information.
The Westchester Knicks of the NBA Developmental League will take on The Greensboro Swarm in a 5 p.m. contest at The Westchester County Center in White Plains. Visit countycenter.biz for more information.
The Leslie Pintchik Trio return to Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Highway, New Rochelle) for a 7:30 p.m. performance. Visit alvinandfriendsrestaurant.com for more information.
The White Plains Historical Society will celebrate George Washington’s birthday with a 1 p.m. program at the Jacob Purdy House National Historic Site (60 Park Avenue, White Plains), which also served as Washington’s headquarters. There will be a flag raising, reenactments and a feature presentation entitled “The Stormy Relationship Between Thomas Paine and George Washington”. Gary Berton, the secretary of the Thomas Paine National Historic Association will present. Visit whiteplainshistory.org for more information.
Renowned bassist Hilliard Greenewill perform at The New Rochelle Library (1 Library Plaza, New Rochelle) in a concert entitled “Milestone Negro Spirituals Until The Civil War: When Folksongs Bring Freedom” at 2 p.m. He will explore the role that folk songs and spirituals played in the slaves’ road to freedom. Visit nrpl.org for more information.
The Highbridge Voices Chamber Choir will perform at The Grace Episcopal Church (33 Church Street, White Plains) at 5 p.m. This talented group of students has performed at Yankee Stadium and the Supreme Court’s annual gala. Visit dtmusic.org for more information.
The Westchester Knicks of the NBA Developmental League will take on The Erie Bayhawks in a 5 p.m. contest at The Westchester County Center in White Plains. Visit countycenter.biz for more information.
The New Symphony will perform at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital (785 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains) at 3 p.m. Visit newsymphony.org for more information.
Bill Fitzhugh, the Director, Arctic Studies Center, and the Curator, Department of Anthropology, at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, will present “Vikings – The North Atlantic Saga” at the Scarsdale Library (54 Olmstead Road, Scarsdale) at 2 p.m. Visit scarsdalelibrary.org for more information.
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The Hendrick’s Gin Palace: Step into the unusual mind of Lesley Gracie and explore the Cabinet of Curiosities
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The stills at the Hendrick’s Gin Palace.
If you’ve spent even a week tending bar, you’ll be familiar with Hendrick’s Gin. You know, the one responsible for the cucumber garnish? The one with the essence of cucumber and rose that changed the world of gin?
Well, they’ve got some big news: faced with ever-increasing demand for their most unusual gin, they’ve expanded their distillery.
But they’ve done it in a peculiarly Hendrick’s way.
The Hendrick’s Gin Palace
Faced with a voracious demand for Hendrick’s Gin, they’ve doubled the production capacity at the distillery (known affectionately as ‘Girvana’). But that’s not all — they’ve put the focus squarely on the art of their master distiller, Lesley Gracie (pictured above), and given her both the space and creative freedom to experiment and conceive of new Hendrick’s expressions.
Hendrick’s tastes like no other gin because no other gin is made nor behaves like it, and The Hendrick’s Gin Palace is like no other distillery. The Hendrick’s Gin Palace features a mysterious walled garden which leads to a magnificent and imposing Victorian-inspired palm house. This is flanked by two botanical hothouses used to cultivate a plethora of unusual botanicals and flora from around the world. There is the inner sanctum that is Lesley’s laboratory which features a curious flavour library, a lecture theatre that encourages scholarly learnings and a suitably stylish bar.
And of course there are two stunning new still houses. The Hendrick’s family of stills now stands at a proud six: four Bennett stills, including the original antique copper pot still hailing from 1860 and three precise replicas; and two Carter Heads including one originally constructed in 1948 and one exact copy. The new stills have been active for almost a year producing the same delicious liquid that tastes exactly like Hendrick’s did on the day it was launched.
Lesley Gracie.
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Hendrick’s master distiller, Lesley Gracie, has spent the best part of two decades distilling Hendrick’s Gin, and the same unquenchable thirst for experimentation which brought the original Hendrick’s to life is given even more creative freedom at The Hendrick’s Gin Palace.
At the core of the experimentation is Gracie’s Cabinet of Curiosities: a locked cabinet within the distillery in which she keeps their most experimental liquids, and from which Gracie will draw for future releases.
“I’ve been distilling Hendrick’s for almost 20 years and during that time, my team and I have had the opportunity to explore and experiment on a small scale,” says Gracie.
The grounds of the Hendrick’s Gin Palace.
“However, I’m thrilled and excited to take full advantage of our wonderful new distillery and begin working on a line of experimental liquids, some of which will hopefully blossom into future releases and potential new expressions of Hendrick’s.”
It’s from this Cabinet of Curiosities that Gracie will bring a new release from Hendrick’s each year, and unique to that year.
The first limited release is in bottle and on its way to Australia for a release this September: the Hendrick’s Midsummer Solstice. It’s a deeply floral gin inspired by the eternal mystery of nature’s most vivid blooms, which take place on the midsummer solstice, when botanicals and flowers are believed to be at their most powerful. It’s an enchanting gin which sees the classic Hendrick’s Gin recipe instilled with a secretive selection of floral essences that complement the existing bouquet — it is unusual (as is their way), and blooms on the palate; it is unmistakably Hendrick’s.
Expect to see limited release Hendrick’s Midsummer Solstice Gin on back bars from September, and in the meantime experiment for yourself with their unique, quininated and only-from-Lesley-Gracie Hendrick’s Orbium.
For more information contact your William Grant & Sons representative.
The bar at the Hendrick’s Gin Palace.
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Touchstone; Original edition
(July 3, 2012)
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“Discretion is the best legal thriller I’ve read this year, beautifully crafted and frighteningly real. Leotta knows her stuff cold and will bring you into a world of big money, corruption, high-end prostitution and murder. If you’re a fan of Grisham or Richard North Patterson, you simply have to buy this novel.
–Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling co-author of The Monster of Florence and Cold Vengeance
“Discretion is a first-rate thriller. Leotta nails the trifecta of fiction: plot, pace and character. Ranks right up there with the wonderful Linda Fairstein.”
– David Baldacci
“Allison Leotta is by far one of finest new thriller writers today. Discretion will have you on the edge of your seat turning page after page, chockfull of twists and turns. This story is so far the best thriller I’ve read this year.”
– Andrew Gulli, editor of Strand Magazine
“Allison Leotta is quickly making her place at the table of D.C.’s finest crime and legal thriller novelists. She’s an assured and authentic voice, and a highly entertaining storyteller. Discretion is another winner from this talented writer.”
“Allison Leotta scores big again with Discretion, her top-notch follow-up to Law of Attraction. Smart and sexy, Discretion showcases Leotta’s rock-solid plotting as well as another star turn for her protagonist, U.S. Attorney Anna Curtis. If you liked Law of Attraction and who didn’t? – you’ll love this one!”
– John Lescroart, New York Times bestselling author
“Discretion is fast, fresh, and addictive. Allison Leotta’s experience as a federal sex-crimes prosecutor shines through on every page. The result is a realistic legal thriller that’s as fun to read as it is fascinating.”
“Discretion is a terrific read. Slick, sexy, and very smart. Allison Leotta is a master at creating tension and then mercilessly tightening it. This is the kind of book I love to read, crafted by a wonderfully imaginative writer, who really knows what she is talking about. Allison Leotta is headed to the top of the heap.”
“Plots within plans, treachery and betrayal, but it’s the characters who rule these pages. Allison Leotta expertly rachets up the suspense and brings a deft perception to a world that is cutting-edge current.”
– Steve Berry, author of The Columbus Affair
“Fantastic! Smart, gritty, and fast-paced—Discretion is everything a great thriller should be. I’m a Leotta fan for life.”
—Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of The Prey
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Portland Man Faces Felony Charges For Detonating Dog Poop-Filled Toolbox Bomb In Friend’s Face
By Marco Margaritoff
Not only was the perp arraigned for the toolbox bomb, but a quick investigation of his home also revealed a sawed-off shotgun and an undisclosed amount of meth.
Wikimedia CommonsStout collected feces from his own dogs as well as from the neighborhood dogs he could find piled in his courtyard.
When a friend repeatedly fails to return one’s belongings, frustration can build to a boiling point. For Robb Alexander Stout of Portland, Oregon, there was only one solution. According to The Oregonian, the 48-year-old built a homemade poop bomb filled with dog feces.
The resourceful poop bomber now faces felony charges for collecting feces from his own dogs as well as piles he could find from the neighborhood dogs in his courtyard and rigging a simple plastic toolbox stuffed with the requisite ingredients to blow upon opening. Stout admitted what he had done and claimed that he and his former friend used to watch YouTube videos of people pulling pranks. This was merely a fun example of that, Stout asserted.
While nobody was hurt and Stout’s explanation could well be true — this was no negligible explosion. According to the affidavit, “it exploded with such force that it sounded like an M80 going off and the dog scat was blown out of the toolbox.”
Multnomah County Sheriff’s OfficeThe police discovered a sawed-off shotgun and methamphetamine in Stout’s home, resulting in further criminal charges.
Law enforcement first got a whiff of this feces-filled feud after Stout’s former friend called them on April 16 to report that someone had left a toolbox in the back of his Camaro. Naturally, he opened it — and was immediately covered in stool.
Stout hasn’t been charged with assault, and fortunately, no serious injuries resulted from his bold practical joke. The bomb itself, however, was a fairly elaborate piece of homemade ingenuity. Police explained that it contained an airbag from a car, wiring, a battery, and various switches.
Booked into jail on Thursday, Stout was released after posting $2,000 bail that same day. He was arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court the following day, on a felony charge of unlawfully manufacturing a destructive device.
Wikimedia CommonsStout was arraigned on Friday, after posting a $2,000 bail the previous day.
Unfortunately for Stout, his troubles didn’t end there. When police searched his home as part of their investigation, they discovered a sawed-off shotgun and an unspecified quantity of methamphetamine.
As a result, he racked up three additional charges — meth possession, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and unlawfully possessing a short-barrel shotgun. In the end, building a stool-filled bomb was likely not worth all the consequent trouble.
Earlier this year, Stout was merely a frustrated friend who desperately wanted his belongings back. But now, he’s got multiple felonies and still doesn’t have his item back.
After learning about the dog poop bomber, read about the 143-ton fatberg of poop, fat, and condoms clogging London’s sewers. Next, learn about the rise and fall of poop-eating, self-mutilating GG Allin — rock’s ultimate wild man.
Marco Margaritoff
Marco Margaritoff is a Staff Writer at All That Is Interesting.
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Trope, Pages with broken file links, Improbable Behavior Tropes,
Stock Japanese Characters
Otaku Surrogate
File:Haruhi Otaku.jpg
One aspect of Bishoujo Series, and the cause of many tropes such as The Unwanted Harem and Improbably-Female Cast, is that you really shouldn't have too many important male characters. But, y'know, girls like girly things.
So instead, why not have a girl who likes the things that guys do? You may not want to use a crossdressing girl or even a Tomboy -- just give her a Fan Boy personality. And if you're a male author, this is even better, because you can go for authenticity the reader immediately understands.
A lot of this depends on what the current stereotype of a fan is and finding a fandom that is noticeably gender-skewed (Moe Moe and Humongous Mecha are popular targets) but the cast will still have only one character who is a fan of something with an overwhelmingly male fandom, and especially for obscure older things the adult audience immediately recognizes.
Another bonus to this is that the character's "masculine" characteristics are technically arbitrary, and easily tweaked to specific situations. Fans are very willing to put up with a lot of old tropes they wouldn't normally tolerate if the character was actually male.
Contrast Cosplay Otaku Girl and Fan Girl. Often overlaps with Gamer Chick and is sometimes part of the Estrogen Brigade.
Examples of Otaku Surrogate include:
In Ichigo Mashimaro, Nobue is jokingly described by fans as the Otaku Surrogate of manga author Barasui, due to her much mellower personality and tendency to hug little girls.
Morinas in Simoun is a total Simoun otaku, who makes plastic models in her spare time is even planning to be male after going to the Spring.
Konata in Lucky Star is a complete over-the-top Otaku, obsessed with anime and video games, mostly to allow for mentions of Haruhi Suzumiya, Galaxy Angel II, SHUFFLE!, Haruhi Suzumiya, Kanon, To Heart, Haruhi Suzumiya, and so forth... but very little of what most girls are expected to watch, save for a notable brush with Mari Mite (and a brief reference to Wedding Peach while the other girls talk about wedding dresses). This is lampshaded when Konata explains them as habits picked up to be closer to her father, although her friends then have more questions about her father's choice of habits...
And she plays eroges. Y'know, the sort of videogame for men that features naked young girls. Is it a wonder that so many fans interpret her as a schoolgirl lesbian?
Of course, a lot of women DO play eroge with naked women. Some of these games have huge female fanbases, like Sono Hanabira, to the point of most Sonohana fanart being done by female fans. The author himself was surprised about it. This may be Truth in Television.
Later made stronger by the introduction of two friends, one of whom is more of an 'Bukuro than Akiba' fangirl while another (relevant to the series) is a Yuri Fangirl.
And later on in the manga, we get Izumi Wakase, a Closet Otaku who has Konata's sports and home economics skills (average), Kagami's studying skill (average), is a class representative (Kou Yosaka's also one) but not flat and has an older brother complex.
Hikaru Amano of Martian Successor Nadesico: as big a Gekiganger fan as Akito.
The english dub is even more specific. She writes Self-Insert Fic-type Slash Fic.
Haruka of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu--beautiful, popular, and... otaku (the eponymous secret)
Kaede Mizuno from Nyan Koi loves anything yakuza related. A subversion on her part, since we're led to believe she's a Moe Moe girl.
Yukari Tsukino from Ai Kora turns out to be a member of a doujinshi circle, and is also into cosplay and video games.
Genshiken has several girls like this, the most prominent characters being a cosplay otaku and a yaoi fan. In the other hand, this IS a show about otaku, so it's justified.
Kirino from Oreimo is a closet middle-schooler otaku and a popular fashion model. Kuroneko and Saori are these to--little wonder they met in an online community called "Otaku Girls Unite"?
Noah Izumi from Patlabor is a borderline example. She loves Mecha--but in a very different way from most otaku. Polishing her Labor, naming it Alphonse, writing "This Labor is Mine" on its leg at one point...
The title character of Ganota no Onna, Ganota Utsuski, is a beautiful business woman and a major Gundam otaku, with a particular obsession with Zeon and Char. There are a lot of other Gundam fans around and the manga has a lot of Gundam references, like her boss being Zabi Degwin.
Then again, this is Char Aznable we're talking about.
Most of the cast of Runaways. Nico likes books about monsters (a plot point at least twice), Molly has immense knowledge about the X-Men (even before she found out she was a mutant herself), Victor was programmed to worship and know almost everything about superheroes (except The Slingers). Gertie has the philosophical dorkiness of a Soapbox Sadie. Alex is a clear MMORPG fanatic. Other characters have their moments but they aren't as prominent.
Wendy Watson in The Middleman knows a great deal about sci-fi and comic books, especially years-old series with predominantly male fandoms.
Mr. Simpson says, "Toby Isaacs, meet Kendra Mason, my biggest anime fanatics." Degrassi's biggest anime fanatics.
7th Heaven's Simon was going to get his first kiss from a pretty and experienced girl but when they were supposed to be kissing they started talking about comic books.
Josephine "Jo" McCormick is one of the three typical average kids who love to read comic strips.
Midori Komaki of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor is an otaku who spends the entire game dressed in cosplay (she is stuck in the costume due to the lock down, but she states doesn't mind), and often acts as a Magical Girl in a setting where society is breaking down and innocent people are being murdered by demons.
Sanae of Touhou is eventually revealed to be a massive Humongous Mecha fan in Hisoutensoku. When she saw the eponymous giant figure, she immediately went after it, practically Squeeing at the opportunity to battle, or maybe even ride, the Humongous Mecha.
Kimiko of Dresden Codak has been accused of fitting this trope by various critics, as an attractive female transhumanist and extreme technophile in a comic written by a man who has also written for various futurist publications. Your Mileage, of course, May Vary -- mad scientists, Otaku or otherwise, tend to be rather thin on the ground in real life.
Kat from Gunnerkrigg Court. She's very interested in robots, The X-Files, videogames (particularly Metal Gear Solid), dance music (especially Orbital and Prodigy), and comicbooks (Batman and Hellboy). Occasionally, her interest approaches Fan Girl levels:
Tom Siddell: Kat probably only has action figures she thinks are hot.
Italy from her Web Comic, The Lounge. Not only does she like video games, comic books, and Anime, she fancies women too.
Fairly Oddparents The episode, "The Boy Who Would Be Queen" revealed Trixie Tang was secretly a Tomboy who was both one of these and a Gamer Chick. This was a Compressed Vice and never brought up again.
A number of entertainers associated with the anime industry have "come out" as self-styled otaku. Probably the most famous example is Shoko Nakagawa. It is not clear whether these individuals are actually interested in otaku-ish pursuits, or simply consider it a smart career move to cash in on a ready-made fanbase. It almost certainly differs from individual to individual, and could well be a bit of both in many cases.
Felicia Day. Star of Buffy and Dr. Horrible, among others, and creator of "The Guild", a web series about a bunch of MMORPG gamers. She even based her character's addiction to MMO gaming to her own self-diagnosed addiction to World of Warcraft.
Chiaki Kuriyama, according to video interviews, has a house full of Evangelion stuff.
Brittany Diamond of The Ships Closet
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The time has come to offer a more cohesive theory of “homonationalism”. This, I think, can be achieved with the help of Camille Paglia’s landmark work of social criticism, Sexual Personae. Paglia’s book offers a theory of “homonationalism ” (my word, not hers) which is part and parcel of a broader, sweeping, theory of the continuity of Western Civilization. Ultimately, Paglia’s theory offers a convincing explanation for why homosexual men constitute a cast of elite, “cultural shaman” whose contributions to the history of the West have been tremendous. From this, I will make the case for the unique role of homosexuals in the current state of Pro-Western nationalism.
Paglia asserts in the opening chapter of Sexual Personae that western civilization started, and persists, as a “[swerve] from femaleness:” a rejection of the fetishization of female, reproductive nature characteristic of so much primitive spirituality, in favor of the male, cerebral nature valorized by western, “sky-cult” religions (Hellenistic and Egyptian Paganism, later Christianity).
“Men, bonding together, invented culture as a defense against female nature. Sky-cult was the most sophisticated step in this process, for its switch of the creative locus from earth to sky is a shift from belly-magic to head-magic. And from this defensive head-magic has come the spectacular glory of male civilization, which has lifted woman with it.” (Sexual Personae, 9)
To illustrate this birth of Western Civilization aesthetically, Paglia notes in her next chapter the contrast between the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf (30,000 BC) and the Ancient Egyptian Bust of Nefertiti (1345 B.C.). The fetishization of fertile breasts, stomach, and hips of the first figure, is replaced by Nefertiti’s accentuated forehead in the second, representing a new emphasis on abstract thought and imagination: the true driving forces of civilization as such, and an advancement past a mere emphasis on reproduction.
The through-line Paglia ultimately traces from the Nefertiti bust through the whole of the history of Western Civilization, up to the fetishized commodities of modern, capitalist society–is that of “apollonian thing making”. In her view to “thing-make” is to achieve a focused control over the flux of nature–to augment or alter reality–and this process she genders unequivocally male.
But what is so male about thing-making? Paglia’s theory of this derives from her basic and controversial theory of sexual differentiation.
Femaleness, in Paglia’s view, derives from her relative closeness to nature. Her body, subject to its reproductive abilities and their dictates, is bound to the earth, and the cycle of life, in a way far greater than man’s. Paglia follows Freud in asserting that the vagina, and woman’s vaginal nature, represent to men a sort of “black maw that had spat him forth and would devour him anew” (9), and suggests that this perceived dual power of creation and destruction is responsible for primitive man’s simultaneous revulsion and reverence for femaleness.
Maleness, too, in Paglia’s view, derives from his physiology– from his penis. “[M]an’s cultural achievements….” Paglia argues “…follow so directly from his singular anatomy.” It is best to let Paglia explain herself on this one:
“The male genital metaphor is concentration and projection. Nature gives concentration to man to help him overcome his fear. Man approaches woman in bursts of spasmodic concentration. This gives him the delusion of temporary control of the archetypal mysteries that brought him forth” (19).
“Through concentration to projection into the beyond. The male projection of erection and ejaculation is the paradigm for all cultural projection and conceptualization– from art and philosophy to fantasy, hallucination, and obsession” (20).
In other words, the physiology of man’s penis and sexual arousal are the starting point of what represent the whole of his unique abilities contraposed to women. Man’s penis is his defense against women, and his defense against nature. It is his position as the phallus-bearer that enables him to take a degree of control over nature, and use it for his purposes. When he succeeds it is a victory of Apollo over Dionysus, and a victory of rationality over nature. This mode extends to his cultural productions.
Another way to understand this is that Paglia is describing man’s ability (far greater than that of women) to objectify. This ability is what lies behind both the horror that men are capable of committing, and their greatest cultural achievements. As one of Paglia’s great one-liners goes: “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper”(247).
Paglia’s theory works first and foremost as an explanation for why men are more conservative than women, that is, why men have a much greater reverence for hierarchy, institutions, and tradition than do women. Men inherently understand the important role such things play in keeping the chaos of nature at bay, while women are at best much less dependent on these things to formulate meaning and identity, and at worst come to resent and hate the “patriarchy” inherent to them. Perhaps the most important insight of Paglia’s theory is into the role of fraternity and male-bonding in the creation and preservation of culture. But it also tells us something singularly interesting about homosexuals.
Where does the homossexual fit into Paglia’s picture? In his absolutism. In his impermeability.
“Male homosexuality may be the most valorous of attempts to evade the femme fatale and to defeat nature. By turning away from the Medusan mother, whether in honor or detestation of her, the male homosexual is one of the great forgers of absolutist western identity…” ( 14-15).
While it is the condition of the heterosexual man to swerve from femininity but literally dip back into it with some kind of frequency, the homosexual, by very definition is immune from this. While the heterosexual is sexually compelled to seek female validation and therefore ultimately curbs his behavior so as to appeal to women, the homosexual goes unchecked. Even if he takes his performative femininity to an extreme by dressing in drag, the cold, hard, fact of his sexuality is that he does not commune with femaleness as such.
Taking the masculine process of Apollonian thing-making as the birthplace of culture, I think the above serves as the groundwork for a biological explanation of why homosexuals represent a natural cultural and aesthetic elite. Not only are they free of the need to seek the sexual validation of women, but also the ultimate product of this validation: children. The homosexual’s status as an outsider to this natural, normative process of sex and birth, according to Paglia, is both a gift and a curse. While it precludes him from being ‘normal’, he can devote more time, and be more fully, existentially devoted to the fruits of his mind. One would expect his role in the history of the West to be of the highest cultural prestige, and Paglia notes that sure enough “Major peaks of western culture have been accompanied by a high incidence of male homosexuality—in classical Athens and Renaissance Florence and London”(22).
But the perennial bachelorhood of the homosexual is not the only pertinent result of his Apollonian absolutism. Apollonian absolutism also translates directly into his aesthetics, as the basis of his”queer eye“. On a micro-scale we recognize the queer eye as that which makes the homosexual such a savant of fashion and style, but it has an authoritarian element as well. The homosexual is devoted to beauty, and beauty is nothing if not hierarchical. To call something beautiful carries an implicit judgement that some things are finer and nobler than others. Even today, amongst ostensibly liberal gays, Paglia asserts later in her book: “Male homosexuals have an instinct for hierarchy unparalleled in contemporary culture, outside of Roman Catholicism”(516).
The queer eye demands that reality conform to its rigorous standards of beauty, brutally reducing it and reshaping it into culture. One of Paglia’s most illustrative examples of the way such queerness has contributed to the development of Western civilization and aesthetics is her description of the ancient Greek, homoerotic, “cult of the beautiful boy”. She describes this aesthetic episode as the first great victory of the western eye:
“The Athenian turn away from women toward boys was a brilliant act of conceptualization…. a crucial movement in the formation of western culture and identity. The Greek beautiful boy, as I remarked earlier, is one of the west’s great sexual personae….His cult returns whenever Apollonianism rebounds, as in Italian Renaissance art. The beautiful boy is an androgyne, luminously masculine and feminine. He has male muscle structure but a dewy girlishness. In Greece he inhabited the world of hard masculine action. His body was on view, striving nude in the palestra. Greek athletics, like Greek law, were theater, a public agon. They imposed mathematics on nature: how fast? how far? how strong? The beautiful boy was the focus of Apollonian space. All eyes were on him. His broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted body was a masterwork of Apollonian articulation, every muscle group edged and contoured. There was even a ropy new muscle, looping the hips and genitals. Classic Athens found the fatty female body unbeautiful, because it was not a visible instrument of action. The beautiful boy is Adonis, the Great Mother’s son-lover, now removed from nature and cleansed of the chthonian. Like Athena, he is reborn through males and clad in the Apollonian armour of his own hard body” (110).
In other words, Paglia argues that the Greek “beautiful boy” exemplifies an even bolder move than Nefertiti in the imposition of cerebral maleness onto nature and femininity, and therefore represents an even more decisive step in the development of Western Civilization.
Rigorous aesthetic considerations that seem trivial and “gay” in the realm of fashion and style become much more serious when applied to the forging and defense of cultural identity. In contemporary society, of course, most gays are liberal and tend to keep their queer eye fixed on the more trivial side of things, but history is filled with gays who have become nationalist’s or otherwise conservative, and vigorously defended their vision as an aesthetic. Yukio Mishima and Evelyn Waugh come to mind. A more recent example is Jack Donavan.
In sum, Paglia argues that homosexuals obtain a higher degree of civilization by eschewing women and their reproductive processes. This is what we mean when we say homosexuality is “unnatural,” or even “a rebellion against nature”. Nature should be rebelled against, Paglia argues. It is from the rebellion against nature that we got civilization. While heterosexuality binds even the most civilized of men to nature by drawing them into the reproductive cycle, homosexuals stand as a cast of absolutist, cultural shaman.
I view homonationalism in the current state of politics, as a Pro-Western cult within higher culture, and the neurotribes of the internet. Homosexuals are uniquely disposed to preserve Westernism as an aesthetic. Nationalism needs at least two aspects of operation, after all: one which concerns itself with population dynamics (the biological life-force of a nation or body), and one which concerns itself with aesthetics and symbols, (the spiritual life-force of a nation or body). Homonationalism belongs squarely in the latter category.
The premise of homonationalism is not that homosexuals are ‘normal’ and therefore should be accepted as part of normative society, but that they are ‘abnormal’ in a way that can benefit that society, if properly channeled. We can define normative society, very broadly, as society oriented toward the unperverted life-force: that is, toward the process of heterosexual intercourse, reproduction and family life. The homosexual is an outsider to this–the homosexual is a pervert–and yet in his outsiderness, with the gift of his queer eye, and if given the proper space and outlets, he can be of great benefit to normative society. The relationship between normies and queers will always be tenuous, but, I argue: homosexuals make better friends than enemies, and this is especially true during times, such as ours, in which heterosexuality is in disharmony
The Milo Yiannopoulos moment is illustrative of the sort of role I imagine homosexuals having in the current political landscape. The argument that the eschewal of woman bolsters absolute Western Identity seems strange in face of the fact that most gays in contemporary society are liberal, but if you contrast the cool, self-composure of an even slightly based gay guy like Yiannopoulos with the cuckoldry of your average, center-left, heterosexual man, the point shines through.
During a cultural moment in which heterosexual men had been whipped into passive submission–petrified of saying something that might draw the ire of the increasingly radical women from whom their sexuality imprisoned them to seek validation– in came Milo: an anti-feminist deity of sorts, freely giving voice to sentiments which, as a flamboyantly gay man, he could never truly be degraded or shunned for expressing.
The degree to which romantic and sexual considerations determine people’s professed political positions should not be underestimated, nor should the relevance of the fact that there exists a group of men who are not conditioned to seek the approval of a sex that in the West is perhaps the most significant driving force of liberalism. One crass way of formulating the basic premise of homonationalism is that the homosexual is constitutionally immune from a pandemic of cuckoldry.
Tradition has ways of dealing with the battle between men and women. One way to understand Christian society, is that it is an ingenious resolve of the primordial battle-of-the sexes. Within the ancient wisdom of Christianity, gender-roles are defined, and mutual benefit is assured and catered to. It is harder to find happier more stable marriages than proper Christian marriages. But: Christianity and traditionalism have been resoundingly defeated in the culture war. The homonationalist’s hour dawns when the masculine order he loves falls under threat by chaotic, chthonic powers, such as is happening now.
Unfortunately, Milo’s queerness eventually caught up with him, when apparently pro-pederasty comments surfaced. Milo has argued that his comments were misconstrued, but the damage by queer association was done. This is the tragic condition of the queer: his contributions to normative society are often valued highly, but just as often, normative society turns on him in the end. Something similar would probably happen to Greg Johnson were his vision of the alt-right to eventually become a more serious social movement, I am sad to say. The role of the homonationalist is often that of martyr. This is the instinct of Evelyn Waugh embracing a traditional Catholicism, despite his homosexual proclivities, and Yukio Mishima cutting his stomach open in honor of the traditional Japanese State, despite understanding himself to be an eternal, queer, outsider.
As more and more men are drawn into the mire of communing with feminist women, and feminized society– as the Western world accelerates toward ugliness and third-worldism–I predict that homosexuals will flock together, as they always have, as a last bastion of defense for masculinism and Western beauty. As an aesthetic cult on the internet and in high-culture, they will stand as a final holdout, untouched by the implicitly female drive to destroy civilization. Their queer touch has already left its mark on the alt-right, visible in such oddities as the groups embrace of faggy vaporwave aesthetics. I believe the emergence of this cult– a return to aspirational standards of beauty– is totally inevitable, and of the highest value to anyone who is pro-Western, and seeks to keep a pro-Western spirit alive.
It would be wise for us all to get rainbow-pilled on the question of queers in the far-right: the gays should come out of the closet, and the rest of us should let them thrive in their proper place.
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HAS Email List Moves to Gaggle Mail
HAS Members had been noticing problems with the AstroList email list service. Not Neslyder, but hosted by a different company... not officialy named Astrolist. It’s complicated.
However with the retirement of Mark Holdsworth, whose company Netslyder, Inc. supported the Netslyder email list service for our sister astronomy clubs, your HAS Board of Directors agreed with Mark Ferraz that it was a good time to move to a service under consideration for over a year. For enquiring minds, it’s called Gaggle Mail.
Says Mark:[...]
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Thank you Mark Holdsworth, aka Mr Netslyder
Mark Holdsworth, aka Mr Netslyder, has taken down his shingle. Incidentally, in addition to providing the information pipeline for a generation of astronomy enthusiasts in Houston, Mark is also a former officer of the Society having served as Secretary. Says Mark:[...]
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Election to fill Board of Director vacancy
HAS Members (Posted 6/25/2019)
This announcement and the corresponding email sent to the membership constitute the 15 day prior notice to HAS members that an election will be held at our regular meeting in July to fill a recent vacancy on the Board of Directors. This notice fulfills the requirements of the By-laws of the Society for such an election to take place.[...]
Unfortunately, due personal health issues, Sherry Irby has notified the HAS BOD that she will no longer be able to serve as a Director at Large for the Society. The HAS Board has decided that it would be appropriate to fill this vacancy as soon as possible.
At our next regular monthly meeting on July 12, 2019, to be held at the Trini Mendenhall Community Center, HAS will hold an election of a new Director at Large to fill this vacancy. VP Joe Khalaf who chairs the Nominating Committee will announce a prospective candidate for the position.
Nominations will also be taken from the floor. Those nominated from the floor must verify their willingness to serve out the term, either in person or if not present, by a signed written statement to that effect.
The election will take place at this meeting. The newly elected Director will serve through the end of 2019.
Don Selle
HAS President
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Asterisms – Backwards 5
Constellation: Hercules
Magnitude: 7 to 10.6
This month’s asterism is named the Backwards 5. It is located in Hercules. This is a faint asterism, but it can be seen.
It is easily located near Zeta ζ Hercules. The large circle is a typical finder, with the smaller circle the FOV (Field of View) in a 10” telescope with a 32mm eyepiece.
In the center of this view you can see the “Backwards 5”. However, with certain telescopes, like a Schmidt-Cassegrain with a right angle prism, the 5 appears correct.
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Omega Centauri goes to HAS members Dan & Rebeca Roy
The 2019 Texas Star Party Omega Centauri was awarded to our own Dan & Rebeca Roy, founders of the Astronomy in the Park program in League City. They were nominated by Joe Khalaf, H.A.S. VP and Education & Outreach Co-chair, himself the Omega Centauri award for 2017.
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The 2019 Texas Star Party Omega Centauri was awarded to our own Dan & Rebeca Roy, founders of the Astronomy in the Park program in League City. They were nominated by Joe Khalaf, H.A.S. VP and Education & Outreach Co-chair, himself the Omega Centauri awardee for 2017.
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Excerpts, Non-fiction April 13, 2015 July 11, 2015
by Robert Hunt
$18.95, paperback, 183 pp.
Flanker Press, January 2015
Bowling introduced me to firecrackers, which, we soon found out, were sold at John D. Snow’s store on New Gower Street and at several other stores in St. John’s. They came in packages of ten, strung together. They would go off one after another when lit or you could tear them apart and light them individually.
John D. (as we called him) was about six feet tall and quite thin. His hair was thin, too, and he had a gout face. He always wore grey pants and a shirt, vest and tie. He had a gold watch on a chain in his vest pocket, which he would take nervous glances at when young people were in the store. John D. was not easily persuaded that Dickie and I wanted firecrackers for the best of purposes. Firecrackers were new on the market in St. John’s and were mostly used by adults for parties and celebrations such as New Year’s Eve. Mr. Snow was not about to sell them to young boys and have the trouble they might cause come back on him. To obtain firecrackers, he said, we either had to have an adult buy them for us or at least have someone write a note for us. We thought all was lost, but it turned out that our buddy Willie Rodden from Haggerty Street had an “uncle” who would write a note. Willie would get us a note if we agreed to give him some of the firecrackers.
Willie, Dickie, and I went to Mr. Snow’s store and, with guilt written all over our faces, we produced our note from Willie’s “uncle.” He seemed suspicious, but he let us buy the firecrackers. We watched him tuck the note in his vest pocket, for evidence in case we turned out to be troublemakers. Out we walked, after spending a few of our hard-earned dollars on a bunch of the small beauties that gave Dickie and me a day of laughter I will always remember. We gave ten of them to Willie for forging the note.
The first place we visited with our new friends was the Capitol Theatre on Henry Street. It was a Saturday afternoon and we went to see a western. At the theatre there was an usher who always gave us a hard time. Al, the usher, always fell asleep halfway through the movie, in an old chair that barely held his weight in the ticket booth. He was about ten years older than we were and liked to bully kids. Al worked part-time at the theatre and also full-time at an auto dealership, which was probably why he was so sleepy all the time.
We waited until the movie was nearly over and then we crept out to where Al was taking his nap. Dickie slowly opened the glass door and we placed a few of the firecrackers under his chair. He was snoring away in his dreams. Across from the glass booth and a few feet away was the stairway leading to the balcony. It would provide an easy escape because it was pitch-black and he wouldn’t be able to see us.
We lit the firecrackers, bounded up the first steps leading to the balcony, and crouched down, watching Al as the fuse burned. At the pop, pop, pop of all of them going off together as they ignited, Al bounded from his chair and banged his face square into the glass of the booth. Dickie and I bounded up the stairs. Unfortunately, all the seats in the balcony were taken. There we were, with Al downstairs screaming blue murder, and not a seat to be had. We walked back down the steps and when we got to the ticket booth, Al, still mad as hell, stopped us and asked us where we were going. We told him we were going to the bathroom. He asked if anyone had passed us on the stairway when we were coming down and we told him yes and that the guy was upstairs bragging that he had just scared the crap out of some stupid guy who was asleep downstairs. Al bounded past us and up the stairway.
We left the theatre and laughed all the way down Henry Street. Next on our agenda was Brazil Square, where we had a score to settle with a few boarding house owners who had treated us badly just because we had climbed their fences and “borrowed” pop bottles to turn in for pocket money. Our idea was to light some of our small explosives and throw them through the front doors of the boarding houses.
We started with the Brownsdale, the front door of which was on New Gower Street. I ran and opened it and Dickie lit a few firecrackers and threw them into the hallway. All we heard was pop, pop, pop as we ran up Brazil Square. We went to Eddy’s Boarding House next and did the same thing. We decided that it was just as well to get them all (about eight or ten boarding houses in a row), or at least as many as we could. We were in the process of hitting the last few when we saw that someone young and fast was running up Brazil Square behind us.
We took off over Central Street, past Walsh’s Bakery, and up McFarlane Street to Cabot Street. We bolted over fences and ran through back gardens. All the while this guy was screaming at the top of his lungs for us to stop so that he could kill us. I guess we must have startled him while he was reading the paper or using the bathroom and he wanted revenge. He must have been crazy to think we would stop. After about ten minutes of running we stopped in someone’s yard on LeMarchant Road for a breather. The guy following us was nowhere to be seen. That was good, as we were too beat to run much farther.
We had twenty of our little troublemakers left, so we decided to get bold and head for the police station at Fort Townshend. Talk about living dangerously! On our way there we came across what we called Sally Anns (Salvation Army members). There were at least a dozen of those wonderful people by a pole in front of the old fire station on Harvey Road. Being young and stupid, we wanted a laugh at someone else’s expense regardless of who they were. We lit a couple of the firecrackers, threw them in the middle of those people of God, and ran from the scene just as the first one ignited. When we looked back we were shocked to see absolutely no reaction at all on the part of the Sally Anns. Dickie and I looked at each other. We had to admit that these dedicated Christian soldiers’ love for the Man Above was far more real to them than anything that was happening around them.
We decided to go to Rice’s for some fish and chips first. All that running had made us hungry. While we ate we talked about using the firecrackers at Fort Townshend. It seems that one of the other customers overheard us: I happened to look out the window and saw two police officers with billy-knockers drawn and ready for action. They were talking to a guy across the street. Then they crossed the street, came in to Rice’s, and approached the table where Dickie and I were sitting. They asked us our names. I had already told Dickie that I’d do the talking if the policemen came in and asked us any questions.
One of them was a young officer, about twenty-five, who asked me to stand up. He began searching me. The other officer did the same thing to Dickie. In those days, if you questioned the police about their right to question and search, you’d likely get a shot to the side of your head with the billy-knocker or a hand. They didn’t find anything on Dickie or me. They asked where we were headed and we said we were on our way home. Without the firecrackers they knew they could do nothing to us—a few more questions and then they left us alone, with a stiff warning to go straight home.
We breathed a sigh of relief once they went through the door. Dickie looked at me after the officers left and said, in his low voice, “Okay, what in the hell did you do with the rest of the firecrackers?”
I looked at him and smiled. “I ate them with the fries,” I said. He laughed so hard he nearly fell off his chair. I told Dickie to look at my plate of fish and chips. I moved the fries aside: underneath were the remaining firecrackers.
Flanker Press, Newfoundland and Labrador, Robert Hunt, St. John's, Townies
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Priests and Priesthood in the Near East
September 12, 2018 September 12, 2018 Deane Ancient Israel and Judea, Ancient Mesopotamian texts, Ancient Near East, Archaeology, Biblical Studies Topics, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Jewish and Israelite Cult (worship), Liturgy, Priesthood, Video Aren Maeir, Dominique Charpin, Julietta Steinhauer, Louise Quillien, Piotr Steinkeller, Priests and Priesthood in the Near East, Tel Aviv University, Walther Sallaberger, Yonatan Adler
From March 19-21, 2018, the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University hosted the “Priests and Priesthood in the Near East: Social, Intellectual and Economic Aspects” conference. The papers from March 19 are available on TAU’s YouTube channel:
Dominique Charpin (Collège de France), Opening Address: Recent Discoveries from Ur / Tell Muqayyar, Priests of Ur in the Old Babylonian Period: A Reappraisal in the Light of the Discoveries at Ur / Tell Muqayyar in 2017
Walther Sallaberger (LMU, Munich), Keynote Session I: Origins of Near Eastern Priesthood, Close to the Ruler and to the Gods: The Cultic Duties of the Cupbearer and the Role of Priestesses and Priests in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia
Piotr Steinkeller (Harvard University), Babylonian Priesthood during the Third Millennium BCE: Between Sacred
and Profane
Louise Quillien (EPHE, Paris), Identity Through Appearance: Babylonian Priestly Clothing
Aren Maeir (Bar Ilan University), “The priests, the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel” (Deut 18:1): Is There Archaeological Evidence of Priests and Priesthood in Iron Age Israel and Judah?
Yonatan Adler (Ariel University), “Is there a Priest in the House?”: Identifying Jewish Priests (Kohanim) in the Archaeology of Roman Judaea/Palaestina
Julietta Steinhauer (University College London), Near Eastern Priests: A Graeco-Roman perspective
The Database of Military Inscriptions and Papyri of Early Roman Palestine
February 27, 2018 Deane Ancient Syria-Palestine, Greek and Roman, Historical and Literary Contexts, Violence War Christopher Zeichmann, Database of Military Inscriptions and Papyri of Early Roman Palestine, DMIPERP, Military Inscriptions
Dr Christopher Zeichmann (University of Toronto) has made available a very useful database for the study of early Christianity: The Database of Military Inscriptions and Papyri of Early Roman Palestine (DMIPERP).
This site is designed to aid the study of the military in the early Roman period for those interested in Judaism and Christianity of the first few centuries CE….
DMIPERP entries are divided roughly as follows: entries 1-132 were all found in Palestine and listed in roughly chronological order; entries 133-201 were texts not found in Palestine but discuss either the military in Palestine or those of a Palestinian background (esp. Jews and Gentiles born in Palestine); entries 202-224 are all surviving military diplomas for Judaea and Syria Palaestina; entries 225-296 are military diplomas of units or people originating in Palestine; entries 297-340 are Palestinian milestones erected by the military; entries 341-362 are all known pre-Constantinian military inscriptions involving Christians. There are 372 entries in total, with new entries being added following that number.
Dale Martin on Ancient, Biblical, and Modern Families
September 13, 2017 September 13, 2017 Deane Biblical Studies Topics, Greek and Roman, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Sex, Marriage, Social Scientific Criticism, Video Ancient Biblical and Modern Families, Dale Martin, family, University of Kent
On February 9, 2017, Professor Dale B. Martin (Yale University) gave an open lecture on ‘the family’ in ancient and modern times, at the University of Kent.
The lecture begins at 5:20.
h/t: Taylor Weaver
Louis Feldman: “Why were the Maccabees opposed to the Greek Religion and Culture?”
March 27, 2017 Deane Audio, Biblical Literature, Greek and Roman, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, History and Stories, Maccabees Louis Feldman, Why were the Maccabees opposed to the Greek Religion and Culture?, Yeshuva University, YUTorah Online
On December 9, 2004, Professor Louis Feldman (October 29, 1926 – March 25, 2017) lectured on the question, “Why were the Maccabees opposed to the Greek Religion and Culture?“(mp3; lecture beginning at 1:12).
The talk is made available by Yeshuva University’s YUTorah Online.
Conference on Ancient and Modern Interactions with Religious Outsiders
August 29, 2016 Deane Greek and Roman, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Race Postcolonial, Video Albert Baumgarten, Ancient and Modern Interactions with Outsiders, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Christine Hayes, David Newman, Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Haim Kreisel, Haim Weiss, Katell Berthelot, Matthew Thiessen, Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Nathan Eubank, Perceiving the Other, Rivka Carmi, Shaya Gafni, the Other, Tobias Nicklas, Uri Ehrlich, Wolfgang Grünstäudl
On March 14-16th, 2016, The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev hosted a conference called “Perceiving the Other: Ancient and Modern Interactions with Outsiders”.
The purpose of this colloquium is to re-examine both ancient Christian, Jewish, and pagan portrayals of outsiders and modern construals of these portrayals. In what ways, both positive and negative, do ancient writers interact with and relate to those outside of their religious traditions? In what ways do modern scholars appropriate and even inflect these earlier portrayals in light of their own modern preconceptions? This colloquium will devote itself to the methodological questions surrounding the use of diverse ancient sources for the construction of the other. The goal is to shed new light on ancient interactions between different religious groups in order both to describe more accurately these relationships and to provide greater understanding and sympathy amongst modern religious traditions.
Opening Remarks and Greetings:
– Prof. Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
– Prof. David Newman, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
– Prof. Uri Ehrlich, Chair, The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
-Prof. Haim Kreisel, Head, The Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Prof. Albert Baumgarten (Bar-Ilan University): John the Baptist and Jesus: An Ancient Dialogue of Disciples
Prof. Matthew Thiessen (Saint Louis University): Animalistic Gentiles according to Followers of Jesus
Prof. Uta Poplutz (University of Wuppertal): The Image of the Opponents in the Gospel of Matthew
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Prof. Tobias Nicklas (Regensburg University): Revisiting the Other: ‘The Jews’ in the Gospel of John
Prof. Nathan Eubank (University of Oxford): Damned Disciples: the Permeability of the Boundary between Insiders and Outsiders in Early Christianity
Prof. Katell Berthelot (CNRS): The Paradoxical Resemblance of the Roman Other
Prof. Wolfgang Grünstäudl (University of Wuppertal): Different Approaches to the Core of Christianity
Prof. Shaya Gafni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Various ‘Others’ in Rabbinic Literature: Between Babylonia and the Land of Israel
Dr. Haim Weiss (Ben-Gurion University): The Bodily Images of Shimon Bar-Kosibah in Rabbinic Literature
Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal (Ben-Gurion University): Christian Heretics in the Babylonian Talmud
Prof. Christine Hayes (Yale University): Different Differences: The Complicated Goy in Classical Rabbinic Sources
Giovanni Bazzana on The Political Theology of Village Scribes in the Sayings Gospel Q
April 11, 2016 April 11, 2016 Deane Biblical Studies Topics, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Secondary, Video Giovanni Bazzana, Kingdom of Bureaucracy, Lawrence Wills, Shaye J.D. Cohen, The Political Theology of Village Scribes in the Sayings Gospel Q
Associate Professor of New Testament Giovanni Bazzana discusses his recent publication [Kingdom of Bureaucracy: The Political Theology of Village Scribes in the Sayings Gospel Q (Peeters, 2015)] with two respondents. The respondents will be Shaye J.D. Cohen, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University; and Lawrence Wills, Ethelbert Talbot Professor of Biblical Studies at the Episcopal Divinity School.
The talk and responses were delivered on February 16, 2016 at Harvard Divinity School. The talk begins at 6:50.
Book summary:
The Sayings Gospel Q was composed in the central decades of the first century CE by Galilean villagers who had acquired knowledge of Greek mostly through their involvement with the public administration. The present book analyzes the text of Q in order to rediscover the terminological and ideological traces of the activity of these sub-elite scribes in the Sayings Gospel. Given the bureaucratic positions occupied by the members of this group, the peculiar use of the phrase Basileia tou theou carries a specific significance for its theological political implications. On the basis of Giorgio Agamben’s recent revision of the category of political theology, the attitude of Q on divine kingship is understood as an instance of sub-elite negotiation of social and political positions vis-à-vis the expansion of Roman imperial hegemony in the eastern Mediterranean. In this context the author(s) of Q envisage apocalyptic scenarios in which divine kingship replaces human rulers and native sub-elite bureaucrats can share in the exercise of cosmic government.
– Peeters
Paul Trebilco: Early Christian Communities in the Greco-Roman City
December 21, 2015 Deane Greek and Roman, Historical and Literary Contexts Early Christian Communities, Greco-Roman City, North Park Theological Seminary, Paul Trebilco, Stephen Chester
Professor Paul Trebilco (University of Otago) delivered a paper on “Early Christian Communities in the Greco-Roman City” at the Perspectives on Urban Ministry from the New Testament Seminar in 2013, at North Park Theological Seminary.
There is a response by Stephen Chester, professor of New Testament, North Park Theological Seminary.
Lee Levine: The Revolutionary Effects Of Archaeology On The Study Of Jewish History
August 3, 2015 Deane Ancient Israel and Judea, Archaeology, Audio, Greek and Roman, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Secondary Dura-Europos synagogue, Herod, Lee Levine, OCCSP, Orange County Community Scholars Program
Professor Lee Levine (Hebrew University) delivered a talk on “The Revolutionary Effects Of Archaeology On The Study Of Jewish History“. The lecture was part of the Orange County Community Scholars Program (OCCSP), podcasted July 6, 2004.
Levine discusses Herod in Judea and the Dura-Europos synagogue in Syria.
The talk is available in m4a audio format:
Steven Katz on The Jewish Encounter With Hellenism
July 27, 2015 Deane Audio, Biblical Studies Topics, Greek and Roman, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Secondary Hellenism, Hellenistic, OCCSP, Orange County Community Scholars Program, Steven Katz
Professor Steven Katz (Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University) delivered a talk on “The Jewish Encounter With Hellenism” as part of the Orange County Community Scholars Program (OCCSP), podcasted February 13, 2007.
Steven Katz on The Emergence of the Hasmonean State and its Political and Theological Consequences
July 27, 2015 Deane Audio, Biblical Literature, Greek and Roman, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, History and Stories, Maccabees, Secondary Hasmonean State, OCCSP, Orange County Community Scholars Program, Steven Katz
Professor Steven Katz (Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University) delivered a talk on “The Emergence of the Hasmonean State and its Political and Theological Consequences” as part of the Orange County Community Scholars Program (OCCSP), podcasted January 30, 2007.
Richard Bauckham on the Geography and Culture of Galilee and Its Fishers
February 25, 2015 Deane Audio, Gospels, Greek and Roman, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Secondary, Social Scientific Criticism, Video Richard Bauckham, Sons of Zebedee, Thomas Burns Memorial Lectures, University of Otago
Dr Richard Bauckham (University of St Andrews) delivered the 2014 Thomas Burns Memorial Lectures on ‘The Sons of Zebedee: The Lives of Two Galilean Fishers’, at the University of Otago. The lectures provide a detailed examination of the geographical-social context of Galilee in the time of Jesus.
The lectures are available on iTunes, and are downloadable in mp4 video and mp3 audio formats:
1) The World of the Lake of Galilee’ – Tuesday 12 August (video) (audio)
2) ‘The Fishing Industry’ – Wednesday 13 August (video) (audio)
3) ‘Zebedee and Sons’ – Thursday 14 August (video) (audio)
4) ‘Called to Fish for People’ – Tuesday 19 August (video) (audio)
5) ‘Sons of Thunder’ – Wednesday 20 August (video) (audio)
6) ‘Jerusalem’ – Thursday 21 August (video) (audio)
Jew and Judean – A Marginalia Review of Books Forum
August 26, 2014 August 26, 2014 Deane Antisemitism, Biblical Literature, Biblical Studies Topics, Electronic books, Greek and Roman, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Ideological Criticisms, Jews, Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies, Secondary, Textual Criticism, Translation Adele Reinhartz, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Daniel Schwartz, Have scholars erased the Jews from Antiquity?, James Crossley, Joan Taylor, Jonathan Klawans, Malcolm Lowe, Marginalia, Marginalia forum, Ruth Sheridan, Steve Mason, Vanishing Jews of Antiquity
In a Marginalia forum on August 26, 2014, eight scholars write replies to Adele Reinhartz’s essay, “The Vanishing Jews of Antiquity”, Marginalia, June 24, 2014. Responses are by Steve Mason, Daniel Schwartz, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Joan Taylor, Malcolm Lowe, Jonathan Klawans, Ruth Sheridan, James Crossley. In addition, Adele Reinhartz provides a reply.
The essay and responses are available for download in epub and mobi formats.
Richard Bauckham with Chris Marshall: Jesus in Context Conference
August 18, 2014 August 18, 2014 Deane Biblical Literature, Biblical Studies Topics, Geography, Gospels, Greek and Roman, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Secondary, Video Carey College, Chris Marshall, Historical Jesus, Restorative Justice, Richard Bauckham
Professor Richard Bauckham and Dr Chris Marshall presented a lecture series on the historical Jesus, at Carey College, 7-8 August 2014.
Richard Bauckham, “The World of the Lake of Galilee”
Richard Bauckham, “The Fishing Industry”
Richard Bauckham, “The Historical Jesus”
Interview with Richard Bauckham
Chris Marshall, “A Parable of Restorative Justice”
Interview with Chris Marshall
Robert R. Cargill – Jerusalem: The Holy City
February 13, 2014 February 13, 2014 Deane Ancient Israel and Judea, Ancient Syria-Palestine, Babylonian Exile, Biblical Literature, Biblical Studies Topics, David Solomon Monarchy, Greek and Roman, Hellenistic and Roman Judea, Historical and Literary Contexts, Historicity of Ancient Israel and Judea, Israel and Judah, Online Courses, Online courses - Early Judaism / Old Testament - Hebrew Bible, Return from exile, Secondary, Universities / Academia, Video A History of Jerusalem from Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel, Jerusalem, Robert Cargill, The Holy City, UCLA
Lectures from Dr Robert R. Cargill’s course “Jerusalem: The Holy City: A History of Jerusalem from Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel” (University of California, Los Angeles; Spring 2010) are freely available for viewing on iTunes. The course consists of 18 lectures, on 27 videos, and is accompanied by a syllabus.
This course surveys the religious, political, and cultural history of Jerusalem over three millennia as a symbolic focus of three faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The course content will focus on the transformation of sacred space as reflected by literary and archaeological evidence by examining the testimony of artifacts, architecture, and iconography in relation to the written word. We will study the creation of mythic Jerusalem through event and experience. Course requirements will focus on developing advanced writing skills.
1 Syllabus for Spring 2010 ANNEA 10W: Jerusalem, the Holy City (CARGILL) — 4/20/10 Free View In iTunes
2 VideoLecture 1.1: Jerusalem as Sacred Space (Part 1) (4/1/2010) — 4/2/10 Free View In iTunes
4 VideoLecture 2: Canaanite Jerusalem (4/8/2010) — 4/8/10 Free View In iTunes
5 VideoLecture 3.1: David’s Jerusalem (Part 1) (4/8/2010) — 4/8/10 Free View In iTunes
6 VideoLecture 3.2: David’s Jerusalem (Part 2) (4/13/2010) — 4/13/10 Free View In iTunes
7 VideoLecture 4.1: Solomon’s Jerusalem (Part 1) (4/13/2010) — 4/13/10 Free View In iTunes
9 VideoLecture 5.1: Hezekiah’s Jerusalem (Part 1) (4/15/2010) — 4/15/10 Free View In iTunes
10 VideoLecture 5.2: Hezekiah’s Jerusalem (Part 2) (4/20/2010) — 4/21/10 Free View In iTunes
11 VideoLecture 6.1: Josiah’s Jerusalem (Part 1) (4/20/2010) — 4/20/10 Free View In iTunes
13 VideoLecture 7.1: Exilic Jerusalem (Part 1) (4/22/2010) — 4/22/10 Free View In iTunes
15 VideoLecture 8: Persian Jerusalem (5/4/2010) — 5/4/10 Free View In iTunes
16 VideoLecture 9: Hellenistic Jerusalem (5/6/2010) — 5/7/10 Free View In iTunes
17 VideoLecture 10.1: Hasmonean Jerusalem (Part 1) (5/6/2010) — 5/7/10 Free View In iTunes
18 VideoLecture 10.2: Hasmonean Jerusalem (Part 2) (5/11/2010) — 5/11/10 Free View In iTunes
19 VideoLecture 11: Herodian Jerusalem (5/11/2010) — 5/11/10 Free View In iTunes
20 VideoLecture 12: Jerusalem in Revolt (5/13/2010) — 5/14/10 Free View In iTunes
21 VideoLecture 13: Byzantine Jerusalem (5/18/2010) — 5/18/10 Free View In iTunes
22 VideoLecture 14: Islamic Jerusalem (5/20/2010) — 6/7/10 Free View In iTunes
23 VideoLecture 15: Crusader Jerusalem (5/25/2010) — 5/25/10 Free View In iTunes
24 VideoLecture 16: Mamluk and Ottoman Jerusalem (5/27/2010) — 5/31/10 Free View In iTunes
25 VideoLecture 17.1: 20th Century Jerusalem (Part 1) (6/1/2010) — 6/1/10 Free View In iTunes
27 VideoLecture 18: 21st Century Jerusalem (6/3/2010) — 6/5/10 Free View In iTunes
28 VideoRandom Questions for/about Dr. Cargill (6/3/10) — 6/5/10 Free View In iTunes
Phil Harland – Online Edition of Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations
February 13, 2014 Deane Ancient Mediterranean, Biblical Literature, Biblical Studies Topics, Ecclesiology (Christian Church), Electronic books, Greek and Roman, Historical and Literary Contexts, Secondary Associations in the Greco-Roman World, Associations Synagogues and Congregations, Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society, Philip Harland
Dr Philip Harland has made available a revised, online edition of his book Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society (September 2013) with clickable links to inscriptions that are collected together on the book’s sister-site Associations in the Greco-Roman World: A Companion to the Sourcebook.
A groundbreaking study. Harland’s focus on associations in Roman antiquity as a way better to understand civic social life and the social sensibilities of those involved in such associations sets the stage for a reconsideration of the place of ancient Christianities and Judaisms in the Roman order. What emerges is a realistic picture of the ancient Christian associations of Asia Minor that produced such texts as 1 Peter, the Apocalypse of John, and the Pastoral Epistles. This new picture emphasized the concrete, day-to-day ways in which ancient Christians did claim a place for themselves within the empire, and soundly dismisses conceptualizations of Christianity as an isolated sect. This is an indispensable step toward re-imagining ancient civic life, ancient religion, and the origins of Christianity as well.
– William Arnal, University of Regina, Saskatchewan (on the first edition)
Part One (“Associations in Asia Minor“) can be downloaded or read online free, and the entire book may be downloaded at a pay-what-you-will price ($0-$15).
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THE AFGHAN BOND: HOW AWCC’S COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES FORGE NEW COMMUNITIES, NEW EXPERIENCES—AND NEW OPPORTUNTIES—FOR AFGHANS
Bayat Group October 23, 2019 No comments
Kabul, Afghanistan—October 23, 2019—Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) (www.afghan-wireless.com), the leader in empowering Afghans to build communication, cooperation and community with one another—and the world—today unveiled ‘The Afghan Bond,’ the Company’s highly anticipated new brand campaign.
Deploying a visually striking advertising campaign centered in four cultural landmarks: Food, Family, Music and Sport, The Afghan Bond reveals how millions of people harness AWCC’s world class communications technologies—from smartphones to services—to build powerful bonds of community and shared experiences. ‘A Bond Exists,’ AWCC’s debut broadcast commercial of the Afghan Bond campaign, was filmed in five different regions of the county, in order to showcase Afghanistan’s vibrant cultural diversity where Afghans will discover an epic 2.38 minute saga, a format rarely used in worldwide advertising.
The ‘A Bond Exists,’ commercial champions the power of people to use AWCC’s communications solutions to create community, where, together, people celebrate their joys, their aspirations and the very best of Afghanistan’s rich and varied cultural heritage.
The Afghan Bond campaign also demonstrates how technology gives people the power to showcase the individual talents, strengths and experiences they contribute everyday in their quest to build stronger bonds, stronger communities—and a strong and united future for the country. In addition to a series of televised commercials, AWCC will deploy its Afghan Bond messaging across the geography of its web, mobile and social media platforms.
“Our Afghan Bond campaign demonstrates how AWCC is encouraging and empowering Afghans to use communications technology to build strong communities—and how communications technologies enable us, as individuals, to show the world what makes us unique and powerful,” said Dr. Ehsanollah Bayat, the Founder of Afghan Wireless and the Chairman of The Bayat Group. “AWCC will continue to create the communications technologies which help forge strong bonds of community among Afghans—and enable us, together, to build a shared and successful future.”
About Afghan Wireless:
The Afghan Wireless Communication Company (AWCC) (www.afghan-wireless.com) is Afghanistan’s first wireless communications company and the founder of Afghanistan’s wireless communications market. AWCC provides 4G LTE, 3.75G+, 3G, 2.5G, Voice, Data, Internet and Mobile Payment Services to more than five million Business and Consumer Clients, located in all of Afghanistan’s thirty-four provinces. The Company has global partnerships with 425 wireless carrier networks in 125 countries. AWCC was founded in 2002 by Mr. Ehsan Bayat, Chairman of The Bayat Group (www.bayat-group.com). Mr. Bayat is the recipient of the 2018 award for Best Media and Telecom CEO from International Finance Magazine.
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Taxpayer-funded trips were 'de facto holidays,' new Plecas report says
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Published Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:00PM PST Last Updated Thursday, February 21, 2019 6:51PM PST
A tour the suspended B.C. legislature clerk organized to learn about “earthquake preparedness” was actually a whale watching trip, and a seminar about emergency evacuations was actually a Seattle Mariners baseball game, according to a scathing new report by Speaker Darryl Plecas.
Scroll down or click here to read the Speaker's full report
Taxpayers paid thousands for “official-sounding” meetings around the world that were actually opportunities for Craig James, suspended sergeant-at-arms Gary Lenz, their wives and friends to gather with flimsy explanations for why public money should pay for it, according to a report presented to a Legislature committee Thursday afternoon by Plecas.
“The trips of Mr. Lenz and Mr. James have the appearance of loosely justifiable travel on the public purse rather than necessary expenses. Moreover, I suspect that if one looks into the people they are meeting with, the same names will figure year over year,” Plecas writes.
The whale-watching trip cost $1,024. Thirteen tickets to the baseball game cost $1,073.32. And three “working dinners” on a trip to Washington state cost $3,601.01, the report says, in the second round of stunning revelations about the alleged behaviour of the suspended top legislature officials.
James wasn’t even invited to Washington state for a conference of the “Legislative Assemblies Business Continuity Network” in July and August 2017 – he just invited himself, Plecas says, and followed up with a trip to Scotland to see many of the same people just four months later.
“The standard we expect of senior executives can’t be that their actions be ‘plausibly defensible or ‘…but someone else okayed it.’ It has to be that they do what’s right,” Plecas writes.
Both Lenz and James have strongly denied any wrongdoing and they are not charged with any crime. Plecas’s ongoing investigation is operating in parallel with an RCMP investigation that is guided by two special prosecutors.
In a report to a legislature committee James described the “Legislative Assembly Business Continuity Network” as “an organization comprised of legislatures in various areas around the world which collaborate and share best practices in relation to business continuity and disaster preparedness.”
He describes the trips as “valuable fact finding and collaborative visits to New Zealand and legislatures on the western coast of the United States” and says purchasing a $13,000 wood splitter and trailer is important “to supply heat and light if there is no power.”
James says a meeting in Safeco Field was to meet with the head of security “where the topics of mass evacuations and protecting large scale public venues from attacks were discussed in detail. This had applicability to all of our legislatures. We were offered tickets to a baseball game, which many in the group had never seen. As host, my office paid for the tickets. Taking delegates to sporting or cultural events is standard practice for most if not all parliamentary jurisdictions.”
The Plecas report describes several other meetings among the “Legislative Assemblies Business Continuity Network,” whose website simply says “Coming soon!”:
The Scottish officials at the Washington trip also hosted James, Lenz, and others in December 2017 in a new trip;
In August 2018, the officials visited Windsor, had dinner at the Royal Air Force Club, visited a “Soho Farmhouse” and had a “cultural day” in London;
In September 2018, those same officials were hosted for five nights at the Hotel Grand Pacific in Victoria for $4,059.64, even though the seminar they were giving was only three days long.
“Mr. James’s and Mr. Lenz’s description of them using various titles and descriptions, without naming them, obscures the fact that in a span of 13 months, Mr. James and Mr. Lenz hosted these individuals in Victoria twice, and used meetings with them as part of the justification for two trips to the U.K.,” Plecas writes.
The lavish trips might be better counted as vacation, which the clerk and sergeant-at-arms said they did not take and billed taxpayers for their vacation days, he said.
“What in fact appears to be the case is that their extensive “work” travels served as their de facto holidays.” Plecas wrote.
“If this weren’t so serious, it would be the stuff of comedy."
The first report released by Plecas described only expenses in the past 18 months. But it’s clear that his investigation, carried out with chief of staff Alan Mullen, is ongoing and looking farther back in time.
“I suspect further revelations about their travel expenses are going to be very embarrassing for the Legislature,” Plecas wrote.
In another case, former Speaker Bill Barisoff and his wife travelled to Sri Lanka in September 2012 for a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference, expensing business class flights to and from Vancouver for $13,334.34
James booked a trip for himself and his wife at a cost of $13,404.34. When his wife decided not to come, James reimbursed the legislature the cost of the flights, but not the $1054.50 cancellation fee.
On the way back, the party had a private tour of Kowloon before travelling to Guangzhou for a breakfast meeting – but that meeting was only booked after the flights were arranged.
“It is difficult to resist the inference that this was an example of Mr. James picking the place to travel to first, and endeavouring to justify it after by attempting to arrange some meetings and events that could be said to be ‘work related,’” Plecas wrote.
Plecas said the most charitable explanation for all of this is that the pair believed these were necessary business activities.
“I disagree, and I expect the vast majority of ordinary British Columbians do too. On the other hand, if Mr. James and Mr. Lenz knew their activities had no genuine business purpose…then that is much more problematic,” Plecas wrote.
Speaker Darryl Plecas's full report follows. Viewing this on our mobile beta site? Tap here to see a compatible version.
Sergeant-at-Arms Gary Lenz (L) and Clerk of the Legislative Assembly Craig James make a statement to media in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. (Ben Nelms / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
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Match.com Bug Resurrects Dead and Deleted Profiles, and Reveals Data Retention Policy
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Dating apps have cultivated a bad reputation when it comes to milking money by offering a ‘premium’ tier of services, and sometimes even leaking personal data like an individual’s HIV status which recently happened in case of Grindr.
The latest example of this privacy nightmare comes from popular dating platform Match.com, which recently saw a host of deleted user profiles come back to life, with email notifications going out to those who had actually removed their profiles.
According to a report from The Verge, a number Match.com accounts that were deleted or deactivated by users long ago were accidentally reactivated and started sending out notifications about new profile matches and other such activity to the linked email address.
Among the many victims was Jason Debiak, who recently received a major shock when he received an email, informing him about his new profile matches when for his Match.com account which he quit using over a decade ago. “I log in, and there I am, from 15 years prior, with less gray hair. And my whole profile is there, everything,” Debiak said, further adding that his account seemed to have been resurrected around a week ago, based on the profile activity.
When he contacted Match.com’s customer service, they misinterpreted his complaint and told him that email notifications for his account will be turned off.
A Match.com spokesperson later confirmed to The Verge that a ‘limited number’ of old dating profiles had been accidentally reactivated, and that all the affected accounts also got a password reset prompt. Numerous users have shared their experience of receiving notifications linked to their Match.com profile which they had stopped using years ago, and in some cases, over a decade ago.
this is so weird – i got so many emails this morning i finally was like i guess ill try to log in and see whats up? and i did and my profile from 10 YEARS AGO was fully up – and I haven't paid https://t.co/c3WFxPlT7f a cent since i canceled! WTFFFFF https://t.co/SRcjwJJto4
— jelly donuts (@jennalisetwts) April 14, 2018
Even though Match.com says that the error originated due to a glitch, the retrieval of deleted or deactivated accounts raises a lot of questions when it comes to data retention by companies, even after users have terminated ties with their online services. Match.com’s privacy policy does mention it can ‘retain certain information associated with your account’ even after users have quit using their profile. But users are likely to believe that their data has been deleted when they delete their profile.
When contacted by The Verge, a Match Group spokesperson claimed that the company will implement a new data privacy policy in the upcoming months, and will complete erase all data associated with such deactivated accounts in compliance with EU’s revised GDPR policies.
It is worth noting that the Match Group owns most popular dating apps and services, including the likes of Tinder and OkCupid, so it also brings into question the data retained from deleted profiles on these platforms.
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Residential PV Report - Europe - 2017
Self-consumption to spur growth
Josefin Berg | Susanne von Aichberger | April 04, 2017
Even as the demand for residential solar PV systems in Europe has more than halved since the peak in 2012, the market is far from dead. Thanks to the sharp decline in module prices, and new support schemes across Europe, IHS Markit projects that the region’s residential PV installations will grow in 2017 to exceed 1.5 GW.
Solar Installations to Rise 20 Percent in 2014, Thanks to Strong Fourth Quarter
Global photovoltaic (PV) solar installations will rise to 45.4 gigawatts (GW) in 2014, with 32 percent of this total, or 14.4 GW, coming in the fourth quarter, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
Solar Microinverter and Power Optimizer Market to Break $1 Billion Barrier in 2018
Cormac Gilligan | September 18, 2014
The market for global photovoltaic (PV) solar microinverters and power optimizers is forecast to more than triple in the coming years, rising to more than $1 billion in 2018, as both established and new regions increase their adoption of the emerging technology, according to IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
US and Chinese Solar EPC Companies Continue to Dominate in Global PV Installations
Josefin Berg | August 06, 2014
The world’s 10 largest photovoltaic (PV) Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies are set this year to install a combined 8 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity, equivalent to 20 percent of the world’s non-residential PV demand, according to a new report from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS).
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What is the Best Blues Amp in 2019? – Reviews
There’s no doubt that each of the below amps comes with their own unique benefits, providing valuable support for blues guitarists. Still, in terms of overall performance, affordability, and value, our pick for the Editor’s Choice is the Fender Blues Junior III combination amp.
There are thousands of amplifiers out there that proclaim to be the best blues amps around for producing the rich and and soulful sounds of the blues, but few actually deliver on that promise. Clearly the guitar you choose plays a huge role in tone, but in the quest for a deep, bluesy sound there is no more important component than your guitar amp.
You want a blues amp for that can stand out on its own, something that doesn’t require too many extras to get the tones you want. Whether you need a crisp and clean sounds, sustained notes that break up at just the right moment or all out distortion, you want an amp that can do the job on its own.
It does’t matter if you play in your bedroom as a hobby, in a local bar or large venue, it would be wise to invest in a decent guitar amp. Finding the perfect amp will bring your electric guitar to life. The best amps for blues should be able to stand on their own, supporting riffs, solos, and impressive bends with ease. You need an amp that will be able to withstand all of the tonal demands you place on it.
There are a different types of amps within each brand. Some are big, powerful and stage-worthy, while others are more suited for practice at home. They also come in a widely varied price range. You can find some amps for well under $100, while others may cost $1,500 and everything in between. But keep in mind that more expensive isn’t necessarily always better. Whether you choose the frugal or more high-end route, the goal is to find one that will give you the bluesy tones you want at a price you can afford.
As the title suggests, we’ve put together a list of the top 6 blues amps of 2019. But first, let’s learn a bit more about the ins and outs of a guitar amplifier shall we? After all, more knowledgeable you are, the easier it will be to know exactly what you’re looking for in a blues amp and the happier you will be with your choice. Now lets get in to it.
1 What Makes An Ideal Blues Amp?
2 The Basics Of Guitar Amps
2.1 Valve or “tube” amps
2.2 Solid State Amps
2.3 Types of Amplifier Technology
2.3.1 Valve (Tube) Amps
2.3.2 Solid-state (Analog) Amps
2.3.3 Digital (Modeling) Amps
2.3.4 Hybrid Amps
2.4 Types of Amp Cabinets
2.4.1 Head (Preamp)
2.4.2 Cabinet
2.4.3 Combo
3 Best Blues Amps 2019
3.1 1. Marshall MG15CF MG Series 15-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
3.2 2. Fender Blues Reissue 40-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
3.3 3. Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III 40-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
3.4 4. Orange Crush 20-Watt Guitar Combo Amplifier
3.5 5. Fender Blues Junior III 15-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
3.6 6. Vox AC30 C2
3.7 Editor’s Choice: Fender Blues Junior III 15-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
4 Bottom Line
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What Makes An Ideal Blues Amp?
The manufacturing of amps for blues has changed greatly over the past few decades, particularly as the popularity of blues and rock genres increases. When it comes to buying a blues amp, there are several factors to take in to account; how big should the amp be? Is it for practicing at home or playing a gig in a larger space? What technology is used? What features does it have? What type of cabinet should I buy?
One of the most popular amp configurations for jazz musicians is a smaller 12-inch speaker, 50-watt power capability, and a head that has minimal distortion or overdrive. Blues musicians who are looking for an amp are typically looking for a similar profile, but with a few small changes.
Smaller amps ideal for playing the blues, if you played with a larger amp you’d have to keep the volume down, which would make it harder to push the amp into overdrive. A smaller amp is easier to push into overdrive with a boost or pedal, and can still be surprisingly loud. When playing the blues guitar, the best wattage is typically 50-watt and under. Depending upon performance needs, the best recommendation is to shoot for amps between 10-30 watts.
Although an effects pedal may be used in some instances, most blues players prefer to highlight the natural tonal quality of the guitar similar to the way the best acoustic guitar amp would. A blues amp is focused on providing a warm, full sound often with tubes and a tiny bit of overdrive. Many blues guitarists find that a less powerful, smaller amp is more efficient in achieving that signature “bluesy” sound.
The Basics Of Guitar Amps
There are two types of guitar amps; valve amps (also known as ‘tube’ amps), and solid state amps. For rich blues tones, you need to buy a valve amp. There are several other types of guitar amps, but these are the only ones worth considering if you want to replicate vintage blues tones with any authenticity.
Valve or “tube” amps
When it comes to choosing the technology behind the amp, most blues guitarists are passionate about only tubes. Valve amps are powered by valves, also commonly referred to as tubes. These valves receive signals from your guitar and amplify them, but they perform this role imperfectly and inconsistently. When a signal becomes too powerful (which happens when the volume on the amp is increased) the valves alter the form of the sound wave. This distorts the tone of your guitar, changing it from a ‘clean’ tone to one that is crunchy and ‘dirty’. The distorted tones that valve amps produce is thick, heavy and warm sounding. It is the sound associated with some of the best blues tones of all time. Power tubes amps for blues.
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Unlike valve amps, solid state guitar amps are powered by transistors. These transistors don’t alter the form of the sound wave like valves do. Instead they ‘clip’ it – chopping off the frequencies at the top and bottom of the wave. This also creates a distorted sound, but this sounds more artificial and is harsher on the ear. This style of amp is favored by rock heavy metal guitarists, but they are less than ideal for playing the blues. They’ll never get you anywhere near a vintage blues tone. Although tube amps are preferred for the blues, a solid-state amp is usually cheaper than a tube amp. One benefit of solid state amps is that they don’t require the upkeep and eventual repair that tube amps do, they tend to be much more resilient.
Ultimately, the decision between tube or solid state amps will come down to budget and personal preference.
Types of Amplifier Technology
There are four types of guitar amplifiers: solid state (analog), tube, modeling (digital), and hybrids.
Valve (Tube) Amps
Tube amps have been around longer than any of the other three types, and are preferred by many blues guitarists for their warm tone and natural distortion. Tube amps usually sound louder than solid-state amps of the same wattage and have separate channels that can switch from clear to distorted tones in an instant. These amps are often the priciest option and the tubes need to be changed occasionally.
Solid-state (Analog) Amps
Rather than using vacuum tubes, solid-state amps use transistors. This makes the amp more affordable and accessible to a greater range of musicians. They are very reliable and seldom need repairs. They often have a very clean tone and many come with a distortion option as well. These amps are popular with players looking for a dependable and affordable touring amp.
Digital (Modeling) Amps
Just as the name suggests, these amps operate solely through digital technology. Rather than relying on vacuum tubes or transistors, the same classic tonality can be achieved through digital programming to match a variety of different tones. Modeling amps use digital processors to simulate the sound of old-fashioned tube technology. Modeling amps are programmable, and often have built-in digital effects.
Hybrid Amps
For the best of both worlds, these are the most versatile amps to invest in. They use a combination of valves, vacuum tubes, and digital programming to create an amp that can work with multiple instruments and be used in multiple roles. Many hybrid amps use a tube in the preamp section and solid state circuitry in the power section to create a tube tone without requiring the use of power tubes. These amps are ideal for playing both modern blues and the classics.
Types of Amp Cabinets
Aside from technological differences, there are important constructional differences to consider when looking for blues amps. The wood thickness of the cabinet is a major factor in determining sound quality. The thinner the wood, the more likely the speaker will vibrate itself loose. A thickness of at least 1/2 inch will produce a solid sound and keep the speaker in place. Having an opened or closed-back is another determining factor in sound quality. A closed-back guitar amp produces more bass.
Head (Preamp)
These types of amps do not have a speaker cabinet, called head-only amps. Some of the most popular amps are head-only, mostly because these are the most powerful and are best suited for large venues. That said, a head-only amp is most efficient when used in combination with a cabinet that has an equal amount of power.
A cabinet houses the speaker, and amps can either come with a speaker cabinet attached, or it can be purchased separately. For performances in larger venues, purchasing multiple cabinets is an ideal method of amplifying sound.
Just as the name implies, this amplifier combines the head and the cabinet together in one package. The downfall is that the power is limited since musicians cannot add extra cabinets. The plus side, however, is that combo amps are much more convenient and more affordable.
Best Blues Amps 2019
B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton are three very different examples of respected blues guitarists. They all use a different style of electric guitar and play a very different style of blues. Below are our reviews of very different styles of amps.
With a plethora of amps available on the market, it’s difficult to truly narrow down a list of the absolute “best” blues amps, because after all it really all comes down to personal choice.
This review focuses on the best-selling guitar amps for blues currently on the market. We’ve highlighted the amps with the highest purchase rates and the most positive gear reviews. We hope our list guides you to making the best choice for your style of blues as well as your budget.
Without further ado, I present to you our list of the top blues amps of 2019.
1. Marshall MG15CF MG Series 15-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
15 watts of power
2 channels to choose from
MP3 input
8-inch speaker
The Marshall MG Carbon Fibre Serie is one of the most coveted amp series for its reliability, tone quality, and performance. For those who are looking to purchase a high-quality blues amp—without breaking the bank—the 15-watt combo amp is one of the best amps to consider.
Beginning blues guitarists will appreciate the headphone and MP3 inputs, making it much easier to attach additional devices for playing along with a track. There is also an emulated headphone output for ‘silent’ practice. Two channels, Clean and Overdrive come standard for rhythm and solo performances.
Although the speaker is small, the sound quality is solid and features three-band EQ to enhance tonal control. Made of carbon-fiber, this amp packs a ton of power in a lightweight package. At only 16 pounds, this is one of the most portable—and efficient—amps for aspiring blues musicians to begin using.
The MG Carbon Fibre Serie successfully combines digital and analogue FX with tried and tested solid-state tonal circuitry.
Marshall MG15CF MG Series 15-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
Although the speaker is small, the sound quality is solid and features three-band EQ to enhance tonal control. Made of carbon-fiber, this amp packs a ton of power in a lightweight package.
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2. Fender Blues Reissue 40-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
Two 6L6 output tubes & three 12Ax7 preamp tubes
Vintage and Drive channels
Independent Gain & Master Controls
Fender spring reverb
Classic tweed with vintage-style knobs and controls
This vintage-style tube amp packs enough power for professional blues guitarists to use without sacrificing quality of tone. Even better, it comes at an accessible price, making it possible to achieve professional quality in smaller venues.
The amp features a 12-inch Special Design Eminence speaker, 40 watts of power, and a total of five tubes for a warm, full tone. It also comes with the highly sought-after Fender spring reverb, a two-button channel footswitch, and an effects loop.
Tweed coverings and a chrome control panel make this blues amp just as visually appealing as it is efficient. With a classic, vintage style and a solid tone, the Fender Blues Reissue Combo amp will always be one of the best amps to invest in. Read more on what is the best Fender Amp.
Fender Blues Reissue 40-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
This vintage-style tube amp packs enough power for professional blues guitarists to use without sacrificing quality of tone.
3. Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III 40-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
12-inch speaker
6L6 tubes & 12Ax7 preamp tubes
Upgraded control panel
Fender Hot Rod amps are used by guitarists and musicians all over the world, boosting sound and tone across all kinds of genres. What makes the Hot Rod series stand apart from the competition is that these amps feature an unmistakable Fender tone quality, allowing musicians to create their own unique sound.
As an updated version of the classic Hot Rod Deluxe, the Deluxe III amp features a control panel that is easier to read, a new badge, a streamlined footswitch, fine-tuned overdrive, and graduated volume controls.
At 40 watts of power, this blues amp is best-suited for blues musicians playing in larger venues, though the amp will certainly perform well in smaller venues, too.
Keep in mind that blues guitarists will typically use a lower volume setting when compared to those who play rock guitar, so it may be rare for the entire 40 watts to be used outside of a large venue. Regardless, the Fender Hot Rod Deluxe series has made incredible strides in the manufacture of high-quality amps, making this amp a great option to pair with a blues guitar.
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe III 40-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
Fender Hot Rod amps are used by guitarists and musicians all over the world, boosting sound and tone across all kinds of genres.
4. Orange Crush 20-Watt Guitar Combo Amplifier
Footswitch for Clean & Dirty channels
Compact & portable design
4-stage preamp design
The Orange Crush series is a classic amongst guitarists, and the 20-watt combo amp is perfect for playing the blues. A smaller wattage allows for the full capability of the amp to be utilized while allowing for controlled volume during practice hours.
Orange speakers are custom designed to create the ideal balance between vintage highs and low-end punch, focused on maintaining tonal clarity throughout.
This model features a new high-gain, four-stage preamp design to deliver a large range of distorted and overdriven sounds. For blues guitarists, a solid overdrive is incredibly beneficial when creating those “bluesy” tones.
As far as tonal quality goes, the Orange Crush 20-Watt model provides optimum versatility and saturation. Customer reviews are overwhelmingly positive for this blues amp, though it’s important to note that many report using this solely for practice and not performance.
Still, with an updated design and enhanced tonal range, the Orange Crush 20-watt combo amp is an affordable and advanced choice for a practice blues amp.
Orange Crush 20-Watt Guitar Combo Amplifier
A smaller wattage allows for the full capability of the amp to be utilized while allowing for controlled volume during practice hours.
5. Fender Blues Junior III 15-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
Fender Special Design “lightning bolt” speaker
Touch-sensitive tube tone
EL-84 output tubes & 12Ax7 preamp tube overdrive
Perfect for the studio or smaller venues
The Blues Junior series has been a long-time favorite of blues musicians, and Fender continues to improve their design and functionality.
The Blues Junior III features a wide range of upgrades, including an easy-to-read control panel, vintage “dog bone” handle, high-sensitivity speaker design, and shock absorbers for the EL-84 output tubes.
Part of why this series is so popular is that these amps provide high value in terms of affordability and performance. They are known for their reliability, their volume, and warm tones, making them ideal additions for any blues guitarist.
At 31 pounds, this blues amp has maximum portability, making it easy to transfer to the studio or to a venue. Customer reviews consistently rave over the crisp tone and the impressive overdrive, making the Fender Blues Junior III one of the best amps to consider purchasing.
Fender Blues Junior III 15-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
6. Vox AC30 C2
10 Watt tube combo offering the classic VOX Top Boost tone
EL84 tubes; 12AX7 preamp tubes
Custom 10″ VX10 speaker made by Celestion
Gain, Bass, Treble, Reverb, and Master Volume controls
Extension and External speaker outputs
The Vox AC30C2 is a 10Watt tube amp combination, with three 12AX7 preamp tubes with two 12-Inch 8Ohm Celestion G12M Greenback speakers. It has two channels, Normal and Top Boost. The Normal channel has a volume control knob, while the Top Boost has volume, bass, and treble control knobs. On the backside of the amp, you can find the Send and Return jacks for your pedals, the foot-switch port, and the external speaker outputs
In terms of performance, the Vox AC30C2 excels at replicating that classic Brit invasion sounds of the 1960s – if that’s what you are looking for, this is the amp that unequivocally delivers it. The cleans are sparkly, smooth and clear, while it’s simple to dial in a sweet vintage blues tone, with an easy to achieve natural overdrive that really sings.
The channels on the Vox AC30C2 amp offer you incredible versatility, with the normal channel providing a rich and fat tone, while the top boost channel offers an edgier, more aggressive sound. Even at 30 watts, it’s a loud amp and extremely responsive to your playing dynamics. The effects are equally as commendable, with a wide-ranging reverb and impressively atmospheric tremolo.
Editor’s Choice: Fender Blues Junior III 15-Watt Guitar Combo Amp
There’s no doubt that each of these amps comes with their own unique benefits, providing valuable support for blues guitarists. Still, in terms of overall performance, affordability, and value, our pick for the Editor’s Choice is the Fender Blues Junior III combination amp.
Where it truly shines is in maintaining its lightweight, portable nature without sacrificing a second of tone quality. It is a basic, no-frills amp—which is exactly what a good blues amp should be. Clean tones come with outstanding clarity, while dirty tones maintain a warm, natural quality.
At 15 watts of power, the volume on this blues amp can be cranked up high, allowing for the amp to be fully utilized. Whether practicing at home or playing in small venues, the Fender Blues Junior III is a reliable, powerful, and valuable blues amp.
For many blues musicians, the quality of the sound needs to match the quality of the guitar, meaning special effects and modeling features are less important. Instead, a strong overdrive and tube or solid-state configuration end up taking center stage. These elements add body, color, and sustainability to the sound of a blues guitar. Volume and power also come into play, as it’s difficult to achieve a true “bluesy” sound when a high-power amp is restricted.
You’ll want to choose a guitar amplifier with warm, light, natural distortion, plus a bit of crunch. You’ll also want to get something that is responsive to your playing, so when you dig into a note, you get a nice bite. For this, I’d recommend a small-watt tube amp, since blues really lends itself to the natural distortion of a tube amp.
Keep in mind that these characteristics will all become important factors when looking to purchase a top blues amp for you. Whether you’re looking for the perfect practice amp or a more versatile option to take with you on gigs, looking at the top-rated amps is a fantastic place to start your quest for creating the vintage, rich and soulful sounds of the blues.
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an Ausnahmen mag ich vor allem, dass sie Regeln nicht nur bestätigen, sondern vor allem auch brechen. Und gerade wenn es um die eigenen, also um die selbstgemachten Regeln geht, sollten wir nicht zögern, diese hin und wieder und in bester Absicht zu dehnen. Hier deshalb gleich drei Ausnahmen auf einmal: Erstens haben wir noch nie ein deutschsprachiges Buch versandt. Zweitens noch nie zwei Bücher im selben Monat. Und drittens, obgleich schon einige unserer Titel von ihren Machern für unsere Abonnenten signiert worden sind, geschah dies bislang noch nicht in personalisierter Form. Nachdem ich Rudolf Zwirner im April dieses Jahres kennenlernen durfte, verbindet uns ein inspirierender Dialog über die Freuden und Untiefen der aktuellen Kunstwelt. Sein ganzes Leben schon war Rudolf ein Pionier des Neuen in der Welt – und hat auch jetzt, im stolzen Alter von 86 Jahren, nichts von seiner Begeisterungsfähigkeit und seinem Scharfsinn verloren. Als Deutschlands wohl bedeutendster Kunsthändler hat er Menschen sein Leben lang zu lohnenden Ausnahmen verführt. Oft genug auch in monetärer Hinsicht, wenn man bedenkt, dass ein großes Gemälde von Gerhard Richter bei ihm einst noch um die 4.000 Mark zu haben war. Noch wichtiger aber waren Rudolf Zwirner schon immer die konstruktiven Brüche, die gerade die Kunst in ein oberflächlich geordnetes Leben bringen kann. Schon als ich zum ersten Mal von der Veröffentlichung seiner Autobiografie hörte, plante ich alle erforderlichen Ausnahmen, um Ihnen dieses Buch zu schicken. Siehe oben.
Heiko Hoffmann, Felix Hoffmann (eds.)
No Photos On The Dancefloor
Berlin 1989–Today
Prestel, 2019
Comes with the original exhibition flyer for our subscribers
There have been a few moments in modern history when advertising was way ahead of its time. Do you remember the “1984” commercial created by apple? Or – going back to the late 50s – the incredible “Think small” ad for Volkswagen? Being respectively 35 and 60 years old, both campaigns still seem as modern as can be. (If you don’t recall them, you’ll easily find them online.) But intentionally or not, advertising has always been a valid snapshot of the current zeitgeist – not always in a flattering way, of course. I just rediscovered a poster which I found so weird in the 90s that I ordered it back then (which was not a typical thing to do, but I contacted the agency and finally got a print of it). It’s an ad by the tobacco brand “West” and it shows two female military pilots. There’s also a headline saying “The Power of Now”, raising the unsettling question of which form of power could be meant here? Ironically, a book with the exact same title, written by Eckhart Tolle, became one of the most important spiritual bestsellers shortly thereafter and, as a result, a forerunner in the up-and-coming trend of mindfulness. As I mentioned, I just recently rediscovered that poster in my storage, where it has been boxed for over 20 years. But no more than one week later did I re-encounter the same ad in a totally different context: as a part of a photo in a current photo exhibition. A very surprising synchronicity? Or just another coincidence? Either way the catalogue of this exhibition is both a journey in time and into a subculture which heavily contributed to Berlin’s creative reputation. You’ll find the West ad on its first few pages.
Ania Rosinke, Maciej Chmara
Spector Books, 2019
Signed by the authors and including an exclusive signed and numbered color study for our subscribers
Radio can still be relevant. A few years ago I remember sitting in a car, listening to an interview with the berlin-based architect Arno Brandlhuber. Knowing him from some former projects, I already knew about his basic approach of creatively breaking the rules, especially any norm-based construction or building regulations. In this specific radio feature, Arno talked about the different rooms in our homes and about how we usually use them. We’re so heavily influenced by the names of the different spaces – take the dining room, the living room, the bedroom as examples – that we don’t dare to question their actual function in and for our lives. Instead of just adopting floor plans which always follow the current zeitgeist, we should come up with our own personal use concepts. No sooner said than done! Before, our so-called “living room” was not only the biggest one in our flat, but also the one used least often. To be honest, we only really needed it when friends came by. Today it also hosts my little (and pretty nerdy) home recording studio and there’s still plenty of space for visitors – even though we all know that the coziest place of every party is a different one: the kitchen. For me, Ania and Maciej are among the most relevant young designers of our times. Their ideas are rule-breaking but always functional, strict but always joyful – all at the same time. They were recently thinking a lot about kitchens and this is their very first book. They didn’t want it to just be an overview of their own designs, so they invited some very smart friends to write essays about a place which should be as individual as we all are.
Dongwoo Yim Rafael Luna
North Korean Atlas
DAMDI Publishing House, 2014
Exceptionally delivered to our subscribers as a sold-out, rare title of Korean storage stock
Some German sayings are quite idiosyncratic. One goes like this: “Ausnahmen bestätigen die Regel.” The English equivalent is similar in this case: “The exception proves the rule.” The question is: How many exceptions can any rule bear before it topples – and before the exceptions turn out to be the new standard? A pretty political topic indeed, since over the recent years politics have become the playground where exceptions were once a rare and sensitive thing, but now seem to drive the whole circus. Two men who both love the exceptions and the circus – and even more actively stage themselves as spectacular exceptions – are Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un. The latter, born in 1984, has been serving as “Supreme Leader” since 2011. Compared to other nations, North Korea itself is a gigantic exception to what we’d refer to as “normal”. However, most of us likely wouldn’t be any more familiar with other similarly sized countries. In order to close this gap and because of its current relevance, I’ve decided to make some exceptions, too: 1) I usually try not to send 2 books with similar topics too close to each other. Since the last book you got from us was about Tokyo, one could say we’re focusing too much on Asia now ... but please judge for yourself. 2) Normally we send out new, untouched books. This amazing atlas about North Korea was sold out and is therefore a so-called “rare” title. Nonetheless, we managed to find just enough copies for all of our subscribers. They have all traveled around the globe already. Let’s travel back there together now, by reading.
Tokyo Totem – A Guide to Tokyo
Flick Studio, 2015
Have you ever thought about Japanese ambulances? Me neither, until I visited Tokyo recently. Still the biggest city in the world (with almost 39 million inhabitants in the greater metropolitan area), Tokyo is also the safest one. There are a lot of reasons for that, including the Japanese mentality and the wealth of the country – not to mention other forces that still seem to be at work helping to keep the streets free from petty crimes. Within my nearly 2 weeks there, I didn’t even hear cars honking – with one single exception. But it was the ambulances which surprised me even more: never before had I seen vehicles with red lights and sirens in operation driving so slowly and carefully. Have a look at a video I found: https://youtu.be/aocanuLfCWk (“Japanese ambulance introduction, For Foreigner”). When these cars enter an intersection, their driving behavior seems almost to apologize to everyone else using the road for brutally interrupting the city’s steady, quiet traffic. Sometimes it’s the smallest detail that makes you understand the bigger picture. Besides all the huge challenges Japan is facing, this country is still a place where thoughtful awareness and inspiring devotion play crucial roles in daily life. People show so much respect for their peers, for their labor and even for the objects which surround them. I’m not romanticizing, I’m just highlighting the strengths I’ve experienced there. This book here is my personal “role model” for any travel guide. I wish I could have such a thing for every city or region I visit in the future.
Fourth Estate, 2011
Some people wonder how we find the books we consider special enough to make it into 8 BOOKS A YEAR. There’s no single answer. As some of you already know, we actually work in a library – I had always wished to have my books around me at work. And, since we want our library to be a contemporary one, we feel obliged to be sure we have plenty of new arrivals all the time. So here’s my first answer: We choose the candidates out of what has already made it into our library – a few hundred outstanding titles per year. But how do we find those? A lot of them in independent book stores, all around the world. Newsletters from amazing (and mostly independent) publishers are another source, also book covers we stumble across in diverse social media channels. Rarely reviews. At this point I’d hope that you’ve noticed I’ve left something out – maybe the most powerful thing when it comes to books: recommendations. Most of my most beloved books were recommended to me by someone I already knew. However, the act of recommending a specific book to somebody else is a very personal thing. It reveals a lot. The book you’re holding in your hands right now found its way into my life through one of our subscribers. He’s a scientist and we went out to lunch together. He told me many great things about “The Information” and that it was one of the most important and inspiring books he had ever read. Thank you so much, Rick, for sharing this amazing and superdense book first with me – and now with all of us. You’ll get another one on top, of course.
Wripped Scripped
Hatje Cantz, 2018
Including a stamped postcard and an artist poster for our subscribers
How often do you hold a book in your hands that you immediately feel will literally change your life? I remember such a moment six years ago, almost to the day. The book I held in my hands appeared to be a supermodern, printed version of a cabinet of curiosities – or like we say in German: a so-called “Wunderkammer”. It was obviously meant to function as a melting pot for the most diverse things like historical events, old writings and bits of wisdom, political, economic and religious perspectives – combined with a lot of unexpected fragments of modern pop culture and sudden surprising insights. Since I believe that we actually live in a time where all forms of creativity are no longer driven by linear but intuitive processes of overlapping playgrounds and increasingly by blurred intersections between professions and disciplines, this book instantly became my perfect example for this way of thinking, and also for combining the past with our present in a coherent but completely unpredictable manner. This book broke through the current frontiers of both art and science (too thorough for the one world, too jumpy for the other). Yes, I confess that it shocked me, but only in an extremely positive way. I asked, “Who made this book? These guys have to be crazy ...” It turned out that it was written and designed by “Slavs and Tatars”, an international art collective. And it would be too much (and also way too rational) to list here in how many ways it brought new knowledge, thoughts, ideas and (even more importantly) new friendship into my life. The work of Slavs and Tatars, as unique as it is important, can be seen in a lot of places and museums all around the world. Right now (and until the middle of october) at the Albertinum in Dresden. On the occasion of this latest show, the collective published this new bilingual book. Another stunning Wunderkammer.
UFO Drawings from the National Archives
Four Corners Books, 2018
I must confess: I was obsessed with UFOs when I was a young boy. There was a balcony at my parents’ house where I often stood at night, impatiently watching for a “close encounter of the 3rd kind” that unfortunately never came. I didn't even observe a single shooting star: it took me a few decades more before I spotted my very first 1. Since I had so few success in discovering extraterrestrial life in plain sight, I read a lot of books about UFOs and other unexplained phenomena at that time. I still regard that phase as a pretty formative one. It might be helpful to deal with a whole banquet of the inexplicable when you’re still a child – it protects you from all too linear cause-and-effect thinking and from the illusion that mankind already knows a lot. Throughout history people have felt like they’ve already discovered most of what can possibly be discovered. And throughout history that has turned out to be completely untrue for every era up until the present. Even if there aren't any aliens around (I’m no longer as certain as I was a few decades ago), they still would be of the greatest value to us. David Clarke, the author of this wonderful little book with all its innocent beauty, talks about UFOs as a modern myth. In contrary to the past, today we usually know what’s going on behind these dark forests, behind these wide marshlands and behind those great mountains. This is why fairy tales have lost what is perhaps their most important function: unleashing our curiosity. UFOs (and all the other things I was fascinated by as a boy) keep us looking – into the skies, around the next corner, into ourselves and into the eyes of the other.
Daniel Young, Christian Giroux
ARCH+, 2017
When you live in a huge city, nature isn’t always easy to access. so last year I started something I call “endstation-Wanderung”. The idea is to simply take any underground or city railway line – without any planning beforehand – to the very last station and walk home from there, using your phone to navigate. For my first trip I took the S1 line and ended up in oranienburg, which is 33 kilometres from my apartment. It took me over 7 hours to get back that day, but without a doubt it was one of the most fascinating walks I’ve ever been on. I travelled through beautiful pinewoods and old villages without asphalted streets until I eventually set foot in berlin again. I wondered what the first house and street would look like. After another hour I began to pass places I had been before. From there on it worked like a funnel: more and more streets, junctions and buildings seemed familiar to me, before I finally stood in front of my house again. It was a unique experience, and since then I have done it several times. If you’d like to do the same in your hometown, I’d love to share 2 insights. Do it alone – it can be fun with a friend but maybe you won’t make it home on foot. And don’t choose a Sunday for such a trip, you’ll enjoy the various possibilities a regular workday will offer you on your way. The artists Daniel Young and Christian Giroux hiked Berlin too, but in a more profound and systematic way: in 2015 they crossed the whole city, zigzagging east and west to document every single building that was completed in 2013. They also photographed the closest neighbouring building that was erected one generation (approximately 30 years) earlier. Since I don’t know anybody else who has seen so much of Berlin, I asked Daniel, a Canadian, what he found the most remarkable thing. “The fences,” he said.
Martin Grothmaak
evertime
An everlasting calendar, diary and sketch book
United Landscapes, 2018
Including an exclusive behind-the-scenes photograph for our suscribers
By chance, a smart man once met the devil in a breakfast bar. Being an atheist, the man didn’t believe that he was really talking to the guy who has been described as a “fallen angel” throughout the ages. But somehow he felt challenged and started to negotiate with the stranger. “Could you tell me the 3 most important things in life?” the devil asked. “What would they be?” he wanted to know. “Oh, that’s simple: health, wealth and love,” said the man, adding, “What serious problem could ever befall me if I could rest assured of these things?” The devil seemed to think about what he had just heard and answered, “You’re a clever man, so I’ll give you what you want. And my price is the same as always: your soul.” Since the man didn’t really believe that there is a soul or something like life after death, he said to himself, “Let’s give it a try!” “So we have a deal?” the devil asked. The man gave him a firm handshake and confirmed the contract. After 1 more drink the devil had to leave, but stopped in the doorway of the bar, turned and told the man, “I’m really sorry to say this, but I’ll insist on collecting your debt quite soon. You’ll experience great health, enormous wealth and incomparable love in your life – until tomorrow evening. I‘m afraid you forgot to add time to our deal.” I guess we can imagine the look on the man‘s face when he heard that. Time is something we should never take for granted. It’s precious, it‘s relative, it moves, it flies, it‘s up. This book might help to catch it and will become your most personal time capsule.
1975 – Diario di strada
Archive Books, 2017
How old are you? I was born in 1972 and some of my strongest childhood memories relate to cars. I still know how incredibly relaxing it felt to be lying down, sleeping unstrapped in the back of my parent’s car when we went on vacation together. I also remember when I went 200 kilometers per hour for the very first time: our father had picked up a his new Mercedes-Benz “123” – I remember that it was a brown one – and tested its limits while our mom and I sat next to him, both of us on the edge of our seats, but for different reasons (I enjoyed it very much). The craziest situation I can recollect was probably the one when our mother had to drive me somewhere while a maneuver of the US military was taking place in the meadows directly in front of our house. She had a thin-walled red Renault 4 (a popular model at the time) and actually dared to enter the street on which terrifying American battle tanks were driving immediately in front of and behind our pretty little French car. I remembered this story when I rediscovered the “r4” in Daniela Comani’s book, right in between a Saab 99 and a Ford Capri. This book deals both with personal and collective memory. As a child, Daniela thoroughly noted all the plate numbers of the vehicles that overtook her parents’ car – or were overtaken by it – while she sat in the back and stared out the window. She often added the make and its specific model. Forty years later, Daniela stumbled over one of her old notebooks: a planner from 1975 with her list of cars. She did some research and found neutral photographs of the models which were taken by the manufacturers for brochures. What was “daily scenery” on our streets back then looks almost like an excerpt from a design museum now. Is it nostalgia playing a trick on us? Or do you think it’s possible that most things just looked better back in those days?
Dennis DeSantis
74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers
Ableton, 2015
Do you know what we believe to be the biggest misunderstanding about non-fiction books? It’s the idea that the more a title directly relates to the topic you’re interested in, the more you can learn from it. That’s why the bestseller lists are filled with so many how-to manuals and all sorts of self-help literature. It simply doesn't occur to most people to read an old travel report when they’re about to change jobs – why should they? Because it works. If we dare to read a book not just for its obvious content but also for what it can teach us on a completely different level, we open up a whole new universe of discovery and understanding. Isn’t this in fact the only way to create new and original ideas? As strategists we work with books on a daily basis and we actually made our Berlin office a library. Besides the knowledge our books offer, we also use them as inspirational tools. Every couple of days we build mood boards out of the most diverse books, just to become aware of the variety of meanings a specific term can have. Books have often helped us to develop radically new ideas – but believe me: It was never the ones we’d expected. And one more thing: It’s usually the right book that finds you, not the other way around. Even if we were to try to explain this as being some form of sub-conscious perception it still provides a strong argument for not always choosing the books which promise the most at first sight. So yes, I’m totally aware that most of our subscribers (probably 98 or 99 percent) don’t ever produce any electronic music. But since reading this well-made book for the first time I’ve really considered it an amazing advisor. It discusses a lot of different “problems” – and presents wonderful answers – not only for producers, but also for your life and business. We just have to do what musicians call “transposing”: performing a composition in a different key.
Alexander Chizhevsky, Robin Watkins
Physical Factors of the Historical Process
ATLAS Projectos, 2017
Edition of 200 handbound copies, accompanied by a printed email from Robin Watkins for our subscribers
This book got me into trouble at first sight. I already had planned to pick a future project by its maker for 8 BOOKS A YEAR. When I discovered this treasure here I thought I’d have exactly 2 options: either sending out this book to you now – or waiting for the other one to be produced. But how stupid is this? Nobody, not even me, ever defined such a rule for us. So why not simply select both? I became aware that we might reduce our possibilities too often without any need to do so. There’s a witty quote from a rather famous American lawyer series (if you ever watched it you’ll know from which one): “What are your choices when someone puts a gun to your head? You take the gun. Or you pull out a bigger one. Or, you call their bluff. Or, you do any one of a hundred and forty six other things.” Or, how President Underwood (you know this one, don’t you?) stated: “If you don’t like how the table is set, turn over the table.” I also remember a gallerist who once said to me “there’s always another one” when I asked for an artwork which had been sold already. So, yes, there’s always another one: another option, another choice, another chance. And: another perspective! The theory in this book was originally published in 1924 by the Russian biophysicist Alexander Chizhevsky. He concluded: “The existence of a dependence of the behavior of humanity on sunspot activity should be considered established.” You should take a look at page 12 and read at least the summary on pages 23-25. Even if you don't agree, isn’t it refreshing to hear of such an extraordinary idea for the first time? It just opens something up in the mind and creates some form of constructive instability. The list of our choices is – always and literally – unlimited.
Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner, Alexis Kalagas, Katerina Kourkoula
Reactive Athens
Ruby Press, 2017
A few days ago, documenta 14 opened in Kassel again. Since it only takes place every 5 years, expectations are always high. And there was something different this time: documenta opened first not in its hometown, but in Greece. The curators also made a motto out of what this implied: “Learning from Athens”. As much as I liked this surprising twist when I first read about it (most of the time it’s much more interesting to listen to the underdog than to the champion), I have to confess that I was a bit disappointed when I eventually visited Kassel. Instead of discovering a lot of inspiring, brave, uncommon and uncomfortable art, I was confronted with a myriad of critical (which I love) but obsessively direct and lecturing works which could already have been around a few decades ago. I think it’s a privilege of artists (and curators) to jump ahead of their times and to drive the discourse – and they definitely should make use of this privilege. After having walked around 1 day at documenta, I thought again about their motto, which I mentioned above. I guess we all agree that “learning from” somebody is always a great thing to do – as long as no one makes an imperative out of it. This just turns learning into teaching and dialogue into proclamation. The idea of knowing exactly what to do or how to deal with the challenges we all face today is an illusion we should scrupulously recognize as such. Therefore our new choice is not a book about documenta, but one about Athens. It provided me with a lot of fresh ideas and concepts on how some problems could be dealt with in a very different way. Problems we all know, ideas which can be realized everywhere. So, even if it’s not a book about art, it finally became my better documenta 14.
An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality
Shambhala, 2000
2 years ago I stepped out of my own company. I had founded it 12 years earlier and nobody wanted me to leave. On the contrary: Most of my colleagues couldn’t understand why I’d leave a working environment which I had built myself and which I could have changed if I’d wanted to. So why did I do it? There were 2 reasons. The first one was just a feeling. It came overnight and grew constantly, from month to month. My second motive was a sudden insight: Even a place or a situation you created yourself can become a golden cage. You might still be able to change something there, but the task of rearranging it also carries the potential of preventing you from thinking about whether you should leave or not. Months after I dared to go, I found a 1-page PDF online with the title “Integrales Kompetenzmodell” (“Integrated Competence Model”). It was pretty shocking: Everything I had been feeling – my vague hunches – were precisely described in it. This document, published by a German institute, active in organization development and change management, is actually based on a sociological model called “Spiral Dynamics” and on the work of the American crossover-philosopher Ken Wilber. I dived deeper, read more about this concept and watched a lot of interviews with one of its pioneers, Don Beck. I can’t say that this changed my life (as mentioned, I had already done so), but it changed my perspective on the ongoing changes in the world. Don’t worry: It’s by far the most undogmatic and open-minded model I know. But if you’d like to understand better e.g. why populism is rearing its ugly head right now in so many wealthy countries, you’ll find some excellent answers in just the first 2 chapters of this book. It was published in 2000 but feels more topical than ever.
Giovanna Silva
Syria, A Travel Guide to Disappearance
Mousse Publishing, 2016
An older friend of mine is an experienced art collector. Some years ago, when I started to get to know him better, he revealed some of his secrets to me. One was about his insight that quite often those artworks in particular which had not been sold at the end of a gallery show became – in the long run – the most relevant and therefore valuable ones. And I also learned a German word from him which I didn’t know before: “Wahrnehmungswiderstand” – it describes the potential of an object to successfully resist being deciphered. It’s not only artworks that can have this weird quality but also books: The ones which strike me the most are actually those which unfold their multiple layers to me very slowly. I mean those books which do not support our lives by delivering a lot of tangible advice, but which make us think about life. Take Syria. We’ve heard and read so much about this country over the past few years. But for what reason? Can we still imagine another Syria, one without war and flight? Or even a “boring” Aleppo like the one Pier Paolo Tamburelli remembers in his introductory text? Are we able to see the beauty in the photos by Giovanna Silva which were glued by hand onto these travel guide copies from another era? Why did she – as the photographer and maker of this book – choose such an apologetic and modest way to present her work? And what is this book? A journey through time? A change of perspective? An exhibition? An archive? An accusation? An encouragement? You see: a lot of Wahrnehmungswiderstand we have to deal with. I promise, it’s worth it.
Raymond Clemens, Deborah E. Harkness
The Voynich Manuscript
Yale University Press, 2016
If you were given a time machine, what would you do? Without any doubt there are a lot of tempting possibilities. You could travel into the future to see whether it’s really possible to fall in love with a computer voice in, let’s say, 20 years. Or whether Apple stocks gained or lost value in 2. Is democracy still in place and Europe still united in 10? And will there be completely new forms of art, music and literature in 100? But don’t ignore the other direction this thought experiment could go: Driven by your curiosity, you could also travel into the past. How was it? What really happened? For instance, you could be the first and only twenty-first-century person to meet Siddhartha Gautama, nowadays better known as Buddha – what kind of man was he? Who shot John F. Kennedy and why? How did it feel to follow Joan of Arc? Were Johann Goethe and Friedrich Schiller more than just best friends? How did the ancient Egyptians manage to build the pyramids? You shouldn’t tell anybody about your new abilities, of course, because there are thousands of mystic secrets and unsolved enigmas mankind is so completely fascinated by. While some of the experiences you’d (hopefully) come back with could certainly help us learn from ancient times and understand more about our history, others might just be thrill seeking. But you definitely shouldn't forget to tell us the truth about the so-called Voynich Manuscript: known as “the world’s most mysterious manuscript”, written some time between 1404 and 1438 CE, never deciphered (neither the language nor the pictures), published for the first time as a complete facsimile 3 weeks ago by Yale University. Please, solve the riddle. Enter your time machine!
Edmund Clark and Crofton Black
Negative Publicity: Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition
Aperture, 2016
This book is a real life James Bond file. One without dangerous ladies, wonder weapons or pompous temples of evil. Instead, it comes with bureaucrats, torture and run-down warehouses. And while watching a 007 movie might be entertaining, I'd describe the experience of going through these pages as disconcerting. No worries, there's not a single photo in this book which you should be warned about looking at beforehand. No, it's the kafkaesque feeling that engulfs us when we get an idea of the tremendous apparatus which is at work here. It's hidden, poorly monitored, ugly and ultrabanal all at the same time. The incredible amount of work Edmund Clark and Crofton Black had to invest to collect all these snippets and pieces of evidence – or "artefacts" as they themselves call them – made me realize how difficult it is to unveil such obscure activities … not to mention the risks the authors very likely have to take. I once learned that it is not hate that is the opposite of love, but fear. We also know that the idea of "fighting fire with fire" usually just results in more fire. I regard the making of this book to be a fearless act of love. It's still a privilege to live in a society where we're allowed and able to produce, to purchase and to read a book like this. With its help we should dare to look behind the curtain. After having done so already, I'd suggest starting with the excellent afterword, written by Eyal Weizman. The yellow pages provide the required background information on the documents and photos. What you're holding in your hands right now really deserves your attention and maybe 1 or 2 hours of your time. Less than an average visit to the cinema.
The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift: Intellectual Barbarians
Donlon Books, 2016
Nowadays even electronic music labels are already celebrating their 20th anniversaries – I just realized that and I would guess there are even older ones. The one which led me to this insight is Raster-Noton, an independent company co-founded by the artist Carsten Nicolai. On the occasion of their anniversary the label rebuilt a huge light and sound installation at Berlin’s most famous club. Just google "White Circle" and "Berghain" to get an idea of the project and of the location. I’m mentioning this here because besides its visual and acoustic power, it also had a spiritual quality. People gathered themselves in a circle created out of a lot of vertical lights and some nearly invisible speakers and subwoofers. Everybody sat or laid down and many visitors closed their eyes at some point since you were still able to perceive the bright light signals through your shut eyelids. Some even meditated. Eventually the word "ritual" occurred to me and the whole thing suddenly felt like a reinterpretation of some old mystical event where all members of a tribe or a village came together to share an exceptional experience. There’s a kind of archaic yearning in all of us, looking for chances to drop our guard and connect to each other on a deeper human level. However, especially we Germans still become very sceptical when cult moments merge with political contexts. The Nazis seem to have discredited this mix forever, although there were also such modernist, pacifistic movements in the 20ies of the last century. They dared to bring together what likely belongs together: progressive thinking, natural sciences and metaphysics. Have you ever heard of the Kibbo Kift? I hadn’t until I recently discovered this book. They were far, far ahead of their time.
Bill Maurer
How Technology Is Changing the Future of Money
Duke University Press, 2015
After finishing school, my grandma Anna worked as a maid on a remote farm in the Bavarian mountains. It was a time of scarcity, but every February 2nd she got her annual wage of 20 German marks. Since she was given free board and lodging, she was able to save most of her money. After 12 years of hard work and a life full of privation, she suddenly heard of a threatening phenomenon going on in the distant cities: hyperinflation. The 27 year old woman grabbed her savings, borrowed the only bike around and drove from Obermurbach to the village of Lenggries as fast as she could. All she got there for 200 marks was 2 skeins of yarn. A little later, by November 1923, an American dollar was worth 4.2 trillion marks. As my grandma died before I was born, I could never ask her what effect this had on her. But we can imagine that her relationship to money was different than ours. Maybe hers was a more accurate one, unmasking money to reveal a mere agreement that functions only as long as all the players still agree. Today all the world’s money (including cash and checking deposits) is estimated to have a value of 28.6 trillion US dollars, with the market capitalization of all stock markets equal to 70 trillion. At the same time we face global debts of 199 trillion and – hardly conceivably – at least 630 trillion dollars for the size and scope of the global derivative markets. How many skeins of yarn would that be? This little book, written by an anthropologist, opens up a new perspective on money, describing it as a “chain of promises”. And it doesn’t forget the developing world, where most people are as far away from the stock exchanges as my grandma Anna was in her time.
Mood Disorder
Chert (Berlin), Motto Books (Lausanne/Berlin), New Documents (LA/Vancouver)
Including a personal letter from the artist to our subscribers
Hacking means infiltrating a network using technology. Social hacking does the same by taking advantage of the weak point we call “the human being”. We seem to be calculable, even predictable. Take the Trojan horse as an early example of an effective social hack: a gigantic victory trophy at first sight, but it came with a price tag. Nowadays lotteries just have to place a car in a shopping mall to collect shoals of addresses in a few days – totally understandable … how else should they know where to deliver their first prize? But let’s not feel too safe just because we see through this simple marketing game, there’re a lot of others. The American artist David Horvitz played his own: He took a photo of himself, sitting by the sea, seemingly desperate with his face buried in his hands. David then put this picture onto Wikipedia's page about “Mood Disorder” and made it “free-to-use”. The bait was in the water. Look what happened. When I flipped through the pages of this artist's book, I really felt like I had stumbled into the commoditized third world of the internet. It seems to have its own economy based on interchangeable articles with stereotypical stock-images. Who in the world produces them? Who reads them? David Horvitz used them and created a conceptual artwork. It consists of frozen screenshots. It will become a time capsule and it’s being shown at the New York MoMA right now, appropriately enough as part of its ”New Photography” show. Your copy comes with a personal letter from the artist.
Ruth Slavid (text), James Morris (photographs)
Ice Station: The Creation of Halley VI
Britain‘s Pioneering Antarctic Research Station
Park Books, 2015
While thinking about this book’s introduction, I saw a lot of options:
Nearing winter and upcoming cold (Berlin changes when that happens: believe me, it's like living in a whole different city)
My embarrassing difficulties in correctly remembering whether the Antarctic is in the north or in the south …
”I spy with my little eye, something blue and red”
The discovery of a hole in the ozone layer in 1985 (p. 76)
Paris, still in a state of shock, now hosting the UN Conference on Climate Change, which some experts think might eventually be called ”mankind's most important event ever”
The inspiring success story of a relatively unexperienced architect who started by building a ”Girl Guides headquarters”
A house on skis – how weird is that??
The challenge of living in total darkness for 106 days (p. 13)
My surprise at hearing the term ”Antarctic Architecture” (p. 89)
The tip to flip back and forth between pages 15 and 10
The insight that sometimes it can be an option not to choose between different options
Another insight that I should do that only once
Sven Völker and Sting
There‘s a Little Black Spot on the Sun Today
NorthSouth Books, 2015
Signed by the designer and his son for our subscribers
The relationship between father and son has always been a special one. On both a conscious and subconscious level it often oscillates between straightforward encouragement and undetected rivalry, honest recognition and hidden suppression, large-hearted sharing and anxious restraint. Throughout the centuries these complex layers have been the raw material for countless novels, plays and movies and will continue to engage us, most likely forever. My own father just turned 81 and the older I get, the more patterns of behavior I discover in me which were obviously influenced by him – whether I like it or not. After we visited my father to celebrate his birthday, I travelled to California where I picked up a car and started driving up the West Coast, heading to Oregon. Believe it or not, I spotted one of the best bookstores I’ve ever visited in a wonderful small town called Mendocino. Among dozens of interesting new titles, one caught my attention. It’s called “Sons + Fathers” and presents cultural icons reflecting on their begetters. Quite interestingly, sometimes a single case can tell you more about life than a collection of 100 stories. Take Sven. He has 2 sons, 1 of whom, Malo, became terribly ill at the age of 3. During one of their drives to the hospital, Malo asked his father about the song that was playing on the radio … and about its lyrics. These were written by Sting when he realized how much it still hurt to think about his ex-wife. On hearing this, Malo immediately claimed the song’s title “King of Pain” for himself. His father thought of making a book for his son when he recovered. He has, and so we have this book. Signed by father and son.
Andreas Trogisch
Peperoni Books, 2015
Edition of 180 signed and numbered copies
How do you define non-fiction? The German director Werner Herzog once characterized his documentaries as often being more fictitious than his feature films and his feature films as sometimes more documental than his documentaries. One of the most interesting things in life is to explore such gray areas, where the world neither is white nor black – in your mind, in your actions or sometimes just beneath your feet. The latter is what happened to the maker of this extremely rare book. His object of investigation is a single runway strip, which in reality measures 90 centimeters in width and 30 meters in length. You find it at the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, a huge area that was part of the former Tempelhof Airport. Today a much-loved public park, this place really has a lot of stories to tell: started as a parade ground for the Prussian army, it first became a recreational area and then an airport. As such, Tempelhof was among the most important infrastructure projects of Nazi-Germany. From 1948 to 1949, the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift via Tempelhof – over 200,000 flights provided the isolated people of West Berlin with an incredible amount of life-saving goods, up to 12,000 tons per day. In 2014, a majority of the citizens voted against a large real estate project that the local government had planned to realize on the site. And the world keeps turning: Just a few days ago, Berlin decided to set up a camp for refugees at the former airport – at least 40,000 are expected to arrive in the city by the end of this year. In one way or another, all these events leave traces. Keeping that in mind, even an abstract picture can turn out as great non-fiction.
Eran Ben-Joseph
ReThinking a Lot:
The Design and Culture of Parking
MIT Press, 2012
Some months ago Hillary Clinton claimed she would become the future US president for all “everyday Americans”. Sounds down-to-earth, but what does this “everyday” mean? When politicians talk of “everyday people” they sometimes misuse this term, attempting to justify a kind of resistance to looking at things from different angles and to discussing them in a more profound way. Or – you could say – it betrays a lack of willingness to see things in all their complexity. On the other hand “everyday” can mean rather the opposite: It has the potential to open our eyes to the “everyday wonders” of life. Do I seem cliché now, talking about stopping to smell the roses on your way to work? Not necessarily, since even our least subtle fellows appreciate a rose’s beauty. But take the Swiss artists Fischli & Weiss who, for decades, took hundreds of photos of airports – anonymous airfields with planes being loaded and unloaded, busses and trucks driving around. They might seem boring at first sight, but they simply aren’t. Instead they show technological and social microcosms, highly organized cross-border intersections and the backbones of one gigantic organism called global infrastructure. Boring? Not at all. So, being an “everyday human” could also mean becoming conscious of what is usually hidden. We can surprise ourselves by discovering the concepts, both the good and the failed ones, behind some structures we are confronted with every single day. Do you own a car? Where is it right now? What is it doing? Most probably, nothing. It’s parked.
Martin Eberle
Voyager – The Grand Tour
Drittel Books, 2015
Jodie Foster got me wondering. I was playing around on the internet while Contact was being shown again on TV. I already knew the movie, but I realized that I know almost nothing about the sheer dimensions of our universe. It took me a short while to find some basic but by all means astounding facts. For example, have you ever wondered how many stars you can see with your bare eyes when you look at the sky on a dark and cloudless night? You won't be able to count but about 5,000. Fewer than most people expect. Every visible shining dot belongs to the Milky Way, our home galaxy. How many stars would you guess it hosts? Since Earth lies within one of the Milky Way's gigantic spiral arms – each a wall of stars that even our most modern telescopes simply can't see through – astronomers can only estimate. Still, it is certainly between 200,000,000,000 and 400,000,000,000 suns. Indeed, we're talking about billions here in 1 of, again, billions more galaxies. Keeping that vastness in mind, jump back to 1977 when a team of scientists grabbed the unique, foolhardy chance to step into the void and explore all 4 outer planets of our solar system in 1 grand tour. 2 unmanned spacecraft were sent out. Both are still functioning. Both are about to leave our planetary neighborhood behind. Each has a golden record on board which, in a distant future, could become mankind’s greatest document. Imagine yourself, as an alien, flipping through its pictures from the 1970s. What would you think about humans? An incredible book project.
Stefan Sulzer
The day my mother touched Robert Ryman
Edition Taube, 2015
Signed by the artist for our subscribers
Every true story can still be told in a thousand ways. What is your perspective on what happened? Your conclusion? Your dramaturgy? These 3 decisions have to be made – consciously or not – before you share any narrative. While established media too often fails to make this process transparent to us, this small book is an overwhelming example of how a true story can be revealed in another, more differentiated, way. By looking through the lenses of both protagonists’ perspectives, it creates something invaluable in a fracturing world: empathy and, therefore, tolerance. Line by line it digs deeper and deeper for what really counts. Without ever dictating to you what to think about the written, it only blocks one exit for us: judging too easily, too quickly. I thought of my mother. Subsequent generations can enjoy the privilege of learning more about nearly everything. Who knows … in 30 years you might damage your son’s quantum fridge by opening it the wrong way. Fortunately this won't matter as long as not only technology evolves, but also the way we describe and perceive what goes on around us. Great artists sometimes have the ability to predict a future. This is undoubtedly an artist book – but certainly not one only about art. I'd rather call it poetic and political. I read it thoroughly from front to back: I recommend you also give yourself a chance to let its pure, radical concept unfold.
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Treatment of diffuse subretinal fibrosis uveitis with rituximab
Kurt Spiteri Cornish, Lucia Kuffova, John Forrester
Diffuse subretinal fibrosis uveitis (DUS) syndrome is a rare form of granulomatous multifocal choroiditis (MFC) characterised by enlarging areas of subretinal fibrosis (SRF) which coalesce with subsequent macular involvement and visual loss. First described by Palestine, DUS carries a poor visual prognosis despite use of high-dose corticosteroids and systemic immunosuppression. We report two cases of bilateral DUS successfully treated with rituximab. We believe given the B-cell predominance in the underlying pathogenesis of the disease, rituximab should be considered first line in the management of this potentially devastating disease.
British Journal of Ophthalmology
https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304686
Adrenal Cortex Hormones
Multifocal choroiditis
Diffuse subretinal fibrosis uvetis (DUS)
Spiteri Cornish, K., Kuffova, L., & Forrester, J. (2015). Treatment of diffuse subretinal fibrosis uveitis with rituximab. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 99(2), 153-154. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304686
Treatment of diffuse subretinal fibrosis uveitis with rituximab. / Spiteri Cornish, Kurt; Kuffova, Lucia; Forrester, John.
In: British Journal of Ophthalmology, Vol. 99, No. 2, 02.2015, p. 153-154.
Spiteri Cornish, K, Kuffova, L & Forrester, J 2015, 'Treatment of diffuse subretinal fibrosis uveitis with rituximab', British Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 153-154. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304686
Spiteri Cornish K, Kuffova L, Forrester J. Treatment of diffuse subretinal fibrosis uveitis with rituximab. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2015 Feb;99(2):153-154. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304686
Spiteri Cornish, Kurt ; Kuffova, Lucia ; Forrester, John. / Treatment of diffuse subretinal fibrosis uveitis with rituximab. In: British Journal of Ophthalmology. 2015 ; Vol. 99, No. 2. pp. 153-154.
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Chaosium.com
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Stand-offs
By Evilschemer, January 9, 2012 in Basic Roleplaying
It is not a matter of "more mechanics" but of "more objectivity".
If it is "more objectivity" that you seek, why not play a computer game? You can't get more objective than software.
I never said "do not allow roleplaying" or "do not give bonuses for roleplaying".
I just said "provide a well-defined procedure". You may think that "roleplay and then make one roll with a bonus for what you said" is a sufficiently defined procedure, but is it really? Does your game include only one - and always one - roll for social interactions?.
It may come as a surprise to you Rosen, but you can't actually have a "definate well- defined procedure" for every little thing in an RPG, or it would be infinite. GMs are there for a purpose you know.
In the situation that Evilschemer mentioned, if one PC interacted with the NPC law man, and the GM wants this not to drag on too much, then one roll could determine the outcome of the conversation. Does your game include one and only one game for social interactions? Do you take shampoo and conditioner into the shower? Methinks I smell an advert.
Would you find it acceptable for combat??.
WTF does that have to do with this topic? Put that spliff down and concentrate man!
Would you appreciate a combat in which you are not told how many hit points of damage your attack dealt, but just what skill to roll? Or one in which most of your chances of success in combat depended on how well you mimicked your attack moves, rather than your character's skill? Please note that I produce a game (Aegis) where this actualy happens - if you do not describe the attack in colorful words, it fails - so this is not "wrong" in itself, just not coherent with the BRP game model. But why should Fast Talk work differently?.
Oh I see now; its about you pushing more product.
In synthesis, I fail to see why "simply sticking to a well-defined procedural mechanics based on statement of intent and subsequent die rolls" is considered good for combat and "boring roll-playing" for social conflicts.
In the situation that Evilschemer mentioned, roleplaying and a skill roll are simple and effective procedures, in accordance with the BRP rules. If he wants to have some quick fix mechanic for that then fine, its his game. But I see it as a waste of a dramatic roleplaying opportunity for the players.
Edited January 12, 2012 by Conrad
Evilschemer 12
I would like to point out that in first post I suggested a mechanic for quickly resolving intractable social conflicts that were boring to roleplay.
Then, in my second post, I essentially recanted my first post, suggesting instead that GMs, when faced with an intractable social conflict that no one is having fun roleplaying, should instead take a break and think of a third alternative that disrupts the conflict or causes it to come to a swift resolution. It's a twist on the classic "..and then, suddenly, ninjas attack!" trope in RPG story-telling.
AsenRG 11
I think this argument deserves its own name. Probably "argumentum ad computergamum" will work;).
It may come as a surprise to you Rosen, but you can't actually have a "definate well- defined procedure" for every little thing in an RPG, or it would be infinite.
It will probably be a surprise to you, but you can do that in a game with rules as long as 3 pages. Want examples:)?
GMs are there for a purpose you know.
Yes, but it's not to invent games during play. There are enough in game events to track, you know;)!
Both social and physical conflicts are forms of conflict. And both can kill you.
Am I pushing my product as well?
In the situation that Evilschemer mentioned, roleplaying and a skill roll are simple and effective procedures, in accordance with the BRP rules. If he wants to have some quick fix mechanic for that then fine, its his game.
And if his rules work, they're a good thing. Otherwise, he might be better served by some other rules.
That's assuming he has dealt with his problem player already, of course.
But I see it as a waste of a dramatic roleplaying opportunity for the players.
Are your combat rules there to supplement or to replace the combat descriptions? If the latter, I see it as a waste of dramatic roleplaying opportunity for the players as well. You don't stop roleplaying during combats, you know?
Well, at least I don't, haven't played with you;D!
Yeah, and people told you it's likely not to work with a problem player. No mechanic helps that, other than the social conflict mechanics in Real Life 1.0 the RPG;).
The alternative might work, but then the player is still essentially making you avoid a whole slew of situations. Are you fine with that?
frogspawner 11
To resolve bits of RP that've got intractable/boring for the players, I'd have thought a quick Fast Talk or Oratory or CHAx5 would be enough. Succeed and they get away - Fail and, well... violence is always an option.
More involved 'Social Interaction' mechanics don't sound convincing to me. Basically just more fluff to cover up the bottom line when the players fail their rolls: the GM takes control of the characters away from the players. That's a bad thing.
Particularly in the example given - where I think the players were right to expect bad things if they surrendered (including, very likely, execution). They were daft to get them selves in that situation though - the murderer (Dave?) was actually smarter - he ran away and hid!
Certainly, a co-incidental Ninja Attack would be an alternative to get them out of trouble. But you can only use that maybe once or it gets silly (and even then players like Dave may - justifiably - object to such 'GM Fiat'). Best to solve the problem properly, rather than avoid or cover it up.
I think the key is to treat the player-characters as individuals, not a group. In that stand-off, single-out the most belligerent(the one giving the most lip, or even just with the lowest CHA!) - and make it clear HE will die if he doesn't surrender. And if he doesn't - make it happen, by the 'lawmen' all shooting him until he is very obviously dead. And so on. It doesn't have to be a TPK unless the players choose it to be.
Oh, I get it - THAT's what 'pushing product' looks like...
To resolve bits of RP that've got intractable/boring for the players, I'd have thought a quick Fast Talk or Oratory or CHAx5 would be enough.
Sometimes they are. For something they're ready to negotiate 4 hours of real time? More involved is a better bet.
Succeed and they get away - Fail and, well... violence is always an option.
But with a more involved social conflict system... there's always another way;).
I'm not asking how many involved systems for social interactions you know. I'd like to ask you whether you've read this thread, though.
See this quote?
(snipped)
Ditto. THERE IS NO MIND CONTROLLING OR FORCING PLAYERS TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS in a good social conflict mechanics. Forget Pendragon Traits, that is NOT a social conflict mechanics. Not at all.
So, frogspawner, who's taking control of what characters;D?
Yo fanboy...er I mean brutha. I got what you need to ease the dullness o' that 'ho' BRP. Lookit mah fine Aegis bitch ass! She cheap. She ride you long time, boy!
I think I figured it out why your current title says "Alephtar pimp";).
I'd like to ask you whether you've read this thread, though. ... So, frogspawner, who's taking control of what characters;D?
Yep, I have. Er, the GM would be taking control of the characters in EvilSchemer's example.
I'm not convinced by the assertion "There is no ... forcing players to change their minds", you see?
So I asked for an example - and I've yet to see one.
RosenMcStern 1,068
Location: Somewhere in the EU
I did provide one, Frogspawner. The problem is that it is not a "the die roll dictates what happens" solution (and THAT would be a mind control) but a "the die roll dictates what options you have besides violence" solution.
Seriously, I think you should all forget that Pendragon ever existed. Debate rolls are not there to tell you how your PC behaves. They are there to tell you how people will judge how he behaves. It is still up to you to decide if your PC will face being declared Anathema ("social" death) for sparing that criminal's life.
You mean this...?
In our case, things could have been handled this way: the guards want the PCs to surrender their weapons. The PCs then attempt to argue with them with two goals:
a) persuade the guards that it would be dishonourable to surrender weapons and let them go with them voluntarily (Persuade/Orate/Etiquette/Status/Whatever)
determine if this is a trick to slaughter them once they are tied up (Insight)
If the party succeeds in a), the problem is solved: no disarming (it's the guards' problems now, as their boss will probably get angry). If the party succeeds in , most players would agree to lay down their weapons, as the risk is reduced. If the party tries a) but fails, they still have the option to fight: however, your average player is much more likely to give up violence as an option once he has been given a fair, objective chance to talk himself out of trouble.
I'm afraid I don't find it convincing, and don't think it really addresses the 'impasse' problem.
Because the problem is only solved if the players succeed at (a), i.e. make their Persuade/Whatever rolls. But that's obvious - in the example, we can presume they already tried that (and failed).
And success at ( doesn't matter. No matter how much Insight the players get into how little these Bad Guy Lawmen want to hurt them, they still won't want to surrender to them. For plenty of reasons: 1) They know they did it! And when the Lawmen find out...; 2) The Lawmen's Boss may later decide he DOES want to hurt them; 3) They totally lose control of their fate - and they're probably playing this game to have such control; 4) Shooting bad guys is what they want to do - why not these bad guys, now? So I don't believe the players would give up their weapons. The risk to them isn't reduced by Insight, and failing a Fast Talk (no matter how long a procedure is involved) isn't going to convince them either, IMHO.
That example isn't an example of the problem being solved at all...
What outcome, then, do you think would constitute a solution to the problem? I mean outcome, not "means to achieve the outcome".
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much option to violence in this situation. So the only reasonably possible outcomes are 1) the PC get shot; 2) the Bad Guy Lawmen get shot; or 3) enough of the PCs get shot that the remainder decide to surrender. Or even 4) EvilSchemer's rebels/ninjas turn up and start a co-incidental firefight... but like I said, that can only be a very-rarely-used solution.
PS: If a 'Social Conflicts' system existed that could actually convince the players to surrender, that would be fine. I don't reckon there is, or could be, such a system though.
PPS: The 'alignments' mechanism I suggested before probably wouldn't work in this situation, because the murder-victim was a bad guy, so to kill him probably wasn't that 'evil' after all... (in the context of a game where you're supposed to kill the bad guys).
Edited January 12, 2012 by frogspawner
PS & PPS
The problem is that any mechanics that CONVINCES PCs to do something is actually a railroad. Showing players that there is Only One Right Outcome is a railroad. Not that I have never done such a thing, but it is not the best option.
What I was suggesting is that a correct, well applied social interaction can show the players that they are being given OPTIONS. But in order to do so, you must have a very codified procedure, where players are aware of the odds. There must be no GM calls in the process, and there must be plenty of time and opportunities, including the opportunity to roleplay the scene if the players want to, or to skip the roleplaying if they do not. Hence, I think that the "quick roll" proposed here would not work: it would leave the players with the impression that the GM actually managed to have them fail the conflict.
Once the players are really aware that they have been given a choice, the problem is gone. In 90% of the cases, they will surrender. Even in the remaining 10% of the cases, if they do not surrender, and you kill them, it will be ok. Because they know that it has been the result of their free will, and not of a reaction against a railroading attempt.
Didn't mean a 'convince the PCs there's only one option' railroad, just 'convince the players there's another viable option' - that would be enough. But in this case I reckon that'd be impossible, because frankly I agree with them that surrender was not viable.
The "quick roll" needn't be that quick - as much RP as they like, then roll it. (Out in the open, with pre-stated modifiers if you really think trust in the GM is so lacking). And once they fail - that's it, no other option but fight or surrender. I really don't think 90% of players in such a situation would surrender, though - I'd say 90% would fight.
The players are probably thinking there are other options, too - 1) Brazen it out so the Lawmen go away, or at least let them keep their guns; and 2) Win a firefight; and 3) Lose and blame the GM for forcing them into a fight that was 'unbalanced'!
Like I said, I think the key lies in convincing the players that their characters will die if there's a firefight. Picking on one, and showing it to be true if he doesn't agree, might be what it takes to convince the others...
...of course, the players might win (though I'd expect the Lawmen to feign withdrawal and set up an ambush if the odds aren't already overwhelming enough). Either way the outcome must be the player's choice.
DreadDomain 96
So I get into this thread telling myself "cool a conversation about social conflicts" and start reading the posts, some of the reading like a lecture on what must be done and above all what is wrong to do. Still, nothing wrong with a heated debate so I carry on reading until I get to this :
Seriously, I think you should all forget that Pendragon ever existed.
Now that rubs me the wrong way. Especially from someone who publishes games and that I assume would prefer if people would not forget his books ever existed.
I'll chalk it up to "in a heated debate this is not really what he meant" because I can respectfully tell you sir that if I ever have to forget a game ever existed, you will not be the one to tell me which one and KAP won't be the game I choose to forget.
Max_Writer 33
Location: Sugar Grove, North Carolina
They sound like spoiled gamers to me (and LORD there are a lot of them around nowadays). Every fight doesn't have to be balanced and the players should be smart enough to know when a potential upcoming coflict is going to be too much for them. If they don't, it's our jobs as GMs to teach them a valuable lesson they can take into real life: Don't go against a superior opposing force. In that case, and especially when the opposing force (not only being larger or better armed) thinks (whether they do or not) have right on their side, they will suffer. "Balanced" encounters are for D&D and it's up to each and every player to decide when he is outgunned and outclassed. If he cannot recognize this, it's up to the GM to educate him.
When an investigator in my Call of Cthulhu game was facing a twitchy guy with a double-barrel shotgun, he attempted to regain his pistol from where it lay on the beach. The blast nearly tore him in half and he was dead before he hit the ground. His friend, already walking away from the situation by leave of the twitchy man's accomplice (and having left his own sidearm behind) fled the scene as quickly as he could. And twitchy and his friend were gangsters - not police officers.
I said it before and was slapped down but I'll repeat it. This is a role-playing issue, not a rules issue. If you, as the GM, did not want to deal with the situation, the lawmen should have laid down an ultimatum (as they thought they were doing what was right - in the murder investigation) and if the PCs didn't comply, gunfire probably would have occured. Authority figures DO NOT like those who ignore their authority and will usually do something about it.
It was a bad situation, but as a GM, sometimes you have to follow through on your threats. You have numerous 'lawmen' outnumbering and outgunning the PCs? Then the lawmen have the upper hand and the PCs better capitulate - otherwise, they will die. It sucks when you have to bring the hammer down, but giving the PCs an out in a situation that they shouldn't have ... no, I disagree with that. In this case, the out was "We won't have you arrested for resisting questioning if you come along peacefully - otherwise, you're facing at least jail time and possibly a hanging" (depending on the law level of the area actually).
Yes, my bad. Of course I was not referring to "Forgetting KAP the game". Just as "clearing your minds of all influences it may have on your judgement, for the current discussion".
I certainly do not believe that Greg Stafford's intentions when writing Pendragon was that of suggesting that game variables (traits) should limit player freedom. Still, if you read the posts of two pages ago, it is very easy for people to think in terms of "social mechanics telling me what to do", just because this can sometimes happen in Pendragon.
Thank you for the clarification Rosen. I figured this is what you meant and I am now at peace again
Actually, what I like about the Personality mechanic is that it helps define a mindframe for a character that might be very different than the player's. I personally perfer when a player decide how he will define his traits either by choosing one type of roll as described in BGB, by assigning himself the value or even by mix and matching. It thus give them the power to create the character they want and give them something to fall back on when they are not sure or they want to explore how there character could react to a situation.
It can also be in my opinion a great tool to colour social conflicts and interractions. After all someone with a high level of Suspicion and a directed trait "Despise authority" might give strong indications (and bonuses) when the guards ask to surrender his weapon. I do not see/use this mechanic to limit players' freedom but on the contrary to empower them to influence results on how they should react in certain situations.
Yes, when we played the Safelster PBM 15 years ago we used personality traits to define our characters, and it helped a lot. We were never forced to act according to our traits, instead we enjoyed referring to them when checking what to do. Unfortunately, along with the actual Pendragon, there is a "perceived" Pendragon, where you are always rolling against your Trait and losing freedom of action. People tend to be scarede off by this "perceived" KAP, and this creates a lot of misconceptions.
I do not know if the choice made by Jason to not include personality traits for PCs was a good one, but at least it avoids this confusion.
I think we pretty much agree on how the Personality Traits are the most enjoyable as a mechanic. I also have no problem if it is decided by players and GM that the extreme ranges (below 10 and above 90 for example) are, to use a GURPS term, disadvantage territory where the GM might strongly suggest a course of action based on a very strong personality trait. It does demand great GM/player collaboration and trust though.
I would have preferred to see them as an option in the character creation chapter but at least they are in the book and nothing prevents me from using them for players
I've been trying to develop a system of traits for player characters. The latest iteration looks good so far:
PCs choose 2 or more traits, up to CHA/4 (from the 'industry-standard' Pendragon list). They don't have percentages - you either have them or don't (well, nearly). If they do something 'in the manner of' one of their traits, their current action can have a re-roll.
That's the basic system. There is just a little bit more to it, though: If a character does something very notably in the manner of some trait they don't have, the GM may award them a 'threat' of gaining that trait (player lists it in brackets); if they do something similar again, then they fully gain that trait - which displaces one of their existing traits, of their choice.
That's it. No mind control of the players, no coercion (aside from telling someone they have a certain trait if they repeatedly, significantly act that way - but that's just stating a fact).
Of course, I also equate certain traits with D&D-style alignments (e.g. Vengeful = Evil). So a quick tot-up of your traits reveals your alignment. Doesn't mean much, but some players are desperate to avoid their beloved character being labelled as "Evil"...
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Location: Sonthofen (Germany)
It seems that I am using Personality Traits in a slightly different way. In our
campaigns they are more like the expectations of the characters' society.
The characters were brought up to act according to these expectations,
and this behaviour is rewarded by their society. For example, when Just is
an expected trait, a character who acts accordingly is well respected and
usually has more success when using his social skills with members of the
same cultural background, while a character who shows the Arbitrary trait
will find that most people of his society will dislike him and often avoid to
deal with him. It is up to the player which traits his character really has,
but a choice and actions which go against the culture's expectations ha-
ve a price, in the extreme they can even result in a visit by many angry
people with torches and pitchforks.
We are going a bit off topic...
This is something extremely similar to what I am working on. I hope to include the mechanics in BRP Mecha, so that it becomes an available, published optional rule within 2012.
The result is exactly the same as what frogspawner suggests (you gain the ability to alter a die roll, in some way or another), but the mechanics is unified with that of Hero/Fate points if you use it, thus producing less variations of the same rule in the game. Incidentally, it is rather similar to how FATE handles the stuff, although not _exactly_ the same. Notably, everything is handled by the player, and the GM and rest of the group can only veto abuses.
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The PCs covering for a murderer are doing something stupid. If they get killed for this it is their own fault.
Players/PCs tend to be very arrogant and think that they can get away with anything. Sometimes they need a dose of reality to tell them otherwise.
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Seems like a small flame-war erupted and died here without my notice. Well, well. No more "fake" accounts please. Play nice...
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Soccer is Life
Filed under: Uncategorized — blackhumouristpress @ 8:20 am
Tags: bass guitarists, Detroit, humor, Humour, Italian soccer, Italy, Mussolini, pot smoking, soccer
Guillermo or Mo as he was known to all his friends was a simple man. Mo loved to play the bass guitar, watch Italian soccer and smoke Marijuana.
Guillermo was born in Rome, Italy and lived there until the age of four when his father was enticed to move to suburban Detroit and buy a shoe repair shop. Mo’s father cornered the market on shoe repair in northwest Detroit and so Mo and his family lived rather well.
Mo didn’t want to be fixing shoes, boots, suitcases, hockey gloves and so on. Mo realized that his dream to return home and play for S.S. Lazio in Rome, was probably just a remote dream and so Mo played men’s league soccer and learned to play the bass guitar. Mo was a solid bass player that was sought after by many local bands. They liked that Mo could lay down a groove and sit in the pocket without mistakes or fluxing the rhythm at all. Mo decided around the time of graduation from high school that he would learn to be a sound technician or a recording engineer. He accumulated some of the best recording equipment around and recorded local bands to make a living. Musicians liked that Mo had the technical expertise to understand what each part needed and a song could be pulled apart piece by piece, instrument by instrument and then put back together to make a song and a sound that pleased the ear. Mo could fix pitch and rhythm and could make the most mediocre musicians sound as if they were good and most who used his services understood he was a magician among sound men. He also was a great bass player and always had good weed.
Now Mo would talk anyone’s ear off about Italian soccer and S.S. Lazio in particular. The team logo looked not unlike the Nazi eagle, holding a blue and white shield. Most musicians knew and cared little about sports and even less about soccer but the passion that Mo felt about the game drew interest from the most indifferent to have ever sat in his recording studio.
“The year 1900 is when the team came into being… You cannot begin to comprehend the pride among those that follow that team to this day. It was Mussolini’s team. Il Duce built their stadium. Everyone knocks Il Duce because he was allied with Hitler. Most don’t know that he improved jobs and public transportation… That’s exactly what Obama is trying to do with construction on every goddamn street and freeway in Michigan. Somebody has got to be working, right? So picture Obama being totally in love with a team like the Chicago White Sox, right? He’s from Chicago by way of Hawaii or Indonesia or something. I don’t give a fuck really cause I was born in Italy myself. I couldn’t be president and wouldn’t want the fucking mess… But anyway, picture Obama loving a team so much that he would build a stadium. Could you imagine Obama telling the White Sox that they had better win or fucking die? Shit… Now that’s some motherfucking shit right there man. Mussolini told the national team that they had to win or die and so they won the World Cup twice in 1934 and 1938. The man ruled the land and promoted the greatest sport to have ever been played by a human. Go anywhere and they play and you can take that shit to the bank… You wanna hit of this stuff? It’s some good ass shit.”
Mo had joked with his soccer mates, band mates and clients that for him, the final frontier was to sleep with a black woman. Mo claimed to have been with every other race and ethnicity except black women. It could be that because he idolized Robert de Niro loved black woman that Mo considered it in the first place.
It was at a rib restaurant that a Reggae band had asked him to fill in on bass for a party held by the fifth Missionary Baptist convention. Everyone in the place was black except Mo. If Mo was ever going to find a black woman, it was going to be that night. Trying to sell a black woman on the importance of Italian soccer and weed, might be a hard sale for a woman that was raised among black people who loved basketball and gospel music.
It did not take long before an attractive young black woman with a pretty face, large breasts and voluptuous backside approached Mo. Before the night was over, she laid naked in Mo’s bed hearing stories about riding a Vespa through the streets of Rome, drinking red wine in the afternoon and the thrill of watching soccer. Theresa had never heard of Mussolini but found him to be an interesting man. Before long Theresa had moved into Mo’s house and brought her Pug/Beagle or Puggle with her to live with Mo and his Great Dane. Theresa commandeered nearly every closet in the house and owned more shoes than Imelda Marcos. If Theresa had one flaw it was that she could not stop herself from shopping. Checks were good as long as she still had checks, irregardless if there was money in the bank to back the checks. Theresa was maxed out on her cards and usually spent her check the first day she received it. Initially Mo was so taken in by his ebony queen that he was willing to keep throwing his money in the hole. Mo reasoned that all women have something that will drive a man crazy and so Theresa’s thing was being irresponsible with money. It all came to a head one day when Mo went to buy gasoline for his Fiat and his card was rejected. Not only did Theresa go right up to the limit with her own cards, she had borrowed Mo’s too without discussing it with him. When Mo walked in to his house to find his girlfriend trying on clothes that she had just purchased on his card, after he had walked five miles when his car ran out of gas, a pretty face, nice breasts and ass could not quell a smoldering fire.
“I had bout enough of you buying shit you don’t got the money for” said Mo, as he slammed the front door.
Mo exaggerated his frown and squinted like Robert de Niro as he held up his index finger. Mo had not smoked any pot in hours. He was hot and dehydrated and truly wondering where he was going to find money to buy gas. And Marijuana.
“Things are going to fucking change starting today… You are going to learn that if you make one fucking dollar, you don’t try and spend three. I ain’t got a fucking tree in the backyard to pick dollar bills off of it so you can run around buying fucking shoes. How many pairs of fucking shoes does one person need? Huh? I got four fucking pairs and one of them I only use to play soccer in. What does that tell you?”
Theresa put one hand on her round hip and the other hand gestured wildly with the index finger straight up and the thumb out to the side. Her nostrils were flared and her lips became thin. Theresa wasn’t backing down.
“Y’all always cursin and smoking. Cursin and smokin and kickin a soccer ball in the basement and when you ain’t doin that, you watching games from Italy. You live in Dee-troit… Ain’t another damn person in this state who care bout Italian Soccer. I don’t wanna hear bout Mussolini and wine and Vespas. And you wanna know something? I Googled Mussolini and he was not a good man by nobody’s standards. You say you wanna have kids? Shoot, you ain’t grown up yet, baby. How much money you spend on smoke? Y’all should buy you a farm so you cain grow your own. You done smoke bout an acre and all my stuff stank like weed… You wanna point fingers? Imma point a finger too…”
It was at that moment that Theresa saw Mo’s Great Dane come into the living room, raise his leg and piss a good solid stream on the boxes of shoes she just bought. Theresa squealed and slapped the Great Dane with the palm of her hand. The dog got spooked and took off running as the urine streamed all over the hallway carpeting. Mo opened the front door and threw the shoe boxes on the front lawn along with the bags of clothes. Theresa then went to the basement and grabbed a bottle of bleach and poured it into a bag of Mo’s weed. That ended the tit for tat. Mo was devastated. Not only did he have no money for weed or gas, he no longer had a stash. Smoking bleached weed would not be possible.
Things deteriorated and Mo and Theresa stopped talking for weeks that turned to months. After close to eight weeks, Theresa told Mo that she would be moving from his house and going to live with a friend. Mo was adding spice to a marinara sauce and grating cheese that came from Italy when Theresa told Mo the news. Mo no longer cared until Theresa stated that she would be selling the television that she gave him for his birthday with a dish so that he could see soccer from all over Italy. Mo would usually pass out for a few hours during the night and then get up at about five in the morning and put on his Lazio scarf that was light blue and white with a ball cap with the same logo. He would yell at the television in Italian, smoke a bit and have some red wine. Theresa decided that if she were going to go, she would have to punish Mo in some way and taking the television was her recourse.
“The fuck you’re taking my television. That’s my fucking television. You gave it to me and so its mine. You can take everything including that stupid yapping dog and get the hell out of my life but you are not touching the television or that dish… Do you fucking got me?”
Mo was frowning and squinting like de Niro again. Theresa didn’t care. She had worked it out that she would sell the television to her cousin Reggie for $100.00. It was a forty inch flat screen that she had purchased for $500.00. Reggie was on his way up from Detroit to their home in Sterling Heights to pick up the television. No sooner had Theresa told Mo of her plans when Reggie rang the bell.
“Dude, my cousin say you gone split an she wanna sell the television. Shit… I done seen the picture on dat bitch an I say to myself Imma buy dat. I’ll tell you what… I won two hunred bucks at the casino today. Imma gone give you fitty extra cause I’m havin a good ass day,” said Cousin Reggie.
Mo went to the basement and got his little league bat that he saved since the fifth grade. It was a Louisville Slugger that was signed by Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers. Mo came up from the basement with the bat on his shoulders.
“Reg, the picture on this thing ain’t as good as you might imagine. Let me show you the problem…”
Mo swung the bat about a dozen times until the television fell from the wall and broke into several pieces. The Great Dane pissed out of fear on the suede couch and soaked one whole cushion. Theresa called Mo an animal, ran to their bedroom and locked the door. Reggie moved his toothpick from the left side of his mouth to the right, raised his eye brows and said a few words before departing.
“Damn… Ain’t that but a bitch… That was a good television. Damn shame.”
Mo walked down the hall still in a rage with a deranged smile on his face like Jack Nicholson from the movie, The Shining. Mo checked the door and it was locked. Theresa yelled at Mo to leave her alone or she would call the police.
“I ain’t playin wid you no more… You crazy, you know that?”
With two kicks, Mo was in what had been their bedroom up until two months ago. His bed had been the living room couch where the dog had urinated out of fear. Mo dropped the bat and came towards Theresa as he literally ripped the t-shirt off of himself. Theresa didn’t know what to do. She backed up towards the headboard as Mo approached her.
“I know what our fucking problem is. We don’t need a therapist or fucking Oprah to tell us what is necessary here.”
With that he grabbed Theresa by the back of the neck and began to kiss her passionately. He kissed her neck and licked her chin as he ripped the clothes off of her. They fucked, had sex or made love for over an hour. It culminated with Theresa having the strongest orgasm of her life while she was on top. Theresa screamed like she was being killed as sweat streamed down her face. She balled up her right fist and punched Mo squarely in the left eye while pumping her hips furiously and then collapsed on top of him, digging her long nails into the side of his face as she banged her teeth against his trying to get her tongue as deep as she could into his mouth.
Mo and Theresa lay in bed out of breath and sweating. Mo’s left eye was almost swollen shut. Each of their dogs sat next to them wondering what had happened and what might happen next. Theresa had money that her parents had given her to help her move. It was $500.00. Theresa took Mo out to the nearest Coney Island restaurant for dinner and then to Wal-Mart to buy a new television. They went home and made love some more and drank red wine while Louis Primo played on the stereo. When Theresa fell deeply asleep, Mo hooked up the new television in the living room in time to see Lazio defeat AC Milan. Mo finished the bottle of red wine straight from the bottle as he pet his dog and Theresa’s. He thought about what might be necessary to avert disaster in the future and couldn’t come up with a good answer. At that moment it didn’t matter. It had been sixty seven days since he had sex with his woman and suddenly he felt better about life and their chances of making it for the moment. Mo thought as he took a swig straight from the bottle as the Lazio team ran around the field after their win: life could not really get much better than it was.
Drunk Driving the Dog
Filed under: Uncategorized — blackhumouristpress @ 9:12 pm
Tags: Delvecchio, Detroit, detroit red wings, DUI, humor, Humour, New year's eve, New York Islanders, Pontiac trail
Horatio Kiss made a pile of money or as the saying goes, hand over fist, getting drunks to beat the drunken driving laws in the state of Michigan. Horatio was an attractive man with a televangelist’s smile, with perfect hair and good speaking voice. Business got so good that Horatio began to do commercials on local television in Detroit. His commercials began with kissing lips and a red imprint of lips across his own forehead that he would wipe off with a handkerchief.
“Drunk driving is not a laughing matter; you need the professionals at Horatio Kiss and Associates to help you wipe away that DUI.”
Horatio would then tuck the handkerchief into his breast pocket and point at the camera and exclaim, “Get the facts, get the help you need. At Horatio Kiss and Associates we have handled every type of DUI charge imaginable. We can get you that dismissal, we can get you that re-instatement today… Begin to wipe away that DUI now.”
Peter Francis Geraci had been the most recognized commercial attorney in Michigan with all the bankruptcies and foreclosures. All those broke and evicted people then needed another attorney when they turned to alcohol to ease the pain when they operated vehicles while intoxicated. Horatio became their man.
It was no joke; Horatio was very good at getting drunks off the hook. Many people were nailed dead to rights by the Michigan State Police or in the city of Detroit or surrounding municipalities. An officer would often come into court and explain why he stopped a potentially drunk vehicle operator and then Horatio would go to work on that officer.
“Officer Whipple… Have you ever changed a station on your radio in the car?”
“Have you ever drank or eaten something while operating a vehicle?”
“Have you ever spoken on a phone or answered a radio call in your squad car while it was moving, while operating it?”
“Have you ever swerved while doing this?”
“I’m not certain.”
“So you could have swerved but you are unaware of ever doing it while doing everyday things that everyone does without taking a drop of alcohol. Is that correct, officer?”
“It is possible I suppose…”
“Are you a diabetic, Officer Whipple?”
“Were you aware that the defendant is a diabetic and that he was on the phone with Walgreen’s placing an order for insulin when you stopped him for erratic driving which was nothing more than driving on the lane marker but not crossing it. This man was about to go into shock and yet you would hear none of it. Am I correct, officer?”
“He refused a sobriety test and in my experience this is usually guilt by denial. We never discussed diabetes.”
“The defendant was not allowed to discuss diabetes, officer…”
And so on. Horatio understood that most obese people needed insulin and since most people were obese, he could use that argument. Horatio pulled many rabbits out of hats to help clearly drunk motorists beat the rap. Aside from diabetes, Horatio used insomnia, head injuries, poor vision that had been since corrected, contractions, menstrual cramping, vertigo due to ear wax blockage, recent deaths in the family, divorce, loss of jobs, homes and even once a drop in stocks. Horatio was good and everyone knew it. Horatio could stuff an elephant through the eye of a needle and many knew he was capable of explaining why it was necessary and plausible. Horatio was the Houdini of DUI defense.
Horatio had a brother by the name of Helmut who was Horatio’s twin brother. Helmut was not a fraternal twin and unless people were told, they would never guess that Horatio and Helmut were even brothers. Helmut was tall, obese, loud and drunk most of the time. He went to strip clubs and never missed a Detroit Red Wings home game. Helmet had a job dropping off medical supplies between nursing homes in Ann Arbor and Oakland County in the town of Wixom. People who knew Helmut called him The Pontiac Trailer Trash but not to his face. Helmet lived in a trailer and drove a 1977 AMC Hornet that had belonged to their grandparents who had willed it to Helmut before they died. A coat hanger held the muffler to the car and he drove with the windows open because exhaust fumes would enter through the rotten floor boards. All Helmut could get on radio was AM stations and so Helmet listened to a Detroit sports talk station on AM radio and even got a five minute call in show which he was not paid for where he would rant or rave about the Red Wings. The only reason Helmut was given the show was because he was the brother of the famous Horatio Kiss and because Helmut showed up to every Red Wings home game with his English Bulldog who he named, Delvecchio after a former ice hockey hall of fame player by the name of Alex Delvecchio who played for the Red Wings during the days of the Original Six.
Helmut and Delvecchio would walk around Joe Louis Arena before games and Delvecchio wore a red sweater with the Red Wing logo on it and the name Delvecchio. Delvecchio the dog also wore a custom fit white CCM helmet with Red Wing logos on both sides. Helmet would yell like a drunken frat boy and high five anyone and everyone who would acknowledge him and his dog. Helmet would then valet park his AMC Hornet with the windows cracked and the motor running so that his dog would not die of carbon monoxide or freeze while he went into Joe Louis Arena to watch a game.
It was on New Year’s Eve that the Detroit Red Wings were taking on the New York Islanders. For those in the know, the lowly Islanders stood a slim chance of ever stealing a win from the mighty Red Wings especially at home and on the last night of the year.
Helmut left his home early to parade Delvecchio around downtown Detroit. They walked by Campus Martius where Detroiters were skating at the outdoor ice rink, he walked up and down the streets in Greektown and then took Delvecchio on the People Mover at the Cadillac Center, past Greektown, The Renaissance Center, the financial district and then on to Joe Louis Arena. Patrons of the people mover all wanted to pet the panting, slobbering Delvecchio with his cute sweater and helmet on his head. Japanese tourists usually took family pictures with Helmut and the dog and then tipped him. Helmut didn’t mind.
Horatio was more of a basketball fan than a hockey fan and so Horatio rarely made it to The Joe. It just so happened that a wealthy client who had a son that got arrested with a fictitious license, got into a car accident while intoxicated. It was a trifecta for the arresting officer: suspended license, fake identification and an accident while intoxicated. The son of the wealthy real estate speculator racked up fines that exceeded $50,000.00 and a potential felony for falsifying his identity. The wealthy real estate man was a huge hockey fan and wanted to discuss Horatio’s plan of action between periods at the hockey game. They were fantastic seats, center ice about ten rows back.
It was at the end of the game when Horatio fought his way to a men’s bathroom on the way out of the arena that he recognized a distinct voice. It was the voice of his twin picking a fight with some fans from Long Island in New York.
“Fuck the Rangers, fuck the Devils, fuck Mike Bossy, fuck Long Island, fuck Long Island Ice Tea, fuck your stupid accents and the fucking Islanders… This is what I think of your fucking Islanders…”
Helmut pulled out his penis and began urinating in the sink in full view of every man waiting in line to relieve themselves before they burst. Other Detroit fans cheered in the bathroom as Helmut clasped his hands over his head as if he had won a prize fight. Horatio grabbed his brother and escorted him towards his car, lecturing him all the way. Horatio collected Delvecchio from the overheating AMC and paid to have the car stored overnight.
“Bro, you don’t understand cause you’re not a fan. We got Pavel out, Cleary, Modano and now Stewart and they just got fucking lucky. I don’t like nobody coming into my home and talking smack. It’s smack bro, that’s all. I’m just trying to have a good time and enjoy a game and welcome in the baby new year, that’s all. Delvecchio and me are gonna stop by a few places to have a nip and then we’ll be on our way,” said a slurring Helmut.
Delvecchio was panting profusely while he sat on Helmut’s lap. Drool was getting all over the dashboard of Horatio’s Escalade which had just been detailed. Horatio lost his cool.
“I am tired of saving your ass every time you do something stupid. Bringing the dog to games, getting wasted, pissing in sinks in a public building… I can’t save you from yourself, Helmy. When are you going to grow up?”
The lecture made Helmut sad. He began to cry. The immense amount alcohol which was consumed over the course of eight hours brought about an impetuous decision to open the door of the SUV which was moving at seventy five miles an hour on interstate 75. Horatio slammed on the breaks to keep his brother from falling out of the moving vehicle. Helmut began to walk alongside the interstate carrying his sixty pound bulldog in a sweater and hockey helmet as snow began to fall. Horatio pleaded with his brother to get back in the truck but Helmet ignored him. Helmet began to stick out his thumb in hopes of getting a ride from a passing vehicle. After about a quarter mile, an Officer Haynes pulled his state issued Crown Victoria over to the side to try and understand what was happening between two men and a dog. The night grew ugly for the trio. Officer Haynes had actually been in court with Horatio several times and lost. It was his good fortune or possibly karma that brought them all together at nearly the strike of midnight on New Year’s Eve.
On the front page of the Detroit Free Press was a picture taken from the squad car camera of Horatio, Helmut and Delvecchio looking like deer in the headlights. The headline was as follows:
DUI CRUSADER NABBED DRUNK DRIVING WITH BROTHER AND DOG
Detroit- Horatio Kiss was found walking with his brother, Helmet Kiss and his dog Delvecchio along interstate 75 near exit 55: Holbrook/Caniff Avenue exit after attending a Detroit Red Wings game earlier in the evening. Mr. Horatio Kiss contends that he was attempting to get his brother Helmut Kiss and his dog into his vehicle when they were spotted by Michigan State Police walking northbound on the shoulder of Interstate 75 at 11:52 pm on December 31st. Mr. Helmut Kiss struck the officer who was attempting to handcuff him, broke a window to the squad car and ran off of the freeway. Mr. Horatio Kiss then followed his brother in a white Cadillac Escalade. The Kiss Brothers and the dog were apprehended without further incident in Hamtramck. Bond hearing is scheduled Monday January 3, 2011. Mr. Horatio Kiss will be representing himself and his brother. No further details are known about the English bulldog named Delvecchio.
The American Lawn
Tags: brightmoor, Detroit, dog fighting, humor, Humour, torture, urban blight, vietnam vets, waterboarding
Charles, Chuck, Chucky, Charlie and Chas were all the names that Charles Schmidt responded to by all the patrons of his Proud American Barber Shop which was on Telegraph Road in Detroit.
In the barber shop were pennants of the Detroit Tigers, Lions and Red Wings with bowling trophies and a plethora of Vietnam War era photos of Charles Schmidt and his one employee, Eugene Nurgy.
Nobody called Eugene by his first name. Most people called him, The Nurg. The Nurg wore a flattop hair cut with a pencil thin moustache with tattoos up and down his arms and a gold chain of the Marine Corps symbol. Nurg was a hair above six feet in height, chewed gum while smoking and loved listening to Dean Martin songs on his cassette player while he and Charles told dirty and racist jokes and discussed why the city of Detroit, the United States of America and the world as a whole, was going to implode soon.
“The way to handle them swamis is the way they would handle you… String em up by their ball sacks and let them swing in the goddamn wind,” said Charles.
“Fucking A right… Tell em, Chas,” said Nurg.
“So now you got Obama running things and we ain’t got nothing to show for the two years he’s been office. The economy sucks and we still ain’t found Bin Laden yet. You got Harvard instead of West Point conducting a war and that’s the problem here. That was the problem in Nam and that’s the problem now. If the fucking Russians had to pull out of Afghanistan and they were some ruthless sommabitches, how we supposed to win a CNN war? You fucking tell me…” declared Charles.
“You goddamn straight, Chas. Me and Chas spent two fucking years covered in Agent Orange in the jungle. I think we know a thing or too about running a war,” said Nurg.
Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes, played through tinny speakers while two old white men got their hair cut and three more sat in chairs waiting for their turn. All the patrons of the barber shop were white and above the age of sixty for the most part. A few grandsons and sons of older patrons patronized the shop. Almost all were of the same mindset.
Every man has something to occupy their time when they are not making a living or scrounging for enough money to exist. For Charles and Eugene it was finely manicuring the entire premises that was the lot belonging to Charles in the Brightmoor section of Detroit. Charles one day decided that if he could not and would not move from a street that was nearly completely deserted; he would make his home look like a palace. Charles added onto his home and created a beautiful garden in the front yard with a fountain and perfectly maintained lawn that looked as if it was painted green without one weed to be found. Charles was paid by a fertilizer company to show a picture of his front yard on the cover of all their bags. Charles was extremely proud of his home and the local gang bangers, prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts and dealers all had respect for the home of someone who was trying to improve the neighborhood by making their own property beautiful. All but one.
Charles had won a beautiful home of the year award for the entire state of Michigan and had the award in a frame which hung proudly in the barber shop.
Charles like Nurgy lived his entire life in the home of his parents and when Charles mother died a few years back, Charles inherited the only home he had ever lived in that had a value of $32,000.00 or equal to a Cadillac Escalade without any bells and no whistles. A good used Escalade actually.
Charles grew tired of getting hand and blow jobs from the neighborhood sluts that needed a few bucks to get a fix and so he signed up on a website that promised western men a pretty, hardworking, subservient wife from Vietnam or Cambodia. Charles began to correspond with a girl who used translating software to write to Charles in English. Charles proposed over the internet to a woman less than five feet in height who liked to cook, watch American movies and listen to music. Tran loves to listen to Elvis and Madonna and wanted to eat hamburgers with French fries. Tran accepted the invitation to marriage and a life of bliss in Detroit, Michigan. After paying several thousand dollars and spending nearly that much to claim his bride, Tran came to live in America. Everyone wants to live in America.
Tran’s life consisted of cooking and cleaning. The house was immaculate and meals were always served on time. For all her efforts, Charles would take her out to one of several casinos in downtown Detroit or occasionally a baseball game, movies and miniature golf. All of which were usually with Nurg present. Date nights almost always included Nurgy. Tran didn’t mind. Her prison-like existence was better than a life of prostitution in Cambodia and so she was content living in an attractive sanctuary in an area that looked like Hurricane Katrina had hit it.
A young African-American male who had done several years in jail for armed robbery, drug dealing and rape was back on the street after serving four years of a twenty year term. The state had to decide that others more dangerous needed to be rehabilitated more than Travis and so Travis was cast back out into the world once again. Travis understood that dealing and stealing was going to lead to nothing but jail or death and so he began breeding Pit bulls for fighting. Travis bought several females that he bred and then he sold the dogs to people all over the country for a good price. Travis then held dog fights in the backyard of the rundown home across the street from Charles that had not been burned out or razed. Men came from all over in good weather to bring their dogs to fight. Travis had a strong male that killed just about every other dog he was pitted against. Travis was proud of his champion fighter and to ensure that he kept the fighting instinct up, Travis would send out two of his assistants to steal small house pets from nice suburbs so that Travis’s prized fighter could kill for sustenance.
Now the dog fighters ignored Charles’s home and Charles and Nurgy kept a wary eye on the goings on across the street, ready to go to war if necessary. It was late one Sunday afternoon that a young man in metallic green vintage 1972 El Camino, texted on a cell phone while his pit-bull jogged behind the car. The dog’s tongue hung to one side as it loped behind the classic car that had a sound system that was booming enough bass to make the windows rattle in all the vacant homes on the block. The dog broke off from following the El Camino, made a left turn and ran up towards the front porch where Charles and Nurgy sat in the shade drinking lemonade. The dog crept towards both men with gnashing teeth. Both pulled hand guns from their belt lines and got ready to shoot the dog. The dog’s master parked the El Camino in the middle of the street and sauntered up towards his dog that was disobeying his command. The young man wore a Detroit Tigers cap with a straight brim with the D lined with sparking fake diamonds, a long white tank top shirt, a baggy pair of jean shorts and whiter than white tennis shoes. The dog pissed on the lawn while snarling and then defecated. Charles and Nurgy were horrified by the display. The garden club would be sure to disqualify the house from the contest if there were to be a yellow urine stain anywhere on the grass. Nurgy stood with arm extended, looking through the scope of the gun, ready to off the animal. The young man who bought the home across the street to breed and fight dogs, was incensed by his dog’s disobedience and the strange white man who was willing to shoot his dog for doing what dogs do when they are outside: shit and piss.
“Old man… You shoot my dog an see what happen to yo place. You won’t need to worry bout yo damn grass cause you won’t have a fucking home no mo,” said Travis defiantly.
Neither Charles nor Nurgy responded to the brazen words. They took note of the dozen or more men who were waiting for Travis that were now walking up towards Charles’s home. Several yelled out threats and one busted a forty ounce bottle of beer on the curb in front of Charles’s home. Over several weeks, more and more dogs crossed Charles’s lawn while he was home and when he wasn’t. Before long, the front lawn had yellow spots scattered about. It would be impossible to repair the damage. It was at the Assembly Line Buffet at the Motor City Casino that Nurgy laid out with Charles a plan action. The three of them ate plates full of food and discussed what needed to be done. Tran just listened.
“Chaz… The damage is done. It is fucking done, man. Tran, excuse the langois. You have to ask yourself what Clint would do? What would John Wayne do? What would Rumsfeld do? Walking fucking tall, my man… Tran, forgive my French. Remember that movie? He took no shit. We didn’t go to Nam to protect inconsiderate punks who allow their dogs to destroy. This is not damage, Chas. This is destruction of property and you have to respond by any means possible,” said Nurgy.
“Nurg… When you’re right, you’re right and that’s all.” Said Charles.
Nurgy and Charles worked hard and fast one night late after the dogfighters had concluded their fights for the night. Nurgy pulled up with a rented John Deere digger, ropes and traps and the two men worked hard through the night and finished just before dawn. The Charles and Nurgy then rested and returned to the front porch in the early evening to wait for the bait to be taken like two patient fishermen. Travis eventually came down the street in his pimped out El Camino as his prized dog jogged behind as a warm up for the night’s fights. Travis glared at the two men and they calmly returned the stares behind aviator sunglasses. Nothing happened during the night until the wee hours of the morning. Nurgy could hear yelping at about 4:00am. He sprung to his feet and called for Charles. The two men ran out the front door of Charles’s home with guns loaded and cocked and large flashlights. In the ten foot deep pit that was lined with wooden spikes, smeared with dog excrement was Travis, one of his friends and their two dogs. A ten by ten hole was made and covered with a heavy sheet of plastic and sod on top of that. To the unaware eye, the front yard appeared to be as it always had instead of a pit. The two men and dogs were injured by the fall and jagged spikes. Lassos went around the ankles of the men and dogs as they were pulled up out of the hole. The dogs were put into cages in the basement and Travis and his friend were tied with their hands behind their backs and led to the basement. Once in the basement, Tran began recording on a small camera on a tripod while Charles and Nurgy placed burlap sacs over the heads of the two young men. Nurgy did the narrative.
“Boys… You probably never heard of a movie with Paul Newman in it called Cool Hand Luke. There’s a scene where the warden smacks Paul Newman and then says what we have got here is a failure to communicate… Some men you just can’t reach. This is the way he wants it. This is what he gets…”
The two men were strapped to boards on the floor as if they were going to be quartered. Tran then walked over with a watering can for the roses out in front and doused the men’s faces as they struggled to breathe. Tran knew these tactics very well since her father was part of the Khmer Rouge during the days of Pol Pot in Cambodia. Tran’s father was in charge of torture. Tran would then go back to the utility tub to fill the can again with water as Nurgy spoke to the choking men in between.
“We don’t want no trouble with nobody, boys. We fought in Nam for our country to get rid of communism and help America stay free and proud. A simple thing like keeping your animals off of the fucking grass ain’t too much to ask, is it boys?”
Tran came back with the water can and poured the water with a smile and a slight curtsy for the camera as the men gasped and coughed. This took place three times before the two men were placed in the back of the El Camino still bound and blindfolded with the dogs in the front seat of the truck/car. Nurgy whispered in the ear of Travis before walking back to Charles’s home with him.
“I hope we have an understanding now. Don’t ever go to war with those who went to war. You may consider taking us out when we least expect it and where would that get you? Back in the Wayne County slammer? You want someone making love to your ass for another ten or twenty years? I say we learn to live together cause I know we can just all get along… Cool?”
Charles and Nurgy cut the bindings from the wrists of the two men and walked home just as the sun began to rise above the tops of trees in front of abandon homes in the Brightmoor section of Detroit. To date, Nurgy and Charles have had over two million hits on Youtube. Most people believe it was a hoax but those that really understand torture knew that it was the real deal. Travis and company thought about assassinating Nurgy, Charles and Tran but understood that they picked the fight and Charles and Nurgy finished it. There was an understanding and communication. Charles again has prize winning grass and the pit bulls know not to cross the street. All is as good as it can be given the circumstances in Brightmoor. And they lived happily ever after.
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NBA Redesign Concepts (Celtics 4/27)
By BradyIvie, April 20, 2018 in Concepts
twolves
BradyIvie 293
Location:Utah
Favourite Logos:Jazz current, Diamondbacks snakehead, BYU Sailor Cougar
4 hours ago, ramsjetsthunder said:
I can't unsee the word MIKE on the bucks alt though
3 hours ago, TaylorMade said:
I keep reading it as "Mickey"
Any suggested fix? I considered adding some punctuation to clear it up, like the Lakers' baby blues, but I'm not sure what else to do.
TaylorMade 583
Location:Seattle, WA
1 hour ago, BradyIvie said:
Is MKE a known thing? Score bugs always have it as MIL.
55 minutes ago, TaylorMade said:
It's the code for the airport, and I knew it here in Utah, so I think it's enough of a thing.
So trying to clear up the "Mike" and "Mickey" problem, I added punctuation to the "MKE." If that doesn't fix it (like it does for the Lakers' MPLS. jerseys), I've added another wordmark, "The Mil".
Also, with the Heat on the brink of elimination, I've completed their uniforms (although they're more tweaks than concepts). The wordmarks and numbers now have an extra yellow outline to make them stand out a little more and help bring a little extra color. I also hated how the "Heat" wordmark had the flame coming off it and "Miami" didn't, so I added the flame to the latter. The Statement uniform now has a black wordmark and numbers to match the late-'90s alternate. Finally, the City Edition no longer features black and the striping down the side is replaced with deco-style triangles.
C&C are, as always, welcome.
BellaSpurs 2,797
Location:The Bluegrass
Mil? Just put the bucks logo back on their, would look much better
ramsjetsthunder 177
Saved By Grace / Not By Works
Location:Lynchburg, VA
A big fan of those heat red jerseys too
10 hours ago, BellaSpurs said:
I've made one last version of the Statement jersey and, despite not wanting to shrink the front number, did so in order to put the logo on.
I've also completed the Timberwolves. The sleeve and neck striping gets reworked, green is made more prevalent, the blue jersey is now the lighter shade of blue, and the Statement uniform now features "Wolves". The City Edition is still gray, but it's now a fauxback modeled after the Minneapolis Lakers' uniforms and logo.
C&C greatly appreciated.
walkerws 375
Location:Massillon, OH
Favourite Logos:Kent State, Columbus Crew, Columbus Blue Jackets primary
I'd put the Twolf on the shorts of the city uni. I see where its coming from though.
luketheduke03 22
Those Rockets uniforms are sexy as hell
qckgnc 27
So two purple and teal teams in the league? I guess the copper is a nice way to make their scheme unique from Charlotte or, do you plan on changing Charlotte up? Im feeling that 6ers look.
KRZYBDGRZ 1,142
Ready for Zion
Location:suburb
Minnesota’s city is beautiful
11 hours ago, qckgnc said:
My plan is to keep the Hornets' colors, as the dark purple I gave the Jazz is MUCH different and the league was just fine with the Jazz, Grizzlies, Hornets, and (unfortunately) Pistons all wearing it simultaneously. Besides, how many teams wear blue and red and nobody bats an eye?
14 hours ago, walkerws said:
I want to keep the logo I've got on the shorts right now, but I went ahead and added the wolf to the other side (although without the roundel).
I've now finished up my concept for the Thunder. Not only did I create new uniforms for them, but I gave them a modified logo as well. The ball is now centered on the shield, the "OKC" and "Thunder" are in new fonts more evocative of the West, and the lines underneath the shield are gone. For the jerseys, the middle of the side piping is now a gradient and a new distressed font is used for the numbers. The Statement jersey resurrects the Sunset orange look and puts the new logo on the chest with the front number inside of it. For the City Edition, the sides feature a Native American pattern and "Oklahoma" across the chest.
As always, C&C welcome and encouraged.
First get rid of those smudges on the numbers and also shrink them on the Association Jersey. I really like the set especially the City edition. That font looks fantastic. Although, that orange logo on an orange jersey. It’s not working for me.
Location:Munich, Germany or Chattanooga, TN
The Rockets city edition jersey is one of the coolest I've ever seen. You absolutely nailed the Rockets
HoopsCoach55 148
Location:OKC, OK
Thunder: I would ditch the distressing on the numbers first and foremost. Beyond that, the white, blue and NativeOK jerseys are perfect, but I would stick to just the OKC and number. The number gets lost in the logo and I think it would be a mistake. Overall, this is one of the better redesigns for the Thunder that this Okie has seen.
On 4/26/2018 at 5:27 AM, BellaSpurs said:
23 hours ago, HoopsCoach55 said:
Thanks for the feedback. I've gone ahead and removed the distressed numbers/wordmarks and placed the "OKC" from the logo on the Statement jersey instead of the full logo.
Next team on the court are the Washington Wizards. I brought the horizontal stripe to the back of the uniform, this time lining up with the front stripe. The wordmarks on the chest have stars replacing basketballs dotting the "i"s. I've also placed it on the Statement uniform. The striping from the shorts also now carries all the way up the side, rather than carrying just the thin stripe past the shorts. The star on either side of the shorts is now silver to make it stand out better. For the City Edition, I took the "Of Columbia" off the wordmark, as I felt "The District" gave them an even more distinct identity. The City Edition also has a much different side panel for a more modern look and features a star on either side of the numbers on the front and back of the jersey.
Thank you all so far for the feedback!
With the Pacers facing elimination tonight, I've completed Indiana next. The stripes are now under the sleeves and at the base of the shorts as part of a side panel. The font from last season also returns. The pattern on the back of the Statement jersey is removed, as gold is busy enough on its own. For the City Edition, the uniform is navy blue and features nine rows of gold bricks wrapping around the torso representing the finish line of Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The wordmark on the chest also features a stripe across it as a callback to the team's uniforms from the mid-'80s.
As I'm going to have less time to work on my concept starting tomorrow, I figured I'd hurry and get the next team ready. As such, here are the Boston Celtics. The only real difference for the Icon and Association jerseys come from extending the stripes from the shorts to under the sleeves and adding a shamrock on either side of the pants. The team also revives the green-and-gold St. Patrick's Day look as the Statement uniform. As for the City Edition, I change the base color of the uniform from gray to black while maintaining the parquet pattern.
C&C welcome.
CoachDanT 0
Wouldn't happen to have that template do you? I used to have it and lost it in an unfortunate hard drive crash.
simtek34 1,168
Contrasting Pants and Socks should be a rule
Location:Minnesota
Great concepts! Sorry for being a little late to this, but can you do the Timberwolves Uni without the stripe above the wordmark? That has bothered me immensely and would be a big fix to make the uniform great. In doing so, I would recommend making the top part Green instead of Navy on the Home/Road (I mean Icon/Association) and making the top of the Startement Uni the lighter Blue rather than Navy.
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Nazis are commies and commies are progressives
As you probably know if you read this blog and others like it, the overthrow of the Ukrainian government by Soros et al was a Jewish/State Department conspiracy. Maidan’s primary documents are in English, in the dialect of the America Harvard educated ruling class, like so many other similar movements all over the world. The Ukrainian secession movement was and is a response to this foreign created coup installed government.
So, which side do you think the Nazis would support?
Ara Maxima has a nice rant on these pinko progressive nazis here and here. Nazis for the Jewish conspiracy, because loving America, they naturally love the State Department.
As Orwell said, anyone who thinks there is a big difference between Nazis and commies is in favor of one or the other. And, it would seem, sometimes both.
It is always possible to argue that we should support side X because side Y is too far leftist, overlooking the fact that everyone today is leftist by the standards of yesterday, and everyone yesterday is leftist by the standards of the day before yesterday, but if you want to find a genuine reactionary, a Russian who wants to restore the Tsar and Greek Russian Orthodoxy under the Tsar, that man is or recently was fighting for the independence of Russians in the breakaway republics of the Ukraine.
On one side, who started this war?
George Soros, progressive atheist anti zionist Jew.
On the other side, who kept this war going when it would have ended with only the Crimea detached?
Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, Tsarist and theocrat.
So which side are you going to support. The side of George Soros, or the side of Igor Ivanovich Strelkov?
Are you going to support the side sponsored by the State Department, or the side whose soldiers sing “O righteous God” – the anthem sung today by the rebels on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine. was born nearly 100 years ago during the Russian Civil War, sung by the soldiers of Gen Mikhail Drozdovsky, a White Guard commander.
National Socialists are Socialists.
The reason George Soros supports Nazis in the Ukraine is that he does not give a shit about Jews, but does care about socialism.
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185 Responses to “Nazis are commies and commies are progressives”
bob sykes says:
Although a lapsed Catholic and agnostic, I will support Strelkov and the Russian Orthodox Church. (You got the wrong part of Orthodoxy for Russia.)
Marc Bahn says:
Americans (I assume you’re American) are too hung up on words, the definitions of which change regularly. Ukrainian skinheads aren’t the same thing as the men who comprised the Hitler government, however much they wish they were. Anyone who understands what Hitler was for and against knows that the Jewish-led ‘revolutions’ are things he warned about and fought against.
Long live Novorussia and Russia, regardless of their also clinging to past meanings and reprocessed propaganda.
Meow Blitz says:
What the hell are you rambling on about?
” Nazis for the Jewish conspiracy, because loving America, they naturally love the State Department.”
Cledun, and most National Socialists (I’m not one of them) hate the United States.
“National Socialists are Socialists”
Yeah, must be why Hitler privatized the economy. For example: https://ideas.repec.org/p/bar/bedcje/2006162.html
You should probably read Culture of Critique to understand how absurd this statement is.
No one doubts Venezuela is socialist, that obamacare is socialist, and it is socialist in exactly the same sense as Nazi Germany was socialist. Wages and prices are controlled, stuff is rationed, all international trade requires international currency dispensed on a case by case basis by the government.
Private ownership does not make capitalism. Private ownership and the freedom to make a deal without the government looking over your shoulder makes capitalism. It is not capitalism when the government decides what the private sector shall do for the people, and pays them to do it.
In the Soviet Union, the government ordered that butter be supplied to the masses at a very low price by state employees, and due to red tape, normal bureaucratic screw ups, and the coordination problem, butter was not supplied.
In Venezuela, the government orders that butter be supplied to the masses at a very low price by the private sector, and pays them to do it. Unfortunately the recipients of this contract are crony capitalists, so they take the money and do not supply the butter. Similarly, Obamacare.
If the government guarantees that everyone shall receive their rightful butter, or their rightful medical treatment, consequences are rather similar.
In 1933 Germany was an economic basket case. By 1939 it was the most prosperous country in Europe., so something about Hitler’s program worked. Certainly better than America’s “New Deal”. Measures taken in the 1940s, like rationing might have had something to do with that war thingy. You know, when international capitalism teamed up with international communism to destroy Germany.
Maybe, but socialist statistics are famously unreliable. I have heard similar tales of the wonderful successes of Ethiopia, Venezuela, Argentina, and North Korea.
During the war everyone remade their economies on the supposedly hugely successful Nazi model. By 1949, it became obvious that this model was not working. In 1939 statistics supposedly proved, and everyone believed, Nazi economics a huge success.
In 1949, obvious failure.
Duh. When you’ve been bombed to smithereens and occupied, it’s true, you probably don’t have much of an economy. What has that to do with socialism?
Australia voted out Nazi style socialism in 1949, and the labor party was so discredited by the results of socialism that it remained in the wilderness for a generation.
The British Labor party, with Greek style socialist famine looming, and the lifts in the treasury building ceasing to work, dumped Nazi style socialism in 1949 in time to avoid the fate of the Australian Labor party..
The Germans, who had the excuse of being bombed, dumped nazi style socialism in the same year.
The Americans ditched socialism a little earlier, on the rationale that peacetime meant the return to normality
Alan J. Perrick says:
Speaking of Venezuela, it is time that whites living in the U.S. beginning looking at it as a super-power in its own right. Sure, it is a basket-case by traditional Western standards (though many Western countries look that way right now, too).
However, as the spiritual and ethnic seat for mestizo and Indian populations the significance of that country cannot be discounted. U.S.’ whites must look more closely to home instead of focus on Mohammedanism growing in Europe. The paganism that the Venezuelans bring is dangerous and obvious connections could be made with the paganism in the Vatican-Roman Church which preceded the browns taking over there.
If I have been too opaque, Venezuela should be seen as the future of the U.S. unless things change. Forget Brasilification. In America, browns being brought in by the hundreds of millions equals Venezuela.
In Brazil, whitish people keep the upper hand by furtive means. In Venezuela, the mestizos and indios took everything – largely because the whites, as in South Africa, gave it to them. Venezuela tells you what happens to whites when whites let inferior people rule them.
Caprizchka says:
In Venezuela, periodic landslides thin out the poor. This “act of God” is facilitated by plains agriculture slash-and-burn practices performed by Campesinos who prefer to live on hillsides. Fast-growing tubers are planted on these now barren hillsides to replace whatever trees or brush that may have been eliminated. The tubers don’t hold either water or soil well. The next big rain pretty well brings the entire hillside down along with all the squatter homes, choking out whatever marine life below that may have sustained itself against the constant flow of raw human sewage.
International charities sob and import more white liberals to blame the peasants’ agricultural disabilities on lack of government grocery dispensaries supplying adequate amounts of nutrition-free commodities.
Venezuela is indeed the future of the U.S., as accountability and initiative are slowly dis-incentivized. However, generations of political duopoly preceding this “socialism” started the process, long ago, just as it did to the U.S.
Both countries incorrectly assume a constant necessity for an excess uneducated and desperate labor force, a lack of need for intelligent actors (since all decisions have already been centralized) except as just that “actors”, and the notion that universal “education” has the ability to flatten social and status hierarchies.
Where Venezuela outperforms the U.S. however is that it’s rough terrain has not been fully civilized or loaded with enough infrastructure to allow for complete totalitarian control. Periodic washing away of roadways allows for an independent, libertarian existence, until the road is slowly, glacially repaired, presuming one has alternative off-road transportation of one’s own available.
I disagree that Venezuela’s problems however are racially-based. Rather, “The Dutch Disease” of not having to establish an effective manufacturing base because there’s enough oil money to import whatever consumer goods China manufactures is to me a more likely culprit. Without manufacturing and craftsmanship, there’s no culture, and without culture, there’s no motivation to excel at anything more than the blithe appearance of being “happy” by means of singing and dancing demonstrations, and fecundity.
Hitler fought fire with fire. Worry about freeing markets after you have secure a future for white children.
Without a sound economy, can neither feed children, nor armies in the field. And without white children, cannot secure a future for white children. Hitler knew he had to reintroduce patriarchy, but did not do so.
theoak says:
i do not recall you blaming the ukraine revolution on soros previously. was it in the comments?
http://blog.jim.com/war/shooting-gennady-kernes/
http://blog.jim.com/war/real-rebellion-in-ukraine/
Wyrd says:
Which is why Soros was so willing to fund grievance-niggas by the busload down in Ferguson. #BlackLiesMatters.
Just sayin' says:
The National Socialists over at the Daily Stormer strongly supported Putin. Same for /pol.
In general the ethno-nationalist right was divided on the conflict in the Ukraine, but seemed to mostly support Russia.
The division seemed to come down to those who were ideological ethno-nationalists, adhering to some ridiculous universalistic pan-nationalism that suggests that we need to strongly support the stooges in the Ukraine because they were fighting for nationalism (Greg Johnson, clever silly) and those who were ethno-nationalists for more practical, less ideological reasons.
The practical approach was to simply notice that the Ukrainian Nazis were fighting on behalf of Zionist Neo-cons (read: Jews) and the U.S. government, so there was no way they could possibly be the good guys. And of course, they were not the good guys.
Once again, reflexively opposing the Jews turns out to be the correct play. Once again, ideology proves to be a route for whites to cuckold themselves.
P.S. National Socialist Germany was a mixed economy, just like virtually all actually existing economies. If you’re going to be stuck with a mixed economy, it’s not really clear if it is better to handle it by allowing the government to gain de-facto control through mountains of bullshit, U.S. style or to just make the control formal but limited, China style.
National Socialist Germany did not lose because it was socialist. It lost because it invested too much power in one man and he got it into a war it could not win. NRX lacks a theory for dealing with this way for nations to self destruct. So do I.
P.S. George Soros may support socialism, but he doesn’t support socialism in one country.
He wants to plunder Ukraine. He will happily use socialism or crony capitalism to pull this off.
Looks to me like the actual plundering will be accomplished crony capitalist style, in this case.
National Socialist Germany did not lose because it was socialist.
National Socialist Germany could not feed those it conquered, nor allow them to feed themselves. That was a basic logistic failure, characteristic of socialism. If Greeks had had enough to eat, would have supported Nazism, or at least cheerfully tolerated it.
There was plenty of food for everyone in Europe until the USAF and RAF arrived on the scene.
Sorry, USAF should read AAC (U.S. Army Air Corps).
This simply is not so. There was food enough for Germans only because the Germans immediately set to stealing everyone else’s food, which is the most basic failure of an economy that one can have, and a failure typical of socialism.
Where do you get this? It isn’t true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Greece%29
NS Germany lost because it was vastly outnumbered and out-resourced. If you recall, economic war was declared on Germany in 1933 – long before Hitler had done, well, anything.
No I don’t recall that economic war was declared on Germany in 1933.
http://guardian.150m.com/jews/jews-declare-war.htm
Jews called for a boycott of German goods. That is not war, and in any case the boycott was ineffective – as they usually are.
The way the Jews actually prosecuted that war was by stampeding their herds of two-legged cattle from the fertile plains of North America.
During WW1, German soldiers bayonetted Belgian babies for fun and train loads of Allied soldiers were turned into soap. It as only in the ’60s that it was discovered that the Germans were turning six million Jews into soap, in part because the Red Cross inspectors somehow didn’t notice the gas chambers in Auschwitz, but there were other atrocities to motivate the Americans for their final effort to save democracy before democracy consumed them.
There was a bunch of inflection points during the war where Germany’s political leadership failed to achieve victory by actively messing with military maters they didn’t understand. Dunkirk, North Africa, calling off the first attack on Moscow, keeping the Panzers away from the beach heads in Normandy, fight to the last man instead of elastic defense, frontal attacks instead of war of maneuver, ect.
Even during WW2 great military leadership and fighting spirit counted for far more than arms and manpower. This German advantage was squandered at every turn by NS leadership who tried to enforce their own stupid views of war onto the greatest army the world has ever seen.
In World War I, elastic defense was a huge success. In the course of retreating a mile or so, the Germans destroyed the French army and a generation of Frenchmen. If your enemy wants to win so much that he is going for pyrrhic victory, let him have it.
NRx understands why Hitler couldn’t let his generals be seen arguing with him. It’s because he didn’t have a son who was guaranteed the throne.
Recusancy says:
Modern people who identify as nazis tend to be stupid. Attempting to categorize and dissect their beliefs will lead nowhere.
They often have no coherent overall political philosophy, and so their ideas on Ukraine are not consistent with their other ideas.
Have you spent time with enough of them to know this or is it an uninformed guess?
Mark Yuray says:
Based on the three days of arguments I’ve been having with a number of them, he is correct.
They disagree with you so they’re stupid? O.K. Sounds kind of like a leftist complaint to me.
Oh, so you’re one of them too, putting words in my mouth.
They’re stupid for the way they avoid arguing in favor of constant insults, playing stupid, playing the victim, constant propaganda, ignoring facts and their self-admitted shortcomings after you press them enough.
If they just disagreed with me, that would be quite wonderful.
The ones Mark Yuray is talking about are the ones who side with the Jew-controlled junta. See his blog.
Just keep in mind that Cledun is just some guy on a Republican troll site, while many of the more established e-Nazis supported Putin based on his conservative LARPing
I’ve spent enough time with Nazis on the internet. /pol/, dailystormer, et cetera.
And just because modern Nazis are stupid does not mean old Nazis were stupid.
Hitler and his entire government was dumb enough to let the British get away at Dunkirk. They’re were pretty stupid.
They didn’t know how aggressively retarded the British were going to be. They were stupider and certainly committed more atrocities than the Nazis in the Ukraine who work for the Jew junta. If the Nazis had known that the British government was going to bomb German cities that didn’t have any military presence in order to force the Germans to bomb British cities in retaliation so that the British public would support the war, the Germans would have done a lot of things differently.
Well, they’re being punished now by having all their little girls sexed up and used as whores by Pakis. Jolly good mate. Pip pip cheerio.
My understanding of that incident is that the Germans were winning the battle of Britain, attriting the British airforce faster than the British were attriting the German airforce. So Churchill bombed German cities to distract the Germans into attacking English cities – and thus failing to attack British airports, aircraft factories, and so forth. Hitler should not have allowed himself to be provoked. Churchill was like a squirrel throwing dust at a snake, so that the snake will strike at the dust instead of at the squirrel.
Peter Blood says:
Support? How does one support this side or that side in a war halfway around the world? Or do you mean “Internet Posturing” (which is the Internet-age meaning of support)? I doubt anyone in this dust-up has tangibly supported either side.
Sorry, it’s just my old-school understanding of support rearing it’s head. Carry on.
Posturing matters.
The Soviet Union collapsed in substantial part from posturing. Of course the willingness of people in Soviet puppet countries to posture defiance of the Soviet Union reflected increasing awareness of Soviet lack of the logistic capability to send their troops into puppet countries, but a posturing runaway led to an almost bloodless collapse.
Of course Reaganite would correctly comment that when an empire’s logistic capability is exhausted, that makes for a bloodless collapse, but without posturing, would have been no collapse.
Merovan says:
I don’t follow the Reaganite comment part of it. What is the posturing contribution? Isn’t logistic exhaustion sufficient?
I think he may mean the “moral level” of war, not the physical levels (which include strategy, operations, tactics, logistics). See Lind’s discussion of 4GW, where the moral level is supreme. Hence, argument, posturing, “supporting” actually do play a big part. And USSR certainly lost the moral level to the West, and everyone knew it. Everything else followed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Laws
Posturing revealed the new alignment, demonstrating will and the lack of it.
Hey Jim, since the word ‘socialist’ so gets yer goat, how about this: Are the numerous ‘Christian Democrat’ parties in Europe actually Christian? If so why does the word never parse their lips, let alone its tenets?
Are they even ‘democratic’? Well, yes, but only by the American definition of swamping the citizenry with foreigners to the point that the natives’ votes don’t count. Not by the traditional, or ancient Greek definition, even though they first identified the dead end that is democracy.
I would recommend that you pay more attention to the results on the ground and less to ideological labels.
In short, National ‘socialism’ was the exact opposite of Soviet, or international ‘socialism. Main reason being that the two were heralded by very, very, very different peoples.
Capitalism and communism are two sides of the same shekel.
National socialism is not a third way, it’s a coward’s straddling of the two, equivalent to the thin edge of a shekel.
Reaction is when you finally throw the shekel into the Jew’s face and pick up a sword.
vimothy says:
I’ve seen this said somewhere, and I remember reading something to that effect that made sense. What I recall is that “capitalism” is a word invented by Marx & Engels. And that the development of communism was a direct result of capitalism. (Was Charles Dickens in reaction to capitalism, which is about the same time as communism arose?)
Do you have a link where this is explained more, or could you elaborate?
Mark Citadel says:
Post-Enlightenment ideologies are dead ends. There are only two competing forces in this world.
If you aren’t a Reactionary Traditionalist, then you’re a Modernist.
Socialism is when the government runs the economy. It predictably fucks up.
I’m continuously amazed at how Americans think of things as if by some orders they received in high school. Is the Republican party actually republican? Is the Democratic pasty actually democratic? Of course not. They are both bought and paid for, but not with votes!
As I said before, are the numerous Christian Democratic parties in Europe actually Christian, or even democratic?
To witness real socialism in action you should look at Scandinavia. Quite prosperous, at least until its US overlord forced millions of non-Europeans on it, just as they are doing in the US itself. Then consider Hitler’s economic miracle of 1933 – 1939. Then consider the disaster of the early decades of the USSR. These three are not even comparable because they all existed under very different circumstances. To dismiss them all as bad because they, to one degree or another utilized WHAT THEY CALLED ‘socialism’, is the analysis of a child!
I am not recommending socialism. I am only trying to demonstrate that things aren’t always what some label hanging on their door make them seem. It’s more important to open the door and study what is actually in the room.
Read the comments by Glenfilthie. Don’t they sound grade schoolish? That’s American education for you. Everything is simple and everybody is taught to react to certain words with the same robotish simplicity.
As for “Socialism is when the government runs the economy. It predictably fucks up.”, how’s that “non-socialist” (by label any way) US economy doing? If I’m not mistaken it’s on the verge of collapse. Most of the wealth has been transferred offshore, just as have the jobs over the past few decades.
“Socialism is when the government runs the economy. It predictably fucks up.” Jim, it depends on the quality of the government, to put it simply.
» To witness real socialism in action you should look at Scandinavia
yes. Why did they let the foreigners in and not have their own children? Is it because of US forcing feminism and anti-racism on them, or is it because that’s the natural result of socialism?
» An easy and superficial answer could be made in terms of con- temporary persons and events. With few and brief exceptions, the empire was ruled by despots who ranged from ruthless pirates to mutton-headed fops, including such figures as the well-read and pious Theodosius II, who professed and probably felt, “Love of man-kind”, but, in the words of the contemporary historian, “lived in cowardice” and was “under the control of his eunuchs in everything … They beguiled him, to put it briefly, as children are beguiled with toys.” One can draw up a long list of battles lost by folly or treason, and ask why supreme command of the greatest naval effort of the century, equipped at a cost that had strained to the utmost the resources of a declining nation, was entrusted to Basiliscus, who appears to have been both a fool and a traitor.
» But even in the first chapter an attentive reader will see a deeper cause as he notices with increasing wonder that most of the prominent figures on the Roman side are not really natives of the Empire. Strike out the names of mercenaries imported from across the border, or superficially naturalized barbarians, and of first- generation Romans: the pages of history are left almost vacant. You cannot read far without confronting the appalling fact that that vast empire is one in which irresponsibility and torpor have become virtually universal; it has a multitudinous population, great cities, a noble culture, a new and elevating religion, wheat, gold, iron… But it has to import the one thing that no nation can really buy – men.
» When the Romans finally destroyed Carthage in 146 BC, they destroyed a powerful nation that had combined a high degree of civilization (in commerce, industry, scientific agriculture, navigation, and politics) with the terrrible religious savagery evident in such institutions as the great bronze machine that was used on ceremonial occasions to shovel living children by the hundreds – including sons and daughters of the Carthaginian aristocracy – into the furnace that burned within the colossal idol of Baal. To the Roman mind, as to ours, the masochistic sadism of the Carthaginians was incomprehensibly alien and horribly inhuman. Yet before long – in less time than has elapsed since our Constitution was ratified – the Romans had set up a socio-political machine that was far more deadly – a machine, adorned with specious phrases and built, in part, with good intentions, for the sacrifice of their own children.
» The machine devoured the Romans – almost all of the great families of the Republic were extinct by the time of Nero. It devoured the other peoples of Italy. It devoured the hardy provincials who had been brought into the imperium Romanum. It devoured whatever was virile and valuable in the descendants of the innumerable slaves that the Romans had recklessly brought into Italy and then set free with indiscriminate generosity. And when the machine had devoured the last manhood of an exhausted world, its work was done – and the empty husk of a dead nation collapsed of its own weight. (America’s Decline, page 218-219, Men and Dinosaurs, December 1961)
(i’m going to keep quoting this passage until it sinks in)
You had it right in your second paragraph. Yes, it is because of US forcing feminism and anti-racism on them. Feminism and anti-racism aren’t traditional Scandy things. Why do you think the US has troops in Europe 70 years after the war and 25 years after the fall of the USSR? It’s not called the American Empire for nothing.
Do you believe what you see and read in US media? Do you trust the US government and its leaders?
Dr. Faust says:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNtyV0CXfzU
The link is to a video by Stefan Molyneux called: “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism”.
To witness real socialism in action you should look at Scandinavia.
Scandinavia knows better than to meddle with supply and demand, knows better than to tell businessmen what to do.
Scandinavian “socialism” consists of a whole lot of redistribution – welfarism, not socialism. To get the votes for redistribution, importing an enormous brown underclass, which lives by its votes. Whites males support women and browns, to whom they are subserviant.
Scandinavian white men are emasculated. Almost any interaction by a white male with a woman constitutes rape or sexual assault. So to get the manliness they need, Scandinavian white women visit the brown parts of town from time to time for some beatings, rough sex, and gang banging.
Whites are failing to breed, and in particular and especially white males are failing to breed, because, for the most part, they are failing to get any sex. Alarmingly few newborn children in Scandinavia are white. To keep the welfare state voted in, the white race is being voted out.
Are they even good at voting? The Beatles thought they were in England to vote.
They’re mostly just good at consuming resources, looking pathetic, committing various lovably petty crimes, raping White women, and saying progressive things on cue. They’re pets.
And they’re imported to Sweden because the Swedes are full of themselves over the whole Gustavus Adolphus glorious entrance into a war that didn’t have any freshly equipped armies, and then not getting involved in the business of the great powers because no one wants their rocks and snowbanks, and because the glorious history of the Goths that left for the underfloor heating systems and heated baths of the civilized but socialist world. They’re so full of themselves they think thay’re a superpower, at least, a humanitarian superpower, and no one will tell them different, as they grow old and die in their house in the frozen woods with their ever increasing collection of pets.
Yes, and you can thanks the results of 1945 for that. It wasn’t always that way.
Good point. I’m American and my government is beyond evil and incompetent. I would say,”It’s can’t get any worse” but it probably will so I won’t.
This Week in Reaction (2015/03/06) | The Reactivity Place says:
[…] The Stick of Jim pronounces the final verdict of this affair quite well: Nazis are commies and commies are progressives. […]
Ciarog says:
Jim, if you want to find the new frontier of poz visit tumblr. Actually, why not join tumblr to start the fire rising? Your commentary will be appreciated in the #feminism, #gamegate and #trans* tags.
I’m far right and I don’t run into trouble on tumblr, and I’ve only had to block around 200 people.
If you get shadowbanned, just make a new account and start trolling.
Oh JFC.
Jim – the commies/progs and fascist/commies will sit around blaming EEEEEEEEEEVIL JOOOOOOOOOS for everything. Their semitic phantoms and bogeymen will lurk in the backgrounds and shadows where only pasty faced political loons can see them. Pull my other finger Jimmy! It has bells on it!! LOL. Apparently neo-reactionaries will too.
Here’s my theory: Putin is a hard ass and a shrewd opportunist. Obama is a baboon and a weakling and Putin (and pretty much every other carpet bagger in the world) – knows it. The time was right for a land grab.
Euro Commies/progs and Fascist/whatevers never blame THEMSELVES for setting their nations at war and the destruction that follows even as they pull the triggers and push the buttons. You fellas here should know better than that.
Please… I don’t blame the Jews for everything just getting us in to WWI and WWII, the Federal Reserve, killing Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy. The destruction of Germany, Spain, England, US and all of Eastern Europe. The opium trade into China. Bringing slaves to America. Bringing in all the people after the 1965 change in immigration laws and all illegal immigration. Destruction of the school system through uncivil rights for Blacks. Mass murder of Whites by Blacks due to uncivil rights laws. Destruction of competence of government employees by uncivil rights laws banning effective testing. Destruction of the culture by mass media. Police committing widespread murder due to Jews training the police. Corruption of the government by bribery and when that doesn’t work blackmail. Destruction of truth through distortion of the education system and mass media. The lowering of morals through pornography and evil behavior in film and TV. The pushing of communism and socialism. The movement of manufacturing to China. Widespread theft of military secrets and subsequent selling of those to the USSR , China and who knows who else. The banking collapse and subsequent bailout. Blowing up our buildings and killing our people on 9-11 and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The war in Ukraine. ISIS. The murder of Lebanese and Palestinians. Organ smuggling. Drug smuggling. Lots and lots of business and bank fraud. There’s more but that’s the major ones.
You attribute too much cohesiveness to the Jews. The Jews most responsible for all this bad stuff are the ones who drink of their own poison most deeply – in other words, progressives,Jewish conversos. Jews were not responsible for World War I or II, and it was Roosevelt, who had no love for Jews, that brought America into World War II. He failed to take in Jews fleeing Nazism.
And I don’t see how you can blame the movement of manufacturing to China on Jews.
He’s a bit misguided all right but not for the reasons you suggest. No, the Jews don’t control everything but yes they control things like the US government and media. And they were indeed not necessarily responsible for WWI but they sure as hell were responsible for getting the US into it via the promise of the Balfour declaration. And they certainly did everything in their power to push the US into war with Hitler, including provoking his Japanese ally into an attack.
As for FDR not liking Jews, don’t make me laugh. Take a look at his advisers, for God’s sake. Baruch, Rosenman, Morgenthau, Bloom, Wise, the list goes on and on.
And no, no Jews “fleeing nazism” were turned away. Unless you believe American media.
But then, if your comprehension is only as deep as “Nazis are commies and commies are progressives”, well,…………
“by the end of June 1939, 309,000 German, Austrian, and Czech Jews had applied for the 27,000 places available under the quota. “
Sure looks like Jews fleeing Nazism were turned away by Roosevelt
Which falsifies any Jew centric account of twentieth century history.
I totally agree that Jews did lots of bad things – and I think my prolific Jewish supremacist commentator B would agree that Jews did lots of bad things, though he would say it was all the gentiles fault. The gentiles made Jews do bad things.
But people who obsess over Jews are crazy (unless they are Jewish themselves). You should not obsess over an ethnicity not your own.
In 1940, Joe Kennedy did everything he could to avoid issuing visas to European Jews attempting to flee through France, issuing explicit instructions to the tune that the problem would soon resolve itself.
Of course, the Jews took revenge using their massive influence and the Kennedy clan faded into insignificance. Joe’s dream of a presidency for his son never came true. To this day, the Kennedy name carries with it a stigma in the popular mind, which is controlled by the Jews.
You know B, there is so much madness on the internet that it is hard to successfully pull off a parody. If I did not know who you were, I would believe you were serious.
and what Revilo Oliver says about that is WWII only became about saving Jews after the Holocaust became a thing. So if Joe Kennedy tried to keep the Jews that Hitler had been trying to convince to self-deport from Germany out of the US, telling people that they would be able to go to Israel soon, it would have been acceptable before the ’60s and ’70s.
That’s not an interesting factoid regardless of whether or not it’s true. Here’s an interesting factoid. In 1949 Congress considered a bill to recognize as subversive and outlaw the ADL.
I’m confused by the logic here. What’s the relevance?
It’s obvious WW2 was not about saving the Jews. For instance, the NYT (OWI/FDR’s boys) and Stalin’s propaganda organs both worked very hard to make the Holocaust not much of an issue. FDR, when meeting Jan Karski, who had infiltrated and then escaped Auschwitz, asked him with great concern about how the Polish horses were holding up. You know, the war was very hard on the horses. The Partisan movement in Belorussia, to the extent that it was run from Moscow, got top-down instruction to keep Jews out. Etc.
I’m not sure what the ADL and B’nai Brith were doing during the Holocaust. “Rabbi” Steven Wise, who was one of FDR’s court Jews, certainly didn’t comport himself in a fitting way: http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/11/04/the-shameful-legacy-of-rabbi-stephen-wise/
On the other hand, the ADL seems to have kept careful tabs on the Cathedral’s attack dogs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League#ADL_files_controversy
Back in the day, I more or less perfected the art of mocking idiots to their face in such a way that they suspected they were being made fun of but couldn’t quite admit it to themselves. The key is that for progs to admit that an enthusiastic restatement and mild amplification of their principles with a poker face is hilarious, because it implies that their principles are ludicrous. Like a subdued version of Swift’s Modest Proposal.
Given the choice between agreeing with a ludicrous proposal which is consistent with their principles but goes just half a step too far and questioning those principles, most will hesitantly do the former, and lots of entertainment can be had convincing them to make idiots of themselves. It’s difficult to do online, easier and much more entertaining in person.
The Bolshevisk party was led by Jews. It was financed by Jewish capitalists. Every major leftwing movement of the last century: cultural Marxism, the Frankfurt School, deconstruction, feminism, civil rights, immigration reform, LGBT liberation, and whiteness studies, have been led by Jewish intellectuals. Keep sticking your head in the sand.
Lenin was one quarter Jewish, Stalin not in the slightest bit Jewish. The Bolshevik party was financed, not by Jewish Capitalists, but by the German Kaiser.
The Bolshevik party was full of Jews, who proceeded to purge each other, because most of the Jews in the Bolshevik party really hated Jews.
The Trots, lacking the ability to send each other to the Gulag, are still largely Jewish to this day, but they hate Jews more than anyone, and if they could send each other to the Gulag, they would.
Stalin wasn’t Jewish…and he killed a huge percentage of the Old Bolsheviks, put an ice pick in Trotsky, turned international socialism into socialism in one country, stopped the left singularity and dragged the U.S.S.R. just far enough to the right to allow them to win WW2.
And after Stalin, Soviet Communism became boring grey and depressing under a series of European gentile leaders, but far less murderous and radical than it once was.
Read the Great Terror and keep in mind who he was killing. It’s a red pill moment.
Yep, Stalin was killing Jews. But he had plenty of Jewish help killing Jews.
I’ll support neither, there is far too much work to do in this part of the globe to be really concerned about the factions fighting in the backwater of Eastern Europe.
However, it is important to note that President Putin does support, like most European countries do, restrictions on freedom of speech and that barely over twenty years ago Russia was a communist state. Christianity has been promoted recently, but anything beyond standing on the throat of the Church there would appear as pro-Christian in comparison. Russia is pretty far from Christian when compared to the more Christian areas of the United States (not referring to inner-city Cathedral outposts in those parts of the U.S.).
A.J.P.
The difference is that David Duke’s book “Jewish Supremacy” is not anti-Semitic in Russia, and homosexual propaganda is illegal.
American “Christians” are pro gay, support female headship in marriage, pro divorce, support illegal immigration, and pro single motherhood. If you are opposed to any of these things, and get married in church, the priest will stab you in the back. Russian Orthodox Christianity is considerably more Christian, because allowed by the state to be more Christian.
Russia isn’t a pretty picture, “Jim”, for the reason I mentioned above most likely. I do think that the Russian Church might be a rural and agrarian, so appropriate rump version of catholicism, that is suited as a dividing line between Christendom and steppe paganism…But after so many decades of abuse it’s going to take a while for it to become intrenched in the population (think of Saint Moses and the generational change during the Exodus). That’s if the Russians don’t backslide…
“American Christians are pro gay, support female headship in marriage, pro divorce, support illegal immigration, and pro single motherhood.”
This has more to do with U.S. Christians being white than being Christian, B.T.W….Un-coincidentally Russia rivals the U.S. for these issues, and you can add the highest abortion rate in the world to it. Who is more conservative, the Southern Baptist or the Eastern, Greek Orthodox Christian? Unless I’m not being appropriately objective, the Southern Baptist is far closer to the patriarchal world ideally described in the Book of Sacred Scripture.
Since illegal immigration, or massive third-world immigration in other words, is such a linch-pin issue for positive spirituality, this might be addressed separately…
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/yearwithoutgod/2014/07/29/breaking-white-evangelical-protestants-among-least-compassionate-on-immigration-crisis/
“In August 2012, as the country saw its first demographic growth since the 1990s, President Putin declared that Russia’s population could reach 146 million by 2025, mainly as a result of immigration.[40]”
“The problem has become so severe it has caused a rise in Russian nationalism, and spawned groups like Movement Against Illegal Immigration”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#Immigration
>“American Christians are pro gay, support female headship in marriage, pro divorce, support illegal immigration, and pro single motherhood.”
This has more to do with U.S. Christians being white than being Christian, B.T.W….Un-coincidentally Russia rivals the U.S. for these issues, and you can add the highest abortion rate
Russian Orthodox opposes homosexuality, opposes mass illegal immigration of colored people. The Russian Orthodox Church declares feminism a mortal sin. Can one imagine any Christian Church in America daring to say that?
The Russian Orthodox Church opposes abortion and single motherhood. Christian Churches in the west can only oppose abortion by valorizing single motherhood as good and heroic. The proposition that women with children must submit to and obey the father of those children is unthinkable and unspeakable in Western Christianity.
Yeah, but you
Yeah, but you’re fighting a straw-man. As if I suggested that all Christians in the U.S. were more Christian than the Russian ones. I wrote “the MORE Christian areas of the United States”.
The more Christian places are not pro-homosexuality at all. They have the advantage of being more Christian by being more anti-abortion too.
The Russian Church claims something like 60% membership too. Average Sunday attendance needs to increase over there, “Jim”.
I cannot see any actually existent mainstream church in America that does not support homosexuality, single motherhood, and female headship.
There are doubtless churches where a high proportion of the congregation oppose homosexuality, single motherhood, mass illegal nonwhite immigration, and female headship, but the pastor harangues them from the pulpit on how unchristian they are for opposing all these good Christian things.
Does the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia constitute mainstream? (I’m seriously asking)
http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/indexeng.htm
The Russian Orthodox Church in the US and Europe is mighty quiet on gays, fatherless children, etc.
You might say Jim, Russia could do with more Christian people in the pews, and the West could do with more Christians behind the podium. One half of each equation.
The problem is not illegal immigration, it is illegal immigration of inferior races. Russian illegals are white.
Wrong jim.
Some are white or whatever you want to call Ukranians and Moldovans, some are kinda sorta not white like Armenians and many are clearly non-white central Asian Muslims from the ‘Stans
Hard to tell a Muslim from the stands from a white.
Pakistan is full of pedophiles whose favorite food is long pig curry. Afghanistan has that one green-eyed woman whose picture went on Time Magazine to get Americans to care about them. Dagostan has caucasoids who are less white than dagos…
Pakistanis are not migrating to Russia.
Hey Jim, consider this:
http://irishsavant.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-incredible-disappearing-man.html
Then ponder the relevance of adhering to a stagnant definition of the word ‘socialism’.
Solzhenitsyn says that Jews were substantially to blame for Russian communism, which of course they were.
How does this affect the definition of socialism?
It affects the definition of it, per your understanding. In other words, it is a word that has been used by many different people for many different things. In the early USSR it was used to mask Judeo-bolshevism (as Hitler would describe it). In Hitlerian Germany it was used to win converts from communism. In Scandy it is as normal a term as “democracy” is in the US.
In other words, it is a word so overly used that it came to mean just about anything – and therefore is no guide whatsoever to what policies may ensue henceforth. Think “freedom”, “democracy”, “land of the free and home of the brave”, etc. It’s all nonsense purposely designed to distract you.
Socialism means that the government thinks it can run the economy, and tries to do so. There are a lot of ex socialist parties that still retain socialism in their name, having tried socialism and failed catastrophically, for example the scandinavian socialists, and from time to time they get their raving bloodthirsty moonbats in a room, lock the doors so that the public cannot hear, and talk socialism to them till they come. But, their socialism is to actual socialism what telephone sex is to actual sex.
Rollory says:
“Maidan’s primary documents are in English, in the dialect of the America Harvard educated ruling class”
I’ve seen this unsupported assertion in various places, yes. I haven’t seen any actual evidence supporting it. I have also been in contact with more than a few Ukrainians, some of them quite closely connected with Maidan, who would find the idea that they were being manipulated from DC to be laughably insulting. They know what they did, they know how they did it, they know why, and they are perfectly willing to tell you about it if you ask them.
I read this blog, but any given article has about a 50/50 chance of being insightful and interesting, or complete bullshit. The really sad thing is that there seems to be no interest whatsoever in correcting errors or systematic reason. It’s as intuitive and faith-based a course as any mysticism. Any correct statements end up being correct almost by accident.
I listen to evidence.
I don’t listen to abuse.
Soros spent over a hundred million on Ukrainian political activity. The leaked telephone conversations reveal the nominal government of Ukraine to be mere muppets.
After funding astroturf activism, Soros then proceeded to pay armed goons.
Oddly, I find that when Jim writes on subjects of which I have no personal knowledge, he’s very insightful. Otherwise…it’s probably one of those quantum physics things where the very act of observation affects the observed.
I’m not sure how, but there’s something about the editorial policy which has led to the comments section being completely filled with nazi froth (perhaps Jim’s hooknosed hasbara handlers are being stingy with the shekels). These people aren’t very threatening because, being 21st century internet americans, they are to real nazis as Gawker is to the Comintern. Still, the place is getting pretty squalid. I note that UR never had these problems.
Unqualified Reservations had lots of anti-Semitic and White Nationalist comments, which is why Moldbug had to write articles commenting on those topics and probably why he ended up ignoring the comments eventually. The comments at UR were notorious as a bit of a cesspool, so you’re being somewhat disingenuous.
If the current comments of blog.jim.com are a bit more extreme, it’s only because the internet Overton window has moved rightward on this issue very rapidly in the intervening years.
Compared to the comments here, the comments on UR were an aristocratic salon. I suspect the difference was the blog author’s tone and originality and willingness to engage in mild censorship, the fact that a lot of UR’s commentariat was composed of the functional and intelligent (who tend to be progs by default but were engaged in varying degrees of apostasy,) and that between now and then, NRx has entered its Eternal September. That is to say, it is stuck in the uncanny valley where it is popular enough to attract masses of ranting tards but by its very nature unable to leverage said masses into any sort of results. I expect a flameout or a pivot in the near future.
Anyone who wants to *do* anything, including scheisspfosten on anderen unterreddits, goes to Radix and DailyStormer. Anyone who wants to random insult people with imagemacros ( http://www.funnyjunk.com/Electric+swede/funny-pictures/5319021/ ) goes to /pol/ and the chans. NRx should be whoever’s left over, but who’s that?
The noreactionaries are either the scholars of the world that the universities have fairly recently decided to reject, having forgotten their mission to co-opt the best talent, shove intelligent niggers and women who act like men in their faces, and tell them to stay out of politics or they get fired; with interesting criticisms that the other right wingers should listen to. Or a bunch of totally irrelevant ranting tards. Well, you will know them by their works.
I’ll never be qualified to comment on the fall of Constantinople. Whoever is will either decide to call himself a neoreactionary or not do so.
Those that think the Jews have mystic superpowers to make everyone else do stupid things are not enemies, but people who are focusing far too hard on one rather small step to dark enlightenment.
Sorry, are you calling yourself a scholar?
No, I only know enough Spanish to order a burrito sin salsa picante and have read maybe three to five books if The Communist Manifesto counts. But there was a time when Revilo Oliver could be a professor of classics. Since that time has passed, we can’t really expect anyone flaunting scholarly credentials to say anything serious. So where can we look for delicious red pills before they get popular enough for Andrew Anglin?
>So where can we look for delicious red pills before they get popular enough for Andrew Anglin?
Perhaps reconsidering your self-education might be a start. Your question presumes a Buzzfeed-style information consumerism. Lose Jews With This One Easy Trick! A Professor Of Classics Looked At The Jews…What He Found Will Shock You! Etc.
Maybe thinking I know something about politics after reading Revilo Oliver and Bob Whitaker is like thinking i know something about physics after reading A Brief History of Time and The Road to Reality, except that Hawking and Penrose are relevant and Oliver and Whitaker aren’t. But, Oliver and Whitaker represent the only serious branch of thought that hasn’t been sullied by application in the last century.
In the past, it was possible to be not racist, like Spengler, but today you can either be racist or anti-racist, and if you’re anti-racist, you’re not racist, QED.
Maybe I should challenge my world-view by reading the best 13th century philosopher’s ideas about souls. That could help me interpret which thoughts I have come from demons, modulo a theory of what a thought is.
On the other hand, I don’t have the time, the training, or the inclination to study this full time. So I’ll just stay curled up in the corner waiting for the next shipment of red pills to come in ready to suck whoever’s dick i need to to get some. Until then, I’ll try to talk about how great it was when everything made sense for a few seconds after I heard that Woodrow Wilson was a Jewish puppet controlled by his dalliances with married women. Well, the next one’s going to be even better.
(but in reality the red pills get more and more bitter, and make the world look progressively worse)
You don’t need to study full time. But spending your spare time reading primary sources with an open mind is much better than waiting for someone to give you a pill. For one, it is developmental, and may give you original thoughts. For another, doing mental heroin has an up front reward which diminishes with time and a hefty payment on the back end.
> the only serious branch of thought that hasn’t been sullied by application in the last century.
That’s not a very good criterion. “If grandma had a dick, she would have been grandpa.” Well, she didn’t have a dick. Revilo Oliver may have some good points, as may E. Michael Jones. They also have craziness mixed in. The ability to read them in the same way as Procopius’ Secret History or Nietzsche or Machiavelli or any other source is crucial. Allowing them to hijack your mind and turn you into an idiot sort of defeats the purpose of reading primary sources. This is the difference between a scholar and a dilettante. A scholar can read primary sources with an open mind and remain detached.
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Great strawmen, and poor analytical reasoning. Your post boils down to these two tired points:
1) NAZIS ARE LEFTISTS BECAUSE THEY SUPPORT THE ATLANTICISTS (total strawman)
2)NAZIS ARE LEFTISTS BECAUSE GEORGE SOROS SOLD OUT HIS OWN KIND TO THEM (terrible analytical reasoning)
Meanwhile, supporting an internationalist, imperialist, multiracial state that openly sympathizes with communism and affirms Jacobin style nationalism (see cite #19 of my original piece, “Novorussians, Atlanticists, and Ukrainian Nationalists).
Thanks for confirming yet again that NRx are either quite stupid, or quite dishonest, or perhaps both!
About NRx:
“Notice how quick they are to play down the differences between nationalism and communism. Note how they say that the differences are “cosmetic” or “technicalities” or “surface”.
And then note how they act like really, really superficial things, such as advocacy for a national Orthodox Church, or a contemporary flat-tax, or being against fag marriage, all make certain that the Putinistas are most certainly not communists, and are most certainly right-thinking traditionalists.
They do just like the ancaps – they attempt to sweep the rhetorical rug out from under your feet by invalidating your premises. They do this by arbitrarily redefining (or rather just totally making up) some 2-dimensional political spectrum to be entirely self-serving.
Ancaps hate statism, therefore statism is left wing, and ancaps are the most right wing, and anything they dont like is to the left of them and therefore presumably does not need to be engaged seriously, or at least that’s the message it intends to send to the programmed bleating sheeplike cultists who join political cults that flatter members as both intellectually and morally elite.
I’m not sure exactly what their metric is, but NRx do the same thing, only where their principles of exit from the Cathedral makes them the most right. Anyone who does not want to exit from the Cathedral, or who wants to expand rather than break apart, is therefore a leftist.
That actually makes it all the more insane that self-proclaimed NRx faggots like Antidem and Mark Jewray call themselves the real right wingers according to their made up NRx standards. They are literally defending an expansionist imperial state that is animated by modernist ideology, two things NRx came together in opposition to.
I guess he is interpreting Novorussia as an exit from Ukraine and therefore the left, but it’s obviously disingenuous given how much he defends the Russian annexation of her neighbors and the Russian states history of bolshevism and imperialism. “
really, really superficial things, such as advocacy for a national Orthodox Church, or a contemporary flat-tax, or being against fag marriage
If you think those are really really superficial …
Then you tend to wind up on the same side as George Soros and Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, whose distinguishing feature is not so much that they are Jewish, as that they are degenerates.
This is the same as the problem Hitler had with restoring German fertility. He knew, or at least many senior members of the Nazi party knew, what needed to be done, but were unwilling to do it. He could kill millions of Jews, but could not unemancipate women.
The future belongs to those that show up. And if you think that fag marriage is a really really superficial thing, not going to show up.
Russia is already heavily Turkic and Muslim.
When this pro-Islamic, multiracial government is the new world power, do you think they will give support to removing kebab in Europe?
No. Russia won’t care if its helots in the newly conquered west, its ancient rival, are a hodgepodge of Muslim muds. It’ll probably be easier for them to maintain their hegemony that way; less chance of European ethnic consciousness getting in the way of their plans again like happened in 1990.
Dugin has explicitly stated that any white racial consciousness is to be opposed. Putin outlawed holocaust denial and throws actual racial nationalists in jail for up to 10 years for “extremist speech” (sound familiar?). Putin in December 2013 gave a speech in which he affirmed that Russia’s state identity is to be based around deracinated, Jacobin-style civic nationalism. He praised Russias multiracialism to the sky, just like Dugin does (see cite #34). Putin right now is totally content with Chechnya being a Sharia state – his concern not being removal of kebab but assertion of his own authority. I guess Islamic Shariah is a kind of tradition, though.
The official religion of Russia is Russian Orthodox. America theoretically does not have an official religion, (actually progressivism is its official religion) but systematically favors Islam above Christianity. Russia systematically favors Russian Orthodox above all competitors.
A state needs an official religion, which official religion should be subject to that state (and not to some other, alien, and possibly hostile, state). It is good that Russia has its own official religion, rather than an official religion controlled by a hostile power, and good that its official religion is Russian Orthodox.
This is one of those cases where Jim is talking about something of which I have some personal knowledge.
Russia’s constitution defines it as a secular government. According to Wikipedia, in 2003 Russia liquidated 225 religious organizations, of which 71 were Orthodox, 42 Muslim, and so on down the line to Baptists and so forth.
Russia has a Patriarch, a Chief Mufti and two (2) Chief Rabbis.
And since when has Russia paid any attention to its constitution:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-orthodox-church-and-russian-politics
the passage of a 1997 national law, restricting certain religious organizations from carrying out missionary work in the Russian Federation, was considered a political victory for the Orthodox Church, whose leadership lobbied the government heavily for the legislation. Additionally, according to Papkova, “the presence of the Russian Orthodox Church was ubiquitous” starting in 1995. The speaker cited images of Orthodox priests blessing new buildings, military installations, and construction sites throughout Russia as examples of the Church’s presence in everyday life. The Patriarch also conferred his blessing on each new president, further highlighting the growing public presence of the Church. …
… This change in leadership led to a growing recognition by the state of the Church’s demands.
http://www.iwm.at/read-listen-watch/transit-online/orthodox-component-russian-support-eastern-ukrainian-separatists/
In a solemn ceremony, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, the local government, and the Russian military carry a reliquary casket through the city of Belgorod (Russia).
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/meet-russian-orthodox-army-ukrainian-separatists-shock-troops-n107426
Meet the Russian Orthodox Army, Ukrainian Separatists’ Shock Troops
What happened was that Russia in the late 1990s was quietly and unofficially moving to make Russian Orthodox Church unofficially official.
The west was alarmed, applied pressure, Russia stopped doing that, or stopped being obvious about doing it.
With the conflict in the Ukraine, Putin less worried about what the west thinks, more worried about spiritual security, more worried about the west weaponizing progressivism against him, therefore back to making the Russian Orthodox Church official.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/395624/coming-clash-civilizations-andrew-stuttaford
In his fire-breathing speech to the Duma in March when he announced Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Putin included not just venerable KGB classics like warnings about the Western Fifth Column and “national traitors,” but also paeans to explicit Russian ethnic nationalism buttressed by Orthodox mysticism, with citations of saints from millennia past. This was the culmination of years of increasingly unsubtle hints from Putin and his inner circle that what ideologically motivates this Kremlin is the KGB cult unified with Russian Orthodoxy. Behind the Chekist sword and shield lurks the Third Rome, forming a potent and, to many Russians, plausible worldview.
Putin’s potent fusion of KGB values and Orthodoxy has been building for years,
What drove the holy wars of the seventeenth century was that if your official religion was Roman Catholicism, the Holy Roman Emperor, or equivalently Spain, would use that to screw you.
Similarly, today, if your official religion is progressivism, the US will screw you. If you don’t want the XXX Spring, better find something to substitute for progressivism, fast!
Coming soon to Israel, the peace spring, where the US does to Israeli Jews what it did to white South Africans.
I’m sorry, I forgot you are a prog. When Russia officially says it has no official religion, it is not credible. When progressive sources decry the insufficient separation of church and state in Russia, they are credible. We can only conclude that Russia has an UNOFFICIAL official religion. Very convincing.
I am not very intimidated by a Peace Spring. State has been trying since 1948. Compared to Loy Henderson, I just don’t find Samantha Powers very impressive. The nadir was from Rabin to Gush Katif.
Words are slippery things, but when Russia arms men fighting in the name of theocracy under the state, that is credible.
The Russian government says one thing, and it says a different thing, but what it is actually doing (arming people who fight in the name of Russian Orthodoxy) makes sense if we suppose that when Putin says “spiritual security” he means something not very different from what I mean when I say a state needs an official religion that is not controlled by a different and hostile state.
I am not very intimidated by a Peace Spring. State has been trying since 1948
Jews have not yet experienced the full weight of State Department soft power, hence the entirely correct Nazi complaint that Jews get away with stuff other whites do not. When Jews are the object of the sort of attention received by the Catholic church, Rhodesia, the Mormons, and South Africa, then let me know whether you are intimidated.
The Russians also have Muslim volunteer battalions fighting in the Ukraine. Most of their forces lack any real religious affiliation. I have sat, while in the American military, through a few chaplain speeches heavily informed by low church Protestantism, which failed to impress upon me that I was serving a country whose official religion was Protestantism.
I will be sure to let you know when we are intimidated. Did I mention that BDS efforts to date have failed miserably? That we have rapidly expanding trade partnerships with China and India, decent relations with Russia, a significant portion of the world’s high tech, and oil? If Loy Henderson and co could not do anything major to hungry, poor, socialist, 1950s Israel, I really can’t muster a lot of fear of his modern heirs. Sorry.
The Russians also have Muslim volunteer battalions fighting in the Ukraine
The Dudayev battalion are Soros sponsored Jihadists, accused by the Russians of ISIS affiliation, believed by the Cathedral to be “moderates” like they thought Arab Spring were moderates, fighting against Russian sponsored separatists in the Ukraine. To the extent that the Ukraine is turning into a holy war, the Russians are sponsoring whom you would expect, and the Cathedral are sponsoring whom you would expect. Chechen’s on the Russian side were on the Russian side in chechnya, pretty much anti religious. Chechens on the Cathedral side are holy warriors for Islam.
And the only holy warriors for Christianity that you will find anywhere in the world are fighting on the Russian side.
>Chechen’s on the Russian side were on the Russian side in chechnya, pretty much anti religious. Chechens on the Cathedral side are holy warriors for Islam.
You have no clue.
I don’t understand why you deny the glaringly obvious. There are Christian holy warriors who identify as Christian holy warriors on the Russian side. There are Islamic Jihadis, holy warriors, who identify as holy warriors on the Soros side. No one identifies as a Muslim holy warrior on the Russian side, and still less does anyone anywhere in the world identify as a Christian holy warrior except on the Russian side. It is the first sighting of Christian Holy Warriors since the Napoleonic wars.
You’re hallucinating. You don’t have your facts straight, or any primary sources.
Few modern countries have a precisely-defined official religion. Before, countries were Lutheran/Catholic/whatever. Today, it’s more complex.
For example, Israel’s official religion is a mixture of the American religion and Orthodox Judaism. It does not look like an Orthodox Jewish theocracy, or an American-Progressive state. It’s a mixture of the two.
The Russian official religion is a mixture of an American-Progressive state, Orthodox Christianity, with a lot of leftovers from Communism. It looks like a mixture of those three. The Communism elements are fading, and the Orthodox Christian elements are rising.
Moscow definitely favors Orthodox Christianity over other branches of Christianity. For example, their military chaplains are (almost) only Orthodox Christians. Also, each student has to take a class educating them on religion. The parents of the child can choose between three religions – Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Baptist parents are out of luck.
I don’t think so. Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel is subordinate to progressivism, much as Christianity and Judaism was subordinate to Islam in the Ottoman empire.
A state always has only one state religion. When it has two, civil war soon ensues.
The Russian official religion is a mixture of an American-Progressive state, Orthodox Christianity, with a lot of leftovers from Communism.
That is true, but it is a transition condition. Either there will be a Russian spring, and progressivism suppresses Russian Orthodoxy the way it suppresses Christianity in the US, or there will be a Russian Orthodox crackdown, and Russian Orthodoxy suppresses progressivism.
In the Crimea, we are unambiguously seeing the Russian Orthodox crackdown.
Russian Orthodox rather like communism – not communism the economic system which they fully agree was disaster that ruined the Russian empire, but communism in that everyone believed in communism. Since today only idiots, such as Obama, believe in communism, they decided to switch to God.
“Recusancy”
If, by “Orthodox Christianity” you mean the Russian-Eastern variety, you should say so.
Russia’s official religion is the worship of Russia. Orthodoxy is on the rise, but I get the feeling that nobody in any serious position of power takes it very seriously. From reading the writings of Chechens fighting in the Ukraine for the separatists, I got the impression that they were more nationalist than Islamist in their motivations. Meaning that they would prefer to see Russia lose as a step towards an independent Chechnya, not towards a global Califate. From reading people’s impressions of the Chechens fighting for the Russians, I got the impression that their motivations were similar to that of Caucasian mountaineers in Russian service before the revolution, namely, the opportunity for honor and plunder. I do know that Orthodox Russian nationalist Putin has presided over the development of a massive Chechen/Dagestani/other Muslim mafia in Russia, which acts very similarly to the Mexican mafia in the US.
Students have to take a class to fulfill the religious studies requirement, but they are free to choose between Orthodox, Muslim, Judaic, Buddhist, Secular Ethical and World Religious electives.
You are in denial and delusion to the point of madness. I gave a pile of links to primary sources interviewing holy warriors for Russian Orthodoxy, fighting for russian separatism, and a link to a holy warrior for Islamic Jihad, fighting for George Soros.
I also gave a pile of links to primary sources reporting religious persecution of non Russian Orthodox religions in the Crimea, including
http://www.atocrimea.org/en/publication/orthodox-extremism-russias-religious-wars-in-ukraine which gives a shitload of primary sources that all other religions in the Crimea are beinq squelched, including a video of a troublesome religious leader being arrested.
And, of course, the link to Putin’s famous 2000 speech, where he introduced the concept of spiritual security – that alien foreign controlled belief systems pose a threat to the security of the Russian state, as, of course, they obviously do.
> Russia’s official religion is the worship of Russia. Orthodoxy is on the rise, but I get the feeling that nobody in any serious position of power takes it very seriously.
I provide links and videos, you provide feelings.
They take official religion at least as seriously as I do, and in Putin’s famous speech gave similar reasons, and are apt to punish those who challenge it, and confiscate the assets of competing claimants to orthodoxy. Jewish and Muslim religious leaders, especially in the Crimea, have to accept the privileged position of the official religion and the subordinate position of other religions, or suffer dire consequences, which consequences in the Crimea include beatings. Alternative claimants to orthodoxy, alternative claimants to official belief, get their property and churches confiscated to be used by the official Russian Orthodox, their leaders arrested never to be seen again.
Religion is a branch of Chimpanzee politics. (Recall my post on Leprechauns). You are playing it for shits and giggles. Putin, Boko Haram, Islamic State, and Harvard, are playing for keepsies.
When the man who plays for shits and giggles goes up against the man who plays for keepsies, the man who plays for shits and giggles is going to lose.
Your idea of taking religions seriously consists of sitting around being holier than thou while waiting for God to do the heavy lifting. By that standard they are not taking religion seriously, because they are not making broad their phylacteries, enlarging the borders of their garments, and installing double dishwashers.
You provide links to Cathedral sources, which don’t seem to really have much in terms of holy war. Lots of Cathedral wailing about Russian religiousity, but not too much of primary sources going “we’re doing this for the One True Faith, Russian Orthodoxy.” Compare with, say, ISIS’ social media presence. And I’m telling you this as a guy who, unlike yourself, can read those primary sources in Russian and Ukrainian.
The fact that the Russians take religion about as seriously as you do is exactly what I’m saying. They don’t take it seriously.
Being a Crimean Tatar leader leads to beatings, not because Crimean Tatars are Muslim (they are no more or less Muslim than Russia’s Chechen thugs,) but because they are nationalist. As for the rest of it, the Eastern Ukraine is in a state of chaos. People get attacked, robbed, etc.
>Your idea of taking religions seriously consists of sitting around being holier than thou while waiting for God to do the heavy lifting.
I live on a hilltop in Samaria and travel around the settlements daily, as do all my neighbors and most of my friends. We risk our lives on a regular basis for what we believe in. Who the fuck are you to tell me I don’t take my religion seriously? What have you put up behind your convictions, assuming you have any? Feel free to giggle about double dishwashers all you like, but first tell me what you’ve personally ante’d up.
The Russian Orthodox Army marches into battle singing battle hymns. On the whole, a lot more convincing as a demonstration of support for the one true faith than you driving around Samaria while in possession of two dishwashers.
No one believes in heaven the way they believe in Australia.
I take religion very seriously. I just don’t believe it. But if authority required me to believe in Leprechauns, and to get along with people that it was important to get along with required me to believe in Leprechauns, I would probably believe in leprechauns, though not in the way that I believe in rabbits, but I can see people not being equal, whereas I cannot see leprechauns not existing. Hence, easier to accept an official belief in Leprechauns, than an official belief in equality. If we had a religion that was actually useful, and not apt to stab the husband in the back, I would believe in it every bit as seriously as you believe in Jewish Orthodoxy. Perhaps more seriously, for I am unimpressed by your cheerful willingness to torture the texts of your faith. I don’t think a Jew who really took his religion seriously would have double dishwashers, nor clever rationalizations for women’s rights.
I think most of the people in Russian Orthodox army would be just as happy marching for Marxism as for God, except that Communist Economics can, inconveniently, be seen to be false, while God, like Leprechauns, is harder to disprove.
If you believe in souls, at best, you take the best men in Western Europe and make them babysit red indian savages.
You also see a completely false distinction between humans : niggers :: niggers : salamanders. In reality, a nigger is less civilized than a badger or a beaver. But if there are immortal souls only in the hominid clades, then niggers have souls.
Furthermore, you take your smartest men, and make them calculate how long it’s been since the moment of creation based on the Bible or how if God exists why do bad things happen, or, you know, write and read the Summa Theologica, where they learn about, you know, things and other things.
Sure, belief in racial equality is worse than belief in a watchmaker God who rewards you in the hereafter proportionally to your success in life. But any imposture that makes young White men and women believe that they should be doing anything other than supporting their family and race is more than cruel, it’s going to destroy us.
>The Russian Orthodox Army marches into battle singing battle hymns.
Doubtful. Life is not the movies.
>On the whole, a lot more convincing as a demonstration of support for the one true faith than you driving around Samaria while in possession of two dishwashers.
I don’t have even one dishwasher.
My neighbors and I live in a place with no fence and 14 families, and the underlying reason is that we believe the place is ours because G-d gave it to us. Going to war is fun and natural for many men. Living in a place like this takes serious faith. Especially when you see your neighbors die or get injured for it.
I should probably also mention that all these people served in the military, most during war, and are still in the reserves, and that their children will also serve, and also probably during war. And that they could all go live somewhere else, for instance, in the US or Canada, and avoid this. Yet they choose not to.
We are neither upright pigs nor talking chimps. We are not ISIS. We do what we do because of faith, not because we want the chimp rush of pillaging, raping and killing. In your model of human existence, which is materialist and postmodernist, this doesn’t compute, any more than a third dimension would compute in a two-dimensional world.
>No one believes in heaven the way they believe in Australia.
The people I live with believe in G-d in the exact same way they believe in Australia, and in a deeper way than, say, you believe in evolution.
> But if authority required me to believe in Leprechauns, and to get along with people that it was important to get along with required me to believe in Leprechauns, I would probably believe in leprechauns, though not in the way that I believe in rabbits
I have no doubt that if necessary you would believe whatever you were supposed to believe in. On this blog, you’ve shown an impressive ability to decide what is convenient for you to believe in, discard any evidence to the contrary and twist words until they meant what you wanted, in a very postmodernist fashion. The people I choose to associate with are a bit different. I suspect that if authority required them to believe in Leprechauns, they would leave, go underground, or whatever it took. Our history supports this.
>Perhaps more seriously, for I am unimpressed by your cheerful willingness to torture the texts of your faith. I don’t think a Jew who really took his religion seriously would have double dishwashers, nor clever rationalizations for women’s rights.
I, on the other hand, am quite impressed with how impressed you are with your own intellect: a cursory reading of a translation of one part of our religion makes you confident that you know exactly what it means and that we all have it wrong.
Due to the unusual path my life has taken, I’ve developed a pretty good ability to judge people’s sanity, intellectual capacity and integrity. It’s not 100%, but pretty good. My assessment is that you are a postmodernist, happily willing to twist the truth to fit an agenda, first of all to yourself. Words mean whatever you want them to mean. I can also see than many, many of the Torah Jews I know are intelligent, open-minded and intellectually honest.
>I think most of the people in Russian Orthodox army would be just as happy marching for Marxism as for God, except that Communist Economics can, inconveniently, be seen to be false, while God, like Leprechauns, is harder to disprove.
Neither is provable or falsifiable. The people in the Russian military and paramilitary units fight for neither. They fight because it’s cool and fun and profitable and more interesting than being plumbers in Norilsk. That’s the professionals. The airborne conscripts fight because the military justice system is not fun.
>If you believe in souls, at best, you take the best men in Western Europe and make them babysit red indian savages.
If you are a materialist, the concept of “best men” is self-contradictory. Best by what standard? Why that standard and not another?
>You also see a completely false distinction between humans : niggers :: niggers : salamanders. In reality, a nigger is less civilized than a badger or a beaver. But if there are immortal souls only in the hominid clades, then niggers have souls.
I’ve served with black men who had intelligence, courage and integrity. I am not sure what claim you have to any of these.
>Furthermore, you take your smartest men, and make them calculate how long it’s been since the moment of creation based on the Bible or how if God exists why do bad things happen, or, you know, write and read the Summa Theologica, where they learn about, you know, things and other things.
Of course. Smart people should spend their time maximizing porn sites’ download speeds and optimizing sausage factory production. Not wasting their time on metaphysics like, you know, Newton and Aristotle.
>But any imposture that makes young White men and women believe that they should be doing anything other than supporting their family and race is more than cruel, it’s going to destroy us.
In a materialistic world, what profit is there in supporting a family or a race? What good does it do you to know that people sharing more genes with you are going to be better off when you’re dead? Greg Cochran recently asked why we don’t see porcupines defending rabbits against hawks-they are close relatives, no?
I’ve developed a pretty good ability to judge people’s sanity, intellectual capacity and integrity. It’s not 100%, but pretty good. My assessment is that you are a postmodernist, happily willing to twist the truth to fit an agenda, first of all to yourself. Words mean whatever you want them to mean. I can also see than many, many of the Torah Jews I know are intelligent, open-minded and intellectually honest.
Yet “Talmudic”, and “Talmudism”, when used pejoratively, refer to the propensity to twist words and meanings to fit an agenda, to read black as meaning white and white as meaning black, just as “pharisaic”, used pejoratively, refers to holier than thou competition. So, my perception of your readings of your sacred texts is not idiosyncratic.
We have had a bunch of arguments over what various sacred texts mean, with you finding female emancipation in the old testament and double dishwashers in the Talmud. Sometimes you had some sort of half plausible case. Most of the time you were just in obstinate denial against the plain meanings of plain words, you were being talmudic in the pejorative sense. Your ever changing Orthodoxy has reconciled itself to ever changing modernity, lagging fifty years or so, which is a bigger lag than any Christian sect gets away with, but still a pretty small lag, a lag nowhere near big enough to allow compatibility with your sacred texts.
Islamic State refer to people who practice religion in this fashion, the Islamic equivalent of Talmudists, as “Professors of Menstruation”, implying that those who torture their holy texts to obtain a predetermined result, do not really take their religion very seriously. I rather think they are correct.
Of course, the Islamic State approach, when applied to the Koran and the Hadith, leads to the entirely unsurprising conclusion that the Koran commands its followers to murder and enslave, because that is, in fact, what is in the Koran and the Hadiths.
The word “Jew” itself has a pejorative connotation in many languages (much like the word “Yankee” in the South.) So what? Why should what the goyim think bother us anymore than it bothers an American that when Mexicans say “gringo”, it is with a tinge of contempt and disdain? The people I am thinking of are true scholars, capable of considering an issue in depth, from many angles at once, bringing in history, biology, linguistics, etc. and intellectually honest. When I follow a discussion in the Talmud, I see the same thing (given that the secular sciences of their time were not on today’s level). So what do I care whether idiots point and giggle?
Naturally, ISIS considers chimping out and cutting off heads much more important than following the letter of the law (which in their case is a muddled and inconsistent copy of our law). Why should we care? We have, after thousands of years of learning our laws and living our lives in our ways, produced a nation which can stand against all the Muslims, who decide which of G-d’s commandments are important and which aren’t in much the same way that you do, based on their own convenience, despite being vastly outnumbered, and outcompete them economically, militarily, socially, etc. Why would we possibly give a shit whether they think the Muslim laws of family purity are more or less important than their laws of conquest?
Naturally, ISIS considers chimping out and cutting off heads much more important than following the letter of the law
Islamic State and Boko Haram are correctly following the letter and spirit of Islamic Law.
Islamic State has a huge team of legal scholars analyzing and applying the Koran and the Haddith to the questions encountered by Islamic State. They don’t despise scholarship. They despise scholarship that tortures the text to get politically acceptable conclusions.
By the way, the classic text, the Kuzari, which is a sort of Socratic dialogue, shows us that your objections are not new. I recommend the third chapter.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kitab_al_Khazari/Part_Three
67. The Rabbi: …The Mishnāh was compiled in the year 530, according the era of the ‘Documents,’ which corresponds to the year 150 after the destruction of the Temple, and 530 years after the termination of prophecy. In the Mishnāh were reproduced those sayings and doings which–few out of many–we have quoted. They treated the Mishnāh with the same care as the Tōrāh, arranging it in sections, chapters and paragraphs. Its traditions are so reliable that no suspicion of invention could be upheld. Besides this the Mishnāh contains a large amount of pure Hebrew which is not borrowed from the Bible. It is greatly distinguished by terseness of language, beauty of style, excellence of composition, and the comprehensive employment of homonyms, applied in a lucid way, leaving neither doubt nor obscurity. This is so striking that every one who looks at it with genuine scrutiny must be aware that mortal man is incapable of composing such a work without divine assistance. Only he who is hostile to it, who does not know it, and never endeavoured to read and study it, hearing some general and allegorical utterances of the Sages deems them senseless and defective, just as one who judges a person after meeting him, without having conversed with him for any length of time. The following saying of R. Nahum the Scribe will show how the Sages based their learning on that of the prophets: ‘I have heard from R. Mayyāshā, who learnt from the “pairs,” who had it from the prophets as an ordination given to Moses from Sinai.’ They were careful not to hand down the teachings of single individuals, as is shown by the following saying uttered on the deathbed of one of them, to his son: ‘My son, retract thy opinion on four subjects which I have taught thee.’ ‘Wherefore,’ asked the son, ‘didst thou not retract thine?’ ‘I learnt,’ answered the father, ‘from many who, in their turn, had learnt from many. I kept to my tradition, and they to theirs. Thou, however, didst learn only from one person. It is better to neglect the teachings of a single individual, and to accept that of the majority.’ These are a few sayings, like a drop from the sea, showing the excellence of the traditions of the Mishnāh. To give thee a sketch of the traditions and traditionists of the Talmud, and its methods, sentences and aphorisms, would lead us too far. And if there is in it many a thing which is considered less attractive to-day, it was yet held proper in those days.
68. Al Khazari: Indeed, several details in their sayings appear to me inferior to their general principles. They employ verses of the Tōrāh in a manner without regard to common sense. One can only say that the application of such verses once for legal deductions, another time for homiletic purposes, does not tally with their real meaning. Their Agadās and tales are often against reason.
69. The Rabbi: Didst thou notice how strictly and minutely the comments on the Mishnāh and Boraithā are given? They speak with a thoroughness and lucidity which do equal justice both to the words and meaning of them.
70. Al Khazari: I am well aware to what perfection they brought the art of dialectics, but this is an argument which cannot be refuted.
71. The Rabbi: May we assume that he who proceeds with so much thoroughness should not know as much of the contents of a verse as we know?
72. Al Khazari: This is most unlikely. Two cases are possible. Either we are ignorant of their method of interpreting the Tōrāh, or the interpreters of the Rabbinic law are not identical with those of the Holy Writ. The latter point of view is absurd. It is seldom that we see them give a verse a rational and literal rendition, but, on the other hand, we never find them interpret a halākhā except on the lines of strict logic.
73. The Rabbi: Let us rather assume two other possibilities. Either they employ secret methods of interpretation which we are unable to discern, and which were handed down to them, together with the method of the ‘Thirteen Rules of Interpretation,’ or they use Biblical verses as a kind of fulcrum of interpretation in a method called Asmakhtā, and make them a sort of hall mark of tradition. An instance is given in the following verse: ‘And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat’ (Gen. ii. 16 sq.). It forms the basis of the ‘seven Noahide laws’ in the following manner:
[‘He] commanded’ refers to jurisdiction.
‘The Lord’ refers to prohibition of blasphemy.
‘God’ refers to prohibition of idolatry.
‘The man’ refers to prohibition of murder.
‘Saying’ refers to prohibition of incest.
‘Of every tree of the garden,’ prohibition of rape.
‘Thou mayest surely eat,’ a prohibition of flesh from the living animal.
There is a wide difference between these injunctions and the verse. The people, however, accepted these seven laws as tradition, connecting them with the verse as aid to memory. It is also possible that they applied both methods of interpreting verses, or others which are now lost to us
Obvious truths are seldom new. Al Khazari is quite obviously correct, and as more time passes, resulting in more adjustments of Jewish practice, becomes more obviously correct, double dishwashers being the most recent demonstration.
Spend 3000 years jewing everyone, don’t act so surprised when people start to simply call you Jews.
Newton wanted to know how long the world had existed. A reasonable question. He was stuck with a singularly garbage metaphysics because one favorite thing for snowniggers to do is sabotage each other and themselves over various millennial cults promising personal immortality. To their credit, the first cult that really started to induce treason among Jews is progressivism, which only promises personal immortality through Obamacare and the singularity.
Well, it would take until Lemaitre and Hubble to get some good calculations on how long the universe has existed. Whether it could have happened sooner is the question of how necessary the Christian dark ages were.
Of course. They are such great scholars that they know that tombs are haram. As are ancient cities and sculptures. They are so learned and principled that they are holier than all the Muslims who preceded them.
Except when it comes to a tomb owned by the Turks, their patrons. All of a sudden, there is an exception. Oops.
Like I said, buttfucking chimps.
It is clearly correct to interpret Islam as calling for the destruction of images of Gods, supernatural beings, deified rulers, and rulers who have been the subject of personality cults – which tend to be most of the contents of most museums of ancient art.
Since Mohammed is supposedly the final prophet, it is reasonable for Muslims to destroy the tombs of saints who show suspicious signs of deification.
The destruction of all images indiscriminately is extreme, but not a wholly indefensible interpretation of Islam.
yes, it is different to argue with a column of Turkish tanks over the destruction of a monument. ISIS did a great job of capturing left behind American tanks driven by Iraqi conscripts. They were going to take Baghdad and redraw the map of Iraq until they decided to fight the Kurds for no reason. They never stood a chance against a real army and they know it.
Now, in order to stay relevant, they need to pull these cartoon villain capers.
ISIS studiously avoids antagonizing Israel, but they were perfectly willing to antagonize Turkey.
I totally support Muslims killing Muslims.
And, on the whole, genuinely Islamic Muslims seem less of a threat than Cathedral aligned Muslims.
Kuzari/Al-Khazari’s argument is that the Sages say stuff means it doesn’t plainly mean. The Rabbi replies that we can see in other places the Sages use logic very rigorously, and that they are experts in the Hebrew language and its various nuances, so obviously they are trustworthy-they either have a trustworthy tradition telling them how to interpret the plain text, or are using the plain text as a hook upon which to hang the law which they know by tradition. Kuzari accepts this answer.
As for ISIS-when it suits them, they are irreconcilable purists, with a burning faith in G-d and Mohammed, especially those of their teachings which involve an excuse to kill, rape, enslave and destroy. When it suits them, they make compromises. You know, tombs are haram and must be destroyed…except those tombs which you can get your ass kicked for destroying. Chimps, like I said, and they will collapse if they can’t expand. And they can’t expand except to Jordan or Saudi, both of which are doubtful. This isn’t really what I consider a religion which stands on its own two, but more of a viral outbreak.
The trouble is that not all the ancient traditions hanging on those hooks look all that ancient. And as time goes by, you are getting more ancient traditions that do not look very ancient.
Islamic State does not say that all tombs are haram and must be destroyed. Some must be respected. Depends on the deification of the occupant. So saints’ tombs get destroyed, tombs of military heroes should be OK, even if they fought on what Islamic State says is the wrong side.
haha, using the words ‘logic’ and ‘rigor’ to refer to developing religious practice
I know, I know, in school the nice ladies taught us that religion is illogical gibberish and superstition for stupid uncool losers. I mean, if you choose to believe this gibberish, that’s totally your choice, you know?
Of course, we were also taught all kinds of other stuff which then turned out to be total bullshit, believing which would wreck your life in all kinds of ways.
Yes, the Mishna is notably deficient in dishwasher recommendations, and doesn’t say much about vacuum cleaners either.
ISIS belong to a branch of Islam which doesn’t even consider carved gravestones acceptable, and marks graves with just a rock:
http://www.shaheedfoundation.org/Articles.asp?Id=91
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/01/23/uk-saudi-burial-idUKKBN0KW1JX20150123
http://jannatul-baqi.blogspot.co.il/2013/07/how-wahabis-destroyed-graveyard-of.html
From your links: “Some Wahhabi followers have interpreted the tenet as requiring the destruction of shrines to Sufi saints and Shi’ite imams across the Middle East.”
Those complaining about this program say: “demand the rebuilding the grave of these divine personalities, giving them an everlasting home that is worthy of their name.”
It is a reasonable reading of the Koran that an “everlasting home” for “divine personalities” needs to be smashed.
From this I conclude that the Koran sucks, and do not conclude that those who read it are reading it incorrectly.
>So saints’ tombs get destroyed, tombs of military heroes should be OK, even if they fought on what Islamic State says is the wrong side.
I really like how not only does ISIS know better than the vast majority of Muslims throughout history what is and isn’t unislamic, but you know better than ISIS what they should and shouldn’t decide.
Very modest.
Islamic State interprets the Koran and the Hadith to mean what they say and say what they mean, and I interpret the Koran and the Hadith as meaning what they say and saying what they mean.
Further, the major problem with Islam is that from time to time some random Muslim interprets the Koran and the Hadith as meaning what they say and saying what they mean, and consequently suddenly go off and kills some people.
If you think that Islam can really be the religion of peace, you are agreeing with the progressives, that any religion can be anything, which rapidly leads to the conclusion that all religions, rightly understood, are progressivism..
There are reasonable developments in religious laws that extend old laws to new situations, like how you’re not allowed to light fires on saturday, which means you can’t type with a mechanical keyboard, but you can poke at an on-screen keyboard. Then, there are rules that are obviously the result of holiness competition, like installing two dishwashers so that Satan won’t manifest himself inside your dishwasher and taste a forbidden flavor on your soap. And then there’s extending the rule about not humiliating people for no reason to letting openly gay people act like G-d never said anything against faggotry.
But if you have to believe in G-d, then you have to believe that all of this is reasonable and really the same thing. And while G-d can’t tell cannons to accept bigger loads without exploding, G-d can tell the Holy League to put aside their differences and defeat a materially superior Turkish fleet, so, you should at least try to act like you believe in G-d.
>Islamic State interprets the Koran and the Hadith to mean what they say and say what they mean, and I interpret the Koran and the Hadith as meaning what they say and saying what they mean.
As I’ve said, you are now also an Islamic scholar. When ISIS has a different interpretation from you, I am surprised they don’t dial you up for a clarification.
The reality is that the Koran is very difficult to understand. It uses obscure language, contradicts itself and speaks in strange parables. The impossibility of using its plain text as a guide to daily operations is the reason the Hadiths were written down, with the idea that Muslims could understand what Muhammad meant by what he did. Even this was difficult to use as an SOP, so Islamic jurisprudence, fiqh, developed, with its major schools. ISIS does not, to my knowledge, have a problem with this framework (which was copied from us more or less wholesale.) It is a Salafi movement, meaning, a progressive one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_movement#Tenets) but it has not gone so far as to say that any asshole can pull out a copy of Bukhari and determine what the Sharia is for a particular situation. They apparently use Bin Baz, from the Hanbali fiqh, as a religious authority.
>Further, the major problem with Islam is that from time to time some random Muslim interprets the Koran and the Hadith as meaning what they say and saying what they mean, and consequently suddenly go off and kills some people.
The main problem with Islam is that it’s untrue, based on a madman’s hallucinations, and built to appeal to the worst instincts in man. They do have the advantage of being monotheists, which gives them a certain strength and cohesion, which frequently makes the results of their actions worse.
>If you think that Islam can really be the religion of peace, you are agreeing with the progressives, that any religion can be anything, which rapidly leads to the conclusion that all religions, rightly understood, are progressivism..
This is a strawman. When did I say Islam can be a religion of peace?
I actually think the idea of a “religion of peace” is phenomenally stupid. Any religion worthy of the name has to deal with all aspects of the human condition, including war and peace. Otherwise, it’s not a religion but a bumper sticker. Attempts to build an actual religion of peace resulted in the Shakers.
>There are reasonable developments in religious laws that extend old laws to new situations, like how you’re not allowed to light fires on saturday, which means you can’t type with a mechanical keyboard, but you can poke at an on-screen keyboard.
Rabbi, is this your ruling? It’s very novel.
>Then, there are rules that are obviously the result of holiness competition, like installing two dishwashers so that Satan won’t manifest himself inside your dishwasher and taste a forbidden flavor on your soap. And then there’s extending the rule about not humiliating people for no reason to letting openly gay people act like G-d never said anything against faggotry.
I am not sure in which religion you see these things. We don’t particularly believe in Satan as an independent entity. We do believe that we have a What G-d said about homosexuality was what he said about dishonest business dealings, yet we don’t publically humiliate those whom we privately suspect of having rigged scales, and we don’t humiliate their children.
I don’t understand this strange obsession with dishwashers you two have. Two of the major halakhic authorities of the 20th century, Rav Moshe Feinstein (Ashkenazi) and Rav Ovadia Yosef (Sepharadi) ruled that it is permissible to use one dishwasher if it is difficult to have two. Others say that it is preferable to have two. Nobody says, for instance, that a dairy dish washed in a dishwasher which is also used for meat dishes is not kosher. It’s a matter of preference, stringency vs. leniency, and is presented as such. What do you care how we wash our dishes?
>And while G-d can’t tell cannons to accept bigger loads without exploding, G-d can tell the Holy League to put aside their differences and defeat a materially superior Turkish fleet, so, you should at least try to act like you believe in G-d.
As I’ve said, you are now also an Islamic scholar. When ISIS has a different interpretation from you, I am surprised they don’t dial you up for a clarificatio
Whenever Islamic State makes the news, they seem to be interpreting the Koran exactly as I do. Funny thing that.
Could it be that the Koran and the Hadith is not hard to interpret at all?
That what is hard is to torture the text to get the desired predetermined conclusions.
In the old testament you have an accretion of inconsistent laws and precedents, as one King or High Priest made one decision under one set of circumstances, and a different King or High Priest made a different and inconsistent decision under different circumstances, but the Koran was written by a single mind and single hand, and when he changed his mind, he announced he was changing his mind and the old precedent or the old law no longer applied.
The Hadiths threatened to become an ever growing pile of ever increasing inconsistencies in the same way that the Talmud grew cancerously, but they shut the Hadith down before it could grow so large as to get entirely out of hand the way the Talmud has.
Resulting in a quite straightforward religion. Straightforwardly bloodthirsty.
I don’t understand this strange obsession with dishwashers you two have.
Because it is silly, recent, and holier than thou in the same way that enlarging your phylacteries was silly, ancient, and holier than thou.
>Could it be that the Koran and the Hadith is not hard to interpret at all?
Then why do they quote Bin Baz, an Islamic scholar from an established school of fiqh, for their rulings? I mean, if it were so self-evident…
>In the old testament you have an accretion of inconsistent laws and precedents, as one King or High Priest made one decision under one set of circumstances, and a different King or High Priest made a different and inconsistent decision under different circumstances
As usual, you are making things up and hoping nobody will call you on it.
Please bring some examples. Which King or High Priest established new laws? In fact, where does it even say that a King or High Priest has this power?
>but the Koran was written by a single mind and single hand, and when he changed his mind, he announced he was changing his mind and the old precedent or the old law no longer applied.
I recommend you find some Islamic practice which is commonly accepted and then trace its derivation from the Koran. Let’s start with women covering their hair. What does it say in the Koran which is so straightforward? They shall beat their khumurs against their bags?
>The Hadiths threatened to become an ever growing pile of ever increasing inconsistencies in the same way that the Talmud grew cancerously, but they shut the Hadith down before it could grow so large as to get entirely out of hand the way the Talmud has.
As usual, you have no grasp of the basic concepts. The Hadiths are not analogous to the Talmud. The Hadiths are analogous to Midrashim (somewhat.) Fiqh is analogous to the Talmud, meaning, a body of jurisprudence. And fiqh continues to this day, with no interruption, multiple schools which recognize each others’ legitimacy, etc.
>Because it is silly, recent, and holier than thou in the same way that enlarging your phylacteries was silly, ancient, and holier than thou.
Dishwashers are recent themselves. What do you want, the Talmud to include a manual for your Prius as well? People follow different rulings. In any case, there is no attempt, contrary to your assertions, to claim that the most stringent opinion is the only one out there, or that this is the way it’s always been. Both sides are familiar with the other’s sources and reasoning, and make a good-faith effort to figure out what the law should be. Neither is claiming, for instance, that those who follow the other’s opinion are heretics:
http://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/5221
http://www.torahmusings.com/2014/01/dishwashers-and-kashrut/
Where you insist on seeing people attempting to be holier-than, I see people using a straightforward and honest methodology, quoting a series of sources accurately, looking at an issue from different aspects, and treating the other side respectfully to figure out what the right thing to do is. If you see the prohibition on cooking meat and milk together as Bronze Age superstition, that’s your problem, but where do you get off mocking people who take their foundational documents seriously making a good-faith effort to understand how to apply them to today’s reality?
They call the people who point out the obvious “scholars”, in order to refute those who call those who deny the obvious “scholars” – which latter scholars Islamic State calls “Professors of Menstruation” to ridicule their purported learning and authority.
Jews are always making up new laws, which is why Jesus ridiculed phylacteries and I ridicule double dishwashers, and everyone ridicules the latest line that you have to be nice to openly gay couples.
We have already discussed this extensively. For example Moses forbids work on the sabbath. Then, much later, a high priest sets a guard on the city gates to catch people transporting wagon loads of fish into Jerusalem on the Sabbath – thereby quite inadvertently making a distinction between work that crosses a domain boundary, and work that does not, though probably his only consideration was that the gate was a good place to catch obvious violations, and a wagon at the city gates probably has a simpler story, is more straightforwardly and uncomplicatedly illegal, than a wagon somewhere inside the city.
Then in the Talmud this business of domain boundaries gets elaborated and elaborated and elaborated, a gigantic mountain of brand new laws with only the faintest basis in the Old Testament, a mere shadow of a hook to hang them on, until, in due course, twentieth century rabbis forbid women to carry their babies through the door because a high priest arrested people transporting wagonloads of fish millenia ago.
The high priest, by arresting people at the city gates and not everywhere and anywhere, was inadvertently and unintentionally making a law that boundaries mattered in the definition of work on the sabbath, he was making new law, for precedent is new law. Which entirely inadvertent new law proceeded to grow like cancer as rabbis competed each to be holier than the other.
I recommend you find some Islamic practice which is commonly accepted and then trace its derivation from the Koran. Let’s start with women covering their hair. What does it say in the Koran which is so straightforward?
Muhammed encountered Zaynab, a married women, unveiled. Hits on her. She urges her husband to divorce her so she can marry Mohammed. Husband does so. Mohamed marries her, then immediately issues a law against unveiled women.
Veiling necessary, since divorce so easy. His law requiring veils Surah 24:31, says that the head covering should go all the way down to the boobs, from which we may conclude he got to partially see Zaynab’s boobs.
I see several different translations of Surah 24:31, all of which say exactly the same thing.
And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands’ fathers, or their sons or their husbands’ sons, or their brothers or their brothers’ sons or sisters’ sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack vigour, or children who know naught of women’s nakedness. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment.
Which I read as the standard Islamic bag over the head, plus a ban on making boobs jiggle. (Implying that Zaynab jiggled her partially covered boobs at Mohammed)
Now some people interpret this as allowing the face, and there are two contradictory hadiths, one of which says cover the face, and the other says that a woman can show her face. But since a veil is a head cover, and the head cover has to go all the way down, pretty big stretch to allow face.
>Jews are always making up new laws, which is why Jesus ridiculed phylacteries and I ridicule double dishwashers,
You ridicule double dishwashers because you are ignorant (and seem to have the idea that phylacteries are something that was invented in Jesus’ time.)
>and everyone ridicules the latest line that you have to be nice to openly gay couples.
I don’t know who this “everyone” is.
>For example Moses forbids work on the sabbath. Then, much later, a high priest sets a guard on the city gates to catch people transporting wagon loads of fish into Jerusalem on the Sabbath – thereby quite inadvertently making a distinction between work that crosses a domain boundary, and work that does not, though probably his only consideration was that the gate was a good place to catch obvious violations, and a wagon at the city gates probably has a simpler story, is more straightforwardly and uncomplicatedly illegal, than a wagon somewhere inside the city.
This is pure and unadulterated gibberish. Right away you betray basic ignorance of the subject matter.
>Muhammed encountered Zaynab, a married women, unveiled. Hits on her. She urges her husband to divorce her so she can marry Mohammed. Husband does so. Mohamed marries her, then immediately issues a law against unveiled women.
This is not in the Koran. It’s in a hadith. And how this hadith applies to daily behavior, who must be veiled how, is the subject of jurisprudence.
>I see several different translations of Surah 24:31, all of which say exactly the same thing.
All of which are not interpreting the plain meaning of the sura, which is gibberish, but are interpreting it purely in light of tradition.
I notice you are dancing hard around the question of why ISIS feels compelled to base their edicts on the writings of Bin Baz, a 20th century Hanbali mufti, rather than just saying “this is plainly obvious from the Koran” as you would prefer they do. The answer, of course, is that very few practical things are plainly obvious from the Koran, which is written in a language that is unintelligible except in the light of tradition, exegesis and jurisprudence.
Phylacteries were growing larger in the time of Jesus, and their current size and shape is still ridiculous, even if they have been stable at their current ridiculous size and shape for a long time.
As for double dishwashers, the meaning of the Talmud is plain enough – those who wrote the Talmud were not using double kitchen sinks, nor were quite recent Jewish scholars.
Speak ancient arabic do you? Various people, some of them not at all sympathetic to Islam, translate Surah 24:31 in almost exactly the same way – as plain and straightforward words with plain and straightforward meaning. Further, people who believe the veil should cover the face translate it the same way as people who rationalize that the veil need not cover the face, so they are not paraphrasing in accord with their tradition, they are translating what they read in front of them, for their translation casts doubt on their tradition.
I notice you are dancing hard around the question of why ISIS feels compelled to base their edicts on the writings of Bin Baz, a 20th century Hanbali mufti,
I am not dancing around it I gave you a straight answer the first time, and I give you a the same straight answer the second time.
They use Bin Baz to appease people like yourself who claim that any religion can be given any meaning. Kind of like Wikipedia edit wars. Someone ignores primary sources and insists on secondary sources, so, to appease them, you find some obscure secondary source that speaks plainly about the primary source.
>Phylacteries were growing larger in the time of Jesus, and their current size and shape is still ridiculous, even if they have been stable at their current ridiculous size and shape for a long time.
I would like to see a source for the contention that tefillin in Jesus’ time were inordinately large. Archaeological or otherwise. For a goy to explain to us what size our tefillin should be is a bit out of line, don’t you think?
>As for double dishwashers, the meaning of the Talmud is plain enough – those who wrote the Talmud were not using double kitchen sinks, nor were quite recent Jewish scholars.
They weren’t using any kind of kitchen sinks, since sinks no more existed than did dishwashers in those days. They would either scour their utensils or boil them in some sort of pot.
The Shulchan Aruch, whom you quoted, was discussing this sort of situation, and one where there was no actual food but only residue. He thought this was ok. But he had authoritative contemporaries who disagreed. And it’s unclear whether today’s dishwasher is the same thing. Actual pieces of food, as opposed to residue, frequently inhabit the bottom of a dishwasher. So there is disagreement there. The bottom line is that just as during Rav Yosef Karo’s time, there were those who thought that using a large dairy vessel to boil meat dishes was ok if you used ashes or something of the sort, and there were those who thought it was not ok, today there are both authoritative Sepharadim and Ashkenazim on both sides of the issue. This is hardly an example of progressive holiness, but a question of how to apply an old law to a new situation.
>Speak ancient arabic do you? Various people, some of them not at all sympathetic to Islam, translate Surah 24:31 in almost exactly the same way – as plain and straightforward words with plain and straightforward meaning. Further, people who believe the veil should cover the face translate it the same way as people who rationalize that the veil need not cover the face, so they are not paraphrasing in accord with their tradition, they are translating what they read in front of them, for their translation casts doubt on their tradition.
They are all interpreting it in accordance with the traditions we have today, which is that Muslim women wear a veil. But if you look at the source text, it is only understandable in light of these traditions. If you remove those traditions, everything is up for grabs. For instance, Luxenberg says a lot of the words are actually Aramaic and not Arabic at all, drastically changing the original meaning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Syro-Aramaic_Reading_of_the_Koran
Since the Koran is written in a Semitic abjad with no vowel markings, and since in Semitic languages the meaning of a word changes based on the vowels which are not typically written (even assuming that the whole thing is in Arabic instead of having Aramaic vocabulary, which has different meanings for the same words,) of course its reading is purely based on tradition. The same is the case for the Torah, by the way.
>They use Bin Baz to appease people like yourself who claim that any religion can be given any meaning. Kind of like Wikipedia edit wars. Someone ignores primary sources and insists on secondary sources, so, to appease them, you find some obscure secondary source that speaks plainly about the primary source.
Yes, there are lots of people like myself in Rakka, and they are a primary concern of ISIS’. Bib Baz, the mufti of Saudi Arabia, is just some obscure guy. And in order to appease the Sunnis of Syria and Iraq (and Algeria and the rest of the scum), it is very logical to use a Saudi mufti.
Or perhaps it is as I said: Islam is not just a founding document but rather a set of traditions, some of them mutually compatible, and ISIS follows a variant of one of those traditions.
Incidentally, you are the one claiming that any religion can be given any meaning. I am arguing the opposite.
For a goy to explain to us what size our tefillin should be is a bit out of line, don’t you think?
The underlying theory of the tefillin is that one literally has holy verses on one’s head, as a symbol of having them metaphorically on one’s head. This can be done with something far less conspicuous. Doing it in an unnecessarily conspicuous way is, as Jesus sarcastically observed, being holier than thou.
If priests on top, and open entry into the priesthood, holiness spiral ensues. How bad the spiral gets depends on how much power and privilege the priests have. If not much power, problem will be self limited by the tendency of congregations to depart from excessively holy leadership, which is the current equilibrium condition of those subordinate religions that the Cathedral tolerates, tolerates so long as they continue to make progress towards progressivism, since all religions, rightly understood, are supposedly progressivism.
But the more state power the priests have and more state backing the priests receive, the worse the problem of holiness spirals. If Judaism in Israel gradually gets more state backing, gradually becomes more of an official religion (your scenario) it will gradually become more obnoxious, and people, including its most sincere adherents, will gradually become more alarmed by the prospect of it obtaining state power. If it takes power in something like a coup (my scenario), then unless the coupists do something about open entry and do something to roll back the existing excessive holiness (ban double dishwashers and cap the size of terfillin), it is going to go into a full on holiness spiral, and, just as all malignant metastatic aneuploid cancers look alike regardless of tissue of origin, end up as something remarkably similar to progressivism, even as it proclaims holy war on progressivism over differences ever more minute.
But if you look at the source text, it is only understandable in light of these traditions. I
Bunkum.
And how do I know this is bunkum? Because different actually existent peoples claiming to be Muslim have different traditions, and still translate it in the exact same way, as plain words with a plain meaning, even when their traditions are such that it casts doubt on their traditions. Text torture is, for the most part, done after translation, not before translation, implying that the original text is plain enough to resist text torture – which is mighty plain indeed.
The Koran is verbose, probably to compensate for the lack of vowels, much as Chinese tends to be flowery, to compensate for the excessive grammatical flexibility, which also leads to potential ambiguity. Because of the verbosity, you are unlikely to get more than one possible set of vowels making sense in context.
And proof of this is that no one has proposed an alternative set of vowel choices or language choices for Surah 24:31 that makes the slightest sense.
There are a whole lot of branches of Islam that would like to make that Surah go away. How come they have not come up with an alternative translation that it is about flea removal and dog care?
By playing games with vowels, by making alternative choices of vowels, or alternative choices of language, you can render it as nonsensical gibberish, but you cannot render it as a meaningful and reasonable statement, except by the vowel and language choices that everyone does choose in order to render it a meaningful and reasonable statement.
Yes, there are lots of people like myself in Rakka, and they are a primary concern of ISIS’
There are lots of guys exactly like yourself in Islam, in that they claim that if high authority reads black as white, then black means white, and if high authority discovers an ancient tradition that was never practiced until today, it is nonetheless an ancient tradition.
And these high authorities have a marked tendency to discover ancient traditions that reduce the conflict between their religion and progressivism, as, for example, the latest discovery about openly gay couples.
And this is indeed one of the major concerns of Islamic State.
» unless the coupists do something about open entry
that’s easy. Only levites of exceptional genetic purity can be priests. When a debate arises, it is settled in favor of the levite with the purer genome. The most pure-bred levite, whose parents claim he’s autistic while carefully covering his forehead with a variety of funny hats, is the chief priest, and his privilege is to cook the rabbits.
the great thing about judaism is that the scriptures command that everything be done, so everyone can say that what they want to do is commanded.
“The reason George Soros supported the Nazis is because he doesn’t give a shit about Jews, but he does care about Socialism”
This was actually written.
People who call themselves the “authentic right” actually believe it.
These must truly be the end times!
Keep on insisting on the maintanence of your false dichotomy, and keep on attacking strawmen after strawmen while refusing to acknowledge that which I demonstrated irrefutably about the nature of Putin, Dugin, and the ideologies animating them.
You do us both a favor. The more honest you guys are about your dishonesty, the more quickly people who care about preserving white people and European civilization, rather than what is literally just kneejerk contrarianism (“reaction”) will realize that NRx is a sinkhole of faggotry.
I’ll leave you Judeo-Soviet shills with a piece of masturbation fodder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYPoHoYYdoQ
Since Jim has been so gracious in allowing this debate I’d like to offer some amusement. Here I present the kind if thinking that passes for US Intelligence, Mr. John Schindler:
http://20committee.com/
Notice that, unlike with Jim, no comments are permitted by Schindler.
“The reason George Soros supports Nazis in the Ukraine…” What? Does the German National-Socialist Party (dissolved in 1945) has an active branch in Ukraine 2015? Soros, a Hungarian Holocaust bona-fide survivor, supports the Nazis? Words have meanings, except in this blog where it is all a lunatic confusion. A meaningless confusion.
You will notice that when a white progressive gets beaten up by a gang of blacks, he tends to go right on hating whites and protecting black criminals.
And so it is with George Soros and Jews.
I am tying to make sense of what Jim is saying above. Soros, you say, got beaten up by the Nazis and reacted by becoming a Nazi and a Jew-hater. Well, Jew-hater he is not. Like many other Budapest Jews of his generation, he aspires be a generic (cosmopolitan?) European and live free of the stigma of Judaism. It is a rational aspiration, although my family thinks it is illusionary, it is impossible to shed one’s Jewish origins. Fact is that Soros had not even the remotest contact with Judaism or Israel ever, yet he is considered (even by you) as the very paradigm of a Jew. And Nazi he is not, not as a member of the Nazi party nor suscribing to Nazi ideology, which by the way, what it is? I have read extensively their literature in the original, and the Nazi program was to recover the territories lost in WWI, stop the payment of reparations, rebuild German economy and the Wehrmacht. Which they fully succeeded in achieving. How can Soros fit into this program? True, as WWII advanced, the Nazis lost their mind and started to believe that they were a superior race and their mission was to exterminate inferior races such as Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians and God knows where would they have stopped if not defeated by Stalin. Now, once more, how can Soros fit into this variation of the Nazi program? In what sense you think he is a racist and works to kill off the non-Germanic peoples of this planet? Considering his activities, he is more preoccupied with amassing more billions and to propagate his economic philosophy (which is not Communism nor Nazism but a derivation of Karl Popper’s “Open Society”)
I am tying to make sense of what Jim is saying above. Soros, you say, got beaten up by the Nazis and reacted by becoming a Nazi and a Jew-hater. Well, Jew-hater he is not. Like many other Budapest Jews of his generation, he aspires be a generic (cosmopolitan?) European and live free of the stigma of Judaism.
Imagine a good white progressive in Amerca. Since he “knows” that a black area is just as safe, indeed safer, than a working class white area he goes for a little stroll in Oakland. Eight blacks beat him up with jack handles, breaking numerous bones, calling him various insulting names for white person. What is he going to do?
Why, he is going to make an effort to live life free from the stigma of being white.
What would you call a good progressive trying to live life free from the stigma of being white? What would you call all those good progressives at Duke University?
In what sense you think he is a racist and works to kill off the non-Germanic peoples of this planet?
George Soros is in favor of the eradication of the Jews of Israel and the white race.
That’s a very important comment. Progressivism offered Jews the chance to melt away as citizens of the world, and, thus, managed to induce treason. The only realistic options are B’s nationalism, and, depending on what genetic research will say in the future, some more active way of turning into Whites. Which may end up in the same place.
Soros is always called an evil Jew rat because he made money on shady transactions and uses it to promote degeneracy. It is perhaps an ironic accident that he does these things because he is a progressive. But could he, and would he, do these things if he wasn’t a Jew?
Isaac Asimov was actually very intelligent, and completely convinced by progressivism even while writing about things and other things. He was perhaps the last person to die of AIDS from a blood transfusion.
>But could he, and would he, do these things if he wasn’t a Jew?
I recommend Anthony Sutton’s books on Wall Street and the rise of the Communists and Nazis. The vast, vast majority of the bankers involved were not Jewish. Soros is merely taking a page out of their book.
it’s not really that hard to understand, the Nazis in the Ukraine were used, and are now puppets if they didn’t start out that way. George Soros is too busy doing global leadership things to care what his puppets call themselves.
Some people who feel an ideological connection to the original Nazis were confused in the beginning, but it was pretty quickly exposed that the Nazi in the Ukraine were paid by Jews and were fighting for the Cathedral.
Lightning Round – 2015/03/11 | Free Northerner says:
[…] divorce from ethnonationalism. Part 2. Related: Nazis are communists and communists are progressives. Related: Russia is not our saviour. Related: A response to Mark. […]
Check out the official NRx list of Pro-Western Jews:
http://8ch.net/duck/res/7808.html
The list is idiotic. What about the millions of Jews in Israel and elsewhere who dont even speak English and couldnt care less about immigration issues of faraway countries? Are Jews with kippah patrolling the Arizona desert helping Guatemalans to cross the border to the USA? or are they White Baptists?
» implying that the chans are even as good as twitter for discussion of reactionary theory
Twitter is dreadful for theory, and the chans marginally less bad.
To start a serious debate, we should define the meaning of the words used and establish a common language. Without it, all this logorrhea is meaningless. For example, who is a Jew? To give you an idea of what I am saying: Hungarian sites that make lists of Jews including people like Angela Merkel, so I cant even call them antisemites. They have not even one person observing the Jewish religion, not one rabbi or anyone member of a synagogue of following Jewish dietary rules of kashrut, or any other indicators of Judaism. For me George Soros is what he say he is: a Hungarian economist born to Jewish grand-parents he never knew (has parents already had converted and changed their names) but having or wishing absolutely no contact or relation with Jews. Is Soros in favour of the erradication of the White race as you write? Are you serious? Are you sober?
Religious Jews don’t cause problems to anything like the extent that Jewish conversos to progressivism cause problems and Jewish heretics that splintered to communism cause problems.
Chan/pol is correct that whenever you find someone preaching decadence he is usually a Jew – but if he is a Jew, he is a converso. Obviously Orthodox Religious Jews seldom preach decadence.
Peppermint suspects the existence of a large number of Jews who nominally convert to progressivism, while secretly continuing to practice Judaism, preaching decadence for others but not practicing it themselves. Probably true, but progressivism is very good at turning hypocrisy into sincerity. I would expect the children of such Jews to be sincere conversos and to intermarry with non Jewish progressives.
Is Soros in favour of the erradication of the White race as you write?
Sure. Some Nazis think he is in favor of the eradication of the white race but the continuation of the Jewish race, which logically follows from Nazi theory, but obviously they are wrong, and most Nazis realize that they are wrong. Soros does not want Jews to continue to exist either.
This disconfirms the Nazi theory that Jews want to eradicate the white race for the benefit of the Jewish race. Similarly the failure to accept Jewish refugees from Nazism disconfirms the Nazi theory that Jews have mystic mind control powers that cause the white race to persistently do stupid self destructive things.
Nazis believe that if it was not for Jews whites would not war on each other. In reality the reason whites are so very good at war is that whites have been practicing on each other for a very long time.
Nonetheless, it is obviously true that regardless of how wrong chan/pol is on these beliefs, it is pretty accurate when it complains about overwhelming Jewish overrepresentation among the advocates of decadence and evil.
Peppermint’s theory has the Jews circulating the poison to others, but not drinking it themselves. In practice, however, they drink more of it than anyone.
Communism is a Jewish heresy, progressivism a christian heresy. Communist Jews are therefore heretics, progressive Jews are therefore conversos. However, communism and progressivism are merging.
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Posts Tagged “Aboriginal”
Pow Wow Power | Watch Award-Winning Short Doc Red Path on NFB.ca
Got 15 minutes? Put them to good use and watch Atikamekw filmmaker Thérèse Ottawa's first film, Red Path, now streaming on NFB.ca.
Documentary, Films, On Film | August 4, 2016
Photo Friday | Meet the Indigenous Peoples of B.C.’s Skeena River in 10 Gorgeous Pics
After the Fraser, the Skeena is British Columbia’s second longest river. For the area’s first inhabitants, the Tsimshian and Gitxsan, whose names respectively mean “inside the Skeena River” and “people of...
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Indigenous New Wave: NFB at the Pan Am Games
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We Were Children: Reactions from Residential School Survivors and Other Viewers
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5 films about Aboriginal issues
Last Friday, we launched Alanis Obomsawin’s latest film, The People of the Kattawapiskak River, as a way to provide background and context for what’s taking place in the news and...
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13 short films by Aboriginal filmmakers for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games
The following is a guest post by animation producer Michael Fukushima. oehttp://www.nfb.ca/film/vistas_walk-in-the-forest/ For better or worse (you choose your own side ’cause I’ve got mine), the Winter Olympics spectacle only...
Animation, Films, The Craft | February 12, 2010
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Tag: kickofflab
How we got 1500+ private BETA sign-ups
Our landing page, soliciting BETA users went online in JUNE. The last four months have been a roller coaster ride and now we have come to a new phase: releasing TeamWave, iterating according to the feedback, getting ready to get out of the private beta and open up to the public. SaaS startups face challenges like: on-boarding new users, keeping them engaged and demonstrating real value of the product. We are learning a lot and are happy to share some of our experiences as we go along. In this post we’d like to concentrate on only one thing – our private beta launch and the factors that led to more than 1500 signups with a 23% conversion rate.
In the crowded B2B SaaS market average conversion rate of trial and private beta sign ups are of little value without a context. Let us look at some the reports and resources available to us:
Joshua Ledgard, founder of Kickofflabs says conversion rate is close to 15% on an average in response to a question pertaining to B2B products
According to the benchmark research done by wishpond, for B2B landing pages the conversion ratio stands at 13.28%
According to SaaS conversion survey done by Groove, visitor-to-trial conversion rate is 8.4%
So how did we manage more than the average rate of the conversion reported by these surveys? Let’s find out.
The Landing Page
According to Ash Maurya’s great presentation on finding product/market fit, a start up typically goes through three stages i.e. problem/solution fit, problem/market fit and scaling.
Landing pages for private beta are great starting point to validate the Problem/Solution fit. In the very first post we discussed our parent company’s experience of working with multiple best-of-breed SaaS applications. While they are good at solving a specific business problem, a holistic approach to manage business is lacking. This gives rise to data inconsistency, painful integrations and eventually higher total cost of ownership. We want to solve this problem by providing a unified platform for Projects, Sales, CRM, HRMS, Analytics and more. This way various departments within an organisation can standardize on a platform and use one place to sell, deliver and support customers.
The Landing Page Copy
Thus we wanted the landing page to convey the Unique Value Proposition in a succinct manner and at the same time the features should be evident from the very first look.
As you can see “Unified Platform for Collaboration, Sales, Marketing and Support” has been written in big and bold letters along with the list of features via images. Most important thing is that you don’t need to scroll after landing on this page. The copy has been kept above the fold (first 1/3rd to 1/2 of the user’s screen space).
The call to action (CTA)
The call to action i.e the sign up form doesn’t say “sign up”, instead it says “Get Early Access” to create a sense of privilege for the users. Another crucial element here is the friction-less form. All we need to give the early access is the email id.
The screen shot from in-page analytics section of Google Analytics shows that more than 95% of the visitors can see the sign up form without scrolling.
The incentive
The incentive “Free for the first 1000 companies”, is right below the sign up form and stands out with its green color. This further entices users to sign up for the platform.
We have used kickofflabs.com to host our landing page and the in-built referral program for creating a viral loop. Whenever someone signs up with us for an invite, the thank you page gives them a unique referral link that can be shared via mail and social media.
The motivating factor to share the link lies in the eagerness to get into the app as early as possible. For users it works in a simple way:
More the number of friends referred to the app, less is the waiting time to get access.
So whoever wanted to jump the queue, started sharing the unique referral link. “Excitement” was the common element in most of the responses we got from those who shared their link.
This is a win-win situation for both the product and the prospective users. Here is the conversion rate and the viral boost rate:
They are the outspoken users who would give feedback, critique the product and be the evangelist. We need all these qualities in the users to have a successful private beta launch.
Another good thing about Kickofflabs is the lead details page that gives you information about users referral rank, sign up count and social media profile. This data is very useful for understanding user profile.
Reaching Early Adopters
The diffusion of innovation theory says that the early adopters and early majority are the ones who can help a new product overcome the initial hurdle. These are the users who are on the look out for innovative products, won’t mind the nuances of an early stage app and provide their valuable feedback to shape the product. They would have tried similar app, but won’t mind trying something new.
While there is no dearth of startup directories and social channels like quora, reddit to promote new product, we decided to focus on the mighty Beta List. It showcases vast number of new ideas and products in the private beta stage. Thus it has become a hub of early adopters who thrive to use new products, provide feedback and don’t expect a highly stable product from the very beginning.
Added advantage: many users have set up auto-sharing in their Beta List settings, which results in automated tweets from the user base whenever Beta List accepts a new start up. This again results more visibility and spike in traffic.
Submitting to Beta list is quite straight forward and free. Only problem is that the time (a few months) it takes to get the product listed by the usual process. Considering they get 400 submissions per month, it is quite understandable. They conduct a set of checks to make sure that the page qualifies for listing. One can choose the paid “expedited review” to get the reviews done in a matter of days.
How to make the BEST out of Beta List?
Choose Monday or Tuesday for listing, as it gives you a chance to seize the window of opportunity early on.
Make sure that you engage with the users who re-tweet Beta List tweets. They can be additional audiences.
The title of the submission must not be too long, otherwise it’ll look awkward with truncated text while tweeting.
Write an enticing copy to give the users all the more reasons to access the page and tag your post correctly.
After getting listed, we got spike in conversions over a period of 7-8 days owing to Beta List and the viral loop. Here is a screen shot of the lead conversion numbers:
The Beta List tweet featuring TeamWave got 200+ re-tweets as most of their tweets do. Now let’s cover the conversion rate of the traffic originating from Beta List:
Beta list has given us 888 referral visits
Number of leads from those visits are 329
Thus the conversion rate is around 37%.
Marketing effort by Non-marketers
Team members: Bilal (Lead Designer) and Sachin (Lead Front-end Developer) have shared the referral link in their portfolio page (dribbble and GitHub respectively). They have social media traction so the link shared by them has increased signups.
While the conversion rate of the traffic originating from dribble is significantly higher than GitHub, the most interesting thing is that the designs were compelling enough to entice non-English speaking users to sign up for TeamWave (an app that currently supports only English).
Best Converting Traffic?
This blog has given us the best conversion rate in comparison to all the channel. This is our predominant content marketing platform and we do have plans to publish various other contents like white papers, videos, interviews, etc. After publishing posts we share them via facebook, set up series of tweets and post an update from our LinkedIn page. Although the number of conversions is the least, we definitely believe in content marketing and it is the way forward for us. Here is the table showing the top 8 sources in terms of conversion rate:
Conversion Rate(%)
blog.teamwave.com 24 59 40.68
betalist.com 329 888 37.04
teamwave.com 230 831 27.68
dribbble.com 110 586 18.77
facebook.com 62 372 16.67
github.io 30 274 10.95
sachinchoolur.github.io 111 1808 06.13
Some reasons why users signed-up for our private beta: clear & sharp message via landing page, leveraging in-built referral program offered by Kickofflabs and getting featured on BetaList. We are incredibly thankful to the users who signed for the beta and gave us valuable feedback that has made the product significantly better.
On 25th November we released an improved version of TeamWave which gives you 10 more reasons to try out the product.
Note: We have not reached out to the media yet so you will not see any reviews published!
Posted on November 26, 2015 November 27, 2015 Author PreetishCategories General, TechnologyTags betalist, conversion rate, kickofflab, product launch, TeamWave3 Comments on How we got 1500+ private BETA sign-ups
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Top TV Song Last Week: The Night King by Ramin Djawadi
May 8, 2019 May 13, 2019 Adrienne Gardner artist-ramin-djawadi
In the final season, Game of Thrones fervor is reaching fever pitch. Featured through several key scenes during the epic Battle of Winterfell, ‘The Night King’ by Ramin Djawadi drove intense interest from fans and claimed the top TV song last week.
The Night King
by Ramin Djawadi
from Season 8 · Episode 3 · The Long Night
Throughout the episode; End credits.
One of Tunefind’s most popular composers of 2018, Djawadi (Westworld, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Gears of War 4) has said that this episode was his hardest GoT endeavor to date. Tasked with scoring a battle that lasts for practically the entire 1 hour and 22 minute episode, the only comparable scene in the history of the series is the Battle of the Bastards (from season 6), which was just 17 minutes long. Djawadi told The Wrap he estimates he spent double or triple the writing time for the score of “The Long Night.”
Djawadi opted to use electronic music and bass drums to build suspense throughout the action early in the episode. In the rare moments of hope, the score features a full orchestra for what he termed a more “organic feel” in Variety. Djawadi shared with The Wrap, “But the piece at the end, the piano piece, I feel stands out and is so different.”
In the history of Game of Thrones, there has only been one other big piano moment.
Back in season 6, a piece called ‘Light of the Seven’ was featured as Cersei blows up the Sept of Baelor. Djawadi recalls in The Wrap, “So when we got together for this season we said, ‘OK, this is another moment now where the piano could be the right choice of instrument again.’ It’s the ending of this unbelievable battle sequence and yet the score needs to shift you from all the action and the music and ups and downs that came before and so we thought it’s time for the piano again.”
Clocking in at almost nine minutes long, the haunting piano notes of the released track build and retreat to follow critical moments of this tumultuous battle. Beyond the final scenes of the episode, Djawadi told The Wrap that ‘The Night King’ theme is “kind of woven in and out with all the action.”
Advising fans to rewatch and keep a look out for hints of the score earlier on in the episode, Djawadi went on to say, “That motif plays earlier and then it actually comes back on the piano, and that might not stick out to everybody right away but it’s there and then the big payoff is when it comes in on the piano.”
These earlier motifs have generated a lot of questions and interest on Tunefind from fans looking to identify specific moments of score from the episode. In fact, score can often be difficult to identify with the subtle nuances of the instrumentals, along with overlapping dialogue and action sounds, and the fact that often quite a lot of instrumental score never makes its way onto your favorite music services.
Of the original score that is actually released, it’s important to note that the music is often edited to picture, meaning the editors will adjust the music so that it fits perfectly with the scene. They may dial down the bass, for example, or edit certain sections together. Or the composer may weave together multiple cues and add some polish for release. This can sometimes mean that the music heard in the episode can vary substantially from what is released as the mastered song.
Game of Thrones primarily features the original score of Ramin Djawadi, but the show has dabbled in a few ‘traditional’ Westerosi folk songs. These have included the immensely popular ‘Jenny of Oldstones’ by Florence + the Machine (which claimed the top TV song the previous week) and ‘The Rains of Catamere’ by Sigur Ros from season 4.
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King Cobra in Name Only?
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Avishai Shuter
King cobras (Ophiophagus hannah), with their forked tongues and extended hoods, are one of the most famous species of snakes.
They are the longest venomous snakes in the world, reaching lengths of nearly 18 feet and are native to Southeast Asia. These reptiles are pretty unusual as far as cobras go — they get very large, eat other snakes, have relatively small hoods, growl when they’re upset, and make nests for egg laying. With all that in mind, is it possible that they’re cobras in name only?
Recent research has shown that “true cobras,” those in the family called Naja, are an African lineage (though a handful of species radiated into Asia). King cobras are not in the Naja family, rather, they are the only members of their own group, Ophiophagus. As it turns out, the king cobra may not be king of the cobra family after all.
Though they aren’t “true cobras,” king cobras are closely related cousins of the Naja group, with both families belonging to the Elapid group of venomous snakes.
Even though these snakes may not really be cobras, they can still be very dangerous!
EDITOR’S NOTE: July 16 is World Snake Day. Visit the Bronx Zoo’s World of Reptiles to see our king cobra on exhibit and to learn more about other snakes that need our conservation efforts. Watch for more zookeeper stories on Wild View and activities at the Bronx Zoo and zoos near you during National Zookeeper Week July 14-22 2018.
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I’m in California, a few yrs ago animal control rescued a illegal cobra & I always remember her because she is luesistic with dark eyes. She was sent to the San Diego zoo & her name is Adhira, I’m pretty sure she’s still there.
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Mets Acquire J.D. Davis at Steep Price
by Eric Longenhagen
On Sunday, the Mets continued an active weekend of trades designed to add bench-quality pieces to their big league roster, sending several low-level minor leaguers to Houston for power-hitting corner bat J.D. Davis. Here’s the whole deal:
The Mets get:
J.D. Davis, 3B/1B/OF
Cody Bohanek, INF
The Astros get:
Luis Santana, 2B
Ross Adolph, CF
Scott Manea, C
Davis is talented — he has plus-plus raw power, a plus-plus arm, and can play several positions, though none especially well — but it’s hard to see how he fits in New York without taking playing time from players who have greater long-term potential and might also be just as good as Davis is right now. He doesn’t complement Todd Frazier or Peter Alonso — the two players projected to start for the Mets at Davis’ primary positions — in any way. Like Frazier and Alonso, Davis hits right-handed and isn’t a good infield defender.
He does have experience in the outfield corners, an area where the Mets need warm bodies, so perhaps we’ll see Davis used as a platoon or situational corner outfielder as a means of getting him at-bats against left-handed pitching. Davis hit .348/.419/.583 against southpaws last year and .344/.401/.800 in 2017, with most of that production coming at Triple-A Fresno. He could get some starts against lefties in situations where the Mets can hide him on defense. They could mix him with Juan Lagares or Keon Broxton depending on if the game state dictates a need for offense or defense, which might move Michael Conforto or Brandon Nimmo to center field once in a while.
This assumes Davis, who turns 26 in April, can hit big league pitching, something he hasn’t done in a fairly limited sample; he owns a .194/.260/.321 line in 181 career big league plate appearances. Houston, an organization at the forefront at understanding how to implement swing changes, doesn’t seem to have been able to alter Davis’ batted ball profile in a way that would enable him to start showing his raw power in games. A power-hitting platoon outcome seems reasonable to hope for, though Davis’ true talent level is probably closer to a defensively-limited bench bat, one that’s easier to roster in the American League and isn’t a great fit on this Mets roster as it’s currently composed.
Cody Bohanek, also acquired by the Mets, is an interesting, late-blooming athletic flier who is probably just an org guy. He played safety and corner at Marist High School in Chicago and had college football aspirations until the University of Illinois-Chicago gave him the opportunity to play baseball. Two-sport, cold weather prospects are apt to improve later than their warm weather peers who play more baseball, and that’s what happened with Bohanek, who had a statistical breakout as a senior and impressed scouts at NCAA Regionals. He was a 30th round senior sign in 2017.
Bohanek split 2018 between Low and Hi-A. He walked a lot and has a proficient, versatile infield glove. He may be a bench infielder at peak and the two-sport, small school, cold weather pedigree makes him slightly mysterious and interesting.
I like Houston’s end of this deal. Tyler White, who lifts the ball consistently and has a track record of hitting for power against big league pitching, made Davis offensively redundant in Houston, as the team didn’t seem interested in exploring a two-way role for Davis, who closed in college. They add three up-the-middle defenders who have performed statistically. The best of them is 19-year-old Dominican second baseman Luis Santana, who is coming off a domestic debut at advanced rookie-level Kingsport where he hit .348/.446/.471 with more walks than strikeouts.
A stocky, curvaceous 5-foot-8, Santana crowds the plate so much that he’s practically straddling it, and his idiosyncratic, low-ball swing enables him to impact pitches that cross the plate beneath his chest as he leans over it. It’s weird, but it works, and Santana looks like he’s going to be a plus hitter who also has a discerning eye for the strike zone, and whose plate crowding gets him hit by pitches so often that it actually matters. Santana has been hit in 4% of his 611 career plate appearances, which is nearly twice the career rate of active big league HBP leader Shin-Soo Choo (132 HBP, 1.9%) who became the active leader when Chase Utley (204 HBP, 2.5%) retired.
Athletically, Santana fits at second and third base. His body is pretty maxed out and he’s not likely to grow into sizable raw power, but he runs well, has infield-worthy hands and an average arm. The combination of his defensive profile and promising feel to hit make him a very intriguing prospect. He was slated to be the 10th ranked Mets prospect on our upcoming list as a 40+ FV player, and I think he’s the best individual talent involved in this deal.
The Astros also received Scott Manea and Ross Adolph. Adolph,22, is an interesting small-school sleeper who hit .322/.445/.654 as a junior at Toledo, then signed for $125,000 as a 2018 12th rounder. He continued to rake at short-season Brooklyn after signing, hitting .276/.348/.509 and swiping 14 bases (on 17 attempts) in 60 games.
He’s an above-average runner with good instincts in center field, and there’s a chance he can stay there. He could be a 50 bat with gap power who is playable in center, which would make him at least a viable big league fourth outfielder. He was going to be a prominent part of the Mets prospect lists’ honorable mention section. We whiffed on him pre-draft, but our sources who saw him in pro ball raved and I’m very interested to see how he hits in full-season ball next year because I think the industry’s error bars on small school bats are pretty large due to the quality of pitching they face.
Manea, 23, was drafted by Seattle out of high school but didn’t sign. He transferred to St. Petersburg College in Florida after his freshman year at NC State, but wasn’t drafted after his sophomore year despite being eligible. He had a good summer for the Wachusett Dirt Dawgs of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League and was eligible to sign as an undrafted free agent, which he did with the Mets in late July of 2016.
He’s a heavy-bodied catcher with power who hit .261/.368/.432 at Low-A Columbia last year. Manea’s a below-average receiver who lets his target sag as his pitcher starts to deliver the ball home, which means he has to come back to that spot with his glove, creating a lot of unnecessary movement that isn’t great for stealing strikes. He’s also a well-below average athlete and thrower, so he probably can’t catch.
The Astros have, in several instances, traded players on the periphery of their big league roster (Teoscar Hernandez, David Paulino, Ramon Laureano, etc.) for prospects, and this is another example. I understand the Mets desire to add high-probability contributors to their big league roster, even if they’re low-impact players, but moving a prospect like Santana for the kind of role player readily available on the open market feels short-sighted.
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Teoscer and Paulino were not traded for prospects, Teoscsor for Liriano and Paulino is part of a package to get Osuna,
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Will Kim Kardashian Billboard Get Mexican Plastic Surgeon Sued?
By Andrew Chow, Esq. on March 16, 2012 6:01 AM
Paging Dr. Ramirez: You may be keeping up with Kim Kardashian, but your giant billboard with her unauthorized image may get you sued.
Drivers in Mexicali may have noticed Kim Kardashian posing in a bikini on a billboard touting the services of Dr. Victor Ramirez, a local plastic surgeon, gossip website TMZ reports. A desert border town, Mexicali sits on the Mexican side of the California border about 120 miles from San Diego.
"Don't risk your beauty, or your health," the billboard says in Spanish, in an attempt to dissuade potential patients from seeking an unauthorized surgeon.
But the use of Kardashian's image without permission may have put Ramirez in a risky predicament.
Lawyers for Kim Kardashian are considering a possible lawsuit in connection with the plastic surgeon's billboard, according to TMZ.
When asked if he'd gotten Kardashian's OK to use her image, Ramirez told TMZ, "Obviously I did not speak to Kim Kardashian. I do not have her number."
In the United States, using someone's image for commercial purposes without permission is generally grounds for a lawsuit. Victims can sue for the appropriation of their names or images -- a form of invasion of privacy. For celebrities, this is often referred to as the right of publicity.
Laws in Mexico seem to parallel U.S. law in requiring prior permission before the publication of someone's photo for commercial purposes, according to the online Personality Rights Database.
A Mexican government agency prosecutes commercial copyright infringements and can impose fines, according to the Database. A model whose image is used without permission has 10 years to pursue a civil claim, the Mexican Industrial Property Institute's website says.
Kim Kardashian's lawyers are likely weighing these options as they mull a lawsuit for the plastic surgeon's billboard appropriation. As for Dr. Victor Ramirez, he apparently told TMZ he'd get the police involved, then hung up the phone.
Kim Kardashian: No Me Gusta Mexican Plastic Surgery (TMZ)
Kim Kardashian threatens legal action over use of image on cosmetic surgeon's billboard (Australia's ninemsn)
Invasion of Privacy (FindLaw)
Another Kim Kardashian Lawsuit: BoycottKim.com Suit Threatened? (FindLaw's California Case Law blog)
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All entries for June 2008
Media Production A2 and AS: Website Development
Marketing your Website:Search Engine Optimisation
A2 Media Studies: Planning Your Website
AS Media Foundation Production Campaigning Website
A Level Media. Web 2.0: An introduction
Designing for Browser Compatability
Web Designing for Disability Accessibility
Developing Your Blogging Skills Hub
The Concept of Target Audience
AS & A2 Blog Links (Not Publicly Available)
: 30 Jun 2008 07:52 | Tags: A2 Website Development As Website Development Media Production A2 And As Website Development | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem
This is England (2006). Dir. Shane Meadows
Thomas Turgoose as Shaun. For the Cast follow this link.
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This is England (2006) Shane Meadows is an excellent example of a film to which a SPECT type of analysis should be applied. SPECT (social / political / economic / cultural / textual) is my preferred way of looking at films. A film is always a product of its times although if it has any prestensions to originality whatsover its way of perceiving the world and generating meaning will be very specific. This is England is suffused with a sense of memory of a transitional moment in the lives of the working class in a northern industrial town experienced through the lives of young people, who becuase of a rapidly shifting world are open to all sorts of influences making claims upon their identity. It is for these reasons that the film has quickly won some important recognition in prize-winning circles gaining firstly a prize from BIFA and then later a BAFTA award. It is an important film for unlike the blockbusters such as The Bourne Ultimatum which are nominally British, this is a genuinely British film made by independents on a low budget. At the heart of the film are the issues of identity and loyalty whther to each other or to a greater idea however flawed that idea may be. From the point of view of analysing the film it is an important one from the perspective of representation. When studying film and national cinema representation is a fundamental thing. Who is being represented, how they are being represented and why they are being represented are the questions which need to be addressed. As can be seen in the webliography Meadows himself had been a Skinhead in his youth (see Kermode YouTube below) as well as coming from a more northerly part of England and a core strength of the film is that it always gives a sense of insider knowledge informing its perspective. How this is done is something which can be ascertained most effectively at the level of textual anlysis.
This Video with Mark Kermode interviewing Shane Meadows for the Culture Show which includes good extracts from the film discusses everything from Meadows' own links with Skinhead culture to the contradictory attitude of the BBFC in making antiracist film an 18.
The insightful review in Sight and Sound (see webliography) gets to the heart of the film and relates it to the music of the Clash and their song This is England made after the miners strike had been defeated for it was this that now made the vast majority of the country vulnerable:
September 1985, and the Clash released their first single since the sacking of founder, arranger and writer Mick Jones two years earlier. Their glory days were well behind them as they struggled to make sense of their punk ideals in a world gone cold. Out of desperation came a masterpiece, a haunting state-of-the-nation report that was all the more impressive because it replaced anger with vulnerability.
'This Is England' was mid-paced, drenched not in distorted guitar but in sighing synthesisers and clattering electro-percussion. Backgrounded by sound FX of playground taunts and football chants, Joe Strummer sang of a blasted landscape: "On the catwalk jungle/Somebody grabbed my arm/A voice spoke so cold/It masked the weapon in the palm." The Sex Pistols might have sung of 'No Feelings' but here was the reality: "This knife of Sheffield steel."
Album Cover Cut the Crap by The Clash
As stated in the introduction the issue of representation is fundamental to films like this and London to Brighton as well. Because these films are social realist (trying to represent the world 'as it really is') they challenge the sorts of representation which come out of 'feelgood films' such as Notting Hill, a london of Red Telephone Boxes and Routemaster buses where everybody is 'nicey nicey' and quaint and appeals to the American audiences with the hope of turning them into tourists. For those of you you reading this this approach to representing the UK which is presumably a factor on gaining funding in any case is now going into an online multiumedia environment. Check out the ICONS online space developed by COGAPP with apparently a 7 figure budget! check out the ICON St. George's Flag its 'terribly tasteful' in fact you can barely see the flipping thing!
The Icons version of St. George
However a more genuine iconic use of the flag is by the BNP / National Front as witnessed in This is England or else by a pack of football hooligans.
A couple of England's finest sporting the Icon of St. George
From the General to the Specific
In This is England we can see the economic factors appear both in the references to the cities of the North and the Midlands as England is begining to de-industrialise. There is a sense of 'no more future'. But politics and culture cross-cut economics as the social situation deteriorates. This is the period of Punk Rock and Also Ska music. Below Andrew Shim as Milky is in a typically Two Tone style of dress which had an especially large following in Coventry and the Midlands. young people were being influenced by bands such as The Clash with Joe Strummer, The Jam with Paul Weller, Elvis Costello and the Attractions were also popular. Most bands were politically anti-Thatcher and to the left. however there was one infamous band Skrewdriver who were a Nazi band. You can see their name graffitied on the subway in the film. As the link shows even in 2005 people were jailed for distributing Skewdriver's racist rubbish. The image of the character isn't a million miles from Combo in This is England. As well as this there was the growth of the New Romantics epitomised by groups such as Boy George, Duran Duran. In the film Smell represents this strand of British musical subculture. Sheffield at the time had its own new romantic style bands like Human League.
Stephen Graham as Combo in This is England
In case people complain that This is England is unrealistic because Milky wouldn't have been with skinheads at the start, life simply wasn't that tidy. I distincly remember having a local skinhead band playing a Troops out gig in the centre of Coventry. There were a lot of people with very confused identities at that time not least because of the crisis amongst young males because any hopes for the future in industrial jobs were disappearing fast. It was into this economic and political background that the National Front then the largest nazi organisation in the UK tried to make headway. This situation is an ever present danger as the BNP Nazi party showing in the Henley upon Thames byelection of yesterday showed. At least the Specials (the major Two-Tone band) Free Nelson Mandela song being played at Mandela's 90th birthday party concert put everything in perspective, see immediately below.
An ill Amy Winehouse gave it everything as she took the lead in the Free Nelson Mandela song in a moving rendering of the song. The image below shows her doing her own number earlier on. As Meadows points out in the Kermode interview, This Is England has relevance now as much as it it did. There are obvious parallels between the Falklands War and the war in Iraq. Looks like London was Calling Again
Just like This is England this concert carried with cultural memories, not only of the principled position of many rock bands on the question of apartheid but also harking back to earlier in the 1980s when many punk and ska bands took a stand against Thatcherite economics and rising levels of unemployment and racism. Interestingly it was in London and then Sheffield where the concept of cultural industries started to emerge as part of overall regeneration strategy. Rock music was a core activity in this revival of the economy.
The Falklands War and Representations of Nationalism
The film is set against the backdrop of the Falklands war which for many at the time became a central point of nationalism as Britian was being seriously challenged by a dictator who had invaded British sovereign territory. Whilst many opposed the war it is noticeable that in this film the young people just didn't care. for them it was something happening thousands of miles away and that made no difference to their lives whether Britain won or lost. It was only Thomas Turgoose who became upset because his father had been killed in the struggle. The nationalism of the National Front member Combo and the rest of the National Front people represented weren't concerned about the war either. If anything for them the nationalism of the war which demanded unity in the face of the enemy was a danger to their own brand of racist nationalism.
General Galtieri of Argentina who ordered the invasion. Mrs Thatcher is in the background. This is a link to a useful Guardian site on the conflict.
Only a year after the Falklands conflict was finished another battle between Thatcher and the working class took place. This was the miner's strike of 1984-85. There were a disproortionate number of miners in Yorkshire and the links between coal and steel were historical ones. Here a link to the Battle of Orgreave by Mike Figgis.
Cultural Desert to Cultural Industry
Whilst the content of the film is set in Sheffield's past there is a sense of optimism in the making of the film for when we are left in the closing moments of the film with a lonely Shaun reminiscent of the ending of Truaffaut's 400 Blows the openness of the ending cycles around to the making of the film with the help of Yorshire Screen. As Shaun in the film would now be a similar to Shane Meadows there is more than a little Truffaut in this film.
Tom Riordan, Chief Executive for Yorkshire Forward comments:
“This is a coup for Yorkshire and Humber’s film industry with a local production company, local talent featured and local settings used as the backdrop for what has been confirmed as the Best British Film in 2007. We believe this will encourage further filming in the region and congratulate those involved with making This is England for this great achievement.”
Screen Yorkshire invested in This Is England through its Production Fund, which is supported by Yorkshire Forward and aims to develop a long-term and successful production sector in the region. Screen Yorkshire is also a key partner in Warp X, the national low budget feature film slate, whose first two films Donkey Punch and A Complete History of My Sexual Failures have recently gone down a storm with critics at the Sundance film festival in Utah.
This is England is also supported by the UK Film Council New Cinema Fund, EM Media, Ingenious Media, Optimum Releasing and Filmfour. To find out more about Screen Yorkshire’s Production Fund, visit www.screenyorkshire.co.uk
Shaun at the moment of his ephiphany
Cultural Policy and Cultural Politics
Reference has already been made to the fact that the British Board of Film Censors (BBFC) decided to give this film an 18 certificate. Thankfully several councils have challenged this as those who are the film's primary target audience would be excluded from it. As a result in several towns and cities the film was made a 15 Certificate. For those of you reading this who are studying British cinema this is an important aspect of film and cultural policy which needs to be remembered. A film's distributional strategies can be ruined and potentially a lot of money lost apart from anything else. whilst there is much gratuitous violence which can usefully be dispensed with there are times when it is fundamental to the meaning of a film, as it was in this case. this film is an excellent example of the problems of censorship and control in society. currently as things stand Local Councils do have the power to override the decisions of the BBFC. As the BBFC is ultimately an unelected body whereas local councils are elected the issue of who controls what is seen and for what reasons is highlighted.
Sight & Sound Review This is England May 2007
Guardian feature on This is England. April 2007
Guardian Review of This is England
Guardian Interview with Shane Meadows
Observer Interview with Meadows: I was a skinhead myself once
BBC Review This is England
BBC Film Network on This is England. Live interview with Shane Meadows available here
Film Education Study Guide available here as a PDF
Guardian Blog bemoaning the fact that This is England is an 18
Telegraph Blog on how Bristol council Over-ruled the BBFC and gave This is England a 15 Certificate
Guardian Film Blog on Bafta win for This is England
Guardian Blog: Why is Shane Meadow's Ordinary England so Extraordinary?
This is England site. Lots of good stuff here!
Time Out interview with Shane Meadows
Channel Four Review This is England
Best Independent Film 2006 BIFA Award
BAFTA Award Best British Film 2008
: 27 Jun 2008 23:56 | Tags: Complete History Of My Sexual Failures Rosamund Hanson Screen Yorkshire Stephen Graham The Specials This Is England Shane Meadows Thomas Turgoose Two Tone | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem
Journalism Degree Courses
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This section is to help those of you who are doing media who have an interest in doing journalism. a range of journalism courses are being linked to, many of them are linked to Media, Communications or Cultural Studies courses so it is possible to combine journalism with other subjects or else focus on a pure journalism course.
The courses below do not represent the whole range of available courses. New links are being added on a regular basis as the page is being developed.
Happy hunting !
Bangor University. English with Journalism including some Media experience
Birmingham City University. Media & communication Journalism
Bournemouth University. Multimedia Journalism
Cardiff University School of Journalism offer a choice of four different Media and Journalism undergraduate degrees.
London College of Communications. Sports Journalism (Foundation Degree)
Oxford Brookes. BA in Publishing
Queen Mary College London. Journalism & History
Staffordshire University. Sports Journalism
University College Falmouth BA
University of Brighton. Sports Journalism
University of Huddersfield. Sports Journalism and Media
University of Lincoln. Lincoln School of Journalism
University of Kent Journalism BA
The University of Kent's new Centre for Journalism could lead the field in journalism training and provide a benchmark for other universities, according to the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) , which has given full accreditation to the centre's degree programme .
University of Sheffield. BA Journalism Studies
University of Stirling. Journalism Studies
University of Ulster. School of Media, Film, and Journalism
University of Winchester. Journalism
: 26 Jun 2008 11:27 | Tags: Journalism Degree Courses Journalism Studies Queen Mary College London Journalism And History Sports Journalism Degrees | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem
Film Magazines and Film Journals
Like the Film Festivals entry this is another page which is designed to provide visitor with links to the increasing range of film magazines available in hard copy format. Despite the increasing online presence regarding films the film magazines market still seems to be healthy. Whether the current economic downturn will wed out weaker organisations remains to be seen, currently the situation is healthy. Magazines included will normally have an English language version.
British Film Magazine British council comment it fills "the gap between the muesli of Sight & Sound and Vertigo
and the popcorn of Empire." Its online presence states:
Britishfilmmagazine is designed to celebrate British films and British film talent acting in and making films around the world.Having launched the title and begun to explore this world in depth, it is staggering to discover just how much is going on.Indeed, it is difficult to keep track of everything that is happening, even when publishing online, as here, it is possible to add any number of new articles every day. The reality is that the British film world is booming.
Empire Magazine. The "popcorn" of the film magazine world?
Films & Festivals
Screen International. Screen's weekly trade paper, Screen International has been serving the needs of the international film business.
Sight & Sound the British Film Institute Monthly Magazine
Total Film: Popular general film magazine
Vertigo British Independent Film Magazine
: 25 Jun 2008 18:50 | Tags: British Film Magazine Empire Film Magazine Film Magazines And Film Journals Film Review Sight And Sound Total Film Vertigo | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem
The Critic Proof Film
The Rise of the "Critic Proof" Film: Commerce Rules OK?
Mark Lawson had an interesting article in today's Guardian which I also discovered on the Guardian website. As an important critic who presents such programmes as the BBC Front Row it is was very disturbing to find that he, along with other critics, was being constructively excluded from giving a review of Sex and The City which was launched in London a few days ago. Critics are obviously an increasing danger to the "high added value" (overpaid 'celebs') fare which Hollywood is serving up to fairly uncritical audiences who are seduced by the marketing aura of celebrity and massive PR, publicity and profiling campaigns. These can rise to as much as 50% of a Hollywood film's costs.
Lawson, who wrote in 2006 on the 'critic proof film' in relation to the Da Vinci Codes, cites Jason Solomons who writes for The Observer and the Sunday Mail
"Refusing to hold previews is increasingly common," says Solomons, whose irritation is institutional as well as personal: he's just become chairman of the film section of the Critics' Circle. "It used to be a rare event, the most famous case being The Avengers with Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes. In fact, that film not being given a press screening was a news story. But now, such an event, even for a big film with big stars, is greeted with a shrug of indifference."
Lawson argues that the rise of the World Wide Web and the has contributed to the attempts to shut out professional critics from the media loop of production and consumption.
online comment is responsible in two different ways for the new resistance to professional critics. The first is that the spread of the web means that a cruel early review can have national or even global impact far beyond the range of the site on which it appears. Secondly, publicists now gamble that blogging and fan site comment may create a kinder environment for new releases than members of the Critics' Circle. In theatre, the Nimax group, owner of five London playhouses, is planning to survey theatre-goers and use their comments on the website instead of those grouchy newspaper guys.
Certainly cultural artefacts are likely to get much higher exposure much more swiftly via various platforms on the web and certainly social networking sites can spread gossip and opinion extremely fast. However there is a slight problem with Lawson's argument for as he points out towards the end of his article:
...cinema's main target audience: 15-24-year-olds seeking, in two senses, a big release on a Friday or Saturday night.
However, how many 15-24 year olds actually read any form of serious criticism - hardly any I suspect. But then I don't think that that many read any serious film blogs. I have a slight concern here in that this is the second item within the last month that bloggers about film and cinema have been under attack from professional critics. Nick James the editor of Sight and Sound being another important person within the film critical establishment who attacked bloggers in the June edition page 5, as well as sites like Rotten Tomatoes (which I believe is under Murdoch control nowadays). If the new democratic rights to publish are undermining the position of critics (I don't think this is the case) then Lawson is in danger of developing a grouchy defence of his and other colleagues work, however it is undermined by a few palpably ignorant bloggers which is the impression being given at least this is just an elitist trench-digging exercise and is untenable. Let's face it if critics had that much influence over audiences then presumably half this genre junk targeted at impressionable youth wouldn't ever get made.
Critics Bite Back
Lawson draws attention to one disgruntled critics attitude to the film The Happening:
Last weekend, News of the World film pundit Robbie Collin explained to his readers: "I wasn't allowed to review The Happening here last week in case I 'gave away the big secret'. But now it's been out for a couple of days, I can. So here it is: The Happening is a load of shite."
Apart from the fact that it takes one to know one so as to speak this puts this particular critic in a hard place. Does he say that anyway about the usual third rate generic offerings that come along or does he normally bite his lip and play the game?
What Now For the Film Critic?
Lawson again notes Solomons who is effectively saying the writing is on the wall for film critics. It is hard to disagree with the following statement which asserts perhaps a little pessimistically that the critics days are numbered:
"The worry," says Jason Solomons, "is that film companies will now just prefer to advertise on TV to let the target audience know their product's arrived. They save a few quid on setting up screenings and avoid any negative reviews. The old idea that all publicity is regarded as good publicity has simply gone"
However on a note of optimism critics can now feel much more at liberty to trash the films when they finally do see them. As film companies are highly dependent on the video and TV aftermarket with the cinema acting as more of a shop window, making sure these things have the briefest possible afterlife and have wooden stakes thrust into them is an honourable and necessary role for the critic. Forget the first few days of a release of entirely forgettable films they aren't worth the candle.
Here are some snippets from the Londonist about the future of the critic in the digital age which included Nick Jasmes and Pete Bradsahw from the Guardian. Andrew Pulver in the Guardian also covered this discussion:
What we found frustrating was that both members of the panel and the audience had an incredibly unsophisticated knowledge of blogging and online journalism. More than once online writing seemed to conjure up an image of lonely spotty teenage fanboys, wanking in bad grammar about the movie they had just seen, in between whining posts about how misunderstood they are.
Editorial rigour is, in fact, even more keenly followed in online publishing because of the speed and the means available for writers, readers and editors to respond to one another: if an article is released with incorrect information or highly contentious material, it can be a matter of minutes to react and amend. This is a luxury, a privilege and an advantage that print journalism and publishing does not have, and we are keen to emphasise that online journalism and publishing is the better medium at this present time for editorial discipline. Rather than the unbridled, anarchic, grammatically incorrect writing that is so widely presumed when blogging is considered, there are many out there striving to emulate and even exceed the disciplines and ethics of print journalism.
Andrew Pulver's last paragrah however offers a salutary warning about the virtues and vices of blogging:
Steve Hunt, who works for the British arm of the Hollywood studio Paramount. "Blogging is, for us, just another carriage, a way to get through to our audience."
The reality is that any media platform can become subsumed, the point is to find trustworthy consistent critics. It may take the blogosphere a long time to reach that standard. I can't say that I can imagine this blog getting around to dealing with Sex and The City. I'm sure they will all cope in their Louis Vuiton outfits anyway.
: 23 Jun 2008 20:56 | Tags: Andrew Pulver Critic Film Proof Film Critics Mark Lawson Nick James Sex And The City The Critic In The Digital Era | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem
European Film Festivals
With the ever increasing numbers of festivals emerging this cannot hope to be a comprehensive list as that would be a full-time occupation. The purpose of the page is to highlight the importance of film festivals and to encourage fans of older and slightly more off-beat film to kep an eye out for these festivals. The page by its very nature will be something of a work in progress rather than creating an attempt at closure.
The growing number of film festivals in the towns and cities of Europe is a very important development from the perspective of defending national cinemas and pan-European cinema in general from being overwhelmed by the industrial might and marketing power of Hollywood and the subservience of the Multiplex exhibition system. As more and more emphasis is placed upon cultural tourism and cultural planning so more and more festivals are springing up especially as state film policy such as the UK Film Council's strategy is making positive steps to encourage this. Not only do these festivals provide an opportunity for people to travel around europe and meet like-minded people but they provide people in the localities and regions a cultural hub to enjoy films that would be difficult for them to see in a cinema. With European cinema having such a magnificent heritage of high-quality films there is a huge amount of material to draw on to make each festival a unique event. This ability to call upon a long-tail of films provides many opportunities for people to think about and discuss films, directors, themes, performers and movements in ways that for all the wonders of the internet cannot be replicated. Whilst researching the Mike Leigh pages for this site I came across La Rochelle Festival which this year amongst other things is screening some Mike Leigh films. Given that getting his films into mainstream cinemas in Britain is a major feat this puts all the arguments about Hollywood in perspective.
Whilst film festivals like Cannes and Venice are for the Glitterarty (!) this isn't relevant for large numbers of filmgoers who have a love of film and want to experience them on a large screen quite possibly in the company of others. With digital technologies rapidly improving and coming down in cost hopefully we could see the building of smaller scale cinemas which are more relevant ot localities. These would help maintain a discourse including a physical presence of quality cinema and its audience which is more challenging than the average genre film. These audiences would be able to experience festivals across Europe exchanging experiences, ideas etc. For this to be achieved European film policy needs to have in mind exhibitionary and audience development running alongside distribution. The other things that film financing bodies need to be prepared for is not the quick return on capital demanded by Hollywood investors.
The very best films can have a long life measured in decades rather than in days. Given that it is still impossible to get many European classic films of DVD in the UK and assuming that this situation is replicated across Europe this is a shameful issue that needs addressing. Hopefully readers of this blog will use opportunities to persuade policy makers that there needs to be a stimulus to general film culture that goes deeper than just boosting tourism important though that is. If the European project is to generate deeper meanings it is essential that this takes place on cultural grounds rather than being forced through by politicians against people's will. Although this blog is entirely in favour of developing closer links between European countries the agenda needs to be driven from below rather than by dictat from above.
Film Festivals tend to be divided into two types. Ones which are more aimed at audiences and those which are primarily about screening new materials in order to raise profiles and do business. The latter ones are more international in their nature. Bearing this in mind it is interesting to see how the UK Film Council is assigning £740,000 over the next three years to build up film festivals although there is certainly commercial intent behind the initiative:
The funding from the UK Film Council's Film Festivals Fund (national strand) will give thousands more people the opportunity to enjoy more films, learn about film and meet filmmakers. The cash boost will also help to raise the profile of British film at home and abroad and contribute to the development of a more competitive UK film industry.
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Film Festivals in the UK
The French Film Festival UK is an annual event and takes places across a number of cities. 2008 saw the 16th French Film Festival UK take place from 7 - 20 March 2008 in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Cardiff, Warwick, Birmingham, Manchester and London.
The Filmstock Film Festival
The Filmstock Film Festival at Luton looks like more of an audience event fun and whacky as well. They also ensure that there is Fair Trade produce only on sale
Image of the Luton Hat Factory now regenerated to a post-industrial cultural industries agenda. This is the venue for the Filmstock Film Festival
Its over now but watch out for next year's.
Bristol the Encounters short film Festival
The 14th edition of the Encounters Short Film Festival takes place in the wonderful city of Bristol, UK from 18th - 23rd November and once again we will be screening the very very best short films from around the universe!'The big thinking short film festival' the Guardian. Encounters offers an important platform for both new and established filmmakers to showcase their work and is the place to be inspired, to talk technology, share ideas and make new connections. 6 days of screenings, special events, workshops and masterclasses and those all important networking opportunities: the parties!
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CORNWALL FILM FESTIVAL 6th - 9th November 2008
The Cornwall Film Festival is an annual festival dedicated to exhibiting and marketing Cornish filmmaking and developing relationships with the wider industry. The festival offers local and national premieres, master-classes, workshops, discussions and networking events for everyone from the enthusiast to the professional.
Bradford International Film Festival
Alex Cox attended the 2008 Bradford Film Festival with his new film Searchers 2.
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Edinburgh International film Festival
The UK Film Council has given the Edinburgh International Film Festival a large award to try and establish it as the World's leading festival for new talent.
The 2009 Festival which will run from February 12th to 22nd.
Having just held its fourth event the Glasgow Festival has recorded another great leap forward in audience attendance with final figures expected to nudge 20,000 admissions. The festival lasts for eleven days.
Sheffield International Documentary Festival
The first Sheffield International Documentary Festival was held in 1994. The festival was launched as a two pronged event - an international film festival and a conference for all professionals working in documentary film and television production. he idea of launching a UK-based international documentary festival was the vision of Peter Symes of BBC TV Features Bristol. He felt that it was incredible that there was no festival in the UK celebrating the work of documentary makers and no forum at which the makers could meet to argue and debate their craft, especially considering that Britain has a long tradition of making some of the very best documentaries in the world.
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Picture from the Times BFI London Film Festival reception at the Cannes Film Festival, Sunday 18 May 2008, Hôtel Palais Stéphanie. From left to right: Greg Dyke (BFI Chairman); Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP (Minister for Culture, Creative Industries & Tourism); Amanda Nevill (Director of BFI); Sandra Hebron (Artistic Director, The Times BFI London Film Festival)
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Seville Film Festival held in November. Look out fot the latest information.
The reputable film studies publishing company has established a festivals magazine for cinemagoers and film makers called Films and Festivals which provides much useful information and news.
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Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s. Geoffrey Nowell–Smith
Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. 2008. Continuum Press
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The book cover is from Godard's Le Mépris (Contempt) featuring Michel Piccoli and Bridget Bardot. A film in which Godard was forced to make a voyeuristic take of Bardot to satisfy the producers need for salacious images. Godard of course makes a film ironising the role of the American producer and their insatiable commercialism amongst other things.
If only there were more film studies books written like this! This is one of those admirable books which has been written by a leading expert but combines a lightness of touch, a synoptic vision able to draw useful comparisons between countries, directors and films and avoids recourse to over-theoreticism much beloved in certain quarters of academia - not that Nowell-Smith isn't able to hold his own in this sphere. It quite simply isn't the point of the book. It is the sort of book which European Cinema enthusiasts desperately need more of. Far too often books of essays cobbled together by an editor come out in order to satisfy RAE type publishing requirements providing disparate although often insightful analysis of individual films at the expense of coherence. This is increasingly divorcing academics from real audiences interested in Euopean films both past and present. If new audiences are to be attracted to these films in a context which goes beyond the usual academic parcelling up of the period into 'national movements' combined with lots of textual analysis then this is the sort of book which needs to be written. No hagiographical commentaries, no over-weighty attempts at 'theory' and no misplaced and tedious attempts to incorporate everything into a 'postmodern' discourse. This is a pleasurable and insightful read.
There is often little attempt to contextualise films either to other aspects of cinema contemporary to the times being written about or to the social, political,economic and cultural tendencies, which define the cinematic moment. Nowell-Smith overcomes all these hurdles adroitly. He moves from the enigmatic representations of Antonioni through the gritty Brit documentary realism to the joie de vivre of the nouvelle vague seamlessly. The changing narrative structures, the changing situation in censorship and the key production concerns, and issues such as Vietnam, Algeria, the Hungarian Uprising, and the Suez Crisis are all brought into play in a highly relevant and readable way.
This is a book which avoids the kiss of intellectual death embedded within the text book mentality prevalent at pre-university level as it contains individual vision. It avoids the patronising 'bite-size' mentality of most of these but it doesn't make assumptions about knowledge. It carefully explains things as it goes along whilst still maintaining the rhythms of a proper book. It is the best overview of the period I have come across, providing those who saw some of the films at the time and who still have fond memories of them an excellent route into reviewing the films. It wil eanbel them to place the films into a wider pattern rather than having a strange hotch-potch of memories which never slotted together at the time. For those just gaining an interest in the period it provides an excellent introduction and opens up a myriad of paths to follow. It is a book which I can comfortably recommend for enthusiastic A2 students and undergraduates. Whilst it is unlikely to hold many surprises for the seasoned academic it is clear that they are not the target audience.
From Truffaut's groundbreaking first feature 400 Blows which won at Cannes and launched the French Nouvelle Vague
European Film Studies has for a long time needed more books like this which have the coherence of a single author overview underpinned by the kind of specialist knowledge neccessary to give great depth to what on the surface seems to be a simple statement. It comes thoroughly recommended for all librarians for school, college and university first years as well as for the general cinephile who might well get to see many of the wide range of films referenced but find difficulty in making any kind of overall sense to them outside of the pleasures of the text itself.
Italy made a transition from older directors such as Visconti to vibrant new ones such as Marco Bellocchio whose Fists in the Pocket (1965) was a hard hitting angry portrait of a dysfunctional upper middle-class family
Nowell Smith also manages to bring together strands between movements and points out that Italy didn't need a 'new wave' in the way other countries did because being the leading filmmaking country in Europe from the neorealist period until the waning of the new waves at the end of the 1970s there was a continuum between the older styles and directors and the newer ones rather than the attempts to make a radical break with the past. Neorealism had largely achieved this with the fascism which went before it.
Anna Magnani in Pasolini's Mamma Roma 1962. "A Rome which was a microcosm of every possible contrast between new and old, rich and poor, developed and primitive, north and south" (Nowell-Smith, 2008, p156)
One aspect I liked was Nowell-Smith's little asides about Stalinists and dogmatic Trotskyists. Also his knowledge about British political changes on the left as Western Marxism was born out of the vacuums left because of the disgust with the Soviet crushing of Hungary in 1956 was of interest. As someone who is currently in the throes of writing an institutional history of the British Film Institute (BFI) his comments about using Penelope Houston and Lambert from the cinephile magazine Sequence which had gone bust after 14 issues was amusing:
Dennis Foreman, who had grand plans to give more focus to the lively but dispersed film culture he saw emerging all around him, offered Lambert and Houston a golden opportunity: forget trying to keep Sequence alive and instead take over and revitalise the institute's established but stodgy magazine Sight and Sound. (Nowell-Smith, 2008 p 31)
Rita Tushingham in Tony Richardson's Taste of Honey (1961). "A Taste of Honey is the most 'Free Cinema' and also the most 'New Wave' (in the French sense) of the British realist films. It is the lightest in touch, the nearest to improvisation, and the best rooted in its chosen setting." (Nowell-Smith 2008, p128)
Nowell-Smith's wide-ranging knowledge serves the reader well for on the previous page to the one mentioned above he he succinctly brings in what he considers an important moment in the development of French cinema which involved getting the backing of Cocteau and founding a high profile cine-club Objectif 49 which opened in May 1949 and the establishing of a festival the Festival du film Maudit (Festival of the ill-fated film) in June of that year in Biarritz. The festival showed many films that had been banned in the past such as Visconti's Ossessione, and the Brecht/Dudow collaboration Kuhle Wampe. The festival also showed many other fringe type of films. There was an underlying hope of unifying the cinephiles and the left in France although this had to wait in the event. It was an interesting insight which isn't provided by a large book on French cinema Williams' Republic of Images for example.
Nowell-Smith organises the book in a very useful way. He briefly reviews 'What Were the Sixties?' concisely and realistically cutting through the nostalgia which makes them 'Swinging' and summarising the situation well. He then reviews the general contextual situation in the 1950s in the build up to the new waves, and also reviews the changing film culture and the importance of new criticism within that culture as poles of difference emerge in France through Cahiers du Cinema and in the UK through Sequence. He then proceeds to examine the new cinemas themselves taking into account the tensions and contradictions inherent within the various systems of censorship, the changing narrative structures and technological issues such as new zoom lenses and the introduction of wide-screen.
Nowell-Smith succincntly runs thorugh the changing narrative priorities that were emerging at the time. instead of the purposive heros driving the plot cinemas of the 1960s began to examine life without clear purpose. Antonioni can be seen as an extreme example of this notes Nowell-Smith (p 104):
The new cinemas everywhere are peopled with characters who either do not know what they are supposed to be doing or are impotent to achieve their goal.
Monica Vitti on the deserted volcanic island in L'avventura (1960)
Nowell-Smith then reviews the film movements of the time, British Social Realism / Free cinema, The French Nouvelle Vague and then the situtation in Poland and Czechoslovakia as well as looking at the changing circumstances in Latin America partially stimulated by the Castro led revolution in Cuba. Finally Nowell-Smith looks at the role of the auteur through brief synopses of Godard, Antonioni and Pasolini.
Nowell-Smith has a nice concluding paragraph which will hopefully encourage older readers to revisit the films and younger ones to try the films out as more and more become available on DVD:
Rather than die, then, the new cinemas dispersed. But they had created a legacy, even more widespread than that of neo-realism a decade and more earlier. And unlike neo-realism, they stand today forty years on, as representatives of modernity. More valuable still, the modernity they bespeak is liberation. and the message of modernity as liberation is not one locked up in a bottle: it may no longer be available in the cinemas, but it is there for the asking when you unwrap that DVD and put it in your player. (Nowell-Smith 2008, p 216)
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This page will provide internal links to film studies book reviews from Kinoeye it will also provide external links to good quality film studies reviews when these are discovered.
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The French New Wave: A New Look: Naomi Greene 2007 Wallflower Press: A Critical Review
Claude Lanzman’s Shoah: Key Essays. Edited by Stuart Liebman, Oxford University Press: 2007.Review
Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City. 2006. Mark Shiel. Wallflower Press Short Cuts. Review
My Beautiful Laundrette.Christine Geraghty. 2005.London: I.B. Tauris £9.99. Review
100 British Documentaries by Patrick Russell British Film Institute 2007: Review
Making Waves: New Cinema of the 1960s. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. 2008. Continuum Press
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History on Film/Film on History R. A. Rosenstone.California Institute of Technology Pearson Education, Harlow, 2006 .James Chapman
Scope Magazine. The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan. Eric Cazdyn.
Scope Magazine. Les Diaboliques (French Film Guides) Susan Hayward
Scope Magazine. Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan In Hollywood and Out (Revised Edition). Slavoj Zizek
Scope Magazine. Review by Graeme Harper. Hollywood and Europe: Economics, Culture and National Identity 1945-1995. By Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Steven Ricci (eds.). London: BFI
Scope Magazine review by David Inglis: Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo (eds.). Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
Scope Magazine Review by Karen Boyle. The Film Studies Dictionary By Steven Blandford, Barry Keith Grant & Jim Hillier. London: Arnold
Scope Magazine. Reviews of critical analyses of: La Haine, La Reine Margot & Leos Carax
Scope Magazine. Les Diaboliques by Susan Hayward
Scope Magazine. Jean Vigo by Michael Temple
Film Philosophy Review by Davina Quinlivan: Caroline Bainbridge (2007). The Cinema of Lars von Trier: Authenticity and Artifice. Wallflower Press: London
Film Philosophy by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein Review by : Stacy Gillis. Ed. (2005). The Matrix Triology: Cyberpunk Reloaded. Wallflower Press: London and New York
Robert Baird. Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic by Dan Auiler. St. Martin's Press
Review by David Seed. Fredric Jameson. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. Verso Books, 2007
(Although not strictly film studies Jameson's criticism is very interdisciplinary. Given the importance of SF as a genre in film as well as fiction it seems sensible to include it here.)
Reviewed by Nathan Abrams. Linda Ruth Williams and Michael Hammond, eds., Contemporary American Cinema. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006.
Review by Yannis Tzioumakis. The End of Cinema as we Know it: American Film in the Nineties. Jon Lewis. Pluto Press, 2002.
Review by Jan Uhde. The Film Studies Dictionary. By Steve Blandford, Barry Keith Grant, Jim HillierStud.
Arnold Publishers (London) and Oxford University Press (New York), 2001
Film Studies Textbooks
Personally I have a distinct dislike of the 'Textbook' they frequently treat the reader like a a complete idiot and do bitesize spoonfeeding with little exercises which seem artificial but are a publishing staple. If more blogs and websites like this one were developed they could become a thing of the past however teachers in the UK at least like to cling to the textbooks. It means you can set studnets something to do when you've run out of ideas I think. Nevertheless they are in common useage. I came across a very usefult blog page which had decided to do an overview of the availble film studies textbooks.
The Category D Blog is the place to go.
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Architecture and cinema have an interrelated history: World renowned directors such as Fritz Lang and Segei Eisenstein had an architectural training. Increasing architecture is being recognised as a media form as well as having many other facets to it. Similarly cinema as a media form requires exhibitionary space in which to function. The architecture of cinemas has been an important development especially in the 20th century. How important cinemas will remain as exhibition spaces remains to be seen, just as what is actually shown in them is now possibly about to change as real time HD streaming of live events is become an everyday reality. On this page there are some videos representing architecture. A vast range of these can be viewed at the Architectural Videos Blog and for those with a very strong interest in architecture this site comes highly recommended.
Daniel Liebeskind: The Jewish Museum Berlin
This is a hugely important building and one which links into the film Shoah. You can also find a recent book of articles on Shoah on this site.
Walter Gropius: The Bauhaus
The Bauhaus can in many ways be considered as an iconic building symbolising a return to a discourse of optimism and progress in the Weimar Republic. It was built soon after the Dawes plan was instituted to stabilise the German economy which had been suffering from severe hyperinflation. The revived economy, at least in the areas of lighter industry, was the perfect market for industrial designs; an area in which the Bauhaus soon came to be a world leader. Gropius was both an architect in his own right as well as being the director of the Bauhaus although architecture wasn't actually taught there during his time as director. However several students worked in his private office. The type of modernism with which the Bauhaus aesthetic cam to be linked was New Objectivity (Neuesachlichkeit) steered clear of Soviet Constructivism and also broke with the various strands of Expressionism prevalent in the Weimar aesthetic consciousness after the First World War. This was very much an anti-industrial feeling generated because of the mechanised mass killing of the First World War. There is of course a link between the Bauhaus and the Jewish Museum because the Bauhaus was eventually forced to leave its site in Dessau because it was persecuted by the local Nazis. It closed down very shortly after the Reichstag Fire and the takeover of the Nazis in the Spring of 1933.
More to come later.
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In terms of specifications, always prioritize RAM over storage space, and storage space over CPU clock speed.
Always max our your RAM. In this case, 16GB is the maximum.
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Don’t bother upgrading the video card unless you also do high end photo and video editing (Adobe Photoshop & Final Cut Pro X).
Lastly, the 2016 MacBook Pro has received a lot of price-related criticism. The lowest priced stock configuration starts at $2399 compared to the previous generation’s $1999 entry point. If the 15″ MacBook Pro is over your budget, do consider getting a 13″ model instead. You’ll lose the quad-core CPU, but gain a lot of the storage price for the same price or less.
The 2016 13″ MacBook Pro is also a very capable machine. Before I purchased a 2016 15″ MacBook Pro, I was programming and performing on a 13″ MacBook Pro from 2013. Don’t let the compact form factor fool you! The only reason I upgraded to a 15″ model this time around is the decrease in size thanks to the shrunken bezel.
The latest 13″ model comes in two flavors — Touch Bar and no Touch Bar. I recommend skipping the no Touch Bar version because the CPU maxes out at 2.4GHz. Keep in mind quad-core processors aren’t an option on the 13″ MacBook Pros. Thus, a clock speed upgrade to 3.1GHz or 3.3GHz on the Touch Bar version isn’t a bad idea. As with the 15,” max out the RAM to 16GB and decide on storage based on your needs.
If you’re putting together a keyboard rig for a long-term or sitdown gig, a desktop can be a more cost effective solution. Apple has three desktop computers — the iMac, Mac Pro, and Mac Mini.
In my opinion, the 21.5″ iMac w/4K Retina Display is the best computer for MainStage if you’re looking for a desktop solution. It’s configurable with quad-core i7 processors, high enough capacity SSD storage, and enough RAM. While the larger 27″ iMac supports up to 32GB RAM and 1TB of flash storage, try imagining such a large computer on stage — what an eyesore.
The 21.5″ iMac with a 3.3GHz quad-core i7 processor, 16GB RAM, and 512GB of flash storage comes out to $2299, which is significantly cheaper than a comparable MacBook Pro.
I’ve used the 21.5″ iMac in several shows on Broadway and Las Vegas, and it’s become my go-to option if redundancy isn’t a requirement.
My current sitdown gig in Las Vegas. I use an iMac running Keyscape and Kontakt.
The Mac Pro, in its current state, represents a terrible value for a MainStage computer. It hasn’t received a proper update in years, and contains useless components (dual video card) for musicians that drive up the cost of the machine. If you really need a CPU with more than four cores, you’re better off building a Hackintosh. Your wallet will thank you.
If you’re set on building a keyboard rig around the Mac Pro, there are a few associated costs to consider. First, you’ll need to purchase a monitor display. Next, you’ll need to get a keyboard and mouse — because Apple knows you can afford it after dropping $3000 on the computer. Lastly, you’ll probably want to figure out how to mount the Mac Pro in a rack. Sonnet makes a cool-looking 4U mounting kit.
2012 was the golden age of the Mac Mini. In the good ol’ days, the Mini was configurable with a quad-core processor. This made it an extremely attractive option for redundant keyboard rigs — two decently powerful computers side by side in a 1U rack space.
Two Mac Minis in a 1U Rack Space
Unfortunately, Apple killed the quad-core option in the 2014 refresh. Thus, we’re left with dual-core Minis that are severely underpowered for today’s most demanding sample libraries and plugins.
Realistically, a dual-core Mac Mini is more than capable of running dozens of instances of MainStage’s stock plugins. With proper programming (aliasing, minimizing insert FX, using global reverbs and delays, etc.), the Mac Mini can even run a few third party plugins. For example, I’ve used Synthogy’s Ivory and IK Multimedia’s Amplitube on a dual-core Mac Mini.
Rehearsal for a show in NYC. There are two Mac Minis in the rack on the left.
Building a redundant keyboard rig means you’ll need two computers, two audio interfaces, a KVM switch, and an audio switcher like the Radial SW8. These extra components essentially double the price of the rig, so a fairly cheap computer like the Mac Mini is an attractive option. If you’re not looking to build a redundant rig, there’s little reason to get a Mac Mini.
If you’re looking to build a serious keyboard rig running the latest third party instruments and plugins, get a 15″ MacBook Pro or 21.5″ iMac (w/quad core i7 processor). If you don’t foresee yourself using resource-intensive plugins, a 13″ MacBook Pro will work just fine. If you power requirements aren’t satisfied by Apple’s high end MacBook Pro and iMac offerings, look into building a souped up Hackintosh.
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IFLA Global Vision Africa passes the torch to MENA region
After the exciting start of IFLA's Global Vision Regional Workshops earlier this month in North America, our journey continued to Africa and now on to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
From 14 to 15 May, IFLA held a successful Global Vision Regional Workshop Africa at the Djeuga Palace Hotel in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Over the course of these two days, African library community leaders representing 37 countries took part in inclusive and enthusiastic discussions on how a united library field can tackle to challenges of the future.
Next stop: Alexandria, Egypt!
In keeping with a model set at the conclusion of our first workshop, our African colleagues asked IFLA Secretary General Gerald Leitner to forward the following greetings and inspired advice to our colleagues in the Middle East region, thereby passing the torch of IFLA’s Global Vision Discussion from Africa to the Middle East:
IFLA Global Vision regional workshop participants in Yaoundé, Cameroon
Carry on the vision!
Use the power of the great library of Alexandria to lead the profession!
Be passionate for a common future!
Our common future of libraries depends on you!
Be involved and show your passion during your workshop!
The next IFLA Global Vision Regional Workshop will take place from 21-22 May 2017 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt. We can’t wait to continue this Global Vision journey to the Middle East!
Stay tuned for more: globalvision.ifla.org
About the IFLA Global Vision
IFLA is facilitating a Global Vision discussion through a series of high-level meetings and workshops in different parts of the world following our kick-off event in Athens, Greece on 4 April 2017. Face-to-face and online, future-oriented conversations will be taking place throughout the year. See the Global Vision discussion website: globalvision.ifla.org for more details, and join the conversation on Twitter and Instagram using the #iflaGlobalVision hashtag.
Together we create the future: Join us!
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VENOM: PAUL FRANKLIN – OVERALL VFX SUPERVISOR – DNEG
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In 2015, Paul Franklin talked to us about DNEG’s work on INTERSTELLAR. He then worked on MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION, THE ONES BELOW, CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR, BLADE RUNNER 2049 (as Visual Effects Creative Director) and FIRST MAN (as Visual Effects Consultant).
How did you and DNEG get involved on this show?
Sony approached DNEG and myself in the spring of 2017. I read the script and met with Ruben Fleischer – what struck me was the chance to make a comic book movie with a difference, where the character is not so clear cut as in a lot of the other movies that are out there. Ruben wanted the film to be exciting and engaging, but he also wanted it to have an edge, that marked it out from the rest of the field.
What was your feeling to work on such an iconic character?
Over the course of my career I have been lucky enough to work on a number of iconic characters – my focus is always the story as it’s important not to let yourself get overwhelmed by the provenance of the character. But I always keep in mind that the characters mean so much to fans out there who are heavily invested in them, so whilst it’s important to serve the needs of the audience as a whole, it’s also key to make sure that you respect the fans whenever you can!
How was the collaboration with director Ruben Fleischer?
Ruben was great. VENOM was the first time that he had worked on a movie with so much VFX and where VFX was essential to the story telling, but Ruben was clear from the outset as to what kind of movie he wanted to make and the story that he wanted to put on the screen. He referenced a lot of the current crop of superhero films, but also talked about classics like John Carpenter’s THE THING and AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, which became a bit of a touchstone for me as it’s a film that I grew up with in my teens during the 1980s. Ruben was never overly-prescriptive – he pointed us in the right direction and we got on with realising the VFX for the film.
What was his expectations and approaches about the visual effects?
Ruben was clear that he wanted VENOM as a movie to be able to hold its head up with all the other comic book films that are out there, but he also was keen that we shouldn’t just imitate what’s out there. He was keen that Venom on the screen should be as unique a presence as he is in the comic books.
How did you organize the work with VFX Supervisor Sheena Duggal and your VFX Producer?
Sheena came on board for a few during prep to shoot the San Francisco aerial sequences and also to help start the prep for the extensive second unit action shoots. Sheena then rejoined the show when we started post in the spring of 2018 – the main VFX work was carried out at DNEG’s main office in London which is where I am usually based so I went back to the UK to work with the team on a day to day basis whilst Sheena focused on maintaining VFX’s relationship with editorial in LA, working with Ruben and the editors on a daily basis. We also had a small in-house team of compositors handling 2D-only work in LA so Sheena looked after those guys as well. Later on we had a previs team set up in the LA post production office and Sheena worked with them as well. Mark Soper, our VFX producer was based in LA for post, dealing with the day to day running of the show and working with Sony. I spent a lot of time shuttling back and forth between London and LA making sure that everything was working well between the two sites.
How did you split the work among the DNEG offices?
DNEG London served as the hub for the show with work also being carried out in Mumbai and Vancouver. Sequences and even shots were shared across the sites with regular daily reviews carried out both offline and live via cineSync and a DNEG proprietary tool called Clip which forms the heart of the playback/review system. All the sites are linked on a common network/database so shots and data could be transferred between the sites allowing us to move work about efficiently. All the work is tracked via a proprietary DNEG database called Ivy which is managed through Shotgun and a proprietary suite of viewing/management tools. Each site could run shots from end to end, but sometimes it made sense to put the work in specific sites where the expertise was concentrated, so for instance, the majority of creature animation was in London, but we also had animation teams in Mumbai handling tentacles and a separate animation team in Vancouver working on standalone scenes.
Can you tell us more about the previz and postviz work?
During prep previz was split primarily between DNEG’s in-house team who handled the apartment tentacle fight and the bike chase. The Third Floor in Los Angeles and – to a lesser extent – in London looked after a number of other standalone scenes but their main work was the epic fight between Venom and Riot at the rocket base. All previs was sent over to Atlanta where the production was based and I worked with the VFX editorial team to put the sequences together. As the Venom/Riot fight developed we extended it with animatics that came out of DNEG’s art department which defined the look and scope of the extraordinary “merge fight” where the symbiotes blend together.
How did you work with the art department for the design of Venom?
The character design for Venom was initially worked on by Legacy Studio. Their designs were then taken by DNEG’s art department who continued the process before handing off to the DNEG animation and creature teams who finalised the design.
Can you explain in detail about his creation?
We spent a lot of time looking at the way that different artists had approached the character over the years. It soon became apparent that each artist had a unique take on the character and that graphic stylisations were used to show Venom’s amorphous abilities, something that we wouldn’t have the luxury of doing. However, we needed to honour the intention of the artists and speak to the characteristics that the fans were hoping to see in our interpretation. We devised an approach underpinned by a relatively traditional character animation rig which allowed us to block out the scenes in a fairly standard way, but which was then enhanced through the use of a complex creature FX process – at its most minimal, the FX created the strands of goo around Venom’s mouth and the rippling edges of his eyes, but at its most extreme it produced tentacles, shields and lattices of goo that extended the character’s abilities.
How does his dark and reflective skins affects your work?
In the comics Venom is usually rendered as a silhouette with limited highlights to define his body shape – there’s no real indication as to what Venom’s surface texture actually is and certainly no consistency across the few images that do give a sense of what his surface might actually be. We decided to go with a very slick wet surface, but rather than make it super smooth we wanted to hint at the complex biology within the character so we devised a complex multi-layered look with areas of varying wetness and viscosity, this helped us to avoid him looking like he was wrapped in foil or vinyl. We realised pretty quickly that we would have to light him primarily through reflection rather than direct illumination to avoid him “graying out” and going low-contrast. The primary reflections in the live action scenes came from the HDRI maps captured on set, but we generally found that they made him look like he was in the middle of sports arena with floodlights all around him so we had to dial them back quite a bit and then add subtle reflection cards to bring out features such as his jawline or to get a read on the wrinkling of his forehead as he changed expression. We found that every shot was a bespoke setup as even slight changes in his position would greatly affect the way that his surface reflections read.
VENOM PAUL FRANKLIN – OVERALL VFX SUPERVISOR – DNEG
Can you tell us more about his rigging and animation?
The underlying rig for Venom’s body was relatively straight forwards with muscle and skin simulations being pretty essential in conveying his physical presence. Over time we figured out which poses looked best and how to make the most of Venom’s considerable physique in the shots. We quickly found that we needed to stay away from poses and animations which made him look too much like a man in a suit!
Did you received specific indications and references for his animation?
For some of the live action scenes we had a very tall stunt double who served as a framing guide and who gave some good interaction reference for the shots where Venom was holding onto other actors in the scene, and we looked at a lot of the poses in the comics, doing our best to incorporate them in the animation, but for the most part it was down to our animation team to figure out his body language and make him work within the context of the shots. Venom is so powerful and so fast that there wasn’t that much that could be done on set for that other than rely on the timing guides produced in animation.
Can you tell us more about his facial animation?
The big challenge was Venom’s face which, whilst being roughly human-like with a clearly defined mouth and eyes, but the extreme stylisation of his features posed quite a few animation problems. Venom’s eyes were especially challenging as they are so huge, covering a sizeable part of the upper skull – the eyes had to be able to slide over the curvature of the skull whilst providing recognisable shapes that would sell Venom’s acting without looking weird, effectively bringing the stylisation of the comic books into the “real” world of the film. Another big thing to deal with – literally – was Venom’s distinctive lascivious tongue. In the comics the tongue is ever-present, flailing around all the time in expressive curling shapes. However, we had a lot of dialogue to deliver so we needed to pull the tongue back, keeping it for moments of emphasis such as in the fight sequences – we couldn’t have the tongue out all the time as it just didn’t work with his speech.
The symbiotes have specific and constantly moving shapes. How did you handle this aspect?
The representations of the symbiotes in the comics were almost abstract, with no real consistency in any of the drawings – we decided to embrace that so we spent a lot of time looking at things like time-lapse photography of slime moulds, footage of under sea creatures such as jellyfish and microscopy of things like amoeba which had structural aspects in common with what we intended for the symbiotes. We eventually developed an animation rig that enabled the animators to animate a constantly shifting central body that could move in any direction, climb any surface and adopt any shape. Once the shot was blocked out it was then handed off to the FX animation team who added complex layers of rolling tissue that enhanced and extended the underlying animation in the rig. Complex strands of connective tissue constantly formed and reformed between all the moving components and layers of fluid simulation added a satisfyingly gloopy aspect that straddled the divide between something solid and liquid.
Did you use procedural tools for their animations?
The FX animation team used layered simulations to create all of the symbiotes’ surface effects and to give the sense of an inner structure that could be seen through the apertures and orifices in the creatures’ bodies.
How did you create the shots in which we see the symbiotes eyes on the hosts?
The eyeball effect was a combination of careful rotoscoping to isolate the eyes and then layers of texture animation were added within the matte area – all of this was created within Nuke rather than in the full 3D toolset. Depending on which symbiote was being featured the colours would change – Riot was the trickiest as it was difficult to sell the idea of gunmetal in the eyes without them going grey and dull, in the end we added a bit of a silver sparkle to keep it metallic.
Can you tell us more about the really quick apparitions of Venom when he ears ultrasonics?
The “sonic freakout” effect went through a number of iterations. At the outset we had a full three-dimensional effect extruding out of the skin and some of that idea can still be seen in the moment when Eddie is first affected by the sounds coming from the MRI machine, but for the main effect we decided to go with something a little more ambiguous with the sense of a ghostly version of Venom being vibrated out of Eddie’s body. We tracked a proportionally matched version of Venom to Eddie’s movements and then created a semi-transparent blurry vibration effect in Nuke, selectively revealing some of Venom’s features – such as his teeth – at key moments during the close ups.
There is an exciting car chase though San Francisco. How did you approach this big sequence?
The bike chase started with detailed previs created at DNEG. This gave us a great place to start from and helped the stunts and 2nd Unit team understand what Ruben was hoping to get in the actual sequence. 2nd Unit then picked this up and ran with it, creating a lot of their own previs and story boards in addition to what had already been done. In post production the team from The Third Floor created layouts for the tentacle animations and other action beats. DNEG then took all of this and pushed it on further in VFX animation.
How did you work with the SFX and Stunts teams?
The main thing we provided to Stunts and SFX was our previs. In the case of Stunts Chris O’Hara (Stunt coordinator) took everything into “stunt vis”, creating short live action sequences with place-holder animations to tell the story. When it came to filming for real we positioned additional witness cameras on the set, synchronised to the time code coming out of the sound desk. The witness cameras helped us to understand the movement of bodies and the main movie camera – essential to getting spot-on registration of the VFX elements with the live action.
Can you explain in detail about your work on this sequence?
The main thing was tracking the movement of the bike through the streets so that we could add the goo effects to Eddie’s arms (a late addition to the sequence so nothing was shot in camera). We also replaced the rider’s head in most shots with a digital version of Tom Hardy’s head – that required a lot of very careful work to hopefully ensure something that would never be noticed by the audience. The most complex part of the chase is the “SUV sandwich” where Eddie is in danger of being crushed between two of the pursuing vehicles. This beat was shot entirely on a blue-screen stage with the cars being moved around on platforms relative to the movement of the bike. DNEG added in all the glass into the cars, the travelling backgrounds, the wheels of the vehicles (including the motorbike) and, of course, the webs of gooey tentacles that Eddie has coming out of his body, holding the cars at bay.
Did you need you recreate some San Francisco places?
The chase was shot mostly on the streets of Atlanta, Georgia, but several key moments in the sequence were filmed on location in San Francisco by 2nd Unit. The only thing we really had to deal with is the removal of the very large Coca Cola signs that are seen around Atlanta (the home of Coca Cola).
We discover many locations in the movie and especially the Life Foundation building. How did you create these various places?
The Life Foundation building started out as a design from production designer Oliver Scholl’s art department. DNEG took this and then modified it to integrate into the location filmed during our aerial shoot – the Marin Headlands just north of San Francisco itself. The Life Foundation building featured a faceted glass exterior with a complex brushed aluminum framework. At night the whole building is lit up with multiple layers of internal floors and offices – depending on what the movement of the camera was we achieved this through a combination of 3D models and 2D matte painted artwork projected onto 3D geometry.
The final fight features Venom against Riot. How did you choregraph this fight?
The fight started out as an extensive previs from The Third Floor. In post, this was picked up by the DNEG animation team in London who extended and enhanced the action, making the most of the differing fighting styles of the two creatures – Venom is lithe and supple whereas Riot is heavy and brutal.
How did you create the various weapons used by Riot?
Some of the weapons started out in previs with The Third Floor but others were created by DNEG during post. In most cases the weapons are grown out of Riot’s body through a series of FX simulations which give an organic feel to the items which then resolves into a hard, sharp-edged cutting blade or spiked wrecking ball.
The sequence ends with a massive explosion over the water. How did you create this big FX elements?
The explosion of the Life Foundation space shuttle is a combination of 3D FX simulations which give the underlying structure of the effect and then extended with the use of practical pyrotechnic elements.
Can you tell us more about the various FX simulations?
The heaviest bit of simulation work in the fireball explosion is in the moment where Venom is being burnt away by the flames as he does his best to protect Eddie within him. The FX animation team “liquified” Venom’s surface and then added bubbling, sizzling and charring black symbiote flesh. Finally, as Venom is burning away into ashes, he extrudes out great vines of gooey flesh which form up into a combination parachute and fire shield – this required very precise control over all the simulations which had to be hooked into the action of the underlying animation rig used to create the effect of the parachute tentacles growing out of Eddie’s body.
Beside DNEG, how did you split the work amongst the others vendors?
The only other VFX vendor on the show was the in-house team of compositing artists in LA who were overseen by Sheena Duggal, all other work was completed by DNEG. Fortunately, I have been part of the furniture at DNEG for the last 20 years so I have a pretty good relationship with all the artists involved!
Can you tell us more about your collaboration with their VFX supervisors?
I was very lucky to be able to work with people that I have known for years – one of the advantages of being part of DNEG.
Which sequence or shot was the most complicated to create and why?
The most complex sequence was the “merge fight” at the end of the Riot/Venom fight in which the two symbiotes merge into a raging sea of alien flesh. As they tumble and tear at each other they reveal the two human hosts within who are held within, so we end up with a roiling twisting fight between four creatures that moves all around the area in a complex, elastic fashion.
Is there something specific that gives you some really short nights?
Pretty much all of it kept me on my toes at one point or another! A show like VENOM pushes you to your limits as you constantly try to beat what you’ve just done.
What is your favorite shot or sequence?
My favourite sequence in the film is when Venom releases himself from the side of the spaceship and then drops down to slash open the fuel tanks with Riot’s discarded blade – I think it’s a great bit of clear linear story telling which provides an unexpected twist at the end of it all.
What is your best memory on this show?
Getting to work with so many great people on a movie that’s all about pure fun at the end of the day.
How long have you worked on this show?
I started at the end of June 2017 and delivered in the last week of September this year – pretty quick, all things considered.
What’s the VFX shots count?
I think we ended up with somewhere in the region of 1200 shots in the film.
What was the size of your team?
In total, the VFX team numbered well over 1400 people, the vast majority of whom were part of the DNEG setup. Stay for the credits on the movie and you can see how many people were involved!
What is your next project?
Right now I’m taking it easy and not looking at anything specific for the time being!
A big thanks for your time.
DNEG: Dedicated page about VENOM on DNEG website.
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Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation shall be considered sensitive personal data.
Individualization of the Personal Data Controller.
• Name: Inter Expo Center Ltd., referred to as " Data Controller "
• UIC: 121122275
• Headquarters and address of management: Sofia, 147, Tsarigradsko shose Blvd
• Phone: 02/9655 220
• E-mail: pmetodiev@iec.bg
• Manager: Ivaylo Ivanov
• The Personal Data Controller (PDC) processes the personal data alone and/or assigns the task to a processor.
A controller may provide for one or more persons with personal data access rights to be responsible for coordinating and implementing the protection measures.
PERSONAL DATA PROCESSORS
Access to personal data is only available to persons whose duties or specific tasks require such access.
All personal data processors are responsible for complying with personal data access restrictions and are personally responsible for violating the privacy, integrity and availability of personal data, except in cases of force majeure.
The controller and / or the persons authorized by him / her shall have the following powers:
To provide the organization of keeping the records according to the provided measures to ensure adequate protection.
To monitor the observance of the specific measures for access protection and control according to the specificity and the level of protection of the kept records.
To perform control over compliance with the requirements for the records protection.
To keep in touch with the Personal Data Protection Commission on the measures taken and the means of protection of the records and the submitted applications for personal data access. This power is granted exclusively to the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd..
To specify the technical resources applied to the processing of personal data.
To observe the organizational procedures for the processing of personal data and the observance of controlled access to the personal data carriers.
To conduct periodic monitoring of compliance with data protection requirements and, in case of detected irregularities, shall take measures to eliminate them.
Access to the personal data stored in the Records shall be restricted to those employees whom such access is necessary for the performance of their duties.
Personal data is protected by disclosure to third parties. Third parties may only have access to such information if they have such a statutory right or otherwise entitle them to do so.
These Internal Rules shall be compulsory for all Controller employees as long as they are involved in the processing of personal data in records and for other persons who have permanent or temporary access to personal data from all records.
Authorized employees entrusted with the processing of personal data from the Records shall:
• process the personal data in a lawful and fair manner;
• use personal data accessed by them in accordance with the purposes for which they are collected and shall not to further process them in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes;
• update the personal data records (if necessary);
• erase or rectify personal data when it is found to be inaccurate or disproportionate to the purposes for which it is being processed;
• keep personal data in a form that permits identification of the natural persons concerned for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which such data are being processed;
• observe the present Policy.
Any subject whose personal data will be processed by the controller should be notified of:
• the data identified by the controller;
• the purposes of processing of the personal data and legal bases for the processing of personal data;
• the categories of personal data relating to the relevant natural person that is a data subject;
• the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data may be disclosed;
• information on the rights under Art. 15-22 of Regulation 2016/679, including the right of access and the right to rectify the collected data
Inter Expo Center Ltd.. shall maintained the following records with personal data:
1. Staff Record;
2. Counterparts Record;
3. Visitors Record;
4. Video Surveillance Record;
5. Job Applicants Record
Inter Expo Center Ltd. can store the categories of personal data contained in the records in paper and / or electronic media in compliance with the applicable legislation and the necessary protection measures.
The personal data in the Records shall be kept for the period necessary for the performance of the duties of Inter Expo Center Ltd., depending on the respective record, the personal data category and the purposes for processing them. Personal data shall not be kept longer than is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the Administrator or for accounting purposes or in accordance with the requirements of the applicable law. The processed data shall be destroyed after expiration of the storage period in accordance with the requirements set out in this Policy.
The storage periods for each record are defined as follows:
1. Staff Record - 50 years;
2. Counterparts Record - for the period required to manage the relationship with the provider, as long as necessary for the accounting purposes of the Personal Data Controller and / or for the performance of legal obligations of the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. but for no longer than 10 years;
3. Visitors Record - for the period required to manage the relationship with the Visitor, as long as necessary for the purposes of the Personal Data Controller and / or for the performance of legal obligations of the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. but for no longer than 10 years;
4. Video Surveillance Registry - 30 days, except when video surveillance records need to be kept beyond the specified period for the purposes of investigating crimes or violations for which Inter Expo Center Ltd. shall notify the investigative body - the police, the prosecutor's office, the Personal Data Protection Commission and others.
5. Job Applicants Record - 45 days.
The manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. issues an order to determine the persons handling personal data, their powers in relation to the protection of the processed personal data, their rights and duties.
The manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. and / or the persons authorized by him shall have the following powers:
Provide the record keeping organization, according to the envisaged measures to ensure adequate protection;
Monitor the observance of specific measures for protection and access control according to the specificity and level of protection of the maintained records;
Perform control over compliance with the requirements for protection of records;
Keep in contact with the Personal Data Protection Commission on the measures taken and the means of protection of the records and the submitted personal data applications. This power is granted exclusively to the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd.;
Specify the technical resources applied to the processing of personal data;
Ensure compliance with the organizational procedures for the processing of personal data and for the observation of controlled access to the data carriers;
They perform periodic monitoring of compliance with data protection requirements and, in case of detected irregularities, they take corrective actions.
Access to the personal data stored in the Records shall be restricted only to the employees of Inter Expo Center Ltd., where such access is necessary for the fulfillment of their official duties, as well as for the fulfillment of business purposes, strictly observing the need-to-know principle, i.e. in accordance with his rights and duties under a job description and / or a contract for the relevant legal relationship with Inter Expo Center Ltd.). In particular, these officers shall be authorized on the need-to-know principle by an order.
Access to the processing of personal data to other employees is limited to cases where they are explicitly granted such access rights and in accordance with the need-to-know principle. In that case, the right of access shall be granted on a case-by-case basis by the department where the authorized employee is involved, with explicit authorization specifying the personal data and purposes for which the access is granted, as well as the period for which it is provided.
Personal data processed by Inter Expo Center Ltd. is protected against disclosure to third parties. Third parties may have access to such information only if they have such statutory powers or such a right is given to them on other grounds.
Disclosure of such information must be expressly authorized by the Inter Expo Center Ltd Manager, by taking appropriate measures to ensure compliance with the personal data legislation as well as compliance with the obligation of confidentiality and security of transmission of any data exchange.
This Policy is mandatory for all employees of Inter Expo Center Ltd. insofar as they are involved in the processing of personal data in the above records, and for other persons who have permanent or temporary access to personal data from all records.
Authorized employees entrusted with the processing of personal data by the Records shall:
• keep personal data in a form that permits identification of the natural persons concerned for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which such data are being processed; observe the present Policy.
Physical protection of personal data contained in the Records.
Organizational measures:
Defining Controlled Access Areas; All physical areas with paper and electronic records are kept and restricted only to employees who need access through the "need to know" principle in order to perform their duties. All records and documents in paper form containing personal data are locked in lockers that are locked in a restricted room accessible only by authorized personnel.
Data is protected by the use of physical access control tools such as access control through smart cards. All premises where paper data is stored are located in restricted areas and are protected by access control, smart cards, lockers, or the like. Electronic media, including servers, are similarly protected in controlled areas.
Personal data shall be processed in a non-public part of the premises which is physically restricted and accessible only by staff for whom access is necessary for the performance of their duties.
Communication and information systems used for the processing of personal data are separated from the areas accessible to outside persons and are physically protected, as access is limited to those employees who require such data access for the performance of their duties.
Physical access to restricted areas, including those with information systems (computers, servers), is only possible through access control doors via smart cards. Access shall be granted only to staff that is directly entrusted with the task, in order to perform their duties.
Technical measures
Access control system, with smart cards, restricted cabinets, individual password on each computer, individual password for access to Office 365, individual password for access to mail, fire alarm and fire extinguishing systems, live security and security alarm systems.
Knowledge of the legal framework in the field of personal data protection shall be provided in the training program, which has to be passed by the employees and shall be organized by Inter Expo Center Ltd. They are required to read and understand these internal rules upon engagement and to update their knowledge of data protection at least once a year. Familiarization with these internal rules shall be done upon signed acknowledgement.
Sharing critical information between staff (e.g., identifiers, access passwords, etc.) is prohibited except in cases of force majeure.
Training. Employees must undergo personal data protection training immediately after recruitment and at least once a year.
Personnel training for events threatening the data security shall be provided in a training program that the employees must get through immediately after recruitment and at least once a year.
The employees are instructed to immediately notify their supervisor if they have any doubts or are aware of a threat to the security of their personal data.
Documentary protection
Defining the conditions for personal data processing
Personal data shall be collected only for a specific purpose in order to support the legitimate interests of the data controller or, to the extent necessary, to comply with the legal obligations of the data controller. Each type of data is classified according to its purpose and nature and is protected in accordance with the requirements set forth above.
Regulation of access to records
Access to records is limited and is only available to authorized personnel, in accordance with the Need to Know principle.
Control of access to records
Access to data shall be limited only to the specific, minimum necessary data required for the employee to perform his / her duties.
Setting periods for storing personal data
Data storage is in line with the purposes for which the data were collected and the statutory time limit.
Personal data shall be stored as long as is necessary to achieve the purpose for which they were collected or as required by the applicable law. For example, data from the Staff Records is processed for 50 years after the termination of the legal relationship, in accordance with Bulgarian legislation. After the expiration of the set period or in case of elimination of the legal basis, the data must be destroyed following a procedure and in a safe manner.
Rules for the reproduction and dissemination of personal data
Personal data can only be copied and disseminated by authorized personnel only if it is necessary for juridical purposes, and only be made available to persons that are in need of them in order to fulfill an assignment.
Unauthorized copying and dissemination is the subject of official sanctions, depending on the seriousness of the offense, including termination of employment / civil relationships.
Destruction procedures
Paper-based documents containing personal data must be destroyed in a safe way when they are no longer needed, by shredding or by incineration. Every employee and head of department who is in possession of such documents is responsible for the safe destruction of the documents. For each destruction a special order is issued to the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. and a proper protocol for destruction is drawn up.
Protection of automated information systems and / or networks
Identification and authentication
In order to introduce a "Need to Know" approach, Inter Expo Center Ltd. requires its employees to apply unique user accounts and personal passwords for each user with a network access account.
Employees are personally responsible for the proper use of their user accounts and passwords.
Records management.
The Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. Shall issue an order nominating the units of the administration responsible for the management of the records and only a limited number of employees may have access to the data contained in the records according to the need-to-know principle.
Employees with access to records are appointed by the Manager when necessary.
Inter Expo Center Ltd.. creates and maintains standard and secure configurations for each computer and network platform with which it operates. The system software is controlled and maintained by authorized persons. Inter Expo Center Ltd. works with versions of approved antivirus software. Users should not refuse automated software processes that update virus signature. Antivirus software screening should be used to scan all software and data files coming from or to third parties or other employees of Inter Expo Center Ltd. Employees should not avoid or exclude scanning of processes that could prevent the transmission of computer viruses.
Hard disks, flash drives and other magnetic media used by an infected computer should not be used on another computer until the virus has been successfully removed.
The infected computer must be immediately isolated from the internal networks.
Antivirus logs should be kept for at least seven 7 days.
Any intentional violation of the rules and limitations of access to personal data by employees of Inter Expo Center LTD. may be grounds for imposing disciplinary sanctions, including dismissal.
§ 1. For the purposes of this instruction:
1."Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. This person is called data subject.
2.‘Processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
4. "Personal data record" means any structured set of personal data accessed according to specific criteria, whether centralized, decentralized or distributed according to a functional or geographic basis.
5. "Counterpart" is a commercial company that has entered into a contract with Inter Expo Center Ltd. for carrying out a particular activity.
6. “Data subject " shall be any person acting under the supervision of the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. or of the processor who has access to personal data, he may process them only at the instruction of the Manager, unless otherwise provided the law.
TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
§ 2. As far as processing and protection of personal data is concerned, all internal procedures of the document flow of Inter Expo Center Ltd. shall be in accordance with the provisions of the PDPA and the current internal rules.
§ 3. This Policy is obligatory for all employees and other persons employed under civil contracts by Inter Expo Center Ltd. and they are obliged to observe it.
§ 4. The control over the implementation of this Policy is exercised by the Manager of Inter Expo Center Ltd. and / or by the officials authorized by him.
§ 5. Amendments to this Policy shall be made in the order of issuance and approval.
§ 6. This Policy repeals the instruction on the measures and means of protection of personal data collected, processed, stored and provided by Inter Expo Center Ltd. and shall enter into force since 25.05.2018.
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By Editorial team On May 3, 2018
HERNDON (VA, the USA), May 3, 2018, Author: Galina Zdravkova, Photo: Serco
Serco Inc., the North America division of Serco Group Plc., one of the global leading service companies, has been awarded an Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (ID/IQ) contract for life cycle maintenance, acquisition and integration support for Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection (ATFP) Naval Electronic Surveillance Systems (NESS), announced from the company on 1st May 2018.
The scope of the contract covers technical services to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), program executive offices, other DoD agencies, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Marine Corps and other government programs.
The contract vehicle duration is five years and includes two periods – a base period of 3 years and an option period of 2 years. If both periods are exercised, the contract vehicle value will reach the ceiling of $232 million.
Since 2001, Serco has been providing similar services under other contract vehicles, within which the company has assisted the integration of communications of advanced performance between federal and state and local government agencies, and hence the enhancement of their anti-terrorism joint response capability.
Dave Dacquino, Chairman and CEO of Serco said, “Serco is proud of the base modernization services we have been providing to the U.S. Navy under this program for the last 17 years. We have a team in place focused on delivering operational excellence in support of helping our nation secure our bases, and detect and respond to terrorist threats.”
Serco Inc. serves Federal, state, and local governments, as well as the Canadian government and commercial clients.
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NAB urges farmers to rethink succession planning
A major survey conducted by NAB Agribusiness found that farmers approaching retirement are far less certain about how and when they’ll transition out of the business compared to younger farmers. Read on for more survey findings
By Agribusiness View
It is critical that Australian farmers have clear succession plans in place to ensure Australia’s agricultural sector is well positioned to capitalise on the increasingly important role of feeding Asia’s economic growth.
This is the view of National Australia Bank (NAB) Agribusiness following a major survey which found that farmers approaching retirement are far less certain about how and when they’ll transition out of the business compared to younger farmers.
According to General Manager of NAB Agribusiness, Khan Horne, what is striking about the research findings is how clear a picture young farmers have about their plans for the business.
“They have strong hopes and aspirations for their businesses right through until they retire,” Mr Horne said.
“However, of those farmers aged 70 and over, more than one third did not know when they would exit the business. This is a massive percentage, given they’re technically over retirement age.
“Without strong succession planning, farmers are more likely to have circumstances dictate, rather than being in control of, the future of their businesses,” Mr Horne said.
The survey was conducted by NAB Agribusiness and covered more than 5000 agribusinesses across multiple industries Australia-wide.
Around 90 per cent of respondents under the age of 40 have a very clear timeframe for retirement or transitioning out of the business. However, 36 per cent of those 70 years and over do not know when they will retire.
When it comes to what will happen to the business, farmers expecting to stay involved for at least another 20 years are largely confident they will pass it on to their children or other family, at 65 per cent.
For those looking to retire in the next two years the figure drops down to 28 per cent. Almost half expect instead to sell it to someone not currently involved, while 17 per cent of owners intend to wind down their business and it will then cease to exist.
Business owners’ plans for the future vary by type of agriculture – grain growers are more likely to pass their business onto their family, while those in horticulture are less likely to pass their business onto family and the most likely to wind down their business on retirement.
Commenting on results, Mr Horne said that succession planning is often delayed due to concerns about the stress or challenges it will cause those involved.
“In reality, farmers need to continually revisit their plan to ensure they are able to take advantage of opportunities as they arise.
“Planning early and having the flexibility to continue the conversation and adapt the plan as circumstances change is important to ensure it’s part of normal ongoing business and financial planning, rather than a one-off exercise.
“One of the reasons so many older farmers aren’t planning to pass the farm on might be because their children are pursuing other opportunities and they are unsure of when, or even if, they may take the reins,” Mr Horne said.
“With the average age of farmers being 49 years*, we need to ensure Australia’s agribusinesses feel confident to have discussions about the future of their business throughout various stages of their development.
“This is vital to ensuring the industry remains prosperous and well positioned to take advantage of growth prospects in Asia.”
Mr Horne said the NAB Agribusiness team works closely with other specialists, including agribusiness financial planners based in both rural and metropolitan regions.
Contact your local Agribusiness Manager to organise a free initial consultation to start the conversation or read more about getting your succession plan underway.
*Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census, 2012
Any advice in this editorial has been prepared without taking into account your objectives, financial situation and needs. Before acting on this advice, you should consider its appropriateness to you.
Agribusiness View is NAB’s online publication designed to provide our agribusiness customers with the latest economic updates, business trends and case studies specific to their industry. Regular updates include reports, case studies and articles covering such topics as international trade, finance, succession planning and superannuation - all with the objective of helping you run your agribusiness.
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BuyVia To Open First Physical Store on Oxford Street
London, United Kingdom - April 24, 2019 - BuyVia, the UK’s largest online discount club, is to open its very first store on Oxford Street in London. An online price comparison website, BuyVia can save consumers up to 50 per cent on products and services. Now, customers will be able to drop into a physical store and browse the latest available offers at their leisure.
BuyVia's flagship store on Oxford Street is part of a ten million pound expansion plan to bring their innovative money-saving service to high street shoppers across the UK. Their first store in London will open in summer 2019, followed by stores in Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Liverpool over the next two years.
‘Each month, 200,000 customers save 10 million pounds with BuyVia when they discover the coupons, offers and discounts that are available. It seems entirely natural to bring our service to the high street', said Dale Lloyd, Founder of BuyVia. ‘BuyVia is a truly ingenious tool for consumers looking to find the best deal. We look forward to showing UK shoppers how much money they can save on the products and services they really want'.
Part of SAAS Management limited, BuyVia has been providing e-commerce services direct to consumers across a wide range of brands for four years. A technical innovations and software development start-up, BuyVia started out as an automated price comparison software package, and their deals include everything from jewellery to online courses to holidays, electronics, mobile phone deals and more.
To benefit from BuyVia’s service, customers create an account for free and fill out personalised preferences to tell them about the kinds of deals that interest them. The software then uses a powerful algorithm and the latest digital technologies to instantly scan the internet for details of the best possible deals, discounts and offers which are relevant to the individual customer. Customers can opt for a paid account to access even better features and bigger discounts.
The technology behind BuyVia means it works for both online and high street shopping, which is why BuyVia is aiming to become more visible to the public, and even more accessible, by opening the five stores in major UK cities.
'Buyvia.co.uk was launched as a digital platform to bring the online and offline together,’ continued Dale Lloyd. ‘Our physical stores are a significant move towards making that a reality. Our subscription model store will be a novel addition to the high street, and we urge people to watch this space for further details of our opening date.’
BuyVia is a technical innovation and software development startup with a passion for e-commerce and high tech software. BuyVia delivers money-saving offers to its customers, utilising the power of digital technology to deliver a customer-focused experience.
To benefit from the deals Buyvia has collated, customers create a personal account which takes just a few minutes. They can then gain instant access to the latest coupon and discount offers, as well as interact with a community of fellow like-minded retail discount lovers through the personal member panel. Customers can opt for push notifications to alert them of the latest discounts and coupons which are relevant to them. BuyVia can even notify customers when they pass a store selling an item on their wish list.
Customers can use BuyVia via their website or by downloading their app, which is available in Android, Apple and Kindle.
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Alisa Injury Sparks Opportunities
By nateslack5 October 5, 2012 Adam Hine aggies BYU Cougars Iona Pritchard Jamaal Williams Michael Alisa taysom hill Utah State
By Nate Slack
RB Michael Alisa left the Hawai’i game early with a broken arm, and it practically went unnoticed. Taysom Hill and Jamaal Williams gave a spark to the offense and put up numbers that BYU hasn’t seen in years, namely, a pair of 100-yard rushers. Even though the 396 rush yards were against a questionable Hawai’i team, the fact that the majority of those numbers didn’t include the starting running back is pretty impressive. Maybe the weirdest part of all–I haven’t seen or read anything about Alisa all week.
Newcomer Jamaal Williams caught the attention of fans and coaches early in the spring when he showed his speed and ability to make smart decisions on the field. The 17-year old was way under the radar coming out of high school and only had offers from San Diego State, Boise State, Utah, and BYU when he committed to the Cougars. There’s not much of a doubt that he will be the main back tonight vs Utah State, which makes you wonder what this could this mean for guys like Paul Lasike, David Foote, and Adam Hine.
Battling hamstring issues, Adam Hine was rumored to have been the fastest player listed on the team and to make an instant impact to the offense. Without a carry this season, it’s fair to say that his situation has been extremely disappointing to those who were excited to see him play. His injury may have left him as low as 5th on the depth chart, but that may now have been offset by the injury to Alisa. Hine could now find himself in the battle for significant playing time if/when he returns. In the mean time, Paul Lasike and David Foote will presumably get more touches and see more time on the field.
But that’s not where the problems with the run game ends.
BYU has typically been dominant at the fullback position. Names like Fahu Tahi and Fui Vakapuna have made fans breathe a sigh of relief when the Cougars are in a 3rd and 1 or goal-line position. Almost always, BYU would be able to use the big offensive line and fullback to power the runningback through to gain the yards needed. However, since Doman took over as offensive coordinator, the fullback position has essentially disappeared, along with the size of the offensive linemen.
During spring camp and the beginning of fall camp, fans and media had high expectations for Iona Pritchard that probably wouldn’t be met. He was being compared to Manase Tonga and other Cougar greats, and that isn’t very fair to Pritchard. It’s also a good illustration that BYU fans haven’t stopped awarding the annual Potential Player of the Year Award, even after the disastrous Jake Heaps era.
Tonight, BYU’s offense will be up agaisnt the best overall defense they have faced so far. (Utah’s secondary was extremely thin when BYU visited Rice-Eccles because of the absence of Rowe and Blechen). The offensive line will be tested. They will have to find a way to handle the late shifts the defensive line will make, just as Utah and Boise State did. Hopefully they have overcome their propensity for false starts by now. In order for BYU’s passing game to be effective, dump passes, quick screens, and slants will need to be called, because I can’t see Hill having enough time to drop back and sit in the pocket. Tight ends will need to be effectively worked into the passing game, which was something that really hurt Utah State in the 2nd half against Utah. Most importantly, BYU will need to win the turnover battle. It’s no secret that the game will most likely be decided by the turnover ratio. Utah didn’t turn the ball over, but BYU did twice, and Boise State had a 5-0 turnover advantage.
One thing’s for sure, we will find out just how good our group of relatively untested runningbacks really are, as they get thrown into the fire against a tough Utah State defense. If there are any questions remaining regarding the RB depth chart, they should be settled tonight.
My prediction for tonight: BYU gets their offensive act together and wins it 24-10.
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Compliance when working with Asbestos
Recent prosecutions by the HSE have shown that there are still companies who are not following appropriate procedures to ensure that asbestos is located and managed, or remediated, correctly during building refurbishments.
In December 2014 two Northamptonshire firms pleaded guilty to a total of four breaches of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 and were fined a total of £24,000. The investigation found that the property owners had begun works on the property to remove roofing sheets but had not carried out an appropriate refurbishment survey, or had an up to date asbestos register for the site. They then employed a roofing contractor to carry out further refurbishment works on their building, who also failed to carry out the appropriate asbestos surveys or risk assessments. This resulted in the uncontrolled removal of both licensed and non-licensed asbestos containing materials. Neither company had the correct training or licences to carry out the work.
In February 2015, a Suffolk based building firm was found guilty of the uncontrolled removal of licensed asbestos containing material, despite not having a licence to do so. The HSE inspectors found that the building firm was using untrained staff to remove the asbestos containing material and they had no appropriate control measures to prevent the release of fibres. They also found that the employees were using PPE and RPE that did not offer an adequate level of protection and there were no appropriate decontamination facilities on site. The building firm had advised the owners of the property that they had the appropriate licences and training to carry out the works but the owners failed to confirm that this was the case.
Incidences like these show that while many companies are aware of the need to correctly manage asbestos containing materials, there are still some who are unaware of their responsibilities. It is essential to not only ensure the correct survey and management plans are in place, but also ensure that the companies they are employing to carry out work on their properties are appropriately trained and licensed to carry out the works they have been employed to do.
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A Scanner Darkly Reality – 12 Page 8.5 x 5.5 in. Saddle-Stitched Booklet.
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Introduction: A Scanner Reality
In 1977 Phillip K. Dick published the dystopian sci-fi classic A Scanner Darkly. Robert Arctor, the books protagonist, is an addict; his mental capacities slowly degrading. Using Substance D an addictive pharmaceutical. A blind servant of an unseen force.
More than forty years later middle America is in the grips of an opioid epidemic. Four out of five new drug addicts say they began with the abuse of Oxycontin. An opiate that entered the market under the auspice of ‘non-addictive’. Lining the pockets of doctors and corporations alike.
Two stories in seemingly disparate realities. Then again, “Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Phillip K. Dick.”
A Scanner Darkly: A Summary
Robert Arctor is an undercover agent who’s addicted to a pharmaceutical, ‘Substance D’. Working anonymously for the police department, under the psuedonym ‘Fred’, Arctor dwells with a long list of addicts in his family’s former home. A house in the suburbs where addiction is now routine.
Arctor, his cognitive abilities waning, is assigned to investigate himself. Paranoid accusations abound Arctor’s friends begin to turn on him and slowly he loses touch with reality. No longer certain of his own actions Arctor checks into rehab at New-Path.
New-Path, a federal contractor, is the only option for ‘D’ addicts. Stripping his ‘addictive personality’ Arctor takes on the name ‘Bruce’ and is transferred to a New-Path farm. A secluded operation growing the flower Mors Ontologica; Substance D’s chief ingredient.
Oxycontin: Engineering an Epidemic
Near the end of 1995 the F.D.A. approved the opioid painkiller Oxycontin. Hailed as a ‘medical breakthrough’ it hit the market in 1996 patented by Purdue Pharma. Whom lied in assuring the medical community patients would not become addicted. Aggressively marketing Oxycontin Purdue Pharma bought influence with professors, politicians, and researchers.
It quickly became, “the hottest thing on the street.” Between 1991 and 2011 painkiller prescriptions more than tripled. By 2012 one in three drug users were being prescribed drugs more powerful than morphine. Killing over 400,000 since 2000; with 15 seeking treatment for every death.
After more than $30 billion in profits, in 2018, a Purdue Pharma subsidiary patented an addiction treatment for opioid addicts.
Reality: A Story by Phillip K. Dick
In A Scanner Darkly Substance D is distributed by New-Path. In reality Oxycontin is distributed by pharmacists and doctors. In both cases entities whom society entrusted to cure sickened. All the while turning a profit.
Addiction treatment is a $35 billion a year industry. Those who pay are, “…punished entirely too much for what they did.”
While people die, serve prison sentences, and deal with the consequences of addiction, New-Path profits.
While people die, serve prison sentences, and deal with the consequences of addiction, drug companies profit.
“Every junkie, he thought, is a
Recording.”
“It’s easy to win. Anybody can win.”
https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids/opioid-overdose-crisis
https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/28/652546095/drugmakers-play-the-patent-game-to-lock-in-prices-block-competitors
https://www.usda.gov/topics/opioids
https://www.northpointwashington.com/blog/big-pharma-big-lies/
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Doctor of Music Education (D.M.E.)
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The Doctor of Music Education is a 45‐hour post‐graduate, professional, non‐terminal doctorate (commensurate to the Doctor of Worship Studies) that places emphasis on practical application of music education studies to the field of music teaching and learning. The program is designed to equip the music education professional with skills that will prepare them to assume leadership roles within various organizations in the context of music education. The graduates of this program will be prepared to lead at the district level of K‐12 music education as well as in institutions of higher education.
The student will be able to:
Construct a culturally contextualized music teaching methodology that includes spiritual formation and Christian ethics.
Formulate a philosophy of music education informed by the contexts of sociology, psychology, aesthetics, and a Biblical worldview.
Design music education initiatives within the practitioner responsibilities of administration and community leadership.
Synthesize knowledge of the literature of the discipline with the professional practices of music educators through research for the teaching environment.
Program Specific Admission Requirements
In addition to the general admission procedures, applicants to the Doctor of Music Education must meet the following requirements:
An earned master’s degree in music or its equivalent from an institution accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (e.g., SACS, TRACS, ABHE, etc.). Master degrees qualifying for entrance into the Doctor of Music Education degree may include:
Master degree in Music
Master degree in Music Education
Master degree in Music and Worship
Or a related discipline from an accredited institution
A graduate GPA of at least 3.00 (on a 4.00 scale).
TOEFL Scores for students who speak English as a second language (score of 600 paper –based test; 250 computer-based test, 80 internet-based test).
Transfer students will be required to submit transcripts for evaluation as per the normal process established by the University. Students may transfer a maximum of 12 hours of coursework from an accredited institution. In order to be eligible for transfer credit, course work must have a minimum grade of B-, and must have been completed within the past seven (7) years. Credits from a degree on the same academic level previously earned through Liberty University are considered transfer credits.
The following courses are not eligible for transfer credit: MUSC 880 Intro Thesis Writing Project (3 c.h.), MUSC 892 Comprehensive Exam (0 c.h.), MUSC 889 Thesis Project Proposal & Research (3 c.h.), and MUSC 890 Thesis Project Defense (3 c.h.).
In addition to the other regulations governing graduation, graduates of the Doctor of Music Education program must meet the following requirements:
Complete 45 hours.
A minimum of 33 hours must be completed through Liberty University, not to include credits from a prior degree earned through Liberty.
A maximum of 12 hours of transfer credit, including credits from a degree on the same academic level previously earned through Liberty, may be applied to the degree.
Required 3.00 GPA.
No more than two grades of C may be applied to the degree (includes grades of C+/C-).
No grade of D or lower may be applied to the degree (includes grades of D+/D-).
For information regarding the repeat policy, please refer to “Course Repeat Policy” in the Academic Information and Policies section of this Catalog.
Degree must be completed within 7 years.
Submission of Degree Completion Application must be completed within the last semester of a student’s anticipated graduation date.
Delivery Format: Online Only
District supervisor of music in a K‐12 environment
College professor of music education
A student who is pursuing either of the above routes would need K‐12 teaching experience. Many students who pursue this degree will be current K‐12 music educators.
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From Cather Studies Volume 7
The Dialectics of Seeing in Cather's Pittsburgh
"Double Birthday" and Urban Allegory
by JOSEPH C. MURPHY
Willa Cather's stature as cultural icon is inextricable from the iconography of her settings. Her fiction famously engages the spectacles of the Divide and the Southwest, but it draws equally and fundamentally upon those of the modern city. Cather's modern cities are in a sense anti-iconographic: they resist as well as attract the eye. They instill desire in characters who can weather their anonymity and competition; still, their treasures hide behind walls of concert halls and museums, fog and memory, at times as inaccessible as the dead cities of the Southwest that set them in cultural relief. As Susan J. Rosowski has demonstrated in her essay "Willa Cather as a City Novelist," Cather's urbanites tend to be reluctant sojourners in cities rather than devoted metropolitans. For Anton Rosicky the city is an extended stopover on a life journey that begins and ends on the land; for Jim Burden it is only a practical point on the larger, continental map of his imagination; for Thea Kronborg the city fires the imagination and the will but gives no personal repose; and for Lucy Gayheart it is a deception, a "city of feeling" masking the "city of fact" (24). Surveying this field, one wonders whether it is possible for the "eyes [to drink] in the breadth of" the city as Alexandra Bergson's do the land in O Pioneers! (64). Is a radical—that is, rooted—city life possible for Cather? Can one settle in the city as one might settle on the land? Cather's 1929 story "Double Birthday," set in Pittsburgh, offers a response to these questions. "Double Birthday" stands out among her portrayals of modern cities in the way her protagonists, a nephew and uncle both named Albert Engelhardt, define themselves imaginatively in terms of urban geography and history.
Among Cather's fictional representations of Pittsburgh, the one we find in "Double Birthday" is unique for its sophistication and range. "The Professor's Commencement" (1902), "Paul's Case" (1905), and "A Gold Slipper" (1917) each portray an almost unbridgeable gap between art culture and commercial values (although the professor tries to build that bridge). Set on the outskirts of Pittsburgh, "Uncle Valentine" (1925) regards the city furtively as a menacing "black pillar of cloud" (24). By contrast, "Double Birthday" portrays the artist-intellectual trying to domesticate the city by bringing its spatial and historical coordinates into dialogue. In his introduction to The Best American Short Stories of the Century, where "Double Birthday" is the Cather selection, John Updike characterizes Cather's Pittsburgh here as "a great city as cozy and inturned as a Southern hamlet" (xvii). The protagonists' relationship to Pittsburgh is not oppositional but rather dialectical—in Walter Benjamin's sense that capitalist society can be reimagined by reading its fragmentary forms against the grain of progress.
The Jewish messianic Marxist critic's world might seem remote from Cather's, but Benjamin's life span (1892 - 1940) falls within her own, and both harshly criticized modernity while drawing vital energy from it. Benjamin loved cities not for what they show but for what they conceal. For him the modern city, the epitome of progress, is lost in an extended dream fueled by its commercial and industrial engines. Awakening requires stepping through the city in syncopated rhythm, distractedly, close-up—the perspective of the flâneur, the walking city observer—to discover dialectical images. Dialectical images juxtapose past and present forms, expose the vanity of what is called progress, and project a possible future invisible to those caught in the machinery of modern life. In his great unfinished work, The Arcades Project, Benjamin applies this method of analysis to the Paris arcades: glass and iron commercial passageways that represented modernity to the nineteenth century but lay in ruins by the 1930s. The rise and fall of the arcades epitomizes for Benjamin the transience of capitalism at large. "With the destabilizing of the market economy," he writes, "we begin to recognize the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled" (Arcades 13). This recognition creates a space for imagining "the utopia that has left its trace in a thousand configurations of life, from enduring edifices to passing fashions" (4-5). Benjamin studies this urban phantasmagoria in Baudelaire's depictions of Paris in the era of high capitalism. For Benjamin, Baudelaire is an allegorist who rummages through the fragments of modernity "and tests to see if they fit together—that meaning with this image or this image with that meaning" (368). Each epoch, Benjamin argues, dreams the next in dialectical images. By brooding upon history rather than transcending it, the urban allegorist finds grounds for hope where the city appears most frangible. "[T]here are no periods of decline," Benjamin writes. "[E]very city is beautiful to me" (458).[1]
"Double Birthday" resonates with Benjamin's dialectic because it seeks a realignment of community and values within a city that is in various ways disintegrating. Poised, unconsciously, on the brink of the Great Depression (published in February 1929), looking back to the turn of the century, the story spans the heyday of the industrial affluence that occasioned Cather's arrival in Pittsburgh in 1896 as a young editor.[2] Its unifying event is the shared birthday of uncle and nephew Albert (hereafter "Uncle Albert" and "Albert"), born twenty-five years apart on 1 December. Uncle Albert, at eighty, is a retired throat doctor, and Albert, fifty-five, is the last surviving son of a wealthy glass manufacturer. Albert appears to have styled his life upon Benjamin's premise that industrial capitalism—and paradigmatically, glass—yields meaning only in its ruins. Since his father's death, Albert and four brothers have squandered the family's fortune, liquidating the glass factory and substantial real estate— "all gone, melted away" (42). Structurally, the story requires a dialectical reading through the mutual illumination of points in space and time. Remembering her wide-ranging experiences there as editor, writer and teacher, Cather integrates four sections of Pittsburgh—South Side, Squirrel Hill, Allegheny, and downtown—conventionally separated by forces of class and history. The story also reaches beyond Pittsburgh—to New York, where Uncle Albert's sponsorship of Marguerite Thiesinger's vocal training was cut short by her death, and to Rome, where Albert spent three golden years of youth. These locations exist in a dialectical tension that draws upon but reconfigures the hierarchy of the industrial capitalist city. Each of the four sections of Cather's Pittsburgh is anchored in a house—a house that is divided against itself, yet stands.
The two Alberts now live together "in a queer part of the city, on one of the dingy streets that run uphill off noisy Carson Street" (45). They share "a little two-story brick . . . working-man's house," an overlooked property of Albert's father that has become their last refuge (45). Cather modeled this house on the South Side residence of editor George Seibel and family at 114 South Seventeenth Street, where she found a social and intellectual refuge, far exceeding its modest address, during her Pittsburgh years. Cather read French and German literature at the Seibels, and she brought Dorothy Canfield there for a memorable Christmas visit in 1896 (Byrne and Snyder 18-26; Sullivan 22-23; Bennett 66-69). For their part, Cather's two Alberts have likewise patched together on the South Side an unusual family that defies class definition. They rent the downstairs to a former workman in the glass factory and his wife, who keeps house while Albert goes to work, and their granddaughter, who humors old Uncle Albert. Ashes fall in the yard from neighboring chimneys, while the winds of history and culture blow through Albert's rooms. His writing table, rugs, books and pictures, the piano he still plays daily—"[a]ll the years and the youth which had slipped away from him still clung to these things" (45). For Albert, to be free is to feel the friction of history passing and to reflect upon it: "[H]e had lived to the full all the revolutions in art and music that his period covered" (55). Their fragments collect in his apartment—the fin de siècle decadence of Beardsley, Dowson, and Wilde, "works which, though so recent, were already immensely far away and diminished. The glad, rebellious excitement they had once caused in the world he could recapture only in memory" (45).
Albert moves into the future with his eyes fixed on the accumulating debris of the past, much like the Angel of History, Benjamin's allegorical figure in "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (1940). Benjamin's description of this figure, based upon Paul Klee's painting Angelus Novus (1920), warrants full quotation for the light it sheds on Albert's outlook, and on Cather's as well: His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. (Illuminations 257-58) Like Benjamin's Angel, Albert reads history against the grain of progress that pushes him ineluctably into the future. Rejecting progressive history, he incorporates the refuse of that history— the fragmented, the unfinished, the outmoded—into his daily life. Albert lives with memories of his own expended youth, and of the youth of modernism, even as he lives, physically, with a worker his father once employed, long after the factory has shut down. Likewise, he lives with memories of the truncated career of his piano teacher, Rafael Joseffy, while Uncle Albert lives with his "lost Lenore," Marguerite Thiesinger, in a perpetuated state of mourning that carries her severed youth into his old age. From Benjamin's perspective, these mournful fixations—although they do not "awaken the dead" or "make whole what has been smashed"—are hopeful because they militate against the oblivion of progress. Benjamin's urban allegorist is a "brooder" whose "memory ranges over the indiscriminate mass of dead lore. Human knowledge, within his memory, is something piecemeal—in an especially pregnant sense: it is like the jumble of arbitrarily cut pieces from which a puzzle is assembled" (Arcades 368). Albert's lifestyle, and Cather's narrative of it, bespeaks an alternative history and an alternative future. Uncle Albert's closing reference to Thomas Gray sounds the note of the entire story: "E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires" (Gray 92).
Judge Hammersley, a friend of Albert's late father, looks down upon Albert from a substantial house on posh Squirrel Hill, the story's second residential coordinate. This house is modeled on the Squirrel Hill residence of Judge Samuel McClung, father of Cather's friend Isabel McClung, at 1180 Murrayhill Avenue, where Cather lived from 1901 through 1906 (Byrne and Snyder 39-40; O'Brien 234-38). Shaded by old oaks, the Judge's house is "comfortable in the old-fashioned way, well appointed," with a library of divinity, philosophy, and early American history (43). The Judge "didn't think highly of what is called success in the world today," but he laments that Albert has "nothing whatever to show" for his fifty-five years (42). Hammersley has his own rightful piece of the show, but Cather subverts it by portraying him in lockstep with "the machinery of life" (43), by viewing Squirrel Hill from Albert's bohemian perspective, and by culminating the action with the joyful visit of the Judge's daughter to the Alberts' South Side home. Walking past the "massive houses" holding "nothing but the heavy domestic routine[,] all the frictions and jealousies and discontents of family life," Albert "felt light and free" (55).
In the dialectic between South Side and Squirrel Hill, Cather at once deploys and undercuts the contrast between "bohemian" and "Presbyterian" Pittsburgh she drew in an 1897 article in the Nebraska State Journal: "Now all Pittsburgh is divided into two parts. Presbyteria and Bohemia, and the former is much the larger and more influential kingdom of the two" (World and Parish 2: 505). According to Sharon O'Brien, Cather meant by "Presbyteria" "the mutually reinforcing Protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism that denigrated emotion and art." "Bohemia" was "Cather's alternative, marginal world of art and artists who worshipped truth and beauty with aesthetic and emotional fervor rather than mercantile piety." Although Cather knew that the art world depended upon wealth generated by business, she believed Bohemia also depended upon values of "passion, creativity, and spontaneity" antithetical to "Presbyterian" culture (O'Brien 224-25). Cather, O'Brien argues, passed easily between these two camps during her Pittsburgh years, but gradually she retreated from Bohemia, eventually landing in the house of eminent Presbyterian Samuel McClung. In Albert, Cather portrays a character who moved quite intentionally in the opposite direction—from Presbyteria to Bohemia—but "Double Birthday" is really about the upsetting of such categories.
A third house, where the Engelhardt boys grew up, rises from turn-of-the-century Allegheny in section 3. This house "of many-colored bricks, with gables and turrets," "striped awnings," and "glittering gravel," situated on the Park and near the market, is a fantastic complement to the surrounding industrial city (48, 57). Whereas South Side and Squirrel Hill exemplify the present-day separation of working class and bourgeoisie, here class divisions and mercantile striving are suspended on a kind of Olmstedian middle ground. In its transitivity the house embodies Benjamin's concept of modern urban experience.[3] As in Benjamin's account of Naples, life in the Engelhardt house is "dispersed, porous, commingled. . . . [E]ach private attitude or act is permeated by streams of communal life" (Reflections 171). Welcoming to shop boys, to common Marguerite Thiesinger, to the Judge's daughter in her youth—who appreciated that the Engelhardt boys "enjoyed" a woman "aesthetically" rather than "grab[bing]" her "brutally"—the place has now passed into memory (57). Its openness to what Uncle Albert calls "aspiration" rather than "ambition" (51) is symbolized in the large stained-glass window on the west side, "representing a scene on the Grand Canal in Venice, the Church of Santa Maria della Salute in the background, in the foreground a gondola with a slender gondolier" (48). The house opens into Venice, the world city of fluid passageways. As stained glass, the window contrasts with the industrial glass that made the family fortune, glass called "brutal" in Marguerite's deathbed scene in a New York hospital for its teasing combination of transparency and confinement: "Pourquoi, pourquoi?" he [Uncle Albert] muttered, staring blindly at that brutal square of glass" (52).[4]
The fourth section of Cather's Pittsburgh (actually the first chronologically) is downtown, and its signature house is the "gray stone Court House" where, as the story opens, Judge Hammersley awkwardly encounters Albert (41). Although the building is not specifically named as such, Cather's faithfulness to the actual cityscape would identify this as the Allegheny County Courthouse, a late, great work of Henry Hobson Richardson, whose bold Romanesque-American architecture, like Cather's art, fashioned modernity from the forms of the past. By beginning at this courthouse Cather, portrays Pittsburgh's public square as one of justice, but Richardson's subtle blending of modernism and tradition, and his multitude of rhythmically interdependent arches—each casting its own trajectory—counsel against simplistic judgments.[5] Indeed, Cather distinguishes her authorial judgment from the ideology of progress by which the Judge sizes up Albert. "Even in American cities, which seem so much alike," she begins, "where people seem all to be living the same lives, striving for the same things, thinking the same thoughts, there are still individuals a little out of tune with the times—there are still survivals of a past more loosely woven, there are disconcerting beginnings of a future yet unforeseen" (41). Cather evaluates Albert's peculiarity according to a dialectical vision of the city: the vestige of the past typifies the future, the "disconcerting" sound strikes the key of a remote harmony. Benjamin writes: "Historical 'understanding' is to be grasped, in principle, as an afterlife of that which is understood" (Arcades 460).
Cather's retrospective modernism would have found common cause with the City Beautiful movement embraced by urban planners in the early 1900s. Inspired by the magisterial White City at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, and culminating in Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (1909), the City Beautiful sought order and visibility through spectacular civic centers and axial boulevards unifying previously separate urban districts (Rybczynski 127-48). "Double Birthday" resonates with this movement by bridging different urban sections and by interweaving the lives of characters from these sections. Further, by alluding to Venetian and Roman scenes (in the Allegheny stained glass, and in Albert's memories), the story shares the City Beautiful's enthusiasm for what one of its historians calls "the importable architectonic triumphs of Venice and Rome" (Wilson 85). Although in Pittsburgh the ideal of beauty was stymied by industrial priorities, the city did pursue a comprehensive, long-range plan (beginning with recommendations by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and others in 1910, and continuing into the 1930s) to knit together its metropolitan area, centralize public buildings, and clean the air and rivers (Lorant 364, 368). Beginning in the 1890s, Cather experienced the early philanthropic inklings of this movement toward civic clarity and order in Andrew Carnegie's concert hall, museum, and library in Pittsburgh's Oakland section, an important refuge for Cather on the ground as for her protagonist in "Paul's Case." "Paul's Case" is instructive for understanding Albert's case in "Double Birthday." Civic improvements notwithstanding, for neither Albert nor Paul does Pittsburgh pave an open road to liberation: the paths linking the Alberts' home to the larger city are as personal as the one Paul beats between Carnegie Hall and Cordelia Street. The city intensifies private experience, to a degree that is fatal for Paul, but salutary for Albert, whose realism and maturity are beyond Paul's adolescent reach. For Benjamin, too, the flâneur's private vision always outruns the intentions of the city planner. Although Benjamin perceives Haussmann's nineteenth-century boulevards in Paris as forms of social control, he nevertheless finds there new outlets for the urban allegorist's dialectical vision (Arcades 11-13). Likewise, Cather's Pittsburgh fosters dialectical convergences and afterimages beyond the comprehension of any formal civic plan.
The city's public passageways provide the settings for these personal illuminations. In contrast to the reclusive Judge, who travels by private car, the Alberts are continually ranging across the city in the public way. Albert first appears in the text as an uncanny face emerging from the crowd—"one of these men whom one does not readily place" (41). He commutes between South Side and his downtown clerkship on foot and on streetcar; and when he trudges up Squirrel Hill to accept the Judge's beneficent champagne, he finds it easier to dodge the Prohibition laws than the private automobiles that cut in his way. In his prime, Uncle Albert was a walker in Pittsburgh and New York. To this habit he owes the discovery of Marguerite Thiesinger, that "one Voice" sounding from the open windows of Allegheny High School as he strolled by (48). When she died, he was sitting on a bench in Central Park. Even now Uncle Albert still ventures into the street, with Elsa, the housekeeper's granddaughter, "to join him and see him over the crossings" (53). Occasionally his nephew takes him by streetcar up Mt. Oliver to a German graveyard, presumably where Marguerite is buried. Elsa mimes the urban "crossings" of the Alberts in the "cross-stitch" she practices while chatting with Uncle Albert (54)—underscoring the relationship between urban space and domestic textiles suggested by Cather's opening remark about unusual urbanites typifying "a past more loosely woven" (41). For Benjamin, the flâneur domesticates urban space, immerses himself in its fleeting images and interstitial spaces, and glimpses its inner life. "[F]lanerie can transform Paris into one great interior," Benjamin suggests. "[O]n the other hand, the city can appear to someone walking through it to be without thresholds: a landscape in the round" (Arcades 422). Cather builds an ethics of crossing into her city, where the courage to step into its passageways is rewarded by discovery, and where assisting another there is an expression of charity. This is the meaning of the mysterious, slender gondolier in the stained glass at Allegheny, the image of those who bear the cross of others by bearing their crossings. Uncle Albert bore the cross of Marguerite's death. "That struggle took place in my body," he says. "Her dissolution occurred within me" (53).
Now Albert has assumed the role of gondolier for his aging uncle. But in another sense, Albert is his own passenger, negotiating interior crossings within a city whose dominant values are not his own. Two scenes illustrate his internal struggle in relation to bridges and public transit. In the first, Albert, en route to the Judge's, takes the streetcar across the Twenty-second Street Bridge past "the blazing steel mills" (54). There ensues a scene of confusion that exposes the economic realities over which Albert's life is suspended: "As he waited on Soho Hill to catch a Fifth Avenue car, the heavy frosty air suddenly began to descend in snow flakes. He wished he had worn his old overcoat; didn't like to get this one wet. He had to consider such things now. He was hesitating about a taxi when his car came, bound for the East End" (54). Albert's vulnerability is exposed at the seams of the city—the bridge and transit exchange. In The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch invests such transitional sites with special significance in the urban landscape: "The junction, or place of a break in transportation, has compelling importance for the city observer. Because decisions must be made at junctions, people heighten their attention at such places and perceive nearby elements with more than normal clarity" (73). Albert's hesitation causes the reader, too, to pause and look around. One feature that stands out is those "blazing steel mills," which relate to Albert in a double sense. Earlier the Judge has commented that Albert would have done better to work in the steel mills than to fritter away his youth in Rome. In a larger sense the mills represent the city's great industrial engine, over which Albert has renounced his rightful control in favor of a middle age spent playing in its disapproving glare. In its confluence of economic anxiety and water crossing, this scene recalls an image of Uncle Albert crossing Jersey ferry to New York to oversee Marguerite's singing career: "He often shivered as he crossed the Jersey ferry; he was afraid of Fate. He would tell over her assets on his fingers to reassure himself" (51). Whitman—like, he is "a self-important man . . . standing by the rail of the ferry boat" (51). As Uncle Albert knows, it is such "disconcerting" folk who distinguish that "one Voice" calling through the city's open windows. For both Alberts, the city challenges but ultimately supports a life lived at crosscurrents with its economic norms.
Cather replays the same elements—water crossing, chill, anxiety, contemplation, resumption—in a final scene. It is the anticipated double birthday, and Albert, fighting off the "shiver" of another year, is walking home across the Smithfield Bridge: A thick brown fog made everything dark, and there was a feeling of snow in the air. The lights along the sheer cliffs of Mount Washington, high above the river, were already lighted. When Albert was a boy, those cliffs, with the row of lights far up against the sky, always made him think of some far-away, cloud-set city in Asia; the forbidden city, he used to call it. Well, that was a long time ago; a lot of water had run under this bridge since then, and kingdoms and empires had fallen. Meanwhile, Uncle Doctor was hanging on, and things were not so bad with them as they might be. Better not reflect too much. He hopped on board a street car, and old women with market baskets shifted to make room for him. (57) Albert's passage over the waters of the Monongahela River typifies the dialectical structure of the story. Suspended between downtown and déclassé South Side, Albert sees in a single image the dream city of his privileged childhood and the actual city of his reduced middle age. He absorbs this contrast in the context of larger historical upheavals ("kingdoms and empires had fallen") and seems to recognize that his privileged witness to these changes is more precious than any illusion of control over history or of insulation from it. "Better not reflect too much": dropping the subject, Cather's narrative voice merges with the consciousness of her character, achieving a casual, "loosely woven" prose that suspends resolution in step with Albert's own suspense. Like Benjamin's Angel of History, Albert is propelled reluctantly into the future, unable to "make whole what has been smashed." He resumes his journey by mounting a streetcar and casting his lot with a feminine populace who "shifted to make room for him." The flâneur, writes Benjamin, "demanded elbow room" (Illuminations 172). So too, Albert glimpses and passes on, descending into the crowd but maintaining his uniqueness. Albert does not need to reflect, because, through his dialectical vision, the city reflects him, as it has supported his individuality and his freedom to be "out of tune with the times" (41).
"Double Birthday" has been considered a companion story to "Neighbour Rosicky," which Cather wrote immediately before and published just after (Slote xxx; Arnold 126-27), and it is worth asking why Rosicky seeks his fortunes beyond the city while Albert seeks his within it. It comes down to a matter of seeing. On a fateful Fourth of July, Rosicky experiences the sudden emptiness of lower Manhattan, "like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops and the belts and bands cease running." The change is "too great," and the city appears "blank" to him (29). Like Rosicky, Albert experiences the ruptures of urban life—that emptiness after the machinery stops— but whereas Rosicky removes to rural Nebraska, Albert bridges the gap and rejoins the urban crowd. Albert sees more deeply. He sees through the city's historical upheavals to the unorthodox social and geographical patterns to which his city life, and this story, bear witness, sketching what Cather calls "a future yet unforeseen." This vision lacks the clarity with which Alexandra Bergson's eyes survey the prairie and foresee its development in O Pioneers! Albert's vision, like Benjamin's, follows the oblique and shifting contours of a modern city where no overarching perspective, of time or space, is possible. Rather, he finds meaning and identity in the chance encounters and fragments of memory that give "Double Birthday" its form.
Cather called Pittsburgh her "birthplace" as a writer ("And Death Comes")—that second artistic birthday, which, as Thea Kronborg discovers, is longer and more personally demanding than the first (Song of the Lark 175-76). Pittsburgh was the first big city where Cather learned to embed personal expression into architecture and social geography, and to grapple with industrial capitalist America from the standpoint of art. Its strategic location, connecting the eastern seaboard to the continental interior; its rivers and dramatic, urbanized heights; its bridges and transit lines; its ethnic diversity and domestic retreats—all of this appealed to her imagination. In "Double Birthday," her final Pittsburgh-set story, Cather portrays a city that reflects as much the geography of her mature fiction as it does the city she experienced as an emerging author. Like her character Albert, fifty-five when the story appeared in 1929, with a December birthday, she perceived a city unified not by progress but by spaces and relationships struck across the currents of change, receding into the future. This imagined Pittsburgh is in a sense the space from which Cather was passing beyond modernity, from which she crossed to those ideal cities at Santa Fe and Quebec that she likewise constructed from the ruins of the past.
1. Useful discussions of Benjamin's philosophy of the city include Buck-Morss; Gilloch; Caygill 118-48; and Cutler 100-107. (Go back.)
2. Although Cather based her depiction of Pittsburgh on her experiences there a quarter century earlier, there were, to a thoughtful observer of the broader American scene in the later 1920s, forebodings of ill. Mechanization was rising, speculation was manic; at the same time, unemployment was increasing, wages were low, and workers were hard pressed to buy the goods they produced (Lorant 336, 340). (Go back.)
3. Demarest notes the commingling of classes in this depiction of Allegheny City, which was annexed to Pittsburgh in 1907 and is now called the North Side: "Cather presents the older city as a community in which people of different classes mingled in friendly intimacy, in which the round of daily errands performed on foot created a neighborhood familiarity" (144). For Benjamin, according to Caygill, "the experience of the city replaces substance and subject with transitivity" (120). Cather's likely prototype for the Engelhardt house was the residence of onetime Lincoln drama critic George Gerwig at 66 (now 906) Cedar Avenue in Allegheny (Sullivan 20-21). (Go back.)
4. Uncle Albert's throat bears "a long, jagged scar," which, according to his brother, resulted from an accidental fall into frames of glass (46-47). (Go back.)
5. On Richardson's Romanesque style, see Handlin 115-21. A guide to Richardson's courthouse evokes the experience of moving through it: "The design of the great three-story staircase is a celebration of the arch as an architectural form. . . . The many arches seem to move and interact as we move past them" (H.H. Richardson's Allegheny County Courthouse). On Cather's interest in Romanesque architecture, see Moseley 68-71. (Go back.)
"And Death Comes for Willa Cather, Famous Author." Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph 25 Apr. 1947. Bridging the Urban Landscape site. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 22 May 2003. http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/northside/nor_n111.html.
Arnold, Marilyn. Willa Cather's Short Fiction. Athens: U of Ohio P, 1984.
Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999.
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. Ed. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken, 1968.
Benjamin, Walter. Reflections. Ed. Peter Demetz. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. New York: Schocken, 1978.
Bennett, Mildred R. "Willa Cather in Pittsburgh." Prairie Schooner 33 (Spring 1959): 64-76.
Buck-Morss, Susan. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project. Cambridge: MIT P, 1989.
Byrne, Kathleen D., and Richard C. Snyder. Chrysalis: Willa Cather in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1980.
Cather, Willa. "Double Birthday." 1929. Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915 - 1929. Ed. Bernice Slote. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1973. 41-63.
Cather, Willa. Lucy Gayheart. 1935. New York: Vintage, 1976.
Cather, Willa. "Neighbour Rosicky." 1930. Obscure Destinies. 1932. Willa Cather Scholarly Edition. Ed. Frederick M. Link with Kari A. Ronning and Mark Kamrath. Historical essay and explanatory notes Kari A. Ronning. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1998. 7-61.
Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! 1913. Willa Cather Scholarly Edition. Ed. Susan J. Rosowski and Charles W. Mignon with Kathleen Danker. Historical essay and explanatory notes David Stouck. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1992.
Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. 1915. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1978.
Cather, Willa. "Uncle Valentine." 1925. Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915 - 1929. Ed. Bernice Slote. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1973. 3-38.
Cather, Willa. The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893 - 1902. Ed. William M. Curtin. 2 vols. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1970.
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Cutler, Edward S. Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism. Hanover: U of New Hampshire P, 2003.
Demarest, David P., Jr., ed. From These Hills, from These Valleys: Selected Fiction about Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1976.
Gilloch, Graeme. Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City. Cambridge, England: Polity P, 1996.
Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Norton Anthology of English Literature. 4th ed. New York: Norton, 1979. 1: 2444-47.
Handlin, David P. American Architecture. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985.
H.H. Richardson's Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail: Self-Guided Walking Tour. Pittsburgh: Living Architecture . . . Alive in Pittsburgh, 1999.
Lorant, Stefan. Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City. Pittsburgh: Esselmont Books, 1999.
Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City. Cambridge: MIT P, 1960.
Moseley, Ann. "The Religious Architecture of The Professor's House and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Willa Cather and the Culture of Belief. Ed. John J. Murphy. Provo UT: Brigham Young UP, 2002. 63-80.
O'Brien, Sharon. Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.
Rosowski, Susan J. "Willa Cather as a City Novelist." Writing the City: Eden, Babylon, and the New Jerusalem. Ed. Peter Preston and Paul Simpson-Housley. London: Routledge, 1994. 149-70.
Rybczynski, Witold. City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World. New York: Scribner, 1995.
Slote, Bernice. Introduction. Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915 - 1929. Ed. Bernice Slote. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1973. ix-xxx.
Sullivan, Peter. "Willa Cather's Pittsburgh German Friends and Literary Connections." Nassau Review 7.2 (1996): 19-33.
Updike, John. Introduction. The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Ed. John Updike and Katrina Kenison. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. xv-xxiv.
Wilson, William H. The City Beautiful Movement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.
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By Jenna Anderson - December 12, 2019 10:18 pm EST
Over the past year-and-a-half, the DC Universe streaming service has brought some pretty creative original programming into the television landscape. The latest to hit the small screen is Harley Quinn, an adult-oriented animated series based on the iconic DC antihero. If you're wanting to check out the zany and hilarious series for yourself, DC is offering a chance to do so without requiring a DC Universe subscription. The series premiere episode of Harley Quinn is currently available on DC's YouTube page in its entirety, and you can check it out in the embed above.
The Harley Quinn series follows its titular character (played by The Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco) realizing that she deserves better for herself, leading to her breaking up with The Joker (Solo: A Star Wars Story's Alan Tudyk) and make it on her own as Gotham's newest supervillain. In the process, she assembles a ragtag crew, deals with sexism in the Legion of Doom, and makes quite a lot of jokes in the process.
"This show is completely out of control. Harley Quinn is a blast of a character, and she’s nuts," Cuoco explained in an earlier promotional video for the series.
"Kaley really embraced the idea of ‘I’m gonna just give the craziest performance I can, and then start to figure out exactly where it should live,'" executive producer Justin Halpern added. "This is a show that has supervillains and superheroes, so it needs to have awesome battles, crazy fights, and s--t exploding."
The cast of Harley Quinn also includes Lake Bell (Wet Hot American Summer) as Poison Ivy, JB Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm) as Frank the Plant, Diedrich Bader (Veep) as Batman, Tony Hale (Arrested Development, Veep) as Doctor Psycho, Jason Alexander (Seinfeld) as Sy Borgman, Chris Meloni (Happy!, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) as Commissioner Gordon, Ron Funches (Powerless) as King Shark, Rahul Kohli (iZombie) as Scarecrow, Jim Rash (Mike Tyson Mysteries) as The Riddler, Wanda Sykes (Black-ish) as the Queen of Fables, and Jacob Tremblay (Room, Good Boys) as Damian Wayne/Robin.
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AmiMizuno
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So DC has issues with Steve, Trevor and other love interested in Diana's life. I feel a lot has to due with Perez's run. Even if you dislike Steve and Diana's relationship, there were others who were good with Diana that could have been used. Who is your favorite couple? I do like Steve. I did go up with Diana and Bruce.
DochaDocha
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The years from 1986 through 2011 told me that Wonder Woman never particularly "needed" a romance. I feel as though she has one now mostly because it's pretty much a requirement in every superhero movie.
Iron Man 1-3
Captain America 1-3
Avengers 1-4 (barely in 1, but Iron Man was still the main-ish character and he has moments with Pepper)
Thor 1-2
Ant-Man 1-2
Guardians of the Galaxy 1-2
Spider-man 1-2
That's like 21/23 MCU movies, leaving out only Thor 3 and the Carol Danvers flick which I never watched. I don't like DCEU enough to talk about it.
Now even though I said she didn't need it, it's not like romance was bad, either. The only pairing for WW I didn't like was DCAU Batman, because I felt like the writers felt they needed to give Batman a romantic interest (because he always has one) and ultimately WW suffered the most from it. I know the writers claim they followed up with it because some fans reacted to the playful kiss on the cheek in one episode, but I always found that claim dubious when you look at everything.
lotchj
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Diana paired with Superman is my favorite. I thought they were a great couple.
Tzigone
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Steve, definitely. After that - anyone except Clark and Bruce. As long as it doesn't conflict with any other pairing I like, I mean.
I'm curious one reason why there are people who dislike Steve and Diana, is she falls in love with the first man she sees. I mean Greek myths did have some Gods fall in love with humans the first time they saw them. I don't mind that Diana doesn't have one. It's just the simple fact Dc doesn't seem to try a lot with Diana.
WonderNight
So is diana and Steve not together or something?
Deiasilva10
Diana doesn't need romance but if it's to happen the best match for her is Clark.
Originally Posted by WonderNight
Due to Aphdoite dying he whines and dumps her. Why Clark? So is it because of their similar nature?
Originally Posted by AmiMizuno
Go figure. Maybe she could date Jimmy Olson . But the person I'd want diana to date DC wouldn't let be in the same room with her.
Last edited by WonderNight; 12-06-2019 at 09:03 PM.
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I still think there's the opportunity to make Steve interesting and utilize him. They just don't bother trying much. The movie did it successfully but the comics haven't for decades (even before he was erased as primary interest post-Crisis). But due to that, her most successful romance has been outside her mythos, and that's with Superman.
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For so weird reason they have been playing safe with him. In order to make him interesting one why join the military. What does he do in his free time? I mean in the golden age he did charity events. He does like to cook. Also what should the relationships with Steve, amazons and the gods.
I'm curious one reason why there are people who dislike Steve and Diana
After 22 years of hanging out in online forums, I've learned that if someone doesn't like a comic or anime couple, it's often because that person would rather one of the characters in the couple be paired with someone else, and I'm guessing that has at least a little to do with why a lot of people don't like Steve. This phenomenon of disliking couples that interfere with the couples people would rather see has this interesting consequence of creating fake couple fans: claiming to like one couple only because it opens the path for your favorite one to happen. The writers of Young Justice (probably) poked fun at this when (I think) Artemis and Miss Martian were talking about how cute couples each other would make with some random boy, but they were just saying that because they both wanted Conner and wanted the other not to screw things up.
As for Steve himself, he wasn't comic relevant for a decades-long stretch that it created fan apathy toward him. So unless you just started reading comics recently, or are over the age of 45 or so, he's just not the character you grew up with. Even if you watched the Lynda Carter show, like I did watching syndicated reruns in the 80s, it's not like the show portrayed them as a great pairing. There are whole generations of fans who simply didn't grow up with a compelling take on the couple. There are whole generations of comic readers who are used to seeing Superman and Lois, Peter and Mary Jane, etc. but didn't see Wonder Woman and Steve.
I don't think Diana, as a character, *needs* romance in her narrative.
But just to play the game, my first and only real choice is Steve. But I do really like the idea of Clark and Diana dating briefly early in their careers. I support a six month long relationship between them before they realize that for all their similarities they don't have a ton in common, part ways in a mutually amicable split, and remain very close friends thereafter.
I don't want to see them together now, because we have Mera back, but I really enjoyed the Diana-Aquaman ship. I think they're a great pairing on so many levels but I'd never trade Mera for it.
I'm not against Diana dating a woman either, but I can't really think of any lesbians in DC that Diana could build a relationship with.
If I got to play God and do anything I wanted, I'd steal Steve Rogers from Marvel and dump him in Diana's lap (and as a consolation prize to Peggy Carter we'll send her Steve Trevor). But since that will never (and should never) happen I'm gonna stick with DC's Steve for Diana.
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I do agree with Diana doesn't need romance. It's just with how long Lois and Selina have been in it's kind of also sad to see how DC does treat Steve
Among other things, and because Diana deserve a man at her level as person and hero, on other words, she deserve the best.
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Youth Leadership Consortium provides LA students an abundance of tips for college admission
A College Prep Saturday participant plays an HSF trivia game, in which he had to spin the wheel and answer questions based on the categories.
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The restless sun shined brightly down onto the equally restless morning coming up. People were welcomed with smiling faces, drawstring bags and an array of breakfast products, stuffing their hungry stomachs with bran muffins and orange juice, then ushering themselves into the massive gym of Loyola Marymount University, home of the Lions, to see what and how much they could learn about attending college in one day.
The Youth Leadership Consortium and the National Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) invited several hundred students to Loyola Marymount, a private university in Los Angeles, to attend “College Prep Saturday” on Nov. 23
College Prep Saturday’s main goal is to teach middle and high school students — and their parents — how exactly to plan, prepare and pay for college. The event was free and bilingual for all Hispanic families who spoke Spanish better than they did English. Junior Gabriela Guevara from Franklin High School has not decided what she would like to major in yet, but is interested in psychology. “The biggest obstacle [of going to college] would be being a minority. Also the workload and getting used to [will be difficult],” she said when asked about potential obstacles that she could face while going to college.
The wall on the left of the massive gym boasted painted blue and white and sports displays, the majority of them being because of basketball. Several basketball hoops were visible from the very back of the plethora of people and chairs, and a podium was set up with Anahi Godinez (Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce’s Director of Strategic Partnerships and Events) introducing the event. She mentioned the sponsors of this event, which included Wells Fargo bank, the American Indian College Fund, the College Board and APIA Scholars to name a few.
People listen to Anahi Godinez’s introduction to College Prep Saturday.
Godinez also introduced Matthew Fissinger (LMU Admissions) and Cesar Trujillo (Senior Vice President National Implementation Manager) to instill a few words of inspiration and hope and also speak a few words on behalf of their positions. Trujillo talked about Wells Fargo’s support of HSF, including how they have supported HSF since 2003. Wells Fargo has committed over $24 million to HSF, which has supported over 3,000 scholars across the country. “Nothing should stop you [from going to college]. We need bright minds like yours,” Trujillo said.
The students, ranging from freshmen to seniors with some eighth graders mixed in, were then divided by grade level and taken to different rooms for the two workshops about college information. The workshops were all dissimilar; each grade level got to learn from two different workshops. Juniors specifically listened to the “Strategic Application Process,” describing the ins and outs of submitting college applications, and “Funding Your Future,” which was an in-depth look at how to attain enough money for college, as well as additional information about financial aid.
Both workshops were mainly presented by Curtis Ferguson II, Associate Director from USC Admissions. Ferguson’s entertaining personality was more than enough to keep the entire room listening, as he rarely drifted off topic and provided several “Curtis’ Helpful Hints.”
The application workshop dove into what is most important in college applications in comparison to what isn’t, how to build a resume, and how to find the college best fit for you. An important thing to note about academics and how to impress colleges is to recognize that “colleges look at you from the context of your school,” Ferguson said. What this means is that colleges analyze what classes a certain high school has to offer and compare those classes to the ones the applicant took, in order to determine whether or not the applicant has a good enough work ethic and strive for challenge to go to their college.
Ferguson’s advice about grades and AP classes in this context is to “do the best that you can do in the environment that you are in.” Additionally, colleges want to see that an applicant is involved in their school, involved in their community and taking leadership roles. This includes community service, extracurriculars and clubs. Another thing to consider with college application is to find the right school for you; the way to determine this is through extensive research and finding out a college’s majors, financial aid, location, graduation rate, campus life, public vs. private school and religious vs. non-religious school environments.
After a quick break, Ferguson introduced a new guest — Natalia Zampini, a personal banker at Wells Fargo — to take all the juniors in the room through the financial aid process of college. All the juniors were taught basic elements of financial aid. The two types of financial aid are merit-based aid (money that you earn) and need-based aid (money that you are unable to acquire). You can attain either through scholarships or grants, both of which do not require you to pay back. Also, scholarships and grants should absolutely not ask for fees of any sort; if they do, they are most likely a scam. There are scholarships available to almost everyone, so applying to as many as possible wouldn’t do harm.
When looking at loans, there are two types: subsidized and unsubsidized. The main difference between the two is that subsidized loans require the government to pay interest while a student is in school and unsubsidized loans have students pay the interest themselves. In order to calculate an accurate estimate to how much money a certain student needs for college, there is a basic equation, which is COA (Cost of Attendance) – EFC (Expected Family Contribution)= Financial Need (the number you need to pay for college). If needed, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) can contribute to a certain family’s EF C, as long as said family reapplies every year. Junior Aline Tran from Burbank High School personally recommends fastweb.com as a useful website for easy access and guidance to scholarships.
The day ended with a raffle and an advertisement for the Youth Leadership Consortium’s annual Youth Leadership Summit (YLS), a free program for low-income high school juniors in which the students go to the University of Chicago on a four-day retreat to learn about college.
“Going to college is really important to me because I want to attend medical school [in the future]. I would be the first person in my family to get a degree and be a doctor,” Tran said when asked about how important it is for her to go to college. “It’s really all about taking advantage of who you are and [preparing to face] the real world.”
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May 22, 2017 • Athletic Administration
LED lights can save money, provide better coverage for stadiums
Chris Campolieta was ecstatic when last year his school finally made some much-needed improvements to its stadium, including a new field, bleachers and press box. But what thrilled him most was the upgraded lighting system that would illuminate it all.
While turf surfaces and gigantic videoboards tend to steal the spotlight at most athletic facilities, LED lighting is garnering more attention for its innovation and cost-saving potential. The metal halide lights that tower over most fields are aged and inefficient, and more schools are looking for alternatives as they undergo capital projects.
“When it comes to our facilities, the biggest thing I like to talk about is the lights,” said Campolieta, director of athletics at Baldwinsville Central School District in New York.
Campolieta stops short of characterizing the metal halide lights as “old-fashioned,” but he admits just turning them on was a bit of process and could take several minutes before they reached full strength. That’s no longer the case.
Technology has brought coaching aids, game film and training into the 21st century, and over the last few years innovations have made their way into athletic facilities. Baldwinsville Central’s new LED lighting was provided by Eaton’s Ephesus Lighting, which has outfitted nearly two dozen professional venues. The innovative system can be turned on from Campolieta’s smartphone, where he can even adjust the light’s intensity depending on what’s taking place at the stadium. The features have impressed the coaches and athletes, who are accustomed to a lengthy wait.
“I have to train my coaches how to use the lights because they’re practicing at night, and they’re like little kids when you’re showing this to them,” Campolieta said. “Then you’ve gotta see the athletes’ faces because they’re on the field, we’re pressing buttons and the lights go on instantly. That’s pretty cool.”
What’s most enticing about LED lighting is the potential cost savings associated with it. Older systems were not built for efficiency and could not instantly turn off, raising utilities costs for school districts already grappling with budget cuts. Because LED lights use less energy than metal halide lights, it’s often easier for athletic directors to make the case for upgrades because the new systems pay for themselves over the long term.
Campolieta can’t put an exact figure on his school’s savings, but he said money was a “huge factor” in making the switch to LED lights. The new systems were installed onto the stadium’s existing poles, and Campolieta said the state-of-the-art lights could last up to 50 years.
“Cost was a big sell to it,” he said. “We’re just going to end up saving more money down the road because of the expense of electricity and all of that.”
Baldwinsville Central’s facilities project brought several new upgrades, from the turf field to the windscreens that adorn the bleachers. Campolieta said none of it would look the same if it weren’t for the bright stadium lights.
Critics of metal halide systems often complain of “dead spots” on their fields, areas where the lights don’t shine as bright as they do on the 50-yard line. Proponents of LED systems say not only are “dead spots” not an issue, but light pollution that can be problematic for neighboring homes is eliminated.
Campolieta said the way the lights illuminate the field has undoubtedly impressed visitors and brought more attention to the stadium. Baldwinsville Central recently hosted the boys soccer sectional final for the first time, and Time Warner Cable televised two football games last year.
“Part of it was our phenomenal football program,” he said, “and with HD and the lighting, it really captivates audiences, shows a great field and a great game.”
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Bryan Allen pedaled a human-powered aircraft across the English Channel from the cliffs of Dover to Cap Gris-Nez on June 12, 1979. (a) He flew for 169 min at an average velocity of 3.53 m/s in a direction $45^\circ$ south of east. What was his total displacement? (b) Allen encountered a headwind averaging 2.00 m/s almost precisely in the opposite direction of his motion relative to the Earth. What was his average velocity relative to the air? (c) What was his total displacement relative to the air mass?
$35.8 \textrm{ km, } 45^\circ \textrm{ S of E}$
$5.53 \textrm{ m/s}$
OpenStax College Physics Solution, Chapter 3, Problem 52 (Problems & Exercises) (4:06)
This is College Physics Answers with Shaun Dychko. Pedal-powered aircraft was traveling for 169 minutes. And we’ll convert that into seconds in order to have our units match with our speed. Which has units of seconds here. So we have multiplied by 60 seconds for every minute. That's 10140 seconds. The speed is 353 meters per second, and the direction is 45 degrees south of east. So this distance that the person traveled is the speed times time; this 3.53 meters per second times 10140 seconds. Which works out to 35.8 kilometers, and that displacement is going to be in the same direction as the velocity. So we say 35.8 kilometers, 45 degrees south of east. In part B, we're told that there’s some wind traveling in the opposite direction to the aircraft with respect to the ground. With a speed of two meters per second. And our job is to figure out what is the speed of the aircraft with respect to the wind. So this is a little mistake there. Okay. Now, when you're adding relative velocities, if you set out the subscripts in a certain way, things will follow a certain recipe. So we want to have the velocity of one thing with respect to the other. So that's <i>a</i> with respect to <i>b</i>. And in this question, it’s the velocity of the airplane with respect to the wind that's important. So capital <i>a</i> is little <i>a</i> and capital <i>b</i> is little <i>w</i>. And we'll add these two velocities together, such that the subscripts are the one that we want listed first with respect to something called <i>x</i> that we don't really care about. In this case that’ll be the ground, plus velocity of something else, which is <i>x/i> with respect to the other thing that we want in our answer. So and this is going to be the velocity of the ground with respect to the wind. And when we do it this way, these inner subscripts so long as they're the same, they will cancel. And we'll be left with the velocity of the first subscript with respect to the second subscript. So, what we want then is the velocity of the air with respect to the wind, in which case we need to have the velocity of air with respect to the ground. Which we have directly given to us by the question. And then add to that the velocity of the ground with respect to the wind. And now that these inner subscripts, little <i>g</i> are the same, they cancel. Leaving us with the velocity of airplane with respect to the wind. And now, we’re not directly given the velocity of the ground with respect to the wind, we're given the velocity of the wind with respect to the ground. But the opposite of that, is going to be of the negative of it. So it’s gonna be the same vector, but just pointing in the opposite direction. This is the velocity of the ground with respect to the wind. And that is the negative of the velocity of the wind with respect to the ground. So that’s two meters per second co-linear with the velocity of the airplane with respect to the ground. So these two vectors can be placed along the same line, head to tail here. Here’s the velocity of the ground with respect to the wind. And we can see that this total then, which is from here to here. This resultant is the velocity of the airplane with respect to the wind and it’s gonna be just adding these two speeds together; So that’s 3.53 meters per second plus two meters per second. Which is 5.53 meters per second. And the displacement of the airplane with respect to the wind is going to be this speed of the airplane with respect to the wind multiplied by time, which is 56.1 kilometers and that is still 45 degrees south of the east.
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If you are in the theater, you know what a “10 of 12” is. For those who are fans of theater, but not practitioners, it is one very long day allowed by Actors Equity and the other trades, when all the designers, cast, crew, and director try to work through adding the technical aspects of the show. We work ten hours of a twelve hour span.
This Sunday we started at 10 am with a ‘paper tech’, where the stage manager (Julie Pare), lighting designer (Eric Marsh), sound designer (Yezzmine Zepeda) and sometimes the set designer (Dylan Marks) collaborate on the cues for light, sound, and special effects. Both designers had previously built their individual plots in their respective computers, so it was a melding of the two into the stage manager’s call sheet. The company manager, tech director, and senior tech joined us. I always choose to be there, but the director is really extraneous at this point if communication has been good throughout the process. Because Private Lives is not a particularly tech heavy show, (aside from props) we were able to finish in a little over an hour.
Actors arrived at 11:00 am for what should have been a costume dress parade, where I get to see the costumes under light and work with the costumer to make notes on what needs to be adjusted, completed, or added. Our costumer was not quite ready and begged an extension, so I spent an hour giving actor notes from the last two rehearsals. Crew members and interns were also called for 11, and the stage manager worked with our newly assembled stage crew to walk through the major set turnover between Acts I and II and the prop changes between Acts II and III.
I assigned my iPad to my directing intern Isabelle Rogers, who played photographer during the whole long day.
By 12 noon, we were able to take a quick break and begin tech rehearsal. Often this is when we use the actors as props and just move from cue to cue rather than actually playing the whole scene. It’s beneficial to the technical staff but doesn’t help the actors very much. But because the lighting cues are generally long and slow progressions of light and the sound cues are very specific in timing, we were able to work through a run of the entire play, including set turnovers by 4:00 pm, when our dinner break was scheduled.
Some of the crew chose to have a pot luck/take out picnic in the green room. A number of us walked over to a little French crepe restaurant in the Village and spent our break together, then wandered back to the theater at our leisure. At 6:00 pm, we started all over again from the top of the show. During the second run, we stopped only occasionally to work out a rigging problem that we had discussed, to work business with a break-away prop, or to adjust the actors positions to be better lit, etc. During the act breaks I consulted with the prop master about a punch list of final props that are still outstanding and fabrics for reupholstering the furniture.
We finished a little after 9 pm. Light and sound designers were able to leave, knowing my technical notes would come to them from my stage manager. The set designer and shop crew worked to resolve a few issues and the running crew began to organize the back stage storage of furniture and props while I gave actor notes. When I finished shortly after 10 pm, we had almost an hour in our scheduled 10 of 12 rehearsal to work or rework some scenes, but I chose to let everyone go home a little early, knowing the set designer was waiting to continue painting the floor and we would be sharper and more creative in our solutions after some rest.
All in all it was a very successful tech. But it does bring home how close we are to opening the show. Our first preview audience will join in the fun next Sunday, July 14 at 3:00. Hope you will consider joining us.
For more information and to buy tickets call 713-524-6706 or go online to www.mainstreettheater.com
This entry was posted in General, Theater and tagged #MST, #PrivateLives_MST, Private Lives, Rehearsal, theatre on July 8, 2019 by chartp.
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Crowley, John N. (1)Fischer, Horst (1)Harder, Hartwig (1)Hens, Korbinian (1)Kubistin, Dagmar (1)Lelieveld, Jos (1)Martinez, Monica (1)Noelscher, Anke C. (1)View MoreTypes
Insights into HOx and ROx chemistry in the boreal forest via measurement of peroxyacetic acid, peroxyacetic nitric anhydride (PAN) and hydrogen peroxide
Crowley, John N.; Pouvesle, Nicolas; Phillips, Gavin J.; Axinte, Raoul; Fischer, Horst; Petaja, Tuukka; Noelscher, Anke C.; Williams, Jonathan; Hens, Korbinian; Harder, Hartwig; et al. (European Geosciences Union, 2018-09-21)
Unlike many oxidised atmospheric trace gases, which have numerous production pathways, peroxyacetic acid (PAA) and PAN are formed almost exclusively in gas-phase reactions involving the hydroperoxy radical (HO2), the acetyl peroxy radical (CH3C(O)O2) and NO2 and are not believed to be directly emitted in significant amounts by vegetation. As the self-reaction of HO2 is the main photochemical route to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), simultaneous observation of PAA, PAN and H2O2 can provide insight into the HO2 budget. We present an analysis of observations taken during a summertime campaign in a boreal forest that, in addition to natural conditions, was temporarily impacted by two biomass-burning plumes. The observations were analysed using an expression based on a steady-state assumption using relative PAA-to-PAN mixing ratios to derive HO2 concentrations. The steady-state approach generated HO2 concentrations that were generally in reasonable agreement with measurements but sometimes overestimated those observed by factors of 2 or more. We also used a chemically simple, constrained box model to analyse the formation and reaction of radicals that define the observed mixing ratios of PAA and H2O2. After nudging the simulation towards observations by adding extra, photochemical sources of HO2 and CH3C(O)O2, the box model replicated the observations of PAA, H2O2, ROOH and OH throughout the campaign, including the biomass-burning-influenced episodes during which significantly higher levels of many oxidized trace gases were observed. A dominant fraction of CH3O2 radical generation was found to arise via reactions of the CH3C(O)O2 radical. The model indicates that organic peroxy radicals were present at night in high concentrations that sometimes exceeded those predicted for daytime, and initially divergent measured and modelled HO2 concentrations and daily concentration profiles are reconciled when organic peroxy radicals are detected (as HO2) at an efficiency of 35%. Organic peroxy radicals are found to play an important role in the recycling of OH radicals subsequent to their loss via reactions with volatile organic compounds.
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Some Bears Fans Cheered When It Was Announced Chris Conte Wouldn’t Return From Injury
Filed Under:Chicago Bears, Chris Conte, Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers, Soldier Field
CHICAGO, IL - DECEMBER 4: Cole Beasley #11 of the Dallas Cowboys drives through Chris Conte #47 of the Chicago Bears for a touchdown during the second quarter of a game at Soldier Field on December 4, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)Cowboys receiver Cole Beasley dives past Bears safety Chris Conte to score a touchdown in Dallas' 41-28 win on Thursday night at Soldier Field (Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
(CBS) In a lost season in which the entire Bears organization — from the front office to the coaching staff to the players — deserves heat for a 5-8 record, Chicago’s fans must rightfully now be criticized too.
Some of them, at least.
Some Bears fans — again “some,” likely not even a majority, but certainly enough to be heard — cheered when it was announced that safety Chris Conte wouldn’t return after suffering a back injury in the third quarter of Thursday night’s 41-28 loss against the Cowboys.
Conte's back injury displayed on the scoreboard, and the home crowd cheered. Stay classy, Bears fans.
— Rich Campbell (@Rich_Campbell) December 5, 2014
Some fans at Soldier Field cheer that #Bears safety Chris Conte is out of the game. Disgusting, really.
— Adam Jahns (@adamjahns) December 5, 2014
Conte’s long been a target of Chicago’s venom after a Week 17 mishap of his in 2013 led to a Packers touchdown that kept the Bears out of the playoffs, but we can all agree that the cheering of his not returning after an injury is a class-less, low blow. Conte’s already fought through a battery on injuries this season, including concussions, shoulder issues, an eye problem and now a back ailment.
The Bears have caused that frustration on the part of their fans, but there’s no excuse for the actions.
It’s just yet another ugly sight in a season full of them.
Soldier Field had 6,293 unused tickets last night, about 10 percent of the stadium’s capacity.
The Bears are a proud franchise with very few proud fans. A miserable season has taken its toll. Tons of empty seats. pic.twitter.com/CW9rVX0lA7
— Chris Emma (@CEmma670) December 5, 2014
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Freeman passes Sinfonietta baton to Chen in overstuffed season finale
Tue May 24, 2011 at 11:33 am
Paul Freeman handed the reins of the Chicago Sinfonietta to his successor Mei-Ann Chen at Monday night's concert at Symphony Center. (File photo)
The closing concert of the Chicago Sinfonietta’s season Monday night at Symphony Center also marked the farewell appearance of Paul Freeman — founder, music director and guiding light who created the diversity-conscious chamber orchestra and led the ensemble for the past 24 years.
Feted earlier by a film homage and fulsome tributes by incoming music director Mei-Ann Chen and others, Freeman appeared on stage at the end of the evening. Physically frail but mentally sharp, the 75-year-old conductor informally regaled the audience with jokes, teased Chen about her age, and, seated, led a fizzing performance of Ginastera’s Estancia before closing the evening by bringing out soprano Elizabeth Norman to lead the audience in a swaying, hand-holding rendition of We Shall Overcome.
Amid the sense of occasion and glimpses of Chen’s own incisive podium style, with three conductors and a violin soloist featured in a decidedly hodgepodge program, the evening tried to cover too many bases, musically and philosophically — perhaps inadvertently reflecting the challenges facing the Taiwanese-born conductor, who officially takes the Sinfonietta helm in the fall.
Mei-Ann Chen led the Sinfonietta in music of Higdon, Zwilich and Dvorak Monday night.
The good news is that Chen, music director of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, is a strong conductor and seems the kind of firm podium presence needed to lift the Sinfonietta out of the artistic mediocrity it’s been mired in for the past several years. Also, on a night heavy with verbal bouquets, Chen showed herself an engaging speaker in her introductions and a musician with the personality to follow in her predecessor’s role. Whether she is given the authority to program her own concerts and make the necessary personnel upgrades to take the Sinfonietta to the next level time will tell.
Much of the program concentrated on American women composers, and Chen led off with an atmospheric performance of Jennifer Higdon’s blue cathedral. Though inspired by the passing of the composer’s brother, Higdon’s work is optimistic and colorful rather than tragic, and Chen neatly brought out the radiant scoring, not least the luminous coda with the musicians called upon to play tiny Chinese bells.
Chen also directed the orchestra in a barn-storming ride through the final movement of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Symphony No. 1. Though, at just 17 minutes, it’s unfortunate Zwilich’s concise symphony wasn’t played in its entirety as originally scheduled.
Violinist Elena Urioste, who made a memorable debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra last year, was the soloist in Gwyneth Walker’s An American Concerto (1995). Recorded by Freeman and the Sinfonietta, this inoffensive yet nonessential work breathes some of the rustic amiability of William Grant Still. Urioste delivered a stylish and tasteful performance but one wished that this talented musician’s gifts were utilized on more substantial music.
Walker’s lightweight concerto seemed like a masterpiece, however, next to Divertimento Notte blu by Renée Baker, the Sinfonietta’s principal violist, who also conducted this premiere.
Baker’s work is scored for six soloists (baritone sax doubling on didgeridoo, tenor sax, flute, vibes, cello and bass), arrayed across the front of the stage. Yet most of the time this unwieldy cacophony seemed more like a concerto for timpani, which drowned out most of the soloists and orchestra. Noisy, over-scored and musically barren, Baker’s piece veered unconvincingly from ear-crunching harmonics to brief obbligato jazz and world-music solos.
Which brings up the conundrum of programming, post-Freeman. There’s no doubt that the Sinfonietta’s founder has spotlighted a great deal of American repertoire and many works by black composers. But, quite frankly, a lot of the music performed by the Sinfonietta over the years has been second- or third-rate at best. There is a wealth of terrific American music that remains unexplored in Chicago — works of Diamond, Piston, Mennin and Creston among others — and one hopes that Chen will be more discerning in her advocacy of homegrown repertoire than her predecessor.
As a nod to Freeman’s leadership of his other orchestra, the Czech National Symphony, Chen offered Dvorak’s Scherzo capriccioso. Some fallible horn playing and wind intonation apart, the musicians responded with the most fiery and committed performance of the evening, which earned a spontaneous standing ovation.
One wishes Mei-Ann Chen well in her debut season with the Sinfonietta, but it has to be said that the chosen repertoire for 2011-12 is a great disappointment. The programs are lacking in large-scale works of substance with the Sinfonietta’s concerts dominated by short pieces, recycled items from recent seasons, and far too much bite-size fluff. Most dismaying is the slating of isolated movements from concertos, symphonies and larger works (“excerpts from Also Sprach Zarathustra”!), which verges on patronizing and seems more appropriate for pops or children’s concerts.
The Sinfonietta’s audience is more sophisticated than next season’s programs give them credit for. Let’s hope that Chen exercises some authority to put more meat on what currently looks like a pretty unimaginative bill of fare.
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What age is this for?
Harry Potter was orphaned as a baby when the evil Voldemort killed both of his parents. Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall hid Harry with his Aunt and Uncle to keep him from harm’s way. He grows up there living in the cupboard under the stairs and trying to conceal his wizard skills. On the eve of his 11th birthday, Hagrid arrives to take Harry to Hogwarts, the school for young witches and wizards.
Harry makes friends with Ron and Hermione on the train to Hogwarts and they become firm friends. At the school, the friends wonder about some of the strange things happening there. They discover the Philosopher’s Stone, a rock which can turn any metal into gold and creates a magic potion which can give eternal life. They get involved in many scary adventures which brings them face to face with the evil Voldemort.
What to look out for
Quite a lot of fantasy violence in this movie which would be quite scary for younger kids such as:
A giant troll smashes a toilet cubicle and toilet bowl, where Hermione is hiding, with a club narrowly missing her. Harry and Ron arrive and throw things at him. Harry jumps on to the troll’s head and the troll grabs him and holds him upside down while trying to hit Harry with his club.
The Quidditch match is quite violent with students kicking, shoving and throwing balls at other flyers trying to get them off their broomsticks.
In a chess game the giant pieces use swords and axes to smash and destroy each other. Ron is thrown off a horse, unconscious.
Voldemort, in the form of a face on the back of Professor Quirrell’s head, orders Quirrell to kill Harry. While being attacked and strangled by Quirrell, Harry grabs hold of him and Volemort looks like a burnt, mummified being before turning to ash and disintegrating.
There’s also a lot of scary looking creatures and magic such as ghosts floating through the school, pictures that come to life, cats that change into people, a face in a book tries to get out and Voldemort’s face appears on the back of Professor Quirrell.
Moral of the Story
Good wins over evil.
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Unbelievable: An RTO Office sans Harassment, Touts & Bribes
We are so used to being harassed and squeezed by babus in government offices. This was a wonderful experience of an enthusiastic and helpful officer, good staff and efficient working.
I wish we had more Anil Kumars and that all RTO offices were like the one in Vasant Vihar in New Delhi.
It was with trepidation that I approached the RTO office for renewal of my time expired license. I had avoided going for renewal to the RTO office, apprehending torture and run around.
It was then that I heard that a new RTO office had been set up at Vasant Vihar, andI had tried to access information about the location and timing from the internet. True to traditions, the Delhi Government website had no information of the office. According to the website there was no RTO office in the vicinity of Vasant Vihar. However I made up my mind to face the battle and went forth.
Since I had gone without pre arranging for ‘help’ from a tout or a ‘driving school’ or ‘sifarish’, I was mentally prepared for being given a run around by the clerks in the office. I had even taken along a friend for moral and physical support.
I found the enquiry counter near the gate manned by 3 clerks. To my surprise I got the necessary forms from the enquiry counter without any problem. I was also told to attach supporting documents in respect of age, address proof etc. The clerk noted the details and directed me to a counter inside the main office.
I went inside the main office and found it to be well lit, bright and cheerful. There I was told that being a time expired license that too from a state outside, renewed many times over from Tamil Nadu and UP it would be a difficult and time consuming affair to get the old license renewed.
I walked in to the office of the officer in charge (I read the nameplate out side, it said Anil Kumar) and was pleasantly surprised at the courteous manner in which my friend and I were dealt with. ‘It would be better and easier to get a fresh license issued after due tests than a renewal’ he said and further advised me of the forms to be filled for obtaining a learner’s license.
I proceeded as advised, paid the necessary fees, was administered a test on driving rules and given a learner’s driving license all in a matter of 30 minutes. I was advised to come after a month for a formal test for the drivers’ license.
I did tell Mr. Anil Kumar what a surprise it was not to find any tout in or near the RTO office premises, and the speed with which the forms were accepted, dues collected, test given and learner’s license handed over.
I went a month later and I was given a receipt for the amount paid at the counter and after a driving test was told the new driving license would be sent by courier within 10 days. That day I had spent just over an hour for the entire process.
The new driving license was delivered home on the third day!
Mr. Anil Kumar also told me later that he can make resources available for imparting training, spread of road sense etc.
The RTO Vasnt Vihar office is located adjacent to Munirka, Rama Market, between DCP office and DTC depot
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A. Swarup, on November 6, 2009 at 11:42 am said:
Desr Sir,
I read about your experience with the new RTO office in getting your new licence. I am not convinced about your being very happy in getting an altogether new licence in spite of your being an old licence holder. You have been deprived the respect of being an old licence holder. Why should you be happy I do not understand at all. You should have been happy if your old licence was recognised and duly revalidated. The procedure followed was just to save work and does not appear to be convincing and justified. If a new licence has been issued in place of an old licence starting from a fresh learner’s licence, an official procedure should be followed for cancellation of the old licence as well. After all a driving licence is an important document and is widely used as an identification document. If we are not doing this then we are leaving room for impersonification.
A. Swarup
absshiju, on March 3, 2013 at 6:20 pm said:
dear swarup, his license was expired. so there is no need of cancellation and all. becos that is not a valid document once expired. for renewing the license, NOC has to be obtained from tamil nadu rto. that is definitely a herculean task becos the rto there may be the typical ‘indian rto office’. He did the best possible way
Krisha, on November 6, 2009 at 2:58 pm said:
i’m in process of getting a license myself. Just found about the vasant vihar depot.
Is this RTO open on Saturdays? and the working hours?
Krisha
robert, on April 21, 2011 at 1:09 pm said:
I think good i like informationOffice
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Does Your Cat Need Vaccines?
“No other medical development has been as successful as vaccination in controlling deadly diseases in companion animals,” says feline veterinarian Dr. Arnold Plotnick.
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Dr. Plotnick and other veterinarians acknowledge that, rarely, vaccinations in cats have been linked to the development of fibrosarcoma, a type of cancer that may occur at the site of injection. Studies of these sarcomas say the prevalence ranges from one in 3,000 to 10,000 cats.
Many groups are intensely studying this problem, including immunologists, vaccine manufacturers, and the American Association of Feline Practitioners. The Vaccine Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force has studied many factors: type of vaccine, location of vaccine, additives to the vaccine, and genetics of the cats. The most recent study was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. This showed that the safest injectable vaccines were recombinant vaccines. These have newer technology and are much more purified. This paper also demonstrated that the sarcoma problem can happen with other injections such as antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, not just vaccinations.
Indoor Cats
Do your indoor cats, which have little to no contact with other animals, even need to be vaccinated?
According to Plotnick and other leading veterinarians, vaccinations are indeed essential to a pet’s well being as some infectious agents are airborne and do not need direct cat to cat exposure. “To not vaccinate our pets is not an option,” said Dr. Plotnick. Instead, veterinarians must work closely with pet owners to devise a vaccination schedule that best meets a cat's individual health needs. Vaccine manufacturers have also stopped putting aluminum salts into vaccines.
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All kittens should receive a series of FVRCP core vaccinations. This immunization series begins at six to eight weeks of age and continues every three to four weeks until the kitten is 16-18 weeks old. The rabies vaccine is usually given at the last vaccine visit. The American Association of Feline Practitioners recommends that kittens receive leukemia vaccines whether they go outside or not.
If you have recently adopted a cat and do not know your cat’s immunization history, the cat will need to receive core vaccinations. A dose of the FVRCP vaccine should be given immediately and a second dose should be administered three to four weeks later. The American Association of Feline Practitioners recommends that adult cats have a FVRCP and rabies vaccinations every three years. Your veterinarian can help you decide if your cat needs any non-core vaccines.
Types of Vaccines
Vaccines for cats are divided into two categories: core vaccines that are essential for every cat, and non-core vaccines that may or may not be necessary based on a cat’s lifestyle. For example, vaccines against feline leukemia virus (FeLV) are non-core vaccines that may or may not be necessary based on a cat's lifestyle. For example, vaccines against feline leukemia virus (FeLV) are non-core vaccines that are generally not recommended for indoor adult cats. One core vaccine is called FVRCP, which protects against panleukopenia (feline distemper), rhino, and calici virus.
The rabies vaccine is also a core vaccination. There are two types of feline rabies vaccine: a killed vaccine that can be given every three years and a recombinant vaccine that is offered by one vaccine manufacturer. The findings of the recent AVMA article suggest the recombinant rabies may be safer, but it does need to be given annually.
If your cat is up to date on core vaccinations, then your cat may be able to receive boosters every three years, rather than every year. Check with your veterinarian to confirm whether your community requires annual rabies vaccination or permits the three-year vaccine. Also, ensure that your feline has a physical exam every year.
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JAVMA, Vol 241, No 5, September 1, 2012. Comparative vaccine- specific and other injectable- specific risks of injection site sarcomas in cats.
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I am a macroeconomist with interests in theory and methods. My subfields are listed below.
In Macro theory I try to combine general equilibrium theory with the stochastic process literature in order to derive computable structures for infinite horizon non-optimal economies. In this sense, I am extending GE theory beyond existence results in order to be able to characterize numerically and empirically macro models. I have 3 papers in this field: i) an applications to heterogeneous agents economies, ii) a project on sudden stop models, iii) a paper on asymmetric fiscal policy in closed economies.
In Applied Recursive Macro I develop applications of minimal state space recursive macro models. I evaluate these models empirically using different structural estimation techniques. I have 5 papers in this field: i) a project on financial crises and macro prudential policies estimated using “hitting times” of markov processes. ii) I also study the pass through of monetary policy instruments, calibrating the model to Latin American data. iii) I estimate a state dependent tax policy multiplier using indirect inference with quantile VARs. iv) I develop a theoretical framework to understand the interaction between sovereign default and sudden stops. v) I study the relevance of lenders’ heterogeneity (in preferences and wealth) on financial market crises using a novel data base containing a panel of brokers’ sovereign debt transactions across time.
In Recursive methods I combine recursive equilibrium theory and computer science to measure the performance of standard algorithms. I have 2 papers in this field: i) a project on the accuracy of minimal state space methods for non-optimal economies. ii) I also estimate the rate of convergence and accuracy of the Value and Policy Function Iteration algorithms for efficient economies with price independent inequality constraints.
In Search models I study recursive economies with risk averse agents and non-segmented labor markets. I use them to undertand the effects of pension reforms and different regulations on several unemployment characteristics. I have 2 papers in this field: i) a project on the effects of social-security reforms in Chile, ii) I study the interaction between income risks and liquidity constraints for the 2008 pension reform in Argentina using a novel data base with a panel of 2 million observations.
Below you can find a list of extended abstracts for each project
Extended Abstracts, Links to the papers & Presentations
Macro Theory
i) Useful Results for the Simulation of Non Optimal General Equilibrium Economies
Job Market Paper
This paper investigates the empirical evaluation of infinite horizon non-optimal economies by means of numerical simulations. The paper answers the following question: is it possible to derive a general framework which guarantees that numerical simulations truly reflect the behavior of endogenous variables in the model? Under mild assumptions, this paper provides an affirmative answer to this question for endowment economies with incomplete markets, heterogeneous agents and infinitely many exogenous states. For this type of models, the paper also presents an accurate calibration method. For economies with finitely many shocks, even under stronger assumptions, it is only possible to show that a numerically computable, time independent and recursive representation of the sequential equilibrium generates a stationary Markov process, which is a necessary condition to answer the above mentioned question.
Link to the paper : https://damianpierri.com/research
ii) Memory, Collateral and Emerging Market Crises: A Qualitative Approach with Quantitative Implications
Joint with K. Reffett
This paper presents a flexible and yet computable markovian equilibrium notion, called Generalized Markov Equilibrium (GME), that is suitable for a class of macro models typically used to represent financial crises in emerging countries. This type of equilibrium is able to represent a larger fraction of the (multiple) sequential equilibrium set when compared with a minimal state space recursive equilibrium (MSSRE). Thus it incorporates the role of "memory", which characterize the sequential equilibria, to a recursive representation. For a particular model in the mentioned class, we show that there exist an ergodic GME which at the same time replicates all the observed phases in a macroeconomic crises (boom, collapse and recovery / spiralized recession) and is able to capture the stylized behavior of data due to its ergodic nature. Moreover, we derive a computation and calibration method that captures the short and long run behavior of data accurately. Finally, we show the existence and characterize a MSSRE using a constructive method, which allows us to derive a convergent algorithm and robust comparative statics. This procedure uses a different state space when compared with the standard practice.
Link to the presentation: https://damianpierri.com/research
iii) Asymmetric fiscal policy: theory and practice
Joint with Juan Pablo Gama and Juan Pablo Rincón Zapatero
We build on the asymmetric business cycle theory (Hansen and Prescott, 2005) to develop a novel equilibrium notion which allows to replicate the global dynamics in a possibly inefficient economy subject to fiscal shocks. The theoretical structure is sufficiently general to compute and simulate tax and Government expenditure shocks of an arbitrary magnitude which may affect the behavior of the economy differently depending on the position of the economy along the cycle. We prove the existence of a sequential and of a recursive equilibrium for this economy. Under an additional set of assumptions, the sequential equilibria can be computed directly from the system of equations characterizing the dynamic behavior of the economy. Under milder assumptions, we can compute the recursive equilibria.
Applied Recursive macroeconomics
i) The empirical dimension of overborrowing
Joint with G. Montes Rojas and P. Mira
Persistent current account deficits are common among low and middle income countries. When is this situation dangerous? Is there a critical value for the yearly current account deficit just before the crisis sets off
? We provide a positive answer to the last question; a finding that gives rise to an empirical measure of overborrowing. We observe that countries that have increased their external indebtedness by at least 26%-31% of the GDP in a time span of 3 to 5 years are more prone to be hit by a sudden stop. The typical crisis produces a consumption drop of 4% of GDP and a current account reversal of 2.5-4.5% of GDP. We also contribute to the structural characterization of sudden stops. Using a canonical model we are able to replicate these stylized facts matching the “time between crises”. Moreover, we compute the ratio of net debt to GDP. This parameter is two or three times bigger than the benchmark value in the literature, a fact that improves the empirical performance of the model. From a policy perspective, our findings help to elaborate leading indicators to anticipate a sudden stop.
Link to the paper: https://damianpierri.com/research
ii) Incomplete interest rate pass through: a recursive partial equilibrium approach
Joint with M. Cherkasky and L. Trajtenberg
The empirical literature provides robust evidence on the incomplete pass through (IPT) of monetary policy instruments on market rates. However, the coefficients found are not similar across regions, ranging between 0.25 and 0.75. Also, the theoretical literature has not provided a comprehensive framework which can explain this fact satisfactorily. This paper proposes a recursive partial equilibrium model that generates a PT coefficient between 0.5 and 0.6. The model is calibrated for Latin American economies where the active (passive) rate is above (below) the policy rate and the spread is stable. These facts allow explaining the IPT: after a tightening in the monetary policy, banks switch the composition of their assets from loans to central bank notes. This change allows them to reduce the effects on earnings caused by the tightening provided that there is an IPT in the passive rate and that this rate is below the policy rate. The stability of the spread explains the PT in the active rate. In order to obtain the IPT coefficients, this paper derives a structural estimation of the supply elasticity of deposits and demand elasticity of loans. The former ranges between 3.0 and 4.0 and the latter between -1.5 and -2.0. These results suggest that the efficiency of the monetary policy might be affected more by an incomplete PT than by the lack of sensibility of loans and deposits.
iii) Asymmetric business cycles and fiscal policy: the effect of idle capacity.
Joint with G. Montes Rojas
We derive a simple extension of the model in Hansen and Prescott (2005) to allow for income taxes in a decentralized framework. We then structurally estimate the differentiated effects of sing and state dependent fiscal shocks using indirect inference with quantile VARs. We impose a set of assumptions on preferences which simultaneously allow to compute the model using a convergent global algorithm and replicate the observed effects of income tax shocks on consumption and investment.
iv) Default Risk and Fiscally induced sudden stop
Joint with H. Seoane and A. Vicondoa
To our knowledge the literature has taken care separately of sudden stops on private external debt and of defaults on public debt. This paper is the first attempt to model the effects of sovereign default on private expenditure when external debt is mainly issued by the public sector and there is a positive probability of suffering a sudden stop. The model takes the standard structure in models with financial frictions in small open economies as in Bianchi (2011) and introduce default sobering risk using a framework adapted from Lorenzoni and Werning (2019). In order to structurally estimate the model, we compute directly the sequential equilibria exploiting the finite time assumption inherited from Lorenzoni and Werning (2019).
v) The importance of the buy side in emerging market crises
Joint with S. Barraza and F. Roldan
The macro literature since Mendoza (91) have modeled emerging market crises as a shortage in international lending. The focus is always on the behavior of the borrower. But, what about the lender? As a consequence of assuming that lenders have great tolerance to risk and that are price takers, financial market equilibrium is dichotomous: the borrowers fix the amount of the debt issuance and the lender decides the price. More to the point, the wealth distribution of lenders is irrelevant. Based on a novel data set, this paper challenges these assumptions. We document the position in Argentinean sovereign debt bond by bond and broker by broker. We found not only that the availability of funds, represented by the net worth of each “brand” of mutual funds, is crucial but also that investment decisions are irreversible. We also observe that in each debt issuance (primary auctions) the fraction purchased by a particular hedge fund is no larger than 5%, suggesting a competitive behavior.
Recursive Methods
i) Recursive Equilibria, are you there? Measuring the accuracy of minimal state space methods
Joint with J. Martinez
Duffie, et. al. (1994) shows that in non-optimal economies with a finite number of exogenous shocks there is a tradeoff between the generality of a recursive representation and a well behaved steady state, which is defined by an ergodic invariant measure of a stationary Markov Process. The authors "convexified" the state space using "sunspots" in order to prove the ergodicity of the measure but this procedure is not compatible with the computation and simulation of the model as it is not clear how sunspots affect the economy. The purpose of this paper is to show that, in certain environments, it is possible to obtain a recursive representation of a non-optimal general equilibrium model with a finite number of exogenous shocks that has an ergodic invariant measure, a compact and stationary state space and no "sunspots". By enlarging the number of variables in the state space, this paper proves the existence of multiple continuous markovian representations; which allows deriving an ergodic invariant measure for each of them using standard results. These facts show, contrarily to what is claimed in Blume (1982), that it is possible to obtain an economy with multiple equilibria and a continuous markovian representation. Moreover, for a stochastic RBC model with taxes, this paper derives a closed form recursive representation. These results are then used to test the performance of minimal state space recursive equilibrium methods. Even if the algorithm converges, the numerically simulated distribution does not match any of the possible ergodic measures (it may over/sub-estimate concentration and dispersion measures of the true ergodic distribution)
ii) Theoretical Error Bounds for the Value and Policy Function Iteration Algorithms: An Application for Recursive Dynamic Models with Inequality Constraints.
Winner of the Society for Computational Economics Contest 2011
This paper derives theoretical error bounds for the Policy and Value Function Iteration algorithms applied to Recursive Dynamic Models with continuous decision variables and inequality constraints. This paper proves two main theorems. The first one uses a recent result due to Santos and Rust (2004). The theorem extends the result by combining a feasible version of the Policy Function Iteration algorithm with the barrier method for a model with an arbitrary number of state and decision variables. This constitutes a significant difference with the original theorem, since it is no longer necessary to assume the interiority of the solutions. The Algorithm converges at a rate of 1.5 for a given grid size. The second theorem, for problems with only one continuous endogenous state variable, uses a feasible version of the Value Function Iteration Algorithm, the barrier method and a cubic Variation Diminishing Spline Approximation. The algorithm converges at a linear rate, given the grid size. Finally, under a certain configuration of the parameters, the maximization problem in this last theorem is in the convex class, which can be solved in polynomial type complexity, and the policy function is first order differentiable. These last results enables the algorithm to avoid the Course of Dimensionality for the maximization problem in the Bellman Equation and the use of first order perturbation methods, thus, constitutes an extension of existing theorems that deals only with equality constraints (see Judd, 1994).
Link to the paper & Presentation (a new version is coming joint with L. Bali): https://damianpierri.com/research
Partial equilibrium search models
i) Evaluating Pension Reform and Labor-Market Policy Changes in Chile through a Structural Search Model
Joint with E. Kawamura
This paper estimates and calibrates a structural search model with formal and informal sectors and life-cycle elements to analyze counterfactual social-security reforms relevant for Chile using data from the harmonized Longitudinal Social Protection Survey (LSPS) and other official sources. The paper considers a drop in contribution rates and an increase in the non-contributory pension payments after retirement. A drop in the contribution rates implies increase in the average duration of unemployment, rejecting both types of job offers more often. Also, an increase in the non-contributory pension reduces the average duration of unemployment by increasing the acceptance of informal job offers.
ii) A measure of the wealth distribution for Argentina: implications for the labor market and the pension system.
Joint with D. Trupkin
Using a panel of 2 million observations we can keep track of the labor market history of a subset of the formal labor market in Argentina. The data allows me to estimate the wealth distribution of non-retired agents using a search model with risk averse agents. We then can compute the effect of different fiscal policies on the labor market conditional on the position on the income and wealth distribution of each worker.
Copyright © 2019 Damian Pierri - Todos los derechos reservados.
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Royal Ballet – The Winter’s Tale – London
By Jann Parry on April 12, 2014 in Reviews · 0 Comments
Bohemia in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale.
© Dave Morgan, courtesy the Royal Opera House. (Click image for larger version)
London, Royal Opera House
Gallery of pictures by Dave Morgan
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Shakespeare’s 450th anniversary is an ideal pretext for a new ballet based on one of his plays – and why not The Winter’s Tale? Every story ballet could do with a mad king, a shipwreck, a man-eating bear, a lost royal child miraculously restored, and lots of festive opportunities for dancing.
When Nicholas Hytner suggested The Winter’s Tale to Christopher Wheeldon, he said that ballet could probably deal with the disjunctions in Shakespeare’s ‘problem’ play better than most drama productions. Old ballets are full of absurdities, taking time out from tangled plots to indulge in magical scenes that keep the corps de ballet busy. The Sleeping Beauty, for example, jumps forward a hundred years from Act I to the vision of 18 year-old Aurora surrounded by dryads in Act II. So, in the ballet version of The Winter’s Tale, there’s really no need to account for the abrupt change of scene from the Sicilian court in Act I to to the Bohemian rhapsodies in Act II some 16 years later. Shakespeare introduced an unwieldy figure of Time to explain the time change to his groundlings: ballet-goers can take it for granted.
Funeral of the old Kings at the start of Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale.
Wheeldon is rather too painstaking in telling the story he has adapted from the wordy original. The Winter’s Tale may not be as familiar as Romeo and Juliet, but the gist of the plot is perfectly clear. By illustrating characters’ predicaments with graphic statuary and by spelling out each sea voyage with a departure or arrival via a gangplank and a projection of a ship, he makes his ballet seem old-fashioned. He could trust his audience to be quicker on the uptake: films have trained us to accept jump cuts and flashbacks.
That said, his staging very effectively brings out parallels between the two kings, Leontes of Sicilia and Polixenes of Bohemia, and their relationships with their children and advisors. A prologue shows the closeness between the kings as young princelings who will have to bear the weight of crowns and adult responsibilities. Their outfits are colour-coded, while courtiers are dressed in black as a semi-abstract chorus. Their ritualistic movements indicate that this story – ‘a sad tale’s best for winter’, says Leontes’ little son, Mamillius – is a nature myth. A sacrifice will have to be made before spring can arrive. A tree projected on the backcloth loses its leaves.
Bob Crowley’s designs are an eclectic combination of his own work and that of others: eerie paintings by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), pseudo-classical and ‘realistic’ statues, projected images and solid constructions, including a sturdy Tree of Life in Act II. Costumes vary from semi-fascist uniforms for court soldiery to ethnic peasantry by way of simple gowns for the leading women. This is a timeless tale.
Edward Watson, Lauren Cuthbertson and Federico Bonelli in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale.
By the start of Act I, Leontes’ queen, Hermione (Lauren Cuthbertson), who was swung lithely in the prologue between the two kings, her husband Leontes (Edward Watson) and Polixenes (Federico Bonelli) now has a nine-month baby bump. Though there have been a few pregnant ladies in ballets (Stephanie in Mayerling, Isadora), they haven’t danced full out, as Hermione does. Frankly, it’s ludicrously implausible. She’s warned not to, like Giselle with her heart condition, but she goes ahead anyway. The bump is patently prosthetic in balletic lifts. It is, of course, the reason for Leontes’ paroxysms of jealousy. There is a frozen moment when his hand on her swollen belly tautens into a claw, as he is stricken with the convinction that the unborn child is not his but Polixenes’.
Watson goes into full-blown psychotic mode, a creature gnawing his own entrails, tearing his limbs apart in frantic leaps, scrabbling like a spider. He is the cause of the disasters to come in his court, so he is given lots of wrenching choreography, as well as being confronted by a sequence of statues confirming his worst suspicions: they are bad art, a crude prefiguring of the living statue at the end of the play and ballet. MacMillan’s Mayerling is consciously echoed in a scene in Hermione’s boudoir with her ladies-in-waiting, overseen by sinister guards. Leontes enters, transformed into a mad tyrant, capable of abusing her and his new-born daughter, and bringing about the death of his heir, Mamillius.
Zenaida Yanowsky and Edward Watson in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale.
There’s a lot to cram into the 50 minutes of Act I. Hermione on trial has a long, poignant solo to protest her innocence, in a role that ranges from marital love to plaintive confusion, righteous anger and distress at the loss of her children. When she appears to die, her staunchest supporter, Paulina (Zenaida Yanowsky), forces Leontes to accept responsibility for what he has done. She’s even more intimidating than the prosecutor in the Oscar Pistorius trial. But she is also a loving wife, bidding farewell to her husband, Antigonus (Bennet Gartside), as he sails away with the rejected baby princess.
In a coda to Act I, Antigonus survives a storm and abandons the child on the imaginary shore of Bohemia, perilously close to waves of silk that metamorphose into the beast that does for him. Enter a shepherd and his young son who recover the baby – watch its arms move – and the treasure left with it.
Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale.
In Act II Wheeldon and his collaborators revel in what ballet can do best. Beneath a magical tree in spring, young lovers frolic, peasants folk-dance and aristocrats disguise themselves ineffectively. There’s even an onstage band accompanying the festivities. Sarah Lamb as Perdita is clearly no shepherd’s daughter: dressed in purple to resemble Hermione, she’s fine-boned and fine-mannered. Her suitor, Steven McRae as Prince Florizel, is more boisterous than she is and a tad too pleased with himself in show-off solos.
A sparkier, better-matched pair are Valentino Zucchetti as the shepherd’s son and Beatriz Stix-Brunell as his girlfriend. They light up the already bright stage with verve and wit. He is no fool, this young shepherd (unlike Shakespeare’s clown), whose affectionate relationship with his father (Gary Avis) is happier than that of Florizel and Polixenes.
Beatriz Stix-Brunell and Valentino Zucchetti in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale.
Joby Talbot has provided masses of merry music for Act II to counter the dramatic crises of Act I. He and Wheeldon have invented non-specific ethnic folk dances of different kinds, as well as a lyrical pas de deux for Perdita and Florizel. Bohemia has a self-contained sound-world of its own, like that of a vision scene, though as Talbot points out in a programme interview, Perdita shares her mother’s motif. The music knows more than the characters on stage.
Act III returns to wintry Sicilia and some truly bad taste memorial statues. Revelations that occur offstage in the play are shown in full, with the most moving moment Paulina’s recognition of the necklace Perdita is wearing. That which was lost has been restored; spring can finally arrive in Sicilia; the two kings are reconciled through their children; everybody rejoices in new outfits and new dances, to music that combines themes from the previous acts.
Lauren Cuthbertson and Edward Watson in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale.
This would be the usual ending for a ballet, except that Hermione remains to be dealt with – the high point of Shakespeare’s play. Paulina semaphores that another journey needs to be taken to marvel at a marble tribute to Hermione and Mamillius. Only one of the linked figures moves, as Hermione joins Leontes in a back-to-back pas de deux like that of Orpheus and Eurydice. She then breaks away to express her forgiveness of him in a sequence of eloquent arabesques before realising that her daughter has returned. Cue pink clouds and pealing bells for the women, but a diminuendo ending for Leontes, reproved by the monstrous statue of his dead heir.
Wheeldon has honed his craft in making a story ballet, much better constructed than his Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. His core characters account for themselves in revealing solos and his pas de deux are no longer over-ingenious. There are charmingly innocent lifts for couples in Act II, contrasted with the contortions of Leontes’ brutal treatment of pregnant Hermione. The choreography for ensembles in Sicilia and Bohemia is also adroitly contrasted, though flexed feet in pointe shoes is too easy a resort for folksiness.
What Wheeldon hasn’t done is challenge the company’s dancers or audiences. Hytner was right in that Shakespeare’s play can indeed work as a ballet, though the knotted language is what makes it worth experiencing in the theatre. Wheeldon has accomplished a perfectly attractive ballet (and let’s be appreciative of that, after McGregor’s Raven Girl) without advancing the narrative genre in any way. His approach is closer to David Bintley than Kenneth MacMillan – for which some ballet-goers may be grateful. I doubt that The Winter’s Tale will prove a game-changer for him or the company, which knows very well how to bring off a ballet with rewarding roles and fun festivities. Will another cast bring fresh insights? Will cinema-goers be enthralled when The Winter’s Tale is relayed live? We wait to find out.
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8-/16-Channel ADCs. MAX11131 Datasheet
MAX11131 Datasheet PDF
8-/16-Channel ADCs
Datasheet Download MAX11131 Datasheet
EVALUATION KIT AVAILABLE
MAX11129–MAX11132
3Msps, Low-Power, Serial 12-/10-Bit,
Benefits and Features
The MAX11129–MAX11132 are 12-/10-bit with external
reference and industry-leading 1.5MHz, full linear band-
width, high speed, low-power, serial output successive
approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital convert-
ers (ADCs). The MAX11129–MAX11132 include both
internal and external clock modes. These devices feature
scan mode in both internal and external clock modes.
The internal clock mode features internal averaging to
increase SNR. The external clock mode features the
SampleSetK technology, a user-programmable analog
input channel sequencer. The SampleSet approach
provides greater sequencing flexibility for multichannel
applications while alleviating significant microcontroller
or DSP (controlling unit) communication overhead.
The internal clock mode features an integrated FIFO
allowing data to be sampled at high speeds and then held
for readout at any time or at a lower clock rate. Internal
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channels that can be configured to be single-ended
inputs, fully differential pairs, or pseudo-differential inputs
with respect to one common input. The MAX11129–
MAX11132 operate from a 2.35V to 3.6V supply and con-
sume only 15.2mW at 3Msps.
The MAX11129–MAX11132 include AutoShutdownK,
fast wake-up, and a high-speed 3-wire serial interface.
The devices feature full power-down mode for optimal
power management.
The 48MHz, 3-wire serial interface directly connects to
SPI, QSPIK, and MICROWIREM devices without external
Excellent dynamic performance, low voltage, low power,
ease of use, and small package size make these convert-
ers ideal for portable battery-powered data-acquisition
applications, and for other applications that demand low
power consumption and small space.
The MAX11129–MAX11132 are available in 28-pin, 5mm
x 5mm, TQFN packages and the MAX11131 is available
in a 28-pin TSSOP package. All devices operate over the
-40NC to +125NC temperature range.
SampleSet and AutoShutdown are trademarks of Maxim
Integrated Products, Inc.
QSPI is a trademark of Motorola, Inc.
MICROWIRE is a registered trademark of National
Semiconductor Corporation.
S Scan Modes, Internal Averaging, and Internal
S 16-Entry First-In/First-Out (FIFO)
S SampleSet: User-Defined Channel Sequence with
Maximum Length of 256
S Analog Multiplexer with True Differential
Track/Hold
16-/8-Channel Single-Ended
8-/4-Channel Fully-Differential Pairs
15-/8-Channel Pseudo-Differential Relative to
a Common Input
S Two Software-Selectable Bipolar Input Ranges
QVREF+/2, QVREF+
S Flexible Input Configuration Across All Channels
S High Accuracy
Q1 LSB INL, Q1 LSB DNL, No Missing Codes
Over Temperature Range
S 70dB SINAD Guaranteed at 500kHz Input
S 1.5V to 3.6V Wide Range I/O Supply
Allows the Serial Interface to Connect Directly
to 1.8V, 2.5V, or 3.3V Digital Systems
S 2.35V to 3.6V Supply Voltage
S Longer Battery Life for Portable Applications
Low Power
15.2mW at 3Msps with 3V Supplies
2µA Full-Shutdown Current
S External Differential Reference (1V to VDD)
S 48MHz, 3-Wire SPI-/QSPI-/MICROWIRE-/DSP-
Compatible Serial Interface
S Wide -40NC to +125NC Operation
S Space-Saving, 28-Pin, 5mm x 5mm TQFN
S 3Msps Conversion Rate, No Pipeline Delay
S 12-/10-Bit Resolution
High-Speed Data Acquisition Systems
High-Speed Closed-Loop Systems
Medical Instrumentation
Battery-Powered Instruments
Ordering Information appears at end of data sheet.
For related parts and recommended products to use with this part,
refer to www.maximintegrated.com/MAX11129.related.
For pricing, delivery, and ordering information, please contact Maxim Direct
at 1-888-629-4642, or visit Maxim’s website at www.maximintegrated.com.
19-6026; Rev 5; 9/12
VDD to GND..............................................................-0.3V to +4V
OVDD, AIN0–AIN13, CNVST/AIN14, REF+, REF-/AIN15
to GND.......................-0.3V to the lower of (VDD + 0.3V) and +4V
CS, SCLK, DIN, DOUT, EOC TO GND...... -0.3V to the Lower of
(VOVDD + 0.3V) and +4V
DGND to GND.......................................................-0.3V to +0.3V
Input/Output Current (all pins)............................................50mA
Continuous Power Dissipation (TA = +70NC)
TQFN (derate 34.4mW/NC above +70NC)..................2758mW
TSSOP (derate 27mW/NC above +70NC)...................2162mW
Operating Temperature Range......................... -40NC to +125NC
Junction Temperature......................................................+150NC
Storage Temperature Range............................. -65NC to +150NC
Lead Temperature (soldering, 10s).................................+300NC
Soldering Temperature (reflow).......................................+260NC
Stresses beyond those listed under “Absolute Maximum Ratings” may cause permanent damage to the device. These are stress ratings only, and functional opera-
tion of the device at these or any other conditions beyond those indicated in the operational sections of the specifications is not implied. Exposure to absolute
maximum rating conditions for extended periods may affect device reliability.
PACKAGE THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS (Note 1)
TQFN
Junction-to-Ambient Thermal Resistance (BJA)............29NC/W
Junction-to-Case Thermal Resistance (BJC)...................2NC/W
Note 1: Package thermal resistances were obtained using the method described in JEDEC specification JESD51-7, using a four-layer
board. For detailed information on package thermal considerations, refer to www.maximintegrated.com/thermal-tutorial.
ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS (MAX11131/MAX11132)
(VDD = 2.35V to 3.6V, VOVDD = 1.5V to 3.6V, fSAMPLE = 3Msps, fSCLK = 48MHz, 50% duty cycle, VREF+ = VDD, TA = -40NC to +125NC,
unless otherwise noted. Typical values are at TA = +25NC.) (Note 2)
DC ACCURACY (Notes 3 and 4)
RES 12 bit
Integral Nonlinearity
Differential Nonlinearity
DNL No missing codes
Offset Error
Gain Error
(Note 5)
Offset Error Temperature
OETC
Gain Temperature Coefficient
Channel-to-Channel Offset
GETC
Line Rejection
PSR (Note 6)
DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE (500kHz, input sine wave) (Notes 3 and 7)
Signal-to-Noise Plus Distortion
SINAD
Total Harmonic Distortion
(Up to the 5th Harmonic)
THD
Spurious-Free Dynamic Range
SFDR
IMD f1 = 398.4375kHz, f2 = 275.8125kHz
ppm/NC
LSB/V
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Cracking Yolks About Frying Eggs
Well, we are seven inches from the midday sun here in Minnesota, which basically means that we stop rooting for global warming for a couple of days, hang out in the frozen foods section, and talk to each other about the weather without the awkwardness of feeling like we don’t really have anything meaningful to talk about.
At least it’s not stupid hot like it has been in the Southwest of These United States lately. They have been under repeated heat warnings such that the deaths of everyone over the age of 90 are blamed on the extreme temperatures. In fact, it has been so hot in Death Valley National Park that officials there have had to entreat visitors there to please not fry eggs on the roadside pavement. And while I admittedly have a penchant for making stuff up, this story happens to be true. I know this because I saw it on the internet.
Evidently there is a certain demographic out there who thinks that going somewhere called “Death Valley” would be a fun family time of merriment and bonding—like picnicking at the foot of Mutilation Mountain or hiking through the Terminal Illness Forest. And some of these people apparently find it an uproarious hoot to sizzle undeveloped chicken embryos on the roadside shoulder while singing along with Rebecca Black (“It’s fried egg, fried egg…”) in the hopes that someone amongst their fellow species would eventually clean up their mess after they left.
What drives these people to such fowl defacement? I suppose you could call this a “Bucket List” item, but this doesn’t really help me understand because the only thing on my Bucket List is…
1) Make a Bucket List.
Some think the stratta-gy of making no sidewalk egg-frying a rule is a bit eggstreme. “Omelette ‘em fry an egg if they want to,” they say. But Death Valley rangers say it’s no yolk and point to the on-going poaching issues that are faced by many African wildlife parks as an eggsample of how quickly officials can get scrambling.
Of course, this whole situation got me conTIMplating: Are there other rules at our national parks that could potentially get the violator some tickets by the Rangers to see them play the Orioles this weekend? My research turned up a few things.
First off, rangers at Yosemite National Park are not to be called “Sam” and they discourage patrons from calling any of the wildlife “varmint” or “you crazy galloot.”
Halloween costumes are discouraged at Petrified Forest National Park for obvious reasons.
It’s not a rule, but rangers at Joshua Tree National Park are getting tired of people telling them “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.”
To avoid confusion, Denali National Park does not allow GMC SUVs and Kenai Fjords only allows Chevys. It is okay to bring Burger King into the Arches.
Yellowstone National Park still insists that campers do not feed the bears and they do not use the geysers as bidets.
Due to recent changes in marijuana law, doping IS allowed at the Olympics in Washington and the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado has exchanged names with the Smokey Mountains. John Denver songs are to reflect the change, i.e., “Smokey Mountain High (high in Colorado).”
Calling the presidents on Mt. Rushmore “Stoners” is still considered disrespectful, however. As is calling them “Stone-faced,” “Rockstars,” or in a “face-off” with Crazy Horse. Nor are you allowed to tell other patrons not to take them for granite or make jokes about them needing a bottle of “Head & Boulders” after it snows.
Rangers are also growing weary of people asking to meet Bill and Melinda at Gates Of The Arctic National Park. Also, Johnny Depp has no affiliation with Tonto National Monument, and Pamela Anderson has no connection to the Grand Tetons.
To fend off other silly questions, be advised that there are no mammoths in Mammoth Cave, Big Bend does not have a giant, four-sided clock, and the Virgin Islands did not have to change its name after a recent visit by Charlie Sheen. Also, the Little Big Horn snack bar does not serve custard.
And please know that to avoid offense, some parks have had to change their names. Badlands National Park is now Asgoodasanyoneelselands and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is now the Native Americana Dunes. In honor of the president being from Hawaii, Haleakala National Park has changed its name to Yeswe Canyon.
My intent is not to coddle you, but I hope this keeps you from walking on eggshells as you visit some of our national parks this summer. Mayo have an eggcellent time.
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Tagged: bucket lists, Death Valley, egg puns, food, humor, life, musings, National Parks, travel, Yosemite Sam
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5 thoughts on “Cracking Yolks About Frying Eggs”
Jon Morgan MN says:
U had me @ U2, and then it got even better! Thanks for the laffs. You crack me up, and you’ve egged me on to want to see more national parks. Though we really need to get back to Glacier before they have to rename it. Much like my hairline, they’re receding way too fast.
Sounds to me like you’d be more comfortable hiking Half Dome at Yosemite. Or maybe Mount Baldy at Indiana Dunes.
optimisticgladness says:
Joh Morgan MN- you’re funny too! Yep, those were some egg-shell-ent yolks. 🙂
Yes, thank you both for you egg pun eggamples, but that is enough. Unfortunately, you are huevo-ver your limit.
hardy, har, har (d, boiled)
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Bret Hart Attacker Gets Battle Royaled During WWE Hall Of Fame Melee
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The WWE Network’s live feed went dark after Bret “The Hitman” Hart was attacked by a member of the crowd during his WWE Hall of Fame acceptance speech Saturday night, but footage is emerging showing the aftermath of the wild incident at the Barclays Center in New York.
The event was part of the weekend surrounding Sunday’s Wrestlemania 35. Hart was inducted into the organization’s Hall of Fame along with his original Hart Foundation tag-team partner Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart. Neidhart, who died last year, was repped by his daughter Natalya.
Bret and Natalya were at the podium inside the wrestling ring when the attacker, Zachary Madsen, jumped into the ring and tackled Hart to the ground. In an arena full of pro wrestlers, it wasn’t long before Madsen was subdued.
Here are a couple angles from the incident:
The scene after a fan jumped the barrier and attempted to tackle Bret Hart during the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony.
(via @ArashMarkazi) pic.twitter.com/DxPnaWxpb6
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 7, 2019
Bret Hart and a security guard suffered minor injuries, though Hart finished his speech. Both were treated at a local hospital and released, according to the New York Times.
One of the wrestlers in the crowd who held down Madsen was Hart’s nephew, Davey Boy Smith.
Glad I was able to help my Uncle @BretHart tonight at the WWE Hall of Fame. 👊🥊 That “fan” was lucky I was being held back. As Rickson Gracie said “If we fight for money, I’ll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I’ll stop hitting you when I feel like it”
— Davey Boy Smith Jr. (@DBSmithjr) April 7, 2019
Madsen, 26, was arrested and on charges of assault and criminal trespass. He is being held on $1,500 bail.
Wrestlmania 35 took place Sunday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
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November 25, 2019 November 26, 2019 ~ jbg
Directed By: George Clooney
Written By: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, George Clooney & Grant Heslov
Cinematography By: Robert Elswit
Editor: Stephen Mirrione
Cast: Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar issac, Noah Jupe, Richard Kind, Jack Conley, Gary Basaraba
In the bosom of Suburbicon, a family-centred, all-white utopia of manicured lawns and friendly locals, a simmering tension is brewing, as the first African-American family moves in the idyllic community, in the hot summer of 1959. However, as the patriarch Gardner Lodge and his family start catching a few disturbing glimpses of the once welcoming neighbourhood’s dark underbelly, acts of unprecedented violence paired with a gruesome death will inevitably blemish Suburbicon’s picture-perfect facade. Who would have thought that darkness resides even in Paradise?
When you first hear or read the title of the film. You would think it to be a spoof or more satire about the suburbs.
The way the film is marketed you are expecting more of a dark nourish comedy. Which is what you get but they leave out that surrounding it the film is also about the integration of a suburban neighborhood that so engulfs the neighborhood with anger. That they are distracted by the non existent bad tho ha that will happen with their neighbors of color that they totally miss all the actual violence and danger that is literally next door.
The film is sly in painting Matt Damon’s wife as more of an innocent victim by also having her be the only character really accepting of the colored neighbors and encouraging her son to pay with their son.
Though it is a prime example of what seems wrong with the film. Where as the film will go on and on showing the cruel nature of racism by neighbors who claim to be liberal and showing the degree of many ways they will go to get them to move out. Which is such a strong story itself. It seems like the filmmakers felt it might be too familiar and decide to include a pulp story in the side. Now this could have worked with nuance and subtlety actually comparing the two showing the violent one they show fear in. they feel they are justified in. While ignoring one of their own supposedly who is even worse. Can understand how the two elements mix for storytelling purposes.
That is what makes the film so interesting and feels even more as a failure. There are some good ideas here and it just kind of falters. Being that it is written by the filmmakers the Coen brothers. All of their hallmarks are here and they could have hit this out of the park. As they know how to handle it. In the hands of George Clooney the film plays flavorless as there is no real style and feels more like a pale imitation of their style. Even worse is that at least in the Coen brothers films there is heavy emphasis on characters and motivations.
The film even copies a more updated hallmark of theirs by having Julianne Moore play double roles. If even for a short period of time. Which the Coen’s have used before with actress Tilda Swinton in HAIL CAESER, though it is also strange that she plays these dual roles who are sisters and one is blonde the other brunette who then later dyed her hair blonde to replicate her sister. Which might be more understandable if different actresses played the role. As she is essentially trying to take the place of her sister and have her life. Where for Damon’s character she is the same except not in a wheelchair and into his more rough sexual interests.
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Two Exciting Tweets For a Monday Morning
Jeff Hughes | August 20th, 2018
It looked nasty, but the ankle injury for #Bears TE Adam Shaheen wasn’t nearly as bad as it appeared. Source said Shaheen suffered a low-ankle sprain based on initial tests. More tests are coming, but if that holds, he wouldn’t be ruled out to play Week 1.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) August 19, 2018
Kyle Long with the finish, the pancake, and then the staredown! 😂😂😂 @Ky1eLong
Also, Chicago will be pleasantly surprised by Trey Burton in the run game. pic.twitter.com/CDIWq2b7eC
— Ben Fennell (@BenFennell_NFL) August 19, 2018
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Five Questions as the Bears Begin Training Camp Practices This Weekend
Jeff Hughes | July 20th, 2018
In this clandestine modern NFL, there’s something to remember: very little NFL teams show the fans or the media, prior to the start of the regular season, is all that valuable. “Open” training camp practices and preseason games exist to drain every possible nickel out of loyal fanbases. Might you catch a glimpse of a gimmick play or two? Sure. But that’s it.
What is valuable is that which is done in the Cone of Silence, behind a shroud of secrecy, in the shadows even Adam Jahns dare not show up with his 4″ x 8″ notebook. And I have questions about what the Bears will be up to in the darkness.
Question #1: Who is where on the interior of the offensive line?
For years, ever since the arrival of Kyle Long, this space has argued against the organization’s lack of consistency when it came to aligning the offensive line. This team, this summer, needs to select positions for Long, Cody Whitehair and rookie James Daniels and leave them there. Daniels will inevitably struggle early no matter where he starts because Daniels is a rookie and rookies struggle. Put em. Leave em.
Question #2: What’s the answer opposite Leonard Floyd?
If you go to the Chicago Bears’ roster page, you’ll get confused when it comes to the linebacker position. Danny Trevathan is correctedly listed at ILB. Roquan Smith is listed at just LB. Nick Kwiatkoski, rumored to be getting run on the outside, is listed at ILB. Aaron Lynch, expected to be a pass rushing option, just LB.
The Bears don’t need a star to emerge opposite Floyd. And based on their current roster, they don’t really have to worry about it. But with opposing offensive coordinators certain to game plan for Floyd’s potential impact, the team must find pass rush production on the other side from a combination of Kwik, Lynch, Sam Acho, Kylie Fitts…etc. Fans should get a good sense in the coming weeks as to where Vic Fangio and his staff are leaning from a personnel perspective.
Question #3: Are there any sneaky positional battles?
Yes, I’m looking at you, Pat O’Donnell. Pitt’s Ryan Winslow is not an elite punting prospect but one hopes the Bears are not going to give P.O.D. the free pass he’s been given in previous summers.
Where else might one’s eyes drift?
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The Most Important Bears: Offense
Andrew Dannehy | July 11th, 2018
Unlike the defense, the Bears offense is going to feature a bunch of new players expected to fill big roles. Nearly half of the club’s Week 17 starters are being replaced, some by high-profile acquisitions. But it’s the returning soldiers who figure to be essential to the team’s success this coming season.
Before getting into the list, the name you won’t see here is Tarik Cohen. Cohen is a very talented player and one they’re sure to use 12-to-15 times a game. He’s going to make big plays but the offense isn’t going to be dependent on his skill set. The guys you will see on this list are guys who are going to be more crucial to the functionality of the offense.
5. Jordan Howard
Johnathan Wood did a great job breaking down the Bears running back duo a couple of weeks ago and two of the biggest takeaways were:
Kansas City ran between the tackles a lot more than the Bears did last year.
Howard was terrific running between the tackles.
There is a general thought the Bears are going to be more pass-oriented in 2018 and that may very well be true. But they’re also going to have to run the ball effectively. Historically, Andy Reid’s offenses have always struggled when they failed to move the ball on the ground.
The other issue is that the Bears don’t have a true backup for Howard. Cohen is a different kind of player and not one they really want carrying the ball 20 times a game. Benny Cunningham has carried the ball a total of 30 times the last two seasons.
It’s been popular to say Howard is overrated, but before he came into the lineup in 2016, the Bears couldn’t run the ball and there’s no real reason to think they could without him two years later.
4. Trey Burton
Making a player with just 63 career catches one of the five highest-paid tight ends in the league doesn’t make much sense unless the team knows they need his skill set. Matt Nagy made it known the Bears absolutely needed a player like Burton. Now that they have him, they absolutely need him to be good.
Tagged: Allen Robinson, Cody Whitehair, Jordan Howard, Kyle Long, Mitch Trubisky, Trey Burton
ATM: Letting Sitton Go Creates An Unnecessarily Big Hole at Guard
Andrew Dannehy | February 21st, 2018
Ryan Pace’s decision to decline the option on Josh Sitton needlessly creates a big hole in the middle of the Bears offense.
There’s no doubting that Sitton isn’t the player he once was, but he was still better than most other guards in 2017. He was stout against the run, held his own as a pass-blocker and — despite his age and, well, shape — his ability to get to the second level was still top of the league. Sitton is a big reason why the Bears have been among the best rushing attacks in the league the last two years.
Sitton wasn’t cheap. But he wasn’t expensive either. His salary cap hit of $8 million would’ve put him 13th among guards. If the Bears try to upgrade in free agency, they’ll almost certainly have to pay more. Sitton’s ex-teammate T.J. Lang, one of the top guards in the 2017 free agent class, signed for $28.5 million over three years; $7.5 million more than Sitton received from the Bears. Lang’s cap hit in 2017 was $10.9 million and jumps up to $11.7 million in 2019.
The Bears could look to the draft to replace Sitton. Quenton Nelson is a popular name, but using the eighth pick on him seems rich.
[Editor’s Note: It’s not!!!]
But Nelson would immediately be slated to make more than Sitton did and about as much as Long earned in his last contract. And there are other questions about Nelson’s athleticism that need answering going forward.
This draft figures to be rich at guard, and the Bears could nab a starter in the second round, but why not keep Sitton and draft a position of need there?
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Across The Middle: Tightening Pace’s Leash
Andrew Dannehy | November 29th, 2017
The Bears could’ve had the best coaches in the history of football and they still would’ve lost to the Eagles by 20 points.
Say what you will about John Fox and company — and it’s probably all fair — but the hard truth is that the Bears don’t have enough good players. A lot of that is due to injury. Losing their top two receivers and all four starting linebackers is a tough blow. But still, they should be able to put up a fight!
Let’s look at who was available Sunday against Philadelphia:
Markus Wheaton is paid like a starter.
Nick Kwiatkoski should be a starter at this point anyway. Christian Jones has played like one.
Deiondre Hall, Deon Bush and Hroniss Grasu should all be starters.
Jon Bullard was drafted to be a major piece. He shouldn’t be warming the bench behind a journeyman at this point.
Pernell McPhee has turned into a ghost.
I like Ryan Pace. Most fans do. I’d argue his plus decisions far outweigh his minuses but nowhere near as much as the losses outweigh the wins.
The Bears are at a crossroads.
They will, and I still believe should, allow Pace to hire the next coach. But what if they’re 3-8 next year too? Do they just hit the reset button again? How long can they reasonably expect this loyal fan base to be patient? They are currently suffering through one of the worst four-year stretches in team history.
I’ve long said the primary reason I wouldn’t want to hire Jim Harbaugh or Josh McDaniels is because they’d want to be Pace’s boss too, but I’m no longer sure that should stop the Bears. New England, Seattle, Kansas City, New Orleans all have their coaches in charge of the rosters. If Jim Harbaugh calls up George McCaskey and says he wants to the keys to the franchise, has Pace done enough for the Bears to justify saying no? Even if you look at first time head coaches the last two years, two of the big fishes were handed the keys to their franchises in Miami and San Francisco. That doesn’t include Sean McDermott, who was given what he asked for after a month or so on the job.
We have months to debate the coaching pedigrees of Harbaugh, McDaniels and everyone else, including whether or not they deserve such power. That’s not the point. The point is, how can we be so sure that Pace does? To be clear, this isn’t a call to fire Pace. I think he’s shown that he has an eye for talent. I just hope the Bears don’t let a great football mind out the door simply because Pace has a solid draft record.
Hopefully the problem is simple as needing a new coach and another off-season to build depth. I’m just not entirely sure that’s true. This is Year Three, the Bears should be much further along. Blame Fox all you want, but Pace has blood on his hands too. Here’s to hoping he can get it cleaned up.
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Data Responds: Lions at Bears
Johnathan Wood | November 19th, 2017
Chicago’s offense had their best game of the year, but their defense played possibly their worst game of the year. All in all, that evened out, but the Bears ended up falling to 3-7 because their kicker is terrible.
Now that’s more like it. The offense was finally run like an NFL offense, mixing things up and keeping the defense off its feet, and unsurprisingly it led to good things happening. Chicago stayed run-heavy in the game, but mixed up how they were running instead of making it so predictable, and thus the run game really took off. As a result, the offense scored more than 17 points in regulation for the 1st time all year.
This also helped the passing game open up a bit as well, since the Bears didn’t routinely end up in 3rd and long. This was a nice change from how their offense has functioned most of the year.
Another nice wrinkle we saw on offense was a number of read-option looks for quarterback Mitchell Trubisky. He kept it several times (though there was at least one more where he should have) and made Detroit’s defense pay for crashing down on the running backs.
After ignoring Tarik Cohen on offense for several weeks, the Bears made a point of getting him involved early and often. He had 8 carries and 3 pass targets in the 1st half alone after getting 8 total touches in the previous 3 games.
Another nice wrinkle was lining Jordan Howard up as a fullback, with Tarik Cohen at tailback. This set Howard up with a few nice runs as he could spring through the line quickly and the linebackers had to worry about Cohen.
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Data Responds: Bears vs. Packers
Chicago came out of the bye flat, acting like nobody actually wanted to play a football game against their biggest rival. Their terrible kicker was good, but nobody else really was. The only thing that kept this game somewhat close was the fact that Green Bay is terrible, but they still won fairly comfortably on the road.
Let’s break down this embarrassing effort.
The first drive was simply awful. After two weeks to prepare, they ran into a loaded box on 1st down and lost a yard. After a nice pass picked up a first down, they again ran into a stacked box and lost a yard. The next play was both an illegal formation and a hold, setting Chicago up in 2nd and 21. At that point, the drive was over thanks to a combination of poor play calling and dumb penalties.
Rookie quarterback Mitchell Trubisky actually had a pretty good start to the game. He made good throws and got the ball to players in space. That changed as the game wore on and Green Bay dialed up the pressure. Trubisky got happy feet and starting pulling his eyes down from scanning the field too quickly. He also refused to throw the ball away, making him completely inept under any sort of pressure.
Green Bay’s five sacks weren’t all on the offensive line, but they were bad today too. Hroniss Grasu, making a start at center and shifting Cody Whitehair to right guard with Kyle Long out, was routinely pushed back into the backfield. The unit also picked up way too many penalties, with a nice mixture of pre-snap, during the play, and after the play mixed in.
Tagged: Adam Shaheen, Benny Cunningham, Brett Hundley, Chicago Bears, Cody Whitehair, Connor Barth, Data, Data Entry, Dontrelle Inman, Green Bay Packers, Hroniss Grasu, John Fox, johnathan wood, Jordy Nelson, Josh Bellamy, Kyle Fuller, Kyle Long, Mitchell Trubisky, Tanner Gentry, Tre McBride, Ty Montgomery, Vic Fangio
Audibles From the Long Snapper: Mitch, Mitch, Mitch & More!
Jeff Hughes | October 3rd, 2017
A Note on Mike Glennon
Despite the belief of many, I never had a dislike for Mike Glennon the person. I simply had no faith in Mike Glennon, NFL quarterback. And I am not in the business of sucking up to the Chicago Bears organization around here. They got their Glennon evaluation horribly wrong and I said that from the moment they inked the deal. Said it when many others were rushing to give them the benefit of the doubt. But I’m elated to never write about him again.
Tweet of Monday
4. As scout-team QB, Trubisky didn’t just want to help the #Bears starting defense on some reps, he wanted to beat them. And did at times.
— Adam Jahns (@adamjahns) October 2, 2017
There were several players in the defensive meeting rooms comparing what they saw from Trubisky in practice to what they were seeing from Glennon in games. They were incredulous at times. Didn’t add up. That’s how you lose a locker room.
Read all of Adam Jahns’ thoughts on the decision to start Trubisky HERE.
Around the League Thoughts
Watched a lot of football Sunday. Some thoughts:
Pats have allowed 42, 20, 33, 33 in four games. How did Belichick let this defense get so downright awful? Couldn’t they use Chandler Jones? Or Akiem Hicks? In the same way front offices are hurting the careers of Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees, it’s remarkable how Tom Brady has bailed out Belichick’s evaluative missteps. Pats should probably have one win at this point.
There was a point during Houston v. Tennessee where I thought the NFL was changing before my eyes. Watson and Mariota were essentially playing a college game and damn was it exciting. Then Mariota got hurt. Why? Because the style they were playing is not sustainable in this league.
George Godsey and Bill O’Brien called a masterpiece for Deshaun Watson, catering the offensive game plan to what he does well. What I loved is how they used Watson’s running ability primarily down around the goal line, not out in the open field. Shorter runs in smaller spaces will limit the explosion in the hits he takes.
In a year it was thought the Jets would go 0-16 and draft their quarterback of the future, it’s a bit ironic that the Giants may scoop them and find Eli’s replacement.
I know why the Giants offense stinks. But why can’t they cover anybody?
Nick Folk can’t be the Bucs kicker next weekend. He almost single-footedly cost Tampa an easy win Sunday, leaving a touchdown of easy kicks on the table with dead shanks. If I were Tampa, I’d call the Niners and offer a mid-round draft pick for Robbie Gould. Bucs can win the NFC South. Why risk that with a shaky kicker?
Dallas can’t play defense.
Baltimore can’t play offense.
Not sure there’s ever been less athleticism on display at the quarterback position than Carson Palmer v. Brian Hoyer.
Tagged: Around the League, Kyle Long, Mike Ditka. Mike Glennon, Mitch Trubisky, Otis Wilson, Puerto Rico
Data Responds: Bears at Packers
Johnathan Wood | September 29th, 2017
Two road games, two blowout losses for the 2017 Bears. Green Bay won the first quarter 14-0 after a great opening drive, followed by a 3-yard touchdown after Mike Glennon turned it over on Chicago’s first offensive snap. Things stayed quiet until the end of the first quarter, when a 47 minute lightning delay led to what felt like the start of another game.
Of course, the Bears still had Mike Glennon in at quarterback, so nothing changed. He turned the ball over 3 more times and shut down the entire offense with his incompetence before racking up just enough garbage time stats to make his performance somewhat defensible if you squint (stop me if you’ve heard that before).
We’re starting here tonight, beginning with the continued ineptitude making appropriate personnel decisions late in a blowout. With all the practice the Bears’ coaches have gotten in these situations in the last few years, you’d think they would be great at it by now, but they’re not. Down 28 points in the 4th quarter, the Bears rode Jordan Howard and Tarik Cohen, their two best offensive players, to a meaningless late touchdown. Zach Miller, their best tight end who has made a career out of going to IR, played while rookie Adam Shaheen sat on the bench. Why? This is literally a fireable offense if the team’s management cares about their personnel at all.
Tagged: Andrew Dannehy, Atlanta Falcons, Chicago Bears, Data, Data Post, Dowell Loggains, Green Bay Packers, johnathan wood, Jordan Howard, Jordy Nelson, Josh Sitton, Kyle Long, Leonard Floyd, Mark Sanchez, Mike Glennon, Mitch Trubisky, Pernell McPhee, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tarik Cohen, Ty Montgomery, Zach Miller
Turn the Beat Around: A Trubisky Dinner, Kyle Long on the Move & More!
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The Chapel Hill Story
An excerpt from Dan Wiederer’s magnificent piece in the Trib:
As Pace does with all such get-to-know-you dinners, he asked Trubisky to pick the restaurant and make the reservation. It’s a minor request. But it often can be revealing of a player’s reliability.
Pace also ordered Trubisky to keep the meeting top secret, so as not to tip off anyone — not any Tar Heels coaches or teammates, not any other NFL execs or agents, not even a campus meter maid — to the Bears’ interest.
Trubisky took the directive and pieced things together.
Before Pace and his cohorts arrived on campus, the Bears GM had a text. Dinner at 7 p.m.
The venue: Bin 54, a top steakhouse in North Carolina’s Triangle region. And to keep the gathering covert, Trubisky made the reservation for six under an alias: James McMahon.
“I thought that was cool,” Pace says.
Read the entire article. It is the best work Dan has done since coming to Chicago.
Kyle Long on the Move?
Brad Biggs was first to report the Bears intend to shift Kyle Long from right to left guard, as one of the team’s few offensive stars rebounds from injuries. The positional move leaves little to be discussed. Right guard, left guard, who really gives a shit? But it was one paragraph in the piece that stood out to me:
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Dahlia West
Cheap, fast, dirty… fiction.
Book 4.5
“Alright, pet?”
Abby flexed her fingers. Her wrists were chained, arms over her head, naked, with her bare feet on the concrete floor. Alright was a relative term. Her heart was beating a staccato tattoo in her chest, she was nervous, but she was unharmed. Which was really what he was asking. She looked up at her boyfriend Mark and nodded. The ball gag in her mouth prevented her from giving more of an answer than that.
Mark was shirtless, his hard muscles rippling over his large frame. Abby was certain no man had ever looked this good, especially when he was being so bad. He stalked around behind her, the air between them practically crackled with electricity. When she was no longer able to see him, a crack of another kind tore through the air. The riding crop came down hard on her ass. Abby jumped and sucked in a sharp breath. The sting of the blow soon gave way to a spreading warmth and she closed her eyes. When she’d lived in Las Vegas, she’d been surrounded by hedonism, but never once been a part of it. If someone had told her before she moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, that she’d be the part-time pet of an ex-Army Ranger with a penchant for heavy spankings, she wouldn’t have believed it. But here she stood, in the garage where Mark worked during the day building custom bikes, trucks, and cars.
Except now Burnout was more of a dungeon of pleasure and pain, heavy on the pleasure part. Doing anything kinky outside the safe walls of the house they shared was always as nerve-wracking as it was exciting. Of course, Mark knew that. He’d lured her here by telling her that he’d left something in the office. The bastard. She’d give him a sassy look, if she could see him from where he was standing. It would earn her another stripe, a punishing one at that, but it might be worth it.
Right now was just the warm up, the steady swats of the crop stinging her ass and thighs as she struggled in the bindings. It was good, though. With Mark it always was. He seemed to want to remind her of that just then, and she felt the triangle shaped end of the implement slide slowly down her back and then slip between her legs. She moaned as he rubbed her pussy with it. Mark always knew to how give as much pleasure as pain and somehow always left her wanting more of both.
His lips were at her ear; his breath hot against her skin. “Little wet pet,” he teased. He replaced the crop with his fingers, caressing her folds and dipping into her. Lost in her need to come, she pushed back against his hand. Mark chuckled, amused, and let her masturbate herself with his fingers for a moment. His fingertips grazed her clit, just enough to drive her crazy. Just as she was feeling satisfied with her own efforts, he pulled his hand away. She groaned again, this time in frustration. Mark knew, too, how to keep her on that knife edge of almost-orgasm. In fact, he called it ‘edging’ and he did it a lot. Mostly it irritated her, but that was the point, she supposed.
“I control your pleasure, pet,” he reminded her softly.
Abby was disappointed, but not furious. Her orgasm would come… eventually. Mark never left her unsatisfied unless he was punishing her. She had to admit, her orgasms after an edging session were harder and longer than regular ones.
Mark brought the crop down again before moving in front of her, trailing it along behind him. It slid over her hip and across her taut belly, making her shiver. He looked down at her with a dark gaze that she’d learned to covet with every fiber of her being. That look that said he was about to play with her, and Mark’s ‘playtimes’ were nearly transcendent. He skimmed the crop over her breasts and she took in a deep breath. She knew what was coming, but that didn’t make it easier. He swiftly brought it down over one nipple. Abby yanked on the chains, trying to move away. She couldn’t though. Mark hit her other breast, leaving two small red welts competing with her flushed areolas.
She was breathing heavily now and juice ran freely from her pussy, trickling down her thighs. Mark skillfully worked her breasts over until she almost come from that alone. She knew, with no small amount of satisfaction, that even though Mark could let her come that way, he wouldn’t. He could never resist being inside her when she peaked. He could tell she was close now. After more than a year together he could play her body like an instrument he’d built himself, with careful patience and expert hands. He never seemed to lose control until he was fucking her; his desire for her overwhelming him just as it did her.
He tossed the crop onto the work bench beside them and unzipped his jeans. He freed the large bulge and Abby admired it now just as she had a thousand times previously. His thick cock jutted up and she knew it was only a seconds before he impaled her on it. He moved forward, his large hands spanning her hips on either side. Abby deftly wrapped her legs around him, locking her ankles together at his back.
Mark slid his hands behind her, holding her ass, which was buzzing from the earlier whipping. The sensation only added to the experience. He slid in slowly, letting her adjust to him. The anal plug she was wearing made her pussy tighter and it ached when he filled her. She whimpered and he gripped her tighter.
“I know, pet,” he whispered hoarsely as he fucked her. “I know what you need.”
Mark needed it too and he was taking her maddeningly slowly. She felt every inch of him spreading her wide. She squeezed him tightly, like a good little pet should, and he groaned. “Come with me, pet,” he ordered. “Come for me.” He withdrew almost completely before slamming back in. Abby’s pussy grasped and clenched, trying to keep him inside. She was so desperate to follow his order that she bounced hard against him, trying frantically to get pressure on her clit. Mark slid out again, pressed the head of his cock against her swollen nub, and rubbed it hard on his way back into her.
Abby felt the wave of orgasm rising up from her lower belly. She tightened her legs around him. “Oh, good girl,” he said. “Cream for me.” She screamed behind the ball gag as her pussy flooded, coating them both. Mark held her close as he came seconds after, jets of hot semen filling her as his cock pulsed inside her, stretching her impossibly more. “My fucking good girl, coming for her Owner,” he whispered in her ear.
Abby pulled her jeans back on, wincing a bit as the fabric hit her reddened ass. Mark caught the look. He never missed anything.
“Did I go too hard on you?” he asked.
She shook her head. “No,” she said honestly. She’d feel it all the way home, but that, she’d discovered, was never a bad thing.
Not satisfied, Mark pulled the t-shirt down over his head and stalked over to her. He pulled her jeans back down over her hips and gazed at her bare ass. She blushed then. In the harsh light of day (though it was technically night now) the things they did seemed slightly embarrassing. Or maybe she was just embarrassed to admit she liked it so much. She had a pretty high threshold for pain and if she told Mark it wasn’t bad, it was the truth. Possibly he even believed her, but he still never failed to mentally catalogue all her bruises and welts, checking for significant damage. When he was finished, he pulled her jeans back up for her.
“I’ll give you a bath when we get home,” he told her, picking up the crop from the bench.
Abby loved that part just as much as the sex. She suspected Mark enjoyed it, too. He’d wash her hair and then rub lotion over her welts to soothe them. He might have even made her dessert. She smiled at the prospect. She couldn’t have imagined that being ‘owned’ by a man would ever be something she’d want, but she couldn’t deny the way it made her feel: loved and cared for. And wasn’t that what everyone wanted?
Mark bent slightly to kiss her. As his lips brushed softly over hers, his hands skillfully removed the leather collar at her throat. She felt a strange sense of loss when the cool air hit her neck. She wore it nearly all the time now when they were alone. It had become part of her afternoon routine. Come home, ditch the work clothes and put on the collar. She reached for her shirt draped over the workbench, but froze at the sound of tires crunching the gravel outside.
“Oh, God!” she hissed, snatching at her clothes.
Mark chuckled. “Relax,” he told her. “It’s just a customer dropping off their ride so we can get to it in first thing in the morning.
Abby tugged her shirt down over her head and held her breath as the key drop box opened on the other side of the cement wall. It was ridiculous. No one could see in unless they came around to the side door and looked through the small rectangle of glass. Still, she swallowed hard and pressed her shirt tightly against herself. Mark appeared behind her, running his hands down her arms. “You’re going to have to get over this,” he told her.
Abby shook her head. “What if they saw?”
“What if they did?” She turned to gape at him. Before she could argue, he said, “What would they see?”
“I don’t think it’s me you’re worried about.”
She blushed and looked away. Mark took hold of her chin and drew her gaze back to his. “You’re beautiful, Abby. I tell you every day.”
She made a face but didn’t say anything. She might be pretty, she’d give him that much, but she had a few more pounds on her than other women; less Kate Moss and more Marilyn Monroe. Mark liked it, loved it in fact, but his acceptance of her had not been her usual experience with men.
“I would never lie to you, Abby. And I’m getting tired of you basically accusing me of it.”
“I’m not!” she protested.
“And if I asked you to wear that little red dress to Maria’s Friday night?”
She bit her lip.
“Thought so.”
“Mark-” she began, but he put his hand up to stop her.
“It’s fine,” he told her calmly. Then she saw his eyes glitter even in the dim light of the garage bay and she sucked in her breath. “I guess we know what the next part of your training will be.”
She dutifully stepped outside as he held the door for her, waiting while he locked it behind them. She had no idea what kind of training Mark had in mind, but she knew it wouldn’t be easy. None of his training had ever been easy; but Mark had molded her into the perfect submissive, well, his perfect submissive anyway. And in exchange she’d gotten the perfect boyfriend, one who cared for her and cared about her. Even just having someone ask her how her day was had been a new and unusual experience. One she found she liked along with the gourmet dinners, over-the-knee spankings, and bike rides to the Badlands at night when the stars were out and the summer breeze felt like Heaven.
Mark slid onto the Harley and she climbed on behind him. She’d given up her own bike for the chance to ride his and smiled to herself yet again as she slid her arms around him. As she held on she thought about holding on –to him- and decided that it was about time she did.
(September 2, 2014)
Copyright © 2020 Dahlia West
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FEATURES Azymuth’s “Fênix” Rises By Isabela Raygoza · December 23, 2016
Jazz-funk trio Azymuth rose—already aflame—from the fluorescent ashes of the countercultural, kaleidoscopic world of Tropicalismo (or tropicalia). Since the early ‘70s, the Rio de Janeiro natives have gone on to create their own signature style, “samba doido” (“crazy samba”), an electric mix of spacious jazz with heavy funk and traditional Brazilian folk rhythms. They’ve been one of Brazil’s most experimentally daring groups for decades running.
Over two dozen studio albums later, they’ve gone through a difficult lineup change for 2016’s Fênix. Legendary keyboardist José Roberto Bertrami tragically passed away in 2012, and Kiko Continentino, a skilled pianist who’d also been a student of Bertrami’s, inherited his place in the group alongside drummer Ivan “Mamão” Conti and upright bassist/composer Alex Malheiro. Fênix is their first new material since Bertrami’s death, and, as the title suggests, this is Azymuth reborn in their latest configuration.
Fênix Azymuth .
Formats: Compact Disc (CD), Vinyl LP, Digital
While Bertrami was obviously a core component of the samba doido sound, Moraes faithfully carries on his legacy. Fênix is a soulful, blissed-out head trip of a record, a cosmic daydream that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with some of Azymuth’s ‘70s classics (Azimuth, Light As A Feather). Samba doido’s classic characteristics—slick, supple bass lines, syncopated percussion, and iridescent keyboards—are all here, and the group’s chemistry and energy is unflagging. Recently returned from an Azymuth European tour, we caught up with Conti, who shared the challenges and pleasures of the group’s recharged life.
You recently completed a month-long European tour with your band. What were some significant or memorable moments you had during your gigs?
All the shows were sensational. The public liked our new songs very much. They also enjoyed the new lineup of our band with recently-added keyboardist [Moraes]. I think we had the two best crowds in the Bravo Caffè in Bologna, Italy and [Le Sucre in] Lyon, France; we were greeted with immense affection and we made lots of friends there. There [was] plenty of heartfelt applause and sold-out house[s]. Lots of people bought our new material, Fênix.
How would you compare and contrast the European audiences versus the Brazilian audience?
They are two totally different audiences. But the biggest surprise is the growth of our fans within the younger generations [in both places]. Brazilians are more reserved, though our fans are loyal and they love the group; they vibe with us, but they are very reserved. We found Europeans to be warmer and not ashamed to show when they are enjoying a performance.
What are the next steps for Azymuth?
Firstly, to rest a little from the tours. Then, to create more music. We will be performing at the Dekmantel Festival in São Paulo on February 4th of [2017] with God willing and in good health!
Fênix is a beautiful listen, full of brilliant textures and ambient soundscapes. It’s also a more fluid and sophisticated release than your previous funk-centric recordings. What were the inspirations that drove the shift in sound?
The foundation continues to be the same one, [but] we’ve integrated a new keyboardist to the band. So there’s a new touch, with new ideas and new textures. According to the moment we are passing through, the sound flows. That has always been our tonic. Our [sound] is precisely this fusion of genres that include samba, progressive rock, and jazz, which [are] our main characteristic[s] besides our crazy rhythms.
The album is also the first in five years, since the passing of your bandmate, pianist José Roberto Bertrami. What were some of the challenges to seeing Fênix reach fruition?
Since Bertrami’s passing in 2012, we’ve taken our time choosing a bandmate that fits the group properly. That’s why it also took a longer time to release our new work. Of course, this is not a substitution. The legacy of José Roberto Bertrami will continue, but we need to follow up with new music. Our new keyboardist came into the studio already knowing how to play our previous music, and that’s music spanning more than 46 years!
On a different note, Azymuth came right out of the countercultural movement of tropicalismo, where myriad musicians were exiled because of their outspokenness against the regime. How was it forming a band in a cultural landscape charged with political turmoil?
Our involvement in music was never [explicitly] political. Our purpose since the band’s inception—at the time, though, we did record with many musicians who were involved [in that scene] and exiled—was to make good music. Even before the formation of our band, we worked with several artists involved in the [anti-fascist] movement. Though, our business was always to play!
If you were to describe Fênix as some type of food, drink or dessert, what would it be and why?
For me Fênix is a delicious dessert. I spent 46 years supporting myself with food [Azymuth’s previous catalog], so now, at [the age of] 70, I want Fênix to achieve sweet success.
—Isabela Raygoza
Jazz Brazilian
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It Looks Like Trey Gowdy Won’t Join Team Trump After All
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William Davis Reporter
October 14, 2019 10:59 AM ET
Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy may not be returning to Washington D.C. after all.
President Donald Trump was thought to have secured Gowdy’s services to help him through the impeachment process, but a New York Times report published Sunday said the arrangement has fallen through. (RELATED: REPORT: White House Out To Trey Gowdy For Impeachment Help)
“Now, according to two people familiar with events, Mr. Gowdy is never expected to join the team. And Trump advisers are back to square one, searching for a different lawyer,” Times’ reporters Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni.
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Gowdy has become a conservative hero in recent years over his role as chairman of the House Oversight Committee and his job as head of the select committee that investigated the Benghazi attack. Gowdy retired from Congress in January, and now practices law in South Carolina. (RELATED: Trump Invites Hillary Clinton To Jump In 2020 Presidential Race On One Condition)
The administration had previously announced that Gowdy would not be able to join the president’s legal team until January because of lobbying regulations. Gowdy was also ousted from his role at Fox News, after it was announced that he would be helping Trump through the impeachment process.
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No, Millennials aren't ruining Marriott hotels
Despite what certain media outlets are reporting, Millennials aren’t actually ruining life for business travellers who frequent Marriott hotels.
In a blog post by Yahoo Sports Columnist Dan Wetzel, he said he was shocked to find there was no longer a traditional desk for him to work on in his Marriott hotel room, prompting him to call the front desk.
“I was told this had to do with the habits of Millennials, who don’t use desks. [Insert ‘Millennials don’t do any work’ jokes here.] They prefer rooms that are designed to ‘hang out’ in and whatever work they do can be accomplished on their phone. Hence we have two beds and a couch but no chair or desk,” said Wetzel.
Marriott hotels are in the process of renovating their hotels, which includes, among other things, a change in the traditional work space many baby boomers have come to know and love. Instead of a deep traditional desk, many Marriotts are using adjustable tables that can be moved to hover over the bed or the couch. Others haven’t disposed of desks at all. Check out this picture of a newly renovated room at a Marriott in Seattle:
Image: Marriott Hotels
And another from San Francisco:
Change can be hard, and granted, it seems like Wetzel got the short end of the stick with his room, which appeared to only have a small, round awkward table. But with the process of renovations comes growing pains, and Marriott spokesperson Nina Herrera-Devila told Vancity Buzz each room will have a proper work space – as well as hardwood floors – when all is said and done.
“The work surface is just different,” she said.
“Generally guest feedback has been positive – around 80 per cent versus 20 per cent negative.”
She also notes that the changes aren’t being spurred by Millennials, but by customer feedback that’s cross generational. Still, that hasn’t stopped people from occasionally posting complaints on Trip Advisor (scroll to PatonMarco’s comment).
Another thing to note is the Marriott umbrella includes 17 brands, and traditional desks will be included in many of them.
And for the record: The downtown Vancouver Marriott on West Hastings still has traditional, full-sized desks.
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Archdiocese of Santa Fe
Flu factor: Dioceses take steps to prevent virus from spreading
The flu season is here and dioceses across the country are taking precautions to avoid spreading illness.
By Dennis Sadowski
Santa Fe archbishop issues safety directive for flu season
The head of New Mexico’s largest Catholic diocese has issued directives aimed at protecting parishioners during flu season.
Fugitive priest faces sentencing in US sex abuse case
A former Catholic priest is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Santa Fe, where a jury found him guilty earlier this year of sexually abusing an altar boy in the early 1990s before fleeing the country.
By Mary Hudetz
Prelates say feeling of strife, enmity signals ‘crisis of compassion’
The archbishop of Boston and his counterpart in Santa Fe, New Mexico, have called for a spirit of welcome toward others, saying the current feeling of strife and enmity in the country signals a “crisis of compassion” that must be overcome.
By Rhina Guidos
Seminarian killed in crash recalled as ‘humble man’ who cared for others
Seminarian Jason Marshall from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe who lost his life in a bus crash in Colorado was “a humble man who deeply cared for others,” said Archbishop John C. Wester in a June 25 statement.
Police investigate bus crash involving Catholic high school church group
Authorities on Monday were trying to determine what caused a bus carrying a New Mexico high school church group home from a weekend retreat in Denver to veer off the highway and crash, killing two people and injuring at least 13 others.
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Page No. - 175
Aldine R. Culpepper
Female, #5221, (5 Jul 1876 - before 1 Jun 1880)
Father* William M. Culpepper (14 Nov 1845 - 8 Jul 1897)
Mother* Mary Elizabeth Tabitha Huff (3 Mar 1849 - 17 Sep 1907)
Birth* 5 Jul 1876� Aldine was born at Harris Co., Georgia, on 5 Jul 1876.�
Death* before 1 Jun 1880� She died at Harris Co., Georgia, before 1 Jun 1880.1�
Charts Orphan / Joel Culpepper of Harris Co., GA: Descendant Chart
Page 433D, Family 299, ED 56, Goodmans, Harris Co., GA
William Culpepper, Self, M, Md, 34, Farmer, GA/GA/GA
Mary E. T. Culpepper, Wife, F, Md, 31, Keeping House, GA/GA/GA
Martha J. M. Culpepper, Dau, F, S, 12, GA/GA/GA
Sarah E. E. Culpepper, Dau, F, S, 9, GA/GA/GA
James T. Culpepper, Son, M, S, 5, GA/GA/GA
William E. Culpepper, Son, M, S, 10M, GA/GA/GA.
Nancy T. A. Culpepper1
Female, #5222, (8 Sep 1881 - 20 Jan 1947)
Name Variation � She was also known as Nannie E. J.�
Birth* 8 Sep 1881� Nancy was born at Harris Co., Georgia, on 8 Sep 1881.�
Death of Father 8 Jul 1897� Her father William M. Culpepper died on 8 Jul 1897.�
1900 Census 1 Jun 1900� William, Nancy and John was listed as a son in Mary Elizabeth Tabitha Huff's household on the 1900 Census at Harris Co., Georgia.1�
Death of Mother 17 Sep 1907� Her mother Mary Elizabeth Tabitha Huff died on 17 Sep 1907 at Linden, Cass Co., Texas.�
1910 Census � Nancy was listed as a sister in William Edward Culpepper's household on the 1910 Census at Miller Co., Arkansas.2�
1930 Census 1 Apr 1930� Nancy was listed as a sister in William Edward Culpepper's household on the 1930 Census at Sulphur, Miller Co., Arkansas.3�
Death* 20 Jan 1947� She died at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 20 Jan 1947 at age 65.4�
Burial* circa 22 Jan 1947� Her body was interred circa 22 Jan 1947 at Macedonia Cemetery, Bright Star, Miller Co., Arkansas.�
ED 31, Page 97A (23), Family 449, Goodman District, Harris Co., GA
Mary E. Culpepper, Head, F, Mar 1849, 51, Wid, ch 4/4, GA/GA/GA
William E. Culpepper, Son, M, Jul 1879, 20, S, GA/GA/GA, Farmer
Nancy T. A. Culpepper, Dau, F, Oct 1881, 18, S, GA/GA/GA
John M. Culpepper, Son, M, Aug 1886, 13, S, GA/GA/GA
Mary B. Culpepper, Dau, F, Mar 1889, 11, S, GA/GA/GA.
ED 73, family 158.
ED 46-21, Sheet #7-A, Page 24, Line 30, Sulphur, Miller, AR
Home owned, Value not shown, Radio=blank, Farm=Yes
Will E. Culpepper, Head, M, 51, M, md@30, GA/GA/GA, Farmer, Gen. Farming, Vet=No
Ethel Culpepper, Wife, F, 36, M, md@16, TX/AR/TX, Not employed
Bernice Culpepper, Dau, F, 20, S, AR/GA/TX, Laborer, Farm
Juanita Culpepper, Dau, F, 18, S, AR/GA/TX, Laborer, Farm
Grace Culpepper, Dau, F, 15, S, AR/GA/TX Laborer, Farm
Mary Lou Culpepper, Dau, F, 7, S, AR/GA/TX
Nannie Culpepper, Sister, F, 47, S, GA/GA/GA.
Arkansas Death Index Books, 1914 -- 1948.
Clara Odessa Culpepper
Female, #5223, (24 Jul 1887 - before 1 Jun 1900)
Birth* 24 Jul 1887� Clara was born at Harris Co., Georgia, on 24 Jul 1887.�
Mary Beula Culpepper
Female, #5224, (19 Mar 1888 - )
Birth* 19 Mar 1888� Mary was born at Harris Co., Georgia, on 19 Mar 1888.�
1900 Census 1 Jun 1900� Mary was listed as a daughter in Mary Elizabeth Tabitha Huff's household on the 1900 Census at Harris Co., Georgia.1�
Joseph Kemp
Male, #5225, (12 Dec 1813 - 17 May 1860)
Birth* 12 Dec 1813� Joseph was born at Georgia on 12 Dec 1813.�
Marriage* 1 Oct 1846� He married (?) Kemp at Houston Co., Georgia, on 1 Oct 1846 at age 32.�
1850 Census* 1 Jun 1850� Joseph was listed as the head of a family on the 1850 Census on 1 Jun 1850 at Houston Co., Georgia.1�
Death* 17 May 1860� He died on 17 May 1860 at age 46.�
(?) Kemp (3 Dec 1826 - 2 Jun 1906)
Martha Kemp+2 (circa 1847 - 21 Sep 1870)
Nancy Hannah Kemp+ (3 Jul 1857 - 23 Jul 1917)
10th District, Page 349.
Obituary for Catherine Elizabeth Kemp.
(?) Kemp
Female, #5226, (3 Dec 1826 - 2 Jun 1906)
Name Variation � She was also known as Catherine Elizabeth Davis.�
Birth* 3 Dec 1826� (?) was born at North Carolina on 3 Dec 1826.�
Marriage* 1 Oct 1846� She married Joseph Kemp at Houston Co., Georgia, on 1 Oct 1846 at age 19.�
1850 Census* 1 Jun 1850� (?) listed as a household member living with Joseph Kemp on the 1850 Census on 1 Jun 1850 at Houston Co., Georgia.1�
Death of Spouse 17 May 1860� Her husband Joseph Kemp died on 17 May 1860.�
Death* 2 Jun 1906� She died at Houston Co., Georgia, on 2 Jun 1906 at age 79.2�
Burial* circa 3 Jun 1906� Her body was interred circa 3 Jun 1906 at Kemp Cemetery, Byron, Peach Co., Georgia.2�
Biography* � Obituary:
Mrs. Catherine Elizabeth Kemp, widow of the late Joseph Kemp, died at her home in the tenth district of Houston Co., GA, ten miles north of Perry, on 2 Jun 1906. Burial was in the family cemetery near their residence. She was 79 years of age last December. Of five daughters, only two survive her: Mrs. J. D. Martin of Sylvester, GA and Mrs. J. M. Culpepper of Fort Valley, GA.3�
Joseph Kemp (12 Dec 1813 - 17 May 1860)
Cemeteries and Obituaries of Houston Co., GA. Abstracted by Addie Paramore Howell from The Houston Home Journal, Perry, GA 1870-1912. Published by Omni Press, Macon, GA: 1982. Transcribed by Warren Culpepper. FHL US/CAN Book: 975.8515 V3c.
Mattie Mable Culpepper1
Female, #5227, (Jun 1888 - )
Father* Early Greathouse Culpepper (16 Dec 1850 - bt 1920 - 1930)
Mother* Savannah (?) (Nov 1851 - bt 1910 - 1920)
Birth* Jun 1888� Mattie was born at Georgia in Jun 1888.2�
1900 Census 1 Jun 1900� Mattie and Emma was listed as a daughter in Early Greathouse Culpepper's household on the 1900 Census at Phenix City, Russell Co., Alabama.2�
Married Name 27 May 1906� As of 27 May 1906, her married name was Wilson.�
Marriage* 27 May 1906� She married Jackson Davis Wilson at Muscogee Co., Georgia, on 27 May 1906 at age 17.3�
1910 Census 15 Apr 1910� Mattie was listed as a daughter in Early Greathouse Culpepper's household on the 1910 Census at Phenix City, Russell Co., Alabama.4�
Biography* � According to Harry M. Lewis, a grandson, of Fredericksburg, VA, Mattie and her husband were very gifted. Harry never knew his grandmother, but his mother told him she was attractive, intelligent, and loyal. Harry has a copy of his grandparent's wedding picture.�
Jackson Davis Wilson (13 Dec 1885 - 19 Aug 1963)
Harry M. Lewis records, Harry M. Lewis, Fredericksburg, VA, to Lew Griffin, 1995.
Phenix City, Lee Co., Alabama; Lines 22-26, Page 2A; ED 45 (1 Jun 1900)
Edward G Culpepper, Head, Wh, M, Dec 1848, 51, md-13yrs, GA/GA/GA, Carder/Cottonmill
Savannah Culpepper, Wife, Wh, F, Nov 1851, 48, md-13yrs, ch 3/3, GA/GA/GA
Mattie Culpepper, Dau, Wh, F, Jun 1888, 11, sng, AL/GA/GA
Emma Culpepper, Dau, Wh, F, Mar 1890, 10, sng, AL/GA/GA
Katie Pickren, Step-Dau, Wh, F, Oct 1877, 22, sng, AL/GA/GA, Weaver/Cottonmill.
Muscogee County Court of the Ordinary (Books F-U transcribed by Lew Griffin), compiler, Muscogee Co., GA Marriages, 1868-1920 (Transcribed by Lew Griffin), Salt Lake City, UT: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1965, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. Film# 401845, 401858-859.
M. M. Culpepper (F) and J. D. Wilson on 27 May 1906 in Muscogee Co., GA, Bk P-75.
Phenix City, Lee Co., Alabama; Lines 1-6, Page 2A; ED 175 (15 Apr 1910)
Earlie Culpepper, Head, M, Wh, 60, md1-23yrs, GA/GA/GA, Spinner/Cotton Mill
Savanah Culpepper, Wife, F, Wh, 60, ch 3/2, GA/GA/TN, No occ
Mattie [Culpepper] Wilson, Dau, F, Wh, 22, md-4yrs, GA/GA/GA, No occ
Robert Tinsley, Boarder, M, Wh, 28, md, SC/SC/SC, Cotton Mill
Mabell Tinsley, Boarder, F, Wh, 22, md, SC/SC/SC, Cotton Mill
D W Rudolph, Boarder, M, Wh, 50, wid, GA/GA/GA, Cotton Mill.
Savannah (?)1,2
Female, #5228, (Nov 1851 - between 1910 and 1920)
Name Variation � She was also known as Sylvania (?)�
Birth* Nov 1851� Savannah was born at Georgia in Nov 1851.1�
Married Name say 1875� As of say 1875, her married name was Pickren.1�
Marriage* say 1875� She married William Pickren say 1875.1�
1880 Census 1 Jun 1880� Savannah was listed as William Pickren's wife on the 1880 Census at Brownville, Lee Co., Alabama.2�
Marriage* 18 Sep 1887� She married Early Greathouse Culpepper at Muscogee Co., Georgia, on 18 Sep 1887 at age 35.3�
Married Name 18 Sep 1887� As of 18 Sep 1887, her married name was Culpepper.�
1900 Census 1 Jun 1900� Savannah was listed as Early Greathouse Culpepper's wife on the 1900 Census at Phenix City, Russell Co., Alabama.1�
1910 Census 15 Apr 1910� Savannah was listed as Early Greathouse Culpepper's wife on the 1910 Census at Phenix City, Russell Co., Alabama.4�
Death* between 1910 and 1920� She died at Lee Co., Alabama, between 1910 and 1920.�
William Pickren (say 1848 - )
Katie Pickren1 (Oct 1877 - )
Mary P. Pickren2 (circa May 1880 - )
Early Greathouse Culpepper (16 Dec 1850 - between 1920 and 1930)
Mattie Mable Culpepper (Jun 1888 - )
Emma Lee Culpepper1 (Mar 1890 - )
Brownville, Lee Co., AL, page 220C
William Pickeren, 31
Savannah Pickeren, 27
Kater Pickeren, 3
Mary P. Pickeren, 1m.
Bk J, p. 212.
Jackson Davis Wilson
Male, #5229, (13 Dec 1885 - 19 Aug 1963)
Father* Jackson Wall Wilson (24 Nov 1860 - 22 May 1951)
Mother* Jennette B. Davis (4 Nov 1864 - 25 Apr 1919)
Birth* 13 Dec 1885� Jackson was born at Waverly, Chambers Co., Alabama, on 13 Dec 1885.�
Marriage* 27 May 1906� He married Mattie Mable Culpepper at Muscogee Co., Georgia, on 27 May 1906 at age 20.1�
Death of Mother 25 Apr 1919� His mother Jennette B. Davis died on 25 Apr 1919 at Camp Hill, Tallapoosa Co., Alabama.�
Death of Father 22 May 1951� His father Jackson Wall Wilson died on 22 May 1951 at Camp Hill, Tallapoosa Co., Alabama.�
Death* 19 Aug 1963� He died at Camp Hill, Tallapoosa Co., Alabama, on 19 Aug 1963 at age 77.2�
Burial* say 22 Aug 1963� His body was interred say 22 Aug 1963 at Camp Hill Cemetery, Camp Hill, Tallapoosa Co., Alabama.2�
E-mail written 2001, Jan 2004 to Lew Griffin from Jeanette Cuthriell, e-mail address.
Levin Collins1
Male, #5230, (1784 - 15 Apr 1855)
Birth* 1784� Levin was born at Sussex Co., Delaware, in 1784.2�
Marriage* circa 1810� He married Ann (?) circa 1810.�
Census 1820� He was listed as a resident in the census report at Burke Co., Georgia, in 1820.�
Census* 1840� He was listed as a resident in the census report at Troup Co., Georgia, in 1840.�
Death* 15 Apr 1855� He died at Upshur Co., Texas, on 15 Apr 1855.2,1�
Biography* � From Ann Flowers, Sep 1998:
I have been researching Levin and Ann COLLINS for my husband's family. My husband is descended from Levin through his son Henry Wilborn, born in 1833 in Troup Co., GA.
Levin was born 1784 in Delaware, emigrated with parents to GA abt 1797, and died in Upshur County, TX on April 15, 1855. His obituary notice appeared in the Christian Index in 1855, and his estate went through probate court in Upshur County, TX with his son John G. Collins as administrator. Ann (listed Anna in the court documents) died in 1860 in Upshur County, Tx. Her estate was probated in Upshur County with Stephen Hallmark, husband of her daughter Ann Kitty, as administrator. Levin had bought considerable property in Upshur and Harrison Counties, TX in 1855. Obviously, he didn't live but four months after the purchase. It took a while to untangle his estate and set the dower for Anna.
I noticed that the Culpepper genealogy does not list a maiden name for Anna. I have run into a brick wall on that fact, also. In addition, I haven't been able to trace Levin's ancestors, though I am fairly sure he is from Sussex County, DE as were many who settled in Harris and Troup County, GA. The area from which he came was in the conflicted border with Maryland, so I noticed the 1850 census listed MD as his birthplace. Levin and Anna's children were:
1. Isaac P. COLLINS, b. 1810, married Martha___. Isaac P. was in Talledega Co. AL by 1846 and in Harrison Co., TX by 1852; in Bosque Co., TX by 1880.
2. Elizabeth COLLINS, b. 1814, married William S.Satterwhite on 2 Nov 1834. They lived and are buried in Russell Co., AL
3. Nancy COLLINS, b. 1816, married James Monroe Culpepper on 22 Dec 1842. She died 21 May 1860(?) in Harris Co., GA.
4. Mary COLLINS, b. abt 1817, married James A. D. Latham on 25 May 1837. She was deceased by 1854.
5. Ann Ritty COLLINS, b. 1818. married Stephen Wilburn Hallmark on 29 Mar 1835. They were in Upshur Co.,TX by 1855.
6. John G.COLLINS, b. 1820, married Rebecca satterwhite on 5 Aug 1843 in Harris Co., GA. They were in Harrison Co., TX by 1852.
7. Seaborn Key COLLINS, b. 1830, married Elizabeth R. Satterwhite on 8 Sept 1852. They were in Upshur Co., TX by 1855.
8. Henry Wilburn COLLINS, b. 1833, married Loraine Edna Sturdivant on 13 Dec 1853. They were in Upshur Co., TX by 1855.2�
Ann (?) (circa 1788 - 29 Apr 1860)
Nancy Collins+3 (1 May 1816 - 21 May 1860)
James Monroe Culpepper Family, James Monroe Culpepper Family Bible, Jr. (#6979) George William Culpepper, owner, Harris Co., GA.
http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/ga/misc/harris-bible-jamesmonroe.htm
Deaths: Levin Collins, 15 Apr 1855.
E-mail written Sep 1998 to Lew Griffin from Ann Flowers, Mesquite, TX, e-mail address.
Mary J. Thompson--editor (based on records of Sandra Jeffries and Barbara Lockard), "The Culpepper Family", Harris County, Georgia and Her People, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 1986.
Ann (?)1
Female, #5231, (circa 1788 - 29 Apr 1860)
Birth* circa 1788� Ann was born circa 1788.�
Marriage* circa 1810� She married Levin Collins circa 1810.�
Married Name circa 1810� As of circa 1810, her married name was Collins.�
Census* 1850� She was listed as a resident in the census report at Troup Co., Georgia, in 1850.�
Death of Spouse 15 Apr 1855� Her husband Levin Collins died on 15 Apr 1855 at Upshur Co., Texas.2,3�
Death* 29 Apr 1860� She died at Upshur Co., Texas, on 29 Apr 1860.2,1�
Levin Collins (1784 - 15 Apr 1855)
Nancy Collins+4,1 (1 May 1816 - 21 May 1860)
Deaths: Ann Collins, 29 Apr 1860.
Ethel Lucy Endsley
Female, #5232, (23 May 1894 - 18 Dec 1974)
Birth* 23 May 1894� Ethel was born at Bloomburg, Cass Co., Texas, on 23 May 1894.�
Marriage* 4 Jan 1910� She married William Edward Culpepper at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 4 Jan 1910 at age 15.�
Married Name 4 Jan 1910� As of 4 Jan 1910, her married name was Culpepper.�
1930 Census 1 Apr 1930� Ethel was listed as William Edward Culpepper's wife on the 1930 Census at Sulphur, Miller Co., Arkansas.1�
Death of Spouse 31 Mar 1944� Her husband William Edward Culpepper died on 31 Mar 1944 at Miller Co., Arkansas.2�
Death* 18 Dec 1974� She died at Bloomburg, Cass Co., Texas, on 18 Dec 1974 at age 80.�
Burial* circa 21 Dec 1974� Her body was interred circa 21 Dec 1974 at Macedonia Cemetery, Bright Star, Miller Co., Arkansas.�
William Edward Culpepper (11 Jul 1879 - 31 Mar 1944)
Bernice Marie Culpepper (1 Nov 1910 - 24 Oct 2003)
Winnie Juanita Culpepper (9 Apr 1912 - 1 Sep 1985)
Willie Grace Culpepper (5 Jan 1915 - 30 Jan 1983)
Mary Lou Culpepper
Last Edited 15 Mar 2004
Bernice Marie Culpepper
Female, #5233, (1 Nov 1910 - 24 Oct 2003)
Father* William Edward Culpepper (11 Jul 1879 - 31 Mar 1944)
Mother* Ethel Lucy Endsley (23 May 1894 - 18 Dec 1974)
Birth* 1 Nov 1910� Bernice was born at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 1 Nov 1910.�
1930 Census 1 Apr 1930� Bernice, Winnie and Willie was listed as a daughter in William Edward Culpepper's household on the 1930 Census at Sulphur, Miller Co., Arkansas.1�
Marriage* 18 Jan 1936� She married Carnas Buron Jones at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 18 Jan 1936 at age 25.�
Married Name 18 Jan 1936� As of 18 Jan 1936, her married name was Jones.�
Death of Father 31 Mar 1944� Her father William Edward Culpepper died on 31 Mar 1944 at Miller Co., Arkansas.2�
Death of Mother 18 Dec 1974� Her mother Ethel Lucy Endsley died on 18 Dec 1974 at Bloomburg, Cass Co., Texas.�
Death of Spouse 26 Dec 1974� Her husband Carnas Buron Jones died on 26 Dec 1974 at Miller Co., Arkansas.�
Residence* 1996� Bernice resided at Hooks, Bowie Co., Texas, in 1996.�
Death* 24 Oct 2003� She died at Texarkana, Miller Co., Arkansas, on 24 Oct 2003 at age 92.3�
Carnas Buron Jones (25 Oct 1906 - 26 Dec 1974)
E-mail written Sep 2003 from David W. Jones, e-mail address.
Winnie Juanita Culpepper
Female, #5234, (9 Apr 1912 - 1 Sep 1985)
Birth* 9 Apr 1912� Winnie was born at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 9 Apr 1912.1�
Biography* 19 Mar 1929� My Life
By Juanita Culpepper
(Written as a school assignment shortly before Juanita's 17th birthday, this paper was transcribed from a copy of the original on 1 Oct 2003 by David W. Jones, Winnie Juanita Culpepper's grandson.)
Bloomburg, Texas
My dear Miss Price:
In complying with your request to acquaint you with the story of my life, I must first begin by telling you about my ancestors. My grandmother Culpepper and her family came from Georgia, and were of Dutch descent. My grandfather Culpepper lived in Georgia all his life. He fought in the civil war, and was wounded at Gettysburg. He was sent home but finally died from the wound of that awful bullet. My grandmother came to Texas after grandfather's death. My mother's people came from Georgia too; they are of Scotch-Irish descent. My grandfather was the kindest man I have ever known. Great grandfather and two of his brothers fought in the civil war too, but one of them was killed about the middle of the war so both the others came back home, sader (sic) than if all had been with them(?). My Father came to this country in the year nineteen hundred and eight. He bought the little farm on which we still live, the year he moved here. My father was twenty nine years old at this time and had never been married. He met mother soon after he moved, and I believe it must have been love at first sight, if there is any such love, for they had only known one another forty days when they married. My father said he would never have married if grandmother had lived. He loved her so until he would have given up all his young pleasures just to see that she was comfortable. After he and mother married his two youngest sisters and his baby brother stayed with him until they were grown. His blind sister is still living with us, and she seems like one of the family. She loves us children better than any of her other nieces and nephews.
Mother and father had been married a year when Bernice, my oldest sister, was born. Then I was born seventeen months later; the nineth (sic) of April, nineteen hundred and twelve. I was a very large baby, weighing ten pounds. Mother said she thought I was the prettiest little baby she had ever seen. Mother said my young or baby life was not a happy one. When I was two or three months old I begin to have spasams (sic). If they let my feet get cold I would have one, or if any one scared me I would have one. The doctor did all he could, but he could do no good. He said, he thought I would out grow them. One night I had a little bit of fever, as(?) father had been working hard all-day mother sat in her chair all evening with me, and when father came to the house he took me so mother could cook supper. I had a spasam (sic) when he moved me from mothers lap and one or two more in just a few minutes. Father saw that it would never do to let me have another one so he sat in his chair from six o'clock until eleven without moving. He said he was so tired and sore until he could hardly walk when the doctor got there. I did not have any more that might, but the last one ____(?) ____(?) was sitting under the table playing with the cat,(sic) She scratched me and I started to cry. Mother(sic) saw me. She said I was as pale as death. She ran to me. Then she rung (sic) the big dinner bell for father to come to the house. Father knew something was wrong for the bell was only wrung (sic) at noon, unless something happened at the house. He came running to the house but by the time he got there mother had brought me back to life. I never had growed (sic) much all this time, for they did not know what to give me. After I had that spasam (sic) I went to growing. Mother said I got so fat she was uneasy about me.
The first thing I can remember is when a neighbor gave me a little black kitten. I was five year (sic) old. Bernice and I would play with the kitten all the time. Mother and father would try to keep us from playing with it, but we would carry it to the farm. One night we had all gone to bed when the cat got up on our bed and lay down in my face. It put its mouth over mine, and had almost smothered me to death, when the noise of my struggling awoke father. He grabbed the cat and threw it from the bed. I had almost quit breathing by this time. They threw me up into the air, and bathed my face in cold water. They worked with me for a quarter of an hour. I was sick for a day or two. Uncle Lester Endsley was working with father. I went to the field and he put me on his plow and asked me what liked to have killed me. I would start at the first and tell the whole story. I have heard him say since I grew up that he liked to hear me tell the story because I was young and could try to paint out things just as they really were.
The first time father ever whipped me was for playing in the mud with my new dress on. I was a lover of mud and water. They had a hard time keeping me out of it. Mother was going to grandmothers she had washed me clean, and dressed me up in new clothes. I got out in the yard where there was a hole. I was making mud pies when father came around the house. He whipped me and I have never cared anything about mud pies since then.
I do not remember when Grace was a tiny baby for I was small myself. When she was still a baby mother had to be operated on. I can remember that, for I did not know what they was (sic) going to do with my mother. When Grace was three years old mother had typhoid fever. Father almost lost a crop. He could not get anyone to come stay with her for they were all afraid of taking the fever.
When Grace was six years old Bernice and myself thought she ought to do just what we did. Mother would send us to the pasture after the cows. We would go, but would groumble (sic) all the way there and back, because we thought mother loved her better than she did us.
My first two years of school life was not happy because I was afraid of my teacher and he tried to frighten me worse instead of try to get me to like him. I donot (sic) believe I could have liked him any way. He was mean to the small children, and good to the larger ones. The rest of the time I have been happy in school. When Miss Grace Dodd taught here at Sand Hill I resolved to be a history teacher. That resolution has grown all the way(?) through my history studies.
The first sorrow I can remember in life was when Aunt Verna Hill died. She had been married only six weeks when the flu raged. Grandmother's family was the first around here to take it. Aunt Verna came to help them all she could, but had only been there four days when she took the flu herself. At first it did not hurt her, but she had already had pneumonia once, so it soon developed into pneumonia. She was not sick long for her lungs were already weak. She died November 5, 1918, and was buried in the Macedonia Cemetery. I did not get to go to the funeral for mother had to go and help grandmother. Father left Bernice, Grace, Aunt Nam(?) and myself at home. There was a large apple tree standing at the back of the house which had only two apples on it at this time. Bernice said if I would climb up the tree and get the apples she would not tell father, of course, he had warned us to stay out of the apple tree. I went up the tree and was coming down when I saw father coming, over the hill. He saw me about that time too. He came on home and asked about the apples. We told him we had knocked them with a rack (sic), but he had seen us. He gave us a few licks apiece.
Things went on as usual for some time. I was in school, and as I have stated before, I did not like my teacher. One windy day the school house caught on fire. It was falling in when the men got there, so it could not be saved. I was out of school the rest of that year. They built a new house in the summer. School started that winter and our teacher resigned. I had missed almost two terms of school. We were only having only four or five month school any way. This threw me behind in my school work. If we could have had nine month schools I could have been farther along. I will not give up at that for I intend to get an education if possible. Although I never have, or never will have as good a chance as some girls have, but that does not bother me much for I always say "I Can", and that will comfort me when in doubt of succeeding with a hard task. I believe my education is the hardest thing ahead of me.
My sisters and I use to have the lovliest (sic) times playing in the playhouse which we built by a good spring of water. We would fence our rooms off with pine-straw and make beds, pillows, chairs, and many other things out of the straw. Mother was always too good to us. She would let us eat up her supper when she was not able to cook any more. We would carry onions and other things to our play-house and eat them down there.
I have been in several wrecks in my life. When I was small we would follow father to bring in hay. Bernice has always been unlucky, so she fell off the load of hay. She also fell off a bail (sic) of hay coming from town one day. She went down between the wheel and the wagon. We ran back and picked her up. She was not hurt much. I fell off a wagon one night. We were going up a hill and Aunt Nammie(?) started to fall. I grabbed for her and we both fell off. I would not get back upon the wagon. I walked the rest of the way. I was in a car wreck one night but no one was hurt. We were all scared.
My next greatest sorrow was when Bernice like to have died. She was going to school at Bloomburg, Texas, a small town south west of Sand Hill. She had been having chills for nearly a year. We tried every kind of medicine but could not get them broke up. On the tenth day of March nineteen hundred and twenty three she was taken with something like a chill. We gave her medicine but she got worse all the time. That evening about three o'clock it begin to rain. Bernice was still no better so mother called the doctor. He came out there as quick as he could. He stayed about two or three hours. When he started home he told father that Bernice had black jaundice and congestion. He had no more than got home when we called him back. It was still raining and the roads were muddy and slick. He stayed nearly all night trying to settle her stomach. She would vomit up every drop of water or any thing we gave her. She was unconscious from Saturday night until Tuesday. The doctor gave her up Sunday.
He said there was no chance for her. On Tuesday my baby sister Mary Lou was born. This was the thirteenth of March. We were all disappointed for we wanted her to be a boy. I was over at Mrs. Lamar's when she told me I had a little sister. I was so mad I did not know what to do. I told them they would never see me with her in my arms. When I went home I would not look at her until mother made me. The baby was two days old before Bernice hardly relized (sic) she was there. Bernice was sick nearly three weeks. She had sixteen needles put into her body. One was a poison needle. It made a large scare (sic) which is still there, but the doctor said that was all that saved her.
After Mary Lou got about two or three months old we would not have taken any thing for her. I believe I was prouder of her than I would have been had she been a boy. When she got big enough to look around and could tell one of us from the other I was prouder of her than anyone, for I was next to mother. She would cry and come to me from any of the others. When she begin to talk she could not call my name so she called me "Nunie(?) Bill". Nearly every body called me that when speaking to her. When she was little I would cry every time she had fever, for mother said she would go away and leave me someday for the way I treated her when she was a baby. They told me she would hate me when she grew up but thank goodness she still loves me as I do her. She will cry every time I go off and leave her.
I believe my greatest sorrow came when my Grandfather Endsley died. He died May 5, 192(?). He was buried in the Macedonia Cemetery. He was the only grandfather I ever saw. My Grandfather Culpepper died before I was born. My grandfather was the greatest pal I had, and the kindest, best man I have ever known as I have stated before. We do not know what killed him for the doctors would not tell. He was sick for many days, and as his cheeks became pale I greaved (sic) over him.
Bernice and I went to see him one day and they had some corn that needed to be thined (sic). We thined (sic) corn all day and when we came to the house for dinner, I was sitting by his bed and we had fun talking. You may say I was young to be talking to a sick man. I guess I was young, but that was the kind of people he liked to talk to. Well as I was saying he looked up at me and said, "Baby how is grandfather's corn?" I told him it was pretty, and he said, "I have not got to see the corn since it was planted." We talked on for awhile about the corn and after awhile he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "I don't guess I will ever get to see or work the corn for I will not be here." At first I could not plan out what he meant. All evening I studied about what he had said to me at noon. After he died I know what he had meant(?) by his talk. That was the first one of my relatives I had ever seen who was dead.
Well things went on as usual. I had learned to plow and every year I would help father with the crop. I do not think it a dishonor to work in the field as some children do. I know my parents will not be with me always to work and show me how to do the work right. So with the help of God I will do the very best, what ever my task may be, when they are dead.
Two year (sic) ago this spring mother had to be operated on again which was the second time. It almost broke by heart to see her go to Texarkana for I did not believe she would get well. She stood the operation just fine and when she was waking up she sung "When We All Get To Heaven," and "Beautiful City." The nurse told mother she had to cry for mother was taking things so hard. We were all proud when the news came home that mother was doing fine. We were the proudest children you ever saw when mother was brought home. Mary Lou had the whooping cough while she was gone. We stayed with Uncle Lester Endsley.
Things went on fine until last fall. Father was taken with an awful breaking-out. We tried all the doctors around here. They could do no good. He was sick about three months where he could hardly stay out of bed. We gave up all hopes of him getting well. On the seventeenth of January a man came to the house. He began to ask questions about how father was worked. He told him that it was eczema, but that he could cure him with out a doce (sic) of medicine. Father did not know what to do about buying the jar. We finally bought and father begin (sic) to drink the water. He got better and in two months he was almost well. We were all so proud until we hardly know what to do.
Well this is about all there is to my life that is interesting, and this is not much. I will not tell you how much I love you, for I think you will guess near enough from such a long letter.
Your pupil;
Juanita Culpepper.�
Marriage* 2 Dec 1932� She married Cleo Jesse Jones at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 2 Dec 1932 at age 20. Cleo Jesse Jones and Winnie Juanita Culpepper had two sons: John William Jones and Cleo Jesse Jones, Jr., and a daughter, Bettie Sue Jones.3�
Married Name 2 Dec 1932� As of 2 Dec 1932, her married name was Jones.�
Death of Spouse 1982� Her husband Cleo Jesse Jones died in 1982.�
Death* 1 Sep 1985� She died at San Pedro, Los Angeles Co., California, on 1 Sep 1985 at age 73.1�
Burial* circa 3 Sep 1985� Her body was interred circa 3 Sep 1985 at Green Hills Memorial Park, San Pedro, Los Angeles Co., California.5�
Cleo Jesse Jones (say 1908 - 1982)
E-mail from David W. Jones e-mail address to Warren Culpepper, 27 Oct 2003.
Juanita Culpeper and Cleo Jones are the parents of Bettie Sue Jones, Female, born __ 1933 in Cass Co., Texas.
E-mail on 9 Sep 2003 to Warren Culpepper from David W. Jones, e-mail address.
Willie Grace Culpepper
Female, #5235, (5 Jan 1915 - 30 Jan 1983)
Birth* 5 Jan 1915� Willie was born at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 5 Jan 1915.�
Marriage* 26 Nov 1931� She married Barney Austin Brown at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 26 Nov 1931 at age 16.�
Married Name 26 Nov 1931� As of 26 Nov 1931, her married name was Brown.�
Death* 30 Jan 1983� She died at Texarkana, Bowie Co., Texas, on 30 Jan 1983 at age 68.�
Barney Austin Brown (23 Sep 1909 - 30 Apr 1984)
Carnas Buron Jones
Male, #5236, (25 Oct 1906 - 26 Dec 1974)
Birth* 25 Oct 1906� Carnas was born on 25 Oct 1906.�
Marriage* 18 Jan 1936� He married Bernice Marie Culpepper at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 18 Jan 1936 at age 29.�
Death* 26 Dec 1974� He died at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 26 Dec 1974 at age 68.�
Burial* circa 28 Dec 1974� His body was interred circa 28 Dec 1974 at Macedonia Cemetery, Bright Star, Miller Co., Arkansas.�
Cleo Jesse Jones
Male, #5237, (say 1908 - 1982)
Birth* say 1908� Cleo was born say 1908.�
Marriage* 2 Dec 1932� He married Winnie Juanita Culpepper at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 2 Dec 1932. Cleo Jesse Jones and Winnie Juanita Culpepper had two sons: John William Jones and Cleo Jesse Jones, Jr., and a daughter, Bettie Sue Jones.1�
Death* 1982� He died in 1982.�
Burial* 1982� His body was interred in 1982 at Green Hills Memorial Park, San Pedro, Los Angeles Co., California.2�
Barney Austin Brown
Male, #5238, (23 Sep 1909 - 30 Apr 1984)
Birth* 23 Sep 1909� Barney was born on 23 Sep 1909.�
Marriage* 26 Nov 1931� He married Willie Grace Culpepper at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 26 Nov 1931 at age 22.�
Death of Spouse 30 Jan 1983� His wife Willie Grace Culpepper died on 30 Jan 1983 at Texarkana, Bowie Co., Texas.�
Death* 30 Apr 1984� He died at Miller Co., Arkansas, on 30 Apr 1984 at age 74.�
Burial* circa 2 May 1984� His body was interred circa 2 May 1984 at Macedonia Cemetery, Bright Star, Miller Co., Arkansas.�
Curtis Stiles
Male, #5239, (1917 - 2 Jul 1983)
Birth* 1917� Curtis was born at Louisiana in 1917.�
Death* 2 Jul 1983� He died on 2 Jul 1983.�
Mildred Ann Wooten1
Female, #5241, (19 Mar 1873 - 11 Jun 1919)
Birth* 19 Mar 1873� Mildred was born at Monroeville, Monroe Co., Alabama, on 19 Mar 1873.1�
Marriage* 15 Jul 1894� She married John E. Culpepper at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 15 Jul 1894 at age 21.2�
Married Name 15 Jul 1894� As of 15 Jul 1894, her married name was Culpepper.�
Birth of Son 11 Sep 1900� Her son Henry Emanuel Culpepper was born on 11 Sep 1900 at Jackson Co., Alabama.3�
Birth of Son 7 Apr 1902� Her son John Frank Culpepper was born on 7 Apr 1902 at Jackson Co., Alabama.4�
Birth of Son 7 Sep 1906� Her son James Willie Culpepper was born on 7 Sep 1906 at Jackson Co., Alabama.4�
Birth of Son 23 Jan 1909� Her son Dilmus Clarence Culpepper was born on 23 Jan 1909 at Jackson Co., Alabama.5�
Death* 11 Jun 1919� She died at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 11 Jun 1919 at age 46.1�
Burial* circa 13 Jun 1919� Her body was interred circa 13 Jun 1919 at Haigwood Cemetery, Jackson Co., Alabama.1�
John E. Culpepper (14 Oct 1873 - 22 Apr 1948)
Malinda V. Culpepper1 (22 Aug 1896 - 3 Feb 1922)
Annie M. Culpepper1 (25 Apr 1898 - 18 Oct 1931)
Henry Emanuel Culpepper+3 (11 Sep 1900 - Dec 1949)
John Frank Culpepper4 (7 Apr 1902 - 24 Dec 1959)
Mary R. Culpepper4 (21 Jun 1904 - 31 Dec 1925)
James Willie Culpepper4 (7 Sep 1906 - 27 May 1926)
Dilmus Clarence Culpepper+4 (23 Jan 1909 - 1 Jul 1996)
Amy L. Culpepper6 (11 Jun 1914 - 2 Oct 1979)
Last Edited 7 Mar 2005
Maxine Culpepper Barron, Author: e-mail address, Culpepper, P.O. Box 382, Rainsville, Alabama 35986: M and M Publishing, 2004 .
Jordan R. Dodd, compiler, Alabama Marriages, 1809-1920, Online database at Ancestry.com, 1999.
Malinda V. Culpepper1
Female, #5242, (22 Aug 1896 - 3 Feb 1922)
Father* John E. Culpepper1 (14 Oct 1873 - 22 Apr 1948)
Mother* Mildred Ann Wooten1 (19 Mar 1873 - 11 Jun 1919)
Birth* 22 Aug 1896� Malinda was born at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 22 Aug 1896.1�
Married Name say 1914� As of say 1914, her married name was Gillespie.1�
Marriage* say 1914� She married (?) Gillespie say 1914.1�
Death of Mother 11 Jun 1919� Her mother Mildred Ann Wooten died on 11 Jun 1919 at Jackson Co., Alabama.1�
Death* 3 Feb 1922� She died on 3 Feb 1922 at age 25.1�
Burial* circa 5 Feb 1922� Her body was interred circa 5 Feb 1922 at Haigwood Cemetery, Jackson Co., Alabama.1�
(?) Gillespie (say 1893 - )
Annie M. Culpepper1
Female, #5243, (25 Apr 1898 - 18 Oct 1931)
Birth* 25 Apr 1898� Annie was born at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 25 Apr 1898.2�
Marriage* 3 Oct 1920� She married Thomas Jefferson Cook at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 3 Oct 1920 at age 22. Thomas and Annie Cook had two children: Willard Cook and Verlon Cook.2�
Married Name say 1922� As of say 1922, her married name was Cook.2�
Death* 18 Oct 1931� She died at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 18 Oct 1931 at age 33.2�
Burial* circa 20 Oct 1931� Her body was interred circa 20 Oct 1931 at Haigwood Cemetery, Jackson Co., Alabama.2�
Thomas Jefferson Cook (12 May 1900 - 25 Mar 1946)
Cordelia Elizabeth McBee1
Female, #5244, (2 Aug 1868 - 11 Mar 1966)
Name Variation � She was also known as Deller.1�
Birth* 2 Aug 1868� Cordelia was born on 2 Aug 1868.1�
Married Name say 1886� As of say 1886, her married name was Collins.�
Marriage* say 1886� She married William D. Collins say 1886.�
Marriage* 5 Apr 1894� She married Thomas Jefferson Culpepper at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 5 Apr 1894 at age 25.1�
Married Name 5 Apr 1894� As of 5 Apr 1894, her married name was Culpepper.1�
Birth of Son 11 Aug 1895� Her son Notley Monroe Culpepper was born on 11 Aug 1895 at Jackson Co., Alabama.2�
Birth of Son 8 Sep 1902� Her son Archie Marvin Culpepper was born on 8 Sep 1902 at Jackson Co., Alabama.3,4,5�
Birth of Son 30 Oct 1904� Her son Harvey Robert Culpepper was born on 30 Oct 1904 at Jackson Co., Alabama.6�
Birth of Son 21 Apr 1909� Her son William Otis Culpepper was born on 21 Apr 1909 at Jackson Co., Alabama.7,8,3�
Death of Spouse 1935� Her husband Thomas Jefferson Culpepper died in 1935 at Jackson Co., Alabama.1�
Death of Son 3 Jun 1943� Her son Notley Monroe Culpepper died on 3 Jun 1943 at Fyffe, DeKalb Co., Alabama.9,2,10�
Death of Son 24 Feb 1966� Her son Harvey Robert Culpepper died on 24 Feb 1966 at Jackson Co., Alabama.6�
Death* 11 Mar 1966� She died on 11 Mar 1966 at age 97.1�
Burial* circa 13 Mar 1966� Her body was interred circa 13 Mar 1966 at Old Sardis Church Cemetery, Jackson Co., Alabama.1�
William D. Collins (say 1867 - )
Thomas Jefferson Culpepper (20 May 1865 - 1935)
Notley Monroe Culpepper 1 (11 Aug 1895 - 3 Jun 1943)
Rosey Mae Culpepper1 (3 Oct 1895 - 4 Jul 1972)
Archie Marvin Culpepper+1 (8 Sep 1902 - 1 May 1982)
Harvey Robert Culpepper+1 (30 Oct 1904 - 24 Feb 1966)
William Otis Culpepper+ 1 (21 Apr 1909 - 15 Feb 1976)
Madge Tate and Sandra Junkins Shirley Kinney, compiler, Floyd County, GA Cemeteries, Volumes 1-2, Rome, GA: The Society, 1985, 1989, Repository: LDS Family History Library - Salt Lake City, Call No. US/CAN Book 975.835 V3f v.
Oak Knoll Cemetery, Rome, Floyd Co., GA
+ Archie M. Culpepper, 8 Sep 1902 – 1 May 1982.
+ William Otis Culpepper, 1909 – 1976, S1 US Navy WW-II.
William O. Culpepper, d. 15 Feb 1976 at 66 years in Floyd Co., GA; Res. in Floyd Co., GA.
E-mail written 2004 to Lew Griffin from Valaree Clifton Olivas, Lovelock, NV, e-mail address.
State of Alabama Center for Health Statistics / Record Services Division, compiler, Alabama Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974, Online database at Ancestry.com, 2011.
Natty M. Culpepper died 3 Jun 1943 in Calhoun Co., Alabama.
Notley Monroe Culpepper1
Male, #5245, (11 Aug 1895 - 3 Jun 1943)
Father* Thomas Jefferson Culpepper1 (20 May 1865 - 1935)
Mother* Cordelia Elizabeth McBee1 (2 Aug 1868 - 11 Mar 1966)
Birth* 11 Aug 1895� Notley was born at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 11 Aug 1895.2�
World War I* between 1917 and 1918� He served in World War I between 1917 and 1918.3�
1920 Census* 1920� Notley was listed as the head of a family on the 1920 Census at Jackson Co., Alabama. ED 33, sheet 15, line 15.�
Marriage* circa 1920� He married Mary Frances Arnold at Alabama circa 1920.�
1930 Census* 1 Apr 1930� Notley was listed as the head of a family on the 1930 Census at Anniston, Calhoun Co., Alabama.3�
Death of Father 1935� His father Thomas Jefferson Culpepper died in 1935 at Jackson Co., Alabama.1�
Death of Spouse 23 Nov 1940� His wife Mary Frances Arnold died on 23 Nov 1940 at Calhoun Co., Alabama.4�
Death* 3 Jun 1943� He died at Fyffe, DeKalb Co., Alabama, on 3 Jun 1943 at age 47.5,2,6�
Burial* circa 5 Jun 1943� His body was interred circa 5 Jun 1943 at Antioch Baptist Cemetery, Fyffe, DeKalb Co., Alabama.2�
EMail* � Subject: Help me find my ancester N. Monroe Culpepper b. ca 1896!!
Author: Melanie, e-mail address
Date: 06 Aug 2001 1:59 AM GMT
I am looking for any information that anyone can give me on a great uncle of mine. Notley Monroe Culpepper was listed on the 1920 census in Jackson Co. Alabama at age 24 and married to a Mary... No one that is still living seems to know where they were living at the time of death and therefore we have no idea where he is buried or anything. Please help if you can! Thanks, Melanie
Subject: Re: Help me find my ancester N. Monroe Culpepper b. ca 1896!!
Author: Valaree Clifton Olivas
Date: 17 Jan 2004 3:06 AM GMT
Melanie, I think your Notley Culpepper is buried at the Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery near Fyffe, AL in DeKalb Co. His wife, Mary, is Mary Frances "Molly" Arnold. She is the daughter of J.L. "Lonzo" Arnold and Mary Ann Caladonia Clifton. I know that Molly had two daughters Maudie and Claudie from a previous marriage to a Whaley. Molly died in 1941 and Notley died in 1943... I'm researching the Clifton family from Randolph County and DeKalb Co, AL.
Valaree Clifton, 610 Reservoir Rd, Lovelock, NV 89419.7�
Mary Frances Arnold (24 Aug 1878 - 23 Nov 1940)
ED 42, Sheet 1A, Lines 10-11, Anniston, Calhoun Co., Alabama (12 Apr 1930)
Notty Culpepper, Head, M, Wh, 35, md@21, AL/AL/GA, Farmer, Vet=WW
Mary F. Culpepper, Wife, F, Wh, 52, md@15, AL/AL/AL.
Culpepper died 23 Nov 1940 in Calhoun Co., Alabama.
Ancestry.com Message Board.
Boards > Surnames > Culpepper
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.culpepper&m=185
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.culpepper&m=185.1.
Rosey Mae Culpepper1
Female, #5246, (3 Oct 1895 - 4 Jul 1972)
Birth* 3 Oct 1895� Rosey was born at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 3 Oct 1895.2�
Married Name 1912� As of 1912, her married name was Derrick.2�
Marriage* 1912� She married George W. Derrick in 1912. George and Rosie Culpepper Derrick had one son: Walter Vernon Derrick in 1914.2�
Married Name between 1915 and 1920� As of between 1915 and 1920, her married name was Smith.2�
Marriage* between 1915 and 1920� She married Robert Earl Smith between 1915 and 1920. Robertand Rosie Culpepper Smith had four children: Hazel Smith in 1920, Edward Alexander Smith in 1922, Nola Mae Smith in 1924 and Helen Smith in 1926.3�
Married Name between 1926 and 1929� As of between 1926 and 1929, her married name was Taylor.2�
Marriage* between 1926 and 1929� She married R. L. Taylor between 1926 and 1929. R. L. and Rosie Culpepper Taylor had two daughters: Martha Elizabeth Taylor in 1929 and Johnnie Louise Taylor in 1940.3�
Death of Father 1935� Her father Thomas Jefferson Culpepper died in 1935 at Jackson Co., Alabama.1�
Death of Mother 11 Mar 1966� Her mother Cordelia Elizabeth McBee died on 11 Mar 1966.1�
Death* 4 Jul 1972� She died at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 4 Jul 1972 at age 76.2�
Burial* circa 6 Jul 1972� Her body was interred circa 6 Jul 1972 at Old Sardis Church Cemetery, Jackson Co., Alabama.2�
George W. Derrick (say 1892 - )
Robert Earl Smith (say 1892 - )
R. L. Taylor (say 1892 - )
John Dillard Culpepper1
Male, #5247, (2 Nov 1889 - 12 Jun 1963)
Father* William Monty Culpepper1 (28 Jul 1854 - 1 Jun 1908)
Mother* Eliza Ann Adelade Riddle1 (1 Oct 1861 - 26 Feb 1947)
Birth* 2 Nov 1889� John was born at Culpepper Community, Jackson Co., Alabama, on 2 Nov 1889.2,1�
Death of Father 1 Jun 1908� His father William Monty Culpepper died on 1 Jun 1908 at Jackson Co., Alabama.3�
1920 Census* 1920� John was listed as the head of a family on the 1920 Census at Jackson Co., Alabama. ED 33, sheet 14, line 31.�
Marriage* circa 1920� He married Josephine A. Presley at Alabama circa 1920.1�
Birth of Son 17 Apr 1922� His son John Gladstone Culpepper was born on 17 Apr 1922 at Jackson Co., Alabama.2,4�
Death of Mother 26 Feb 1947� His mother Eliza Ann Adelade Riddle died on 26 Feb 1947 at Fyffe, DeKalb Co., Alabama.3�
Death* 12 Jun 1963� He died at Culpepper Community, Jackson Co., Alabama, on 12 Jun 1963 at age 73.2,1�
Burial* circa 14 Jun 1963� His body was interred circa 14 Jun 1963 at Macedonia Cemetery, Section, Jackson Co., Alabama.�
Josephine A. Presley (22 Jul 1890 - 12 Aug 1969)
John Gladstone Culpepper+4 (17 Apr 1922 - 31 Dec 1982)
Ila Jo Culpepper4 (25 Jun 1925 - 27 Feb 1998)
India Anna Jane Culpepper1
Female, #5248, (13 Dec 1894 - 18 Dec 1977)
Birth* 13 Dec 1894� India was born at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 13 Dec 1894.2,1�
Death of Father 1 Jun 1908� Her father William Monty Culpepper died on 1 Jun 1908 at Jackson Co., Alabama.3�
Married Name 1911� As of 1911, her married name was Norris.1�
Marriage* 1911� She married Frank Earl Norris at Alabama in 1911. Frank and India Culpepper Norris had four children: Verna Mae Norris Lawler, Kermit Earl Norris, Richard Daniel Norris, and Harold Franklin Norris.1�
Death of Mother 26 Feb 1947� Her mother Eliza Ann Adelade Riddle died on 26 Feb 1947 at Fyffe, DeKalb Co., Alabama.3�
Death of Spouse 15 Sep 1975� Her husband Frank Earl Norris died on 15 Sep 1975 at Powder Springs, Cobb Co., Georgia.1�
Death* 18 Dec 1977� She died at Georgia on 18 Dec 1977 at age 83.2,1�
Burial* circa 20 Dec 1977� Her body was interred circa 20 Dec 1977 at Powder Springs Cemetery, Powder Springs, Cobb Co., Georgia.1�
Frank Earl Norris (1 Jan 1889 - 15 Sep 1975)
Green Walter Culpepper1
Male, #5249, (27 Oct 1897 - 3 May 1969)
Name Variation � He was also known as Red Green.1�
Nickname � Green Walter Culpepper also went by the name of Big Green.2�
Birth* 27 Oct 1897� Green was born at Jackson Co., Alabama, on 27 Oct 1897.3,1�
Photographed say Dec 1897� He was photographed say Dec 1897 at Jackson Co., Alabama.4
Green Walter Culpepper
1920 Census* 1920� Green was listed as a son in Eliza Ann Adelade Riddle's household on the 1920 Census at Jackson Co., Alabama.6�
Marriage* 5 Oct 1925� He married Hilda Etta Tilley at DeKalb Co., Alabama, on 5 Oct 1925 at age 27.7
Green Walter & Hilda E. (Tilley) Culpepper
Deed* Fall 1928� He was party to a deed Fall 1928 at Powell Community, Rainsville, DeKalb Co., Alabama,
Green and Hilda Culpepper bought an 80 acre farm.1�
1930 Census* 1 Apr 1930� He was enumerated in the US Census of 1930 at Pole Bridge, Montgomery Co., Alabama.8�
Birth of Son 5 Nov 1935� His son Rev. Doyle Lee Culpepper was born on 5 Nov 1935 at Fyffe, DeKalb Co., Alabama.3,9�
Birth of Son 26 Oct 1944� His son Jerry Roger Culpepper Ph.D., J.D., D.O. was born on 26 Oct 1944 at Fyffe, DeKalb Co., Alabama.10�
Photographed* say 1945� He was photographed say 1945.11�
Death of Son 7 Dec 1964� His son Rev. Doyle Lee Culpepper died on 7 Dec 1964 at Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., Tennessee.3,9�
Death* 3 May 1969� He died at Fort Payne, DeKalb Co., Alabama, on 3 May 1969 at age 71
Heart attack.3,12,1�
Burial* circa 5 May 1969� His body was interred circa 5 May 1969 at New Bethel Cemetery, Rainsville, DeKalb Co., Alabama.12�
Hilda Etta Tilley (4 Sep 1903 - 8 May 1985)
Cecil Green Culpepper+ 1
Metta Maxine Culpepper1
Rev. Doyle Lee Culpepper+ 1 (5 Nov 1935 - 7 Dec 1964)
Jerry Roger Culpepper Ph.D., J.D., D.O. 1 (26 Oct 1944 - 24 Jan 2005)
P. 9.
ED 33, sheet 14, line 9.
P. 180; wedding day photo from p. 32.
ED 52, Page 7A, Line 46, Precinct 18, Kilby Prison, Pole Bridge, Montgomery Co., AL
Green Culpepper, Prisoner, M, Wh, 30, md@28, AL/AL/AL, Labor/Shirt Factory.
P. iii.
Cemetery Census, New Bethel Cemetery, Rainsville, Dekalb Co., AL
- Doyle L. Culpepper, 5 Nov 1935 - 7 Dec 1964 and Nancy B. Culpepper, 5 May 1938 - 21 Feb 1990
- Green W. Culpepper, 27 Oct 1897 - 3 May 1969 and Etta H. Culpepper, 4 Sep 1903 - 8 May 1985.
Inez Virginia Culpepper1
Female, #5250, (1900 - 1996)
Birth* 1900� Inez was born at Jackson Co., Alabama, in 1900.1�
Married Name 1919� As of 1919, her married name was Griffin.1�
Marriage* 1919� She married Zollie B. Griffin at Jackson Co., Alabama, in 1919. Zollie and Inez Culpepper Griffin had eight children: Imagene Griffin (1921), Cleo L. Griffin (1922), Iona Griffin (1923), Leon Griffin (1925), Claude Griffin (1927), Denver Griffin (1929), Billy Joe Griffin (1931), and Virginia Griffin (1933).1�
Death of Spouse 14 Apr 1976� Her husband Zollie B. Griffin died on 14 Apr 1976 at Fyffe, DeKalb Co., Alabama.3,1�
Photographed* 1980� She was photographed in 1980
The two were visiting on Mrs. Griffin's front porch. This was their last visit together.4
Etta H. (Tilley) Culpepper & Inez V. (Culpepper) Griffin
Death* 1996� She died at Baldwin Co., Alabama, in 1996.1�
Zollie B. Griffin (6 Jul 1900 - 14 Apr 1976)
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Scraps from an artist's sketchbook
GENERAL VIEW OF THE CITY FROM VILLA FLORA, BELLA SCUARDO, FLORENCE.
JEWELLERS SHOPS ON THE PONTE VECCHIO, FLORENCE.
STREET VIEW, WITH OLD COLUMN, FLORENCE.
THE CHURCH OF SAN GIOVANNI DEI FLORENTINI, ROME.
CASA TONDA, WITH CHURCH OF SAN GIOVANNI LATERANO, ROME.
THE RIPETTA, ROME.
TEMPLE OF VESTA, AND HOUSE OF RIENZI, ROME.
OLD HOUSES IN THE GHETTO, ROME.
THE ARCH OF TITUS, ROME.
INTERIOR OF SAN MARCO, VENICE.
CHURCHES OF SAN GIORGIO AND SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE, ON THE GRAND CANAL, FROM THE PUBLIC GARDENS, VENICE.
Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 64. 1877. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. January 18, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2076.
(1877). Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 64. Exotic Impressions, Views of Foreign Lands. Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2076
Scraps from an artist's sketchbook - Page 64, 1877, Exotic Impressions, Views of Foreign Lands, Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries, accessed January 18, 2020, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic/item/2135/show/2076.
Title Scraps from an artist's sketchbook
Alternative Title Scraps from an artist's sketch book, with illustrations from the author's original sketches in Rome, Florence, and Venice , photographed by J. Greer, Pendleton
Rothwell, Selim
Pendleton, J. Greer
Publisher Daily Chronicle
Original Item Extent 118 pages; 12 leaves; 19 cm
Original Item Location DG427 .R68 1877
Transcript 64 FLORENCE. great talent, who has been the successful competitor for and winner of many prizes in Rome and elsewhere. He was engaged upon a beautiful monumental group for Alexandria; a most graceful female figure, expressive of resignation, standing with her arm resting upon a broken shaft, whilst at her feet is seated a most lovely modelled figure of a boy, with inverted torch, and with the sweetest sorrow upon his features. The whole of this life-sized group is executed in the purest Carrara marble, the base upon which the figures stand being of black and gold marble. We had also the pleasure of seeing in progress six excellent portraits of Manchester friends— four ladies and two gentlemen, all faithful likenesses, and we have never seen any workmanship to surpass that of Signor Albano.
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
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egyptian museum (cairo, egypt) (6)
archaeological museum (herakleion, crete, greece) (2)
musee du louvre (paris, france) (2)
museo archeologico nazionale, palazzo barberini (palestrina, italy) (2)
vatican museums [musei vaticani] (vatican city, rome, italy) (2)
bibliotheque royale albert 1er, cabinet des estampes (brussels, belgium) (1)
british museum (london, england, united kingdom) (1)
galleria borghese (rome, italy) (1)
gaziantep museum (gaziantep, turkey) (1)
botello, david (american muralist, active 20th century) (1)
buonarroti, michelangelo (italian sculptor, painter, architect, 1475-1564) (1)
canova, antonio (italian sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, 1757-1822) (1)
caravaggio, michelangelo merisi da (italian painter, 1571-1610) (1)
delville, jean (belgian painter, 1867-1953) (1)
goez (gil herna (1)
haro, daniel (american muralist, active 20th century) (1)
herron, willie (american muralist and performance artist, born 1951) (1)
iktinos (athenian architect, active 5th century bce) (1)
kallikrates (greek architect, active 5th century bce) (1)
nile river (2)
acropolis (athens, greece) (1)
athens (greece) (1)
boyle heights (los angeles, calif.) (1)
east los angeles (calif.) (1)
egyptian (ancient) (9)
fictitious characters (9)
ceremonial objects (5)
sarcophagi (5)
funerary objects (4)
Subject: Reptiles
Book of the Dead, Judgment before Osiris.
Egyptian (ancient); New Kingdom (Egyptian); Nineteenth Dynasty
Illustration from book.
Chicano murals, Estrada Courts Housing Project, East Los Angeles.
Mexican American; Hispanic American
By "various hands." (Lucie-Smith, p.448). The following information is from the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles: THE MURALS OF ESTRADA COURTS web page (http://www.lamurals.org/MuralFiles/ELA/EstradaCourts.html), accessed February 1, 2011: (3rd...
Column of Antoninus Pius, Rome, Italy, pedestal, apotheosis of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman); Antonine
Dotaku (bell) with incised figural motifs.
From Kagawa Prefecture, Japan, Late Yayoi period.
House of Poseidon, Zeugma [Turkey], mosaic pavement, Perseus and Andromeda.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman)
"In a border of inverted rows of stepped pyramids (omitted in the picture) one of the most popular episodes of Greek mythology, the rescue of Andromeda by Perseus, is represented. […] To the right, identified by an inscription in Greek, Perseus is...
Isis, front, slight three-quarter view.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman); Greco-Roman
"This head of Isis, turned to the right, with delicately parted lips, is almost entirely intact except for the ends of a few locks of hair and the left edge of her tiara. The neck stops at a recessed fitting, a tenon, indicating that the head must...
Khafre, front and profile views.
Egyptian (ancient); Old Kingdom (Egyptian); Fourth Dynasty
From [Gizeh] Giza, [Egypt].
Khafre, three-quarter view, left side.
From Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV. "The seated statue of Khafre is one of a series of similar statues carved for the pharaoh's valley temple near the Great Sphinx. The stone is diorite, an exceptionally hard dark stone brought some 400 miles down the...
Madonna and Child with St. Anne -- Madonna dei Palafrenieri, detail of serpent, foot of the Virgin, and leg and foot of the Christ Child.
Parthenon (Temple of Athena Parthenos), Acropolis, Athens, Greece, Athena Parthenos, reconstruction.
Greek (ancient); Classical; High Classical; Phidian; Doric; Ionic
"The statue was made of wood, plated with ivory and gold." (Caption, p.74); The statue "was about 12 metres [meters] (39 feet) high and made of wood faced with ivory and gold. [...] The figure wore a triple-crested helmet. It had a coiled snake and...
Pectoral of Senwosret II.
Egyptian (ancient); Middle Kingdom (Egyptian); Twelfth Dynasty
Gold and semiprecious stones. From the tomb of Princess Sithathoryunet, el-Lahun.
Perseus.
Sanctuary of Fortuna, Praeneste [Palestrina], Italy, Nile [Nilotic] Mosaic.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Hellenistic; Greek (ancient)
Now heavily restored.
Now heavily restored; "This is the so-called Nile Mosaic, which dates from around 100 BC and shows a Hellenistic adaptation of an old Egyptian motif. It was probably copied in Praeneste from a prototype created in Alexandria." (Excerpt, Pedley,...
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Late Antique
From Rome, Italy.
Secession Movement; Symbolist
Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, interior view, altar wall, fresco, Last Judgment.
Renaissance; High Renaissance
Snake Goddess [or attendant], front view.
Minoan; Greek (ancient); Prehistoric; Bronze Age
"In contrast to Mesopotamia and Egypt, no temples or monumental statues of gods, kings, or monsters have been found in Minoan Crete. Large wooden images may once have existed, but what remains of Minoan sculpture in the round is small in scale,...
Snake Goddess or attendant, front, slight three-quarter view.
From [the palace at] Knossos, Crete, Greece. Middle Minoan III. Head and left forearm modern restorations.
Temple of Isis, Pompeii, fresco, Io and Isis on the rocks of Canopus.
Roman (ancient Italian style); Imperial (Roman); Fourth Style
"The fresco depicts Io, left on the rocks at Canopus by the river god; here she takes the hand of Isis, who waits for her with a cobra in her left hand and a crocodile under her feet." (Caption, p. 96)
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7 takeaways from HIMSS 2019
From interoperability to AI to cybersecurity, here’s a roundup of some key insights from this year’s HIMSS conference in Orlando, Florida.
Friday is the official last day of #HIMSS19 in Orlando. The annual healthcare conference, which began on Monday, February 11, was packed full of presentations, panels, products and people.
The event gave attendees plenty to mull over. While it’s challenging to distill so much content into a single post, here are seven insights that emerged out of this year’s HIMSS.
Superheroes kicked things off
The Monday night opening reception was superhero-themed and featured appearances from Spider-Man, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman. The reception theme tied back to the overall conference theme: “Champions of Health Unite.”
A cancer diagnosis gave the Mayo Clinic CIO a fresh perspective on IT
During the opening session on Tuesday, Mayo Clinic CIO Cris Ross discussed how he spearheaded Mayo’s EHR conversion to Epic and then received a Stage 3 cancer diagnosis last summer.
“Our EHR conversion went well – we either met or exceeded all of our targets,” he said. “But as I had my MRIs and CT scans and radiation therapy and lab appointments and office visits, I sometimes had to cringe seeing a clinician struggle with something that we simply haven’t mastered yet.”
Current and former government officials said the industry failed to unite on interoperability
The opening keynote panel discussion on Tuesday morning revolved largely around CMS’ proposed interoperability rule. CMS Administrator Seema Verma said that when it came to interoperability, “the industry was not doing what was important, what is needed for patients and for the healthcare system.” Instead, the government had to step in.
Aneesh Chopra, who was U.S. CTO under Obama, went into more detail. “We didn’t minimally require it, so the industry didn’t self-organize to say, ‘Let’s voluntarily add this additional bit of data as standardized content,” Chopra said. That’s why, in his opinion, the latest rule is critical.
And another former government official gave cybersecurity advice
Retired Brigadier General Greg Touhill, who served as the inaugural U.S. chief information security officer under Obama, offered 11 tips on what hospitals, health systems and other medical entities can do to keep data safe. A few of his pointers included adopting a zero trust strategy, unclogging firewall congestion and leveraging automation to detect and thwart fraud.
Blockchain met biopharma
On Tuesday, the Canadian divisions of IBM and German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim said they will collaborate to integrate blockchain into clinical trials. The companies intend to test whether blockchain technology can provide a decentralized framework that enables data integrity, provenance, transparency and patient empowerment. Ultimately, the goal is to improve clinical trial quality and patient safety.
Investors named their top investment picks for 2019
During the Health 2.0 VentureConnect forum on Wednesday, three VCs outlined what they see as the most alluring investment areas for this year.
Melissa Daniels, a managing director with Morgan Stanley Capital Expansion, pointed to telemedicine and remote monitoring. Menlo Ventures partner Greg Yap mentioned artificial intelligence, and Bain Capital Ventures partner Yumin Choi said he is “particularly excited about behavioral health.”
The value of AI is in tying it to outcomes
AI remains a hot buzzword in healthcare, but how can it make its mark? And how can we separate the hype from the reality?
During a panel, Karley Yoder, director of product management for AI analytics at GE Healthcare, weighed in and turned to a non-healthcare example to illustrate her point. People aren’t excited about the driverless car simply because it utilizes AI, she said. Rather, the car is exciting because of the positive implications it could have on transportation, such as less traffic and more efficient commutes.
The same idea applies to healthcare. “If we just talk about AI without tying that to better access globally, lower costs, … better outcomes for our patients at the end of the day — we’re not leveraging this transformational technology in the right way,” Yoder said.
Source: MedCityNews
Interoperability in Healthcare Must Include Patient Data From Home
The hype cycle of AI in healthcare
IoT, patient engagement, RCM, genomics, deep learning among new tech at HIMSS19
4 Trends We Expect to See at HIMSS 2019
Consumerism will force healthcare’s hand on interoperability, Forrester finds at HIMSS19
MuleSoft Connectivity Benchmark Report 2018
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Amer: An Arabian Legend
Jassim Al-Romaihi / Short Documentary / Qatar / 30 min / Original Language: English / Interests: Documentary
Besides being a champion horse – he won nine of his thirteen starts – Amer is the most influential stallion in Arabian horseracing history. With a current stud fee of USD60,000, the grey horse from the deserts of Arabia has sired more than 130 champions. Yet Amer’s extraordinary story is almost unbelievable for many, who speculate as to the legitimacy of his legacy. Amer was not registered with the World Arabian Horse Organisation when he arrived in Qatar, and some speak of illicit “connections” that are behind his registration. Others believe he is not purebred, and that his hybrid status gave him and his progeny their superiority. In his defence, however, supporters of Amer say that while he was a great racehorse, his greater success and reputation came when he became a stallion and was mated with Arabian horses from a different line.
Jassim Al-Rumaihi has worked as a reporter at Al Jazeera News channel, and joined the Supreme Legacy for Delivery and Projects, the body responsible for hosting the 2022 World Cup, as a Media Relations Specialist. At Northwestern University in Qatar, he took several classes in film production. ‘The Palm Tree’ won the Made in Qatar Award at the Ajyal Film Festival in 2015. His second documentary ‘Amer: The Arabian Legend’, won the same prize at Ajyal in 2016 and was screened in several international festivals.
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Tag Archives: Gus Fring
Where’s Giancarlo Esposito’s “Breaking Bad” Emmy?
Posted by decollins1969 in 1, culture, Eclectic, Movies, Politics, Pop Culture, race
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Gustavo “Gus” Fring, screen shot from Breaking Bad episode, Season 3, August 30, 2014. (http://geeknation.com). Qualifies as fair use under US copyright laws – lower resolution and relevance to subject matter.
Last Monday, Breaking Bad, a drama series that finished its final season ten months ago, took away six Primetime Emmy Awards out of its sixteen total nominations. Despite the fact that the producers had stretched the show’s fifth season over two years (2012 and 2013), Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Anna Gunn all took home Emmys for lead actor and supporting actor/actress in a drama series — again, in Cranston’s and Paul’s case. And all I kept thinking was, “Where’s Giancarlo Esposito’s Emmy?”
Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad, Season 5, September 2, 2013. (http://www.businessinsider.com).
Giancarlo Esposito, for those of you who still remember, played Gustavo “Gus” Fring, a mastermind of a drug lord and pillar of the Albuquerque, New Mexico community. His character was on for a few episodes at the end of Season 2 of Breaking Bad, and for all of Seasons 3 and 4. His character was so serene yet so single-minded, full of rage like Walter White. Yet Fring’s was a rational, focused, disciplined rage, handed out and practiced, like an usher handing out programs at a Sunday church service. Esposito’s Gus Fring was the character upon which Cranston’s Walter White pivoted, rising and falling like a pirouetting ballerina on a spin top. Without Fring, Walter White and Breaking Bad doesn’t make it past Season 2. The character’s dead or in jail long before he has a chance to truly make his mark.
Joel Kinnaman as Det. Stephen Holder in The Killing (2011-14), Vancouver, BC, Canada March 29, 2012. (http://www1.zimbio.com/).
But I guess the Emmy voters didn’t see how central Gus Fring was to the Walter White story. I mean, why else give multiple Emmys to a five-foot-four-inch version of Eminem in Aaron Paul instead? Yes, Paul as Jesse Pinkman is pretty good at being a conflicted affluent hip-hopster, but his Pinkman isn’t even on par with Joel Kinnaman, the taller Eminem-esque reject-as-cop on the series The Killing (which came to a conclusion earlier this month on Netflix). The idea that Paul and Esposito competed for the same award in 2012 was an insult to the acting profession, like comparing fresh squeezed, no-pulp orange juice to Orange Kool-Aid made with high fructose corn syrup.
Really, in thinking about Cranston’s Walter White and the arch of the character, one cannot do it without a serious consideration of Esposito’s Gus Fring. Without Esposito’s Fring, the show is what the Emmys and Hollywood says it is, a story of a man at fifty, a “brilliant yet foolish has-been-who-really-should’ve-been-somebody high school chemistry teacher.” One who became a desperate crystal meth maker and dealer while going through chemotherapy for Stage 4 or Stage 5 lung cancer. A man who turns bad, first in a dark comedic way, then later, as a just plain macabre and dangerously sad character, leaving a trail of bodies along the way.
That version of Breaking Bad, though, doesn’t become the most watched TV series of all time. The real version, with Esposito’s Fring, gave us the full complexity of Cranston’s Walter White, especially his White male angst. Though not as obvious as the White male angst of ’90s grunge as exhibited in Pearl Jam, Nirvana or Live, Cranston’s Walter White is one that until his cancer had lived a life of quiet but smoldering rage, a rage that found its outlet in making and dealing methamphetamine so pure that Ivory Soap and Nazi Germans would be jealous. Only to be second fiddle to an Afro-Latino who’s in control of a billion-dollar drug ring? If that doesn’t bring issues of White entitlement and White resentment to the fore, then we’re in an alternate universe.
2013 Emmy trophy, January 29, 2014. (http://radiodelta.fm).
That’s why Breaking Bad‘s Seasons 2-4 were so worth watching, and the extended Season 5 so anticlimactic. The very reason it was inevitable Cranston’s Walter White would get caught and lose everything is the reason why Esposito’s Fring never did while he was alive. Fring knew that he had to always be in control, to always look as if he was a part of an illusion of suburban White Americana, even though in reality his was a world of constant duality. Fring could never risk being as unabashedly arrogant as Cranston’s Walter White precisely because Fring lacked the protections that came with racial entitlement. As Fring knew, the assumption that Black and Brown skin equated with criminality was ever present, and Fring would never confirm that stereotype, even as he personified it.
Walter White, his resentment about how his career and life turned out, this sense that though he was part of the Whiteness club, he hadn’t reap the material benefits of it, left him hopelessly in search of wealth and respect. But more than that. Cranston’s Walter White couldn’t carry that wealth and respect quietly like Esposito’s Fring, at least once White obtained them both. No, White had to let the world know that he was Heisenberg, that he was in charge. That was one of the reasons why he came to resent Fring in the first place.
To play a character like Gustavo Fring as well as Giancarlo Esposito did, to camouflage as much as he revealed, to juxtapose Fring’s humanity and callous disregard for such was what earned Esposito an Emmy nomination in 2012, at least. To also juxtapose his sense of quiet triumph and control in the midst of the world of Whiteness against Cranston’s Walter White and the White resentment and rage that could explode at any moment? That’s Breaking Bad even in Season 5, even minus Esposito’s Fring being present.
Once again, a person of color’s genius has gone unrewarded, and others received rewards on the backs of our work, while we are to be forgotten by most, after being killed off. It’s such a shame.
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Goddamn Water Temple
February 9, 2015 March 30, 2016 dorkofalltrades3 Comments
Written By: Johnny
I’ve described in an earlier post about my experience with Blockbuster game rentals. Being an N64 kid, I was introduced to legend of Zelda via Ocarina of Time shortly after its American release in November 1998. I was in third grade at this time, and in the next spring I started renting the game from blockbuster every weekend, consecutively, for weeks on end. There is something special about Ocarina, the first 3D open world in the Zelda franchise. Every Friday I would run to Blockbuster’s game aisle in search of the Ocarina of Time box and pray it hasn’t been rented out.
Soon came and I had convinced my Mom to buy it, because it would save money over constantly renting it. This summer was most notable because I began to chase the neighborhood girls, and I devoted A LOT of time to that. I remember the first girl I ever kissed because later that night my friends slept over and we stayed up late to finally free Epona from Lon Lon Ranch.
I was not very good at gaming at age 8, in fact I sucked. The furthest I got in the game on my own was the Water Temple, arguably the hardest dungeon in any Zelda game. My friend Joey, who was 10-11 at this time, was the first person on our block to beat the game. Watching Joey’s final battle with Ganon was amazing, artistic, thematic storytelling.
After Ocarina came Majora’s Mask in April 2000. According to Hyrule Historia, the land of Termina wasn’t a neighboring country to Hyrule, but in fact, a parallel universe’s version of Hyrule that Link travels to after going through some portal in the Lost Woods. I didn’t learn this until adulthood, but as a kid I didn’t care. I just loved this game so hard. It was so much fun! It introduced two new game dynamics that weren’t in Ocarina, that is mask collecting, and the time mechanic.
There are special masks in the game that can transform you into the different races that were introduced in previous games like Gorons, Zoras, and Deku Scrubs. With each race you had different weapons and abilities.
The time mechanic in the game was written into the story; the Moon has been falling out of the sky and is set to land on clock town in three days time. Using your trusty ‘Ocarina of Time’ you can manipulate the flow of time using different songs, but no matter what you do the clock keeps ticking. If you fail to complete a mission in the time alotted you will be crushed by the moon, but before midnight on the third day you can play the song of time to travel back to Dawn of the First Day.
Like Ocarina, ironically, I couldn’t get past the Water Temple on my first go. After a while I put the N64 without beating these games.
Later I played Link’s Awakening DX on Gameboy Color. Whose gameplay style was more like the original game than the 3D open world presented in Ocarina and Majora’s Mask. Link’s Awakening was the frist Zelda game I beat on my own.
John’s Zelda collection
Fast forward a couple Christmasses and my parents gave my brother and me a brand new black Gamecube complete with… (Opens chest) Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask double disc for gamecube (raises game over head). The following year completely summarizes the joy that Zelda has brought to my life. My friends and I spent countless summer days in my basement playing my gamecube version of Ocarina of Time on one television, while someone else played an N64 version of Majora’s Mask on a smaller 12in television that Andy took from his Mom’s kitchen, and someone else practiced Epona’s song on my brother’s acoustic guitar. I beat each game twice that year, once on each console and 100-percenting both games as well. I became so skilled in my group of friends, they would beg me to beat dungeon bosses for them on their save files.
On Feb 13, Nintendo is re-releasing Majora’s Mask for Nintendo 3DS in North America, and although I won’t be getting one, I’m excited for the next generation of gamers to be introduced to it.
I could go on and on about other Zelda games or the mythology behind them (and I really want to), but this is a nice place to stop. I would like to thank Miyamoto Sensei for creating a world that is infinitely more magical than the one I grew up in. Praise the three Goddesses.
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Dura Software Announces Acquisition of Enterprise Email Software Nordic IT, Inc.
In Press Release
San Antonio, TX – San Antonio-based Dura Software announces the completed acquisition of Denmark-based Nordic IT, Inc. Nordic IT specializes in email software for enterprise size teams. Their technology is the leader in the maritime shipping industry that requires efficient and reliable email communication. It is used by hundreds of shipping companies worldwide.
Justin Brady, a former Vice President at Rackspace, has joined Dura as the new CEO of Nordic. While the Nordic offices in Copenhagen, Denmark and Singapore will remain active, the headquarters of the company have moved to San Antonio. The company expects to hire staff locally in the coming months.
“We are excited to be the place for Nordic IT to grow its presence in the market. With excellent technology and great people, they’ll be a great fit with the Dura team for the long-term,” said Paul Salisbury. Mr. Salisbury serves as the CEO of Dura Software.
About Nordic IT, Inc.
Nordic IT is a global leader in enterprise email software. Their technology powers the communication and coordination of ships and shipping companies around the globe. Since the company was founded in 2001, Nordic IT has been at the forefront of collaborative and efficient email software.
More information about Nordic IT is at nordic-it.com.
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Dura Software specializes in hyper-niche software products that fit narrow but mission-critical use cases for business customers. We buy software products from owners wanting an exit to operate with no intention to sell. Sellers know we’ll protect their employees, customers and reputation.
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Imagine Me & You
In this unconventional romantic comedy that gives new meaning to the term "cold feet," bride-to-be Rachel (Piper Perabo) is love-struck -- not with her groom, but rather with another woman who's a guest at their wedding. As she's marching down the aisle with her longtime sweetheart, Heck (Matthew Goode), Rachel is immediately bewitched by a beautiful guest (Lena Headey). But following her heart's true desire is hardly an easy proposition.
Matthew Goode, Piper Perabo, Lena Headey, Rick Warden, Anthony Head, Sue Johnston, Celia Imrie, Darren Boyd
Ol Parker
Comedy, LGBT, Lesbian, Romantic LGBT
Widescreen 2.35:1, Full Screen 1.33:1
English, Spanish (Neutral), French
English: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Parents need to know that Rachel has to grapple with her attraction to a woman and her love and fidelity toward her husband. She handles it in a mature way, as does her husband when he discovers her attraction to Luce. There is some kissing between Luce and Rachel, but nothing graphic or explicit. There's also some cursing and drinking, but the film handles its adult themes with grace and compassion for everyone involved.
Rob and Cooper are both womanizers, constantly trying to "shag" whomever's around. Women talk about birth control and diaphragms, which may raise questions from curious teens. Rachel rents lesbian porn and some porn sounds are audible. Rachel and Heck kiss in the bushes and meet a gay male couple who met there, as well. The implication is that they were all planning to have sex there, separately. Luce and Rachel make out in the back of the flower shop, but don't have sex, and no clothes are removed.
Some cursing, including "damn," "hell," "ass," "f--k." Coop also uses the term "vagitarian" to describe lesbians and calls Luce a "dumb slut."
Though Rachel does find herself attracted to someone else at her wedding and does kiss her, Rachel, Luce, and Heck all handle it in a very responsible, respectful manner. They do their best not to hurt one another. The film also shows how lying about who you're attracted to makes everyone miserable.
Cooper talks about consuming "endless amounts of drugs." Heck gets drunk after quitting his job. There is some moderate drinking, as well.
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2019 Review: Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Robert Crosby | October 28 2019 12:11PM
If ever a team embodied the rugby league cliché of ‘a game of two halves', the Bulldogs of 2019 would fit the description to a tee.
Starting the year with three wins from their first 14 matches to seemingly have one hand on the wooden spoon, the absence of expectation over the second half of the season saw the blue and white's grow in confidence to finish as one of the form teams of the premiership.
Unable to settle on a consistent team for much of the early rounds due to poor form and injuries to key players, the mid-season acquisition of New Zealand captain Dallin Watene-Zelezniak created a cultural shift throughout the club, culminating in the side climbing off the bottom of the ladder to finish in 12th-position with ten wins from 24 matches.
Priding themselves on their ability to grind away at opponents for long stretches, a recurring shortcoming for Dean Pay's side was the ability to score points. Averaging 13.5 points per game to rank as the worst attacking side in the league, the Bulldogs scored two tries or less in 15 matches, while it took until the final round of the season for the side to crack 30 points in a match.
Heading into next season with a renewed sense of confidence and several shrewd purchases, the Bulldogs will be determined to start the new campaign strongly to give themselves every chance of qualifying for their first final series since 2016.
Anchored to the bottom of the premiership ladder at the midway point of the season, the absence of pressure after the transfer deadline saw the Bulldogs flourish with seven wins from their final ten matches. Proving to be more than nuisance value by upsetting the likes of South Sydney, Parramatta and Brisbane with classy performances, the side gained momentum with each passing result to become one of the form teams of the premiership without the burden of needing to win to stay in touch with the finals race.
What worked
While wins proved hard to come by during the early stages of 2019, the Bulldogs very rarely allowed opponents to bully them into submission. Holding a fair defensive record by conceding less than 20 points per game, Dean Pay's side were at their best in low scoring affairs that forced opponents to compete until the 80th minute. Using their defence to claim memorable victories over Newcastle and Parramatta on the road, along with pushing the Storm, Raiders and Roosters in gallant defeats, the Bulldogs willingness to compete saw supporters from across the league recognise the Western Sydney club as a side on the rise.
What didn't work
With the side still reeling from the salary cap hangover left by the previous administration, the lack of established attacking players saw the Bulldogs struggle to make a dent on the scoreboard. Scoring the fewest points of any Canterbury team in three decades, the side averaged just over two tries per game with an overreliance on speedster Reimis Smith who alone accounted for 12 of the side's 56 tries. Similarly, with Kieran Foran missing extended periods of the year, Jack Cogger and Lachlan Lewis struggled to assert the experience needed to dominate matches with the same consistency as the league's best playmakers.
As one of only two players to feature in every match for the Bulldogs in 2019, captain Josh Jackson made his presence felt with tremendous resilience and leadership under trying circumstances. Standing up with two of the plays of the season to deny Corey Oates with a Scott Sattler-esque tackle, along with consoling Paul Momirovski following a crucial missed conversion, the latter effort saw Jackson awarded the Provan-Summons medal for embodying the spirit of the game at the Dally M awards.
Handing three players their first grade debuts over the course of the year, Jayden Okunbor, Brandon Wakeham and Morgan Harper all showed signs of promise in limited game time. Averaging over 170 metres in ten matches on the wing, 22-year-old Okunbor gained plenty of admirers with his on-field efforts and appearance evoking memories of former Canterbury outside back Jamal Idris. Following on from a starring international debut for Fiji in the mid-year test, Wakeham featured three times in the halves, while Harper enjoyed a final round victory in his sole appearance in the top grade.
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NSWRL Canterbury Cup
Bowing out of the finals in straight sets after finishing the regular season in fourth position, the Bulldogs were unable to defend their reserve grade title in 2019. Coming away with 12 wins and a draw from 22 matches, a number of players featured in first grade throughout the year, while youngsters Kayne Kalache, James Roumanos and Elie El-Zakhem all represented Lebanon against Fiji in the mid-season test at Leichardt Oval.
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Qualifying for the finals in sixth position with 11 wins and three draws from 20 matches, the Bulldogs Jersey Flegg team bowed out in the second week of the finals after conceding a late try against the Roosters.
2020 Chances
Proving their wares as a team on the rise under the coaching of Dean Pay and on-field leadership of Josh Jackson, the Bulldogs loom as one of the biggest improvers and should press for a top eight finish.
Best lineup for next season
(based on current signings)
1. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak
2. Nick Meaney
3. Kerrod Holland
4. Will Hopoate
5. Reimis Smith
6. Kieran Foran
7. Jack Cogger
8. Aiden Tolman
9. Jeremy Marshall-King
10. Dylan Napa
11. Josh Jackson (C)
12. Corey Harawira-Naera
13. Joe Stimson
14. Adam Elliott
15. Dean Britt
16. Jayden Okunbor
17. Sione Katoa
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EllBee Ganga View, Rishikesh
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Journey from Dharamshalas to Top Notch Hotels
Rishikesh, the holy city for Hindus, has changed a lot from what it was decades ago. It has always been a land of ashrams, yoga and sages. The people in Rishikesh did not follow a swinging lifestyle; rather they were completely into festivals and prayers. Therefore, previously, the accommodation provided for visitors here included only the dharamshalas. But now, pilgrims hardly stay in dharamshalas, they prefer staying in luxury hotels, villas or resorts. So, the transformation from religious dharamshalas to top notch hotels is something to ponder upon.
Dharamshala is basically a rest house for pilgrims who visit Rishikesh. They are basically made for particular communities based on their region, religion, ethnicity or profession. Dharamshalas are mainly for pilgrims and are built at the pilgrimage sites. When Dharamshalas were popular in Rishikesh, pilgrims were allowed to stay for free or were a charged minimal fee.
During the 1976 Emergency, the President of the Indian Youth Congress, Sanjay Gandhi, along with the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Narian Dutt Tiwari, addressed a huge rally in Rishikesh at the Shri Bharat Mandir Inter College ground. After addressing the rally, both of them moved to a site where the Chilla Hydro Power project by Jai Prakash Gaur was going on.
Sanjay Gandhi urged the people of Rishikesh to choose the hospitality business for their livelihood since more than five lakh pilgrims were coming to Rishikesh for the yatra and just a few dharamshalas were available for accommodation. Before this, the culture of Rishikesh only had sarai or dharamshalas where many tourists were not comfortable.
But, after that, many entrepreneurs invested in the hospitality and the hotel industry in the region. The government of Uttar Pradesh also helped these people by giving them subsidies. PICUP and UPFC of the government financed hotel projects and gave away a lot of incentives to people who were interested in the hotel industry. Today, Rishikesh is proud of its many hotels, and also has many resorts and villas for comfortable stay of the pilgrims including our very own EllBee Ganga View!
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Domain spoofing remains an unsolved issue in programmatic advertising
The Programmatic Publisher
June 7, 2017 by Yuyu Chen
Ask marketers about a persistent, unresolved issue in programmatic advertising, and many will agree: domain spoofing.
Domain spoofing, where unscrupulous publishers, ad networks or exchanges obscure the nature of their traffic to resemble legitimate websites, is not a new problem in the industry. But it has gained much attention lately because marketers are increasingly focused on fraud and brand safety.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau Tech Lab, for instance, started an initiative called ads.txt last month to show media buyers eligible distributors of a publisher’s inventory. For example, if a demand-side platform or an agency trade desk wants to buy inventory from goodsite.com on an open exchange, it will be able to see if that exchange is an authorized reseller of the publisher by visiting http://goodsite.com/ads.txt.
Spoofed domains are not just fake website addresses, they are also banner farms that contain bad content, according to programmatic analytics firm Metamarkets. For instance, the company has a brand client whose ads should have been served to a legitimate entertainment website with very high monthly traffic. But the brand’s ads ended up instead on an unknown site called mangago.me.
Some spoofed domains are not “spoofed” in the sense that are fake web addresses. Source: Metamarkets.
Domain spoofing is not only caused by ad networks, exchanges or fraudulent websites. At least 10 out of the top 100 publishers ranked by comScore are also feeding this practice by buying fraudulent traffic from ad networks, according to Chris Wexler, svp and executive director of media and analytics for agency Cramer-Krasselt. “Those fraudsters get a few cents more per thousand [impressions] today, but in the long run, it depresses revenue for legitimate publishers and trust in the market for advertisers,” said Wexler.
The flow of an ad impression is typically like this: A publisher creates a bid request, passes it to several supply-side platforms or ad exchanges that further send the bid request to multiple DSPs. Once the bid is won, the publisher ad server will call the demand side ad server and the ad is rendered, according to Mike Caprio, chief growth officer for ad tech firm Sizmek.
“None of those parties have full visibility on what happens as it takes a number of hops in the process,” said Caprio.
A bid request itself contains information like a publisher’s domain, article URL, ad placement ID and other metadata like content category and user information. It is hard for DSPs to catch fake domains because they make transactions mainly based on the site domain and article URL in bid requests. If a publisher, an ad network or an ad exchange rewrites the domain in the first place, DSPs won’t be able to tell the difference, according to Curt Larson, vp of product for programmatic native firm Sharethrough.
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Theoretically, SSPs are the first line of defense and should be checking things like the origin of the page and when the domain registration took place (if a site was registered two days ago, there’s no way it can sell 50 million impressions in an open exchange, for instance), but SSPs have no incentive to do so because they make money off the volume they push through, according to Caprio. And SSPs that are in the practice of aggregation could spoof the domain from a small site and sell it as if it were on a more well-known domain, added Steve Sullivan, vp of partner success for Index Exchange.
And for agencies, finger pointing among ad tech middlemen makes it even harder to catch nefarious behaviors. “The opacity of the impression supply and distribution chain makes it easy for everyone in the chain to push responsibility to someone else,” said Wexler. “The truth is solving [domain spoofing] is very hard and expensive. Everyone is hoping someone else is going to do it so they don’t have to spend their time and effort.”
Dan Davies, svp and director of media sciences for agency MullenLowe’s Mediahub, also said that he experiences vendors’ finger pointing a lot. His team works with third-party companies like Moat and Integral Ad Science to check if an impression’s domain information and page information match, but nobody can catch spoofed domains completely.
“I think ad exchanges are in the best position to filter sellers,” said Davies. “I really hope that the industry can crack down on domain spoofing. As we clean up more and more ad inventory the CPM will probably go up, but that’s fine as long as we are buying legitimate impressions.”
While media buyers can work with third-party vendors to run pre-bid and post-buy verification, the technology for DSPs and SSPs to detect spoofed domains in real time doesn’t exist today, according to executives interviewed for this article. Both Larson and Sullivan hope that the IAB’s ads.txt project can bring more transparency to programmatic because this initiative urges SSPs to be diligent about only representing media that they are authorized to sell.
“The sell-side of the industry must take responsibility for this issue,” said Sullivan. “On the other hand, DSPs must not turn a blind eye to those opportunities that seem too good to be true.”
Domain spoofing remains a huge threat to programmatic
February 28, 2017 by Yuyu Chen
‘A proverbial black box’: Open-exchange auctions have a transparency problem
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Acompañados de sus familiares, los jóvenes ganadores recibieron sus premios y diplomas de participación.
Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to MEXICO - Publication date: 17/01/2020
St Thomas Creative wins first staging of European Union Short Film Competition in Jamaica
St Thomas creative, Deron Douglas, is the winner of the 2019 environment-themed European Union Short Film Competition, Jamaica, with the film The Tree Speaks. It's the first time the EU is staging the competition in Jamaica. Deron was announced the winner during a ceremony on January 15, 2019,
Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to JAMAICA - Publication date: 17/01/2020
EU and Member States safeguard UN annual budget for 2020, including human rights financing and accountability mechanisms
In the last days of December 2019 the UN General Assembly adopted the UN Regular Budget for 2020, the result of intense negotiations between the 193 member states of the organisation. The final approved budget of $3.07 billion is in line with the Secretary-General's proposals and priorities
Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to the UN in New York - Publication date: 17/01/2020
Spiegel: EU-Außenbeauftagter Borrell zu Militäreinsätzen "Wir müssen unsere Interessen stärker durchsetzen- notfalls robust"
Der neue EU-Chefdiplomat Josep Borrell zum Einsatz europäischer Soldaten in Libyen und im Irak und zur Zukunft des Atomabkommens. Insgesamt müsse Europa endlich die "Sprache der Macht" lernen, auch gegenüber den USA.
New Commission, New Priorities- EU Ambassadors host press briefing
The installation of a new European Commission in late 2019, new policy priorities and the unveiling of the European Green Deal provided the perfect opportunity for the Ambassadors of the EU – the EU Ambassador, along with the Ambassadors of France, Germany, The Netherlands and Spain, to kick off the
Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to TRINIDAD & TOBAGO - Publication date: 16/01/2020
Cérémonie de réception d’équipements informatiques et de réseau pour les Ministères utilisateurs de l’AUGURE
La cérémonie de réception des équipements informatiques et de réseau pour les Ministères utilisateurs de l’Application Unique de Gestion Uniforme des Ressources humaines de l’Etat (AUGURE): 02 sites centraux (MEF, MTEFPLS) et 42 sites clients (20 ministères employeurs et 22 régions administratives)
Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to MADAGASCAR - Publication date: 16/01/2020
"Refreshing Transatlantic Trade Relations": Keynote Address by Commissioner Phil Hogan at CSIS
Introduction Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your warm welcome and happy new year! I am very pleased to be here with you this morning. This is the first of what I expect will be many visits to Washington as European Trade Commissioner. Of course as an Irishman I feel very much at home in
Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to the USA - Publication date: 16/01/2020
La Unión Europea en Bolivia apoya el combate al narcotráfico en diferentes ámbitos
La Unión Europea apoya el combate al narcotráfico en diferentes ámbitos, incluyendo el Programa de Control de Contenedores. La incautación e incineración de un importante cargamento de cocaína, probablemente con destino Europa, es una muestra del éxito de este apoyo. Post Category: News stories
Author: Press and information team of the Delegation to Bolivia - Publication date: 16/01/2020
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Dengue claimes yet another girl's life
A teenage girl died of dengue while undergoing treatment at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) in Barishal on Thursday morning, reports UNB.
The deceased is Suraiya, 14, a resident of Barguna’s Patharghata upazila.
SBMCH director Bakir Hossain said Suraiya was hospitalised on Wednesday morning with dengue fever.
“She died around 8:00am on Thursday,” he said.
Although the number of new dengue cases is declining, reports of deaths related to the mosquito-borne disease continue to come in.
At least six dengue-related deaths were reported between Tuesday night and Wednesday night, UNB reports.
In 24 hours until Wednesday morning, 634 new dengue patients were reportedly admitted to hospitals. The number was 753 on Tuesday.
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Shishir Moral . Dhaka | 07:59, Jan 18, 2020
The rate of neonatal deaths in Bangladesh has increased over the...
Three new dengue patient were hospitalised in the last 24 hours until 8:00am Saturday, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. In...
The rate of neonatal deaths in Bangladesh has increased over the past few years. The main causes of these deaths are asphyxia, sepsis, infectious...
22 dengue patients undergo treatment at hospitals
Twenty six dengue patients, including 22 in the capital, are undergoing treatment at different hospitals across the country, reports UNB. Only one...
37 dengue patients undergo treatment
Thirty-seven dengue patients, including 33 in the capital, are undergoing treatment at hospitals across the country, reports news agency UNB. Four...
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The Volgograd Regional Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation launched a probe into seven members of an organized group. They are suspected of committing an offense under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of Russia (swindling on a large scale committed by an organized group).
According to the investigation, this July, the regional administration of the Federal Service for Corrections and the commercial organization in Veliky Novgorod signed a public contract for the supply of more than 150 thousand liters of milk to correctional institutions in Volgograd Region. Its amount almost reached 5 million rubles. At the same time, as investigators believe, the win of this very organization in the tender procedures at the request of two residents of Volgograd was actively promoted by the head of the logistics department of the regional Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and his deputy. It turned out that the supplier through another company, acting as an intermediary, purchased products in Ryazan Region at the Tyrnovo dairy plant, where a liquid was manufactured, packaged, and then sent to Volgograd instead of milk, which, according to its physical and chemical parameters, did not meet not only the requirements stipulated in the contract but also the generally accepted standards, the so-called State All-Union standards.
Everyone knew that subject to the said public contract a surrogate would be supplied instead of milk, from the management of the logistics department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia to the director of the Ryazan dairy plant. Obviously, each of them had its own profit, and which one, in particular, would have to be clarified as part of the investigation. It was established that on the basis of documents prepared by employees of the regional body of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia, almost the entire amount of the contract was transferred to the supplier and manufacturer of the substandard products.
Investigators of the Regional Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia and employees of the Regional Directorate for Economic Security and Anti-Corruption Enforcement of MIA carried out searches at the places of residence and work of the suspects (in Volgograd, St. Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod, and Ryazan Region), during which more than 60 tons of counterfeit milk, notebooks with secret ledgers, and data storage devices were seized.
The products seized at the dairy plant will be sent for expert research. All perpetrators were detained and taken to Volgograd. Investigative actions are being conducted with their participation.
The probe was launched on the basis of materials submitted by police officers of the regional departments of the Federal Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, as well as the internal security service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Volgograd Region.
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A skier attacks a gate in GS
Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles (gates) spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G.
Giant slalom and slalom make up the technical events in alpine ski racing. This category separates them from the speed events of Super-G and downhill. The technical events are normally composed of two runs, held on different courses on the same ski run.
3 Equipment
5 Men's World Cup podiums
6 Men's most podiums in World Cup
Course[edit]
The vertical drop for a GS course must be 250–450 m (820–1,480 ft) for men, and 250–400 m (820–1,310 ft) for women. The number of gates in this event is 56–70 for men and 46–58 for women. The number of direction changes in a GS course equals 11–15% of the vertical drop of the course in metres, 13–18% for children. As an example, a course with a vertical drop of 300 m (984 ft) would have 33–45 direction changes for an adult race.[1]
Speed[edit]
Olympian Lotte Smiseth Sejersted
in a GS race
Although giant slalom is not the fastest event in skiing, on average a well-trained racer may reach average speeds of 40 km/h (25 mph).
Equipment[edit]
Top: giant slalom skis from 2006,
bottom: slalom skis.
Giant slalom skis are shorter than super-G and downhill skis, and longer than slalom skis.
In an attempt to increase safety for the 2003–04 season, the International Ski Federation (FIS) increased the minimum sidecut radius for giant slalom skis to 21 m (69 ft) and for the first time imposed minimum ski lengths for GS: 185 cm (72.8 in) for men and 180 cm (70.9 in) for women. A maximum stand height (the distance from the snow to the sole of the boot) of 55 mm (2.17 in) was also established for all disciplines.
In May 2006, the FIS announced further changes to the rules governing equipment. Beginning with the 2007–08 season, the minimum radius for GS skis was increased to 27 m (89 ft) for men and 23 m (75 ft) for women. Additionally, the minimum ski width at the waist was increased from 60 to 65 mm (2.36 to 2.56 in), and the maximum stand height for all disciplines was reduced to 50 mm (1.97 in).[1] The best skiers tended to use a bigger sidecut radius, like Ted Ligety at 29 m (95 ft), and Lindsey Vonn at 27 m (89 ft).
For the 2012–13 season, the FIS increased the sidecut radius to 35 m (115 ft) and the minimal length to 195 cm (76.8 in). Many athletes criticized this decision. Often David Dodge was cited. Dodge argues that FIS used studies which do not represent a scientific proof. He states that it is well known that if one tips the ski 7° more the 35 m ski will have the same turning radius as the 28 m ski. He states as well that knee injuries are decreasing since the 1990s, when carving skis started to be used.[2][3][4][5][6]
The first giant slalom was set in 1935 on the Mottarone in Italy, over the Lake Maggiore, near Stresa, on January 20.[7] After one month, the second giant slalom was set on the Marmolada in Italy's Dolomite mountains, by Guenther Langes.[8]
The giant slalom was added to the world championships in 1950 at Aspen, Colorado, and debuted at the Winter Olympics in 1952 at Oslo, Norway, run at Norefjell. The GS has been run in every world championships and Olympics since. Originally a one-run event, a second run was added for men at the world championships in 1966, run on consecutive days, and at the Olympics in 1968. The second run for women was added at the world championships in 1978, and made its Olympic debut in 1980.
The world championships changed to a one-day format for the giant slalom in 1974, but the Olympics continued the GS as a two-day event through 1980. Also scheduled for two days in 1984, both giant slaloms became one-day events after repeated postponements of the downhills. Following the extra races added to the program in 1988, the GS has been scheduled as a one-day event at the Olympics.
Upon its introduction, giant slalom briefly displaced the combined event at the world championships; it was absent in 1950 and 1952. The combined returned in 1954 in Åre, Sweden, but as a "paper race," using the results of the three events (downhill, giant slalom, and slalom), a format used through 1980. The combined returned as a stand-alone event at the world championships in 1982 at Schladming, Austria, and at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. It was changed to the super-combined format (one run of slalom on same day as downhill) at the world championships in 2007 and the Olympics in 2010.
Men's World Cup podiums[edit]
In the following table men's giant slalom World Cup podiums from the World Cup first edition in 1967.[9]
1967 Jean-Claude Killy Georges Mauduit Jimmy Heuga
1968 Jean-Claude Killy Edmund Bruggmann Herbert Huber
1969 Karl Schranz Reinhard Tritscher Jean-Noel Augert
1970 Gustav Thöni Patrick Russel
Dumeng Giovanoli
1971 Gustav Thöni
Patrick Russel Edmund Bruggmann
1972 Gustav Thöni Edmund Bruggmann Rogers Rossat-Mignod
1973 Hans Hinterseer Erik Haker Adolf Rösti
1974 Piero Gros Hans Hinterseer Gustav Thöni
1975 Ingemar Stenmark Piero Gros Erik Haker
1976 Ingemar Stenmark Gustav Thöni Piero Gros
1977 Ingemar Stenmark
Heini Hemmi Klaus Heidegger
1978 Ingemar Stenmark Andreas Wenzel Phil Mahre
1979 Ingemar Stenmark Peter Lüscher Bojan Krizaj
1980 Ingemar Stenmark Hans Enn Jacques Lüthy
1981 Ingemar Stenmark Alexander Zhirov Phil Mahre
1982 Phil Mahre Ingemar Stenmark Marc Girardelli
1983 Phil Mahre Ingemar Stenmark
Max Julen
Pirmin Zurbriggen Hans Enn
1985 Marc Girardelli Pirmin Zurbriggen Thomas Bürgler
1986 Joel Gaspoz Ingemar Stenmark Hubert Strolz
1987 Pirmin Zurbriggen
Joel Gaspoz Richard Pramotton
1988 Alberto Tomba Hubert Strolz Helmut Mayer
1989 Ole-Christian Furuseth
Pirmin Zurbriggen Rudolf Nierlich
1990 Günther Mader
Ole-Christian Furuseth Hubert Strolz
1991 Alberto Tomba Rudolf Nierlich Marc Girardelli
1992 Alberto Tomba Hans Pieren Paul Accola
1993 Kjetil-Andre Aamodt Alberto Tomba Marc Girardelli
1994 Christian Mayer Kjetil-Andre Aamodt Franck Piccard
1995 Alberto Tomba Jure Kosir Harald Strand Nilsen
1996 Michael von Grünigen Urs Kälin Lasse Kjus
1997 Michael von Grünigen Kjetil-Andre Aamodt Hans Knauß
1998 Hermann Maier Michael von Grünigen Christian Mayer
1999 Michael von Grünigen Stephan Eberharter Hermann Maier
2000 Hermann Maier Christian Mayer Michael von Grünigen
2001 Hermann Maier Michael von Grünigen Erik Schlopy
2002 Frederic Covili Benjamin Raich Stephan Eberharter
2003 Michael von Grünigen Bode Miller Hans Knauß
2004 Bode Miller Kalle Palander Massimiliano Blardone
2005 Benjamin Raich Bode Miller Thomas Grandi
2006 Benjamin Raich Massimiliano Blardone Fredrik Nyberg
2007 Aksel Lund Svindal Massimiliano Blardone Benjamin Raich
2008 Ted Ligety Benjamin Raich Manfred Mölgg
2009 Didier Cuche Benjamin Raich Ted Ligety
2010 Ted Ligety Carlo Janka Benjamin Raich
2011 Ted Ligety Aksel Lund Svindal Cyprien Richard
2012 Marcel Hirscher Ted Ligety Massimiliano Blardone
2013 Ted Ligety Marcel Hirscher Alexis Pinturault
2015 Marcel Hirscher Alexis Pinturault Ted Ligety
2016 Marcel Hirscher Alexis Pinturault Henrik Kristoffersen
2017 Marcel Hirscher Mathieu Faivre Alexis Pinturault
2018 Marcel Hirscher Henrik Kristoffersen Alexis Pinturault
Men's most podiums in World Cup[edit]
Skiers having most podium in FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.[10]
Still active
Updated to 15 February 2019.
Ingemar Stenmark 72 19-02-1989
Marcel Hirscher 59 24-02-2019
Michael Von Grueningen 46 15-03-2003
Ted Ligety 41 28-01-2018
Benjamin Raich 35 01-03-2015
Alberto Tomba 31 06-01-1998
Alexis Pinturault 29 16-03-2019
Hermann Maier 28 23-10-2005
Phil Mahre 26 05-03-1984
Gustavo Thoeni 26 02-01-1977
Marc Girardelli 26 27-03-1993
Massimiliano Blardone 25 13-02-2016
Bode Miller 21 08-12-2013
Fredrik Nyberg 20 17-03-2006
List of Olympic medalists in men's giant slalom
List of Olympic medalists in women's giant slalom
List of Paralympic medalists in men's giant slalom
List of Paralympic medalists in women's giant slalom
List of World Champions in giant slalom
^ a b "The International Ski Competition Rules" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-03-25. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
^ Ted Ligety, Skiing's Most Outspoken Critic, Is Still the Best in the World, bleacher report, 2012-10-28.
^ A Letter To FIS, David Dodge, 2011.
^ Update on Injury Trends in Alpine Skiing, Johnson, Etlinger, Shealy, Update on Injury Trends in Alpine Skiing, 2009
^ Unfälle und Verletzungen im alpinen Skisport Archived 2011-11-25 at the Wayback Machine, David Schulz, Auswertungsstelle für Skiunfälle, Stiftung Sicherheit im Skisport, 2011.
^ Francesco Vida. La storia dello sci in Italia.
^ Allen, John (2010-01-31). "First Giant Slalom". Skiing Heritage. International Skiing History Assoc. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
^ "Winter Sports Chart - Alpine Skiing". wintersport-charts.info. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
^ "GIANT SLALOM - COMPETITORS HAVING MORE THAN ONE PODIUM". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
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Festival of International Women's Day, "The Three-Eight Gender New Gender" Film Festival
March is the month for women, except for the International Festival 38th Women's and the Women's Images Association will stage the "Three Heighted" Women's Festival Film Festival on March 8 (5) to March 10 (days) at the point "The Chinese Film Pavilion".Apart from more than ten domestic and international top films, the festival plans to map out a "custom", "non-family" and "dream of awakening." The film hopes to present a variety of life styles, such as family, dream, and family, and to give a new look to women of different past.
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Festival: March 8-10, 2013
International Film Festival: The light spot Huashan Film Festival (No. 1, Secondary Six Film Festival)
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In recent years, the government is committed to promoting Gender Mainstreaming.Because the concept of "men and women" has been slowly digestiled in times of change, single mothers are still vulnerable to poverty, diverse family, gender violence, and deep-rooted inequalities in the role of women.
At the time of this spring warming and the March Women's , the International Women's Festival Film Festival will be on the sidelines of the International Women's Festival at "The Sunshine Filmhouse" at the "spotlight on the Chinoshan Film Festival."Starting in February, the festival will also have a series of activities such as the "Three Eight Triels" and "Good Concord Chitty," which are expected to be filled with hearty moves and rewards in the beautiful March day.During the festival, the film festival will show the top choice of film and film, and explore the various struggles between men and women in the family, emotional and life choices, and the promotion of gender and gender consciousness in some concepts.The film festival will map out the three themes of "Good Practices", "Nonfamily" and "Dream Awakening". Through these three themes, the film will echo the women's role and social responsibility to address women's role in modern changing society.
Good practice:
To explore the false imprisonment of gender roles in traditional social and folk beliefs, and to break these unequal norms with concrete actions.
Non-family:
Inexplicity of the division of labor in modern society, intimate relationships in non-traditional families, emotional identity, and violence resulting from alienation and injuries among members of the family by parent, parent, and child.
Dream awareness:
shows women's autonomy and awakening in pursuit of their dreams, while embracing their dreams, and how to face the biases and frameworks in the gender roles.
Muse Platform
Director: David Redman
Ireland | Color | 77min
as a model is the dream of most girls, and one of the best ways to escape poverty.However, if reality is not as good as a dream, should we abandon or continue to pursue it?The film recorded a girl who traveled from Siberia to Japan and the United States to a dream of a one-round fashion, experiencing many real-world challenges and environmental risks, and sacrificing the appearance of beauty.Should this road continue to go down in the face of a dream-like extension?What are the costs of realizing dreams?
are – the steps
girls are taking the lead in the – of a hostess
Director: Tsai Chin-ju
Taiwan | Color | 34 min
In the spring of 2007, an instrument of history rewritten in Changhua's shanh temple.Hsiao Chiu-chun-Hsiao's first female principal in 100 years, has been using the experience and energy of the women's movement in Taiwan for years to chisel the walls of the walls of the walls of the traditional and patriarchal culture of the ancestral temple.On the day of the ceremony, the men from all over the world attended the ceremony to witness the event in person.The courage is her hat, and the practice is her shoes. And the robe, which is full of sexual equality, is the dream of gender equality.
Love on a bike path
Director: Nicole.Van.Coss Cranko
The Netherlands | Drama | 3min
On the birthday of the 38th birthday, Claire sits in front of her window and looks at the road, quietly listening to the warm congratulations of friends and relatives on the phone.Her life is transformed in the chapters of life and in the four seasons.When she was dependent on her son, she faced her lover's cold and hot attitude, as well as the inextras between her husband and her husband, and tried to choose his own path.The rhythm of this film is fast, as if a piece of life and love in the city of films in the big cities faced the struggle of women facing single parenthood, close relationships and work.
Memory Impact
Director: Clautia Lehmann
Germany | 24min
Anna is constantly having a gruesome nightmare, in which she was beaten by a man, and she had been haunting her for a long time.One day she met Erin and found her acquaintance, and unexpectedly found that Erin and her son had been beaten by her husband.While searching for evidence and hoping to save Irene away from violence, Anna slowly realized that her and Erin's fate was close to … …."The film explores family violence, high camera techniques, narrayons, smooth editing, excellent sound effects, and suspense, and suspense until the last second.
Hainan is experiencing the Chaozhou
When Hainan is experiencing Top Chaozhou
| Drama Color | 81min
As the saying goes, Hainan is the best husband, and Chaozhou women are the most beautiful.When Hainan Tsai met the Chaozhou sister, the two people who were not familiar with each other were complaining about the fate of a Bra from the sky.He put bra as his own, and she posted a search of "Bra", and finally made her roommate happy. She suddenly killed her younger brother, and his younger brother's soul came to join the Bureau of ….This is not a typical romantic comedy. There is no serious social complaint. It's just concentrating on the loneliness of the two sexes.
Master Lion
Director: Hung is in play
Korean dramas | Color | 20min
Butchers are obsessed with gambling, and often beat up wife virginity.The neighbors' mother-in-law looked at it, but she urged the firm to eat beef and viscera before she could have a strong fight against her husband.One day, after watching a documentary about the hunting of a female lion, she quietly made a decision to decide … …."The film had a subtle injection of black comedy elements in the domestic violence issue, and the camera was stunning, with a 20-minute focus on the viewer's eye." The perpetrators of violence will eventually be subjected to violence.Is the figure in this story a victim, a murderer, or a survivor?"
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| The Drama | … | 90min
are … and backward, … they have to pull back the ropes.From March 8 (5) to March 10 (days), don't forget to go to the light spot Huashan Film Hall to see the women's elegance!
, this is beautiful!
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CHAIN MANUFACTURER CELEBRATES 10 YEARS IN THE UK
August 13, 2019 JET Digital Media
The UK arm of one of the world’s largest chain manufacturers is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month.
Donghua Limited is the UK subsidiary of the Hangzhou Donghua Chain Group which produces in excess of 40 million metres of finished chain per year and designs three new chains per day! Donghua chain had previously been supplied to the European market for 20 years but was sold under more well-known Western brand names. The UK company was established in August 2009 by Bob Wellsbury, who previously worked for Iwis Drive Systems and Flexon, enabling the chain to be sold direct in the UK under its own brand name.
Located in Wolverhampton, the company moved to larger premises on the same site in 2017 which tripled their warehouse capacity to 25,000 square feet adding space for further technical capabilities to their workshop. Donghua has now become one of the country’s leading chain suppliers, offering a range of high performance chain and sprockets sold through a network of suppliers across the UK and Ireland.
One of the reasons for their success is that they only sell direct to OEMs and Stockists. Bob explains: “Our ethos is to never sell direct to end-users, but to promote our products via our UK network of suppliers. Our suppliers value this which is why they chose a chain manufacturer they can trust.”
Donghua Limited have enviable technical facilities in their UK workshop with a range of engineering tools and equipment such as a Chain Measuring Machine, Pre-Loading Machine and Hot-Dipped Lubrication facilities enabling the UK production of bespoke Attachment Chain. They have also developed a Laboratory which includes a Component Measuring Machine to accurately measure components and grain structure and test for conformance, concentricity, bore size and parallelism of made to measure Sprockets as well as the hardness of chain components. The team can also produce 3D models of bespoke chain for customers.
Bob said: “Our customers have greater choice and reduced delivery times for bespoke Attachment Chain as we can assemble it right here in the UK. There are only a few manufacturers who can boast such innovative technical capabilities direct in the UK and when customers visit they’re always surprised by the facilities we have on site.”
Donghua Limited continues to grow from strength to strength and has firmly established itself in the UK market as a chain manufacturer and supplier of affordable, high quality performance chain. Here’s to the next ten years!
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SMT & Inspection | October 15, 2007
DEK unveils Reel-to-Reel solution
DEK has launched its brand new printer incorporating a Reel-to-Reel handling solution, designed to enable precision printing onto continuous substrates such as flexible printed circuits and advanced synthetic materials.
Reel-to-Reel (R2R) precision screen printing enables manufacturers to deposit advanced materials onto flexible substrates directly from the reel. By combining DEK’s expertise in precision alignment and versatile clamping with tooling solutions that meet the specific demands of large, flexible substrates, the new dedicated R2R printer is able to print onto substrates typically up to 150 metres in length and 500mm wide. This ability is ideal for use with Flexible Printed Circuits (FPC), organic LED substrates, non-conductive materials, fuel cell membranes and a wide range of foils, papers and composites. Applications range from rope lights and lighting systems such as those used to illuminate airliner aisles and emergency exits, to automotive instruments, mobile phones, RFID tag technologies and laptop PCs. Reel-to-Reel is set to replace the conventional transport system used to drive boards in and out of the print area with three vacuum beds and a clamping system. Reel-to-Reel is specifically designed to optimise handling efficiency and throughput of continuous substrates, featuring robust and repeatable motion-control and substrate-clamping techniques to enable step-and-repeat sequences that maximise control and minimise waste. “As the popularity of continuous flexible substrates intensifies, we have used our unique screen printing knowhow to develop this advanced and proven Reel-to-Reel technology,” explains DEK’s Michael Brown. “As a complete process solution, Reel-to-Reel not only delivers accurate positional indexing and tension management mechanisms, but also ensures the very lowest cost-of-ownership through enabling ultra-fast equipment changeover. Engineered for optimum process efficiency and throughput, Reel-to-Reel is further evidence of why our customers around the world Expect More.”
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You are here: Home / Peoplehood Papers / The Dialogue of Jewish Peoplehood: Millennial Children of Intermarriage
The Dialogue of Jewish Peoplehood: Millennial Children of Intermarriage
June 13, 2016 By eJP
[This essay is from The Peoplehood Papers, volume 17 – Engaging Millennials with Jewish Peoplehood What Does It Take? – published by the Center for Jewish Peoplehood Education.]
By Fern Chertok and David Mittelberg
Jewish Peoplehood is the subjective claim of belonging and commitment to the local and global Jewish collective and captures the extent to which this connection is a defining element in one’s sense of self. It is also important to keep in mind that Jewish Peoplehood is not fixed or impervious, but instead, like a dialogue, it is influenced by interactions with and experience of the communal environment. There is no group with which to better see the potential for and importance of the Jewish Peoplehood dialogue than young adult children of intermarriage.
Children of intermarriage in the millennial generation, born between 1981 and 1995, are more likely than their older counterparts to identify as Jewish in young adulthood (Pew Research Center, 2013). Millennial children of intermarriage, also represent half of their generation of Jews. We have used interview and survey data collected as part of a large-scale study of millennial young adults[1] to explore the Jewish Peoplehood dialogue between children of intermarriage and the Jewish community.
Jewish formal and informal education reaffirms collective identity, builds the reservoir of shared memories and provides, in microcosm, the experience of Jewish community. Unfortunately, the typical child of intermarriage lacks these childhood experiences. For many, not becoming a bar or bat mitzvah is emblematic of their sense of being outsiders to the experience of being part of the Jewish community. As one young man expressed it; “I’ve kind of missed out on the whole bar mitzvah thing. Everybody I’ve ever known has had one and I didn’t.”
We reanalyzed survey data using four empirically derived dimensions of Jewish Peoplehood: collective belonging – identification with the Jewish people; personal responsibility – commitment to the welfare of other Jews; connection to other Jews – the desire to have personal Jewish networks; and Jewish capital – the possession of cultural knowledge and skills.
On all four of these dimensions, children of intermarriage without childhood Jewish education rate themselves lower than peers from with two Jewish parents or peers from intermarried homes with a history of Jewish education.
Many children of intermarriage enter young adulthood claiming a connection to the Jewish collective but feel that it rests on a limited foundation. However, experiences during young adulthood, such as Birthright Israel, can restart the Jewish Peoplehood dialogue. Young adult programs provide many of the Jewish Peoplehood experiences that children of intermarriage missed including connection to a peer group with whom to build shared memories. Being accepted to participate in Birthright, for many, represents formal validation of their claimed sense of connection to the Jewish people. As one young adult put it, “The first thing they say when you get off the plane is ‘welcome home.’ I left there feeling like these are my people.” With the exception of Jewish capital, participation in Birthright increased all dimensions of Jewish Peoplehood.
The takeaway is that the Jewish Peoplehood dialogue of children of intermarriage can be prematurely truncated and diminished through the absence of childhood experiences. But, perhaps most importantly, it can also be restarted and recharged in young adulthood.
[1] For full details of the study see Sasson,T., Saxe,S., Chertok,F., Shain,M., Hecht,S., & Wright,G.(2015). Millennial children of intermarriage: Touchpoints and trajectories of Jewish engagement. Waltham, MA: Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University.
Fern Chertok is a Research Scientist at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. David Mittelberg is Chair of the Steering Committee, International School, Associate Professor for Sociology on the Faculty of Graduate Studies and former Chair of the Department of Sociology at Oranim. Together Fern and David conduct research on the measurement of transnational Jewish Peoplehood and its development in youth and young adults.
An earlier draft of this piece was presented at the “Wrestling with Jewish Peoplehood” conference, April 10-11, 2016.
Filed Under: Peoplehood Papers Tagged With: Millennial engagement, Peoplehood Papers 17
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In new assault, Israel group’s US front asks City of Los Angeles to sue professor for criticizing Israel
Ali Abunimah 12 June 2012
In a new assault on free speech, the US front for Israeli group Shurat Hadin is asking the City Attorney of Los Angeles to sue California State University, Northridge mathematics professor David Klein.
The Global Frontier Justice Center claims that Klein is “misusing” state resources by using his university-hosted personal website to express critical opinions and calls for the academic boycott of Israel.
The Global Frontier Justice Center made the request after California Attorney General Kamala Harris rejected a similar request last month saying that there was no evidence Klein had done anything wrong.
Klein, an organizer with the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, became aware of the new effort to silence him when he received a copy of a 5 June letter from Meir Katz, a lawyer for the Global Frontier Justice Center, addressed to Carmen A. Trutanich, the City Attorney of Los Angeles.
Attorney General “abdicating her responsibilities” by refusing to crack down on Israel criticism
Klein provided a scanned copy of the letter to The Electronic Intifada. Katz’s letter recalls his group’s 2 April request to California Attorney General Harris for prosecution of Klein, and Harris’ response, which Katz criticizes (emphasis added):
On May 17, we received a response from Ms. Harris’ office. It claimed that Ms. Harris “carefully reviewed” our letter of April 2 and concluded that “the evidence [we] provided does not support a finding of misuse of [state resources].” This, of course, is impossible. The evidence is not in question. Perhaps Ms. Harris disagrees with our legal analysis, but she provided no contrary analysis. More likely, she is merely abdicating her responsibilities as Attorney General of the State of California.
Zionist group wants City of Los Angeles to act as censor on behalf of Israel
The letter goes on to request that the City of Los Angeles pursue Klein on behalf of the people of California, and suggests that the City could benefit financially:
As you know, CAL. GOV’T CODE § 8314 authorizes civil actions to be “brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General or by any district attorney or any city attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000.” If the Attorney General does not wish to enforce the laws of her state, somebody must. We hope that somebody is you.
The statute continues: “If the action is brought by a city attorney, the moneys recovered shall be paid to the treasurer of that city.” The taxpayers of Los Angeles deserve to have this money that has been expropriated from them in violation of law to be returned to them.
Lawsuit would cost taxpayers, not gain them money
Not only has the California Attorney General already rejected the Global Frontier Justice Center’s spurious legal theory, but the claim that Los Angeles could gain financially is equally absurd.
Even if there were any merit to the claim that Klein were “misusing” state resources, the marginal cost of his university-hosted personal website is nil. Its existence almost certainly imposes no measurable financial burden on the State of California.
A politically-motivated prosecution or lawsuit against Klein, by contrast, would cost tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or perhaps even millions of dollars of public funds at a time when California is slashing basic services to its population.
The City Attorney’s office has not escaped these cuts. As the Los Angeles Times noted, Trutanich – who is running for District Attorney – “has had his budget slashed deeply, and like many city workers, his lawyers had to absorb furlough days. To the credit of his lawyers, though, many kept working without pay on their forced days off.”
Destroying free speech rights to protect Israel
Would any responsible official put unpaid lawyers on such a case? And for what? To create a nightmare regime where almost any online speech within California’s public universities would have to be expensively and oppressively policed by the state?
Klein told me that the latest assault by the Global Justice Frontier Center “is just one of many actions taken by the AMCHA Initiative,” a California Zionist group that collaborates with the Global Frontier Justice Center, “and other Zionist organizations during the past year to suppress free speech on California State University campuses when that speech criticizes the apartheid government of Israel.”
It is also unlikely to be the last.
Letter from Meir Katz to City Attorney of Los Angeles
Meir Katz Letter
Meir Katz
Global Frontier Justice Center
Shurat HaDin
California State Universities (CSU)
Carmen Trutanich
Permalink rainintheface replied on Wed, 06/13/2012 - 14:24
What the hell is going on when someone who criticizes Israel is sued. Perhaps those who criticize Nazi Germany should be sued for defaming an obvious nutcase and murderer.. Hey , you beat up on people, steal their land and then demonize them you deserve any and all criticism you get. If you don't want to be criticized then don't do things that people disagree with.
"don't do things that people disagree with"
Permalink Mairead replied on Wed, 06/13/2012 - 22:48
I agree with the balance of your post, but your concluding suggestion isn't the best because it exalts opinion, which is often self-serving, over law.
It would be better to have said "If you don't want to be criticised, don't support crimes against humanity".
The expropriation of Palestine was just as illegal as Nazi Germany's imperialist adventurism. The land of Palestine belonged and belongs to the people of Palestine whose families have lived there for centuries, and only them. It does not belong to the recent incomers who were protected by colonialist troops, and the UN never had the legitimate authority to give it away to them.
Misleading Journalism
Permalink Robby replied on Tue, 06/19/2012 - 04:08
"Zionist group wants City of Los Angeles to act as censor on behalf of Israel"
"Destroying free speech rights to protect Israel"
How stereo-typically slanted this article is. There was NO request to censor anyone nor was there any attempt to silence Israel's critics. The letter asked that state resources not be used for non-state business, period.
But it doesn't sound like the facts matter much.
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