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SubscribeThe Small Package Supply Chain Media
A Closer Look at the Recent FedEx GRI Announcement
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Nov. 14 2016 04:41 AM
In the wake of FedEx’s recent GRI announcement, which, surprisingly, did not mirror the changes announced by UPS a few weeks prior, I sat down with industry experts Rob Martinez, President & CEO, Shipware, and Krish Iyer, Director, Shipping and Tracking Solutions, Neopost, to get their take on what this divergence means for the small parcel industry. Rob and Krish will also be presenting a webinar on this topic on November 17th at 2 pm EST; register here!
Q. Now that both carriers have made their announcements, what are the biggest things that stand out to you?
A. (Rob): It's an absolutely brash move for FedEx to make. First, they are sending the signal that they are the market leader, no longer following the lead of UPS. For the first time in a long time, published rates entirely differ, as do minimum charges, dimensional divisors, many accessorial charges, and fuel surcharges.
A. (Krish): One thing that strikes me are the dates of both the announcements themselves and the dates of implementation. UPS announced in late August/early September, while FedEx announced in late September. UPS also is implementing as of December 26, 2016, which will impact returns and back orders. FedEx’s changes go into effect in January. I do wonder whether the timing of the announcements mean that another announcement of a separate increase for something else could come before the end of the year.
Q. This marks the first year where there has been a major divergence both in the actual rate of increase between the carriers and in terms of major changes to package measurement calculations. What is the impact for shippers?
A. FedEx picked up its marbles and is now playing entirely in its own sandbox. The changes will make it difficult for most shippers to accurately compare rates and proposals from the two giant shipping companies. Perhaps the biggest impact for shippers is that managing transportation spend becomes more complex and potentially more confusing. Major shippers without access to analytical tools and personnel will be at a significant disadvantage in understanding their transportation spend. It’s no longer as simple as comparing discount % and perhaps minimum charge. In 2017, with differences in transportation rates, dimensional weight factor, residential fees, DAS fees, address corrections, and other surcharges, it will be extremely challenging for a shipper to determine which carrier offers the best deal without major investments in internal analytical capabilities or engaging a third party with this expertise.
A. I always assumed that the carriers would eventually move to a DIM divisor of 139 inches. They both have a habit of “realigning” their rates, surcharges, and policies for services to match the policy of the service where the fee is higher. Historically, both companies had differing rates for address correction, residential surcharge, and many other charges between their air and ground services; over time, they have “realigned” these charges to whatever service had the higher surcharge under the auspices of “ease of use and understanding for the customer.” So, I was not surprised that a move to 139 inches happened, since it was already the policy for import/export. That said, I am quite surprised to see that a change has occurred less than two years after the last major DIM announcement.
Q. Are there any fees and surcharges that DIDN’T get implemented/announced that surprised you?
A. I'm a bit surprised that FedEx didn't again adjust its fuel surcharge index to be more in line with UPS. UPS continues to enjoy significantly higher fuel surcharge revenue from its customers.
It's also surprising that FedEx has maintained its non-dimensioning policy on the FedEx SmartPost product, given that its largest competitor UPS SurePost applies the same dimensional pricing as Ground. It is unusual for either carrier to knowingly leave money on the table. But again, this year’s GRI announcement represented a marked departure from FedEx's historical strategy of matching the other carrier's pricing. FedEx is clearly staking its own path now.
A. Yes, I was surprised that FedEx didn’t announce something along the lines of a third-party shipping fee the way UPS did last year. While they did say earlier this year that they wouldn’t have this fee, I did expect something to happen that would address third-party shipments in some regard, whether it was a policy or billing change. This new surcharge greatly impacted drop shippers this past year.
I am also a little surprised that we didn’t see more of a pronounced policy change around peak season shipping, whether it would be an extra surcharge or spelled out policy change when it comes to customer discounts. Peak season planning, especially due to e-commerce shipping, has been a hot topic the past few years.
Q. Have the past few GRI announcements given us any trends?
A. The biggest trend is what the carriers refer to as “yield management,” which we all understand as continuing price increases. Over time, domestic dim has gone from 194 to 166 to 139 for FedEx. Ground packages under three feet are now subject to dim. AHS size limits have been reduced. Surcharges frequently increase much more than the stated GRI increase amount. The GRI itself is often unevenly applied, with higher increases at lower weights. All of these things combine to raise costs for most shippers.
Another trend I’ve observed is a reduction in what I call the “speed premium.” The percentage price increase to upgrade from 2nd day, to 2day AM, to Next Day PM, to Next Day service has been trending downward for the past five years.
A. It is clear that the carriers are shooting for changes/increases under the auspices of “increasing network efficiency.” This past year showed dramatic increases to over limits/oversize fee increases. The latest announcement showed a dramatic increase in the Extreme Length surcharge for FedEx freight, from $85 to $150 and applied to shipments with dimensions of 12 feet or greater versus 15 feet.
Q. What about regional carriers and the USPS? How do they fit into a parcel shipping strategy?
A. Shippers that want greater flexibility, improved transit times, and lower-cost alternatives to FedEx and UPS are wise to evaluate today’s regional delivery providers. These providers offer multiple benefits including cost savings up to 35%, fewer surcharges, a larger 1-2 day delivery footprint, as well as lower-cost dimensional and minimum package charges.
The U.S. Postal Service has seen record growth in small parcel deliveries. Key to its growth, the USPS offers several advantages over the private national carriers including no accessorial charges, shipper-friendly dimensional pricing rules, 6 days/week delivery, ounce-based and flat, unlimited weight pricing, and more. Shipware’s 2016 Parcel Forum Pricing Survey reveals that 64% of shippers intend to increase use of postal shipping products in the coming year.
A. With the latest DIM announcement by FedEx, both regional carriers and the USPS become a MUST in any parcel shipping strategy. Most regional parcel carriers have flexible DIM policies, more so than the major carriers. The USPS has a policy of a DIM divisor of 194 inches, but for parcels that travel 1,000 miles or more. Go to www.dimweightresources.com to check out the various policies for DIM with the regional carriers and the USPS.
Q. Are there any particular industries where you see the announced changes affecting more than others?
A. Consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, and e-commerce are the most likely to suffer higher price increases due to FedEx’ reduction in dim factor from 166 to 139. More generally, any shipper with a high percentage of low-density parcels that does not have a custom dimensional weight factor at or better than 166 is going to be impacted. Conversely, shippers with predominantly high-density shipments (greater than 1lb per 139 cubic inches) will see minimal impact due to the change in volumetric pricing.
A. Yes, e-commerce and e-commerce fulfillment. The DIM change to 166 inches greatly affected lower weight e-commerce shippers; historically, e-commerce shipments tend to be less than six pounds. A second DIM change makes it even more imperative to accurately measure packages.
One other segment here is interesting to note: customers that have heavy reliance on mail. Many shippers don’t realize that mailers can be subjected to DIM weight; the carriers’ measurement devices essentially “create a box” around the mailer to then measure cubic dimensions. Mail-centric businesses that then divert some of the volume to the major parcel carriers for higher-priority items would then see their costs go up.
Q. So how can shippers manage these changes? Are there options?
A. Visibility is critical. Shippers must have a solid understanding of their shipping patterns, service usage, and package characteristics. They must also be intimately familiar with their transportation contracts and a deep understanding of how various pricing terms impact their costs. Very large organizations may choose to make significant investments in analytical tools and personnel. Others may prefer to engage with third-party experts.
A.I agree with Rob that the key is visibility. Do you truly understand that a 3.9% or 4.9% increase likely means a much higher increase of 7-10% year over year if you ship parcels between one and 10 pounds (which is the majority of parcel shipments)? Do you have the tools and/or partners that can give you the visibility into how the DIM changes will affect your parcel shipping? A DIM change that results in a price increase of $0.75-$1.00 per parcel may not sound like much, but adds up dramatically over the course of a year.
Also, knowing that everything really is negotiable with the carriers is important. They are generally loathe to negotiate per-package minimum billable charges, fuel surcharge discounts, and DIM weight divisors and will in fact generally make you believe those elements are non-negotiable, but the reality is that they are things you can absolutely negotiate, especially if you have a lot of volume.
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Photos: Kerry Washington tops People’s best-dressed list
HOLLYWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 24: Actress Kerry Washington arrives at the Oscars at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 24, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) ( 161315075PH00076_85th_Annua )
Kerry Washington arrives at the 85th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on Sunday Feb. 24, 2013 (Hans Gutknecht, L.A. Daily News) ( 85th Academy Awards )
Actress Kerry Washington arrives at the 65th Emmy Awards Nomination Celebration at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 in North Hollywood, California. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP) ( 65th Emmy Awards Nomination Celebration )
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 23: Actress Kerry Washington attends the 2013 Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles Gala at JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE on March 23, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images) ( 164488502IA001_2013_HUMAN_R )
CULVER CITY, CA - APRIL 14: Actress Kery Washington arrives at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards at Sony Pictures Studios on April 14, 2013 in Culver City, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) ( 166439774KD00105_2013_MTV_M )
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 27: Actress Kerry Washington attends the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton on April 27, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) ( 167792532KR00109_2013_White )
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 06: Kerry Washington attends the Costume Institute Gala for the "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) ( 167730896JN00110_PUNK_Chaos )
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 14: Kerry Washington attends the Entertainment Weekly & ABC-TV Upfronts Party at The General on May 14, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for Entertainment Weekly) ( 168105966JN00094_Entertainm )
HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 08: Actress Kerry Washington arrives at the premiere of 'Peeples' presented by Lionsgate Film and Tyler Perry at ArcLight Hollywood on May 8, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) ( 168482833JM019_Lionsgate_Fi )
Kerry Washington attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, "Punk: Chaos to Couture", on Monday, May 6, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) ( MET Museum Costume Institute Benefit )
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 16: Actress Kerry Washington attends Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Presents an Evening with "Scandal" at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre on May 16, 2013 in North Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) ( 168855481FB019_Academy_Of_T )
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 14: Kerry Washington attends the 2013 CAA Upfronts Party on May 14, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for CAA) ( 168959150AP00001_MMS_only_2 )
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 24: Actress Kerry Washington sits with students during an event with U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (R) while visiting the Savoy School May 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. The Savoy School, once one of the lowest performing schools in the District of Columbia, has shown significant signs of improvement since being designated as one of eight schools selected last year for the Turnaround Arts Initiative by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) ( 169524087WM023_Michelle_Oba )
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 03: Kerry Washington attends 2013 CFDA FASHION AWARDS Underwritten By Swarovski - Red Carpet Arrivals at Lincoln Center on June 3, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Swarovski) ( 169749552AP00016_2013_CFDA_ )
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 15: Iman and Kerry Washington attend ELLE & Tod's Celebrate Kerry Washington at Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria on May 15, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Anna Webber/Getty Images for ELLE) ( 168951538AW023_ELLE_Tod_s_C )
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 05: Actress and Vanguard Award presenter Kerry Washington attends the 2013 'Celebrate Sundance Institute' Los Angeles Benefit hosted by Tiffany & Co. at The Lot on June 5, 2013 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) ( 169808320KC00048_3rd_Annual )
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - AUGUST 04: Actress Kerry Washington attends the Disney & ABC Television Group's "2013 Summer TCA Tour" at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 4, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Getty Images) ( 175280588PH179_Disney_ABC_T )
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA - AUGUST 11: Actress Kerry Washington attends the Teen Choice Awards 2013 at Gibson Amphitheatre on August 11, 2013 in Universal City, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) ( 169825730TM00236_Teen_Choic )
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 07: Kerry Washington attends the Alexander Wang fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2014 at Pier 94 on September 7, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images) ( 179371753CB015_ALEXANDER_WA )
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 06: Kerry Washington attends the Project Runway Spring 2014 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Theatre at Lincoln Center on September 6, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week) ( 179371519NC00030_Project_Ru )
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 01: Actress Kerry Washington accepts Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series award for "Scandal" onstage during the 44th NAACP Image Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on February 1, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for NAACP Image Awards) ( 160613446TM00055_44th_NAACP )
SANTA MONICA, CA - FEBRUARY 23: Actress Kerry Washington attends the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards at Santa Monica Beach on February 23, 2013 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) ( 160692919AR044_2013_Film_In )
LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 10: Actress Kerry Washington attends the UK Premiere of "Django Unchained" at the Empire Leicester Square on January 10, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images) ( 158766149BD00003_Django_Unc )
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 11: Actress Kerry Washington attends Dom Perignon and W Magazine's celebration of The Golden Globes at Chateau Marmont on January 11, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for Dom Perignon) ( 159409107VA006_Dom_Perignon )
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 26: Actress Kerry Washington arrives at the 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 26, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images) ( 159822636JK057_24th_Annual_ )
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 13: Actress Kerry Washington attends The Weinstein Company's 2013 Golden Globe Awards After Party at The Beverly Hilton hotel on January 13, 2013 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images) ( 159250611DL167_The_Weinstei )
LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 27: Actress Kerry Washington attends the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images) ( 159785834JK257_19th_Annual_ )
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: Actress Kerry Washington attends The Daily Beast Bi-Partisan Inauguration Brunch at Cafe Milano on January 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Charles Norfleet/Getty Images) ( 159756893CN001_THE_DAILY_BE )
BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 08: Kerry Washington attends 'Django Unchained' Berlin Photocall at Hotel de Rome on January 8, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images for Sony Pictures) ( 159223625SR00005_Django_Unc )
BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 08: Kerry Washington attends 'Django Unchained' Berlin Premiere at Cinestar Potsdamer Platz on January 8, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images for Sony Pictures) ( 159223579SR00213_Django_Unc )
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Home Breaking news Eminent theatre personality Sukracharya Rabha no more
Eminent theatre personality Sukracharya Rabha no more
By Digital Desk Updated June 9, 2018 11:39 am GMT+0530
Guwahati:
Eminent theatre artiste Sukracharya Rabha, who gained international fame for his unique open-air theatre festival passed away on late Friday night. He was 41.
Family members reported that the actor-cum-director was found unconscious in the bathroom and was rushed to a private hospital Goalpara. Upon reaching the hospital, the doctors declared him ‘brought dead’. Sukracharya died due to cardiac arrest, as per his family members.
The Theatre festival titled ‘Under the Sal tree’ is held inside a forest in Goalpara district in mid-December. A brainchild of Sukracharya, this annual festival has become an example of a unique format of contemporary theatre in India.
Sukracharya was born April 10, 1977, at Rampur village in Goalpara of Assam. After attending workshops on theatre direction and design at Guwahati, he underwent training under H Kanhailal and Sabitri at the Kalakshetra, Imphal, and Manipur for two years.
He founded his theatre group, Badungduppa, a rural-based theatre centre at his village in 1998 and made a mark as a young talent early in life. He has directed several plays in Rabha, Bodo and Nepali languages.
He was awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar of Sangeet Natak Akademi for the year 2009 for his notable talent in the field of theatre direction.
Sukracharya was active in student politics as the Goalpara district president of the All Rabha Students’ Union.
The untimely demise of Sukracharya has descended a pall of gloom over the state. Fans and well-wishers of Rabha took to social media to condole the unexpected demise. Internationally acclaimed actor Adil Hussain, who too is from Goalpara, took to Facebook to express his grief over losing his “dearest Sukracharya”.
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New clues to the early Solar System from ancient meteorites
by Carnegie Institution for Science
In order to understand Earth's earliest history--its formation from Solar System material into the present-day layering of metal core and mantle, and crust--scientists look to meteorites. New research from a team including Carnegie's Doug Rumble and Liping Qin focuses on one particularly old type of meteorite called diogenites. These samples were examined using an array of techniques, including precise analysis of certain elements for important clues to some of the Solar System's earliest chemical processing. Their work is published online July 22 by Nature Geoscience.
At some point after terrestrial planets or large bodies accreted from surrounding Solar System material, they differentiate into a metallic core, asilicate mantle, and a crust. This involved a great deal of heating. The sources of this heat are the decay of short-lived radioisotopes, the energy conversion that occurs when dense metals are physically separated from lighter silicate, and the impact of large objects. Studies indicate that the Earth's and Moon's mantles may have formed more than 4.4 billion years ago, and Mars's more than 4.5 billion years ago.
Theoretically, when a planet or large body differentiates enough to form a core, certain elements including osmium, iridium, ruthenium, platinum, palladium, and rhenium—known as highly siderophile elements—are segregated into the core. But studies show that mantles of the Earth, Moon and Mars contain more of these elements than they should. Scientists have several theories about why this is the case and the research team—which included lead author James Day of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Richard Walker of the University of Maryland—set out to explore these theories by looking at diogenite meteorites.
Diogenites are a kind of meteorite that may have come from the asteroid Vesta, or a similar body. They represent some of the Solar System's oldest existing examples of heat-related chemical processing. What's more, Vesta or their other parent bodies were large enough to have undergone a similar degree of differentiation to Earth, thus forming a kind of scale model of a terrestrial planet.
The team examined seven diogenites from Antarctica and two that landed in the African desert. They were able to confirm that these samples came from no fewer than two parent bodies and that the crystallization of their minerals occurred about 4.6 billion years ago, only 2 million years after condensation of the oldest solids in the Solar System.
Examination of the samples determined that the highly siderophile elements present in the diogenite meteorites were present during formation of the rocks, which could only occur if late addition or 'accretion' of these elements after core formation had taken place. This timing of late accretion is earlier than previously thought, and much earlier than similar processes are thought to have occurred on Earth, Mars, or the Moon.
Remarkably, these results demonstrate that accretion, core formation, primary differentiation, and late accretion were all accomplished in just over 2 to 3 million years on some parent bodies. In the case of Earth, there followed crust formation, the development of an atmosphere, and plate tectonics, among other geologic processes, so the evidence for this early period is no longer preserved.
"This new understanding of diogenites gives us a better picture of the earliest days of our Solar System and will help us understand the Earth's birth and infancy," Rumble said. "Clearly we can now see that early events in planetary formation set the stage very quickly for protracted subsequent histories."
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Journal information: Nature Geoscience
Provided by Carnegie Institution for Science
Citation: New clues to the early Solar System from ancient meteorites (2012, July 22) retrieved 18 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2012-07-clues-early-solar-ancient-meteorites.html
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Playing Chess with Pigeons
Antievolutionist nonsense, science, and whatever else I wish to hold forth on.
Playing Chess with Pigeons?
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More irony from the ID creationist crowd
Posted on March 30, 2008 by Troy Britain
On the one hand the ID creationist crowd wail and moan about how they supposedly face discrimination and censure (that’s what film Expelled is about), and on the other we find this sort of stuff:
Pandas Thumb reports on an article in the Washington Post that talked about the case of Nancey Murphy of the Fuller Theological Seminary:
Nancey Murphy, a religious scholar at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., said she faced a campaign to get her fired because she expressed the view that intelligent design was not only poor theology, but “so stupid, I don’t want to give them my time.”
Murphy, who believes in evolution, said she had to fight to keep her job after one of the founding members of the intelligent design movement, legal theorist Phillip Johnson, called a trustee at the seminary and tried to get her fired.
But this isn’t the only example.
Back in the mid-1990’s Christian biochemist Terry M. Gray was tried and convicted of heresy by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church for daring to suggest that humans have primate ancestors in a review… wait for it… of Phillip Johnson’s book Darwin on Trial (1991).
A. We charge that Dr. Terry Gray has committed the public offense of stating that Adam had primate ancestors~ contrary to the Word of God (Genesis 2:7, 1:26,27) and the doctrinal standards of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (WCF IV.2, W L C 17).
Fortunately Dr. Gray wasn’t put on the rack or burnt at the stake for his “heresy” (like they used to do), but he was censured and had to write a recantation.
Dr. Gray has a page on links to articles on the incident: Documents Related to the Evolution Trial in the OPC
A similar example is Christian physicist Howard Van Till, of Calvin College in Michigan had the school’s board of trustees questioning his views after he wrote in a book (The Fourth Day 1986) in which he argued that “…the stories of the Bible and science’s account of evolution could both be true” (from chicagotribune.com):
His critics on the school’s board of trustees had no interest in reconciling the religious account of creation with a naturalist explanation of how life and the universe have evolved over the ages. For years after the book’s release in 1986, Van Till reported to a monthly interrogation where he struggled to reassure college officials that his scientific teachings fit within their creed. Van Till’s career survived the ordeal, but his Calvinist faith did not. Over the next two decades, he became the heretic his critics had suspected.
Over a span of three years a conservative businessman Leo Peters ran thirty full-page ads in the Grand Rapids Press attacking Van Till for his views.
Seems they can dish it out but can’t take it; though they really haven’t had to actually take it because most (if not all) of their claims of discrimination or censure are nonsense.
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34 thoughts on “More irony from the ID creationist crowd”
Wow. Here’s the real story. Someone ought to make a documentary about this!
Add to this the story of James Hansen at NASA being forced to amend his papers on global climate change and the Big Bang, and the shuttering of/shredding documents at the EPA libraries, and other outrages by the Bush Administration, and you have a clearer picture of what’s really going on in this country.
Don’t fret. The Flying Spaghetti Monster will save us.
stushie says:
I watched some clips from Expelled today and listened to the atheists. They came across as egotistical, narcissistic, parochial and highly opinionated individuals.
So I guess they have something in common with us Christians after all…
Jammer says:
Wow! Very interesting indeed. Thank you for pointing this out, too bad the mainstream media never points out this side of the story.
bobg says:
Troy: Thanks for a few more data on just what hypocrites the ID crowd is.
Consider the degree of projection from the ID camp, though, and be very concerned. Now that they’ve elevated it to equating science to the Holocaust, and seeing that they’re projecting …
Kristine: Hansen doesn’t write about the Big Bang. That was a separate story that broke shortly after his story did. His story was that he was being prevented from speaking to media (not that he had to amend his papers) and when he did, had a political ‘minder’ following him around. The EPA libraries were shut down outright — the shredding being how to dispose of the now ‘unneeded’ documents. Book burning by administrative fiat. Doesn’t change the drift of your comments, but details are helpful.
Josh Caleb says:
A few honest questions:
What predictions does Darwinism make that ID can’t make? If we start with the real observations of: 1) Descent with modification, 2) Random Mutation, 3) Natural Selection, 4) Homology of Morphological Features and Genetic material (DNA) between species… What does “common descent” (i.e. Darwinism) predict that ID does not?
If ID is not falsifiable, why did Ken Miller spend all that time attempting to show how the flagellum is not irreducibly complex? Doesn’t Miller’s attempt at falsification prove that it IS falsifiable (even if Miller didn’t quite get it right and failed in the attempt as Behe has gone on to demonstrate…) ?
Jim Lippard says:
Josh: Start with Doug Theobald’s FAQ at talkorigins.org:
Why would ID predict nested hierarchies, transitional forms, endogenous retroviruses, or any of these other features that are clear predictions of common descent as opposed to common designer?
On your latter point, there are definitely a few specific arguments made by ID advocates that are falsifiable. The same is also true of creationism (e.g., young earth, flood geology, and vapor canopy).
Jim: Start with Ashby Camp’s Critique:
http://www.trueorigin.org/theobald1b.asp#pred2
(we can keep avoiding questions for a number of more rounds, but it fails to be productive…)
Maybe you misunderstood my question. I did not ask “What predictions CAN’T Darwinism make that ID also can’t make?”
“there are definitely a few specific arguments made by ID advocates that are falsifiable”
So when a majority of ID critics repeatedly say “ID is not scientific and not falsifiable” …would you say the majority of them are misinformed or just dishonest?
Mark Isaak says:
Don’t forget Chris Comer, fired last year for forwarding an email announcing a talk by someone critical of “intelligent design.”
I don’t think those who claim that ID (in general) is not scientific and not falsifiable are dishonest, misinformed, or even mistaken, because the bulk of ID constitutes standard creationist attacks on evolution without putting forth any positive claims. The same is true of creationism.
We’re still waiting for a scientific theory of creationism, and we’re still waiting for a scientific theory of intelligent design.
Theobald has already responded to Camp’s critique. His article links to Camp’s critique as well as to his response.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/camp.html
Josh wrote:
What predictions does Darwinism…”
Josh, when you use the rhetorical gambit of “Darwinism,” you’ve forfeited any claim to honesty.
“…make that ID can’t make? If we start with the real observations of: 1) Descent with modification, 2) Random Mutation,…”
Um, Josh, “Random Mutation” has nothing whatsoever to do with Darwin. Moreover, the “random” part, to be honest, is only random with respect to fitness, not generally random.
“3) Natural Selection, 4) Homology of Morphological Features and Genetic material (DNA) between species…”
Darwin didn’t know jack about DNA. What about non-Darwinian evolutionary mechanisms? Are you honest about those?
“What does “common descent” (i.e. Darwinism)…”
Josh, you are not being honest. Common descent (it’s a simple concept, no scare quotes needed) does not even come close to being equivalent to your fictional “Darwinism.”
“… predict that ID does not?”
For starters, modern evolutionary theory predicts where a new sequence will fall in the nested hierarchies (both organismal and protein families). This is based on purely mathematical analysis. ID makes no such predictions, and in fact, consists of pathological lying about these mathematical relationships, pretending that they are simply vague “similarities.”
“If ID is not falsifiable, why did Ken Miller spend all that time attempting to show how the flagellum is not irreducibly complex?”
Because IC is merely an ever-changing definition, and Behe is so incompetent/dishonest that he can’t even apply his own definition properly. The non-falsifiable HYPOTHESIS (dishonestly stated as fact by most ID proponents) connected with allegedly IC structures is that they cannot have evolved.
“Doesn’t Miller’s attempt at falsification prove that it IS falsifiable (even if Miller didn’t quite get it right and failed in the attempt as Behe has gone on to demonstrate…) ?”
Behe never demonstrated anything of the sort, and you’re ignorantly conflating a definition (IC) with a hypothesis (IC structures cannot evolve).
Troy Britain says:
Josh Caleb: A few honest questions:
Hi Josh, I am working on a response, which will be in a separate post on my blog. Stay tuned.
Well, whatever you’ve heard regarding “bulk of ID” or “standard creationist attacks” may be fluff because the ID argument is pretty simple and precise:
Certain features of biology (such as DNA and molecular machines) exhibit designed properties (specified complexity or irreducible complexity) that are only known to be the product of intelligent agents or intelligent causation as opposed to unguided processes.
These observations are based upon the molecular evidence and information content of DNA and protein complexes, not religious books.
Distinguishing between and separating ID’s molecular (scientific) basis and subsequent religious implications seems to be a sticking point for many Darwinists.
Smokey, breathe deeply, count to ten… try not to get so emotional…
Your not making sense: “‘Random Mutation’ has nothing whatsoever to do with Darwin” Huh? So if there is no (molecular) basis for differences between progeny phenotypes in a given population, then what exactly does natural selection have to work with? The Neo-Darwinian synthesis contradicts your statement.
I really love the way you dig into the stories and find all these nice little tidbits. For me it makes this whole situation much more interesting.
“…the ID argument is pretty simple and precise:”
It’s simplistic, imprecise, and is inconsistent with mountains of freely available evidence.
“Certain features of biology (such as DNA and molecular machines)…”
Those aren’t “features of biology,” Josh. DNA is a chemical and “molecular machines” is a metaphor.
“… exhibit designed properties (specified complexity or irreducible complexity) that are only known to be the product of intelligent agents or intelligent causation as opposed to unguided processes.”
Now you’re simply lying and asserting what you’re pretending to demonstrate.
No, they aren’t. For example, explain how sequences (the “information content”) fit into the superimposable nested hierarchies (both organismal and protein families). Then point to a set of designed objects that have the same characteristics.
(note: if you don’t know what I mean by superimposable nested hierarchies, try to resist the impulse to lie and pretend that you can name such a set)
“Distinguishing between and separating ID’s molecular (scientific)…”
Josh, don’t be a doofus. “Molecular” is not a synonym of “scientific.”
“… basis and subsequent religious implications seems to be a sticking point for many Darwinists.”
The fact that you ignored my challenge to name a non-Darwinian evolutionary mechanism while employing the grossly inaccurate label “Darwinists” suggests that you are a very, very dishonest person, Josh.
I’m not being emotional. I’m calling you on your dishonest bluffing.
“Your” is a possessive pronoun. YOU’RE the one not making sense.
“… not making sense: “‘Random Mutation’ has nothing whatsoever to do with Darwin” Huh?”
Why don’t you try reading what I wrote instead of regurgitating the bald-faced lie about my position below?
“So if there is no (molecular) basis for differences between progeny phenotypes in a given population,…”
I didn’t claim that there is no molecular basis, liar. I pointed out a fact. The mutations are only random with respect to fitness, not generally random. This is another common lie of the ID movement: pretend that the “random” refers to evolution in general.
“… then what exactly does natural selection have to work with?”
Mutations that are random with respect to fitness, not simply random. Your questions are completely dishonest.
“The Neo-Darwinian synthesis contradicts your statement”
You don’t have a clue, and it’s dishonest of you to pretend that you do.
You don’t have a clue.
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Josh formulates ID as: “Certain features of biology (such as DNA and molecular machines) exhibit designed properties (specified complexity or irreducible complexity) that are only known to be the product of intelligent agents or intelligent causation as opposed to unguided processes.
The problem here is that ID’s attempts (mostly by Dembski and Behe) to explicate “specified complexity” or “irreducible complexity” in a testable way that can be shown to distinguish designed from undesigned features is an abject failure. Behe’s ended up drawing a line between evolved and designed characteristics in a way that satisfies no one (e.g., look at what he writes about malaria in his latest book, which has fallen still-born from the presses and is now available very, very cheaply). Dembski has tried multiple definitions of “specified complexity” and “complex specified information,” but all suffer from fatal flaws, inconsistency, and lack of demonstrated capability of doing what it’s supposed to do, as well as lack of peer-reviewed publication.
Rev. BigDumbChimp says:
That’s fantastic! Can you show me this peer-reviewed research?
eric collier says:
Josh raises one modestly interesting point: If ID is non-falsifiable, why do we knock ourselves out trying to falsify it? The ancillary claims of ID “theory”, such as irreducible complexity, are relatively down to earth, subject to scientific scrutiny & theorization, etc. ID critics have shown how IC bio systems could have evolved. They have not scientifically “disproven” non-evolvable IC, because it is a metaphysical claim, not a scientific hypothesis. The grand, over-arching theme in ID is that the universe & life were somehow designed by some entity who, even if not God, apparently has such God-like powers that he is indistinguishable from God. This is such a fanciful, out-of-reach concept that it is indeed non-falsifiable—even if true.
Ed Darrell says:
. . . because the ID argument is pretty simple and precise:
As Mr. Johnson, the “father of ID” pointed out in his book kicking off these post-1992 rounds of strife, ID’s purpose is to inject God into public schools. Let’s be clear about the origins of philosophy, can we?
While this commenter quoted above boldly offers a hypothesis of intelligent design, Mr. Johnson and his colleagues at Discovery Institute disavow all such efforts. There is no publication by any of the main advocates of ID that lays out a hypothesis for how ID works, let alone for how ID would work in opposition to any part of evolution theory today, nor any part of Darwin’s proposals in the past. So, let’s be clear that this offer of a hypothesis is the commenter’s alone, and does not reflect any effort to make an argument in science by any ID advocate in any formal or informal setting of science.
Now let’s look at the commenters proposal seriously:
First, there is no feature of biology that is the “product of intelligent agents or intelligent causation as opposed to unguided processes.” And that’s really the whole ballgame. Every thing found in biology that would make one say, “Hmmm! That certainly looks like somebody or something designed it just exactly for that purpose,” instead has a natural, non-intelligent-intervention explanation for how it arose. Each and every one of them. Behe, perhaps accurately, proposed that were such features found for which there were no possible natural explanations, the existence of those features would be one argument in favor of a further search for an intelligent designer. Alas for Behe and the argument, the examples he offered of such features instead had explanations for how they arose, in some cases well documented, but in all cases refuting Behe’s claim. Behe got a lot of mileage out of “forgetting” to list pages of research papers anyone could have found in a good library, and then claiming that the research did not exist and could never be done. So Behe’s claim is founded in inaccuracy and falsehood. Irreducible complexity, to the extent that it is a “down-to-earth” concept subject to scrutiny, has been scutinized and falsified in the lab and in the wild.
What else is there that smells of science in ID? Nothing I know of.
So let’s be clear: ID is based on religious intent, with a hope that a scientific basis might be found; attempts to find a scientific basis for intelligent design have all flopped dreadfully.
ID is a major concession by Creationists to the overwhelming evidences of evolutionary theory. They are, of course, still trying- even as they compromise- to force facts into the shape and size of the human imagination. The human-elevating, God-diminishing stories of literal, biblical creation are themselves evolving and will one day (hopefully) not be a part of any scientific inquiries where they muddy both research and emotions. Better that creationist ideas take their proper (and useful) role in the mythological realm of understanding the evolution of human consciousness.
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Anne Gilbert says:
I am a writer of what I call a Great Medieval Science Fiction Masterpiece. I have a blog that (mostly) is about the writing process in various forms, but also deals with some human evolution issues from time to time. The blog is called TheWriter’s Daily Grind, and is located at:
http://www.thewritersdailygrind.blogspot.com
The reason I’m writing this, however, is to let you all know that I’m linking this blog to mine. I am extremely impressed by it, just on general principles. And besides, on other forums, I’m constantly dealing with people who think ID “explains things” better than what they choose to call “Darwinism”(where is the Church of St. Darwin, pray tell?) In any case I’m linking the blog, because there’s more to life than writing(even if you’re a Starving Writer)!!
dogscratcher says:
The reason Ken Miller et al take the time to show that individual examples of IC are mistaken is to actually show how the concept of IC isn’t falsifiable.
If it were falsifiable, simply showing that one instance of it is wrong would falsify the concept. But since at it’s core, IC is simply a logical argument from ignorance (a logical fallacy), while individual instances can be shown to be wrong, unless there is nothing left undiscovered, it can’t be falsified in principle.
Paley thought the eye was IC (though he didn’t use the term), he was wrong, and now the more sophisticated creationists don’t use the eye as an example of IC. Behe doesn’t talk much about the blood clotting cascade anymore even though he thought that was a great example of an IC system because it’s been shown to be “reducible.” But neither of these examples has falsified the concept of IC.
Because any instance where there is micro-biological uncertainty about how a process or structure evolved can be plugged into the IC mold, until Biology becomes a “complete” science (no time soon), IC can’t even in principle be falsified. Even then, the argument from ignorance can simply be applied to some other aspect of empirical reality that isn’t well understood, and those guys can sell some more books.
A secular institution that proclaims itself to be a center of open minded inquiry fires someone for being out of line with orthodoxy, and gets criticized for it.
A religious institution, unabashedly dedicated to a theological position, fires someone for not adhering to that position. This is hypocrisy?
DaveM says:
There is a previously unknown heat resistant life form which lives in the sun. You can’t falsify it, but that doesn’t make it true. DNA is a code or blueprint which contains millions of pieces of information. Calling it a chemical is like calling a blueprint for a nuclear submarine a piece of paper.I still can’t figure out how a mouse born with webs between it’s fingers had a competitive edge on the other ones. Not only that, all it’s offspring inherited it. Then, over eons the webs kept getting bigger and bigger, against all odds, until they became wings. While at the same time the musculature and skeletal structure also deformed so as to enhance and enable the capability for flight. They have found fossils of bats dating back 52 million years, but none of the web footed mice that kept getting longer fingers and bigger webs. Maybe a mouse gave birth to a bat, and it mated with a mouse and all it’s genes were dominant.
terryt says:
OK people. Let’s take Josh Caleb’s comment, “Certain features of biology … exhibit designed properties … that are only known to be the product of intelligent agents or intelligent causation as opposed to unguided processes” at face value.
Surely, Caleb, you should be able to tell us how these features came to be designed. Watch out though. It’s a gigantic leap to just tell us they must have been designed by anything remotely similar to any Judeo-Christian-Muslim God. Unless you can supply us with evidence?
Harq al-Ada says:
Ever heard of flying squirrels, DaveM? Your argument from incredulity does not impress anyone.
Pete Dunkelberg says:
IF falsifiable not! This means that the basid position – the Designer did it – is not falsifiable. It does not mean creationists are somehow unable to make false statements. They are able. Willing too.
http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2007/04/the-silliest-th-3.html
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Chiefley says:
What Josh fails to realize is that IC is not an argument for ID. It is a negative argument for ToE. That something is irreducibly complex only proves that it could not have evolved. It doesn’t prove anything about Intelligent Design unless you fall for the false duality con.
(False duality con: If not A, then B. It is false because it assumes there cannot be a C, D, E, etc. In this case, the con is “If something cannot have evolved, it must have been designed.”)
Ken Miller falsifies IC in order to defuse the challenge to ToE, not to falsify ID.
Secondly, there has never been a biological structure that has been shown to be IC.
As for Specified Complexity, SC has never been applied to an organism or part of an organism with any degree of success. I know of no organism that has been proposed by anyone to be SC.
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By Their Own Standards, Dems Racist When It Comes to Hispanics
By Chris Salcedo 2010-11-08T03:00:57
Conservatives warned liberals of the dangers of playing the race card too often without substantiation. But with the election of President Obama, progressives went crazy.
Every time conservatives opposed our inexperienced president on policy, progressive pundits were quick to dismiss the objections as a simple expression of conservatives' supposed distaste for an African-American president. Recall how Karen Hunter, MSNBC contributor, described challenges to the Obama agenda? “Post-Traumatic First African-American President Syndrome.”
The 5th District watchdog group in Virginia chronicles the net effect of such dangerous use of the race card:
Even the Daily Show lampooned the excessive use of the race card, declaring it “maxed out.”
Well, if by liberalism's standards the act of objecting to a person of color on policy is tantamount to racism, then Americans now have clear evidence that progressives are racist toward Hispanics.
Democrats, through Bill Clinton and reportedly the White House, conspired to defeat a conservative Latino in a Senate race in Florida. The liberals in charge of the Democrat Party tried to convince their candidate, Kendrick Meek (an African-American), to drop out of that race so that the linguini-spined Charlie Crist would have a shot at beating Marco Rubio.
The message, largely ignored by the press, was that Marco Rubio could not be allowed to win because he was the wrong kind of Hispanic.
His family fled the left-wing utopia of Cuba. Thus, he had too much knowledge about where liberal policies lead. Worse yet, for liberals, he could articulate his family’s experience with the destructive results of leftist policies.
Liberals knew he had to be stopped, and thus were willing to throw an African-American under the bus in favor of the white guy who had been a Republican five minutes ago.
It wasn’t so much the man that liberals were trying to defeat, though Rubio is a magnificent candidate and will be a great senator. It was the idea that Rubio represents: he puts an exclamation point on the fact that not all Latinos believe in open borders and the welfare state. He shatters the narrative that liberals have worked for decades to craft. Now, not only will white America know that not all Latinos are liberal, Hispanics will now see their traditional conservative values displayed by a man that has an (R) next to his name. Rubio is something the Democrats have long feared: a conservative role model for the Latino community.
Sadly, this isn’t the first time liberals have conspired to keep Hispanics out of high office to maintain a narrative.
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INTERVIEW: Chad Eikhoff Made An Elf’s Story Into a Christmas Classic
By Ruben Diaz
An Elf’s Story: The Elf on the Shelf is a holiday children’s movie that has
been airing for eight years straight, and writer, producer, and director,
Chad Eikhoff was a big part in bringing the beloved Christmas book to
cinematic life.
Based on the 2005 children’s book, An Elf’s Story: The Elf on the Shelf is
about the little guys and gals who help Santa make all the toys for Christmas.
Chippy, one of Santa’s elves, is assigned to a family that is losing belief in the
magic of Christmas. For Chippy, the job is tough, and he questions his
relevance. However, with the help of his friends and the big guy in the red suit,
Chippy learns just how important the magic of the holiday season really is.
PopAxiom spoke with Chad Eikhoff about his career as a writer, director, and
producer, and making a modern-day children’s classic.
Road To Elves
The road to making An Elf’s Story started in a small town in Georgia called
Powder Springs. Chad recalls loving the look of Christmas, with “snow-
covered roads and lights.”
Chad’s love for animation started at an early age. He remembers growing up
reading comic strips in newspapers. “My very first desire was to be a
cartoonist. I wanted to be Charles Shultz. I just thought it was amazing that
drawing characters could be a job.”
As early as middle school, Chad was creating and submitting his own strips.
But then a realization created a new desire. “Finding out that you can make
them move and bring the character to life is what really pulled me into
animation.”
What pulled Chad into animation are still driving him today. “I am fascinated
with the imitation of life. How a pencil and paper could turn into a character
that had a sense of life to it. It is magical to me.”
To say that Chad is a fan of the holiday season might be an understatement.
“I absolutely love Christmas specials. I love the entire Christmas season,
starting with Thanksgiving morning. My first cat as a grown-up was named
Macy, after the famous Thanksgiving Day parade.”
Watching An Elf’s Story might give you a familiar feeling if you have ever
watched the evergreen specials created by Rankin/Bass back in the 60s.
“What resonated with me was the use of artwork and a unique sense of style,
which really captured a sense of spirit, wonder, and whimsy.”
Capturing the spirit of Rankin/Bass films was “definitely intentional,” said
Chad. “I love those movies and have a great memory of them,” he said, “and I
know I’m not alone.”
Chad also realized that there had not been a holiday special since those
earlier Christmas films, which were made in the 60s. “There really hadn’t been
a sort of evergreen Christmas movie that came on every year like those,” he
stated. While creating An Elf’s Story, Chad says, “I wanted to lean into, ‘How
do we mimic what makes them resonate with so many people?’”
An Elf’s Story premiered in 2011 and has been playing every holiday season
since. It has aired once a week on TV since Thanksgiving. “It’s mind-blowing
when I see it next to the classics, such as the Grinch, Charlie Brown, Rudolf.”
About An Elf’s Story
An Elf’s Story uses computer-generated imagery to achieve its visual style.
However, the film still has an old-school charm about it. “In An Elf’s Story, we
worked with traditional animation techniques. Pixar, and later Disney, brought
these ideas back. For a while, there was a push toward making things look
like live-action. But, Pixar did a great job with storyboards and finding the story
in there.”
Chad continues to describe the process for An Elf’s Story: “We worked with a
story reel and edited it until it felt almost like an animated comic. We were
able to quickly move it into an animatic, which is set in the 3D universe. We
were scripting, rewriting, and re-conceptualizing in the same files we were
going to be using for the animation.”
A rare process, though, Chad mentions a recent Disney film that did a similar
thing. “The Lion King … did that same thing …” “We’re able to create the
world and build the story inside of that,” he said.
“There is a sense of wonder and whimsy in these holiday specials,” Chad
said, “and a sense of spirit. I found this as an adult when reconnecting with
the films through my kids.”
Chad continued: “The impact that’s so positive. And I am focused and inspired
by things that are creating positive, wondrous, whimsical worlds, stories, and
As a writer, producer, and director, what movie would Chad like to get his
hands on in this age of remakes? His answer is unique and welcomed.
“There are certainly worlds that are fun to explore. With the techniques we
have, you can build out some of these worlds in incredible ways.”
Chad elaborates, “Glen Keane (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast)
was an animator and director who is someone I look up. He created all kinds
of characters for Disney. Now he’s working in hand-drawn, virtual reality
projects. Working with someone like that on creating something new would be
very interesting to me.”
For Chad, being able to draw and have it be his profession is a dream come
true. And despite today’s fancy tech, he says, “even when you’re working on
virtual reality in 3D, everything starts with a pencil on paper.”
Will you be enjoying the latest classic Christmas
children’s movie this holiday season?
Thanks to Chad Eikhoff and Impact24 PR for making this interview possible.
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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: Releases For The Week of November 1, 2019
All we want for Christmas.
Goodbye to Halloween, hello to… Christmas? This week’s schedule is jingling all the way, but there are many other regular albums in the mix as well. Here are all the notable albums and singles hitting stores this Friday:
MARIAH CAREY – Merry Christmas (25th Anniversary Edition) (iTunes)
Features: “All I Want For Christmas Is You”, the annual classic that will likely return to the Hot 100 in the coming weeks
MIRANDA LAMBERT – Wildcard (iTunes)
Features: “It All Comes Out In The Wash”, the lead single, which is approaching the top ten on the Country radio chart
VARIOUS ARTISTS – Charlie’s Angels (Soundtrack) (iTunes)
Features: “Don’t Call Me Angel”, a collaboration from Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey, which is approaching the top 20 on the Top 40 radio chart
Notable albums out this week: Alphabeat‘s Don’t Know What’s Cool Anymore (iTunes), Cold War Kids‘s New Age Norms 1 (iTunes), Future‘s Monster (iTunes), Gang Starr‘s One Of The Best Yet (iTunes), Highly Suspect‘s MCID (iTunes), Hootie & The Blowfish‘s Imperfect Circle (iTunes), Jeff Lynne’s ELO‘s From Out Of Nowhere (iTunes), Michael Kiwanuka‘s Kiwanuka (iTunes), MØ‘s Walshy Fire Presents: MMMMØ – The Mix (iTunes), Monsta X‘s Follow – Find You (iTunes), New Politics‘s An Invitation To An Alternate Reality (iTunes), Patrick Stump‘s Spell (Soundtrack) (iTunes), R.LUM.R‘s Surfacing (iTunes), Yelawolf‘s Ghetto Cowboy (iTunes)
Notable EPs out this week: ALMA‘s Have U Seen Her? (Part I) (iTunes), Fergus James‘s All Of The Colours (iTunes), Frenship‘s Vacation (Versions) (iTunes), Lil Peep‘s Goth Sinner Angel (iTunes), Todrick Hall‘s Haus Party 3 (iTunes), WhoHurtYou‘s Stages (iTunes)
New digital singles that you can buy this week include:
“All The F–king Time”, Loote (iTunes)
“All Summer Long”, Connell Cruise featuring Charlie Finch (iTunes)
“Another Place”, Bastille featuring Alessia Cara (iTunes)
“Better Day”, Young Bombs featuring Aloe Blacc (iTunes)
“Carrie”, Landon Cube featuring Lil Skies (iTunes)
“Checklist”, MAX featuring Chromeo (iTunes)
“Click”, Madison Kozak (iTunes)
“Colorblind”, Mokita (iTunes)
“Do You Ever?”, Phil Good (iTunes)
“Dominos”, Northeast Party House (iTunes)
“Don’t Say (PBH & Jack Remix)”, Robinson (iTunes)
“Don’t Start Now”, Dua Lipa (iTunes)
“Dream Boy”, Beach Bunny (iTunes)
“Famous”, Vardaan Arora (iTunes)
“Fine”, Mike Shinoda (iTunes)
“Flying (Daniel Allan Remix)”, Wrabel (iTunes)
“For My Daughter”, Kane Brown (iTunes)
“Frío”, Omar Apollo (iTunes)
“F–kyounoah”, Noah Cyrus featuring London On Da Track (iTunes)
“Funeral”, Miguel (iTunes)
“Ghosts”, Six60 (iTunes)
“Gold”, Digital Farm Animals (iTunes)
“Good For Me”, Harper Finn (iTunes)
“Graveyard (Axwell Remix)”, Halsey (iTunes)
“Heartbeats”, Tom Walker (iTunes)
“Heartstrings”, Felly featuring Santana (iTunes)
“Home To You”, Sigrid (iTunes)
“I Feel Love”, Sam Smith (iTunes)
“I Wanna Be Yours”, Pink Sweat$ featuring Crush (iTunes)
“International Woman Of Leisure”, La Roux (iTunes)
“Is It Just Me?”, Emily Burns (iTunes)
“It Might Be Time”, Tame Impala (iTunes)
“Kissing Other People”, Lennon Stella (iTunes)
“Lalala (Remix)”, Y2K & Bbno$ with Enrique Iglesias & Carly Rae Jepsen (iTunes)
“Let It Happen”, Violet Days (iTunes)
“Lose Myself”, Faustix (iTunes)
“Love Me More”, Trippie Redd (iTunes)
“Lucky”, Chelsea Cutler & Alexander 23 (iTunes)
“Messy”, Twin XL (iTunes)
“Monsta”, BENEE (iTunes)
“Morning”, Teyana Taylor & Kehlani (iTunes)
“Motivation (Remix)”, Normani featuring 21 Savage (iTunes)
“Now I’m In It”, Haim (iTunes)
“On A Prayer”, Boy In Space featuring Shy Martin (iTunes)
“Own”, Hartley (iTunes)
“Play With Fire”, Nico Santos (iTunes)
“Rich”, Kid Ink (iTunes)
“Scumbag”, Goody Grace featuring Blink-182 (iTunes)
“Sideshow”, Jutes (iTunes)
“So Good”, Dove Cameron (iTunes)
“Somebody Else”, Katelyn Tarver (iTunes)
“Someone Else”, Bishop Briggs (iTunes)
“Something Unreal”, The Script (iTunes)
“Teeth (Live From The Vault)”, 5 Seconds Of Summer (iTunes)
“That Bitch”, Bea Miller (iTunes)
“The Greatest”, John Lindahl (iTunes)
“Unbroken”, Bon Jovi (iTunes)
“Used To Love”, Martin Garrix & Dean Lewis (iTunes)
“Villains”, Elley Duhé (iTunes)
“We Got Love”, Sigala featuring Ella Henderson (iTunes)
“We’re Just Kids”, Call Me Karizma (iTunes)
“What You Did (Preditah Remix)”, Mahalia featuring Ella Mai (iTunes)
“Where The Wild Things”, Labrinth (iTunes)
“Winter Wonderland”, Sam Feldt (iTunes)
“You And Me As One (Acoustic)”, Sigma & Jack Savoretti (iTunes)
“You’re The Best”, Kiesza (iTunes)
Next week, look out for new albums from artists like Bishop Briggs, Luke Combs, Snow Patrol and more. For Adam’s personal picks of the week, listen to the PGTC Friday Faves list on Spotify!
Tagged as Cold War Kids, Future, Highly Suspect, Hootie & The Blowfish, Lil Peep, Mariah Carey, MØ, Miranda Lambert, New Music Friday, New Politics, R.LUM.R, Yelawolf
ADD LIB — Brace For (CHR) Impact (October 29, 2019)
Welcome to Add Lib, your Tuesday report on POP! Goes The Charts that’s mad about CHR/Top 40 adds, based on the station data provided by Mediabase 24/7 and Add Board. This week: Selena Gomez has a winning song about losing, while Kesha is raising her profile on the log with her new collaboration. Let’s add ’em up:
“LOSE” WINS BIG: Pop star Selena Gomez, who’s looking for her first #1 song at the format since the spring of 2016, could be a couple of months away from it with “Lose You To Love Me”, which debuted last week. The very personal ballad easily grabs the top spot on this week’s report with a giant 168 stations on impact, which doesn’t include a handful of adds that came in early last week. It also led yesterday’s report at Hot AC radio with 37 stations there. The song entered at #29 on last Sunday’s published update. At this point, it could be vying for a solid move into the top 20 by the weekend.
In second place with a very strong total, Kesha’s “Raising Hell”, a collaboration with Big Freedia, is in with 83 stations. After just sneaking into this past weekend’s chart at #50, it should have larger jump up the chart, likely well into the top 40. It also ranked in second place on yesterday’s log at Hot AC radio, coming in with 18 stations.
Recent charting releases by Blackbear, Charlie Puth and Tones And I are among those prominent titles making up the rest of the top ten, which also includes an impacting title from AJR and some early action for Louis Tomlinson‘s latest.
Next week, Dua Lipa‘s upcoming single “Don’t Start Now” should, in fact, start atop the usual adds report at the format.
1. SELENA GOMEZ, “Lose You To Love Me” (Interscope)
2. KESHA featuring BIG FREEDIA, “Raising Hell” (Kemosabe/RCA)
4. ISABELA MERCED, “Papi” (Republic)
5-T. AJR, “Dear Winter” (S-Curve/Hollywood)
7-T. DAN + SHAY featuring JUSTIN BIEBER, “10,000 Hours” (Warner)
9. BILLIE EILISH, “All The Good Girls Go To Hell” (Darkroom/Interscope)
10. CHARLIE PUTH, “Mother” (Artist Partner/Atlantic)
Tagged as AJR, Billie Eilish, Blackbear, Charlie Puth, Dan + Shay, Isabela Merced, Justin Bieber, Kesha, Louis Tomlinson, Mediabase, Selena Gomez, Tones And I
RADIO REPORT: What’s Popping At Top 40 Radio This Week (October 28-29, 2019)
It’s time once again to analyze the airwaves and find out if your favorite new releases will be lighting up your local station’s playlist this week. Which tunes will climb to the top and which ones will hit a stop? Here are four tracks impacting this week at the Top 40 format:
AJR – “Dear Winter” (S-Curve/Hollywood)
Album: Neotheater (2019)
Past T40 History: After being pushed back several times now, the trio will be going for their fourth top 40 entry at the pop format.
ISABELA MERCED – “Papi” (Republic)
Album: TBA (2019/2020)
Past T40 History: Actress and singer Merced impacts at the Top 40 format for the first time. Early airplay for the single is limited.
KESHA featuring BIG FREEDIA – “Raising Hell” (Kemosabe/RCA)
Album: High Road (2020)
Past T40 History: Big Freedia was previously heard (but not credited) on Drake’s hit “Nice For What”, which went to #12 in 2018.
SELENA GOMEZ – “Lose You To Love Me” (Interscope)
Past T40 History: As this ballad holds steady at #1 on iTunes and Spotify, it should easily claim the top spot on this week’s report.
Next week: Dua Lipa‘s “Don’t Start Now” should start pretty well on next Tuesday’s report, as Louis Tomlinson‘s “We Made It” also competes for a spot in the top five.
Tagged as Adds, AJR, Big Freedia, Dear Winter, Isabela Merced, Kesha, Lose You To Love Me, Papi, Pop radio, radio, Raising Hell, Selena Gomez
RADIO ACTIVE — A Weekly Chart CHRonicle (October 27, 2019)
Welcome to Radio Active, a Sunday evening report from POP! Goes The Charts that gets to the chart of the matter: all the highlights from the CHR/Top 40 chart, as published by Mediabase 24/7 and Mediabase Research. Halloween and hit albums are always full of treats (and a few tricks), so get yourself ready for some spooky stats. Here’s what’s popping at the Top 40 format this week:
THAT SPECIAL “SOMEONE”: Lewis Capaldi holds at #1 for the second week on the Top 40 chart with “Someone You Loved” in its 21st week in the top 40. The global smash is steady at #2 and #6 on the Hot AC and AC radio lists, respectively, and could lead the Billboard Hot 100 when the newest update is revealed tomorrow. It’s going to be a close one. Meanwhile, you can expect it to hit three weeks at the top of this survey next week, as its nearest competition is too far away to bother it.
Ranking in the top 40 with her 17th hit as a solo artist, Selena Gomez blasts in at #29 with “Lose You To Love Me”, the lead single from her forthcoming studio album. It also reaches the top 40 on this week’s Hot AC survey. After reaching the top 40 last week as a featured artist on French Montana‘s “Writing On The Wall”, Post Malone gains his 13th top 40 entry with the Ozzy Osbourne and Travis Scott-assisted “Take What You Want”, jumping from 46-39. It’s Osbourne’s third top 40 song and first since the spring of 1992. Scott is now up to six top 40 hits at the format. Finally, climbing from 47-40, Tones And I checks in with her very first top 40 single, “Dance Monkey”. The song remains at #1 in several countries and is just below the top 20 on the Alternative radio chart.
Further down the list, BTS and Lauv break in at #46 with “Make It Right”, marking their first charting collaboration here. The new trio Public steps in at #48 with “Make You Mine”, their first tune to enter the top 50, while Kesha and Big Freedia shake into the region at #50 with “Raising Hell”, a song that was released this past Thursday. It, and Gomez’s new track above, head for adds at the format on Tuesday.
Tagged as Big Freedia, BTS, Kesha, Lauv, Lewis Capaldi, Mediabase, Ozzy Osbourne, Pop chart, Post Malone, Public, Selena Gomez, Tones And I, Top 40
RECORD REWIND 2019: PGTC Picks, Week Forty Three
Sunday afternoon means it’s time for the Record Rewind, highlighting the top new tracks that you might’ve missed during the work week, all from my favorite small label and independent acts out there. If it’s on the site, it’s something that you need to check out!
Across the PGTC SoundCloud page and my playlists on Spotify, these stuck out as my favorite independent songs of the week…
PICK OF THE WEEK: ONE
CXLOE – “Devil You Don’t” (Spotify)
Previously on the Rewind: Fifth appearance
This is the fourth single from CXLOE to appear on the Rewind this year and is already receiving support from influential Australian radio station Triple J, leading to some building action on Shazam down under. The darker electronic and pop cut is devilishly good.
PICK OF THE WEEK: TWO
JULIANDER – “On & On” (Spotify)
Previously on the Rewind: First appearance
After one EP and a series of singles through Sony Music in Sweden, singer and songwriter Juliander is now independent and he has a great hit to start off his next era. The smooth and enticing R&B-influenced cut should stay on (& on) your playlist through the fall.
For more great new music, these songs are worth a listen…
FLY BY MIDNIGHT – “Love Me Like A Friend”
SVRCINA – “Between Us”
Want to be featured on this weekly wrap-up? Submit your music to adamfsoybel@gmail.com and I’ll check our your tunes. Thanks!
Filed under Album Reviews, Playlists, Single Reviews
Tagged as CXLOE, Fly By Midnight, Independent, Juliander, Svrcina, Unsigned
Highlights from Adam’s Top 40: October 27, 2019
“Monkey” is still going bananas.
39. Picture This – One Night
38. Louis Tomlinson – We Made It
33. Coldplay – Orphans
31. Kesha featuring Big Freedia – Raising Hell | HIGHEST DEBUT
35. Saint Motel – Van Horn (40)
34. Sheppard – Die Young (39)
29. Finneas – Shelter (34)
25. American Authors featuring Maddie Poppe & Phillip Phillips – Bring It On Home (30)
22. Harry Styles – Lights Up (27)
17. Scott Helman – Everything Sucks (23)
(see #6 and #10 below)
10. The Script – The Last Time (16) | PEAK: #10
09. Zara Larsson – All The Time (05) | PEAK: #01 for three weeks
08. Steve Aoki featuring Backstreet Boys – Let It Be Me (11) | PEAK: #08
07. Lizzo – Good As Hell (07) | PEAK: #07
06. Niall Horan – Nice To Meet Ya (13) | PEAK: #06 | BIGGEST MOVER
05. Keane – Love Too Much (06) | PEAK: #05
04. Taylor Swift – Lover (04) | PEAK: #03
03. Normani – Motivation (03) | PEAK: #03
02. Kygo x Whitney Houston – Higher Love (02) | PEAK: #02
01. Tones And I – Dance Monkey (01) | PEAK: #01 for five weeks
1. Parachute – Had It All (2)
2. Ben Platt – Rain (1)
3. Keane – Stupid Things (10)
4. James Blunt – Cold (3)
5. Tom Walker – Better Half Of Me (-)
6. OneRepublic – Somebody To Love (4)
7. Echosmith – Lonely Generation (8)
8. Liam Payne – Stack It Up (6)
9. JP Saxe featuring Julia Michaels – If The World Was Ending (-)
10. Westlife – My Blood (-)
Hootie & The Blowfish – Hold On
John Splithoff – Proud
Lady Antebellum – Ocean
Noah Cyrus – July
Sam Hunt – Kinfolks
Sugar Ray – Highest Tree
Australia’s Tones And I scores a fifth week at #1 with “Dance Monkey”, as the top four titles on the countdown remain unchanged. With the addition of three songs entering the top ten, all by or featuring acts that have reached the top of my list, that will soon change. It’s also been a busy week for new entries, with four of them blasting into the top 40. Kesha and Big Freedia lead things off at #31 with “Raising Hell”, the first single from Kesha’s forthcoming album High Road, due January 10. Coldplay‘s “Orphans” is in at #33, one of two new cuts released on Thursday from their highly-anticipated double album Everyday Life, due November 22. Louis Tomlinson earns his fifth solo top 40 single with “We Made It”, bowing at #38. It and “Kill My Mind” (at #36) will appear on his debut solo album Walls, due January 31. Finally, at #39, Picture This returns to the chart with “One Night”, a song that’s already hit the top five in their native Ireland. It’s the band’s third single to make my list.
(See my full chart on Crownnote)
Tagged as Backstreet Boys, Coldplay, Harry Styles, Keane, Kesha, Lizzo, Maroon 5, Niall Horan, Normani, Taylor Swift, The Script, Tones And I, Whitney Houston, Zara Larsson
ADAM’S TOP 40 FLASHBACK: October 27, 2013
Worldly hits in the top ten.
It’s the start of another weekend, which means it’s time for another trip back into the archives on Adam’s Top 40 Flashback! Every Saturday, the day before my latest top 40 goes up for the week, I feature the highlights of a past countdown. They’re all here — the hit songs, the songs that flopped, and the songs that may be a little embarrassing to reflect on.
This week, we stroll back six years and find out what was topping my chart for the week of October 27, 2013…
Debuts:
40. FITZ & THE TANTRUMS, “The Walker”
38. ONE DIRECTION, “Story Of My Life”
Biggest Mover(s):
THE FRAY, “Love Don’t Die” (40-26, 14 spots)
10. EMELI SANDÉ, “My Kind Of Love” (up 2)
Album: Our Version Of Events (2012, Capitol Records)
Peak: #7
09. BASTILLE, “Pompeii” (steady, second week)
Album: Bad Blood (2014, Virgin/Capitol Records)
Peak: #1 for two weeks
08. PASSENGER, “The Wrong Direction” (up 3)
Album: All The Little Lights (2012, Nettwerk Records)
07. NEW POLITICS, “Harlem” (steady, third week)
Album: A Bad Girl In Harlem (2013, RCA Records)
06. KATY PERRY, “Roar” (down 3)
Album: Prism (2013, Capitol Records)
Peak: #3 for three weeks
05. IMAGINE DRAGONS, “On Top Of The World” (down 1)
Album: Night Visions (2012, KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records)
04. AMERICAN AUTHORS, “Best Day Of My Life” (up 2)
Album: Oh, What A Life (2014, Mercury Records/IDJMG)
Peak: #1 for one week
03. PASSENGER, “Holes” (down 1)
Peak: #1 for five weeks
02. SHEPPARD, “Hold My Tongue” (up 3)
Album: Sheppard (EP) (2012, Empire Of Song/MGM Records)
01. COLDPLAY, “Atlas” (steady, third week)
Album: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2013, Republic Records)
Check back next Saturday for another Adam’s Top 40 Flashback countdown and don’t forget to follow the blog by using the tab below or find PGTC on social media by clicking the “Get Social!” tab at the top of the page.
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Tagged as American Authors, Bastille, Coldplay, Emeli Sandé, Imagine Dragons, Katy Perry, New Politics, Passenger, Sheppard
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Benefits of the First Ten Days of Dhul-Hijjah
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the first days of dhul-hijjah are the days of hajj, which include the day of `arafah, the peak of hajj; it is the focal point when the pilgrims gather in the plain of `arafah. such a mammoth gathering of muslims supplicating to allah is bound to have all-pervasive effects on the whole world; allah has promised an answer for those who gather on the plain of `arafah. the prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) exhorted the non-pilgrims to spend these days in as much devotion as possible. this means that we must show spiritual solidarity with the pilgrims. the prophet is reported to have said, “there are no days that are dearer to allah in respect of devoting oneself to devotion and worship than the first ten days of dhul-hijjjah.” he is also reported to have said, “fasting on the day of `arafah expiates sins of two years, the past and future.”
responding to the question, sheikh ahmad kutty, a senior lecturer and islamic scholar at the islamic institute of toronto, ontario, canada, states the following:
the first ten days of dhul-hijjah have been singled out especially for great merits and excellences like no other days in the islamic calendar. allah in his infinite wisdom and mercy has chosen to dispense infinite spiritual blessing and rewards. thanks to the high status these days enjoy, allah has made them worthy of making an oath by them, when he says (by the daybreak, by the ten nights) (al-fajr 89:1–2). according to some qur’an commentators or mufassirun, the ten nights mentioned here are none other than the first ten nights of dhul-hijjah; others, however, hold the view that these nights specifically refer to the last ten nights of ramadan. anyhow, no one denies the fact that the first ten days of dhul-hijjah possess tremendous blessings and excellence. this has been confirmed by the prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) who is reported to have said, “there are no days that are dearer to allah in respect of devoting oneself to devotion and worship than the first ten days of dhul-hijjjah.”
based on this and similar traditions, scholars have stressed that the days and nights of dhul-hijjah must be set aside for intensive dedication to worship, increased preoccupation with virtuous acts, and contemplation. virtue and contemplation go hand in hand in islam. works that are especially worthy of mentioning include reading the qur’an; making dhikr and du`aa’; performing supererogatory prayers; sending benedictions on the prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); rendering acts of kindness and compassion; visiting the sick; counseling what is good and forbidding what is wrong; bringing peace, reconciliation, and harmony among people; helping those who are in distress or need, and so on. while all of these works are to be active concerns of all muslims every single day of their life, these must certainly be multiplied in these days more than any other time.
fasting is especially mentioned as a most meritorious act of devotion to be performed in the first nine days of dhul-hijjah; this is true of those who are not performing hajj. according to some traditions, by fasting these days, one is accorded a tremendous opportunity to gain repentance and forgiveness. if, however, a person cannot afford to fast all nine days, he may at least fast the ninth day of dhul-hijjah, which is known as the day of `arafah. however, it is also worth mentioning that while fasting the first nine days of dhul-hijjah is recommended, it is forbidden to fast during the days of the `eid. this prohibition is not limited to the tenth of dhul-hijjah; rather it extends also to the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth, for all of these are days of festivities and celebrations.
finally, it is perhaps worth mentioning that the special merits and excellences associated with the days of dhul-hijjah are in no small measure due to the fact that they coincide with the performance of the greatest rites of hajj. the foremost days of hajj are the following: the day of tarwiyah, which falls on dhul-hijjah 8 and is the day the pilgrims resume ihram and proceed to mina; the day of `arafah, which is on the ninth, the day of the great ritual of standing on the plain of `arafah; and the day of nahr, which falls on the tenth and is the day of sacrifice and stoning the jamarat. the fact that the pilgrims are gathering in the sacred sites to perform the greatest rites of hajj is itself a most significant event; it is, therefore, becoming of those who are not pilgrims to show spiritual and emotional solidarity with the pilgrims. therefore, as the pilgrims are engaged in performing the great rites of hajj, muslims wherever they are, are also encouraged to partake something of the great spiritual feast and experience by performing such acts of virtue and devotion as they are capable of.
may allah the most exalted and glorious expose us to the wisdom of these rites and bless us all to participate in them with our whole bodies, minds, and souls. ameen.
The Inner Dimensions of Hajj - I
Islamweb.net
The Best Days of the Year
The Universal Lessons of Hajj
Hajj: An Obligation Once in a Lifetime
Hajj: Meaning and Blessings
Spiritual Ethics of Hajj
A Qur’anic Pilgrimage
A New Life After Hajj & `Umrah
Manifestations of Islamic Monotheism in Hajj - II
The virtue of Takbeer
The Behavioral Impact of Hajj
Understanding the Why of Hajj
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User talk:Revolverman
Welcome to RationalWiki, Revolverman!
Nutty Roux (talk) 23:50, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Welcome to the fondly losing bassoon!
1 Sysop
2 Rulez
3 Never forget (Conspiracy Theories)
4 Explanation
5 Navigation templates
6 Brx
7 Elvis is King
8 Romney's goldbuggery
9 Speaking of Rockwell-ian insanity...
10 Warhammer 40,000
11 Getting a life
12 For future reference
13 Wait
14 Thanks
15 On the Hoxha article
16 good lord
17 Please stop
19 Here
20 It doesn't work that way.
21 Hey Revolverman
22 Blocking ips like you just did.
23 I'm moving to your talk page out of respect for everybody else.
24 You'll like this.
25 Revolverman
26 F-35 page?
27 Hey there
28 the BoN added a page breaking useless picture.
29 Hello
30 Gail Dines
31 You've been nominated!
Sysop[edit]
Apparently you're not. Now you are. Peter horas non numero nisi serenas 02:59, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
Rulez[edit]
Don't bin IPs. Block them. ТyAhoy! 00:50, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Never forget (Conspiracy Theories)[edit]
Conspiracy theories are so well hidden and deep the average person knows NOTHING about them, but so incompetent that those who know the truth easily found it and are avoiding being silenced while they share it. --il'Dictator Mikal 02:45, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Even if it goes no-where, I do get an odd pleasure of debating conspiracy theorists and walling off their escape hatches and seeing what they twist and spin. --Revolverman (talk) 02:55, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
I wanted to see if this would be restored too, or just ignored. It wasn't. Very interesting. --Revolverman (talk) 04:24, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
Navigation templates[edit]
OK, where should I start...
There should be at most one navigation template per article. More are pointless and distracting and displace content, especially images.
Just because an article is in a certain category doesn't mean it should have the navigation template for that category, especially if it already has one.
There are better thing you can do in mainspace rather than robotically adding navigation templates.
Don't complain that someone is reverting your mass changes without giving justification if you haven't given justification for making the mass change in the first place.--ZooGuard (talk) 10:00, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Ok then, what is the justification for some pages under the template having it and another in the same template NOT having it? Or some doubled up, but some can't be? --Revolverman (talk) 10:02, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
I think you may be confusing (navigation) templates and categories. As I tried to explain - navigation templates take page space and user attention. They are intended to point the user to other pages on the same topic. If the topic/category is secondary to the article at hand, adding a template is pointless and distracting. If the page contains multiple images in the right field, adding a template will force them to the bottom, and moving the images to the left leads to formatting problem with the text, especially on smaller screens. There are also cases when articles are not well categorized - then you need to fix the categories instead of automatically adding a template.
If you notice a page with "doubled up" templates, it was probably some other Aspie getting over-enthusiastic. Feel free to leave only the one you decide is the most relevant. In all cases, try using some common sense.
tl;dr - navigation templates are not page decoration, but a tool. Use them with discernment.--ZooGuard (talk) 10:22, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Brx[edit]
Please see the friendly message of advice left on Brx's page. It shouldn't be too hard for him to follow. AceThe Rep Grows Bigger 04:50, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Elvis is King[edit]
I'm not doing anything apart from trying to get rid of sock accounts. Elvis is King, AKA James Wilson, is completely obsessed with Ameriwiki and Taylor Swift. He is not playing with a full deck. --SamCoulter (talk) 03:22, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Makes me wish that Rumor that Nx kept the checkuser program going was true. --Revolverman (talk) 03:24, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
I don't think we really need CheckUser to work out who's behind this. Just ask Colonel Sanders about this stroker. He's been doing this at AW for months. --SamCoulter (talk) 03:25, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
For the IP. Right now, I don't know anyway from anyone spamming new accounts like this. Though thinking about it, he's likely employing proxies. --Revolverman (talk) 03:27, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
He must be. I blocked a couple of his socks and checked "Prevent logged in users from editing from this IP." No effect. --SamCoulter (talk) 03:30, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Are you sure it's him? All he did was the "X Loves Taylor Swift" accounts. I don't recall any sexually vulgar references from him. Perhaps it's MC or some other troll pretendind to be Jimmy? --Colonel Sanders (talk) 03:30, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
We really don't know, just because he saids its him, doesn't mean a thing on the Internet. --Revolverman (talk) 03:32, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
I think Jimmy has had the benefit of enough doubts already. His previous behaviour makes it quite obvious that he's insane. --SamCoulter (talk) 03:33, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
So how many more times are you going to mention "James is insane!"?Mikal Harass Follow 03:35, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Sanity is overrated. Peter Rapidly running out of marmite 03:36, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
(EC×3) Most likely Tor. The only thing half productive that can be done is clean the names from RC, but that will just encourage him. We need to find a tech to add "samcoulter" to the appropriate edit filter. Peter Rapidly running out of marmite 03:33, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Well, screw him. I'm going to bed, so if I'm the target of all this shite he'll hopefully stop. --SamCoulter (talk) 03:36, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Isn't there an option to block anyone trying to edit or create accounts from a Tor on MediaWiki? --Revolverman (talk) 03:37, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
As I understand it that would increase the amount of time edits took to get through immensely, at least for innocent BoNs/account makers. Plus there was a vote against it a few years ago I think. Peter Rapidly running out of marmite 03:38, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
IT was mentioned back in april too, and not really any good support,--Mikal Harass Follow 03:39, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Fair enough. Any way to just zap the account when it pops up so it doesn't clutter anything? --Revolverman (talk) 03:40, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
You can 'hide' it, but it's still there (just can't be easily read). Peter Rapidly running out of marmite 03:41, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
I have to say, thats not good enough. This shit makes RW REALLY REALLY bad. Not great for attracting new editors or even donaters. --Revolverman (talk) 03:43, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Oh fuck, now hes hitting RWW. --Revolverman (talk) 03:59, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Shall we clean up the mess then? The result would be lots of things like the "(username removed)" at 3:35, though you only have to hide that part. Peter Rapidly running out of marmite 04:02, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
How can I help? --Revolverman (talk) 04:05, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Go to the user creation log and hit "show/hide" beside the entry. Then check the "Hide editor's username/IP address" button and press "apply." This adds another entry into RC, so you'll be needing to get Ninja powers off ty to become a bot and hide your hiding, so to speak. Peter Rapidly running out of marmite 04:11, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Great time for me to check RW/W for the first time in days. ТyNot updated with a witty slogan this week 04:04, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Having fun debating one of CP's finest admins? --Colonel Sanders (talk) 02:02, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Cool stor... oh, whoops. In fact, I am. --Revolverman (talk) 02:03, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
He's nuttier than Schlafly! --Colonel Sanders (talk) 02:04, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
I did see some Andy-esk talking points. I'm sad he never said "Deny this, and lose all credibility" Thats my fav. --Revolverman (talk) 02:06, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
He did use "You're clueless" [1] --Colonel Sanders (talk) 02:10, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
So he did! I didn't even see that. --Revolverman (talk) 02:12, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
I bet he'll use the "Deny this..." in time. Also, what's his deal about me and Swift? I don't remember Schlafly hating on her... Damn mini-Schlafly--Colonel Sanders (talk) 02:14, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Hmmm... he's more of a Mini-Rob with those left turns into nothing statements of his. --Revolverman (talk) 02:20, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Needs more McCarthyism for that.--Colonel Sanders (talk) 02:26, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Looks like plenty to me. --Revolverman (talk) 02:27, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Is he still going? --Colonel Sanders (talk) 02:29, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Awww ya, he seems to be getting very confused though. --Revolverman (talk) 02:30, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Do you deny, sir, that the imbecile you're talking to loves Taylor???--Elvis is King (talk) 02:35, 24 August 2012 (UTC) Cool Story, Bro. --Revolverman (talk) 01:54, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
Romney's goldbuggery[edit]
Is Mitt Romney economically illiterate? Yes. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 05:51, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Makes me sad I use to buy that shit, hook, line, and sinker. Fiat money is going to fail, and all that Austrian school horseshit. I was a very dumb teenager. Wish drugs were my youthful indiscretion. --Revolverman (talk) 17:35, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
We all did stupid things as teenagers. ТyBored 17:42, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Very stupid in my case, but it did lead to a joke that since gold is basically worthless as Fiat when boiled down to its use, a friend of mine said whats needed is a rice and grain backed currency. --Revolverman (talk) 17:44, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
I recall a moron who felt we should use tin. ТyBored 17:48, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
If we could turn back the clock before the 1880s, we could have a nice Aluminum backed currency!--Revolverman (talk) 17:54, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Recovering Paulbot or did you just really like gold (unfortunate schmelting accidents and all that)? Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 18:23, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
MY WINKIE IS NOT A KEY!, but ya recovering Paulbot. I'm not even American and I bought into him. I think I really stopped buying into it all when I found his verious racist/sexist/anti-science stances and having a SUPER paulbot friend tell me it was all miss information spread by his enemies. It was there I realized how deep into conspiracy land I was going. Never gave up my pro-gun beliefs though. Economically, I'm a workist. Whatever works, use it. --Revolverman (talk) 18:31, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Ah, smearing the good name of Dr. Paul, eh? The end the Fed/goldbuggery stuff is pretty amusing in how much of a crank magnet it is, attracting support from the Austrian schoolers, Randroids, conspiracy nuts of various stripes (especially those worried about the Jooish bankstahs), neo-Nazis, etc. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 18:47, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
I don't know if the idea itself that draws them, Paul himself buys it all, or he's just willing to hop into bed with any group to add strength to his career. --Revolverman (talk) 18:49, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
I don't think Paul buys a lot of the nuttier stuff, but he knows which side his bread is buttered on. For example, I actually agree with the Paulbots that he probably didn't write the racist newsletters -- insiders seem to agree that the publication was hijacked for the purposes of the Rockwell-Rothbard campaign. However, Paul hasn't actually held anyone accountable for this because Rockwell and his acolytes are Paul's primary propagandists (and Rothbard is dead anyway). See also this post, which explains the affinity of neo-Confederates for goldbuggery. Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 19:04, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Oh Lew Rockwell. Fuck that fart sniffing shithead. Even when I was 100% drinking the Austrian Kool-aid I still couldn't stand reading anything he wrote as he was so far up his own ass, it could be called deep core mining. Even my super Paul-bot friend I talked about before joined me in jumping off any support for Lewy-boy after the face melting idiocy that was his defense of BP oil, and how mean the people in the gulf were for being pissed they split billions of barrels of crude everywhere. Then when that was clearly going nowhere, flipping to "Oil is 100% natural, so it can't cause any environmental damage!". Why he even defended BP I have no clue, because he (rightly) throws United Fruit under the bus for its action in Latin America, while BP, when it was still the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, had the fucking Shah of Iran installed in a coup. Fucking moron he is, and thats not even getting into his masturbatory fantasies about Somalia. Er... I kinda ranted there. --Revolverman (talk) 19:14, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘Ah, great moments in Rockwell-ian insanity. United Fruit gets thrown under the bus because it runs counter to his isolationism. The BP spill didn't, so "free" enterprise must be defended! Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 19:38, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
It's even greater when other free enterprise people pointed out BP basically killed all fishing, and tourism industries in the gulf with the blowout, and all Lewy-boy could counter with was "Well, they don't make as much money as BP, so they weren't REALLY hurt by the spill." and "How about how bad BP is hurting with the loss of the oil well. Why don't you think about them?" or completely turn into non sequitur with "HOW EVIL is it that the Government is making BP pay for cleaning up the damage and paying out for the economic losses? COMMU-NAZIISM!" --Revolverman (talk) 19:46, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
Speaking of Rockwell-ian insanity...[edit]
Ron Paul 4 Nobel! Nebuchadnezzar (talk) 21:25, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Apparently, that site is unaware that Dr. Paul isn't apposed to war, he just feels that the best group to do it is uncontrollable mercenaries. Nothing like having the US Military replaced with Blackwater! --Revolverman (talk) 21:31, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Oh, sorry Academi. Way to make your little private army sound like a liberal arts school Princy boy. --Revolverman (talk) 21:32, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
Warhammer 40,000[edit]
Do you play? If so, which army? --TheLateGatsby (talk) 23:08, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
I tried, but I just didn't have the head for it. I liked the Imperial Guard. --Revolverman (talk) 23:10, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Fair enough. I do play Imperial Guard. Do you play other wargames? I've always wanted to get into Warmachine, by Privateer Press. --TheLateGatsby (talk) 00:26, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Nope, I found I'm just no tabletop general. --Revolverman (talk) 00:28, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Understandable. I envy you, I've spent way too much money on this hobby. --TheLateGatsby (talk) 00:51, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
There are some pictures of my guardsmen and ADK's 'nids lying around somewhere. ТyJFBAA 03:47, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
I used to play with my brother. I had a Space Marine army, and he had an Eldar army. He used to annoy the crap out of me by camping with most of his troops while his falcon tank's targeting computer allowed him to pick off my troops and retreat to safety over and again. It was about the time I procured a heavy weapons squad with a laser cannon that suspiciously enough, he lost interest in the game.--"Shut up, Brx." 01:06, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Another reason I stopped playing 40K was that the fluff for it was just too fucking insane and Grim-dark for my liking, also Matt Ward (Wonder if anyone will react to that name here.) --Revolverman (talk) 03:51, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
KILL the Spiritual Liege. ТyJFBAA 04:03, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
UltraSmurfs! (Christ, how do I know so much about the 40K Fandom?) --Revolverman (talk) 04:04, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Space Marine-Necrons Team-up. Grey Knights making the ultra smurfs look like conscript squads. There are no words, only hate. ТyJFBAA 04:09, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
There is always Creed... --Revolverman (talk) 04:14, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
ТyJFBAA 04:18, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that picture is actually properly uploaded to the site, and not a hotlink. --Revolverman (talk) 04:27, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
Getting a life[edit]
If you're worried about not having a life why not set yourself some tasks offline? i spend a lot of time in front of a computer but later this morning I'm going to my local swimming pool which I enjoy. You may not like swimming,
Find one or more things that you like doing offline and make sure that you do things you like offline regularly.
Plan in advance when you will do those things and see to it that you do them.
Do you think spending too much time in front of a computer is bad for you? Proxima Centauri (talk) 06:25, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
For future reference[edit]
It's "run the gamut," not "run the gamete." Running a gamete is slightly impossible :-) Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments. 05:56, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Now that I look at it, I see that. I'm an idiot. *slaps head*. Thanks for helping iron out my re-write of the Deadliest Warrior page though!--Revolverman (talk) 06:00, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
Wait[edit]
Shortwave? As in Radio?--Mikal Harass Follow 06:19, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Yup. One of my hobbies is scanning Shortwave bands for anything interesting. Hard to do in the City, I've found. --Revolverman (talk) 07:25, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
HAve you heard Kjes? I'm looking for somebody that isnt random shortwave forum posters. --Mikal Harass Follow 07:28, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
No I haven't, Station or Website? If station, whats the band? --Revolverman (talk) 07:30, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
According to this website its one of these. Here for what we have on it. --Mikal Harass Follow 07:34, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Oh! KJES! I've never picked that up, but I DID once find some sort of hyper-libertarian Shortwave show on the tail end of it that was talking about gold and chem-trails once. --Revolverman (talk) 07:36, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
I miss so much by not having a shortwave. My friend in Quebec is trying to catch Kjes sometime since last week. --Mikal Harass Follow 07:38, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
In a Valley in a city doesn't help. Last time I was out camping, my radio was busted, so I couldn't pick up anything but the local CBC. I got Cuba a few times, Australia, and China. Oh, and this freaky as hell station once. It just white noise with some random person (it always sounded like a different person) saying some weird shit like "God and the Devil always dance for two." --Revolverman (talk) 07:41, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
I love this country sometimes. --Mikal Harass Follow 07:45, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
I think it had to be the SW equivalent of trolling or something, or a parody on those fucked up religious stations on SW now, because he was downing God as much as they were talking about how bad the devil was. Is there some weird sect that believes in, but rejects both God and the Devil? --Revolverman (talk) 07:48, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Given theres a sect that believes 666 is actually a holy number of god and thus tattooed it on themselves, i wouldnt be surprised if there was. --Mikal Harass Follow 07:53, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Well,learn something new every day then. I wonder if they are still even broadcasting anymore now. Makes me wish I was around during the 80s, and the peak of numbers stations. --Revolverman (talk) 07:57, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
just wait for the new cold war --Mikal Harass Follow 08:01, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Well, I doubt that would spark them again, with the ease of the Internet over ultra-high powered SW transmitters that can be picked up by civvies and counter-intel. --Revolverman (talk) 08:03, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
time machine? If Titor wasnt a lying bastard, we have just 20 more years to go.--Mikal Harass Follow 08:05, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
This guy? Wish I could find that picture someone claimed was from the civil war that showed him dressed up as a Union solider. --Revolverman (talk) 08:08, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Found it! --Revolverman (talk) 08:11, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Far to long since i really looked him up to remember. --Mikal Harass Follow 08:13, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
I personalty like the idea that the world's first time travler had a sweet ass mullet. --Revolverman (talk) 08:16, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
Thanks[edit]
I have been arguing with EvDebs all throughout three days. I think he is personally invested in A+ to not see things rationally when points are against him.
Update* Sorry I won't again, but I think the user has serious issues with regards to our discussion and on top of that he keeps vandalising my post.
No problem, and I wouldn't know, I don't even remotely follow Atheism at large, let alone Atheism+ --Revolverman (talk) 02:21, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
On the Hoxha article[edit]
See its talk page. — Unsigned, by: Ismail / talk / contribs
good lord[edit]
Using that test thing, i get a download rate of 5-20ish Mb/s, and upload of 2-6 mb. This is the modern age, stop having such terrible internet. --Mikal Harass Follow 06:51, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
175 kb/s if I'm lucky. The joy of the Canadian Telecommunications monopoly shared between Bell, Telus, and Rogers. --Revolverman (talk) 06:54, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Cox provides pretty decent internet service, though it has a habit of going down for a second or so every so often. Time was it was pretty much near monopolizing this town for internet, cable and landlines.--Mikal Harass Follow 07:02, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Sadly they don't do business in Canada, so I'm still stuck with Telus. Not that I'd expect anyone to provide faster net, since this fucking hick city's net infrastructure likely still runs on moisten wool and cans. --Revolverman (talk) 07:05, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
My canadian friends, atleast the ones who arent hiding in Quebec, say much of the same (my Quebecian friends are to busy being communist anarchists)--Mikal Harass Follow 07:13, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Yup, if I recall, Canada is dead last in net infrastructure for the first world. Thanks CRTC. Keep pushing that Canadian content no one fucking wants. --Revolverman (talk) 07:15, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
but... i like some canadian content D: . --Mikal Harass Follow 07:18, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Well, I misspoke. More like CRTC supports Canadian CORPORATE content no one fucking wants. --Revolverman (talk) 07:19, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
silly british Tradition media. If the other colonies had just revolted with us, you wouldnt have to deal with such a silly problem!--Mikal Harass Follow 07:26, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Please stop[edit]
I really have nothing against you and I admire your sentiment but I can't let you keep blocking Dirk Steele for 3 months. Please reconsider. Blue Talk 21:11, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Why? What has Dirk done that suggests that he will ever be anything but some nutzo crank who WILL derail any topic anywhere to blab about his pet topics and throw really poor, sexually aggressive insults when someone calls him out on it? Why do we feel like this site (that already has a bad reputation, at least community wise) need someone like that around? --Revolverman (talk) 21:14, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Is there anyway that you can restrict him to his talk page or a forum? Man of Perspective 21:18, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
There's something to be said for the Paradox of Tolerance, and it seems extremely common in the thought process of the "mob" here, and on the site administration of other places--Just relax, and stay funny (talk) 21:20, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
So you're saying I should be tolerant of violent spammers? Because this site has an entire page for a man who is just like Dirk, besides his issue is Atheism rather then Psychology. --Revolverman (talk) 21:24, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
(EC)Because we are our own worst enemy. Look at all the people who objected to a two-week block of the guy. I'm on your side, I really am, but I can't presume that my opinion deserves precedence over anyone else's and their dog's. If I did, then I might be a real moderator, but we can't have that on the troll haven we want to maintain! Blue Talk 21:22, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
As such, the fall on my sword bit. I will happely give up my rights to block Dirk. --Revolverman (talk) 21:24, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
?[edit]
I'm not sure to what you refer, or if you are criticizing me or Blue. It's not too much of a big deal, really, but just confusing. sterilesporadic heavy hitter 21:53, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Honestly? Everyone. Its kinda sad when the home of love and tolerance Conservapedia has its regulars get along SO much better then here. We're too busy taking potshots, or letting magnormus assholes like Dirk run around JUST to score points off each other. It needs to change. --Revolverman (talk) 21:59, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Ignore Dirk. Don't feed the troll. It's not hard. If quotes about getting over grudges and forgiveness are not about love and tolerance, then I'm truly confused. sterilesporadic heavy hitter 22:09, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Ignoring him doesn't help, since he'll happily T-bone any discussion at 220 KpH to rant about how evil we, and psychology is. --Revolverman (talk) 22:11, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Yes it does. It's a perfect way to kill a wiki, as Purple Scissors and PJR will tell you. Trolls only want attention. Unfortunately, RW loves to give it to them. Read if you must, grumble after you do, wait two weeks and revert slowly. The troll will be gone becuase you have not fed it. Dirk doesn't bother me because I haven't really read anything he writes. It's no that hard. sterilesporadic heavy hitter 22:28, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
Much like they told me about bullies when I was in school, ignoring them doesn't really stop if they just like causing damage. --Revolverman (talk) 22:31, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
The damage he has caused is immense. IMMENSE. Tielec01 (talk) 09:21, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Ya, McDonald's will stick kick you out if you dump all the straws on the floor too. --Revolverman (talk) 09:29, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Here[edit]
RationalWiki:Community_Standards. Want to change something, bring it up on the talk page, enjoy status quo worship. Tyshenanigans 23:21, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Call it a Putsch then. --Revolverman (talk) 23:23, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Eh? Tyshenanigans 23:24, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Site history joke. --Revolverman (talk) 23:26, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
TOO MANY TABS. Tyshenanigans 23:27, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
TOO MANY LIMES, TOO MANY LIMES! (no one here will get that) --Revolverman (talk) 23:28, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Nope, sorry. Tyshenanigans 23:30, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Am I the only pro-wrestling fan on this site? --Revolverman (talk) 23:32, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Most likely. Tyshenanigans 23:32, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Well that kinda fucking sucks. --Revolverman (talk) 23:34, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
mmh. Tyshenanigans 23:35, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
So, When are you going to strip my Sysop rights? --Revolverman (talk) 23:36, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
It doesn't work that way.[edit]
Knock it off. Theory of Practice "Now we stand outcast and starving 'mid the wonders we have made." 23:41, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Hasn't he wished you get RAPED? And you're cool with the fact he's abusing the rules to harass people? --Revolverman (talk) 23:42, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
New Year's Resolution #2344; trying to not worry about what people wish upon me on the internet. New Year's Resolution #456: No Drama. We have rules. You can't break them to maintain them. It's like burning down the village to save it. You want to ban him? Coop him. I am about to give you your powers back. If you abuse them I will Coop you. Theory of Practice "Now we stand outcast and starving 'mid the wonders we have made." 23:46, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Coop? Has anything ever happened because the Coop ToP? I'm not going to start that up again, because I didn't care for spamming the RC and I don't want to annoy people here I like, but my point still stands. I will do something about Dirk. --Revolverman (talk) 23:47, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Yes. Uncle Ho was banned for death threats once. You want something done with Dirk, you have options. 1) you can does as ToP suggest and use the Coop. You probably will be filibustered. You can attempt to modify the CS. You will be filibustered. Tyshenanigans 23:51, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
Filibuster? I hardly know 'er! Theory of Practice "Now we stand outcast and starving 'mid the wonders we have made." 23:54, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
You just fill people with confidence, don't you Ty? Also, hasn't Dirk done that to something like 4 other people, get Cooped, and have fuck all happen? ToP, you wonder why I really don't think the Coop is really a legitimate route? --Revolverman (talk) 23:55, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
(EC)^An example. Distractions, distractions distractions. Sock puppetry. Accusations of aspie fascism. RW is not fun anymore. Just like CP. ZOMG brxbrx. How do you know were you there. Accusations of taking over. Emails sent. Phones called. IMs on overdrive. Status Quo is God. Tyshenanigans 23:57, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
So, you tell me to use something, then list reasons why using it will be nothing more then a waste of electrons in a computer screen? Heh, I wonder if any one else gets the humor of this situation. --Revolverman (talk) 00:01, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm a bitter old man. Ignore me. Not like I've ever said anything worthwhile anyway. Tyshenanigans 00:02, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Don't go Emo on me. I already have too many close friends suffering depression this time of year. --Revolverman (talk) 00:03, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Is there a fight breaking out? Please tell me there's a fight breaking out. I am very bored, and there's nothing good on TV right now. Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments. 00:04, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm trying to get rid of Dirk, Ty is restoring him, and ToP threatened to Coop me like the anything happens in the Coop. --Revolverman (talk) 00:06, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
The Coop is where applied ethics goes to die. Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments. 00:08, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
I thought it was where time went to die, that or productive work. --Revolverman (talk) 00:09, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Hey Revolverman[edit]
don't you think your username is a little insensitive to the victims of gun violence? nobsSay hello to my leetle friend 18:30, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Cool Story, Bro. --Revolverman (talk) 19:59, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Theory of Practice "...and we do love you madly." 18:38, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Yah what's the first song, The Tax Man, angry wingnut crap. Does Revolver have that misogynist anthem by John Lennon, Run for your life, or is that Rubber Soul? nobsSay hello to my leetle friend 21:08, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
Blocking ips like you just did.[edit]
Just a few hours, not a few months. Thanks! Theory of Practice "...and we do love you madly." 22:09, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm not looking at the time. I'm just clicking as fast as I can to keep up. Sorry for that. --Revolverman (talk) 22:10, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm moving to your talk page out of respect for everybody else.[edit]
Okay you're wrong about both Montreal and the Ottawa Valley being majority English. That's one thing. Which makes me wonder about where you're coming from on this whole question. I'm not one of those people who thinks "if you're not one of us, you can never understand us." That would be silly for me, as I'm a white guy who researches black history for a living. But I do believe that if we're going to talk about people and histories and places, we owe it to those people and histories and places to do more listening, reading, and asking, and less pontificating and making big, bold statements. Quebec is a complicated place with a long history of things like racism and bigotry and misunderstanding and walking all over people's rights. Just like everywhere else in the world, but with its own historical dynamics. If you don't know those histories and dynamics, and try to see a place as though it's just like some model of how politics works, you'll never get what's going on. Here. it's a question of greater good--getting to put up a sign in English,, being able to attend a minority language school, or the survival of something fragile--an island of French, historically hemmed in by stronger cultures and economies. Polar Bear In the Jungle Peter Tosh > Bob Marley 00:34, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Ok, I admit I was wrong about the demographics of Montreal and the Ottawa valley, however there are still places in Quebec where French is not the main language. My main problem is not its attempts to protect its culture and languages, of course not. It's the fact that they stomp all over minority rights for it. You say yourself you study Black history. You should know Southern US Jim Crow Laws had wide support among the White majority. Yes I know, Bill 101 and the Quebec Language laws were no where near the level of Jim Crow, where there was active disenfranchisement. That doesn't make it any better though. It's still the Majority stepping on the Minority. I really question your claims of the Quebecois culture being "fragile". Its always been hemmed by the stronger culture and economies of British/English Canada, and the United States. However, even when it was under direct attack, its never vanished. Why on earth is under such risk now --Revolverman (talk) 00:48, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
"They stomp all over minority rights." Let's be clear about this. You have the right to a trial in a provincial court in English. You have the right to fill out your provincial tax return in English. You can get a birth certificate in English. You can vote in English. If you went to school in Canada in English, your kid can go to school in English. You can attend college or university in English regardless of anything else. These are all things you would be hard-pressed, if not completely unable to do if you were a Francophone living in any other province except New Brunswick. So if we're talking about "stomping all over minority rights," we also have to take into account the extent to which minority rights are protected in Quebec. And like I said, it's at risk now because it's still hemmed in. There's a difference between being a place where a culture and language can thrive and develop and being a museum piece, not dead, maybe, but not living in any meaningful sense of the word. In a time where capital and culture no longer respect borders, it's more important than ever to create a place where an isolated and minority culture can not only survive, but create ways to grow and thrive. It's not just about "not vanishing."
Do I wish that sometimes silly sign laws and narrow-minded nationalism weren't part of the equation? Of course I do, I'm a cosmopolitan guy. But at the end of the day, as the child of a francophone father and an anlo mother who did his growing up in an anglo suburban enclave, I'm grateful that 101 forced me to be able to engage with, contribute to, and take from the French Quebecois culture. Polar Bear In the Jungle Peter Tosh > Bob Marley 01:13, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
You'll like this.[edit]
I never said they were competent. Polar Bear in the Jungle Peter Tosh > Bob Marley 03:01, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
If I was PQ president, I'd order Piss tests for the deputy house leader. I'd have to assume that lack of attention and confustion had to be somewhat chemically caused. --Revolverman (talk) 03:06, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Now the french are really pissing me off with the Habs blowing a 3-0 lead VS the Lightning. --Revolverman (talk) 03:21, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
A world where the Leafs make the playoffs and the Habs don't is not a world I will live in. Therrien won't keep his job past Easter if shit doesn't get better. Polar Bear in the Jungle Peter Tosh > Bob Marley 03:31, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Quite. Thank god we pulled out in the shootout. Don't need that 6-0 nightmare from a few days ago again. --Revolverman (talk) 03:33, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
Revolverman[edit]
What kind of revolver? TyJFBAA 20:03, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
hmmm... The S&W Model 29 is tried and true, but that .44 magnum is for the most part overkill in anything but defending yourself from a bear. Mateba Autorevolver is damn good looking, and it fires the .357 magnum. Thats a nice one. The Colt SAA is another classic one, but then I don't want to be stepping on Ocelot's toes. The Webley is a darkhorse for me. It's got that British charm. I'd have to say one of those. --Revolverman (talk) 22:44, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I had an ancient H&R .22 calibre. Inaccurate to the point of useless. TyJFBAA 23:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Hey, some collector might want it. Revolvers also have at least one person willing to pay top dollar for it. --Revolverman (talk) 01:08, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
F-35 page?[edit]
If you do make a page about the wastes that are the F-35 and F-22, please do let me know. I have plenty of defense industry resources I could help track down and add. Even though my employer has done some contracted work on parts for both, having seen how Lockheed approaches both projects and how the defense industry's own periodicals laugh at both projects just makes me cringe when I have to deal with our F-35 work we do. Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 09:34, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Will do. You had to work with Lockheed? Did they have a picture of the Pentagon on the wall that they gathered around and laughed at? --Revolverman (talk) 10:04, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
A section of my company specializes in producing military aerospace parts, and we made parts for the F-22 and still make parts for the F-35 (I don't mean to be vague, but I am honoring non-disclosure here). I've only visited the Lockheed assembly building in Georgia for the F-22s once, and never the assembly plant in Texas for the F-35. Given that I've only ever talked with engineering staff, we've always avoided talking about the viability of the planes. Though I did have an R&D guy from BAE Systems once tell me that, in his opinion, the F-35 was obsolete for today's climate before the first one was ever even built. Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 10:38, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm not shocked, given that these planes take about 20 years from the first blueprints before the prototype is rolled out. As you said too, the idea of manned, pure Air-to-Air fighters is obsolete in it of itself. My plan for the page was the first part would be explaining why the F-35 is a bad plane on a technical level, and the second part explaining that even if the F-35 was a good plane, its job no longer exists. --Revolverman (talk) 10:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Give me a couple days here to find you some sources, but I'm sure I can look around and get them. IIRC, I once read that "the F-35's blueprints go through, at minimum, 30 revision changes every day!" I really want to find that one. Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 10:51, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Sounds good. I'll make a rough outline later today, hitting the points that I know about, and you can correct and add anything I missed or you know because you've done work with the plane itself. --Revolverman (talk) 10:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
We could, possibly, make it an article tied in the our article on military-industrial complex. I'm just curious, do you even know about the "alternative engine controversy" involving the F-35, or was that something mostly cared about in the circles of the defense/aerospace industry? Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 08:55, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Not 100% sure, but does that have to do with the fact it only has one engine with no backup in case of damage or failure, or the cracks that's showed up after some test flights a few weeks ago? --Revolverman (talk) 08:59, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Ah, so it was just a controversy limited to within defense-oriented circles. It actually surrounded the fact that Roles Royce and Northrup Grumman wanted a piece of that F-35 money pie, so they lobbied Congress to let them develop a secondary engine to the F-35 to, as you said, it could be there in case the primary engine failed and so that the F-35's costs could, somehow, be reduced by adding another engine. I remember when that whole thing was going down and I, thinking that having a "secret" level of clearance meant something, got a random ass call from Northrop Grumman asking me to call my senator or congressman and tell them the F-35 needs the secondary engine. I then asked them why they called and they responded "We have information that you work on the F-35 project, and we wanted to get as many people involved in it to support us as possible." Given my level of clearance, the one and only way they could've obtained that information is from the government itself. There is just no other possible way I can think of for them to have obtained that information. Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 09:06, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Holy shit, that is a total clusterfuck. I love how they say they need to just "add" an engine like its something that can be strapped on anywhere there is space on the plane like its a tactacool assault rifle. --Revolverman (talk) 09:10, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I know. The whole reason Congress finally killed the secondary engine idea was because it would've caused the entire F-35 JSA program to have to start over from scratch, costing triple what it already has for an airplane that has yet to be completed and released for general combat flight (according to Popular Science magazine, there are F-35s that have been completed, but they are still classified as "test only" vehicles and can only be flown by test pilots and are not considered combat-ready). Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 10:47, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Heh, wonderful. What should the lead be on it you think? The technical problems of the plane, or the incredible political clusterfuck around it? --Revolverman (talk) 10:50, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
Hypothetical lead: "The plane itself is a broken piece of crap and its an ongoing product of a horrifyingly inept political system. On top of that, even if the plane was perfect, the job it was supposed to do in the Air Force doesn't exist anymore." Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments. 20:46, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
That works. show the plane is shit, then why it ended up shit, and why it wouldn't matter if it wasn't shit. --Revolverman (talk) 20:55, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
The most interesting part to me is that the F-22 and F-35 are relics of the arms race. The military has, time and again, tried to justify the cost of both planes as "we need to be more advanced than China/North Korea/Russia with our air fleet, even though all three countries have said time and again they have no interest in developing so-called "fifth generation" aircraft, and that, while the F-22's technology is more advanced than anything they could compete with anytime soon, they'd rather spend the R&D money where is could actually be helpful. Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 09:05, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Well, its not just that. It LOOKS awesome. You could get cutting edge armor, gear and weapons for the men and woman on the ground, but that's not at all "cool", unlike the new 5th gen aircraft, or the hyper-carriers that are being made to replace the old hyper-carriers that are still way ahead of the curve and show no signs of losing it. I mean GIs are still using weapons that were developed in the 50s! --Revolverman (talk) 09:11, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
TyJFBAA 14:49, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Looking at your sandbox article, I think it's ready for the prime-time. Sure, it's still not pretty. But let it go into the wild so that it may flourish. Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 08:48, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Heh, glad someone likes it! : P --Revolverman (talk) 08:49, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Hey there[edit]
I get around, what can I say! I enjoy RW too much not to contribute from time to time :) Tagaziel (talk) 20:15, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Sounds good! That was about my line of thinking when I joined too. --Revolverman (talk) 20:17, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Hey, thanks! I'll put it to good use. I have even fewer excuses to stay away now. Work still remains a problem! Tagaziel (talk) 20:28, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
Haha, easy choice. You do good work on the other Wikis. --Revolverman (talk) 20:31, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
the BoN added a page breaking useless picture.[edit]
You're right. I went back to fix it, but got distracted by the fact I had to unblock myself after an unwarranted hour-long black. And then unblock my IP after an unwarranted hour-long black. Sorry I missed it in the first place. TeenageWasteland (talk) 19:58, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
No big, I admit I was lazy just hitting the undo button with that. --Revolverman (talk) 20:04, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello[edit]
Generally speaking, re-editing somebody else's talkpage comments is against the rules. Please keep this in mind in the future. Thanks for your cooperation and continued support of the RationalWiki project. Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 05:20, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
I know, and normally I wouldn't, but hey, no one was missing the original message. Also, you don't need to treat me like I'm new here : P --Revolverman (talk) 05:25, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
I know, but I just got off work, and am trying to moderate my instinctive management tone. Otherwise, I would've come off as a complete asshole just now. Reckless Noise Symphony (talk) 05:28, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
I see. --Revolverman (talk) 06:03, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Gail Dines[edit]
First of all, I'm sorry to hear you got fucked on your paycheck by the rat bastards. Second, I miss your old username, but you gotta do what's right for you. Third, do you care to explain your recent rollback of all my edits on the Gail Dines page? Rand0 (talk) 10:44, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
A) Thanks, hopefully its been fixed, but we'll see. B) This has always been my user name on the site... is something happening I missed? C) Radical tonal shifts on pages done unilaterally are no-nos on the site. I've never heard of the person in question honestly. Just enforcing site tradition. --Revolverman (talk) 13:09, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
I thought your old name was NuttyRoux? It was not a unilateral radical tonal shift. I have heard of the subject in question and have studied her work. I explained on the article creator's userpage that unless he provided evidence of transphobia, it wasn't going to fly. Then, I myself went about looking for evidence of transphobia in her writing/speeches/off the cuff remarks. I found nothing. After nine or ten days of the article creator failing themselves to find evidence, I decided to protect RW from a defamation lawsuit, a.k.a: make the article on mission. I should note that the one reference on the page neither alleges transphobia nor is anything remotely credible (although it happens that the article correctly identifies Dines as a Marxist, but her own words could be cited there). I'm going to revert the page back to how it was before the rollback and edit the talk page to explain why. Rand0 (talk) 20:14, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
Perhaps this would clarify your conclusion?--ZooGuard (talk) 20:19, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
More like my confusion. Rand0 (talk) 00:22, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Given my problems with Nutty, I find it hilarious you thought I was him.--Revolverman (talk) 00:53, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
You've been nominated![edit]
Over here. 142.124.55.236 (talk) 03:23, 2 November 42015 AQD (UTC)
Campaign here! Serocco 06:25, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
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Born in the middle of winter on Vancouver Island, British Columbia amid ferns, moss, trees, the ocean, and abundant rain, the natural elements were Robyn's primary influence.
Since early childhood she was encouraged to pursue her need to make things.
Then along came the influence of human relationships; mindfulness practices; compassionate communication; circus arts; dance; the wonders of cutting-edge biology; cosmology; travel; languages; culture. These would guide her through a decade-long endeavor of soul-searching, blood, sweat, and tears of joy (& sorrow), known as a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. Thank you Montreal, Mexico, Vancouver Island!
She now shares a studio with a much respected colleague, and they are living happily ever after in production of plenty more beautiful questions than answers!
The imagery and symbols that come through Robyn's work encourage one's gaze inward to the cellular realms. There, one discovers playful depictions of chemical processes; they are the basis for the macrocosm, and our human consciousness becomes an interface between the seen and the unseen worlds.
Her involvement in production is the spark, but the viewer fans the flame of dialogue with the piece.
In the land of titles and occupations, it would be easy for her to say she is a ceramicist, when asked. In truth, the scope of her endeavors includes as wide a range of media as she can get her hands on. It is cross-pollination and mixing of media that truly turns her proverbial crank, as each medium informs the next, and something novel occurs when combining two or more. She envisions herself as more of a ‘matter-amalgamating nexus point in space-time,’ than as a ‘creator of artwork.’ She does her best to get out of the way and let the ideas roam wild and free through the landscape of her body.
There are myriad materials, and more ideas. Some are fortunate enough to be in the proper place and moment to tease out harmonious proportions of each simultaneously. Robyn gets a glimpse of this from time to time, gratefully. These moments set the bar high, and become a experiences worth working for and sharing with whomever is inspired to take part.
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In January many book bloggers tend to publish plans — or reading resolutions — for the year ahead. Normally, I don’t bother. But last October, when I was travelling around Australia, an idea slowly began to ferment in my brain: could I devote a whole year to reading exclusively Australian literature?
You see, every time I go back “home” I stock up on Australian books to bring back to the UK with me. I’m a light traveller, so it’s not normally a problem to squeeze up to 12kg worth of novels in my suitcase on the return leg. But what happens to those books when I get back to London? Sometimes I read one or two, but most go on the top shelf of my wardrobe — and get promptly forgotten about.
Indeed, over Christmas and New Year, as I sorted out my enormous TBR — an exercise which took three days — I found titles I cannot even recall buying (hello Together Alone by Jeff Apter and Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook).
As well as weeding out about 150 novels to go to charity, I also filled a 90-litre plastic box with translated fiction and another with British and American fiction, both of which have been put into storage for a year. I then created space on top of my wardrobe for Irish fiction (about 140 novels) and a shelf in my living room for fiction from Canada, New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries. That left me with a huge pile of Australian literature, all of which has now been scanned into GoodReads and shelved in a prominent position. The grand total?
128 books!
So, over the course of the next 12 months, in an attempt to make a dent in my TBR, I’m going to read nothing but those Australian books. Fortunately, because my tastes are so wide-ranging, this collection of Australian literature — bought here in London and in various book shops in Australia — includes an eclectic mix of old classics, rock biographies, memoirs, psychological thrillers, literary fiction and non-fiction. I tend to let my mood dictate what to read next, so there’s plenty here to ensure I never feel as though my reading is being dictated by an inflexible agenda.
You can see all the books in my reading list on my Australian literature shelf at GoodReads. I don’t expect this to remain a static list — publishers invariably send me books for review (usually non-solicited) and these may well include an Australian title or two, which will get promptly added to the mix. My aim is to read around 80 books in total. The only rule is that the book needs to be written by an Australian (or by someone who lives in Australia and has been published by an Australian publisher).
I hope you’ll enjoy following my exploits and perhaps I’ll introduce you to a new favourite book or author along the way. Do feel to join in in whichever way you feel able — perhaps you could read an Australian novel (or two), suggest ones for me to read or simply comment on my reviews. I’m really excited about the reading year ahead…
UPDATE (17 January)
I’ve signed up to do the Australian Women Writers Challenge, so books reviewed this year by Australian women will count towards my goal of reading at least 30 books by women.
You can find out more about the challenge via the official website.
January 9, 2016 by kimbofo Australian literature, OzLit, Reading Australia 2016
97 thoughts on “A year of OzLit: Reading Australia 2016”
hastanton says:
Fab ! Look forward to discovering some new writers via you !!!
poppypeacockpens says:
Me too… will have a good look through your list on the off chance I’ve any (on actual or wishlist shelves)… or on the read pile
kimbofo says:
Thanks for your support, Poppy. If there’s none on your wishlist now I aim to change that very soon 😉
Had a quick glance: got a few Helen Fitzgerald on the TBR & Viral on pre-order…
Thanks, Helen, I’m really looking forward to this project: it’s like having my own little Aussie bookstore in my living room.
Love the list! I’ve actually read two of them! (All the Birds, Singing and Shame and the Captives). Would love to read more. I’ll dip into your list during the year and see if I can find any in local libraries. It’s hard to find Ozlit in USA libraries.
Thanks, Martha. Australian writers generally get a bad deal and very few get published outside of Australia, so this is my little way of giving them some international exposure. I plan to provide availability details under each review to make it a little easier for US and UK readers to find the title.
A good, useful idea. Thank you.
orangepekoereviews says:
I love this idea! I have always adored Aussie fiction but appreciate it so much more since living in London the last 8 years. I only have about 15 on my shelf but hope to get through them all this year. Will be watching your posts with interest… 😊
I know *exactly* what you mean. I never read Australian fiction when I lived there. (And I spent 6 years working in bookshops!) But over the past decade I’ve come to appreciate it more, perhaps because it offers a link back home.
I wonder if any of your 15 titles are the same as the ones on my list?
Best of luck with your best intentions! I look forward to the reviews. No pressure… 🙂
Hehe, Joe. I have created a bit of a challenge for myself but I figured I needed a reading project this year. As much as I enjoyed 2015’s reading-on-a-whim approach, it did feel a bit directionless. Reading OzLit should concentrate my mind!
I’m off to check out your Goodreads shelf!
I’m sure it contains many books you’ve read, Lisa. Indeed, your reviews have probably been the catalyst for buying half these damn things! 😉
*chuckle* And you and Stu between you account for a fair few of mine too.
I love your project! It reminds me of my own (Reading Atlantic Canada), except that you’re hoping to read strictly Australian Lit. I’m still planning to mix it up with whatever else I want (for one thing, your Australian pile is much (much, much) larger than my Atlantic Canadian pile). I have a feeling that my to-read list is going to have a lot more Australian books on it by the end of the year. 🙂
I love your Reading Atlantic Canada project, Naomi. Your approach is way more healthier than mine. Still, I probably should have pointed out that I am in a book group so I will be reading one book a month that isn’t OzLit, unless someone in my group does choose an Australian novel.
lizzysiddal says:
I had a similar epiphany with regard to my German Literature TBR, which is of similar proportions. I thought about doing a G-lit year but settled for taking 40% of this year’s reading from that stack. Given that an Aussie novel was my book of 2015, I need space and time to explore A-lit some more ….
Well, I can certainly help you explore A-lit some more, Lizzie 😉
How about a readalong of Cloudstreet?
bubbahego99 says:
A bit surprised that you haven’t read “Cloud Street” (or does your GoodRead OzList include titles you plan to re-read?), it’s a modern classic, my intro to Oz-Lit in the 1990s, which I re-read last year.
Also thought you had read White:s “Chariot”, which I enjoyed more than his slower “Voss”.
I loved Nevile Shute’s “Town like Alice” as well.
Will keep an eye on your posts here… am currently focusing on William Faulkner.
Oh, I read Cloud Street when it first came out, but that was 25 years ago and I don’t remember much about it other than I loved it. I was lucky enough to be given a folio edition in 2013 and when I interviewed the author for a piece for Shiny New Books I asked him to sign it. It’s a book I have always wanted to read, so this is a good opportunity to do so.
The only other re-read on the list is Jessica Anderson’s Tirra Lirra by the River, which I read last year but never got around to reviewing.
Haven’t read White’s Chariot. I’ve read The Solid Mandala, Tree of Man, and The Vivasector.
sharkell says:
Wow – I’m so impressed! I have looked through your goodreads list and you have some fantastic reads coming your way. And there are lots of books I haven’t heard of as well. Looking forward to sharing the journey.
Thanks, Sharkell, it’s going to be an interesting reading year, I think.
BookerTalk says:
When I saw your goal I thought ‘she’s mad’, a whole year of reading nothing but Aussie lit!! But when I read on and saw you have 128 books to choose from and they come from such a wide range of genres, it began to make a bit more sense.
Hope that charity shop is delighted to get such a large donation!
I grew up in an era where the only novels that ever seemed to be published in Australia were about pioneers or convicts, but now the breadth and depth of topics and genres is quite amazing given the size of the population. I’m hoping that I’ll discover a new favourite author or book.
My books all go to the Heart Foundation charity book bin at the end of my street: it is constantly full, so often I have to wait until it’s been emptied. I think there must be a lot of generous readers in my neighbourhood! 🙂
susanosborne55 says:
I may be wrong but I’ve a feeling we UK readers tend to read the usual suspects such as Peter Carey and Tim Winton plus the odd bestseller such as The Slap so I’m looking forward to discovering some more out of the way goodies via your blog. Feeling a little smug, though, as I’ve already read an Australian novel this year – Gail Jones’ A Guide to Berlin!
I don’t think you’re wrong, Susan: it’s only those authors with a big marketing push behind them and global publication rights that seem to get exposure here.
I’ve just finished the Gail Jones’ as well, so expect a review here at some point…
I think you have the most unique reading resolution for 2016 I’ve seen, Kim! Good call on boxing up all the books. I think the temptation of having non-Aussie books around would be too much for me. I’d fall down an Icelandic crime lit hole.
I’m looking forward to reading your reviews, Kim, and finding new titles to tempt myself with. The vast majority of the Aussie lit I’ve picked up over the years has been because of your reviews. They’re a little harder to source in the US but (usually) been worth the effort. Good luck with the project!
Thanks, Christina. And yes, I had to box up the books for two reasons — the first being I just don’t have the space in my tiny apartment and the second, probably more important reason, was to keep them out of temptation! I want to be able to look at my shelves and see only books I can read!
Kate W says:
Well I’m excited! Maybe you can join in the ‘reading the Stella Prize shortlist’ come April? I participated last year and it was a most enjoyable and stimulating online discussion.
Oh, that sounds like a good idea, though chances are I won’t have access to the titles unless they’ve been published as ebooks in the UK. I’ll see what I can do at the time…
Hilaire says:
Skimmed your list – shamefully few that I’ve read but I LOVE Indelible Ink – Fiona McGregor is a wonderful and little known (here at least) writer. Enjoy your Ozlit journey!
Thanks, Hilaire. And thanks for the tip-off about Indelible Ink — that’s been in my pile of books forever. I think it was sent to me by the publisher when it first came out…
whisperinggums says:
Wow, good for you kimbofo! I shall certainly try to follow your progress and comment when I can. (While you’e at it, have you thought about joining the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge for the year – or perhaps you already have?)
Cheers! And good tip about the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge — I’ll investigate further.
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That’s a lot aussies lit look forward to your reviews
Thanks, Stu, it should keep me out of trouble for a while 😉
Liz Dexter says:
Wow – sounds like you have enough to sustain the plan for a year and a good variety – will watch your progress with interest!
Thanks, Liz. Yes, I’ve plenty on my shelves to keep me out of trouble for a year.
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[Many apologies for letting the last sandbox get a little soggy. So many issues, so little time. gjr]
Thanks George.. That stail TROLL wizz was getting a might stanky.
Yes, a LONG drawn out trial will be good.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/10/senators-vying-for-presidency-concede-impeachment-trial-will-hurt-campaigns/
Longer the better.
That's refreshing, death to the liars instead of death to America -
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Iranian-protesters-demand-Khamenei-quits-over-plane-downing-613857
,,,oh dear,,,droning excuses starting to fall apart...
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1215993213032550401?s=19
Posted by: Waldo'sNemesis | 11 January 2020 at 10:16 AM
,,,Posted by: Don Bessee | 11 January 2020 at 09:49 AM
,,,Every rocket has a silver lining ;)
,,,We can get rid of Trump since his SoulMan droning was a contributing factor that led to the Ukrainian airliner collateral damage...
And Iran can get rid of their nasty leader over the airliner take down incompetence...
And your plan to "get rid of Trump"......hows that working out dugsKKKi?
No Dougy, not an impeachable offence.
Did your boy "O" inform Congress or ask permission to take out Osama? We even "invaded" a foreign nation to do so.
Yet you and all the other Proggys sung his praises as one of his greatest achievements.(about the ONLY achievement)
Yet Trump takes out the Father of the IED,(the cheap shaped charge) and you cray at his funeral.
Looks like crazy gretta's act is not convincing the home crowd -
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/11/swedes-vote-climate-policy-biggest-waste-tax-payer-money-2019/
A question for Presidential candidate Walt. Do we have any responsibility to future generations to leave the earth in at least the same condition we found it?
Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 January 2020 at 11:10 AM
The plot thickens, could this be the fuse that leads to the downfall of those mutha mullahs -
BREAKING NEWS: 'Whether it was really an accident still needs to be determined': Justin Trudeau casts doubt on Iran's claims after the Islamic Republic took responsibly for shooting down Ukranian jet killing 176
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7876767/Justin-Trudeau-casts-doubt-Irans-claim-Ukraine-jet-shot-accident.html
I take no questions from those who answer none.
But I thank you for your vote.
Let me also throw my hat into the ring with those of others who are waiting for some illumination into the world according to Paul Emery.
Posted by: George Rebane | 11 January 2020 at 11:37 AM
,,,Iran admits they made the same mistake the US made in 1988 when they shot down an airliner...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/zelensky-calls-for-admission-of-guilt-justice-after-iran-admits-to-mistakenly-shooting-down-ukrainian-plane/2020/01/11/2c85cb08-33d8-11ea-971b-43bec3ff9860_story.html
punchy 1110am
"Do we have any responsibility to future generations to leave the earth in at least the same condition we found it?"
What you mean "we", Kemosabe?
I think the right to ask that question falls to those who have had one or more kids.
Posted by: Gregory | 11 January 2020 at 11:50 AM
,,,Gosh,,,I wonder why Munchkin wants to delay letting us know how much taxpayer money Trump has wasted with his chopper trips to golf courses, to TrumpTower, Margo Largo and campaign rallies that have been going on for 3 years???
https://theweek.com/speedreads/888447/report-mnuchin-wants-delay-disclosure-trumps-secret-service-travel-costs-until-after-election
Not the same troll @ 1140. The Iranian jet in 88' took off from a military base without its transponder on and failed to reply to guard channel challenges.
The Ukrainian was pinging its transponder and took off from a civilian airport.
What a maroon!
So Emery, you voting to go back to an economy worse than what your boy "O" gave us?
Hell! What you vote for has already outlawed your income stream.
Now that was a bright move. Going to vote for that VERY pretty Gavin Nuisance again?
Sure Emery,, Better start with your own ideals.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/10/trump-california-wildfires-experts-climate-change/
Your ECO bastards have done more damage.
Morning Brother Walt. Tell Punch I will take his vote too since he keeps wasting his.
12 seconds. Yay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=HkHGC4cG7HU&feature=emb_logo
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 11 January 2020 at 12:04 PM
,,,Po ol Donnie Dimmerman,,,wrong on so many counts!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Posted by: Waldo'sNemesis | 11 January 2020 at 12:06 PM
Do tell -
Months before a whistleblower complaint that would spark the Democrat effort for impeachment, a shadowy liberal group founded and staffed by Obama administration alums and former Democrat congressional staffers launched an outside investigation into whether President Trump’s allies were seeking “foreign interference” from Ukraine in the 2020 elections.
The group, American Oversight, began investigating the issue in May — more than two months before the “whistleblower” filed a complaint alleging Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main domestic political rivals.”
The Trump administration won’t know what hit them. Independent FOIA litigation paired with aggressive congressional oversight creates a nightmare for federal agencies because of the different levers litigants and members of Congress can pull to enforce their demands.
The group was founded in March 2017 by Austin Evers, a former senior counsel during the Obama State Department, to counter the Trump administration using FOIA
The group claims to be non-partisan, but most of its staff have worked for Democrat administrations, lawmakers, or groups. The group’s senior adviser, Melanie Sloan, is a former federal prosecutor and Capitol Hill staffer who worked for now Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and then Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE). She founded the left-wing watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) and ran it for more than a decade.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/10/shadowy-liberal-group-began-investigating-trump-ukraine-months-before-the-whistleblower-complaint/
,,,Yes Donnie,,,American Oversight was looking into BatBoy Jeweliani back when he was heading to Ukraine to to prospecting for Trump Porn,,,
https://www.americanoversight.org/document/foia-to-state-seeking-communications-with-the-presidents-personal-lawyers-or-communications-regarding-their-efforts-in-to-meddle-in-ukrainian-investigations
Enjoy it while it lasts Walt.....Punchy won't vote for you a second time.....second time!
Posted by: fish | 11 January 2020 at 12:16 PM
Did Dougy say something? Wait a sec,,, it was the TROLL end spewing gas... CHRIST!!! Someone open a window.
re: Walt@12:00
"Sure Emery,, Better start with your own ideals.
Your ECO bastards have done more damage."
I think you misunderstand Paul. The primary focus of Emerianism is to be against things, never for them (such as the ecology). It's darned hard to make a case for public policy of any kind much less make it work so the KVMR news crew tends to bring it's vast expertise into saying why people or policies are bad/evil/Nazi/misogynist/ableist/racist/etc.
It's a proper perch for the unaccomplished to squawk from.
Posted by: scenes | 11 January 2020 at 12:28 PM
Waldo's Nemesis (betcha didn't know that is the name of a god):
"BatBoy Jeweliani"
Although he bares a remarkable physical similarity to Bat Boy, isn't he Italian-American? Perhaps you meant to say 'Guidoiani'.
As an aside, did anyone know that Kathy Shaidle wrote a whole slew of the Weekly World News articles? As long as the check clears, do it....
This is getting soooo repetitive it is actually boring. New York Slimes:
The Times’ disgraceful smear of America’s top defense officials
“Notably, The Washington Post offered an entirely different account the next day. Yes, it reported, “Trump’s decision to target Soleimani came as a surprise and a shock to some officials” — because of “the president’s aversion to using military force against Iran.”
Plus: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “first spoke with Trump about killing Soleimani months ago, said a senior US official,” the Post reported — and Defense Secretary Mark Esper agreed with Pompeo by the time Trump made the decision.
And, as the Times itself reported days later, CIA chief Gina Haspel had advised “that the threat the Iranian general presented was greater than the threat of Iran’s response if he was killed” — and, in fact, “had predicted the most likely response would be a missile strike from Iran to bases where American troops were deployed.”
But that doesn’t excuse the original story. If the Times wants to stop hearing the words “fake news,” it needs to take more care not to publish it.“
https://nypost.com/2020/01/10/the-times-disgraceful-smear-of-americas-top-defense-officials/
ROFLMAO
Washington Post: Russians Pranking Maxine Waters Undermined America
https://www.rt.com/news/478011-irgc-accepts-guilt-downing/
Oopsie.
I have to say that the great irony of my life was the moment that Russia Today, no doubt related to the Russian government in the same way that BBC is to the UK, was a superior news source than the New York Times.
I do have a theory on the declining quality of news writing generally. Given the collapse in ad revenue and the need to generate scads of short form 'news' articles (partly due to the use of cell phones as a reading device), you end up with squadrons of low paid (or no paid) interns and kids just out of college as 'reporters'. Low life experience, no contacts in the real world, lotsa stupid political opinions (a privilege of youth) can't help a bit.
It's certainly no excuse for the FUE or the NYT, but likely explains a lot of what you see.
Some space station did something...
https://babylonbee.com/news/journalists-caution-against-assigning-empire-all-the-blame-for-blowing-up-alderaan
Posted by: Gregory | 11 January 2020 at 01:37 PM
Simple question, "we" being the current residents of planet earth:
Do we have any responsibility to future generations to leave the earth in at least the same condition we found it?
Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 January 2020 at 02:09 PM
Miss the memo emery? There is an embargo on answering any question put down by those boney fingers.
You can't read either. Your ECO clan has done more damage than anyone. Great job in burning the forests and towns to the ground.
First off, try cleaning up ECO bastard central Frisco and Freeattle. Shit is piled high, and plastic syringes with drug residue litter the streets and bays. Real ECO of you and yours.
PaulE 209pm - Paul, you're so behind in answering others' questions; a good way to catch up is to answer your own question first before asking another one and falling further behind. So we're waiting to hear your take on our responsibility to future generations on the condition of earth.
Posted by: George Rebane | 11 January 2020 at 02:41 PM
So Emery? YOU voting in favor of destroying the greatest economy and prosperity in memory? ARE YOU!!!????
We will take your continued silence on the matter as "yes".
The pony tail of ignorance should talk to crazy gretta and stop embarrassing himself so regularly. Sad.
Its getting expensive to be the king of fakenews first tapping out on the Covington kid law suit and then screwing their union employees gets this ignominious new record -
CNN has agreed to shell out $76 million in a back pay case that involved union employees, making it the largest monetary settlement in the history of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of Fake News peddling DNC shills!
The resident Commiecrats are real good about complaining about the stance of others. Yet are as elusive as bigfoot when it comes to defending their views and just how much better they are supposed to be.
Just how great will be the huge jump in taxes to the nation?
Just how will the return of choking regulations benefit business. (unless your a Commie donor of course)
Is the government going to give you a free electric car when oil is outlawed?
Nope, the Commiecrats have no answers to those questions.
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 11 January 2020 at 12:42 PM -
,,,I get that the headline in the NYPost,,,disgraceful smear of America’s top defense officials,,,was red meat bait to you Bill and you bit into it...
But, guess what, the reporters get their info from somewhere. Garbage in, Garbage out...
I think the story has been updated as of Jan. 7.
Was your post a smokescreen to cover up all the fake lies and BS by Trump???
What about those 4 embassies???
What about those cultural centers???
What about the money delivered to Iran under dark of night???
What about Obama's birth certificate???
Want me to go on???
I moved on her like a bitch...
My answer George
Yes, we have responsibility to pass on to future generations mother earth in at least the same condition that we inherited.
,,,Scenes,,,I think the speed of information also leads to haste which can lead to not well sourced news.
Competing news outlets are trying to get the jump ball with the headlines...
Here's a lyric for you from the great blues singer Memphis Slim to express my emotions on this question:
Don't care how great you are, don't care what you're worth
When it all comes down you've got to go back to Mother Earth
Still carrying water for the Fakenews I see. Good boy.
That’s easy. The Leftinistas tear down our historical monuments and cultural centers, but raise cane about Death to America cultural centers. Got it.
Good water boy.
H/T to Gregory:
David Brooks: 'Trump Has Made Us All Stupid'
“New York Times "conservative" columnist David Brooks claimed on Thursday that "Trump Has Made Us All Stupid." Brooks admits that liberals are now acting really really stupid (as well as loony) but that the fault lies with President Donald Trump.”
“But the events of the past week have shown that the anti-Trump echo chamber is becoming a mirror image of Trump himself — overwrought, uncalibrated and incapable of having an intelligent conversation about any complex policy problem.”
“Pssst! Making liberals looks like loons really took no effort on the part of Trump since it was a pre-existing condition. It should go without saying that with this shot at liberals, his minders at the PBS NewsHour didn't ask him about this column on Friday night! “
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2020/01/11/david-brooks-trump-has-made-us-all-stupid
Comma AV Man feeling zero gravity again.
Paul. Never heard of him. BFD. And Confucius say "NO SHIT".
The planet really don't care. It will still spin long after you're gone and forgotten.(me to for that matter)
One good belch from a volcano, and all the hard work from your ECO buggies will be shot to shit. See those red sunsets? Thank a volcano. Speaking of which, one is spewing up in the Alaska chain this very minute.
Besides. If I was President, you would be wishing for Trump.
Thanks for your vote.
But what about those embassies?
Mark 'Oz' Geist: Trump's decisive leadership would have saved my Benghazi team.
“I fought to defend the American diplomatic post and CIA annex in Benghazi for more than 13 hours against a determined, organized assault by dozens of Al Qaeda fanatics armed with belt-fed machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and heavy mortars.
The Obama administration’s mishandling of this attack — which resulted in the first murder of a U.S. ambassador in the line of duty since the 1970s — was a far cry from the Trump administration’s decisive response to threats against our embassy in Iraq.
The basic facts should be enough to dismiss any serious comparison. My team and I were told to “stand down” no fewer than three times in the face of what the media later called “protesters” — even as Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were being killed and maimed by the terrorists. No U.S. military reaction force was sent, despite our numerous requests for help. Only by our own tenacity and courage were more than 30 Americans able to escape with our lives.....
Rather than scramble to defend a lie [Obama, Susan Rice, Hillary], and relying on solid intel of impending attacks, President Trump quickly struck back to ensure that our enemies understood the consequences of attacking an American embassy. Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the man most responsible for fomenting those militias in Iraq, paid the ultimate price for underestimating those consequences. Throughout the region, his compatriots are quickly learning similar lessons.
Effective leadership can be easy to overlook when it’s practiced by one’s own side. But our enemies never mistake strong American leadership for weakness. Far from being comparable, the contrast in leadership between Benghazi and Baghdad is striking. President Trump’s leadership style will keep Americans in the Middle East and elsewhere safe. I know from experience that the alternative is unacceptable.”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mark-geist-trump-decisive-leadership-would-have-saved-benghazi-team
Thirteen hours to decide vs. thirteen minutes to send in reinforcements.
The question was for George Walt. Thanks for responding though with your usual deep spiritual insights.
“...to express my emotions on this question”
Oh boy. Those emotions are so important to.....somebody out there. Now say it again but this time with more emotions.
If you are looking for sympathy, it’s between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.
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Vladimir Putin endorses 2020 Democrats energy policy
"The fact is that today's technologies of shale oil and shale gas production are, without any exaggeration, barbaric and bad for the environment," Putin said. "In some areas of shale oil production, people get black slurry instead of tap water in their homes. We will never use such production technology, no matter how lucrative it may be."
Like most of the time, Putin is lying here. There is no evidence that shale extraction, properly regulated, is more risky to public health than other conventional energy extraction methods. And no one is getting "black slurry" out of their tap.
But the lie is part of Putin's campaign — backed by ample political meddling and Russian cash — to undercut fracking in Europe and in the United States. Putin opposes fracking because it is putting a global price ceiling on Russian energy exports and giving Europe a new measure of independence from Russian energy.
“That puts Putin in undeniable alignment with top Democrats. You know, the same Democrats who otherwise claim that they will oppose the Russian leader if elected president. On this, they will do his bidding. Like Putin, Democrats allege that fracking hurts the environment and undercuts green energy jobs. As noted, the first claim is false. And the second claim is also a lie: Green jobs are economically noncompetitive absent generous subsidies.
As with Putin's statements last week, there's another truth which Democrats should heed: In pushing their hard-line anti-energy stance, they are playing right into the hands of America's second-most powerful adversary.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/vladimir-putin-endorses-2020-democrats-energy-policy
Who’s in Putin’s back pocket now? Probably some Green Libertarian.
Our liberal pinheads
WALTER E. WILLIAMS: The New Racism
This is the new racism, much of it learned and taught at our nation’s colleges. George Orwell said, “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” The stupid ideas about inclusion and diversity originate with academics on college campuses. If their ideas didn’t infect the rest of society, they might be a source of entertainment. But these cancerous ideas have infected society. Statements such as “I’m over white men running the country,” or “If we have two old white guys at the top of this ticket, we will lose” are examples of that cancer.
Last year, Philip Carl Salzman wrote “The War Against White People” in Minding the Campus. He declared: “Anti-white hate is now mainstream American culture. Not just by racial extremists such as Black Lives Matter, for whom statements such as “all lives matter” or “blue lives matter” are racist. Our highest leaders sing the same song.”
“The bottom line is that the new racism, born in academia, is just as ugly as the old racism.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/williams-the-new-racism?
More on progressive pinheads. 18 seconds.
https://www.facebook.com/Breitbart/videos/574117359838273/
Yo , yo , yo oh pony tail of ignorance, he was talking about being planted in the earth when we all die @ 404 Sad
The closest thing to "spiritual" Emery has come across is one too many tests in the drug experimentation culture. Was it LSD back in the day? Something sure messed you up but good.
Bill. You need to write the punch-line for this one.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-vagina-scented-candle
Walt @ 6:49 pm
Somethings are best left alone...or to the imagination. Talk about narcissism.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=620569862027914
PaulE 433pm - The question is simplistic beyond any understanding. And the answers are many and equally complex beyond comprehension of save but by the anointed few. The world's population is growing by leaps and bounds, and all new comers want NOW what the established societies took centuries to put in place. For any present generation to leave to future generations an earth as we found it is impossible - it will of necessity be changed in more ways than we can count. And if we follow the dicta to 'save the earth' of today's simplistic pinheads, then we will pauper the world to a degree which will not allow us to preserve anything. We will then all resemble shithole countries like, say, Haiti. The only way to 'save' anything on this planet is to reduce the number of people who want to live on it. And that won't happen until we either get very wealthy, or destitute beyond Mad Max. With your announced policies you and the progressives are promoting a Mad Max world for our future.
Water boy is good boy for doing a great job carrying Fakenews.
He excuses and minimizes the gross faults of his side’s flaws, mistakes, real damage, while exaggerating to max the flaws of others....while assigning nefarious motives to every benign action or thought of his opponents. Exaggerate the flaws of others while minimizing his own.
* The 4-5 people murdered by an illegal alien in the Reno area? Oh, that is just a mentally ill person.
*A suicide bomber heading towards the San Diego to cross illegally? Big deal, it’s just one Terrorist. No worries.
*A commercial airline shot out of the sky? Oh, that has happened many times. Big deal, nothing to see here.
*An illegal leaving a dead passenger on HWY 49? What’s it to you, anyway? Why do you care?
*NYT printing yet another false story? Oh, they were just in a rush to print out a story and they corrected later when caught. Nature of the business, right?
* Benghazi? Oh, that was just an administrative error.
Good water carrier, good.
Six Times The Mainstream Media Completely Botched Coverage Of Iran And Death Of Soleimani
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/10/five-times-the-mainstream-media-completely-botched-coverage-of-iran-and-death-of-soleimani/
,,,Po Ol Bill,,,wrong on so many counts with your Federalist Rooskie Bot Site links...
Let's start with No. 5... Media Reported Iraq Government Voted To Expel U.S. Troops...
If that is the case why was Pompeo talking with Abdul-Mahdi last week?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pompeo-disputes-iraqi-prime-minister-us-negotiate-troop/story?id=68197741
...I moved on her like a bitch...
,,,Po Ol Bill,,,did you even read No. 6...6. MSNBC Falsely Reported American Casualties???
Right there in plain view is the quote...“Iran’s state media is claiming that 30 U.S. soldiers have been killed in this attack,” said MSNBC’s Ali Arouzi.
If you had the ability to comprehend the written word you would understand that MSNBC reported what IRAN was reporting.
It is no wonder why the Federalist is a favorite site of Trump lemmings...
,,,Number 4.... World War III Is Looming...
Are you sure the bullshit conclusion for the SSS shutdown was due to CBN reporting???
Did you forget about the fake text that The Draft was back???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwZzv4KbUQU
,,,Number 3... U.S. Coverage Runs With Propaganda From Iranian State-Run Media...
Totally misrepresented,,,just the opposite...Iran got all the quotes from US media from Demo criticisms of Trump's actions...
Try reading the Fars article...
https://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13981014000542
,,,Number 2... Soleimani Was A “Revered Military Figure.”...
Yes, he was, any questions???
Ten tweets says it all. Don’t mess with the Muslim Brotherhood or CAIR
“Ilhan Omar Promotes Smear Of Famed Anti-Iranian Regime Journalist. Journalist Issues Stunning Response.”
A sampling:
#2-Ilhan Omar, when my innocent brother was recently taken hostage by the regime, solely due to my advocacy of civil rights for Iran, I reached out to you, expecting solidarity from you. However, you were silent. You gave no reaction.
#3- When women like Saba Kordafshari, Yasaman Aryani, Monireh Arabshahi and Mojgan Keshavarz were arrested for protesting against compulsory hijab in Iran and were sentenced to a total of 95 years in prison, you were silent.
#5- After months of silence, you instead chose to amplify a smear campaign against me, a fellow woman of color. Your only comments to all these human rights abuses is to repeat Islamic Republic propaganda against me.
#10-Yet, when I divulge the repression of the Islamic Republic, attacks against me proliferate by the regime & their supporters in the West. I'd have never imagined that one day a member of Congress, a fellow woman of colour, would join with my oppressors in trying to defame me
https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-promotes-smear-of-famed-anti-iranian-regime-journalist-journalist-issues-stunning-response?
,,,Number 1,,,in the 2020 countdown of Bill's Greatest Hits... Calling Soleimani's Death An “Assassination”
It is a matter of opinion...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing
...I moved on her like a bitch... Yep, and the non binding resolution to have ALL foreign fighters leave Iraq cannot even be signed by the interim President because he lacks the legal authority to sign it, Why did the former Iraqi President step down? Due to the massive protests of the Iraqi people to get rid of the Iranians controlling their soil. But you knew that. Go ahead and support MSNBC til the cows come home. It’s a free country, even for the Blame America First crowd.
One thing occurred to me watching the protestors burning American flags is that the Iranians have more American flags than the Democrat Party.
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Well, I suppose you mostly keep stuff around for which you actually have some use.
Wind them up and watch them spin.
Glad you asked, oh unhinged one.
Ok, let’s talk about Obama’s birth certificate. Where did that story come from? You can trace those rumors back to the 2008 campaign when Sidney Blumenthal (Hillary’s rumor monger and good buddy) was spreading that around. He is one nasty man, perfect confident for HRC. Sidney used that rumor to smear Obama in Hillary’s first run for Prez. Many picked up on it, such as Stone and others, including Citizen Trump and Alex Jones.
Obama was so incensed by Blumenthal and his dirty tricks that he barred Blumenthal from holding any State Department Position when he choose Hillary to be Sec of State after negotiating terms with Hillary....such as not having a State Department IG, lol.
You know Sidney. He and his partner Cody were feeding the State Department the exact same stuff that was being feed to Brennan and, more importantly, the FBI. So Blumenthal feed the State Department the same stuff the FBI and Steele was feeding the State Department so it all looked like collaborating info, ROFLMAO.
Anyway, back to the birther story.
“That Blumenthal was able to directly access Clinton as secretary of State played into another Clinton scandal that goes back to 2008. During the primary that year, James Asher, who was then the Washington bureau chief for the McClatchy newspaper chain, says Blumenthal urged him to check out stories about whether President Obama was born in Kenya. Blumenthal has denied this. But the Obama White House was angry enough that the White House stopped Clinton from offering him a job at the State Department in 2009, according to the New York Times.....
. I spoke with some Democrats who insist that Blumenthal these days is more of a nuisance than a major influence on Clinton. Podesta wrote in a Jan. 1, 2016, email to a columnist for the Hill newspaper: “I pay zero attention to what he says.”
And yet, the Clintons still kept him around. As the Benghazi investigation showed, he was earning around $10,000 a month for a job at the Clinton Foundation. Blumenthal also was paid by the nonprofit Media Matters, which attacks Clinton’s conservative media opponents.
Last month, Blumenthal himself spoke about his relationship with Clinton for a video released by the Nexxus Institute, which is sponsoring a conference where he is scheduled to speak after the election. Blumenthal says he’s known Clinton for 30 years and that they both have “defended against all sorts of people who have used whatever means they could, many of them underhanded, in order to try and destroy reputations, attack people personally, to engage in what we call the politics of personal destruction.”
For those who remember Blumenthal in the 1990s, those words will sound like projection. It was Blumenthal who set out to personally destroy the reputation of former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. As Hitchens wrote in his 2003 review of Blumenthal’s book on the Clinton White House, Blumenthal told him that Lewinsky was “a predatory and unstable stalker.”
Nearly 20 years after the Lewinsky scandal, Blumenthal looks less like a knife man, more like a feckless hanger-on. It’s true that he has been loyal to the Clintons. But from his whispers about Obama to his advice about Libya to his poor cyber security, it’s hard to say he has been a good friend.
By all appearances, he has helped Clinton’s opponents far more than he ever helped her.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article108671377.html#storylink=cpy
Miami Herald? Hardly a conservative site.
PS: I have yet to find anyone at RR who voted for Hillary...at least anyone who fesses up to voting for Hillary. Some here did not vote for Trump, like Fish or Gregory or Paul Emergy, but none voted for My Gal Hill. What does that tell ya?
No evidence of embassy attack planning from Iran according to Sec of Defense Esper
"Washington — Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said he "didn't see" specific evidence that top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani was planning attacks on four U.S. embassies, but said he believed such attacks would have occurred.
"The president didn't cite a specific piece of evidence. What he said was he believed," Esper said Sunday on "Face the Nation." "I didn't see one, with regard to four embassies. What I'm saying is that I shared the president's view that probably — my expectation was they were going to go after our embassies. The embassies are the most prominent display of American presence in a country."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-esper-says-he-didnt-see-specific-piece-of-evidence-showing-iranian-threat-to-4-us-embassies-on-face-the-nation/
,,,yo Bill,,,
How about this classic piece of fake news/lies by Trump??? Remember the $110 Billion in arms sales to Saudi murderers??? The $350 Billion over 10 years???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_States–Saudi_Arabia_arms_deal
Posted by: Waldo’sNemesis | 12 January 2020 at 09:14 AM
Fly your Iranian flags at half mast Emery and Dougy.
,,,The SecDef just admitted that Iran has been after the US for a long time before Obama returned their money back in 2015,,,’’’These tensions started many years ago, 20 years ago, 40 years ago, and escalated in the past 12 months’’’- - -SecDef
But what happened in the past 12 months to escalate things???
Trump quit the nuclear arms deal, started economic sanctions, +++
YES!! Which crazed lunatic to vote for!!!!?????
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/many-iowa-democrats-are-paralyzed-by-fear-of-choosing-the-wrong-candidate-to-take-on-trump/ar-BBYPEkU?li=BBnbklE
re 930am - Our leftwingers continue to believe that Obama's short-term 'nuclear deal' with Iran effectively prevented it from continuing development of its nuclear weapons capability. Most of the international community knew that it would only be a matter of time until either the US or Israel (with US support) would have to militarily take out Iran's development and storage facilities, or let Iran become a member of the nuclear club and therefore incite an avalanche of other mid-east states also becoming members. In actuality, Obama's deal did nothing but give Iran some breathing room (and cash!) to continue its surreptitious developments, and support of global Islamist terror to keep attention riveted on ongoing atrocities.
Oh Waldo’s World
Of course I remember Trump selling US made arms to Saudi Arabia. It’s to check Iran and their expansionist policy. Yes, I remember in Operation Desert Storm (1 and 2) we were fighting not only the Iraqi Revolutionary Guards but mostly were being attacked by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the south. Iranians killed many our men and women.
Yep, I remember Iran funding and planning the attacks on our soldiers via Hezbollah at the Marine barracks in Lebanon.
I remember more recently the taking of our sailors, Iranian providing sophisticated weapons to Yemen to overthrow the Yemeni Government, the Iranian (Qassem Soleimani) attack on the Saudi oil fields, the attack that killed the American contractor (Qassem Soleimani) and wounded for American servicemen, the attack on the US Embassy in Iraq (Qassem Soleimani), the murder of folks in both North and South America, India, etc (Qassem Soleimani) and on and on it goes.
We have been “at war” with the Iranians for 40 years. We just took in on the chin. Like the shooting down of our drone. No repercussions for bad behavior. Finally, Trump said enough. American lives matter.
Since 1979, darn near every time (with the exception of Afghanistan, the so called good war) that Americans were killed or maimed, Iran was behind it all.
No mas. And no more siding with the Muslim Brotherhood. When Obama went on his apology tour to Cairo, Egypt specially barred the Muslim Brotherhood from attending, a group that Egypt had declared a terrorist organization. Obama said fuck you and sat the Brotherhood in the front row.
From siding with the Brotherhood that attacks Israel via Hamas, attacks Christians in Lebanon via Hezbollah, to Syria....to anywhere in the Mideast there is blood spilled, Iran and Qassem Soleimani have their hands on it. Well, Soleimani has one hand, lol.
From making sure no suspected terrorist or their associate in the USA could be interviewed by the FBI unless CAIR was present....Obama was there taking sides.
We have been most patient and accommodating to Iran and there is a reason we do not negotiate with terrorists.
At least Obama did one good thing. He put Qassem Soleimani on the terrorist list in 2011, which by the UN rules forbids his travel outside of Iran, lol. The new replacement is also on the terrorist list.
Enough is enough. Screw that noise. Arm the Saudis. They buy American weapons and don’t get free cash. They pay for it.
But, by all means defend the the Iranians and defend terrorists. Be my guest. To each his own.
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Video. 1:55
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/brian-mast-speaks.php
Now don't forget Iran attacking oil tankers just last year with no retaliation from anyone.
,,,Wrong George,,,France, Germany, Russia, China, Britain all want to keep the Nuke Agreement in place...
Also The agreement scrapped by Trump was only the first step...the next step that was planned was more soft power hegemony in the form of the subsequent agreement that was to deal with Yemen, Hezbollah, threats against Israel, arms trafficking, etc...
...But instead Obama hater Trump took us over 2 Trillion in debt building up the military so he could push people around...
,,,The Trump administration Defense Intelligence Agency said in 2017...wait for it...that very little money actually went to the IRGC for war making...most of it went to Iran’s economy...
you know...that money delivered to Iran in the dark of night...
,,,I hear about the great dumbing down of America...
This is readily apparent in the Trump lemming ranks...
Yes, and I know both of the individuals quoted in the Daily Caller article and the article 1) misquoted them, 2) misinterpreted what they did say, and 3) is shameless propaganda.
Posted by: Steven Frisch | 12 January 2020 at 10:23 AM
,,,dear Waldo,,,Daily Caller again???
Posted by: Lavender | 12 January 2020 at 10:29 AM
What nuclear agreement with Iran? Did the Senate vote on it? Did Congress authorize the non-treaty treaty? Why did the negotiations specially call for the details to never be made known? Why was there a clause in the non-authorized non agreement no treaty stating that the US would defend Iran from any attacks? That means we would defend Iran against Israel. Why, why, why. Why did the secret agreement allow for Iran to develop and have nuclear weapons in 20 years.
I side with Dr. Rebane in this one. And, since the Senate was never allowed to vote on the treaty’, there exists no treaty. No one is above the law.
Oh, I am sure the Russians were on board. Russia is Iran’s largest trading partner, lol Plus, after the Uranium One Deal, Russia has been selling that precious material all over the place...to peaceful nations like North Korea and Iran, ROFLMAO. Bean me up, Scotty.
The lefties believe that the easiest way to deal with Evil is to deny it exists and pull a Chamberlain. The Leftinistas always try to find the easier softer way, especially since Evil does not exist in their mind. Western Civilization bad, America bad.
Kerry might jump in the race for President, if called.
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Seems Dougy found a date at the family reunion.. Can't stop bragging about it.
Another slow news day. Looking ahead, this week brings us another spellbinding Democrat Party debate and the Senate Impeachment trail. Oh how exciting. The drama, the drama.
Someone on that debate stage will be the person Punchy will vote for, no matter how hare brained their plans are or what they say. That is a no-brainer, pun intended. With Julian Castro dropping out, looks like Pocahontas will be the only person of Hispanic heritage on the stage this week.
The Impeachment trail? Oh, I am so worried that Moscow Mitch will sell out, lol.
The alternate reality descended on Seattle last night, was it something they smoked? -
https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Seattle-news-station-airs-wrong-49ers-segment-14969200.php
SteveF 1023am - It's important to keep a beady eye on all outlets. Please expand on your charges so that we can set the matter straight.
Aha. This week also brings us Progressive Priorities Week in Higher Education.. Ban cafeteria serving trays? . Ok, fine.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/01/progressive-priorities-week-in-higher-education/
Yet another Russian Hoax story to run down.
“Revealed: McCabe Pushed to Highlight Trump ‘Golden Shower’ Rumor in Public Russia Report — and Comey Approved”
“Comey may have even more egg on his face for vouching for Steele’s alleged sources following the publication of the IG report, which relates that Comey’s own FBI found serious sourcing problems and glaring issues with the way Steele reported the “pee” claim.
Meanwhile, Comey’s FBI fought back against attempts by the CIA to remove Steele’s claims from the ICA report.
The IG report reveals the CIA expressed concern about using the Steele election reporting in the ICA assessment, with the CIA viewing Steele’s claims to be no more than “internet rumor.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/12/revealed-mccabe-pushed-to-highlight-trump-golden-shower-rumor-in-public-russia-report-and-comey-approved/?
Opps. Sorry Dr. Rebane. That last link should have gone under Ruminations, Jan 5/2020. (Deep State). Mea Culpa.
Stevy rears his ugly head. No miss quotes. Just facts you don't want to hear.
ECO bastards ideals have come back to bite you in the ass.
From forest mismanagement to pushing the blame on PG&E.
Calif. LIB P.U.C. has plenty to account for. You Proggys demanded PG&E spend huge bucks on so called "renewable" (wind and solar). That money had to come from somewhere.
Then you ECO fucks demanded PG&E limit tree cutting. "The trees feelings were hurt from the bad haircuts".
Forget your stooge Chad Hanson bitching about dead tree removal? "It causes greenhouse gasses".
Hey Emery.. You pal Crabb sent you a public message.
https://www.theunion.com/opinion/cartoons/r-l-crabb-cartoon/
,,,Bill,,,oh Dumbth One,,,you trot out a bunch of BS excuses to scrap the deal,,,but,,,was the deal working until scrapped???
Now we have no deal and Iran can ramp up nuke production...I guess you never heard of soft power hegemony???
Uranium One,,,seriously,,,another failed conspiracy that is still your mantra???
'''The Uranium One controversy involves conspiracy theories promoted by conservative media, politicians, and commentators. The theories characterize the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom as a $145 million bribery scandal involving Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. No evidence of wrongdoing has been found after four years of allegations.'''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_One_controversy
Those mutha mullahs on the ropes, half the people on the plane were Iranians in case anyone forgot -
Muslim scholar on Iranians protesting shot down plane: 'This regime, for the first time ever, is seriously threatened'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/muslim-scholar-on-iranians-protesting-regime-over-plane-being-shot-down
Dougy must like Iran.. They very ones who if get their hands on a nuke, are just radical, and stupid enough to use it.
Wiki again? Just Berkeley U of the net.
Now who is that "bitch" you speak of Dougy? Your Cousin?
Or just self descriptive? Your sounding like someone's ex wife.
....I moved on her like a bitch...
"Moving on her like a bitch".....not in your skill set dugsKKKi! I can see why the phrase upsets you!
They dug deep into the muck to get this swamp creature to do a coverup -
"It’s hard to imagine a worse person the FISC could have chosen outside [James] Comey, [Andy] McCabe, or [Adam] Schiff,” Nunes said. Speaking to Fox News contributor Sara Carter, Nunes added: “It’s a ridiculous choice. The FBI lied to the FISC, and to help make sure that doesn’t happen again, the FISC chose an FBI apologist who denied and defended those lies. The FISC is setting its own credibility on fire.”
On Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Nunes reminded anchor Maria Bartiromo that Kris had panned the now-vindicated 2018 memo produced by Nunes' panel, which asserted a series of surveillance abuses by the FBI against former Trump aide Carter Page. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz later substantiated Nunes' claims, noting that the FBI had made numerous materially false representations to the FISC.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-selects-former-obama-admin-lawyer-left-wing-blogger-to-oversee-fbis-surveillance-reforms
Boy those pink pussy hats sure unraveled fast -
After overhauling its mission, structure and leadership, the organization once considered the beating heart of the anti-Trump movement seems to be on life support.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nobody-needs-another-pink-hat-why-the-womens-march-is-struggling-for-relevance/ar-BBYSmug?ocid=spartanntp
,,,What??? You are against repeating Dear Leader’s famous quotes???
Here you go Barbecue Boy,,,
https://www.vox.com/2017/11/17/16658080/uranium-one-clinton-russia-chart
...and yes...
Posted by: odlaw | 12 January 2020 at 11:58 AM
The nearly 80 year old cross between Colonel Sanders and one of Santa’s not so charming elves isn’t “moving on anyone like a bitch unless he’s doing it in the morgue.
,,,Ooosik,,,
"Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest—and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure. It's not your fault."
Posted by: Odlaw | 12 January 2020 at 12:08 PM
Why am I not surprised by this......
......now is your chance to move on her like a bitch dugsKKKi!
“Women: You have to treat them like shit.” - - - Dear Leader
.....but my I.Q. is one of the highest—and you all know it!
Hmmmm...... and low quality internet trolling is what you do with it?
#pathetic
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Category: summer’s end
mark this day…
there is something about the crisp edge of things — of a hem, of a book, of a season — that settles the soul of a sometimes frazzled someone. someone like me. it fills me with a sense of something noble — a job well done, completion. prompts me to bend my knee and bow. it’s gratitude and it’s awe.
take summer, for instance. it ends tomorrow, making today the last full dose of it. and before i chase it out the door, before i usher in the amber hours of the season i love best, before i haul in the wheelbarrows of pumpkins, the tins of cinnamon and clove, before i fling myself upon the forest floor, playing peek-a-boo through golden, crimson, and persimmon-shaded boughs, it’s summer’s due to say goodbye to sand and sun unfiltered. to bees that buzzed and blooms that cheered me with their moppy heads, their delicate tendrils, their sweet perfumes that made me sniff around the garden (a pretty picture — me with nose in air, and mud-stained knees — surely not).
the season of about-to-burst tomatoes, and cicada song at night, the months of curtains flapping in the window’s invisible current, the sweater-less months, they draw to a close tomorrow eve at 8:54 p.m. (central time). that’s the equinox hour, when the sun slides into absolute right angle to blessed planet earth, when its beams fall straight onto the equator, that cinch-waist strap around the middle.
and so this last full blast before the season ends, it begs occasion. begs a moment’s pause. a plea to savor just a swatch of time — time filled with the summeriest wonders you can imagine.
my summery moment might be this: a fat tomato (the last one in my wooden bowl) sliced and salted, laid reverentially on whole-grain bread, and ferried to my summer porch, along with a fat book that begs to be begun. bare toes wriggling in the fading shaft of mid-afternoon sun. a moment’s pause to contemplate the butterfly wafting by. a whispered prayer of thanks — for the somnolence of summer. for the deep warmth and gentle breeze. for all that ripened and spilled with juice. for days that slowed, and hours that nearly burst with sumptuous sweet.
thank you, summer, once again…
because i’ve once again stumbled in my duties to bring my soulful literary roundups to this page, here’s the “books for the soul” that ran a month ago. oops. three fine picks. i especially loved the first, “learning to speak God from scratch ,” a linguistic exploration, richly written, and sure to make you think….
may your autumn days be filled with good reads…
How to talk about God, and more, addressed in this week’s spiritual book roundup
By Barbara Mahany
“Learning to Speak God from Scratch” by Jonathan Merritt, Convergent, 256 pages, $15.99
Here’s a subject not often found on the religion bookshelf: linguistics. As in “sacred language” or “Godspeak,” the ways we put words to what’s holy and so often ineffable. It’s a language that’s frankly been hijacked by politicians, blasphemed by holier-than-thou hypocritical preachers, and muted by the masses who dare not utter a word construed to be “church-y.”
And it’s into this battle-scarred landscape that “Learning to Speak God from Scratch” bravely proceeds. A few years back, Jonathan Merritt, a religion and culture contributor to The Atlantic, left behind the Bible Belt for New York City and found himself thunderstruck by the stark disconnect (and discomfort) in God talk there in Gotham.
Something of a spelunker in the realm of sacred linguistics, he robustly constructs his argument — one rife with hard data from the sociocultural realm and rich in personal narrative. It’s one that solidly convinces that sacred words are in crisis, and that any lost language leaves a gaping hole in human understanding. He makes the point that when the language at stake is the one that ties us to all that’s divine, it’s our souls that stand to wither.
He opens his case with this assessment: “The way certain groups of people use sacred words gives the rest of us the holy heebie-jeebies.” From there, Merritt takes off, swashbuckling his way through ironclad analysis, poking into curious linguistic and Biblical corners, making us see in a whole new light why it matters to reimagine and reclaim sacred language.
In the book’s second half, Merritt takes on, one by one, a lexicon of 19 words worth learning all over again, from confession to sin to grace. Because Merritt is an elegant and deeply literate writer, he makes his subject one of which we can’t get enough.
“The Way of Kindness,” edited by Michael Leach, James T. Keane, Doris Goodnough, Orbis, 224 pages, $18
It’s the end of summer, and the reading is supposed to be easy. Never hurts when it’s rich too. “The Way of Kindness” is everything you might want when you stretch out in your recliner, long tall refreshment within quick reach. It’s as if your favorite librarian is sitting beside you, whispering, “Read this. And this. And this, too, while you’re at it.”
The roster here is a greatest hits of American writers, not all of whom are regular travelers in the religious or spiritual domain. And that, perhaps, is what makes this a notch above the usual such gathering. To read Jack Kerouac: “Practice kindness all day to everybody/ and you will realize you’re already/ in heaven now.” Or George Saunders implore, “err in the direction of kindness. Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”
Dorothy Day quotes the Carmelite nun who told her, “It is the crushed heart which is the soft heart, the tender heart.” Even Aldous Huxley chimes in, telling us, “(I)t’s a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with human problems all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’ ”
While this is a book for quick dips or longer dallies, the curators of this collection — three fine souls in the world of spiritual publishing — have put their collective heft into what unfolds here. Your summer’s day will be all the gentler for having spent time among these literary and spiritual masters.
“Love Without Limits” by Jacqueline A. Bussie, Fortress, 195 pages, $24.99
File this one under “Standing By Your Story.”
Jacqueline A. Bussie, theologian, beloved professor of religion at Minnesota’s Concordia College and award-winning author of “Outlaw Christian,” her 2016 exhortation to find authentic faith by breaking a roster of too-rigid rules, sat down to pen “Love Without Limits,” a deeply personal how-to-guide for no-holds-barred loving. Because her stories arose from the depths of her heart, and the truth of how she lives her life — she calls this latest book “my life’s love letter” — she included chapters on both her Muslim and her LGBT friendships. Then, she turned in her manuscript to the Christian publishing house with whom she’d signed a contract, a book whose subject all along had been exploring God’s radical love.
The publishing house balked, deemed the two chapters “offensive” and “theologically out of bounds,” and ordered Bussie to cut them or they’d cancel her contract (and make her pay back every penny of her advance). Bussie refused, dead-set against being censored. Certainly not in a book about how people of faith — all faiths — “are called to love with no exceptions, asterisks, or limits.”
Mighty fine thing that Fortress Press, a Minneapolis-based Christian publisher with a more progressive bent, saw fit to snatch up Bussie’s much-needed message. In a world as balkanized as the one in which we find ourselves, Bussie’s words light the way toward practicing “a love so deep it subverts the social order, so radical it scandalizes the powerful, so vast that it excludes no one.” A love, it turns out, that couldn’t be censored.
Barbara Mahany’s latest book, “The Blessings of Motherprayer: Sacred Whispers of Mothering,” was published in April.
Twitter @BarbaraMahany
how will you mark the last full blast of summer?
chill wind…
like that, the rhythm changed in this old house. turn around, they call it in the land of jazz. disambiguation, yet another fancy word for when the two-beat turns to more. or less.
i call it “the day the little blue pot comes out of hiding,” the porridge pot, the one that starts the day with swirls of spoon and percolating simmer. it so happened that the chill winds blew in just as the school bell rang around here for the first time of the year.
and, like that, with arms now slid into woolen sleeves, but bare toes refusing to submit to leather confines, one season has shuffled off, cowering in the wings; another now pirouettes under klieg lights at center stage. ah, but autumn isn’t like that. autumn — the autumn i love anyway — is quietly robust. doesn’t make much noise. no clanging, rattling. just an elegant sashay into our midst. enveloping in amber light and jewel-toned hues: garnet, copper, gold.
autumn at once speeds up the daily whirl, and weaves in quietude. the morning rush — with school bus not dawdling at the curb, and school books and shoes forever escaping in the night, nowhere to be found by dawn — is not insignificant, enough to make your hairs turn pewter, but that’s followed by the between-the-brackets hush. suddenly, the middle of the day is on its tippy toes, daring not disturb. and those are the thinking hours, the deepening hours, when time invites me into its depths and nestled burrows. when i can type whole sentences, turn pages, wipe a bathroom sink and wander back hours later to find it still glistening. no wonder i love the rhythm of the autumn. it draws me in.
the change of light and tempo is just enough to make us all stand up and pay attention. and that, i think, is the big idea behind the twirl of earth against the sun. as we move from full-on-light to dappled shadow, the world around us — the garden, the woods, the starry night — shifts too. gone is the bold, stand-up-straight of summer. the basil withers on its stem, the dill is nearly toppled. but i, for one, feel little pang for the season fading in the rear-view mirror. not if truth be told. sure, i’ll miss those fat tomatoes — sliced and salted simply — but imagine the zaftig squash roasting in the oven, and the treasure chest of spices — cardamom, cumin, nutmeg — soon to offer up their fine and pungent notes.
give me a long day of concentrated work. give me a chill morning to nip my toes, and a sweater in which to wrap my goose-bumped arms. give me autumn’s golden light. and a sky of roiling off-in-the-distance clouds. i’ll make holy work of it. i promise.
i found it hard to write this morning, what with all the news squawking from the little white box tucked in my kitchen cove. once i clicked on the news, which is often my first move, even before the coffee’s on its way, i stood there frozen, wondering if i’d clicked on some sci-fi station, what with reports of massive earthquake (worst in a century), and yet another killer hurricane barreling through island after island, charging toward the mainland. i get scared, truth be told, worried that the whole universe is convulsing, rising up and telling us to mend our ways, pay attention to our brokenness. be gentle, for God’s sake, i hear the heavens telling us, in no uncertain words. be gentle with this blessed orb of Earth. be gentle with each other. be gentle, i suppose, even with our blessed selves.
because i care deeply about leaving you with words that just might add a bit of oomph to your friday morning, i’m adding here the rough draft of words i wrote this week when asked to write the intro to a book of women’s stories, women’s stories of reaching across racial, cultural and religious lines to forge deeper understandings out of plain pure friendship. it was an honor to be asked. here’s what i wrote (i’ll wait to tell a bit more about the book till it’s published). may this bring a little something to the whirl of sci-fi all around us…..
much love, and thanks for reading along…..xoxo bam
Day after day I wake up with my chest feeling hollowed. The space in my heart hurts so much, so immeasurably, I can’t fathom how to contain it. I shuffle down the stairs of my old shingled house, look out the windows into the quiet of dawn, into the leafy arbors, and wonder how in the world can I stitch a single thread into the tatters of this world, this oozing brokenness all around?
I walk in a state of grief unlike any I’ve ever known — and I’ve known quite a few. My grief is for the state of this nation, for the body politic, for the sheer goodness and kindness that I see being battered day after day. I shrink from the modern-day public square — social media in all its iterations — because the vitriol is too much, because the divisiveness tears me apart. I don’t believe in a world of us versus them, and yet, every day those lines are drawn more starkly. I cling to the words of wise souls like Father Jim Martin, the Jesuit thinker and author, who writes in his latest book, “For with Jesus, there is no us and them. There is only us.”
But how, I keep wondering, can my one all-alone voice make a dent in the cacophony? How can a whisper be heard? How can I amplify my deep faith in bridging not burning? Where oh where is there a place for a soul who believes so deeply, yet finds herself flailing with so little a footprint?
And then, the stories of this book landed on my desk. This, I knew right away, was where the answer lies: In ordinary extraordinary stories of women who reach across doorways, and hallways, and kitchen counters, who see beyond burkas and veils and prayer beads and venerations. I see and I read and I wrap myself in the stories of human hearts reaching beyond their own private shelters — walls that, always, can go one of two ways: to open into doorways, or seal themselves off, barricades of hard stubborn coldness, otherness, unwilling-to-bend-ness.
Here, in the pages of this book, is the first best draft of humanity moving forward. Here are the blueprints for the great and eternal commandment: Love as you would be loved.
Here is Ayesha, alone and with newborn babe, falling into the bottomless shadow of post-partum depression, who dared to knock on the door across the hall, and found a friend — and earthly salvation — in the form of an elderly widow named Libby. The Indian Muslim new mother befriending the white Christian widow; both finding the solace they sought — in each other. In the simple act of raising a fist to a flat-planed door, and knocking. Knees knocking all the while. The toeholds of courage start small.
Here is Parwin, who recounts the hair-raising story of her escape, at six months pregnant, from war-ravaged Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war. With two young children in tow, and determined to keep their escape unnoticed, she and her troupe traveled by truck and by horse and by foot — 150 miles of fear beyond fear. And in the end, when she delivered that baby just across the Pakistan border, when she found her way to America, she devoted her life to justice, compassion, for living the words of the blessed Koran:
…that you may know each other — and not despise each other.
Here is Dolores, who says she was “marinated, battered and deep-fried in religion,” specifically the black Baptist religion of her youth, and who found herself drawn into a host of houses of worship — mosques, synagogues, churches large and loud or not-so-large and not-so-loud. She was drawn, in particular, to the Buddhist practice of silence — a far cry from the joyful noise of her youth. One night, after a long dry spell in the faith department, she dreamed that Jesus introduced her to his best friend Buddha. Ever since, she’s been a practicing Buddhist. And even more so, a living, breathing bridge between two of the world’s great religions.
Story after story, woman after woman, the leitmotif is always: reach beyond what you know. Reach into the unknown, the foreign, the mysterious. Make it yours through words, and gesture, and deep human touch. Defy the divisiveness. Believe in the power of your own still small voice.
I turn to the holy wisdom of Dorothy Day, who learned from Therese of Lisieux: “By little and by little” — by little acts of kindness, by little acts of courage, we can thread the needle that will stitch the tatters back into whole.
We cannot afford to shrink from the task. We cannot afford to think we don’t matter, that we can’t make a difference. Read these stories of oversize courage and unbounded goodness. Read these stories of faith and justice, doled out in everyday measure.
Be the change you believe in. Be the kindness. Be the radiant light.
Go now, and carve out heaven on earth.
dear chair friends who’ve read this far, how will you carve out a little heaven on earth?
dizzy…in summer’s high tide
it’s a hum and a buzz you might mistake for a gnat — a gnat with a megaphone maybe. there i was, minding my morning’s business, not too far from nodding anemones, and the buzz dazzled past me, caught my attention. i looked up, and saw that i stood amid a whirling flock of zaftig bees. velvet-bellied bees. bees doing what bees do best, bees doing what i too am inclined to do this time of year: wriggling their whole fat selves into the depths of late summer’s bloom, gulping down thirstily, mightily, drunkenly. the bees in my garden are dizzy with late summer’s bloom.
so am i.
maybe it’s the urgency of catching up. i lost a week or two there in a fog. maybe it’s that summer’s been shaved by two weeks, here in the land where high school can’t wait. all i know is i can’t quite sate my late-summer’s hunger pang.
i stood there watching that bee. watching her rub up her belly, sink down low, into the golden rods of anemone pollen. i too wished i could make like a bee and slather myself in every last speck of summer’s late bloom. there’s an unbridled zest i saw in that bee, a zest that felt familiar. the unbridled part is the part that i longed for. and that’s what i love about being outside. about paying attention to the world in my garden. the bee skittered from one pollen-painted pin cushion to another, and then onto another. her flight path zigged and zagged and bumped into leaves. she didn’t seem to mind, not one little bit, that she was basically flying in circles, delectable circles. circles that filled her belly with the one niblet she lived for: the gold dust of summer’s unquenchable thirst.
for anyone gathering notes, the wide-bellied bee offered instruction: hesitate not, she seemed to insist. the hour is now. the pollen is swelled. the high tide of summer won’t wait. you’d be wise to roll in it now, to lather yourself in every last succulent drop.
point taken.
to study a bee, to chart the shift of a shadow, to tiptoe into the midnight in search of a shooting star, these are the lessons that unfold under heaven’s dome. this is the ancient and timeless curriculum of paying attention. this is poetry lived.
this is the quietly whispered prayer that fills me every time.
and this is my mid-august to-do list (inspired by my velvet-robed instructor):
pluck heirloom tomato. sprinkle with kosher salt. sink teeth in. catch drizzle with tongue.
ditto peach (minus the salt).
snip a morning’s round of black-eyed susans, or whatever the late-summer’s garden is inclined to share today.
take a seat in the midnight theatre, with one last showing of perseid’s meteor shower on the playbill tonight.
savor the twilight hour, as nightfall tiptoes in sooner by the day, reminding us that sunlight fades, and so too, summer. allow the periwinkle light to peak your knowing that the soft edge of day — of each and every day — is a gift to behold, especially as it wanes.
drink in the afternoon buzz of the world’s loudest bug, the Magicicada (mistakenly referred to as “locusts”), a herd with a walloping vibrato that tips the scales at 110 decibels, or about as deafening as a mad-dashing chain saw. oddly, perhaps, the cicada tympani happens to be my favorite song of latter-day summer.
curl up, all alone, in an old wicker chair, and, for as long as the day allows, deep-breathe the last of summer’s sweet pause (school — high school, no less — starts bright and early next wednesday; and for the soon-to-be teacher in this old house, it’s monday at 8 bells, when he’s due to glide into the classroom. so long to summer, indeed).
how will you savor your last hours of summer?
and a p.s. for the star gazers among us: i was among those staring into the heavens last night, wishing upon a star that i’d get a glimpse of one of perseid’s meteoric chalk streaks across the night slate. alas, it was not to be. clouds muddied my night watch. august 12 is the height of the late-summer show, when our dot on the globe spins into the whirling nightlights. there’s one last chance tonight, as the curtain falls, to catch the last gasp of the august light show.
p.s.s. correction above: i’d mistakenly launched into typing “he” and “him” in writing of my busy bumblebee, without circling back to check why i’d done that. i was wrong, and i’ve corrected my ways. apologies to the worker bumblebees who are decidedly hard-toiling she’s.
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Creationists taunt atheists in latest billboard war
By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
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(CNN)– A new video billboard in New York's Times Square has a message from creationists, "To all of our atheist friends: Thank God you're wrong."
The video advertisement at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan is one of several billboards going up this week in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, paid for by Answers in Genesis.
Answers in Genesis is best known as the multimillion-dollar Christian ministry behind the Creation Museum outside Cincinnati.
The museum presents the case for Young Earth creationism, following what it says is a literal interpretation of the book of Genesis, which says the Earth was created by God in six days less than 10,000 years ago.
Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, said the idea for the advertisements came from an atheist billboard in Times Square at Christmas.
During the holidays, the American Atheists put up a billboard with images of Santa Claus and Jesus that read: "Keep the Merry, dump the myth."
“The Bible says to contend for the faith,” Ham said. “We thought we should come up with something that would make a statement in the culture, a bold statement, and direct them to our website.
"We're not against them personally. We're not trying to attack them personally, but we do believe they're wrong," he said.
"From an atheist's perspective, they believe when they die, they cease to exist. And we say 'no, you're not going to cease to exist; you're going to spend eternity with God or without God. And if you're an atheist, you're going to be spending it without God.' "
Dave Silverman, president of the American Atheists, said he felt sad for creationists when he saw the billboards.
"They refuse to look at the real world. They refuse to look at the evidence we have, and they offer none," Silverman said. "They might as well be saying, 'Thank Zeus you're wrong' or 'Thank Thor you're wrong.' "
Silverman said he welcomed another competitor to marketplace, noting that after atheists bought a billboard two years ago in Times Square that read "You KNOW it's a myth," the Catholic League purchased competing space at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel for a sign that read "You KNOW it's true."
"I would suggest, if they're actually trying to attract atheists, they should talk about proof and reason to believe in their god, not just some pithy play on words," Silverman said.
Ham says part of the goal of the campaign is to draw people to the website for Answers in Genesis, where he offers a lengthy post on his beliefs for the proof of God.
Ham insists that this campaign is in keeping with their overall mission. "We're a biblical authority ministry. We're really on about the Bible and the Gospel. Now, we do have a specialty in the area of the creation account and Genesis because that's where we say God's word has come under attack."
Ham said Answers in Genesis made the decision to split its marketing budget for the ministry between a regional campaign for the museum and this billboard campaign, rather than a national campaign.
IRS filings for the ministry in recent years have shown a yearly operating budget of more than $25 million. Ham said the marketing budget is about 2% of that, about $500,000 a year. Though they are waiting for all the bills to come due for this campaign, he said he expected it to cost between $150,000 and $200,000.
Silverman noted that his billboards were not video and cost approximately $25,000 last year. He said another campaign was in the works for this year.
"They're throwing down the gauntlet, and we're picking it up," Silverman said, adding that his group would "slap them in the face" with it.
Ham said that despite criticism from other Christians for being negative and the usual criticisms from secularists he received on his social media accounts, the advertisements have been a success.
"We wanted people talking about them, and we wanted discussion about this. We wanted people thinking about God," Ham said.
The Creation Museum and the theory of Young Earth creationism are widely reviled by the broader science community.
In a YouTube video posted last year titled "Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children," Bill Nye the Science Guy slammed creationism, imploring parents not to teach it to their children. "We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future," he said. "We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems."
The museum responded with its own video.
For the past 30 years, Gallup Inc. has been tracking American opinions about creationism.
In June 2012, Gallup's latest findings showed that 46% of Americans believed in creationism, 32% believed in evolution guided by God, and 15% believed in atheistic evolution.
For as long as Gallup has conducted the survey, creationism has remained far and away the most popular answer, with 40% to 47% of Americans surveyed saying they believed that God created humans in their present form at one point within the past 10,000 years.
The Creation Museum said it recently welcomed its 2 millionth visitor since its opening in 2007.
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Getmenone
Both sides missed the entire point of divine philosophy. How it evolved into various religious doctrine. No recognition of why it was sourced and connected to our races the way it was. Clueless why it was propagated through society and told the way it was, Lost on what it was meant to do or how any of it should be interpreted. And absolutely no idea to even what practical purpose it was assigned. None of you people will find your perception accurate even to a tiny degree. Your setting lies and falsehoods as the director your ways sets athiest and devotees in the exact same camp. If it obvious to me, How much more so will it be apparent to the Divine Conclussion. Boo on all of you that think your ways will elude timeless justice. I certainly wouldn't make a peep for any of you. Let alone justify you in your ways.
Dr Strangelove
Conclussion? Is that like a conclusion derived from somebody with a concussion?
corridorwatcher
You have an interesting position which seems to be, "Only I understand." So only the voices in you head are telling the truth?
Which god are they referring to??
There is only One God The Almighty... but due to the 'Free Will' given to human, they either say NO or associates partners...
Allah – there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence. Neither drowsiness overtakes Him nor sleep. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, and they encompass not a thing of His knowledge except for what He wills. His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation tires Him not. And He is the Most High, the Most Great. – 2:255
112:1 – Say, "He is Allah , [who is] One,
112:2 – Allah , the Eternal Refuge.
112:3 – He neither begets nor is born,
112:4 – Nor is there to Him any equivalent."
MattinDC
AMEN and Praise HEY-JEUS! No Virgiin rewards in Christianity = ONE true R E L I G I O N!
sam stone.
what if we never pented in the first place?
please, matt, get off your knees
Sean Lynch
Because of "Original Sin" we are trapped and destined for hell at birth. Unless a person happens to win a lottery at birth and is born into a culture where Jesus can save them through baptism then they're doomed. After birth we have the free will to choose between blind obedience and belief in a loving god or infinite torture created for us by that loving god.
Islam is just as silly as Christianity. So basically they teach that intercourse is wrong before marriage, but at the same time promote that you get dozens of virgins in the afterlife. Doesn't that seem like a HUGE contradiction? Why teach that it's a bad thing when its the basis of your afterlife? And where do these virgins come from? They just don't want people to have fun, because you get to have lots of fun later. Logic?
Maybe the one where the current living "holy" men where dresses and funny pointed hats?
Or perhaps the one where the believers wear little replicas of execution devices?
On the other hand, maybe the one with the "holy" book the proscribes stoning to death with stones for various and sundry "sins?"
Two-thirds of star names have Arabic names. They came from Islam's fertile period (AD 800-1100.) During that time Baghdad was the intellectual center of the world, open to people of all or no faiths. During that time were some of the greatest advances known to mankind: engineering, biology, medicine, mathematics, celestial navigation; this is the time and place that gave us numerals we use, terms like algebra and algorithm.
Enter Imam Hamid al-Ghazali in the 12th century. The fundamentally religious period of Islam begins, and so begins the steady decline of free intellectual expression in that area of the world. Some would argue that it has since never recovered.
As astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains, throughout history most of the great minds give virtually no mention to any god for their discoveries and explanations. (Ptolemy, Isaac Newton, Laplace, Huygens, Galileo.) That is, until they reach the problem they feel they cannot and will never fully tackle. Dr. Tyson demonstrates this with writings from the great minds in his talk "The Perimeter of Ignorance".
Perhaps that is all God has ever been – a placeholder for discomfort or frustration over the unknown; an excuse of last resort when, for one reason or another, one gives up investigation. It is at that point of discomfort over the unknown when one should remember what humanity has already witnessed: that today's scientific explanations were often yesterday's gods.
"[If] the nature of... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope." –Thomas Jefferson
love the atheist mind
Lego (created by purpose) – solar system (created by accident, no designer, purposeless)
trash can (created by purpose) – human (created by accident, no designer, purposeless)
How many a sign is there in the heavens and the earth, which they
pass by with their faces turned away! (12:105)
"We make our signs and indicahons entirely manifest in the world and in the souls and inner beings of Our servants so that it should be clear that God is the True." (41:53)
"On theface of the earth there are signs for the possessors of certainty, and also in your own selves; will you not see?" (51:20-21)
"Did man emerge from non-being through his own devices? Was he his own creator? Did mankind create the heavens and earth? Certainly they do not know God." (52:35-36)
Addressed 1.400 years ago
@kay,
Pure assertion. Your book makes claims, but there is no evidence to support such claims. By the way, the sun is just a giant ball of gases, hardly a sign of design, and the human body is the product of billions of years of evolution.
fintastic
Oh ..... more bible quotes written by man.... big YAWN
A Frayed Knot
fintastic,
Actually, @kay quotes the Quran, but I agree with the yawn...
Same thing.
myweightinwords
The logical error here is that you are saying "atheist" and then talking about something that is not necessarily atheist.
Atheist does not equal evolutionist. Most atheists believe in say a big bang, yes, but not everyone who believes in the big bang is an atheist.
And atheist is only a person who does not believe in a god.
If you wish to discuss atheism, focus on that. Otherwise, if you point is to argue your lack of belief in the big bang, address is to those who do, rather than to atheists.
Do you know how many "solar systems" there are in our Milky Way galaxy alone? There are about 100 billion (100,000,000,000.) stars in the MIlky Way galaxy which is only one of about 3000,000,000,000 galaxies in the known UNIVERSE ! Do you have a purpose all set in your mind for them?
We do not know for certain how this stuff all started or if there is a "why". Shall we make up answers? Shall we latch onto the fantasies and superst'itions that ethnocentric Israelis dreamed up 3,000+/- years ago?
We. Do. Not. Know. Fantasize if you like, just don't claim your ideas as fact.
Don't be simple-minded. Atheists don't claim they have answers for everything. They have a wide range of views. One of them is "I don't know" which seems impossible for believers to understand.
why do you feel there must be a purpose?
Why do you equate having no creator to being purposeless? That's a matter of a opinion, regardless of whether or not you believe in god. Why create a purpose based on a guess? That's the real question. Why not seek these answers for yourself instead of blindly believing what others have told you?
Surat (Chapter) Luqmān (Luqman):
31:1 – Alif, Lam, Meem.
31:2 – These are verses of the wise Book,
31:3 – As guidance and mercy for the doers of good
31:4 – Who establish prayer and give zakah (obligatory charity), and they, of the Hereafter, are certain [in faith].
31:5 – Those are on [right] guidance from their Lord, and it is those who are the successful.
31:6 – And of the people is he who buys the amusement of speech to mislead [others] from the way of Allah without knowledge and who takes it in ridicule. Those will have a humiliating punishment.
31:7 – And when our verses are recited to him, he turns away arrogantly as if he had not heard them, as if there was in his ears deafness. So give him tidings of a painful punishment.
31:8 – Indeed, those who believe and do righteous deeds – for them are the Gardens of Pleasure.
31:9 – Wherein they abide eternally; [it is] the promise of Allah [which is] truth. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
31:10 – He created the heavens without pillars that you see and has cast into the earth firmly set mountains, lest it should shift with you, and dispersed therein from every creature. And We sent down rain from the sky and made grow therein [plants] of every noble kind.
31:11 – This is the creation of Allah . So show Me what those other than Him have created. Rather, the wrongdoers are in clear error.
Verse 31:10 and 11 – an open challange to those who either does not believe in The Creator or associates partners by saying God has a son or daughter or any other human or any objects or making The Creator as one of the three...
Peace!!!
Bragging and gloating is very un-Christianlike.
Based on examples here on this blog, it actually seems to be precisely Christian-like.
siggis94
Atheists will never realize that they win nothing for proving others wrong..."AWESOME, we get to die and go to a vast black space for all eternity!, thats great". However, a totally Religious world wouldn't be good either. Everyone would go to church EVERY day probably and all science would be rejected including my favorite subject, weather science. The truly best way to go is a non-religiously-agnostic world. In other words, no one is right or wrong, they are just in between. The only reason conflict exists is because of what is in the pictures above....debates and arguments. Unless people learn to realize there is no true honest way to completely prove the other side, there will always be terrorists and dictators and a lack of equality (ie LGBT, racism, ethnicity). Its a shame people don't realize that places like North Korea are a atheist state and Iran is a religious state. So clearly neither one would be acceptable for this world.
why do you feel that atheists will "visit black space for an eternity"?
if atheists do not believe in something that goes on after death, they would not believe in eternity
perhaps being dead is like before you were alive
The only logical way to put it is that we do not know the answer. Many claim to know it, but nobody can provide evidence. I see various religions as different pathways to the same ultimate goal. Some folks can't grasp that concept and find it more beneficial to repress anybody who doesn't believe their version of the "truth".
Hee,hee,hee. Go Jesus.
I am? Well prove it!
Yes you are... what prove do you seek?
It is very unfortunate that today a human deny things whereas yesterday he was not exist and he did not have any control when he was inside of his mom's womb and then even when he comes out of the womb, he can't do anything without help... and then when he comes to an adult, he denies everything... and comes up with some ideology and seek to see logic for everything to believe in any Creator...
O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it, its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allah through Whom you demand your mutual (rights), and (do not cut the relations of) the wombs (kinship). Surely, Allah is Ever an All-Watcher over you. – 4:1
There are 2 elements of human body:
A. Body
B. Soul OR atma OR ruh
A. The body which has been created from dust – from the earth:
It is He who created you
i) from dust, then
ii) from a sperm-drop, then (stage-1.1)
iii) from a clinging clot; then He brings you out as (stage-1.2)
iv) a child; then [He develops you] that you reach your [time of] (stage-2: Child)
v) maturity, then [further] that you become (stage-3: Young)
vi) Elders (old age). (stage-4: Old)
vii) And among you is he who is taken in death before [that], so that you reach a specified term; and perhaps you will think. – 40:67 (stage-5: end of life)
more detail of stage ii and iii:
Then We made the Nutfah into a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood), then We made the clot into a little lump of flesh, then We made out of that little lump of flesh bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, and then We brought it forth as another creation. So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators. – 23:14
He created you (all) from a single person (Adam); then made from him his wife [Hawwa' (Eve)]. And He has sent down for you of cattle eight pairs (of the sheep, two, male and female; of the goats, two, male and female; of the oxen, two, male and female; and of the camels, two, male and female). He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation in three veils of darkness, such is Allah your Lord. His is the kingdom, La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He). How then are you turned away? – 39:6
The meaning of creation after creation in three veils of darkness in the above verse:
"creation after creation":
– means everyone of you is originally a Nutfah (means a semen-drop which is mentioned in 22:5),
– then he becomes an `Alaqah (means: clinging substance which is mentioned in 96:2),
– then he becomes a Mudghah (means: the embryonic lump which is mentioned in 23:14 – this verse actually gives all the stages meaning mentioned Nutfah then 'Alaqah and then Madghah.... subhanallah glory be to Allah The Almighty who Created the human and the entire universe),
– then it becomes flesh and bones and nerves and veins, and the Ruh (soul) is breathed into him, and he becomes another type of creation.
"three veils of darknesses":
veil # 1 – the darkness of the womb,
veil # 2 – the darkness of the placenta which blankets and protects the child, and
veil # 3 – the darkness of the belly.
These three layers/veils are used to keep the child protected (belly, placenta and womb).
B. Soul breathed in to it which makes the body to move or ability to think and so on – from up and no one knows more details about it
32:7 – Who perfected everything which He created and began the creation of man from clay. Then He made his posterity out of the extract of a liquid disdained. Then He proportioned him and breathed into him from His [created] soul and made for you hearing and vision and hearts; little are you grateful.
End of this earthly life:
Say, "Indeed, the death from which you flee – indeed, it will meet you. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, and He will inform you about what you used to do." – 62:8
Every soul will taste death, and you will only be given your [full] compensation on the Day of Resurrection. So he who is drawn away from the Fire and admitted to Paradise has attained [his desire]. And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of delusion. – 3:185
When time is over a human just leaves from this earthly life no matter what whether healthy or not...
That's all Holy Baloney, mzh. Sad to see you back spamming us ad nauseum about your sick delusion again.
Got any modern proof for your claims? Didn't think so.
No such thing as a "soul" unless you're talking about shoes.
So you can prove that a soul exists? *gets popcorn*
Here is what you are looking for, Mr. Silverman.
How is it that you present the same mumbo jumbo claim for proof repeatedly and expect different results?
Publish real evidence as proof in a recognized peer reviewed science journal and receive accolades and praise from the entire world, including atheists.
truthprevails1
Thous shalt not steal comes to mind here...stealing advertising space doesn't help you and makes you looks rather hypocritical for preaching and yet not following the commandments that guide your life..
Hey GOOD NEWS you belong there too.
How shameless Christian con artists took over the GOP
by Amanda Marcotte posted on October 28, 2013 01:15AM GMT
Conservative politicians are exploiting their voters the same way some church leaders exploit believers
Right. That's just what all atheists need: Stories from the Koran.
Not sure, but I just don't think you get it.
good news is a troll
faith/hhari/etc is a troll
salero21 is a troll
larry of arabia, gopher, robbie (i cannot possibly be wrong about god) brown are not trolls, they are just pompous a
a$$es, in addition, gopher is a coward
In my opinion it's severely depressing either way...
Christianity: The afterlife is bliss...just believe the impossible.
Atheism: No afterlife, nada, zippo nil
Miserable.
Why do you see the atheist position as depressing?
Cpt. Obvious
A determined enough individual will always find a way to look at the negative and feel shortchanged. I find such a position to be rather useless.
I never really found that everlasting bliss thing very enticing. For one thing, you're going to have to sit there and look down into Hell and see all of your friends relatives, (who prayed to the wrong god for instance), writhing and screaming as they receive they're eternal torture. But alas! You do get to sit on the right hand of that egotistical sadomasochist torturer, God. Of course, if you blow it and pray real hard to the wrong version of God, (or make a little idol to do it with), you're going to be one of the writhers and screamers.
I am an atheist.
Why does everybody generalize atheists to believing in no after life, zero zip nada? Where is the justification in that? Atheists believe in a large variety of things, and some do indeed believe in a soul / afterlife. You do not have to believe in a creator to believe in a soul. Stop generalizing
Leigh Anne
I had to chuckle at the billboard answersingenesis.org Don't these people realize that the creation story is a POEM??? A poem with metaphors and images....NOT a science textbook....good grief.
No. It is the literal word of GOD. Despite copy and translation errors, despite the rewrites done for political reasons, despite interpretation errors, and despite ETC,. But if God said it and inspired people to write it down, its true. If you find the Bible to be contradictory and filled with violence and suffering caused by a sicko GOD, then you are misinterpreting it. The Bible is the absolute word of a loving God.
bobaussie
Unless God tells you, in person, that the bible is His literal word, then all you're doing is acting in faith that it is God's word. Just because you grew up believing something, doesn't mean you KNOW that it is truth. Maybe you BELIEVE it is, but that's faith. Atheists have faith in their own beliefs/unbeliefs, just as you and I have faith in what we believe in and what we don't believe.
Atheists don't have faith. Faith is defined as belief without evidence, Atheists care that their beliefs are backed with evidence.
I think you missed my sarcasm.
ET Iphone home
Has anybody actually even read the original bible in Hebrew? It reads absolutely nothing like the English version. If you haven't ya'll should check it out. It might open your eyes. God = aliens.
DysleveNarDar
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If following a couple of weeks you could be nevertheless not delighted, say to your boss. Talk truthfully and brazenly, but don't demonstrate their resentment – preserve professionalism. Inside a dialogue with your supervisor discuss the scope of their responsibilities. Try to ask those that can modify it with your current operate corresponds to that anything you study with the supply you with. In case your employer would not choose to facilitate, you should get in touch with the experts of HR.
firany żakardowe Years in the past, the eight year old Samuel Johnson, Lego enthusiast, wrote a letter to the business inquiring what situations ought to be achieved if you want to operate considering the maker of toys. Lego has handled the make any difference seriously and sent him a list within the crucial skills. This was the boy's enthusiasm to learn and increase. Once several years of his thesis with Lego was spotted by reps of the corporation. Samuel Johnson, whose childhood goals ended up taken significantly, he was employed at Lego, exactly where she promotions which includes a series of toys, Lego Ninjago.
Environment trade is a really earth of temptation, but as shoppers start to ripen in Poland is usually to choose for themselves regarding their shopping for choices. As entrepreneurs we need to just take this pattern into account inside pursuits.
"A number of families say that they uncovered what is the influence of coaching,
Jack Welch was highly surprised by these terms, but didn't clearly show it. He just explained "excuse me". The employee continued, announcing, "note that for 25 several years I worked to the agency. All this time, business enterprise paid for my palms. And at that time is also absolutely free my brain, but I never wanted to utilize it. " This party raises the dilemma – how to proceed making sure that workers employed don't just "hands", but additionally "head" to work?
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If we believe which the important and vital rozprawiliśmy myth, you might like to emphasize a handful of truths about corporate espionage, which the gurus are trivial difficulty par excellence.
"The Creation Museum and the theory of Young Earth creationism are widely reviled by the broader science community."
They are also widely reviled by the broader Christian community, too.
Jack, your comment is appreciated. Not all theists oppose science. It's going to be up to "modern" theists to educate and convince creationists that a person of faith can trust the sciences. Mistrust of science and the search for understanding is harmful to society.
laststonecarver
Everyone who cannot c god is a dodo bird.
poopmeister
Fun fact, did you know that the dodo bird is the only animal not created by God? Yes, that and when you go into space, if you believe in God, you can breathe. I'm going to just start making stuff up and say it's truth without any real evidence. I guess I am one of those animals not created by God but when I get into Hell, there will be an amusement park there named after me.
The tarantula song
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tarantula+song&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=tarantula+song&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=0E58E0EABAE6489E8C3F0E58E0EABAE6489E8C3F
JaneSauric
Your God is visible? Where?
Savior of light
I saw him on a slice of toast yesterday
@FAKElaststonecarver,
Who will you be today? –
voiceofreason6
You can't 100% prove there is no god. You can't prove 100% that God exists. So what would you rather believe? Would you rather have hope for something beyond this life? Or have no hope at all?
Youtube - Neil DeGrasse Tyson - The Perimeter of Ignorance
No, that's not the way things work. Otherwise people should believe in unicorns since we can neither prove nor disprove their existence, along with Ufaloms. The way it has always worked for every facet of our lives is someone makes a claim, we ask them for proof. Trying to change the game to, "well, you can disprove it," is dishonest. Shame on you.
would you prefer to think there is a judgement, or that this life is all you have?
i prefer the latter. how about you?
Sam; do you prefer "a judgement" after death because of the inequities you see in life and a final punishment for those who take advantage of others?
This is one of the reasons I see people like the idea of a final judgement. But other reasons exist...
Punishment is deserved for people that do not believe the "truth faith."
But most heinous is the belief that any person of "true"faith" is spared from judgement and forgiven for any behavior. This is where the argument of "absolute moral authority" breaks down.
In reality there is no justice, justice is a human concept not found in nature. If there were justice we could roll back time and set things right. If there were justice I could undo the hurts I may have caused others. I can learn from my mistakes and try not to repeat them, but there is no control z in life and that is the only way I could unsay some of the mean things I have said that the wisdom of experience has since shown me to be wrong and even cruel.
sean: i think you misunderstood me. i prefer to belief that this is the only life we have
i think the threat of "judgement" is a bad joke played on mankind
My bad Sam, I misread your statement! Glad to see someone hasn't taken your ID.
the faith/hhari/bethany/tex/etc, etc, et-fvcking-c troll often takes my ID. but, this was not one of those cases
Yes, in case you didn't see my reply, I reread your comment Sam. Theft of ID's is plainly the work of someone who wishes to harm to all. Atheists would say this behavior is the result of mental illness, and some theists would argue this is done to be of service to evil. By stealing atheist ID's and pretending to be a theist the thief's problems are obvious to all. In the end the thief has nothing, not even his own unique id and will never get credit for any original idea that merits consideration.
I truly believe that God is a distraction. I think that humans, if they are good caring people, will love one another without the need of a God judging them. Faith is also one of those enigmas; it enables the user to not do anything because they have "faith"....well, I think that we all need to participate and especially question everything. We will never grow as a society if we are still standing behind a figure that we cannot confirm or deny his existence.
You're right. The existence of a deity cannot be proven nor disproved. But I think the problem lies not so much in this difference of opinion , but arises significantly when believers in a literal Bible, want their beliefs legislated into law. In a republic with democratic principles & tremendous diversity, That cannot be done. But to put it in colloquial terms; I'd suggest to fervent believers, (I'm not necessarily an atheist) ; you look after your soul & I'll look after mine. Any religion tends to exploit the most common fear/concern of humans since time immemorial ; That being: what happens to us , if anything; after we die.
"Proof" is a concept valid only in mathematics. In science we measure to a statistical degree of certainty. There are no absolutes and if something is consistently "hitting" 100% we better check the assumptions, data, math and hypothesis because it's not digging deep enough to give us a degree of confidence in what we are measuring.
You can't prove 100% that unicorns exist and you can't prove 100% that they don't. Should we just believe in them because we like that idea? You can if you want but when there is a severe lack of objective evidence, non existence is the logical default for anything. There is an infinite potential of things that don't exist. We don't believe them all just because we can't prove they don't. Burden of proof is on the one claiming existence, not the person who says your claim is BS.
Sometimes I worry that no one reading CNN takes the comment section seriously or cares what I have to say
"They refuse to look at the real world. They refuse to look at the evidence we have, and they offer none," Silverman said.
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The water margin, moral criticism, and cultural confrontation
Wai Lam William SIN
The Water Margin (Shuihu Zhuan 水滸傳) is one of the four great classical novels of China. It describes how people from different walks of life were driven to become outlaws as a result of poor governance and widespread corruption. These outlaws have been regarded by some commentators as heroes, despite the fact that they perform wanton killing, over retribution, and cannibalism. Liu Zaifu 劉再復 argues that the novel has contributed to the moral downfall of the Chinese people. In this essay, I put forward various arguments in objection to Liu. I think Liu’s argument is unsound, partly because he fails to address the nature of the cultural confrontation between modern readers and The Water Margin. By conducting an evaluation of Liu, I also consider a range of issues concerning how we may understand The Water Margin, and how the novel may morally relate to us in modern society. Copyright © 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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Sin, w. (2017). The water margin, moral criticism, and cultural confrontation. Dao, 16(1), 95-111.
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May 1996, Volume 29, Issue Supplement 1
The Geology and Hydrogeology of the Sellafield Area
The geology and hydrogeology of Sellafield: an overview
Robert Chaplow
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 29, S1-S12, 1 May 1996, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.QJEGH.1996.029.S1.01
The geological framework of the Sellafield area and its relationship to hydrogeology
Uisdean Michie
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 29, S13-S27, 1 May 1996, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.QJEGH.1996.029.S1.02
Hydrogeological testing in the Sellafield area
J. S. Sutton
Groundwater chemistry in the Sellafield area: a preliminary interpretation
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Visiting the Snow Queen
17th Mar 2017 In Fiction, Queer Translation
by Sophie Strohmeier translated from the German by Emma Rault
Translator’s note
This text is an excerpt from Küss mich, Libussa ("Kiss Me, Libussa"), a surrealist lesbian novel which tells the story of Marie, an Austrian student who, studying abroad in Prague, falls in love with Libuše, an imperious literature professor who seems to have a secret sadness about her. In pursuit of her queen of hearts, Marie has a series of transformative erotic encounters, closely intertwined with the Czech art and literature she is studying. The novel's prose style draws on the imagery used by the Czech surrealists, while seeking to add to the German literary landscape a more explicit portrayal of desire between women, with Marie as a "queer Casanova."
I was especially drawn to this excerpt for its breathless Sturm und Drang and the febrile atmosphere, which reminded me, among other things, of Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Novella (the basis for the movie Eyes Wide Shut). There's something special about seeing that setting become the backdrop to a lesbian love story; about reading a queer story that takes place in the types of buildings and streets that I recall from childhood. So much of the queer writing I read is set in the US, so it's pleasing to find a text in which European cultural identity and queer identity converge.
While reading, rereading and then translating this excerpt, I was struck by the array of light-related imagery: from the "glinting" of the grooves of the parquet floor in the sunlight to the "flash" of Libuše's white cheeks, her "twinkling" earrings, beads of perspiration "shining" on her face. It made the encounter between Marie and Libuše feel as delicate and precious as the pearl earring Marie ends up pocketing as she heads out the door. I sought to preserve that sense of carefully-cradled promise in the translation.
At the National Theatre we got onto tram number 22, which carried us across the Vltava. Caramel-coloured light fell slantwise through the vibrating windows of the squealing carriage, and the reflections dancing on the waves of the Vltava caught on the fine scratches in the windows, so that they appeared to be decorated with icicles. In this light, all people were beautiful and everyone was happy and good. On the far side of the river, the barely-developed buds glistened greenish-white and soft-pink on the many fruit trees on Petrin Hill, full of anticipation for the coming spring.
I wanted to tell Libuše how beautiful everything seemed to me, how wonderful. But she—the queen—sat quite still on the seat in front of me and looked at the passing Vltava and the long rows of sunlit houses with a half-dreamy, half-focused expression, as if she was embarrassed to turn towards me. But she didn’t need to: her neck and her fragrant hair, and
every now and then the flash of her white cheeks, were a thrilling spectacle all by themselves. Perhaps she is letting herself be observed, I thought, perhaps she is not looking at me in order to let me look at her? Each time she smiled softly at the window, my heart contracted painfully, a lump rose in my throat and I didn’t dare say anything out of fear that I would be moved to tears by her beauty and her nearness.
A few stops later, in the Malá Strana district, we got off. We continued down Karmelitská Street for some time, and then turned into a narrow alley and headed steeply uphill. We couldn’t talk here, because the pavement was narrow, and buses and cars came rattling past us. I hurried after the queen and caught a clear view of her waist, which oscillated back and forth like a cello string as she walked. She took small, but very quick steps, as if she couldn’t wait to finally have me in her home. She kept her shoulders elegantly back, and her neck inclined slightly forward, as if she were an exotic bird with a well-preened coat of silver feathers, a bird which knows both the high north and the warmth of the southern countries.
I noted the glimmer of her small, dangling pearl earrings, which twinkled beneath her fair hair like gleaming peas, like teeth behind smiling lips.
The alley took us along the castle wall, and the cobblestones assumed the colour of the ivy which climbed up the façades of the houses. Amid the baroque buildings stood one Renaissance house with a typical black-and-white graffito façade. I felt as if I’d been transported back to my childhood, when almost every weekend I would force my parents to take me on a trip to Retz, near Vienna, a town whose main square is graced by a similar Renaissance building. The main thing I remembered about the façade of the building in Retz, however, was the depiction of heroes from antiquity, whereas the one here in Prague depicted allegories of life and death: skeletons held hourglasses in their hands and reminded passers-by and the residents of the house of the ephemerality of life.
Next to this building, right in the middle of the short alleyway, stood the house in which Libuše lived. We crossed the small garden with its clipped lawn and the hint of a rose hedge, still awaiting spring. She opened the heavy gate through which Miloš had gone before me, and we entered a hallway with an ornate stairwell. I followed Libuše up to the first floor, and from this point on I had got farther than Miloš had ever managed to.
Libuše opened the door to her apartment. I stood in her silent, dark hallway, mechanically took off my shoes despite her protestations, and then we went through a tall glass door deeper into the apartment, into the still air of the sort of room that absorbs secrets, hiding them under the rugs and in the walls and keeping to itself. One of the windows was ajar, and the white curtains billowed in the light breeze. A dense bouquet of blue flowers protruded from a porcelain vase on a small table of dark, heavy wood. The dark parquet floor creaked beneath my small feet, the grooves glinting in the thin afternoon light. It smelled like linen, coffee, and lavender; like an early summer afternoon and cool, old stone walls.
So this is where the snow queen lives, I thought, as if to assure myself of the reality of the moment. I put my bag down on the floor and turned breathlessly to Libuše, who was just hanging her coat.
“The house is empty?” I asked, but it sounded more like a surprised observation.
“My husband is on a business trip, and my youngest daughter is away on a school excursion. The other two daughters have already moved out,” said Libuše. Climbing the stairs had given her cheeks a fetching pink glow, and her forehead shone with invisible beads of perspiration. A pale strand had fallen free from her perfect coiffure and hovered delicately like a dragonfly between her jaw and collarbone. I wanted to take her face into my hands, run my lips down her forehead, stroke her cheeks and kiss her parted lips. I imagined how I would carefully play with the collar of her white dress. The thought made my face turn red like an overboiled shrimp, and I had to turn away.
Suddenly I was gripped by fear that something like this might actually happen. Libuše was so close—all she had to do was take me by the hand and pull me to her. Then that would be it; we’d become one, and all at once that would be the end of all my goals, the siege of the castle, it would be completion and, at the same time, death. I wouldn’t know what to do, I would be lost, and there would be nothing left for me but to surrender my fearful, trembling body to the scrutiny of her gaze.
Libuše, however, had left me standing there between the hallway and the living room and disappeared into the depths of the apartment. From the study she motioned back through the doorway that I should hurry up, take off my coat and join her.
A massive oil painting hung above her desk, which depicted the likeness of a woman. I was drawn to it straight away. The woman was wearing a green dress and sitting in the nighttime undergrowth, amid which flowers glowed dimly, as if they were sleepwalking. In the top right-hand corner I thought I saw a nightingale, shrouded in countless brushstrokes like fog. Or was it something else that was lurking there—something sinister? At first glance, I took it for a typical Jugendstil painting, but then I saw that it was too crude, and its crudeness far too ironic even for the Jugendstil era. Most likely it was one of those post-postmodern works of art, which seek only to make fun of our love of beautiful gestures. But was this painting really making fun of me? The bare arms of the woman were too beautiful, too full; her white chest shimmered too brightly.
The most striking thing about the portrait was the woman’s hard eyes. They were grey like Libuše’s, but there was a reddish glint in them, which attested to an eerie shrewdness and brutality. They seemed to be hiding a secret, something mysterious and deeply sacred, which filled the room like a cloud of black smoke, coiling around me like tentacles in order to engulf and strangle me. The queen stood beside me, her hands folded in her lap, and contemplated her painting with me.
I gasped for air. “Please forgive me,” I said, as if I had strayed into her bedroom accidentally, uninvited.
“That’s alright,” Libuše said with a wonderful smile that flooded me with warmth. “The painting still exerts a powerful draw on me. Sometimes I just stand here, wondering what might be going on in her mind.”
I could hear her voice rushing in my ears; my head felt heavy, as if my blood pressure had plummeted and soared at the same time. “I’ve never seen a painting like this before,” I said.
“I was good friends with the painter for a long time. Květa Nepomucká is her name. I think she’s a terrific artist, but then I’m biased, of course.”
Libuše touched my arm and led me to a table full of magazines, books and loose prints. “These are first editions, very rare. This is Nezval’s Alphabet, and here you can see the covers of Nezval’s collections of poetry designed by Karel Teige. These images are by Jindřich Štyrský. And these are original prints of Toyen’s illustrations for Mácha’s epic ‘May’. Do you know Toyen?”
I didn’t want to lie, so I chose to remain silent.
“She was an artist that everyone—and I do mean everyone, male or female, whom she met between Prague and Paris and beyond—was in love with. Because she created such extraordinary paintings, of course; and because she was so unusual and full of secrets. She could be vulgar and crude. Often she’d dress in men’s clothing and go out on the town with the other artists, with Nezval, Seifert, André Breton and many others. But then—as you can see for yourself in these prints—she could also be unbelievably feminine and tender. After the Second World War she emigrated to Paris. Her partner, Štyrský, had died in the war. She lived until 1980. People say she could do magic.”
“How do you mean, magic?” I asked.
“Just as I said,” Libuše said, “black magic. As a young girl, she worked in a soap factory in the Prague district of Žižkov, that’s where they say she learned it.”
“Love spells, too?” I asked, trying to sound tongue-in-cheek.
“That too,” Libuše nodded.
In one image I saw a dungeon or attic with a small window. A gentle rolling landscape stretched out on the floor, but oversized human fingers hung from the beams below the ceiling. I put the paper down and wondered why it should so excite me, when it was so grotesque, revolting even. But the landscape on the floor was beautiful, and the window was longing, and the sun, and the chopped-off fingers were the inability to change anything, to say, write, paint, do anything.
I immediately recognised the flourish of Toyen’s signature on the piece of paper underneath it. The centre of the image was taken up by the stunning, giant, shining eye of a girl, topped by a delicate eyebrow, but the face to which it belonged was obscured behind craggy cliffs, with only a hint of the elegant nose peeking through. It was as if a goddess were peeping through a keyhole, as if a young Aphrodite had come down from Mount Olympus to spy on her lover. Passion in its purest, most intense form—that’s what was being shown here.
Together Libuše and I leafed through the prints, magazines and books, and I felt a little silly, because I was paying more attention to my hostess’s hands than to the things she was showing me. Once, our fingertips touched and I jerked back as though I had touched a burning hot plate.
She left me alone with the books, after she had discreetly drawn up a chair for me.
I looked out the window onto a courtyard with chestnuts that were just stirring from their slumber and, behind it, a cul-de-sac. Bay windows and balconies were stacked up, one on top of another, sweeping up into summits of towers and turrets. The castle jutted out somewhere high above.
I was restless, because I wasn’t sure which would tell me more about my beloved: the books she had prepared for me, or her study itself. Again and again I lifted my gaze, taking careful note of the objects that accompanied Libuše as she went about her daily life. Dried yellow roses hung from the bookcase; a snail shell sat on the window sill, carried in by children’s hands ages ago. The heavy conference table with the leather chairs at which I was sitting; the desk with the curved claw feet; the green desk lamp; the curtain; the bronze sculpture of a dancing woman. All this was hers. Every day she looked at all these things, even if only in passing; she touched them often. All these lifeless things spoke to her each day and were brought to life by her presence, and now they spoke to me of her.
The queen returned to the room with two cups of coffee and a plate full of pastries on a tray. The pastries were small větrníčky, a choux pastry with caramel icing and two types of cream filling. I felt like a child on a Sunday visit to their favourite aunt. Libuše understood my look and immediately downplayed things, saying “We get these sent to us frequently. An old friend of mine, a woman I went to school with, owns a pastry shop. She sends everything that’s left over to friends.”
Once again she’s mentioning a female friend, I thought, maybe a close one even. I bit my bottom lip to keep myself from grinning even more broadly. I wanted to bury my head in my hands, or hide it behind a forest of rock faces.
Now I was truly incapable of focusing on the artworks. Poetism, surrealism and romanticism had receded into the background; all I was interested in was the snow queen, nothing else. I wanted to find out every little detail about her; again and again I wanted to hear about all the minutiae of her life. But how could I ask about things that I knew nothing about?
She had consumed a větrníček with impressive deftness and elegance and now lit a cigarette to have with her coffee. “Go on, Marie, have a taste, they’re the best. Or don’t you like choux pastry? What a pity.”
Her mischievous look, which I hadn’t seen before, inspired a terrible yearning in me, paired with an even more terrible shyness. She looked at me over the rim of her cup. I was entirely defenceless and at her mercy. I lifted a cup from the tray too and gingerly had a sip of coffee, as if it were a magic potion with the power to turn stone back into flesh. I didn’t want to touch the pastry because I was afraid that, in my clumsiness, I would get the cream all over my face. “Living so close to the castle seems very appropriate for a queen,” I said, to distract us from the topic of food.
“For a queen?” Libuše laughed.
“That’s what the students call you. Surely you know that.”
Libuše grinned. “And you? Is that what you call me too?”
“Something like that,” I said and fell silent.
We looked into each other’s eyes for a moment.
“So you don’t want to try a větrníček?” she asked.
For a brief moment, the absurd thought came into my mind that the pastry was poisoned and that’s why Libuše was so adamant that I try it. But I wasn’t Snow White, and Professor Herzová was definitely not my wicked stepmother. When I noticed that even this absurd fantasy managed somehow to turn me on, I decided to distract myself. I nodded at Libuše and took a fork with which to at least halve the pastry, which I barely managed to do—instead, much of the cream burst out of its casing. Instead of dividing the cream into small portions with my fork, in my nervousness I decided to take the entire smashed větrníček into my hand. When I bit into it, my taste buds had an experience that was almost on a par with my erotic experiences thus far, but the cream distributed itself liberally all over my cheeks, and I felt so clumsy and unladylike that I wanted to sink into the parquet floor out of shame. The snow queen got up, took two steps towards me and lifted her hand making as if to stroke my hair. But then she handed me a napkin instead.
“It really is delicious,” I said, taking the napkin in an attempt to conceal my embarrassment.
“I’m glad. Yes, my friend really does make the best baked goods anywhere. If you like, I’m happy to give you the address of her shop, so that you can pay it a visit and try their other delicacies.”
“Thank you, I’d like that.”
“Her name is Karolína Konvalinková, and her shop is in Josefov, not far from the university. I just can’t recall the street name just now…”
A telephone rang somewhere in the depths of her domain.
I wiped my mouth while she serenely left the room. She turned back to me in the doorway. “You’d better get a pen and paper from my desk, given that you haven’t brought anything to take notes with.”
Again feeling embarrassed, this time because I hadn’t brought any writing material, I did as she said, got up, took a blue pen and a sheet of stationery with a Charles University watermark, and went back to the large table with the prints. I randomly jotted down a few dates and numbers. It was too quiet without the snow queen. She was too far away. The murmuring of her telephone conversation seemed to be coming from the other side of the world, and I couldn’t make out a single word.
I looked at the ash in her copper ashtray and the cooling coffee left in her cup. The red crescent of her lipstick shone luminous on the rim. I took a sip from the exact spot where her mouth had been. Our mouths touched each other on the other side of the world. I quickly put the cup back in its place. It was getting dark outside; a thick mist was putting the stirrings of spring back to sleep. The mysterious woman in the picture observed me with a dry, questioning gaze.
I wrote on my piece of paper: Libussa, Libussa, Libuše, Libuše, ó sněhová královno, o snow queen, ó sněhová královno, o snow queen, miluji tě, I love you, větrníček, little windmill, led, ice, sníh, snow, konek, end, začátek, beginning. Then I copied a collage from the magazine Moderní revue. Breasts and little birds.
By the time the snow queen returned, it was pitch-black outside the windows, except for a tiny wisp of blue far off to the left. The green lamp was reflected in the window pane. In the reflection, Libuše and I looked like ghosts. And suddenly I wanted to be gone from here, far away in a pub, with the fifth pint of the evening in my hand, but I wanted to leave part of me here, as a ghost, to roam this room from now on for all eternity, always on the lookout, forever on the hunt for the queen of its heart.
Libuše sat down in her seat. Her face was dark. With an angry motion she put out her cigarette. Her eyes had lost all their lustre. I noticed that she had taken off her pearl earrings. It was time for me to go, I realised that much. I folded up my piece of paper like a sleepwalker who never wants to wake up.
“If you want to learn more about the origins of poetism, please read ‘May’ again, and more closely,” Libuše said without looking at me. “Pay attention to the use of imagery. The Czech surrealists considered Mácha to be the first modern poet. So there you are.”
It seemed like she was talking past me. I wondered what she had heard on the telephone that had so shaken her. To at least make eye contact somehow, somewhere, I turned to face the oil painting, but the woman in the picture seemed even more forbidding than before. I stood up and made a show of checking my watch. Perhaps I should hug my professor goodbye? Was that what one did? She remained silent, her eyes fixed on the table top.
“I think,” I whispered, my voice hoarse, “it’s time…”
“Yes,” Libuše said coldly. “You look tired, Marie.”
I drifted into the hallway. Libuše remained motionless in her seat.
I put my coat on, and on the way to the door I passed a mirror I hadn’t noticed when I came in. From the corner of my eye, I saw my sad face, and took a few steps back to look at myself in the mirror, the way you do in shop windows sometimes to reassure yourself that you exist. While looking at my reflection, I saw the flash of a pearl on the floor in the middle of the hallway—one of the earrings that Libuše had been wearing earlier. I hesitated for a moment. Then I bent down and picked up the tiny piece of jewellery. I wanted to rush back to lay it at her feet as a loyal page would for his lady. But then my hand closed around the earring as if of its own accord, and slid into my coat pocket.
Libuše came to say goodbye. She touched my back lightly and gently nudged me to the door. I turned around. She held out her hand. But I was clutching the earring; I couldn’t shake her hand. My chin was trembling and I felt tears well up in my eyes. I hid my face in her shoulder and tried to make it look as if I had meant to embrace her. In this moment, the moment of the greatest physical closeness to my beloved, I felt watched. Maybe it was an unexpected movement outside in front of the dark window, maybe it was light reflecting on the wall. I looked around, but still no one was in the apartment except for me and Libuše. It must have been my bad conscience. Libuše stood there motionless, and I hoped that she might embrace me once again, and properly this time, but she didn’t. Finally she took a step back and said “Goodbye.”
I walked into the darkness and gripped the earring so tightly that it drove into my hand like the stinger of a scorpion.
Sophie Strohmeier is a bilingual writer from Vienna and Pennsylvania. Her surrealist novel in German, Küss mich, Libussa, was published in 2013, and her film criticism has appeared in a range of European media such as FM4, The Gap and Sissy. She was a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction and lives in Alabama with her wife and two cats, where she is an MFA candidate in creative writing and the recipient of the University of Alabama's Alumni Award for Fiction 2016. (Social media: Tumblr)
Emma Rault is a writer and translator living on a canal boat in London. Her writing has appeared in British and American publications including Bitch Media, The RS 500, Brittle Star and Shooter Literary Magazine. She translates Dutch and German poetry and prose when she finds herself missing some of her past homes. (Social media: Twitter)
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FICTION: The Face
8th Jan 2019 In Fiction
by Sunil Sharma
It was a face that looked familiar.
We were seated in buses on opposite sides of a busy Mumbai intersection, when I saw the face framed in the barred window. In profile; partly covered with black tresses, aquiline nose, an arched penciled eyebrow and a pout—deliberate? natural?—set in an oval face. And a smile hovering over the red lips. The way models do for a girlie magazine shoot, designers’ calendars’ or a TV spot. A curvy smile, slightly crooked, as an irregular layer of sauce being spread by the vendor on a sandwich toast. Or, like a series of ragged lines, on a paper, drawn by a kid in a hurry to meet deadline of a drawing competition.
The effect was commendable.
It was hot March afternoon. Sweat dripping, I chanced to look out of the window and glimpsed this blur that transformed into a human face for few seconds and as lights turned green, our crowded public buses began moving at the same time.
I looked at her and she looked at me—from a kinetic body and jerky angles—and our eyes locked in for a full fleeting second and then we crossed each other for ever, not to meet again. Two lines running parallel.
I guess she smiled—at me! In an instant, urban anonymity turned into uneasy familiarity, although a fleeting one: Two androids becoming humans in a thrashing sea of faceless humanity. For a second only. An assembly-line commuter, yet mysterious, commuting to some place by public transport, became at that instant, a living being with a history—identical, perhaps?—in a public space with common aspirations and struggles.
I smiled—a faint smile that stretched my pursed tobacco-stained thick lips a bit. Like a bulging grocery bag that cracks at the top. Just a hint of smile at the oddities of life in a South-Asian metro.
A brief glimpse! That broke the dull monotony of commuting in a crowded bus. That feminine smile was unusual—you don’t get hapless commuters smiling these days at the male commuters coming in the opposite direction. In fact, cocooned within, you do not smile at all during the long daily journeys in packed trains or buses.
It is as rare as finding a Dodo at your doorstep. Or, forget the poor Dodo, discovering a house sparrow chirping in your concrete balcony in the vertical column of dark glass-n-marble contraption called high-rise.
You can find gold in Mumbai. Not a smile—unconditional, pure, free and open that makes the wearer and the lucky recipient, a normal being. I know a country chap who, on first visit, smiled at everybody in his brother’s housing society and his gentle smile at the next-door bhabi infuriated her alcoholic husband so much that he bludgeoned the poor out-of-towner to death. It led to so much further trouble—police complaint and further feuds in the society and bloodbath—that the villager vowed never to visit the city again. That goes for smiling in a paranoid city. A norm in a village; a deviation in the hyper-city.
But the warmth of this smile morphed the face into someone known. Here is the underlying principle: Only those folks who know or recognize you are liable to smile at you. Others who do can be treated as too poking or intruding or a stalker! A normal facial expression, wrongly-timed and directed, can make you a threat to some moron hiding in a shell.
This was not the case here. The smile—or its hint—triggered a response at deep subterranean levels. A distant memory moved in a dark abyss. Of a forgotten encounter somewhere, sometime, beyond immediate recall. It was a strange sensation. Trying to give a name to a face and a context; trying to locate that elusive face in a slipping stream of dim memory; trying to fix a moment in the flux of time. Difficult task. Like catching shadows of the flying dark clouds on the desert dunes. Or, trying to store river waters through open palms and fingers.
The face. With a dreamy touch. A smiling face at me. Evoking memories that I could not fix and pin down. One thing was sure. I have seen it. But where? It had a strange quality and appeal. The oval face stood out in the surging multitudes around. Like the hulk of tossing ship in the tidal waves seen from a shoreline. Sure. I had met this person. In Mumbai. In suburbs. In a party. Office. I was trying to translate a moving glimpse into a personal history. The feeling persisted. Grew strong, as the bus hurtled down the angry asphalt of the congested lane in Chembur. Now, it bordered on the déjà vu. The oval face uncannily resembled someone whom I knew but who? I tried to place it but could not, getting jolted by the bus frequently. I recalled the strange face. It was an ordinary face of a middle-class Indian woman, yet it was not. The hovering smile altered its quality. Perhaps, the angle of the fleshy face, slightly inclining to the left, behind the horizontal bars of a stationary bus at a polluted intersection on a humid afternoon, lost in reverie, made it look striking, despite the shared common features. The inclined face. The falling tresses. Maybe the stylish pose of talking on a cell-phone. Or, the very familiar setting made it un-familiar: an unknown woman, sitting in a public bus, bored and lost in the melee of a metro on the roll, framed by a little window, like a mobile outdoor ad for a shampoo or hair-oil product.
Common, yet un-common, in its overall effect on an involved viewer.
Let us talk cinema. The shot has the following elements in it to evoke recognition in the global audiences: A universal metro scene; a common female face, an ordinary traffic experience; yet assuming an extra-ordinary dimension due to the combination of these very elements and the mix forming into an unusual composition, a powerful visual statement. Remember the movie Shall We Dance? The iconic scene where Richard Gere comes to have a glimpse of lost J. Lo in a window of a dance studio from a moving train. A glimpse that changes the life of that lawyer John Clark forever, as well as others. Well, nothing of that kind happened here with me but the effect was something unusual. You might have seen graffiti. Kind of urban graffiti sprawled across an old stone wall of a defunct textile mill in the old teeming sections of the Lalbaugh area, a random act of rebellion, yet changing the ungainly solidity of wall into an underground art—kind of. Or, a setting sun on Marine Drive, against a chafing Arabian Sea, caught by a visiting teen on her cell-phone. Everyday occurrence, yet sublime on the film as a medium.
The same ignored sunset brings money to a painter on his vivid canvas from an art-struck banker. A medium, sometimes, changes our perceptions.
So, commuting, I tried to recall a suitable context to pin down that face into it. To give a past to a stranger who appeared not as a stranger to me at that time and mental stage already benumbed by my daily travel on this heavy route. I tried to rummage through my box of memories but nothing substantial turned up.
I suffer from poor memory.
I cannot recall names and faces. People think it snobbery. Not remembering them. A name is precious to its owner. It is a mini-brand. But I forget names and faces easily. The other day, I ran into a man in a mall and he said, hullo, sir, how are you? And I smiled sheepishly and said, I am fine and quickly moved on, avoiding further risky conversation with him. Till this day, I could not remember who he was.
People say I suffer from amnesia, temporary or otherwise. I do not know. Fact remains I get forgetful and cannot recall most of the human encounters of my life. By this I do not mean that I have got extra-terrestrials as my company. I am just trying to explain. But I think I mirror my society. Most of the company is like a hangover—only a blur of faces and some excruciating morning pain for all the hard partying and harder work.
It is work, work and work. And partying. Then, forgetfulness of those little conversations and fleeting faces. And then stress, oil, obesity, passivity and cholesterol finally kill you early as a deadly mix. “Friends are like stubs of cigarettes, burnt-out stubs, in an overflowing ashtray, in a pub,” a friend who occasionally dabbles in English poetry once famously described us all. “Like dredges of wine left in a wine glass,” another friend had ventured and we all had burst out laughing at this triviality—full of profound thought. How true!
I remember an old colleague crying quietly, during lunch-hour, in his corner kiosk, wiping his tears, his lunch-box unopened. The office was deserted. “What happened?” I asked. Between sobs, the fortyish man blurted, he had lost both his ailing mother and job, the same day and hour. In the evening, he was given the check and there were no farewells to a man who was with us for so long. Corporate culture. You are replaceable by a minute. A dead entry. A forgotten item in a long inventory. The man left; another guy joined. We all continued the daily grind: Computers, coffee breaks, tight deadlines, hurried lunches, long commutes, some TV, then flopping on the bed—to start again. Shall we dance? Not here, in India. Even if you want, you cannot.
We breeze through each other’s life, like a whip of a rain sweeping through an open courtyard—then drying up slowly in harsh sun.
I try to fix up that face but give up. The bus hurtles down now. Traffic is heavy. Honking is loud. We are pressed together like human beings conjoined in a mass.
Where is that colleague?
I cannot recall his contours, tonal quality, hair colour, weight—nothing.
The Greeks were right. We all are drinkers of the River of Lethe. And, suddenly, I felt weightless and floating in the air—as insubstantial.
Yes. I did. In this short reverie, in a packed moving bus, I felt transformed—into a vapour. Uneasy, sweating, jolted, a hot wind buffeting in the face, the crush of bodies encased in fine branded clothes pressing me and boxing me in, I felt evaporating like camphor. Insubstantial. Light. Of no use. A dead man walking who could not recall faces and conversations in a commercial city—himself being erased, sinking into oblivion, on a moving bus.
Sunil Sharma is a Mumbai-based senior academic, critic, literary editor and author with 19 published books: six collections of poetry, two of short fiction, one novel, a critical study of the novel, eight joint anthologies on prose, poetry and criticism, and one joint poetry collection. He is a recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ inaugural Poet of the Year award in 2012. His poems were published in the UN project Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry in 2015. Sunil edits the English section of the monthly bilingual journal Setu published from Pittsburgh, USA. For more details, please visit his blog.
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November 10, 2018 Islam Iman Ihsan Leave a comment
Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon the Prophet Muhammad , his noble family and companions.
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Islamic concept of Animal Welfare
https://www.outreachislam.org/2019/12/islamic-concept-of-animal-welfare.html
While today’s Muslim world doesn’t follow animal welfare principle and anti-Islam activists label it as Islam’s tyranny and attack our religion and Prophet!
So an insight into Islam’s view on Animal welfare is important in current world.
Below are some of the Prophetic statements (Hadith) regarding the welfare of animals.
SUNAN ABU DAWOO: SESSION-THE BOOK OF JIHAD
The Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Do not clip the forelocks, manes or tails of horses. For they use their tails to drive away flies, and their manes provide them with warmth, and the goodness is tied in their forelocks”. Sunan Abu Dawood 2542
It was reported from Abu Hurairah (R.A) that the Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Once while a man was walking walking on the road, he became extremely thirsty . He found a well and went down into it. He drank from the water and came out . He saw a dog panting heavily and eating soil due to it’s thirst. The Man said: “This Dog must be in the same condition of thirst as I was”. So he went down into the well and filled his khuff with water, and held by his mouth until he climbed up. He gave water to the dog to drink. Allah accepted his deed and forgave him”. They said: O Messenger of Allah! Are there rewards for us in our animals?. He said : “For every moist liver (living creature) there is a reward (Sahih) Sunan Abu Dawood 2550, Also in Shaih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim
Anas bin Malik (R.A) said; “Whenever we dismounted at a camp, we would not perform any voluntary prayer until we let the mounts gaze (Sahih) Sunan Abu Dawood 2551
“The Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) prohibited instigating fight between beasts” Sunan Abu Dawood 2562
It was reported from Abu Az-Zubair , from Jabir who said: “A donkey which had been branded in the face , passed by the Prophet (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) . He said: ‘Has it not reached you people, that I have cursed those who brand animals on their faces?’So he prohibited that”. (Sahih) Sunan Abu Dawood 2564
Islam paved the way for Renaissance and the world learned Welfare principles from Islam. How old is the European Animal welfare system? This is 1400 years old Animal Welfare principles
Peace be upon the Prophets of Allah
Praise be to Allah the LORD of the Worlds
Everyday Life, Hadith
Muslim’s relationship with Non-Muslim relative
October 19, 2016 Islam Iman Ihsan Leave a comment
MUSLIMS GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH IDOLATR RELATIVES:
Allahumma swalli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala aali Sayyidina Muhammadin wa sallim
Wahabis and other ignorant sects treat non-Muslims so harshly by taking some Quran verses out of context.
The verses that deals with Non-Muslims who are waging war against Muslims. They apply this verses out of context and use to legitimise their mistreatment of peaceful non-Muslims.
Some others pick and choose Quran Veres out of context and usually from hearing YouTube mullahs who have such merciless heart, just as they have malice against awliya Allah and Ahlul Bayth.
Below is the Hadith which Shows How Umar Ibn Al Khattab (Radiyallahu Anhu) treated his Non-Muslim relative:
It was narrated from Abdullah Ibn Umar that Umar ibn Al Khattab saw a ‘Hullah’ (a garment made of silk) and said: “O Messenger of Allah, why don’t you buy this and Wear it on Fridays and when meeting the delegations when they come to you?”. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “This is worn by one who has no share in the Hereafter.”
Then something similar was brought to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and he gave a Hullah to Umar from it. Umar said :” O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), have you give me this when you said what you said about the Hullah of Utarid? ” The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: ” I have not given it to you to wear it.”
So Umar gave it to an idolater brother of his in Makkah. (Sahih)
~ Sunan AN-NASA’I Hadith 1383, Vol -2, Page 318, Darussalam Publishers, Saudi Arabia
So we can see that non-Muslims who does not harm Muslims, they deserve a fair treatment with justice and kindness according to the understanding of the salaf saliheen. Even those who are guilty of commiting serious crimes must go through the law proceedings and people who are not in authority taking the duty of the police is not allowed in Islam, except when invasion to their private properties or places just as such laws are prevailing in nations and communities.
Wa salamun alal mursaleen Walhamdulillahi Rabbil Aaalameen
~ Jouhar Ali Naqshbandi Al Hassani
Rights of Non-Muslims
End of Times, Everyday Life, Politics
British Exit from the EU and it’s Wider Consequences
June 24, 2016 Islam Iman Ihsan Leave a comment
BREXIT REFERENDUM AND IT’S IMPACT ON BRITISH MUSLIMS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES: (23/06/2016)
Today Britons voting for a referendum to decide whether to leave the European Union or to remain in the EU. For Muslims Jews and other ethnic and religious minorities what does it mean?.
Britain’s membership in the European Union has helped british people especially religious and ethnic minorities, vulnerable and youth from all back grounds. In safeguarding human rights and youth development European Union has played a vital role. In Civil and Economic areas and supporting refugees European Union rules and regulations helped in upholding social values and human rights.
For Muslims and other people in general to enjoy this social securities and benefits , Britain should remain in European Union.
About Britain Exiting European Union:
I heard many Muslims and non-Muslims voting to leave EU and encouraging their friends and relatives to vote for leave!.
However, this is one of the suicidal act of Muslims and non-Muslims alike!. It is coming from people’s narrow mindedness and lack of deep insight.
The only organisations that want Britain to leave thie European Union is far right, fascist, anti-Muslim, anti-Mainstream christian, anti-Human right, intolerant groups and parties.
The Fascist , anti-Muslim far right political groups want the same Asians and Muslims to be kicked out from the UK or to be persecuted.
You may ask, how this (leaving EU) affect us Muslims and non-Muslims?.
Even conservative prime minister, David Cameroon want Brits to stay in the EU. So you must understand the importance of staying in the EU.
So if Britons vote to leave EU and a Brexit would happen , that time, it will be a national success for the far right , fascist , anti-Muslim that their campaign become a success.
That success will eventually lead, Britain to become a fully nationalist state, with no-control from an external Judiciary.
Over the time, if fascists take over British politics, that time the suicidal drop that Muslims swallowed today by voting to leave EU will start working and harming Muslims.
So Muslims and others favoring their organisational interests means, supporting their cause indirectly. Which means it is suicidal to vote to leave the EU.
So, over the time, if the fascists take over the rule of the nationalist state,, it will be an opening to conflicts and riots, between far right groups in different religions and ethnicities. This will harm British society a great deal, that time it affect everyone, it’s consequences will befall on everyone regardless of their back-ground.
Britain leaving EU may do some good for Britons, but it will be without Muslims and ethnic minorities living in this country. People are not really following the true message of their religion or values this days!. Everyone is greedy and angry about everything, this kind of social situation caused by a vote will put the responsibility in the hands of everyone. Those who voted in favour of leaving the EU and those who did not vote at all!
United Kingdom leaving the EU will only strengthen far right fascist Anti-Muslim nationalism. You will have mosques banned , Madrassas closed and Hijab banned over the time. For others, multiculturalism will come to an end!.In the event far rights take over the Westminster Parliament in the future, you have no back up plan from the EU to keep your rights and safety.
For rest of the people, social tensions, riots far right-Anti Far right fights and bombs in the streets in the future decades. Just remember anglo-irish war!. Do we need Anglo far right-Muslim wars in the UK?
No, we do not need anymore violence in the world. We are tired of seeing and hearing wars and bloodshed!
Allah Subhana Wa Ta’ala giving intelligence to man, Ifi he use it n the right way he will make peace with all mankind. But if he use it in the wrong way he will make conflict within himself and chaos and mischief around him.
Islam teach that the best Muslim is the one with best morals and manners. We must uphold the human rights, justice, tolerance, harmony, love and peace. This is an informal statement and whoever listen and obey will find goodness, and whoever turning away from this message, the responsibility will be in their own hands.
IS IT PERMISSIBLE TO VOTE?
Some Muslims say, voting is not permissible at all. They quote a Quran verse out of context and say, voting is forbidden in Islam!
In certain times, Islam allows certain forbidden/disliked actions to be permissible, Islam is a practical religion with practical wisdom it is not a classroom philosophy subject.
It is Haram (forbidden) to murder someone, but Islam says, if that one person cause 10 innocent people to die, then better that one person must die instead of 10 innocent people to die by his hands. The Army and Police of all nations work in this principles.
But Islam also says it is important to stop evil. And when all become evil, choose lesser evil.
Or you can run away from the system. If you cannot run away (flee from afflictions) then stop evil that is coming against Islam. We have difficult situation, no shariah no Caliph. So it depends on place to place.
There was a situation In America, the counselor wanted to demolish the Osmanli Cemetery, we had to approach them for our rights and honour to protect the cemetery.
So it is Muslims responsibility to support those who uphold or respect Muslims and their rights.
When it is allowed to eat even forbidden meat in such difficult situations. It is forbidden to elect oppressors. If you fear oppressors will take over the place and harm believers, then it is a duty to choose the Ruler
On the authority of Abu Sa`eed al-Khudree (may Allah be pleased with him) who said:
I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say, “Whosoever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then [let him change it] with his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.” [Muslim] (Imam Nawawi 40 Hadith-number 34
So if you are able to stop anti-Muslim/far right/fascist groups taking power by leaving EU and going to extreme nationalist politics over the time, then it is obligatory (Fard-Ain) for you to step in and vote to remain in the EU. Do not support evil.
TO CHRISTIANS:
So many Christians are voting to Stay in the EU. Some are voting to exit. If they follow the teachings of Gospel , they may vote to stay in the EU. The Bible says to love your neighbour as you love yourself, foreigners residing among you as you love yourself, you must love them as you love yourself. And to submit to the teachings of Christ and resist the evil (James 4:7) and make the evil flee from you.
As we can see leaving European Union and it’s consequences will bring an impact on everyone’s life. A believer must support what is good for all human being. Unfortunately people make fatwa not to vote and do not make fatwa not to open a bank or not to hold a credit card account in HSBC and American Express. You are partaking in riba (usury) institutions and ceasing to stop evil coming against Muslims and all humanity?
I see every Muslim cleric with a credit card/bank account that do business in the Riba (usury) contract, though they are not taking usury to their pocket, they are part of the system. But if you are not a part of the system you are living in, then this message is not for you.
Sultan of Saints Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani An-Naqshabndi. Grand Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Sufi Way. (May Allah be Well pleased with him)
TO BRITISH MUSLIMS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES (EUROPEANS AND NON-EUROPEANS) LIVING IN THE UK: 24/06/2016
For each (such person) there are (angels) in succession, before and behind him: They guard him by command of Allah. Allah does not change a people’s lot unless they change what is in their hearts. (Quran 13:11)
“REFERENDUM” IN POLITICS:
Referendum is the highest method of democracy,the final world of general public. So most hailed method of decision making in Democratic system. Referendum is a method that is to be used to make decision that need greater voice of the people than just some elected representative of the people!.
Therefore, Britain or another state cannot ignore results of a “Referendum”. This is why Prime Minister resigned the same day of the result of Referendum published.
So if Britons want to ignore or change Referendum, because now Scotland and Northern Ireland want to leave UK to Join EU, then majority Brits who voted to leave EU will look stupids and wicked. Because it shows people’s lack of knowledge and understanding of the reality. And how they are fooled by politicians who want to get out of the EU by giving people false promise to make them vote to leave EU.
Anyway,spiritually, I would consider this shaking and collapse of leaving EU as a divine punishment (Quran 108:3 for enmity to Allah and Prophet Muhammad (alaihiswalathu wa salam), legalising what Allah has forbidden in Torah, Gospel and Enjil and disrespecting holy months (see Isaiah 66:17, 2 Thessalonians 2:8-9). So many arrogant and foolish Muslims voted to leave EU, because they know nothing about the consequences of what they have done!.
Muslims not following the teachings of the Holy Prophet (alaihiswalathu wa salam), and God’s curse coming down, and whole world is receiving divine wrath because of their disobedience to Divine Orders and dishonoring prophets.
Quran 24:63 Do not make [your] calling of the Messenger among yourselves as the call of one of you to another. Already Allah knows those of you who slip away, concealed by others. So let those beware who dissent from the Prophet’s order, lest fitnah strike them or a painful punishment.
The Prophet alaihiswalathu wa salam foretold that people will become corrupt sects and they will fight against one another for worldly possessions. Everyone today worshiping their own ego and they have been deceived to a destruction!
CONSEQUENCES OF BRITAIN’S EXIT FROM THE EU:
In all countries around the world, after globalisation and multiculturalism (the system of Dajjal), the enemy of Mankind inspiring your hearts far right views and extreme nationalism and racism.
Brexit is just another example of this. Whatever Allah Almighty has decreed will come to Happen. But our Message is not in Divine Decree or Belief, but in the laws and commandments, that Allah Subhana Wa Ta’ala is Giving through Holy Prophet alaihiswalathu wa salam and Holy Awliya Allah.
Everyone believes in pre-destiny, but we are commanded to work according to the religious duties and commandments.
Everyone knows one day they will die, but no one cease to work ,because they know they die one day unexpectedly.
1-Brexit will inspire other far right groups to seek referendum to leave the EU.
2- It is a victory of the Far right, Fascist, Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigration groups in the UK, and failure of the Labour,Conservative and Liberals. This means, Far right parties will come to power and will increase tensions between far rights and ethnic minorities.
3- Scotland and Northern-Ireland, who look for independance will seek further referendum to leave the UK, and they will leave UK to join EU, This will terminate the existence of the United Kingdom.
4-Other EU member states may seek to leave EU, will bring an end to not only EU, but also the existence of Other European provinces in Europe who will look for referendum to leave EU or to join EU when the main state leave EU and will cause to leave their national state (like Spanish Catalonia). This will destabilise mainland Europe over the time. Since everyone worshiping democracy, and “Referendum” is the direct election and most straight form of Democracy, “Referendum” which is the mother of Democracy will cause nations to struggle.
5–Far right groups gaining power will lead to communal conflicts and riots over the time. The next British and European politics will be far right domination. Far right supporters may lead violent attacks against ethnic minorities in the event they take over UK and European national politics after exiting the EU. We are going to back to history?
6-Muslims and other ethnic/religious minority will be persecuted in the event of major chaos (see Points 2-3-4). The role of hate preachers and hate speakers will come to practical events and the fruits of this false preachers who preach against Islam and Muslims will cause Syrian type Civil wars and conflicts in the Europe. Which will lead to death of world economy and political system , out of hand situation (Anarchy)
7- People in the UK voted Mr David Cameroon and his party to lead the UK, and they rejected his plead to continue in the EU, this shows people are ignorant. The same people who elected Conservative rejected the same party in the EU referendum and made the far right groups victorious. This shows the ignorance people and weakness of democracy. You may elect doctors and prime ministers through voting!.
David Cameroon resigning from the office is a failure of the people who voted to leave EU and voted conservatives last election. Literally, the legitimacy of Conservative government is in question now. This is a failure of the ruling party and opposition parties and a victory of Far right groups!
No-Win Win Solution!.
It has become a lose-lose catastrophe for all parties and even for people , only far right groups have won this referendum.
Awliya Allah (friends of Allah) speak according to the spiritually inspired knowledge from the Prophet Muhammad (alaihiswlathu wa salam).
Everything will go according to the Information (Hadith) given by the Prophet Muhammad alaihiswalathu wa salam. Because people have left the commandments of Allah Almighty and living a dirty and corrupt life style. No more wisdom, remains in the hearts of the majority. And we are awaiting to see the Owner of the Time, Sayyidina Mahdi appears and put everything in order.
Sultanul Awliya Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (Q.S) advised Muslims to brexit in 2010. Not to exit EU, but to leave West and return to Homeland.
Read at: https://rabbaniway.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/prepare-to-face-the-hardest-time-of-humanity/
The people have no intelligence today,, especially Muslims, Muslim clerics ,Imams and scholars. They are only looking to build Mosques make funds from people and government, which will be demolished in the future and they will have to flee. Their misguidance and strayed ways and people following their ego and evil desires and selfishness is going to cause Divine Judgement to fall on them. May Allah forgive us.
Whatever must happen by the Will of Allah, Must happen.
I am not going to interfere into that kind of knowledge. But this news is based on the teachings of My Shaykhs Sultanul Awliya Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Al Haqqani (Q.S) and Sahibul Saif Hazret Shaykh Abdul Kerim Al-KIbrisi (Q.S), a News that is coming from the Master of the Beginning and End, Sayyiduna Nabi Muhammad alaihiswalathu wa salam.
This is a reminder for people, first to those who claim they are the followers of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Al Haqqani (Q.S), secondly to all Muslims, thirdly to all brothers and sisters in humanity. Whether they want to listen understand and obey.
– Jouhar Ali Naqshbandi Al Hassani
Representative of the Naqshbandi Sufi Way
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Bible, Everyday Life
Celebrating the Birthday of Prophet Jesus Christ (A.S)
December 25, 2014 Islam Iman Ihsan Leave a comment
Peace and blessings of Allah be upon Prophet Muhammad his family and companions and upon Jesus Son of Mary, and other Prophets of God.
Can Muslims Celebrate Christmas?.
Muslims may not celebrate “Christmas”, but may celebrate the Milad of Isa bin Maryam (birthday of Jesus Son of Mary-Peace be upon them). They should differ from other faiths the way of celebrating . Muslims may celebrate the Birthdays of all Prophets and all holy people as much as they can.
Quran says: 2:285…“We make no distinction between any of His messengers.”.….
You must understand Christianity is different and Jesus Christ (A.S) is different. We have more rights to Prophets than anyone else!, especially Jesus Son of Mary (A.S), the last leader of this this nation.
As for Isa Son of Mary (A.S) he is closer to Muslims than any other people. He is closer to this nation, as he is coming to this nation as a leader in the end of times. So we are celebrating the birthday of the Last Prophet (alaihiswalathu wa salam). We are conducting Mawlid celebrations in different days and months to commemorate the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w). So it is not necessary to know the birthday of the Prophet Jesus Christ (A.S).
Islam did not make it obligatory (fard) to celebrate the birthdays of all Prophets, because God Almighty does not want to burden the people. Especially in the times of Prophets they did not celebrate the birthdays of previous Prophets, as we see the birthday celebrations today. Because in the time of Prophets and their companions, they were in most difficult times, and hardships, and they had much heavy duty. This is why they celebrated it by fasting or by sacrificing their worldly pleasures.
The Prophet Muhamamd (s.a.w) says: Sahih Bukhari ,Narrated Abu Huraira: Two persons, a Muslim and a Jew, quarrelled. The Muslim said, “By Him Who gave Muhammad superiority over all the people! The Jew said, “By Him Who gave Moses superiority over all the people!” At that the Muslim raised his hand and slapped the Jew on the face. The Jew went to the Prophet and informed him of what had happened between him and the Muslim. The Prophet sent for the Muslim and asked him about it. The Muslim informed him of the event. The Prophet said, “do not give me superiority over Moses, for on the Day of Resurrection all the people will fall unconscious and I will be one of them, but I will. be the first to gain consciousness, and will see Moses standing and holding the side of the Throne (of Allah). I will not know whether (Moses) has also fallen unconscious and got up before me, or Allah has exempted him from that stroke.” (Book 41, Hadith 594)
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: A man from the Jews, having been slapped on his face, came to the Prophet and said, “O Muhammad! A man from your companions from the Ansar has slapped me on my face!” The Prophet said, “Call him.” When they called him, the Prophet said, “Why did you slap him?” He said, “O Allah’s Apostle! While I was passing by the Jews, I heard him saying, ‘By Him Who selected Moses above the human beings,’ I said, ‘Even above Muhammad?’ I became furious and slapped him on the face.” The Prophet said, “do not give me superiority over the other prophets, for on the Day of Resurrection the people will become unconscious and I will be the first to regain consciousness. Then I will see Moses holding one of the legs of the Throne. I will not know whether he has come to his senses before me or that the shock he had received at the Mountain, (during his worldly life) was sufficient for him.” (Bukhari,Book 60, Hadith 162)
This is enough to understand that, if someone wish to celebrate the birthday of Prophet Moses (A.S), Prophet Jesus (A.S) or Prophet Abraham (A.S) he cannot be stopped. I do not think Ulema of Ahlu Sunnah will do so!
“Christmas” is an established celebration which is a mix of Pagan traditions and Christian beliefs of Jesus Christ (A.S). As for Muslims, they may take every opportunity to convey the truth about Jesus Christ (A.S) and his mother during the christian occasions. Muslims may not say “Christmas or Merry Christmas”, they may say: “Eid Milaad Nabi Esa” or Mawlid Messiah Isa Ibn Maryam, or Celebrating the Birthday of Jesus Christ (A.S) instead of “Merry Christmas”. They may celebrate in other days than December 25, or join two days celebration either December 24 and 25 or December 25 and 26, or in the mothers where the dates harvest time of Israel
Because , the Prophet (s.a.w) says: Sahih Bukhari,Narrated Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri: the Prophet said, “You will follow the ways of those nations who were before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) so much so that even if they entered a hole ofa mastigure, you would follow them.” We said, “O Allah’s Apostle! (Do you mean) the Jews and theChristians?” He said, “Whom else?” (Book 92, Hadith 422)
It does not mean that every act other faith is doing is rejected in Islam, because the Prophets were Muslims, and the Muslims can respect and accept that which is commanded to the previous Prophets. What is forbidden and imitating Jews and Christians means to follow that which is deviated from the teachings of their Prophets. For this reasons, Christmas cannot be celebrated the way it is celebrated by the Christians or Western Secularists.
The Prophet (S.a.w) celebrating Ashura:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas: The Prophet came to Medina and saw the Jews fasting on the day of Ashura. He asked them about that. They replied, “This is a good day, the day on which Allah rescued Bani Israel from their enemy. So, Moses fasted this day.” The Prophet said, “We have more claim over Moses than you.” So, the Prophet fasted on that day and ordered (the Muslims) to fast (on that day). (Sahih Bukhari Book 31, Hadith 222)
Narrated Abu Musa: The day of ‘Ashura’ was considered as ‘Id day by the Jews. So the Prophet ordered, “I recommend you (Muslims) to fast on this day.” (Sahih Bukhari, Book 31, Hadith 223)
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas: When the Prophet came to Medina, he found (the Jews) fasting on the day of ‘Ashura’ (i.e. 10th of Muharram). They used to say: “This is a great day on which Allah saved Moses and drowned the folk of Pharaoh. Moses observed the fast on this day, as a sign of gratitude to Allah.” The Prophet said, “I am closer to Moses than they.” So, he observed the fast (on that day) and ordered the Muslims to fast on it. (Book 55, Hadith 609)
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, “Both in this world and in the Hereafter, I am the nearest of all the people to Jesus, the son of Mary. The prophets are paternal brothers; their mothers are different, but their religion is one.” (Sahih Bukhari, Book 55, Hadith 652)
So the Muslims may celebrate the Birthday of Jesus Christ (A.S) and differ from others celebrating it.
Abdullah b. ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported that (the Arabs of) pre-Islamic days used to observe fast on the day of Ashura and the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) observed it and the Muslims too (observed it) before fasting in Ramadan became obligatory. But when it became obligatory, the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: ‘Ashura is one of the days of Allah, so he who wished should observe fast and he who wished otherwise should abandon it. (Sahih Muslim,Book 006, Hadith 2504)
Quran 3:45 [And mention] when the angels said, “O Mary, indeed Allah gives you good tidings of a word from Him, whose name will be the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary – distinguished in this world and the Hereafter and among those brought near [to Allah ].
WHY SHOULD NOT WE FOLLOW THE WAYS OF OTHER FAITHS AND SECULARISTS IN CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS /BIRTHDAY OF JESUS SON OF MARY (PEACE BE UPON THEM):
The Main reason is “We should not imitate other nations. The Prophet (s.a.w) said: “Whoever imitate a nation is one of them”
The Main fallacy of Church and those who say “We are guided by holy spirit” is that they Christianize the celebrations of the Pagans in the Winter. We say a proverb in Malayalam, which is like “the beauty cream applied on face became skin burn” . Whether they acknowledge it or not. They have brought dishonor to the birth of Christ (A.S) and celebrating his Birth in the winter Pagan festival time.
In Europe December is winter time, short sunlight , people get winter syndromes and depression, this may be the reason why they made to celebrate Christmas this times. But by Christianize the pagan celebration it bring dishonor to the holy one who is the one of the greatest Prophets of God.
This is the celebration every lawless life style is evoked. The desires of the ego is served. Alcohol, Gambling, free sex, free mixing of men and women, this is not acceptable in the ways of God. This time it is promoted materialism lawlessness and self destruction. Because people not returning to the the Message that Christ (A.S) gave to this world!.
So it is the responsibility of Muslims to remind others during this times the purpose of life and the Message of Jesus Christ (A.S).
The Bible says:[Colossians 2:8 NIV] See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
2 Corinthians 6:14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
The Bible says: According to Jehova’s Witness: http://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/bible-about-christmas/
The Bible’s answer
The Bible does not give the date of Jesus’ birth, nor does it say that we should celebrate his birthday. As McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopediastates: “ The observance of Christmas is not of divine appointment, nor is it of NT [New Testament] origin. ”
Instead, an examination of the history of Christmas exposes its roots in pagan religious rites. The Bible shows that we offend God if we try to worship him in a way that he does not approve of.—Exodus 32:5-7.
History of Christmas customs
Celebrating Jesus’ birthday: “ The early Christians did not celebrate [Jesus’] birth because they considered the celebration of anyone’s birth to be a pagan custom. ”—The World Book Encyclopedia.
December 25: There is no proof that Jesus was born on that date. Church leaders likely chose this date to coincide with pagan festivals held on or around the winter solstice.
Gift-giving, feasting, partying: The Encyclopedia Americanasays: “ Saturnalia, a Roman feast celebrated in mid-December, provided the model for many of the merry-making customs of Christmas. From this celebration, for example, were derived the elaborate feasting, the giving of gifts, and the burning of candles. ” The Encyclopædia Britannica notes that “ all work and business were suspended ” during Saturnalia.
Christmas lights: According to The Encyclopedia of Religion, Europeans decorated their homes “ with lights and evergreens of all kinds ” to celebrate the winter solstice and to combat evil spirits.
Mistletoe, holly: “ The Druids ascribed magical properties to the mistletoe in particular. The evergreen holly was worshiped as a promise of the sun’s return. ”—The Encyclopedia Americana.
Christmas tree: “ Tree worship, common among the pagan Europeans, survived after their conversion to Christianity. ” One of the ways in which tree worship survived is in the custom of “ placing a Yule tree at an entrance or inside the house in the midwinter holidays. ”—Encyclopædia Britannica.
As Muslims, we may join any invitations if it fulfills the law of Islam , that when no contradiction to our faith is practiced. Some fools say: We should not celebrate the Birthday of Nabi Isa (A.S), the same people using Bible to preach (Dawah) Islam. Is that allowed in Islam? . You can see them in their TV Channels and Youtube.
Quran 3:84 Say, “We have believed in Allah and in what was revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the Descendants, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus and to the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and we are Muslims [submitting] to Him.”
Quran 3:104 And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful.
SAWLIHEEN (RIGHTEOUS) AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK:
Quran 3:113 -114 They are not [all] the same; among the People of the Scripture is a community standing [in obedience], reciting the verses of Allah during periods of the night and prostrating [in prayer].They believe in Allah and the Last Day, and they enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and hasten to good deeds. And those are among the righteous.
Quran 89:27 -28 [To the righteous it will be said], “O reassured soul,Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing [to Him],
The world turning to so much corruption, violence lawlessness, and intolerance. This is not the purpose of religions. So we must keep a good conduct with all people and help them to come to righteousness and faith, not by dishonoring and defaming them. But through love, mercy and service according to the traditions of Prophet Muhammad (alaihiswalathu wa salam)
Can Muslim ask Jew or Christian to pray for him?:
Some foolish one’s attack Mawlana Shaykh Nazim’s humbleness when meeting with Pope and asking his prayers. But this Jahils (ignorant ones) think they know religion better than Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani (Q.S)
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Amra bint Abd ar-Rahman that Abu Bakr as-Siddiq visited A’isha while she had a [health] complaint and a Jewish woman was making incantation (ruqya) for her. Abu Bakr said, “Do it (incantation) with the Book of Allah.” (Muwatta Imam Malik R.A) Book 50, Hadith 50.4.11)
Respecting Non-Muslims ,Even after their death:
So many idiotic groups in the name of Islam, distorting it’s true message, disrespecting dead bodies and even mutating bodies of the dead people!
Sahih Muslim: It is narrated on the authority of Jabir ibn ‘Abdullah: there passed a bier and the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) stood up for it and we also stood up along with him. We said: Messenger of Allah, that was the bier of a Jewess. Upon this he remarked: Verily, death is a matter of consternation, so whenever you come across a bier stand up. (Book 004, Hadith 2095)
Sahih Muslim: It is narrated on the authority of Ibn Abu Laila that while Qais b. Sa’d and Sahl b. Hunaif were both in Qadislyya a bier passed by them and they both stood up. they were told that it was the bier of one of thepeople of the land (non-Muslim). they said that a bier passed before the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) and he stood up. He was told that he (the dead man) was a Jew. Upon this he remarked: Was he not a human being or did he not have a soul? And in the hadith narrated by ‘Amr b. Murra with the same chain of transmitters, (the words) are:” there passed a bier before us.” (Book 004, Hadith 2098)
Mawlid Nabi celebrations in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Everyday Life, Islam
Distinguish between Believers and Unbelievers
Allahumma Swalli Alaa Sayyidina Muhammadin Wa Ala Aali Sayyidina Muhammadin Wa Sallim
Today so many people from east to west especially people who are following other faiths, misunderstanding Islam, because they are seeing some Muslim named people causing destruction and tribulations!.
The truth is, all these ideologies that spread hatred and mischief coming from Satan. Islam is the religion of Peace and Safety. Not a religion of distress and destruction.
So people of the other faith must know what is the difference between Islam and those so called groups who claim they represent Islam.
Muslims must know and follow the correct creed of Islam. So that they may not get fooled by Satan and those agents of Satan!
Who has more right and absolute authority to say who is believer and who is unbeliever?. Of course the full right and absolute authority belongs to Prophet Muhammad (alaihiswalathu wa salam), since you cannot hear the voice of God!
So what did Prophet (alaihiswalathu wa salam) say about believers and unbelievers?
HADITH:
1- It was narrated that Anas Ibn Malik (R.A) said: The Messenger of Allah (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “There are three things ,whoever attains them will find therein the sweetness of Faith: When Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, and His Messenger are dearer to him than all else;when he loves for the sake of Allah and hate for the sake of Allah; when he prefer to be thrown into the fire rather than go back to the disbelief from which Allah has saved him” (Sahih Hadith, Sunan Nasa’i, Vol 6 PPage 16/17,Hadith 4990,4991,4992,Darussalam Publications.
So it is clear that there cannot be real faith without loving Allah and His Prophet (alaihiswalathu wa salam. Then how can they have faith, who says loving and praising Prophet (alaihiswalathu wa salam) excessively is an act of shirk and bidha (polytheism and innovation)!?
How can someone attain sweetness of faith, if he do not love for the sake of Allah and do not hate for the sake of Allah?. How can someone hate the fellow Muslims and call them Mushrik and grave worshipper when he is a Muslim? How can a true Muslim associate himself with those who do not love Allah and His Prophet (alaihiswalathu wa salam) and slander pious scholars and Muslims?
WHO IS MUSLIM AND BELIEVER?:
“Whoever kills a person [unjustly]…it is as though he has killed all mankind. And whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved all mankind.” (Qur’an, 5:32)
“Al Muslimu man salima-nnaasu min lisaanihi wa Yadihi, wal muminu man aminahu–nnaasu alaa dima’ihim wa amwaalihim” [Sahih (authentic) Hadith, Sunan Nasai 4998, Arabic-English Volume 6 ,Darussalam Publications)]
2- It was narrated from Abu Hurairah (R.A) that the Messenger of Allah (Swallallahu alaihi wa sallam) said: “The Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the people are safe, and the believer is the one from whom the people’s lives and wealth are safe” (Sunan Nasai)
The “Naas” is used here, which means “People”. People of all faiths, color, creed, race and caste. So it is clear that a Muslim is the one who does not harm people with his tongue and hand, A Mumin (believer/one who is attained the faith) is he whom the people’s lives and wealth are safe.
This is the completion of the religion of Prophets.
The Ten Commandments says the same. You shall not murder and you shall not lie, you shall not steal others property.
Sahih Bukhari Book 88 Hadith 198 Narrated Ibn ‘Umar: I heard the Prophet saying, “Do not revert to disbelief after me by striking (cutting) the necks of one another.”
INVALIDITY OF CALLING OTHER MUSLIM GROUPS AS “DISBELIEVERS”, WITH THE CONTEXT OF THE ABOVE HADITHS:
3- It was narrated that Anas (R.A) said: The Messenger of Allah alaihiswalathu wa salam) said: “Whoever prays as we pray, turn to face the same Qibla as us, and eat our slaughtered animals, that is a Muslim (Sunan Nasai , Darussalam, Haidh number 4500)
So it is in appropriate to call some Muslims as mushrik/kaafir or grave worshiper with the fulfillment of the above three ahadith in the same book (Sunan Nasa’i).
Most Virtuous Islam:
It was narrated that Abu Musa (R.A) said: “I said O Messenger of Allah , whose Islam is most virtuous?’ He said: “The one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are Safe” (Sahih).
So my brothers and sisters follow the most virtuous Muslims among you. It does not mean to stop speaking and warning against the evil that the sects violate in regards to the above hadiths.
Because Prophet alaihiswalathu wa salam says: On the authority of Abu Sa’eed al-Khudree (may Allah be pleased with him) who said:I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) say, “Whoso- ever of you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able to do so, then [let him change it] with his tongue; and if he is not able to do so, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith.” [Muslim] 40 Hadith Nawawi, Sunan Nasai 5012
And note that Islam does not allow to counter evil with evil, that is not the way of Islam!.
BELIEVER LOVE THE MESSENGER OF ALLAH MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE:
4-It was narrated that Anas (R.A) said: The Messenger of Allah (alaihiswalathu wa salam) said: “None of you has believed until I am dearer to him than his family ,his wealth and all the people” (Sunan Nasa’i, 5017 , also 5016,5018)
BELIEVER DO NOT HAVE JEALOSY, HATRED OR GREED:
5- It was narrated that Qatada (R.A) said: I heard Anas say:, (Humaid ibn Mas’dah said in his Hadith), the Messenger of Allah (alaihiswalathu wa salam) said: “None of you has believed until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself” (Sahih, Sunan Nas’ai),
also in 40 Hadith Imam Nawawi.
BELIEVERS THE LOVERS OF IMAM ALI IBN ABI TALIB (R.A) AND AHLUL BAYTH:
6- It was narrated that Zirr said: Ali said: “The Unlettered Prophet (alaihiswalathu wa salam) made a covenant with me, that none but a believer would love me, and none but a hypocrite would hate me”. (Sahih, Sunan Nasa’i 5021 ,Darussalam Publications, Vol 6 Page 36 also 5025)
BELIEVERS (MUMIN) ARE NOT HYPOCRITES- BUT ARE GUIDED WITH GUIDES (IMAMS):
7- Quran 4:49 O you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you.
It was narrated from Abu Hurairah that the Messenger of Allah (alaihiswalathu wa salam) said: “The signs of hypocrites are three: When he speaks, he lies; when he makes a promise he breaks it; and when he is entrusted with something, he betrays t(that trust).” [Sahih ,Sunan Nasa’i 5024) also 5026: “whoever has one of this (traits) then a trait of hypocrisy has not ceased him, until he leaves it”.
It was narrated from Ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah (alaihiswalathu wa salam) said: ” The parable of the hypocrite is that of a sheep, that hesitate between two flocks., sometimes following one and sometimes following another, not knowing which to follow.” (Sahih, Sunan Nasa’i 5040)
THE VISIBLE ATTRIBUTES OF A BELIEVER AND UNBELIEVER:
The believers and unbelievers have some attributes that can be recognized. The believer (Mumin) whose spirit shine forth with the light of Allah.
8- Haristh bin Wahb narrated that the Messenger of Allah (alaihiswalathu wa salam): “Shall I not tell you about the people of Paradise?. Every weak and oppressed one. Shall I not tell you the people of Hell?. Every harsh, haughty and arrogant one” (Sahih, Sunan Ibn Majah Volume 5 Hadith 4116, Darussalam Publications)
This Hadith has co-relating description in it. The people of hell oppress and weaken the Muslims for example by slandering and accusing shirk and kufr on them.
THE NATURE OF MUMIN:
9– It was narrated from Asma Bint Yazid that she heard the Messenger of Allah (swalla Allahu alaihi wa sallam) say: “Shall I not tell you the best of you?”. They said: “Yes, O Messenger of Allah”. He said: “The best of you are those who , when they are seen, Allah the Mighty, the Majestic , is remembered” (Hasan) Sunan Ibn Majah 4119, Darussalam Publications)
Only Awliya Allah (Friends of Allah and the way of Sufi Shaykhs) perfected the Islamic ethics, morals and manners, and taking the middle path as a middle nation.
Any other sects you look, they have malice against Awliya Allah, or malice against some Sahaba or malice against some ahlul bayth or malice against some pious scholars.
Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamah-The Madhab following Sufi creed always stayed on the straight path according to the Quran and Sunnah, as we read above.
Sahih Bukhari Book 77 Hadith 595 Narrated Imran bin Husain: A man said, “O Allah’s Apostle! Can the people of Paradise be known (differentiated) from the people of the Fire; The Prophet replied, “Yes.” The man said, “Why do people (try to) do (good) deeds?” The Prophet said, “Everyone will do the deeds for which he has been created to do or he will do those deeds which will be made easy for him to do.” (i.e. everybody will find easy to do such deeds as will lead him to his destined place for which he has been created).
So this sufficient for those who have some knowledge in Islam, to understand the meaning of Believers and unbelievers.
Our Shaykh Sahibu Saif Waliyullahi Hazret Shaykh Abdul Kerim Al-Kibrisi (Q.S) explaining in a question and answer section. When I listen to Shaykh’s sohbets some Ahadith came to my heart, then i was inspired to write an article to explain the words of our Shaykh in detail for those who want proof from Quran and Sunnah.
We can see the Shaykh’s words are 100% Haqq according to the Quran and Hadith mentioned in this post.
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Advise for Success in Islamic Spiritual Way
ADVISE FOR SUCCESS IN ISLAM AND TARIQAH:
Allahumma Swalli Ala Sayyidina Muhammadin Wa Alaa Aali Sayyidina Muhammadin Wa Sallim
There is no Islam without Tariqah(Spirituality) and there is no Tariqah without Islam (Submission).
To succeed in the Path of Spirituality (Sufism/Tasawwuf) one must observe the following:
– Respect all Prophets and All Companions
-Respect Parents of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (alaihiswalathu wa salam)
-Love and respect for ahlul Bayt (Descendants of Prophet Muhammad alaihiswalathu wa salam)
-Respect the Khalifas of Muslims, the Imams and their creed.
-Respect all Saints of God, always remember that only a few Awliya Allah are known to the people. Your Shaykh may be one of them, but extreme love for your shaykh should not cause you to disrespect others even though there may be disagreements among the Shaykhs and Saints. (Remember the incident between Imam Ali and Ayesha R.A ,the incident between Hidr and Musa (peace be upon them all)
You might be a follower of one of them, but you cannot cause malice against another, if you are really a person of ahl zikr (Sufi tariqah) then that Zikr must bring you to understand that Allah and His Prophet (alaihisalathu wa salama) is above all Awliya Allah and all Ahlul Bayth. So do not interfere without authority.
– Love and Respect Parents
-Respect fellow Muslim brothers.
– Have best morals and manners with all people and treat every creations of Allah according to the Traditions of Prophet alaihiswalathu wa salam.
– Fulfill the needs of Poor Orphan, destitute and needy.
SOME VERSES IN QURAN AND AHADITH RELATED TO THE ABOVE STATEMENT:
Quran Chapter 107 :
Seest thou one who denies the Judgment (to come)?
Then such is the (man) who repulses the orphan (with harshness),
And encourages not the feeding of the indigent.
So woe to the worshippers
Who are neglectful of their prayers,
Those who (want but) to be seen (of men),
But refuse (to supply) (even) neighbourly needs
42:23 Declare [O’ Muhammad]: “I ask you of no recompense for my toil except the love for my kin (family).” And the one who earns good, We shall expand it for him. Verily Allah is oft‑forgiving and appreciates good works.
On the authority of Abu Dharr Jundub ibn Junadah, and Abu Abdur-Rahman Muadh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:Have taqwa (fear) of Allah wherever you may be, and follow up a bad deed with a good deed which will wipe it out, and behave well towards the people. It was related by at-Tirmidhi, who said it was a hasan (good) hadeeth, and in some copies it is stated to be a hasan saheeh hadeeth.(40 Hadith Imam Nawawi)
On the authority of Tameem ibn Aus ad-Daree (ra):The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The deen (religion) is naseehah (advice, sincerity).” We said, “To whom?” He (ﷺ) said, “To Allah, His Book, His Messenger, and to the leaders of the Muslims and their common folk.” [Muslim]
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said:
Let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day speak good, or keep silent; and let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day be generous to his neighbour; and let him who believes in Allah and the Last Day be generous to his guest. [Al-Bukhari] [Muslim ] 40 Hadith
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) who said:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Verily Allah ta’ala has said: ‘Whosoever shows enmity to a wali (friend) of Mine, then I have declared war against him. And My servant does not draw near to Me with anything more loved to Me than the religious duties I have obligated upon him. And My servant continues to draw near to me with nafil (supererogatory) deeds until I Love him. When I Love him, I am his hearing with which he hears, and his sight with which he sees, and his hand with which he strikes, and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him; and were he to seek refuge with Me, I would surely grant him refuge.’ ” [Al-Bukhari] 40 Hadith Nawawi
Tabarani and Haakim narrated from Ibn Abbaas that the beloved Prophet SallAllaho Alaihi wa ala Aalihi wa Sahbihi wa Baaraka wa Sallam said
‘O Children of Abdul Muttalib, I asked Allah three things for you; that He keeps your hearts steadfast (upon Islam); that He teaches the Deen to your ignorant and illiterate and guides your astray, and that He make you kind, generous and affectionate to one another. So if a man prays, standing between the Rukn and Maqaam, and fasts but dies with malice for the Household of Muhammad he has entered Hell.’ [Tabarani in Al-Kabir, Vol. 11, Page 142, Hadith 11412 | Mustadrak al-Hakim, Vol. 3, Page 162, Hadith 4712]
Tabarani narrates from Ibn Abbas that the beloved Prophet SallAllaho Alaihi wa ala Aalihi wa Sahbihi wa Baaraka wa Sallam said:
‘Malice for the Bani Haashim (migrants) and Ansaar is kufr (heresy) whilst malice for the Arabs is hypocrisy.’ [Tabarani in Al-Kabir, Vol. 11, Page 118, Hadith 11312]
Ibn Adee in Al-Kaleel narrates from Abu Sa’eed Khudri Radi Allahu Ta’ala Anhu that the beloved Prophet SallAllaho Alaihi wa ala Aalihi wa Sahbihi wa Baaraka wa Sallam said
‘He is a hypocrite who has malice for our Ahl al-Bait.’ [Jawahir al-Aqdain, Vol. 2, Page 25]
Tabarani narrates from Imam Hasan bin Ali that he said to Muaawiyya bin Khudayj:
‘O Muaawiya Ibn Khudayj guard yourself from having malice for us because undoubtedly the beloved Prophet SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam said ‘No one has malice for us and no one is envious of us except on the day of Qiyaamah he will be kept away from the fountain by whips of fire.’ [Tabarani in Al-Kabir, Vol. 3, Page 81, Hadith 2726 and Al-Awsat, Vol 3. Page 203, Hadith 4426]
Ibn Adee and Bayhaqi, in Shau’ab ul Imaan, narrated from Sayyiduna Ali the beloved Prophet SallAllaho Alaihi wa ala Aalihi wa Sahbihi wa Baaraka wa Sallam said
‘Whosoever did not recognise the right of my family and Ansaar is one of three; either a hypocrite, born illegitimate or conceived by his mother whilst she was impure.’ [Ibn Adee in Al-Kaamil, Vol. 3, Page 106 | Shau’ab al-Iman, Vol. 2, Page 232, Hadith 1614, Daylami in Al-Firdaws, Vol. 3, Page 662, Hadith 5955]
Daylmi narrates from Sayyiduna Abu Sa’eed that the beloved Prophet SallAllaho Alaihi wa ala Aalihi wa Sahbihi wa Baaraka wa Sallam said
‘My Ahl ul Bait and the Ansaar are my wealth, my body, my household and my family, the locus of my happiness and my trust. So accept the good deeds of their good and overlook the mistakes of any of them (not from the Hudood of Allah).’ [Daylami in Al-Firdaws, Vol. 1, Page 407, Hadith 1645]
Ibn Hibban, in his sahih, and Haakim narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa’eed Khudri that the beloved Prophet SallAllaho Alaihi wa ala Aalihi wa Sahbihi wa Baaraka wa Sallam said
‘By He in whose Hand is my Life no man will have malice for my Ahl ul Bait except that Allah will put him in Hell.’ [Mustadrak al-Hakim, Vol. 3, Page 126, Hadith 4717 | Sahih Ibn Hibban, Vol. 15, Page 435, Hadith 6978]
Tabarani in Awsat narrates from Hassan bin Ali that the beloved Prophet SallAllaho Alaihi wa ala Aalihi wa Sahbihi wa Baaraka wa Sallam said
‘Make the love of our Ahl al-Bait compulsory for whoever meets Allah having love for us shall enter paradise with our intercession and By He in whose Hand is my life no deed will benefit a servant except by recognizing our right.’ [Tabarani in Al-Awsat, Vol. 3, Page 122, Hadith 2251 | Al-Shifa, Vol. 2, Page 48]
Ihya al-Mayyit bi Fadhai’l Ahl al-Bayt Alaihim ar-Ridwan
by Imam Abd ar-RaHman Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti Radiyallahu Ta’ala anhu)
The Prophet (J) said, “All of a Muslim is prohibited for another Muslim”
Allāh has made the Muslim sacred. And the meaning of “All of a Muslim” is “His blood,
his wealth and his honour”
Allāh said in the Qur’ān:
O you who believe! Avoid much suspicions, indeed some
suspicions are sins. And spy not, neither backbite one
another. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his
dead brother? You would hate it (so hate backbiting).
And fear Allah. Verily, Allah is the One Who accepts
repentance, Most Merciful. [Surah Al-Hujurāt 49:12]
And the Prophet (J) said,
“Do you know what al-gheeba is?” They said, “Allah and His Messenger
know best.” He said, “To make mention of your brother with that which
he dislikes.” They said, “How about if my brother actually has what I have
said about him?” He said, “If he has what you have said about him, then
you have committed gheeba..”
Because it is not permissible for you to speak about the people,
“..and if not, then you have committed slander.”
Jouhar Ali Naqshabndi Al-Hassani Ar-Rabbani
(Photo in 2013)
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Respect to the Most Holiest Places of Islam
ADAB TO THE MOST HOLIEST PLACES:
Bismillahi Rahmani Rahheem.
Houses of Faith and Wisdom.
We are living in the strange days. So called Sufis ,Shaykhs this and that nonsense people, they don’t have respect for this month nor for the House of Allah (Ka’aba Shareef).
I am ashamed to see some so called Sufis taking Selfies at the House of Allah and posting it on Facebook. Good is good be it from whoever, bad is bad , be it from whoever of us.
So today, the corrupt rulers building hotels and resorts near Holy Masjids, and the people going there for picnic! , So “the rulers and leaders are worst of them (Hadith”
They turned the places of worship into amusement places with all nasty things and nasty activities!
Kaba is the place where Prophets, Eminent Saints, Jinns , Angels all come to worship and glorify Allah, since the time Adam (A.S) Built it’s foundation to Sacrifice and Worship for Allah Almighty.
It was only given to Dawud (A.S) and Solomon (A.S) an Israelite Pilgrim and Worship place at Mount in Jerusalem. But the Oldest was Kaba in Makkah, so Kaba was venerated by all nations, both believers and unbelievers.
So a believer who is in true God conscious , he will tremble when approaching Kaba, the House of Allah.
Quran says: 8:2 Believers are only they whose hearts tremble with awe whenever God is mentioned, and whose faith is strengthened whenever His messages are conveyed unto them, and who in their Sustainer place their trust –
So we have today, “Shaykh like” Shaykhs, “Sufi like” Sufis, “Zikr like” Zikr, “Sohbet Like” Sohbet, “love like” love, “Food like” food, “Islam like” Islam, everything an outward show off! and Display.
So we must wake up!, “Be Rabbani” , there is no way out from all these mess and filth that is emerging from all this groups and sects!
And if this is the condition of Sufi named people, then I am not looking at the other groups at all!
So Sufism is no more with people, it is only with the hidden Saints. They are hidden, today people who go to Sufi Shaykhs, are given only the “Zikr Sohbet and regular obligatory duties (like salah, fasting etc)
This are practiced by non-Sufis as well. There is no one today in the modern world, who can comprehend and nourish with Tasawwuf knowledge.
The Saints have closed most spiritual fountains, because those orders need high Adab and high level observance of Shariah and Sunnah traditions.
As for Naqshbandi order, it is given to only those chosen saints who are appointed by Prophet alaihiswalathu wa salam to receive it.
For others, they may fulfill the obligation to follow a Shaykh in life, and observe Sunnah and Shariah duties as much as they can.
So many coming out with titles of Shaykh, Khalifa etc!
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Al-Haqqani (Q.S) did not appoint so many to be a Shaykh of Tasawwuf.
But there are Shaykhs and Khalifas, whose duty is limited to giving bayat, doing and establishing zikr and sohbet and to give permission to others to do the above.
When you know truth, you know where you stand,and Humble Yourself in the Presence of Most High LORD. And keep proper respect and manners in HIS Divine Presence. And His Divine Presence is Everywhere.
So you know where to be in the MOST ADAB!
Quran 2:19….But Allah is ever round the rejecters of Faith!
You have a big fake Adab (discipline) in your Shaykhs dergah, in his house, in his land, but how come you forgetting that Adab or not making a higher adab in the House of Allah?
It is the Sign that you are still bound by your ego!, your ego is still your god, you have to get rid of many ilahs (deities), you must wake up!
I am not pointing to anyone, since last 2 years I am watching, some shaykhs and people taking selfies and photos turning their back facing Kaba!!!!!
Even if you live 5000 miles away from Kaba, you are forbidden to turn your back against Kaba while sitting in Toilet!
This is never an Adab, and you coming to teach me what is Adab?
Your adab with your Shaykh is only an ego made Adab, not an Adab for the sake of Allah according to Quran and Sunnah! , if the Adab is according to the Book of Allah and for the sake of Allah, then there will be a greatest degree of Adab coming from you at the House of Allah!
So Instead of having an “Edep Ya Hu” Sticker on the Walls , we must put it in our hearts and hang on our necks with a bell, so it remind us something most needed!
You can only fool yourself and those who follow you with your fake Khilafat and fake Tariqath you claim you possess.
I am not calling anyone to myself, Obey Allah and Obey Messenger, Love Allah, Love the Prophet alaihiswalathu wa salam, love Awliya Allah and Ahlul Bayth,Surrender to the Truth.
If you do not know who is “Awliya and Ahlul Bayth”, you can still respect them as “a Muslim Brother/Sister”, but today people attribute “Wilayath and Qutubaniyyath” to anyone they feels like.
May Allah Support the Siddiqin and Saliheen,ameen.
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Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul – 07
While watching the first half of this Baha Soul, I felt like the calm before the storm achieved last week didn’t need the supplemental calm we got here. Just get on with the parade and let things unravel.
Don’t get me wrong, Nina is adorable as always, especially post-first-date, it’s ironic to think the fact she dressed Mugaro as a girl means Sofiel can’t tell he’s the kid she’s looking for, despite staring straight at him.
It’s also laudable for Kaisar to warn his king not to attend the parade, because unpleasant doings sure to transpire. But we know Charioce isn’t going to miss a parade celebrating his great day of victory—when Cocytus fell and with it the fear of demons—for fear of demons.
But when the parade finally starts, the tension keeps building until that first concussive blast, followed by several more. It’s a terror bombing the king was almost daring the demons to pull off, and being surrounded and unable to retreat is no sweat off his back.
It’s a nice touch that in a carefully-planned battle in which she was meant to be the pièce de résistance for the resistance, Nina doesn’t have a clue what’s going on. She’s suddenly scooped up by Azazel, who proceeds, in hilarious fashion, to alternated between staring deeply and intensely into Nina’s eyes and hugging her.
But the blushing never comes. Nina’s heart doesn’t race for Azazel anymore, not necessarily because of anything he did, but because of what her mystery date did: make her once general discomfort with pretty men much more specific. She doesn’t know why she’s not transforming even after almost being kissed by Azazel, but she also seems relieved. I know I would be.
I can’t fault for Nina not cooperating with Azazel – she wants her dragon form under control, not weaponized, and certainly doesn’t want to hurt people. At best, she’s annoyed by the kind, shrugging off missing him in the parade (incidentally, if they’d locked eyes while he passed I wonder if she’d see her date and if her heart would’ve raced accordingly. Alas).
But, Nina not playing ball with Azazel means the demons are dealt another defeat, picked off one by one by Charioce’s forces. Many start to think they were betrayed by Azazel, until he swoops in to fight beside them. But when they asked what the hell happened with the red dragon, he has no answer.
Post-credits, the big tank demon and sultry demon are taken out by a flurry of arrows and the fist of one of those giant golem/mecha guys (that don’t seem like a good idea in a crowded city), respectively. Azazel is also in big trouble, and Nina still isn’t yet caught up on what’s even happening.
Finally, the preview was handled by Gabriel and Sofiel, who haughtily boast of the fact they’re beautiful gods.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 20 May 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul, Spring 2017Tags anatae, animation, azazel, bacchus, baha soul, bahamut, blushing, character, charioce xvii, 神撃のバハムート, defeat, demons, dragon, fiasco, hamsa, heart racing, humans, kaisar lidfort, nina drango, overflow, parade, rita, shingeki no bahamut, terrorism, victory1 Comment on Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul – 07
This was a calm-before-the-storm episode where not much happened, but what did transpire, and what I learned, was of great significance. It also underscored the fact that the female gaze as represented by Nina is not only present but prevailing in Bahamut.
Case in point, while running an errand for Rita on the eve of the great Anatae festival, Nina comes afoul of the Pimp whose slaves Mugaro released, only this time he’s armed with ridiculously handsome henchmen that make it tough for her to fight back.
It’s an ingenious way to place her in a state of vulnerability and in need of rescuing by the dreamy aloof vagabond. As thanks for his assistance, she asks him to stop by Bacchus’ hot wings stand, and he says he’ll be there.
Nina’s resulting bubbly high from the gruff yes lasts her for much of the episode, as her facial expressions reach new heights of contortion and she wanders through her festival duties in a haze. She’s got the hots for the stranger, and bad…but I wonder how she’d fell if she knew that stranger was none other than King Charioce XVII, walking among his people in disguise.
Meanwhile, Azazel’s imminent plans cast a pall over the big festival—plans that heavily rely on a very large assumption that Nina will side with him and the demons, transform into a red dragon, and help his cause; none of these things are certain, but he’s moving forward regardless.
The night of the festival, Charioce keeps his promise and stops by, and Bacchus asks him to take Nina and show her around. A lovely montage ensues, with an initially just-as-bashful-as-ever Nina gradually becoming more comfortable beside the pretty man as they engage in all manner of festival-related activities.
Those activities culminate in a folk dance, which is as carefully and lovingly animated as the scenes of action, violence, and destruction in previous episodes. Nina’s face is typically a kaleidoscope of emotions, but the dance takes her expressiveness to a new level.
When the time comes to bid farewell, Nina asks the king-in-disguise his name: he gives the name “Chris.” She wants to see and dance with him again, and he hopes they will, a line that echos in Nina’s head and almost turns her into a dragon right there, which is her cue to speed off, Road Runner-style.
While running, she fortuitously collides with Azazel, who has returned to Anatae after his long absence. Azazel has no time to chat, and sternly instructs Nina what to do. Notably, despite the fact he squeezes her cheeks and her eyes meet his, Nina does not blush or react strongly at all to the contact.
This, and her blissful letter to her mom, not only suggest that Nina now only has eyes for “Chris”, but that Charioce may have successfully accomplished what he set out to do: “disarm” Nina and remove her as a potential trump card for Azazel.
Was Charioce only playing Nina, or does a part of him get a thrill from being out in the world without the crown on his head; holding the warm hand of a lovely woman, rather than cold steel, in his own.
We’ll soon see. Azazel Comin’.
Author braveradePosted on Sat, 13 May 2017 Categories Anime Reviews, Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul, Spring 2017Tags alter ego, anatae, animation, azazel, bacchus, baha soul, bahamut, bashful, beautiful night, blushing, calm before the storm, character, charioce xvii, 神撃のバハムート, dancing, demons, disguise, dragon, festival, first date, gender, hamsa, humans, kaisar lidfort, nina drango, overflow, pimp, rita, shingeki no bahamut, shopping, super strength, wing stand3 Comments on Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul – 06
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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2019, file photo, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees works on the field before the team's NFL football game against the Chicago Bears in Chicago. As New Orleans (6-1) prepares to put its five-game winning streak on the line against the surging Arizona Cardinals (3-3-1) on Sunday, coach Sean Payton must decide if now is the right time to bring back Brees in place of Teddy Bridgewater. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
Drew Brees is back for New Orleans while Atlanta's Matt Ryan will miss a game for the first time in 10 years in Week 8 of the NFL's regular season.
The star quarterback of the Saints has missed five games with a right thumb injury that required surgery. New Orleans won all five games without him with Teddy Bridgewater as the starter. The Saints are playing Arizona and rookie No. 1 overall pick Kyler Murray at home.
Ryan has a sprained right ankle that will end his streak of 154 consecutive regular-season starts. Matt Shaub is starting for the Falcons, who are taking a five-game losing streak into a home game against Seattle.
San Francisco is going for its first 7-0 start since 1990 after getting receiver Emmanuel Sanders in a trade with Denver. The 49ers have lacked a No. 1 receiver for Jimmy Garappolo.
New England is the league's only other unbeaten team at 7-0. The Patriots are home against Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns. Winless Cincinnati is playing the Los Angeles Rams in London.
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Westerford High School Application 2020
June 4, 2019 Prolearner High School Application 0
Application forms are ONLY available in hardcopy.
Collect them from the school office between 07:30 and 16:00 Monday to Friday.
Required Inclusions
Please include the following with your completed application form:
Certified Copy of Final Grade 6 Report for 2018
Certified Copy of Unabridged Birth Certificate
Passport Size Photograph attached to the top of page 3 of the Application Form
Fees may be paid in one of the following ways:
One payment of R38, 850.00 representing a R1, 350 discount on the annual fees if paid by 28 February 2019;
One payment of R40, 200.00 if paid after 28 February 2019;
Ten monthly payments by Debit Order of R4, 020.00;
Twelve monthly paymentsby Debit Order of R3, 350.00;
Four quarterly payments of R10, 050.00 payable at the start of each term;
10 or 12 monthly direct payments at the beginning of each month.
Only Students currently in Grade 7 may apply to enter Grade 8 at Westerford
Grade 8 application forms are available from the front office from January 2019
Open days: 04, 05 and 06 February 2019 @ 15:15
Information session: Monday 11 February at 19:00
Closing date for Grade 8 applications: Friday 15 March 2019
Applications for Grade 9 to Grade 11 in 2020 – application forms will be available from 9 July 2019
All admissions requests for Grades 9 to 11 will be enqueued in a waiting list and should a position become available you will be contacted as soon as possible
Westerford does not take on new students into Grade 12
First Round:
Application forms are available from the beginning of the 1st term.
These forms must be collected from the School office. Forms are NOT available electronically.
Normally in excess of 1000 applications are received.
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Second Round:
Approximately 600 are selected based on:
Academic standards in English and Mathematics.
All-round participation and ability.
“Potential” in the above.
Ease of access to the School on a reliable transport network.
Third Round:
Approximately 450 candidates are invited for an interview.
All interviews are on a one-on-one, personal basis, lasting approx. 10 minutes.
Preference (but no guarantee) is given to;
Westerford siblings.
Academic ability (mainly in English and Mathematics).
Participation and/or potential in sport and/or cultural activities.
Community involvement.
The ability to converse in English.
Confidence and leadership potential.
Personality and character.
In all of the above the primary focus is on choosing pupils who will deal positively with a strong academic programme, while being fully involved in the extra-curricular life of the School.
NB: Financial status of the parents is not taken into consideration when evaluating enrolment applications
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Acceptance and non-acceptance letters are posted on the last day of term 2.
Applicants must accept the offer by the end of the second week of the third term.
Unsuccessful candidates are placed on a “waiting list”.
Appeals:
All appeals must be submitted in writing to the School. No verbal communication will be considered.
Appeals will be considered only once all successful candidates have responded.
Unsuccessful candidates will be notified by the end of the third term.
Further appeals must be lodged directly with the Department of Education District Office.
The provision of this admission policy are subject to their meeting the requirements of The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and all applicable legislation including the stipulations of the South African Schools Act and the Western Cape School Education Law.
No pupil will be refused admission to Westerford on grounds of race, religious belief or financial circumstances.
Every effort will be made to ensure that the ratio of boys and girls in each standard remains approximately equal.
Learners must have an adequate command of English, the language of instruction at Westerford.
All applications for Grade 8, must be submitted by the last day of the 1st term of the year prior to admission
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Where selection becomes necessary because the number of applicants exceeds the number of available places, selection shall be based on the following criteria:
Preference will be given to siblings, except where this is not in the best interests of the child;
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Leslie Hurry’s palace of wisdom
9 Comments Posted by richardawarren on September 28, 2016
In 2011 I posted here on a first, rather breathless, encounter with the ‘forties paintings of Leslie Hurry. He was clearly still working well into the 1970’s (he died in 1978); I may be missing something, but I still can’t see any recent monograph – is there really no big, glossy volume on this extraordinary artist?
This lack makes Paintings and Drawings by Leslie Hurry (Grey Walls Press, 1950) still a useful source, at least, up to that point. The book’s intro is by the “prolific and proletarian” Jack Lindsay; this is sympathetic but none too informative. Lindsay wastes several pages trying to set Hurry into some sort of mega history-of-art context, but then fails to locate him as a painter within the movements and networks of his own times, as if his development were some purely personal, hermetic affair. But the book does have 38 plates, though only two are in colour; despite the black and white, it seems worthwhile to scan a few here below. (Click to enlarge.)
Sketch for Self-portrait, drawing, 1945
The paintings give out all sorts of echoes. Hurry may have opted to work in detachment from organised surrealism, but his relations in that respect are obvious. Absent from much of the imagery is the standard post-cubist scaffolding, so that his figures often have a ghostly flaccidity, as if their bones had been carefully extracted. They swell, contract and flop like jellyfish. This watery, or airy, looseness is reminiscent of David Jones, and the earliest image in the book, a watercolour of a Breton mass from 1939, is strongly Jones-like, both in style and content. While some later figures show rather more structure, a constant Picasso borrowing throughout is the familiar multi-angled face, though in Hurry’s hands this becomes more an image of simultaneous ambivalence than a trick of animation across adjacent moments.
To my mind, his allegorical images of famine and so forth are the least successful. When Hurry does Agony it veers into cartoony; a 1945 watercolour titled Atom Bomb is awkwardly sub-Guernica. To compensate, the scenery designs are a pleasure; they are richly fantastic, and relate closely to the baroque obsessiveness of Robin Ironside.
Jack Lindsay’s introduction to the book rounds off with his own poem, “The Bough of Sweetness,” dedicated to Hurry:
O difficult regeneration of suffering men
on the star-anvils in Stepney and Glasgow clanging
Mass meeting Strike Prague Five-Years-Plan Shanghai
also the slight chime of a flower perfected
and the livid eyes of fear caught in a word
Steadily the hills close round
with the doves of dawn and the nearing annunciation …
Personally, I find Lindsay’s poetry more interestingly symptomatic than successful, though this does at least represent a clumsy attempt at a verbal equivalent of Hurry’s violent conjunction of the visionary and the political – all very ‘forties, very apocalypse.
September 1939, oil, 1939
Thought Threading a Dream, tempera, 1941
The Soldier and the Woman, watercolour & chalk, 1944
Liberation, watercolour, 1945
Cafe Bar, watercolour, 1946
Two Figures, oil, 1946
The Meeting, watercolour & chalk, 1947
Figures in Landscape, watercolour, 1948
In his introduction to the book, Lindsay gives us little by way of Hurry’s biography. Born in 1909, trained at St John’s Wood and the RA School of Painting, emerging in 1931, murals, landscapes, a loss of purpose followed by a “desperate retreat into his lonely self” at a cottage in Thaxted, a spell in Brittany and Montmartre in 1938, from these periods of crisis a move into his mature work, beginning with more geometric configurations but soon evolving into more organic forms, theatre work starting with Hamlet at Sadlers Wells in 1941 – and that’s about as factual as it gets. His Wikipedia page adds not a lot more beyond the interesting detail that his father had been a funeral director, a career path the son rejected.
At the time of my previous post there didn’t seem to be much of Hurry online, but matters have since improved. Copyright restrictions at the Tate site have been lifted, so his artist page there now shows six works, including This Extraordinary Year, 1945, which called to me when it was on the wall at Tate Britain. Much of Hurry’s work was watercolours; these don’t qualify for the Art UK site, which now offers six paintings, of which four are portraits including two variants of himself, though not the self-portrait shown in this post. Beyond these sources, a Google image search will throw up a couple of dozen additional items from galleries and so on, not counting costume or set designs. Enough to go at.
I find it hard to account for the relatively low profile of such a remarkable British painter, particularly given recent stirrings of interest in the neo-romantic phase. Hurry’s tense, highly strung images layer up beyond exhaustion those twitchy, compulsive marks and fragments until they hiss and sing in a sort of maximalist coherence, hard won against the odds by forcing overwroughtness through to a point of virtue. For once here, the road of excess does lead to the palace of wisdom.
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“Weirdly overwrought and hysterical”: Leslie Hurry and other neo-romantics at Tate Britain
Leave a comment Posted by richardawarren on November 14, 2011
At Tate Britain the Clore Gallery has been rebranded till next June, putting Turner within the broader context of The Romantics. (Details on the Tate site via the Collection Displays pages.) The whole thing is well devised and curated, and it’s good to see the odd Blake, Palmer or Fuseli in there among the straighter stuff. And as a little bonus, it all signs off with a separately curated roomful of 20thc neo-romantics.
Which, naturally, includes a bunch of Sutherlands (always a pleasure, especially the rich early etchings) and the regulation nod to Piper and Nash. But it’s also a joy to be able to inspect a totally gonzoid Michael Ayrton, a brooding John Craxton, and Keith Vaughan’s Cain and Abel, in which Vaughan appears to have stretched the scriptural record by having Cain slay his brother, Samson-like, with the jawbone of an ass. (A weensie bit strained, and not one of his best, but what the heck? Any Vaughan on show is a gift these days, and we should be grateful for this one.)
The relevant Tate web page also appears to promise John Minton, Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde, but no such luck. A pity. Though it’s only a small space and you can’t have everything, it is all rather Sutherland-heavy, and a sample from these three would have made things more considered. But in compensation for the omission, tucked in at the end, there is This Extraordinary Year, 1945 by Leslie Hurry.
Leslie Hurry, 'Conflict', 1944
Oo-er. Blimey! Leslie who? The name wasn’t too familiar, but on the strength of this painting it is clearly one to conjure with. It’s not possible to link to images of this or any other of his six pieces in the Tate collection, thanks to copyright restrictions (boo!), but This Extraordinary Year is an extraordinary painting, in which a glowing and naked Liberty raises the red flag among a writhing, apocalyptic mass of figures that includes a pope and a politician trampled under the revolutionary surge. Sound stuff!
Available information on Hurry seems limited, though a quick google will give an idea of his style. There is no mention of him in Remy’s irritatingly doctrinaire Surrealism in Britain, though he explored and exhibited automatic drawing, was tagged an “ultra-surrealist”, and was related to the painter John Armstrong (John Hurry Armstrong), whom for that matter Remy also writes off as less than surrealist. The last significant show of his work seems to have been in the ‘eighties. There is a nice self portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, but only one oil, Dialectic No 2, 1940, is to be found on the BBC Your Paintings site. In this the rather geometric figures look a bit Wyndham Lewis, even a bit Merlyn Evans. Most other pieces appear much more fluid. Many surviving works are designs for the theatre and ballet, though to my mind these are of lesser interest. He was also a friend of Mervyn Peake.
In The Spirit of Place, Malcolm Yorke quickly disposes of Hurry as “weirdly overwrought and hysterical”. What’s so wrong with that? Once could say the same of (for instance) the once derided but very wonderful Pailthorpe and Mednikoff, who these days have pukka status. And as British surrealists go, I’d rather take one Hurry than any number of those dry, clunky, repressed pastiches of Ernst by the amateurish and ludicrously over-rated Conroy Maddox.
art Conroy Maddox, Grace Pailthorpe, John Craxton, Keith Vaughan, Leslie Hurry, Mervyn Peake, Michael Ayrton, Reuben Mednikoff, Tate Britain
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NEW HOPE AUTO SHOW, AUGUST 2015
August 9, 2015 August 10, 2015 RichardReina Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Jr., Car shows, Events car show, car shows, European collector cars, New Hope, New Hope Auto Show
Entrance queue at the start of Sunday’s New Hope Auto Show
The New Hope (PA) Automobile Show was held on the grounds of the New Hope-Solebury High School on Saturday August 8 and Sunday August 9, 2015. This event, which held its first show in 1957, celebrated its 58th anniversary this year. Vehicles are displayed according to predetermined classes, which are different on each day. In general, domestic vehicles are shown on Saturday, while European imports are featured on Sunday. These divisions are not completely strict, as we shall see. Your faithful scribe registered and showed his 1967 Alfa Romeo GT 1300 Junior on Sunday, so this report will focus only on that day’s cars.
Arriving at 8:15 a.m. and assigned to park with several Alfas already in attendance, I was pleasantly surprised to see our row quickly fill up. In all, 15 Alfas eventually arrived and parked together. While spiders (convertibles in Alfa-speak) were the dominant body style, there was enough variety to keep the Alfisti happy. And Alfas were far from the only well-represented marque. Car classes included Austin-Healey, BMW, Jaguar, Lotus, Mercedes-Benz, MG, Porsche, Rolls-Royce/Bentley, and Triumph. Some of these classes had total entries in the dozens. All the usual suspects were present, yet the Sunday show distinguished itself by drawing out some truly unusual and rarely-seen exotics.
The Alfa segment of our program will be covered in a separate blog entry. For now, let’s take a tour of some of the other beautiful, sporty, exotic, and downright eye-opening cars on the field. (Photos can be enlarged for viewing by simply clicking on them.)
The MG menagerie
Any classic car show which bills itself as featuring “MGs and Triumphs” will cause you to expect to find MGBs and TR6s. We had MGBs and TR6s in New Hope. We also had Triumph Italias. The Italia had Triumph TR3 mechanicals under a Michelotti-designed body, built by Vignale in Italy. According to Wikipedia, only 329 were made. To say that they are rare is an understatement. To see one at a car show is completely unexpected. There were two on display today (the earlier use of the plural “Italias” was not a typo).
The red Triumph Italia
The silver Triumph Italia
Not as rare as an Italia, but still infrequently spotted, were several MGCs. To those unaware of its existence, the “C” externally appears no different than an MGB. Careful scrutiny will reveal a hood bulge, necessary to accommodate the inline-six cylinder engine shoe-horned into the front. While contemporaneous road tests derided the extra weight over the front wheels and the accompanying poor handling, a kinder and gentler revisiting of the model has critics responding favorably to the extra oomph brought on by two extra cylinders.
This MGC roadster was pristine in British Racing Green
Its inline 6 was chromed out
This yellow MGC was parked next to an even rarer Messerschmitt and DeLorean
The Jaguar E-Type (more commonly known as the XKE on this side of the pond) is arguably one of the most beautiful cars ever designed, and among the Series I, II, and III cars, the Series I is considered the purest version of the form. It was our luck to have four Series I E-Types at the show. With three of them parked adjacent to each other, the photo ops were aplenty.
Jaguar E-Types bow their hoods in unison
Series I OTS (open two seaters) have gorgeous behinds
1st place awarded for widest whitewalls
The Rolls-Royce and Bentley contingent was huge, no doubt sparked into action through the nudging of the local RR-Bentley club to get its members out and onto the field. We know from past experience that said owners are not afraid to drive these British beauties, so seeing 25-30 of them was not a surprise. The distinctive front-end styling is a photographer’s delight.
1962 Bentley Continental
1936 Rolls Royce
The Bentley “B” is displayed twice
The Spirit of Ecstacy
Rounding out our review of British iron were these more commonly seen models, still enjoyable to admire.
An Austin-Healey Bug-Eye Sprite’s front end opens wide for easy access
This 1957 A-H 100/6 was in the car corral; ask was $44,500 OBO
Next to the Healey was this ’62 TR-3, for sale at $21,500 OBO
What’s a car show without Porsches? In this case, it would be a car show with many fewer vehicles on the show field. While no count was taken, it’s safe to presume that Porsche was the single best-represented marque at the event. Whether this was due to club participation or a wide and adoring audience for these sports cars, it was fun to see the variety extending from the 356, through the air-cooled 911s, to the water-cooled 924/944/928 series. If you were so inclined, new Panameras and Cayennes were also on display courtesy of a local Porsche dealer.
Throughout the generations, a Porsche front end is instantly recognizable
This 911 Targa stood out as much for its Safety Yellow color as it did for its condition
914s, long considered uninteresting to collectors, are gaining momentum
928s are a personal favorite. This is an early car with the original front end treatment
A “2nd gen” 928 has a reshaped nose (and a hideous rear spoiler)
The rarest Porsche spotted today was this 959. According to my sources, a total of 200 were made. Originally not legal for sale in the U.S., these cars from the late 1980s are now old enough that they can legally be imported and driven. At the time of its release, it was considered the most far-flung supercar of its day. Its specifications may seem the stuff of normalcy now, however, it did lay the foundation for what would be expected among the world’s highest-performing machines.
A Porsche 959
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The New Hope Auto Show’s website states that Sunday’s car show includes classes for production GM, FoMoCo, and Chrysler Corp cars through 1990. The American cars on site were not a large group, but several MoPar models were standouts, and are worth highlighting for their styling and engineering features.
The sign on this ’65 Plymouth Belvedere claimed it was an all-original 65,000 mile car
The once-ubiquitous Slant-6 engine in the Plymouth is still known for its durability
More than other Detroit cars, Chrysler went out of its way with unique styling cues, like these free-standing head lamps
So-called “gun sight” taillamps on this Imperial
This ’56 Imperial is long. Really, really, long
When I was 7 years old, I wanted nothing more than an in-car record player (this is in the Imperial)
Two different model Fiats were in attendance, sharing a unique attribute: neither car was badged “Fiat”.
After Fiat left the U.S. market in 1982, production of two of its popular sports cars, the X1/9 and the Spider 2000, was continued by Bertone and Pininfarina respectively, and these firms imported and sold the cars in the States under their own brands. (Malcolm Bricklin was somehow involved, but that’s too dark a story to include here.)
This 1987 Bertone X1/9 was an all-original car in pristine condition. Its current owner stated to me that he has owned the car for over 20 years, and drives it year-round (making sure that his winter driving is on dry roads).
1987 Bertone X1/9. Note the ‘b’ badge on nose. Umbrella was dealer-supplied accessory
1987 Fiat X1/9. Rear spoiler aids aerodynamics at speeds above 130mph
This 1985 Pininfarina Spider looked brand new. While the owner was not available to answer questions, the condition of the car (flawless) spoke for him.
1985 Pininfarina Spider 2000.
Batista Farina’s nickname was Pinin. He legally changed his company’s name to “Pininfarina” (one word), but the ‘f’ for Farina is still the logo
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Surprise: Global Warming Occurring More Slowly Than Portended
20 Sep, 2017 by William Teach
It’s amazing: we’re now told that the models are wrong. But Mankind is still to blame
Global warming may be occurring more slowly than previously thought, study suggests
Computer modelling used a decade ago to predict how quickly global average temperatures would rise may have forecast too much warming, a study has found.
The Earth warmed more slowly than the models forecast, meaning the planet has a slightly better chance of meeting the goals set out in the Paris climate agreement, including limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
Scientists said previous models may have been “on the hot side”.
The study, published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, does not play down the threat which climate change has to the environment, and maintains that major reductions in emissions must be attained.
But the findings indicate the danger may not be as acute as was previously thought.
Myles Allen, professor of geosystem science at the University of Oxford and one of the study’s authors told The Times: “We haven’t seen that rapid acceleration in warming after 2000 that we see in the models. We haven’t seen that in the observations.”
Remember back to Dr. Roy Spencer stating that the real consensus was 95%, as in, 95% of the models were wrong
He did this back in 2014. Looks like the Warmists are attempting to actually redo their models while still attempting to Blamestorm Mankind’s “carbon pollution.” They are still calling for “carbon budgets”, which would, of course, include carbon taxes and fees, more government control of citizens, economies, private entities, and the energy sector, and more loss of freedom coupled with a higher cost of living.
At the Paris climate summit in 2015, Professor Grubb said: “All the evidence from the past 15 years leads me to conclude that actually delivering 1.5C is simply incompatible with democracy.”
But speaking to The Times he said: “When the facts change, I change my mind, as [John Maynard] Keynes said.
As James Delingpole notes
Grubb is claiming that the facts have changed. Which they haven’t. Climate skeptics have been saying for years that the IPCC climate models have been running “too hot.” Indeed, the Global Warming Policy Foundation produced a paper stating this three years ago. Naturally it was ignored by alarmists who have always sought to marginalize the GWPF as a denialist institution which they claim – erroneously – is in the pay of sinister fossil fuel interests.
Exactly. The facts have not changed. The facts are the actual observations (well, the kinda do change, as the Warmists adjust, massage, smooth, and simply make up the data), and the observations disagree with the computer models, as Dr. Spencer noted.
Paul Homewood writes
1) We have known for several years that the climate models have been running far too hot.
This rather belated admission is welcome, but a cynic would wonder why it was not made before Paris.
2) I suspect part of the motivation is to keep Paris on track. Most observers, including even James Hansen, have realised that it was not worth the paper it was written on.
This new study is designed to restore the belief that the original climate targets can be achieved, via Paris and beyond.
3) Although they talk of the difference between 0.9C and 1.3C, the significance is much greater.
Making the reasonable assumption that a significant part of the warming since the mid 19thC is natural, this means that any AGW signal is much less than previously thought.
4) Given that that they now admit they have got it so wrong, why should we be expected to have any faith at all in the models?
5) Finally, we must remember that temperatures since 2000 have been artificially raised by the recent record El Nino, and the ongoing warm phase of the AMO.
Powerline digs into the story, and comes up with an interesting tidbit, in regards to the Professor Grubb quote above
At the Paris climate summit in 2015, Professor Grubb said: “All the evidence from the past 15 years leads me to conclude that actually delivering 1.5C is simply incompatible with democracy.” [Emphasis added.] [Teach made quote from article red]
A revealing slip of the mask, no? And what a disappointment that the climatistas will still have to put up with elections and the people and such. Authoritarianism is so much more fun.
This is pretty much a vindication of what Skeptics have been saying for well over a decade, and exposes what I’ve been writing and saying for a long time: this is fake science designed to prop up Progressive (nice Fascist) ideology and policy pushes.
But, don’t for one minute think they’ll stop. To paraphrase The Terminator “Listen, and understand! That Warmists are out there! They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead paying lots of taxes!”
Crossed at Pirate’s Cove. Follow me on Twitter @WilliamTeach.
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On some days Rewa Zeinati assumes the role of a camel, as described by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Camels, he says, symbolise people burdened by rigid beliefs of a structured society.
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Zeinati grew up in Abu Dhabi, then moved back to Beirut for her higher education. There she discovered the power of the written word in her English literature course. Her passion for writing took her to the US in 2002, where she completed a programme in creative writing. She met poets and writers who had the same passion and egged her on to share her essays and poetry. Four years ago, her longing to be closer to home brought her back to the UAE.
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"I talk a lot about my family. There is a lot of childhood in there as well and how you see things through a kid's perspective," she says. "But it also talks about things I've read in the news. I try not to give an opinion politically, but it is more on social criticism, women's rights and a lot of those infuriating aspects that drive me to write, rant and obsess."
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Zeinati has also been influenced by the work of Joumana Haddad, a poet and women's rights activist from Lebanon, who wrote the foreword of her book. "I admire her on many levels, as a woman, a thinker, an activist, a teacher," says Zeinati.
Other writers who inspire her include Naomi Shihab Nye, Charles Bukowski, Mahmoud Darwish, Etel Adnan and Mark Strand. "Even some local poets inspire me tremendously." She immediately adds that she isn't trying to influence readers, but wants to allow them to find commonalities in her "confusion".
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The presidential campaign of Mitt Romney began under a cloud. When the former governor came on the scene, one question rose above all the others– “Can a Mormon win?” That question waxed and waned as a dominant theme through 2007, with the climax coming in December, as Romney addressed the question head on in his landmark speech on “Faith in America,” and as Mike Huckabee became a real competitor based partly on the contrast his Baptist credentials drew with Romney’s more suspect religion. But as the horserace moved into high gear, with primaries coming every week or so, the press collectively decided that the religion story had lost its luster, and moved on to issues of greater political relevance.
So it is oddly fitting that in the final stages of the campaign, Romney’s religion comes back to the fore, based on events far out of Romney’s control and far-removed from the world of politics. When Gordon B. Hinckley, the longstanding and well-beloved President of the LDS Church, passed away last week, Romney announced immediately that he would attend the funeral. This resulted in some head scratching in the media, as commentators wondered how to interpret Romney’s willingness to be overtly Mormon just two days before the largest primary event of his candidacy. Was his new candor regarding his loyalty to his faith evidence that he had conceded the race? Or was this some kind of new pander to play up his authenticity?
The AP’s Glen Johnson sees the new openness as a mere artifact of the low religious tension in the upcoming primary states, as opposed to that in past primary states like Iowa and South Carolina. USA Today has Jan Shipps, an oft-quoted academic with an expertise in Mormonism saying that “[Romney’s] in a bind. If he goes (to the funeral) people will say, ‘Oh, his religion is more important than his campaign.’ If he doesn’t go, people will say, ‘He doesn’t care about his religion, he cares about politics.'” The same story also quotes a University of Utah Political Science professor saying that Romney “could not not be there. Given the world of (Mormon) political insiders, this is an absolute must-attend.” In other words, attending President Hinckley’s funeral was a political necessity, in the eyes of some.
Yet others found a suspicious evasiveness in the candidate’s funeral plans. Salon Magazine’s Mike Madden is put off by the campaign’s privacy about Romney’s plans while in Salt Lake, as if one might expect him to set up a press conference with the funeral cortege passing slowly by in the background. In fact, you could almost smell a hint of suspicion in the Salon article that the LDS Church was itself complicit in helping Romney escape attention, by avoiding any religious ritual that could highlight the Mormon-ness of the affair. On the contrary, while it was conducted at an enormous scale to accommodate the huge masses interested in the event, the funeral was a very typical Mormon funeral in terms of content. The sincere speeches and sedate hymns, while anything but rewarding to a reporter looking for a thrill on Temple Square, were familiar displays of Mormon-ness, a lifestyle that is maligned for its strange eccentricity at the same time that the critics gripe about how boring the whole scene can be.
But in the midst of all this coverage, there’s a different story, about a 97-year old man who died this week, a man held by some 13 million people as a prophet and great spiritual leader. His funeral was attended by 21,000 people that cared very little for the political implications of the day, but wanted only to pay their respects to a leader who had lived a thoroughly exemplary life. Yet few in the press corps were willing to consider that Mitt Romney may have been driven by the same motive as the rest of those attendees. It is no coincidence that the most insightful and probing story in the mainstream press about the funeral (kudos to Newsweek) both ignored Mitt Romney, and was written by a Mormon.
Ultimately, no motive or calculation should be imputed to Romney for spending crucial campaigning minutes in devotion and contemplation besides a simple desire to be himself and life the life of the Mormon he is. This is most easily proven by how impossible it would be for his advisors to calculate the effect of such a move, for which there is not even a hint of a script, even if they had tried. This weekend, Mitt Romney, the man, went to the funeral of another man, whom he knew a little, and whom he revered as a prophet. The media clearly lacked a script as well, and that’s as it should be. It is difficult to find public meaning in moments this private. And true to his core, which is so famously thought not to exist at all, Mitt Romney navigated the unscripted moment with grace and humility, failing to score points or protect himself from the barbs of his critics. Whatever else the world may want him to be, Romney is neither a hollow shell nor a secret cultist. He is a man of faith that sometimes needs a moment to live out that faith. Even two days before Super-Tuesday.
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The Great Debate- How Would You Handle The Crowds
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How Would You Handle The Crowds
Eliminate Membership/ Summer Thrill Pass
Raise Season Pass Prices
by Coaster Justin on April 6th, 2017, 7:52 am
I'd be fine if they raised Season Passes to $100
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by RollingCoasting on April 6th, 2017, 8:15 am
If I wanted to handle crowds I'd get rid of Read to Succeed and BAF/BAFF. But if one of these, raise season pass rates, cause I have a membership, lol.
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by stergmi on April 6th, 2017, 8:55 am
I don't think raising pass and membership rates will change the crowds much. But I think the added revenue solves for a lot of our other complaints
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by JaminOut on April 6th, 2017, 2:54 pm
1. Limit park capacity (20,000 per day)
2. Raise season pass price to $99.99
3. Remove all season pass admission deals and enact a season long BAF $29.99.
4. Allow no ticket deals, but lower ticket prices to $49.99
I gon' cut you...
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by Whizzer Whiz Kid on April 6th, 2017, 5:13 pm
At this point, I'm pretty sure that Great America knows it could raise prices, but in the end, what they would gain at the gate isn't enough to cover what those people who come twice or three times a season spend on food and merch. This is why the Twicket worked so well for so many years. Great America is smack dab in the middle of two giant cities and its closest real competitor is Cedar Point, which is 6 hours away. Even though us enthusiasts might not like it, Six Flags is playing a very smart game, which they should after they ran into the ground a few years ago. They care about money and that is what they are gaining.
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by Guy_With_A_Stick on April 6th, 2017, 7:10 pm
Oh boy, here we go.
tl;dr: We shouldn't drive guests away/limit the number of guests who can come in- we should create better accommodations, increase operations, have faster service, and try making the park cleaner/more comfortable to handle larger crowds to increase revenue, which in turn allows for the park to make bigger and better additions and accommodations for the future.
There are a Lot of factors that impact a person's decision to visit the park- The Weather, New rides/attractions, In-Park events(ERT, Concerts, Celebrities visiting, etc.), Deals(BAF, Read to Succeed, etc.), if they own a Season Pass or not, if it's a holiday, how crowded it is, and many many more.
Before we get to changing everything, let's take a look at the Six Flags Business Model(assuming we're handling crowds under Six Flags Management). We are one of the top parks without doubt. We are quite far from the biggest, but we are extremely profitable because of that. The park is smack dab in between two major US cities, which is a great place to put a park if you want a steady flow of crowds. Anyway, Six Flags prides itself in adding something new to every park every year. If they want to keep that promise year after year, they need constant crowds. Like Whiz said, they're playing a smart game right now- see if something works at one park, then spread it to other parks. We may not like it because it decreases diversity, but we're the some of the only people who would actually venture to other Six Flags Parks. Anyway, let's see how SF can manage crowds.
Unless you are a literal wizard, you can't control the weather, so let's adjust the things we can change. Starting off with New Rides. Like I said, SF prides itself in adding something new each year. So to keep that going, they need guests to constantly come to the park and return; which they do when there's a new ride. So there really isn't much to change here, since they're already getting guests to come back year after year.
Another way people return to the park is with special events like Concerts and Extra Ride Times. We have plenty of ride times in my opinion- usually averaging around 4-5 a month. One thing we don't have is concerts. I'm not talking 'Live and Local' venues(although some of the artists are really good), I'm talking A-List Bands and Artists. Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, all these huge names in music that would draw huge crowds. Obviously the park would probably have to spend a load of money, but maybe a week-long concert series with one or two popular bands/artists and a lot of smaller ones could work out. Something like this would seriously drive up some of the numbers. Also, while I'm on the topic of a concert series, maybe do something like what Busch Gardens does and have a Food and Wine festival at the same time, giving guests some specialty dining options(maybe a few local places like Momcorn or Chocolate Sanctuary). Events like this do bring in numbers.
Deals are an interesting case- yes, it drives the numbers up, but it doesn't increase revenue at the gate. Yes, more money is spent in-park, but it usually isn't enough to cover the missed gate sales(kind of like what Whiz said). The deals are nice for those who want to bring a friend to the park who usually doesn't. However, they are extremely inconvenient at times. Why not just give each season pass like 3 or 4 free friend tickets, and have them available all season long? When they run out, it can change some BAF for half off, then $20 off, $10, etc. It'd still bring in the numbers that come in to the park, but it would spread them out over the entire season rather than having peaks concentrated into short time periods. As for Read to Succeed, I think it's a great program in schools. It encourages kids to read more, which I think is a great thing. In the park however, there isn't much that can be done. The tickets are already valid for most of the season, it's just that the families wait until the very end to use them. Not much to do about that.
Another deal could be that you(as a season passholder) convince some of your friends to get a season pass. When ordering them, they could say that you recommended them, which could possibly translate to a reward of some sort(free go on DDD/WInner's Circle, exit pass, discount on merch, etc.). Not only would this increase season pass sales, it would also encourage existing passholders to come back.
All of these are mostly ways to increase crowds to come to the park, but that is a problem already without these changes. Increasing the prices of season passes would really only give the park more money than drive crowds away, which I don't think is the way to solve this problem. The best solution is to make the accommodations better. Larger sit-down restaurants instead of lots of walk-up food stands to decrease food lines and increase food quality. Faster dispatch times and more trains to decrease wait times. More benches with shade to make guests more comfortable. More trash cans to keep the paths clean. More rides that appeal to those who want a tame, relaxing experience. More indoor areas to relax. Things like these can seriously improve the park's ability to handle large crowds. Driving them away is only going to lead to less money for the park, and more angered guests. Being able to take in more crowds and handling them better increases revenue, guest satisfaction, and park operations. With the increased revenue, the park can then invest in better additions each year, which can include even more accommodations to handle even more crowds, and the cycle repeats.
I get why you all want less crowds, but that's not what SF wants. The best of both worlds is to increase operations to decrease lines, and increase accommodations to handle more people.
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by Goku1910 on April 9th, 2017, 11:05 am
Also notice how we've gotten cheaper additions year over year.
Seems there's less investing going into park improvement projects and it's disappointing.
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by batmanfan80 on April 13th, 2017, 7:55 am
To me the biggest issue is all the pass holders that live within 30 min of the park who go all the time. I bet a high percentage of them are revenue losers who don't spend a dime after buying their passes. Does anyone know who all is tailgating in the parking lot? As I've said in the past, probably 75% of the crowd shows up impulsively based on weather. If it's been raining or whatever on a Fright Fest weekend that would normally have 50,000 people, all of a sudden you have manageable crowds. Raising prices I think would help. I'm guessing that's why the native Floridian population doesn't ever seem to go to Busch Gardens and Sea World. Everytime I go it's always foreign tourists and extremely reasonable lines. Even in July, Montu supposedly never has a wait longer than 20 minutes. However, Cheetah Hunt has had a 90 min wait most times I've been there(but it's usually the only ride that has anything over a 30 min line). Would not surprise me if that was because they were running one train because that seems to be the norm there. I just don't see Central Florida's people being that different from here. If Great America had those prices, I think a good percentage of their crowd would stay home. If they ban tailgating that will also keep the cheapies away. If they did both these things, I imagine they'd lose minimal money while increasing satisfaction for those who are investing more in their trip.
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by momlovescoasters on April 13th, 2017, 9:27 am
I guess I would qualify as a "revenue loser". I have a season gold pass and live within 30 minutes of the park. I do spend some money throughout the seaon on souveniers but I do not spend a dime on food. I do not have the patience to wait in long lines for overpriced below average food. I'm much happier getting a break from the crowds and having a sandwich in the car. No food offering could ever change my mind on that.
I think raising the season pass cost would help, but probably not enough. I would love to see a "tiered" pass. I would be willing to pay much more for the pass if I had more benefits. Instead of just the regular or gold, you could do bronze, silver, gold, platinum. Early entry or seperate line to enter would be worth A LOT to me. Last season the entry process was a disaster. I don't know if it was the machines, attendents or just the lack of commen sense, but it took way too long to get people in.
Eliminate BAF days....all of them. No one wants to wait 2+ hours in line for a ride. And if the "friend" is coming to the park for free or a reduced rate, how much are they really spending during the day? Probably not much...more than likely they are hanging out in the parking lot with me eating a sandwich.
I also think, as a previous poster mentioned, limiting park capacity would be great. I know Six Flags wants the highest number of guests possible, but if the overall experience sucks, people will not return.
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by CoasterRiderSC on April 14th, 2017, 3:02 pm
I was a "revenue loser" as well! I almost always brought my own lunch and then would eat dinner on the way home. The food is mediocre. BUT for this year I got the Season Dining Pass and will give it a try. However one thing that comes to mind is: if I go to our park 8-10x will they make money on my Season Dining pass when you consider the total cost for the food (cost of food, preparation equipment, personnel, etc)?
I see nothing wrong with bringing your own food and actually doing that helps keep the lines down for all the non-tailgaters!
Having a peak limit of guests during a day is an interesting concept: they would have to manage the total # of people in the park at a given time and if capacity is reached, then people can't enter unless people leave. That could/would probably make people very angry if they show up and buy a full price ticket with cash (non-season passholders).
One thing they can do to reduce the traffic is get rid of all the people stopping you and trying to take your picture, as well as the annoying timeshare people that are just taking up space. And perhaps get a self-serve refill station for soda that could be monitored by 1 person who's also serving food.
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by stergmi on April 16th, 2017, 9:57 am
You wouldn't even need a person to monitor it. Just set up a bar code scanner and program the machine to fill up no more than a season bottle per scan. And then set it so you have to wait 15 minutes before you can scan for a drink again.
by aaron60060 on April 17th, 2017, 2:33 pm
I know so many people who have gotten passes in years past, but aren't doing it again this year, because of the massive increase in crowd sizes(perceived) over the past few seasons. For that reason, I'd say they need to raise prices, but also increase the SIZE of the park so it can accomodate all of the new sales. If people think they'll have to wait forever every time they go, they are just going to let their membership lapse. Without physically increasing the size of the park, they are going to hit a churn point where new memberships don't make up for cancellations aka stagnant growth.
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by stergmi on April 17th, 2017, 3:20 pm
aaron60060 wrote: I know so many people who have gotten passes in years past, but aren't doing it again this year, because of the massive increase in crowd sizes(perceived) over the past few seasons. For that reason, I'd say they need to raise prices, but also increase the SIZE of the park so it can accomodate all of the new sales. If people think they'll have to wait forever every time they go, they are just going to let their membership lapse. Without physically increasing the size of the park, they are going to hit a churn point where new memberships don't make up for cancellations aka stagnant growth.
We got a big enough park for the crowds. We have 300 acres and 50+ rides. What we need are better operations, regularly a good chunk of food stands are closed. We lack self serve soda machines. The ops at the food stations that are open seem minimal. On top of that Bull is the only ride that runs 3 trains on it despite Demon, Whizzer, and Eagle also capable of it.
If we could get a gold pass only entrance that lets them into the park 15 minutes before everyone else that will also solve for some of the front gate and Flash Pass booth log jams too.
by Viper 88 on April 18th, 2017, 4:53 pm
Ok raising the price of a season pass is not the answer. I live in Chicago stuff is expensive as all hell, but im stuck cant move. For a lot of people a trip to 6 flags is their vacation maybe even their entire summer entertainment. What they need is to totally eliminate the water park from the dry park. Find a sizeable plot of land and have a seperate gate admission. 2 Higher capacity rides ie Sky Whirl which had 12 cars per arm and could hold 5 passengers per cabin. We need 3 Trains running on DEMON AE and Whizzer. 4 Faster ride ops that want to actually be there. 5 More Rafts, Boats, Logs, and Pirate Ships on the Water rides. 5 Kill the Flash pass you may think it eliminates long lines but all it does is actually create them because these people are jumping in front of you and 200 other people. 6 Additional theater or revamping of Pictorium to include collapsing stage to do double duty. 7 Backstage food preparation areas with items being delivered to food locations so someone doesnt have to fill a drink then chop picode gallo then make funnel cake then ring up a pretzel food service is seriously in a dizzying disarray. 8 Self service drink stations. 9 Limit school/group picnics on any given day.
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batmanfan80 wrote: I never really paid attention to the tailgating aspect, for me that seems like a big time expenditure and hassle.
As a former tailgater I can definitely say it's a huge pain in the ass! You have to fight crowds getting out of the park plus hand stamp, get to your car, set up, eat, make sure you're not getting dive bombed from the a hole seagulls people feed by leaving their crap all over and not picking up after themselves, then clean up, through the lot to metal detection and turnstiles and fight through even more crowds to get to whatever ride you wanna hit, really just a nightmare!
by ConorTully on April 18th, 2017, 9:38 pm
Viper 88 wrote:
Yeah, especially considering the amount of stress saved by just scanning a dining pass and sitting down in your favorite area of the park to eat your food. Sure the lines can be atrocious and the food could definitely be better, but with a cold tea or soda it sure as hell beats hiking all the way out to your car or burger king to eat, both of which ive done a multiplicity of times.
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by CoasterDemon on April 23rd, 2017, 1:04 pm
My Cedar Fair platinum season pass was just under $200. Sure, it's a lot of money, but the quality of the service is very high.
$200 is still cheap for what I get. But SF operates on a completely different game plan. One which enables an incredible amount of frustration on the guests. You get what you pay for. It would take a long time for SF to turn that around.
And I can say with a certain amount of confidence, our home park of SF Great America is probably the best run in the chain. Scary, huh!?
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5 MINUTES WITH... SECRET CINEMA
Techno legend Jeroen Verheij, better known as Secret Cinema, has been bringing the funk to dancefloors across the globe since the early 90s. This Saturday he is returning to Shanghai to play Arkham; a show that promises to be an absolute slobberknocker to say the very least. We managed to grab five minutes with the man himself ahead of this weekend show to get a glimpse of what life is like as an international superstar DJ. Pretty cool it would seem...
You started out over twenty years ago as Meng Syndicate. Do you think you have left this era behind or do you still find yourself bringing out Sonar System at shows every now and again?
Yeah funnily enough, last Awakenings, the biggest Dutch Techno Festival, I played Sonar System on the main stage before 10.000 people! Some of the people in the crowd weren't even born when it first came out, but they all went crazy! It was fun to see so many people go wild in a track I made in 1990! For the record, the memory of the computer I used back then was 512kb!!
It's well known that you take a lot of influence from old school funk music. Who are some of your favourite funk artists from back in the day?
Well funk...yeah also funk...but funk with beats, funk with synths, funk in a rock song, funk in an electric song... As long as it has a story and a soul, I am down with it, haha! I sampled Jimmy Castor Bunch and they sound quite funky to me!!
In 2001 you released your first album as Secret Cinema, titled 'White Men Can't Funk'. Having played countless shows over the past twenty years, is this a conviction that you still hold, or have you ever seen a white guy who can indeed funk?
It was my first album yes, but my first record as Secret Cinema was in 1994! Timeless Altitude was the title of the main track from back then. It was a joke of course, referring to the movie 'White Man Can't Jump'. I think the album itself was super hard techno but also had the 'funk' in it...in a scary good kind of way. And through time I have heard a lot of white man that could funk...DJ Koze, Frank Zappa, the Doobie Brothers, Aphex Twin, Daft Punk and loads of Techno guys as well!
'White Men Can't Funk' and 'SC002' are often seen as your breakthrough records. Since you've made it big on the international stage, have you noticed that your audience has changed since back in the 90s?
Obviously a lot has changed. The audience always changes, but I noticed the techno lovers are usually the curious people who are interested in the world and go deeper in their thoughts. They like to fantasize and have a lot of dreams and creativity inside.
You have collaborated with Adrian Lokman on a number of occasions, creating the soundtracks to his films. Do you see yourself getting involved in these kind of projects more in the future?
Definitely, but I need to grow a bit more in that. Funny enough I will see Lokman again soon to talk about how some projects we are developing. And also I have some opportunities waiting for TV and film sounds and tunes...let's see if I can play with the big boys!
With so many hits in your DJ arsenal, which tunes do you often find get the best reaction from the crowd?
Egbert's tracks always hit the spot, but also my own hits are often more well-known than I expect. Whenever I drop some of my own, reactions are usually very good! And I always have some nice demo's to play from my label which do the dance floor job well!!
Your exploits at Awakenings Festival are legendary. Which European festivals do you think are doing the most exciting things at the moment, both as a DJ and a fan?
Awakenings is 2 days this year so that's gonna be interesting to experience. Monegros has always a high profile of DJ's attending. I also think ADE is one of the best festivals in the world right now, for interest, quality, quantity and the great vibe throughout Amsterdam during that time! I heard Fusion is really nice, but that's on my bucket list!
Tell us more about 'Gem Records.' How did the idea come about and where are you planning to take it next?
Well our arsenal of great artists is slowly expanding and we like to go with the flow on things. Don't force too much. And quality is the first priority. The tracks for Gem should be timeless, and yes...be Gems of records.
You have played in China, and Asia generally, several times before. Have you noticed anything about the scene over here that differs from Europe?
I have played in China and Asia many many times, and it's always an adventure when you play over here. Some have been amazing and legendary nights and others just didn't wanna lift off...but mostly I have always had fun playing in Asia. I’ve played in Japan 26 times, China at least ten times, Philippines same story and Singapore and Bangkok too! And here we go again, trying to show people my side of techno, which usually brings a smile and nice energy to the dancefloor! If you like to dance and have fun, I will not fail you....we are all part of the party together!!
Techno got huge in the early 2000s, but some people say that it’s had its day, what with the emergence of Dubstep and other dance music fads. What do you think the future holds for Techno music?
Eventually everybody will love techno. There are many that just don't know it yet....
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Words: Arvin Mahanta
WGO 7.4.14
Lionel Richie - All Night Long (bootleg) - MB Arena, Tue SuperPoze - Pavane (Dream Koala Remix) - Lune, Wed New York Transit Authority - '95 (Original Mix) - Shelter, Fri SIG - Over The Crowd - Lune, Wed Shanghai 247 WGO 7.4.
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LINEUP: Special Guest - Secret Cinema, (NL/ Gem) Mia (CAD) , Ben Huang (CHN/ Yellow), Chris Jobs (GER/ Void Shanghai) VJ Scarlett ( Redscale Studios Shanghai) + Deco MAMASan Collective Footprint is returning this April with a massive show for all you techno heads out there: Secret
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Church group asks to hold services in firehouse
Shelter Island’s Board of Fire Commissioners is mulling a request by a religious group to use one of the district’s firehouse meeting rooms for regular Sunday services.
Reverend Thomas Charls of Grace Evangelical Church on Monday night asked the board for permission to use one of the facilities for Sunday morning services. The church group, numbering “a handful” of parishioners, according to the Reverend Charls, has been meeting lately at Camp Quinipet. When the camp season starts up, the group will need a new home.
The Island congregation is about 30 years old, Reverend Charls said.
It started meeting at the Shelter Island Library, where it remained for some 20 years before moving to the Senior Activity Center in the town-owned Medical Center. The library arrangement ended because there were complaints about a church group using public property, according to Reverend Charls.
He went to Councilwoman Christine Lewis, the Town Board’s senior liaison, to ask if the group could use the Senior Activity Center. She said in a phone interview Wednesday that she had informally asked Town Board members for their thoughts and no one had objected. There was never a formal resolution.
“I think we saw it as a temporary fix for a small group of people who needed a little help,” Ms. Lewis said Wednesday.
As the church group became more visible, she said, there were new complaints about the use of public property for religious purposes. Reverend Charls received a letter from the councilwoman last February in which she wrote “too many people are aware of this now,” Reverend Charls said. That sent the church group to Camp Quinipet and the subsequent request to the fire commissioners for space beginning this spring.
Reverend Charls asked for use of fire department space — possibly the Heights firehouse upstairs meeting room — between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., although services generally last about an hour and a half, he later explained.
Commissioner Ron Jernick questioned the idea of allowing a church group to use the fire district’s taxpayer-funded facility, saying he was uncomfortable with the idea. Other commissioners echoed his concerns after the meeting.
Reverend Charls noted that fire district facilities have been used by other churches for one-time special events but not regular Sunday worship services. A decision will be made on the request at the commissioners’ March 26 meeting, chairman Richard Surozenski said.
The church request wasn’t the only request on the agenda for using fire district space. The American Legion mens and ladies winter bowling leagues want to use the meeting room for a season-ending dinner.
“I think we’re going to get deluged with people wanting to use the firehouse,” Commissioner Andy Steinmuller said. “We’re responsible for the building.”
Another concern raised Monday was who would be responsible in case of a mishap or accident. “We really have to start getting strict about this,” Mr. Surozenski said.
Second Assistant Fire Chief Will Anderson argued that the department’s insurers should cover such private use of the facility but attorney Helen Rosenblum said groups need to get their own insurance and also need one-day licenses if liquor is to be served. That didn’t sit well with Mr. Anderson, who argued that making space available to various groups is a community service.
Also on Monday, the commissioners welcomed Warren Baker as a new department member.
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Scuba Diving Martinique
Scuba divers in Martinique can avail themselves of fascinating dive sites, ideal water temperatures, abundant marine life and interesting shipwrecks.
Martinique is one of two overseas regions of France. The mix of French and Caribbean culture creates a unique vacation destination in which you can get the best of both worlds: the warm weather, pristine beaches, and colorful attitude of the Caribbean as well as the posh and refined nature of France. No two beaches on this island are the same. Some of the beaches boast exotic jet-black sands while other beaches feature sparkling white sands.
Martinique is one of the Caribbean islands that is surrounded by both the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. For divers, this means that there are many numerous, and diverse, underwater habitats to explore. The coast is surrounded by beautiful reefs teeming with tropical fish.
There are numerous ship and boat wreck sites off the coast of Martinique, many of which sank when Mt. Pele erupted in 1902.
HIGHLIGHT DIVE SITES
Rocher de la Perle (Pearl Rock) – 1/2 mile (800 meters) in front of the Anse Couleuvre, in the clear water Domenica Channel, with depths of more than 130 feet (40mtrs). Plenty of fish, tortoises, barracudas etc. Possibility of strong currents. This dive is for experienced divers.
Canyons de Babodi (Babodi Canyons) – an imposing volcanic landscape. Lava flows are inserted in parallel in water thus forming canyons.
Belle Fontaine – a beginners dive, that is shallow, but with a series of coral massifs.
Rocher du Diamant (Diamond Rock) – the most famous site of Martinique. This rock, some 2 ½ miles (4 kilometres) from the shore, goes down by progressive steps towards the bottom. In the west, at a depth of 55 feet (17mtrs) is a gigantic fault that perforates the side of the rock. Plenty of coral.
Wrecks:
Epaves de St Pierre – (St-Peter’s Wrecks) In 1902, the Pelée Mountain erupted sinking many boats around St-Pierre. The nicest one is the “Roraima” 150 feet (46 mtrs) that can be explored. Another interesting one, especially for beginners, is the “Raisignier”.
Lady V – a 60 foot (18 mtrs) steel yacht at 45 feet 13 mtrs) of depth. An interesting dive for beginners.
Nahoon – a three masted steel ship resting at 100 feet (30 mtrs).
DIVE INFORMATION
DIVE SEASON: You can dive the Martinique all year long, but the tropical, rainy season runs from October to January. Hurricane season is June to the end of November.
VISIBILITY: Generally the viz runs 24-45 metres/80-150 feet. While the weather is consistently good year-round, during the rainy season (roughly October to January) visibility can dip below the usual 30-45 meters/100-150 feet.
WATER TEMPERATURE: Nice warm water, varying from – Jan. to March 25CC/77F and June to October 28C/82F
CURRENTS: Mostly mild, but can vary by location
WEATHER: Warm tropical weather is the norm, with little change in temperature from winter to summer. Average annual temperature is 85° F/29.4° C. Humidity is usually high, especially from May to September.
SKILL LEVELS: Divers of all levels will find the Martinique exciting. Deep diving experience or advanced training is recommended at some sites due to depth and wreck training is recommended for divers interested in exploring the various wrecks.
DIVE ACCESS: Most of the diving is via boat. Although Martinique also offers accessible shore diving to great coral reefs with little to no current.
FEATURED MARINE CREATURES: you can expect to see turtles on just about every dive. You’re also likely to see eagle rays, barracuda, moray eels and, of course, stingrays. You’ll also spot lots of tropical fish such as sergeant majors, parrotfish
CLIMATE: Thanks to an average temperature of 79°, Martinique is the island of the “never ending summer.” Trade winds from the east and northeast provide a steady breeze that constantly refreshes the air. Due to these tropical climate conditions in Martinique, the island is lush with vegetation: lavish tropical forests, groves, savannas, and countless species of trees, fruits, plants and flowers, not to mention the mangrove forests.
LANGUAGE: French and English spoken.
ELECTRICITY: Electricity is supplied at 220 volts.
CURRENCY & CREDIT CARDS: Martinique uses the same currency as on mainland France: the Euro. US Dollars are also generally accepted, as well as all major credit cards. Nonlocal checks may be refused by some businesses. There are many ATMs available all throughout the island.
GRATUITIES: When it comes to tipping, all Martinique restaurants include a 15-percent service charge in the bill. But it is acceptable to add a bit more if the service was particularly good, especially if you plan to frequent the establishment.
PHONE & INTERNET SERVICE: All modern means of communication are available in Martinique: telephone, fax, international network access, cell phones as well as many phone booths located in urban areas and towns. The island has an excellent Internet network. The majority of hotels provide Wi-Fi access which is also available at the MARTINIQUE AIME CESAIRE airport.
All phone numbers in Martinique have 10 digits starting with 05 96 or 06 96 for cell phones.
VISA & PASSPORT REQUIREMENTS: For short stays (up to three months) no visa is required for the following nationalities: Ordinary, valid passports needed from USA. All non-residents must have a return flight ticket. If your situation is not listed, then a visa
CUSTOMS: Visitors may bring the standard duty free items such as 200 cigarettes, 1.14L of alcohol, etc.
DEPARTURE TAX: There is no airport departure tax when leaving Martinique
Martinique Tourism Information
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A DAY IN BILBAO
PINTXO TOUR
A DAY IN LA RIOJA
FOODIE TOUR
Bilbao, Top Secret
Secret Awards
Now summer’s drawing slowly to a close, it’s perhaps the best time to take a closer look back at all that has happened over the past year and try to look at everything with fresh eyes.
For many people, September represents the start of a new year and, for them, the clock’s already ticking the seconds off to their next holidays. Here, at Secret Bilbao we’re absolutely delighted at the way things have turned out – though 2017 isn’t over for us yet (we hasten to add) because of the reservations we still have to (thankfully!) fulfil.
It seems that, with every passing year, we increasingly split our holidays into different seasons, which is perhaps the reason why Bilbao, Donostia-San Sebastian and the Basque Country in general are enjoying a substantial increase in the number of tourists who visit us every year. In addition to the autumn months providing us with an amazing palette of colours and smells, the mild climate we enjoy in our part of the world also lends itself to a plethora of popular street celebrations.
The year 2017 was – and still is! – a very important year for us. On one hand, we saw the growth and consolidation of Secret Bilbao as a tourist service and bleisure company, something that absolutely delighted us. On top of which, Secret Bilbao also won First Prize in the “Luxury Travel Guide Awards” for the company’s “Pintxo Tour” (PW: europeawards2016) in the “Holiday Tour Specialist” Section and this year the same company awarded Secret Bilbao the “Bespoke Tour Operator of the Year, Bilbao” Award (PW: europeawards2017), something we feel very proud of. Secret Bilbao was also voted “The Best Walking Trip of Bilbao” by the Culture Trip Website who thereby let it be known that it thought Secret Bilbao’s tours and excursions the best in town. We were even mentioned in a double-page article in the magazine and we’ve just been told we’ve been nominated for the “Travel & Hospitality Awards 2018” Prize.
And, just to top everything else off, Secret Bilbao also appeared in the gastronomic itinerary section of the “Bilbao Pocket” magazine published by the Bilbao County Council and Tourist Office as a guide for visitors to the city.
To be perfectly honest, just between you and me, I don’t think Secret Bilbao could have received more international (and national!) projection and publicity if it had tried!!
Of course, we’re still thinking up NEW itineraries and excursions that are going to be published on our Website very shortly. As our name implies, all these new ideas are “secret” right now. I can mention, however, that some of these new excursions will be connected with discovering some of the “secret” art that can be found on the streets of the city, but which the general public aren’t generally aware of.
For all the above, we’d like to sincerely thank everyone who placed their confidence in Secret Bilbao when they booked tours and excursions with us to discover some of the secrets of our land and who let us share our enthusiasm for the Basque Country and La Rioja with them. Quite apart from all the accolades and prizes we’ve been given, we’re happy just knowing you’ve taken a little bit of us away with you in your hearts.
Lastly, thanks to everyone for the kind comments and excellent reviews you’ve given Secret Bilbao on different Websites and social networks. The deep satisfaction they give us is more than any prize in itself. Mila esker! ¡Gracias! Thank you! Merci! Dank!
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Asymptotic analysis for an extended discrete Lotka-Volterra system related to matrix eigenvalues
You Takahashi, Masashi Iwasaki, Akiko Fukuda, Emiko Ishiwata, Yoshimasa Nakamura
The integrable discrete hungry Lotka-Volterra (dhLV) system is easily transformed to the qd-type dhLV system, which resembles the recursion formula of the qd algorithm for computing matrix eigenvalues. Some of the qd-type dhLV variables play a role for assisting the time evolution of the others. This property does not appear in the original dhLV system. In this article, we first show the existence of a centre manifold for the qd-type dhLV system. With the help of the centre manifold theory, we next investigate the local convergence of the qd-type dhLV system, and then clarify the monotonicity related to the qd-type dhLV variables at the final phase of the convergence.
Applicable Analysis
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036811.2011.631915
Takahashi, Y., Iwasaki, M., Fukuda, A., Ishiwata, E., & Nakamura, Y. (2013). Asymptotic analysis for an extended discrete Lotka-Volterra system related to matrix eigenvalues. Applicable Analysis, 92(3), 586-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036811.2011.631915
Asymptotic analysis for an extended discrete Lotka-Volterra system related to matrix eigenvalues. / Takahashi, You; Iwasaki, Masashi; Fukuda, Akiko; Ishiwata, Emiko; Nakamura, Yoshimasa.
：: Applicable Analysis, 巻 92, 番号 3, 03.2013, p. 586-594.
Takahashi, Y, Iwasaki, M, Fukuda, A, Ishiwata, E & Nakamura, Y 2013, 'Asymptotic analysis for an extended discrete Lotka-Volterra system related to matrix eigenvalues', Applicable Analysis, 巻. 92, 番号 3, pp. 586-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036811.2011.631915
Takahashi Y, Iwasaki M, Fukuda A, Ishiwata E, Nakamura Y. Asymptotic analysis for an extended discrete Lotka-Volterra system related to matrix eigenvalues. Applicable Analysis. 2013 3;92(3):586-594. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036811.2011.631915
Takahashi, You ; Iwasaki, Masashi ; Fukuda, Akiko ; Ishiwata, Emiko ; Nakamura, Yoshimasa. / Asymptotic analysis for an extended discrete Lotka-Volterra system related to matrix eigenvalues. ：: Applicable Analysis. 2013 ; 巻 92, 番号 3. pp. 586-594.
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Tag Archives: benshi
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A Page of Madness: a masterpiece of Japanese avant-garde silent cinema
Here’s something you don’t see very often. Screenings of silent films crop on this page quite often, but there is no other silent film like this one. A Page of Madness is a brilliantly dazzling, utterly uncategorisable Japanese silent from 1926, one that was thought lost for years, and now that it has been found, seems to belong to no time at all, past or future. There’s a very rare, and beautifully curated, screening of the film coming up soon, in London, so read on.
Here’s Michael Atkinson’s introduction to his excellent essay on the film for this year’s San Francisco Silent Film Festival:
“When’s the last time you were surprised by a silent film? Impressed, dazzled, yes, but genuinely surprised? You’d think by 2017, with all the silent-era history scholarship behind us, that authentic, mutant-DNA “Holy Crap” moments would be rare on the ground, and, of course, they are. But there’s no amount of buckling up that can prepare a well-versed silent cinephile for the utter unheralded weirdness of Teinosuke Kinugasa’s A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ichipeiji). Scan the sacred texts, from Paul Rotha onward—it’s not there, as if it were a disturbing dream filmgoers may’ve thought they’d had, fleeting but creepy, after a big meal and too much wine.”
Intrigued, eh?
A Page of Madness has often been compared to The Cabinet of Caligari – thanks to its fragmented flashback narrative and haunting, stylised design. In fact, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s masterpiece is a kind of Japanese Expressionist film, whose artifice helps to expose emotional truths. It is really, a story of insanity, love and loss, about a man who takes a job at a mental asylum to be close to his wife, who is a patient there. It may well be inspired a little by FW Murnau’s The Last Laugh, and like that film, it doesn’t rely on intertitles. There is just one caption card here. When the film was screened in Japan on its original release, it would have been accompanied by a benshi narrator, who would attempt to draw out the narrative, or at least accompany the audience on this strange journey. This London screening will honour that tradition.
A Page of Madness (1926)
The Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Festival will screen A Page of Madness on 24 September at King’s College London. The film will be shown on film, from a 35mm print, and will be accompanied by Benshi Tomoko Komura (who performs in English) as well as musicians Clive Bell, Sylvia Hallett and Keiko Kitamura offering a live score on the shakuhachi, piano and koto.
The film will be introduced on video by Professor Aaron Gerow, the author of the definitive book on A Page of Madness and will be followed by a panel discussion. I am honoured to be part of that panel, along with Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp and Tomoko Komura.
You can book tickets here. Please don’t miss out, on what promises to be a very special evening.
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Japanese silent film: brush up your Benshi
May 25, 2017 PH 1 Comment
Fantastic news. Two events coming up in London explore the Japanese art of Benshi narration for silent film, both of them courtesy of the Japan Foundation. You may have already heard that there will a screening of the masterpiece I was Born, But … (Yasijuro Ozu, 1932) at the Barbican on 25 June with piano accompaniment and Benshi narration. Book your tickets here.
Before that, on Friday 23 June at Foyles on Charing Cross Road, you can learn more about Benshi itself, with Katsudo-Benshi Hideyuki Yamashiro and silent film pianist Mie Yanashita. There’ll be a talk, demonstration (with a scene from Orochi, 1925) and even the chance to have a go yourself. I’ll be there too, giving an introductory talk about silent cinema to set the scene and chairing the Q&A with Yamashiro. More details below – it’s free but you have to book your seat on Eventbrite.
In conjunction with the Barbican’s screening of Yasujiro Ozu’s I was Born, But… organised as part of The Japanese House exhibition, the Japan Foundation is delighted to present a special evening exploring the art of Benshi. Following an introductory talk by silent cinema specialist Pamela Hutchinson, Katsudo-Benshi Hideyuki Yamashiro and Silent Film Pianist Mie Yanashita will perform a clip from Orochi (1925) recreating an authentic Benshi experience. As part of his illustrated talk, Yamashiro will discuss Benshi as a contemporary occupation as well as the unique appeal of Japanese silent cinema.
This fascinating event will also offer a few audience members the chance to take to the stage and perform the role of Benshi under instruction from Yamashiro himself!
This event is free to attend but booking is essential. To book your place via Eventbrite, please click here
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Charlie Chaplin in The New Janitor (1914)
Charlie Chaplin is in the house. Naturally, this being his centenary year and all. Naturally, also, he is speaking Japanese. Because all the characters in Charlie Chaplin films speak Japanese – to a Japanese-speaking audience that is. And also to us lucky types in Pordenone tonight who saw a programme of Chaplin shorts with the accompaniment of Benshi Ichiro Kataoka along with Gunter Büchwald and Frank Bockius. Clearly they had all been in cahoots and the riotous combination of voice and music was expertly judged. A little Benshi can go a long way with me, but that’s how it’s meant to be I think: exuberance squared. The Japanese movie fragment that preceded the Chaplins, Kenka Yasubei (Hot-Tempered Yasubei, 1928) was an inspired choice – all the brawling and boozing of three or four Keystones packed into a frenetic half hour.
Pansidong (1927)
There was yet more exuberance to come at the end of the evening with Pansidong (The Spider Cave, Darwin Dan, 1927). This Chinese silent, once thought lost but recently rediscovered in Oslo, was introduced charmingly by the director’s grandson, who was seeing it for the first time tonight. I hope he enjoyed as much as I did: it was a silken concoction laced with surprises in which a glamorous girl gang of “spider-women” entrap a monk in their cave, among the spirits. There’s magic, and swordfighting, and some very witty subtitles. Mie Yanashita accompanied tightly on the piano and percussion, including a clattering cymbal that made many of us jump – right on the nose of that wedding-night moment.
Keller-Dorian: Film Gaufré: Sonia Delaunay (1925)
But it’s not time for bed quite yet. Here’s what else happened today. The short version: lots. I’m going to begin with something really quite beautiful. Several things in fact.
The mountain footage in 'Colored Views from the Entire World' with musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne was particularly magical. #GCM33
— Sean Kelly (@sdklly) October 7, 2014
The leopard-skin trim on a Paul Poiret evening coat, scarlet fireworks in a sea-green night sky, vicious yellow flames engulfing a city tenement, a bowl of fresh oranges amid Sonia Delaunay’s sumptuous Orphist designs, gold sequins twinkling on a chorus line and a freshly dyed sugar-pink frock: the first shorts programme in the Dawn of Technicolor strand was a many-splendoured thing. Many different colour processes were on display from Kelley Colour to hand colouring to Natural Color to … far too many to name here. But this was as entertaining as it was instructional, and all beautifully and kaleidoscopically accompanied by Stephen Horne on piano, flute, accordion, and xylophone … at least. Married in Hollywood, the parting shot, was a Multicolor finale from a lost black-and-white sound feature. It must have been an impressive technical achievement, but it was also incredibly cheesy. Quattro formaggi.
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Yasujiro Ozu’s gangster youth
March 16, 2013 PH 5 Comments
Walk Cheerfully (1930)
Yasujiro Ozu wasn’t always quite the Yasujiro Ozu we know from Tokyo Story and Late Spring. And he was certainly nothing like the film-maker you would expect if you had never seen those films, just been told about them as slow, domestic dramas on the theme of loss. Ozu has always put the fun into formalism, with playfully picturesque compositions and his famous cutaway “pillow shots” inserting frames of pure, simple cinema into his simmering narratives.
Later Ozu films are so routinely described as distinctively Japanese, as distinctively Ozu-esque that it may surprise many to learn that the director was actually a huge fan of Hollywood cinema. When he first started work at the Shochiku studio as a young man, he horrified the boss by claiming to have only seen a handful of Japanese films, and hundreds of American pictures. The twentysomething Ozu first aspired to make comedies, aping the slapstick of Harold Lloyd and the wit of Lubitsch.
The BFI collected a handful of Ozu’s campus comedies in a box set last year – and while their subject matter and setting seem very different from Ozu’s sound films, there was much that was familiar: a certain poignancy to the humour; the awkwardness of social and family situations; the sense of change and loss on growing old and leaving friends and family behind.
Dragnet Girl (1933)
Now the BFI has brought together more of Ozu’s earlier, funnier material for a second set, but this time with a darker theme. The Gangster Films set reflects Ozu’s Hollywood influences, sure, but also a changing Japan, more urban, more hi-tech, more susceptible to western influences. In the student comedies, our slacker heroes are horrified by the brazen manners of so-called modern girls – Ozu’s gangsters embrace them, at least for a short while. The films featured in this new set are Dragnet Girl, A Straightforward Boy (fragment), Walk Cheerfully and That Night’s Wife. I don’t want to lump these films together, certainly the fragment is its own beast, but they do share some characteristics. The three features are all set in an Americanised Tokyo, accented with deep shadows and populated by Japanese gangsters straight out of US novels and films – double-breasted suits, sharp-brimmed hats and shiny leather shoes. Their molls have bobbed hair and fur collars, high-heeled shoes and glint in their eye.
The beauty of watching the gangster movies is to see Ozu’s cinematic style grow despite his influences. Or to put it in David Bordwell’s words: “The exotic and formulaic genre allows Ozu to experiment stylistically, moving toward that highly overt narration that was to become his trademark.” While the gangster films offer us Hollywood thrills in the shape of guns, girls and skulduggery, the poetics, the cutaways and composition are all Ozu’s own.
That Night’s Wife (1930)
Full disclosure: I’d quite like you to buy this box set. I contributed one of the essays in the accompanying booklet, on Walk Cheerfully. You’ll find more erudite words there too from Tony Rayns, Bryony Dixon and Michael Kerpan. The films are the thing, of course, and they are beautifully accompanied by Ed Hughes’ scores. The set has been reviewed in Film International, by Wheeler Winston Dixon, and in Sight & Sound, by Philip Kemp.
However, I’m not just writing to plug the box set, but to bring you some information about a forthcoming screening of Walk Cheerfully at BFI Southbank on 22 April. This is a members’ ballot screening, and you should know by now whether you have a ticket, though I suppose there may also be some more available nearer the date. This is a special screening and will be an experience very different to watching the DVD. First, the music will be a live improvised score that combines traditional Japanese music with electronic distortions – and a 78rpm record player. Walk Cheerfully is certainly a toe-tapping film, so I have high hopes for this. More details below:
Sylvia Hallett and Clive Bell are the two musicians improvising a live score for Walk Cheerfully. The pair have worked together for several years on projects for film, dance and theatre, as well as numerous international concert and festival performances. Their duo album The Geographers is on the Emanem label.
Clive Bell is a specialist in Japanese traditional music; he lived in Tokyo where he studied the shakuhachi (Japanese flute). Later he learned to play the khene, a bamboo mouth organ from Thailand – a bright-toned, chordal wind instrument that is an ancestor of the accordion. Sylvia Hallett is a violinist, composer and instrument maker, with a unique personal approach to live electronics.
Clive Bell writes: “Walk Cheerfully is a film full of subtle surprises, that deserves a fresh-sounding score. Our musical accompaniment will blend these Far Eastern instruments, and the more familiar violin, with electronic looping and pitch-shifting. The live orchestra which accompanied Japanese screenings in the 1930s often mixed traditional Japanese instruments such as shamisen (lute) and taiko drum with trumpet, violin, clarinet and piano. Instead of a piano, we use electronics to extend the music’s range into magic and atmospheres.
“Ozu was a keen student of American cinema, but made films that remained essentially Japanese. We hope to return the compliment by creating a rich musical mix of Western and Japanese, of contemporary and traditional. And, when the gangsters play their 78rpm records in their club, we will activate an antique 78rpm record player of our own.”
The second surprise is that the film will be accompanied by live Benshi narration – as Japanese film screenings were in the silent era. The Benshi will be performed by Tomoko Komura, who will both translate the intertitles and narrate the film.
If you want to learn more about Ozu, and his silent work, I can’t think of a more enjoyable way to begin.
Walk Cheerfully screens at NFT1 on 22 April 2013 at 6.30pm. Read more here.
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Orochi (1925) with benshi narration at Ciné Iluminé, 2 September 2012
August 22, 2012 PH 2 Comments
Orochi (1925)
The next screening from the silent film club at central London burlesque bar Volupté Lounge is not to be missed. This is not just because the film in question, a Japanese samurai adventure from 1925, is little seen, but because the method of presentation is a rare pleasure too. Orochi will be screened with live musical accompaniment in the form of a tsugaru-shamisen (a traditional Japanese stringed instrument) played by Hibiki Khikawa – and with benshi narration.
Benshi consists of a narration, lines of dialogue and an introduction to the film, delivered at the side of the screen. The benshi for this screening at the Ciné Illuminé will be delivered by actress Kyoko Morita. While early films were regularly screened with narration all over the world, benshi is a little bit special and is more or less unique to Japanese cinema: it’s a full performance and designed into the structure of the film, to enhance as well as explain, and it derives from kabuki theatre traditions. It is in part due to the popularity of benshi narrators, some of whom became very famous, that silent cinema lasted well into the 1930s in Japan, providing space for directors such as Ozu, Naruse and Mizoguchi to make so many silent masterpieces.
Orochi (The Serpent) is a film that colours its tragedy with a political subtext and it was very controversial when it was first released. Director Buntarō Futagawa was known for his innovations, but only two of his films, this one and a short, survive to this day. Orochi is about a samurai railing against an unjust world, who is played by the silent film star Tsumasaburō Bandō. The swordfighting scenes play to the star’s natural abilities: they’re fast, frenzied and a step-change from the more sedate kabuki-influenced Japanese cinema of the time. However, it’s the message rather than the mayhem, that resonates here.
The story revolves around the protagonist, Heizaburo Kuritomi, an honorable but low-class samurai who is given an emotional depth, previously unseen in Jidaigeki films, as he battles with inner conflict and the injustices of society. This is especially evident in the closing sequence of the film where the protagnoist is dragged away by his enemies after his tremendous effort to protect his love. In the essay, “Bantsuma’s ‘New Breeze'”, Midori Sawato cites the ending of Orochi as one of the most ‘heroic and heartcrushing’ images she has seen. In the past, the heroes of the films were proud samurai of the upper classes who always triumphed over their evil opponents, upholding what was truly right in the world. However, Orochi was created in response to the national and military fanaticism that was prevailing at the time.
With its now famous opening lines:
‘Not all those who wear the name of villain, are truly evil men. Not all those who are respected as noble men, are worthy of the name. Many are those who wear a false mask of benevolence to hide their treachery and the wickedness of their true selves,’
the film evoked provocative ideologies and rebellious ideas during a time where liberal performers and writers were being repressed throughout Japan. Consequently, the film was severely censored with over 20% of its content being completely cut out and several scenes having to be re-shot. When the film was finally released, the hype around its creation resulted in crowds flocking to theaters all around the country. Bantsuma’s exhilarating new sword fighting style he displayed in the film may have attracted audiences but it cannot be denied that there were many who were also deeply touched by the profound message of the film.
Doors are at 5pm for a screening at 6.30pm. Tickets are £7 in advance or £9 on the door. You’ll find the Volupté Lounge at 9 Norwich Street, EC4A 1EJ. Call 0207 831 1622 or email reservations@volupte-lounge.com to book tickets. Don’t forget to check out the Facebook page or the Twitter feed for future screenings.
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1939 Indian Scout Factory Hill Climber
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Gasbox Indian Scout
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1912 Indian Board Track Racer
This 1912 Indian Board Track Racer is one of the few remaining unrestored originals, it was discovered in the ’70s and disassembled by the new owner who intended to fully restore it. As so often happens, life got in the way and the disassembled Indian Board Track Racer spent 30 years sitting in baskets before…
1912 Indian Board Tracker
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2014 Indian Chief Classic Giveaway
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He is the burger king. And much more.
His “crown” is the baseball cap he wears nearly daily, atop his camo jacket. Not because he’s trying to blend in, but because he is always on the hunt for a solution. Results. Answers. Kent is a problem-solver and a multi-tasker. Often running several projects at once. From Burger Kings (he’s worked on 1,200!) and Wahlburgers to SUPERVALU and Cub Foods, Kent touches retail, restaurant and distribution projects of all shapes and sizes. As a Senior Project Captain, he manages a variety of national rollout programs. He’s been doing it for over 30 years. As one of the first CAD technicians in the Twin Cities, Kent has seen a lot of change. But he’s always enjoyed the industry and thrives on the energy. From managing budgets to contracting, staffing, drawing and construction administration. To him, there is nothing better than working on a project from start to finish. He does way more than roll out prototypes, he manages and cares for each of the brands he represents.
His secret is simple: he picks up the phone to get answers and achieve results. Kent’s not afraid to get his hands dirty – so it comes as no surprise that he used to be a mechanic. A hobby he still enjoys today. He’s driven at work and at home. His camo jacket and cap are just a reminder that he’s not afraid to stand out in the office and blend in outdoors.
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Michael Higgins
Jim Amash
Archie Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 92 is the ninety-second issue of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series published by Archie Comics.
The Wrath Of Khan! Monkey Khan, that is. The cyborg-simian created by Doctor Robotnik returns, and this time the furry fury's got it in for his maker and all Overlanders in general. In an ironic twist, Sonic goes from protecting the newly arrived Overlanders from the Eggman last issue, to defending them against Monkey Khan this issue! If he doesn't they might go running scared into Robotnik's clutches after all.
And in the backstory, "Premonition," is the Sonic Shuffle tie-in.
Pencils & Letters: Michael Higgins
Inks: Jim Amash and Pam Eklund
A lone figure makes his journey across the wastes surrounding Robotropolis, having journeyed from the other side of Mobius. He continues walking, through night and day, driven by hatred and the desire for revenge. Meanwhile, Dr. Eggman is outraged over the disappearance of the Sword of Acorns. However, Eggman quickly realizes that Sonic doesn't know the sword is gone and he can use this situation to his advantage.
Meanwhile, in the Forbidden Zone, Sonic hides while he watches a group of Overlanders exit the two spaceships that crash landed outside Robotropolis. Lady Agnes asks their leader, "Lord Kintobor", if this was their intended destination. Kintobor asks his colleague, Cheddermund, to tell them where they are. The Overlander explains that they have landed outside of the largest urban center on the planet just as a young girl, Hope, spots Sonic and is frightened by him. The Overlanders react hostilely, with Lord Kintobor preparing to fight Sonic, when a broken ComBot grabs Lady Agnes. Sonic destroys the Com-Bot, saving Agnes, who is stunned.
Mina Mongoose and Rotor arrive in Knothole, where Geoffrey St. John explains that someone has stolen the Sword of Acorns. Despite Mina's attempts to stop Rotor from talking, Geoffrey realizes what's going on and demands an explanation. Meanwhile, Eggman notices that Colin Kintobor is the leader of the Overlanders who landed outside Robotropolis. He decides that he will roboticize his counterpart's brother, as well as all of the other Overlanders. Sonic tries to explain the situation to the Overlanders, but Eggman projects a hologram of himself outside the city and tells them that Robotropolis will serve as a safe hiding place from the Mobians. Suddenly, Monkey Khan appears, ready to fight Eggman.
Khan attacks Eggman's hologram, causing the Overlanders to panic. Meanwhile, in Knothole, Geoffrey futilely tries to interrogate Mina. Hershey asks him to step aside, promising Mina that Sonic will not be punished if she cooperates. Not long after, Mina confesses that Sonic stole the sword. Geoffrey is so happy he tells Hershey he could kiss her; Hershey just wonders why he doesn't.
As the Overlanders rush for Robotropolis, Khan prepares to attack the city. Sonic intercepts him, trying to calm him down so the Overlanders will stop panicking. They begin to fight and Sonic asks what Khan's problem is. Khan explains that Eggman destroyed Kar Leung and roboticized everyone he cares about. Sonic argues that Khan shouldn't take it out on the innocent Overlanders, but he retorts that his village was also innocent.
Tails meets up with Rotor while Sally talks with her mother about her life since they were separated. Sally fills her in on everything that happened, explaining how she relied on her friends when she had no family, and surprises the queen by telling her that she was in charge of the remnants of the kingdom while her father was gone. Back in the Badlands, Sonic rushes towards Robotropolis but is stopped by the city's force field. Khan flies off, frustrated that he can't attack Eggman. With the Overlanders willing prisoners and Khan gone, Sonic screams after the rogue monkey in anger.
A Sonic Shuffle Tie-In: Premonition
Writer: Ken Penders
Inks: Jim Amash
Sonic, fast asleep, dreams he's being chased by a train. He heads down the tracks and into a tunnel, only for the train to disappear as he finds himself face to face with a giant gemstone. Sonic notices that it's nothing like the Chaos Emeralds and notices his friends in the gem's reflection as he steps closer. He turns back to see Knuckles, Amy, and Tails, and asks where Sally and the other Freedom Fighters are. Amy tells him that they aren't with them, but someone else has decided to tag along.
In a flash of light, Lumina appears before Sonic and introduces herself to him. Sonic insists that this is just a bad dream, but Lumina tells him that she sent out a cry for help that was answered by Sonic's sub-conscience. She tells him that the massive gem before them is the Precioustone, the gateway to Maginary World; a crystal made of hopes and dreams across dimensions. Lumina explains that Maginary World is in grave danger, as Void one day drained the power of the Precioustone, sucking the joy and life from the world and setting it on a path to destruction.
Lumina gives Sonic a special bracelet and asks him to touch the Precioustone to begin his adventure. He does so, and the Precioustone shatters. Sonic suddenly wakes up in the real world with Lumina at his side, much to his surprise. She shows him a portal to Maginary World with his friends waiting for him on the other side, and tells him it's time to save the world.
Off Panel
See also: Off Panel
Writer: Michael Gallagher
Pencils: Dave Manak
Sonic is seen riding on a rocket and claims that he doesn't need any quarters. It is revealed that he was just riding in a "kiddie ride" and after the machine stopped, Sonic asks Gabrie for another quarter.
Monkey Khan attacks Robotropolis for destruction of Kar Leung.
Khan: "I have had enough of you!"
Sonic: "Well, I've had enough of 'pokemon' but you don't see me complanin'!"
Sonic: "KHAAAAAAN!"
The quotes "I have had enough of you!" and "KHAAAAAN!" are both references to the 1982 Sci-fi film, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Both respective lines are used by the main protagonist, James T. Kirk.
In "Premonition", Sonic is given a bracelet. The item's function was never explained.
This the last issue to be published on a monthly schedule; starting with Sonic the Hedgehog #93, the series was published every fourth week.
Michael Higgins, who did the pencil artwork for "The Wrath of Khan", was heavily criticized for copying artwork by other artists several times throughout this story.[1]
Sonic's line, "Well I've had enough of Pokémon, but you don't see me complainin!" is a reference to the Pokémon franchise.
Eggman calls his Badniks "Protectobots" when trying to fool the Overlanders. This is also the name of a group of Autobots in the Transformers franchise.
Amy is mistakenly colored lavender on the last page of "Premonition". This error was corrected when this issue was reprinted in Sonic: The Games - Millennium.
↑ BlueFantasy (10 March 2007). Worst copying ever? (warning: image heavy). BumbleKing Comics. Archived from the original on 2 November 2015.
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Developers Secure Funding for New Apartment Complex Near Mt. Baker Station
January 29, 2018 Editor 3 Comments
by Will Sweger
Friday morning three well-dressed men stood in the rain and decided who would wear one of the two hardhats they had. Around them, local television crews readied their equipment. The three are part of the investment group around Stazione: 25, a new 301-unit apartment complex which will sit perched on the slope of Beacon Hill overlooking Rainier Valley.
In front of the rolling cameras, several amused construction workers, and an RV parked on a dead end street on the hill above the clearing, they proudly announced their team had completed financing the project with the approval of a $76 million 221(d)(4) loan from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The owners explained the Italian “Stazione” refers to the area’s diversity in hosting a community of Italian immigrants. Behind them, overgrown, rain-soaked lot sported a slatted chain link fence filled with graffiti and several piles of garbage.
Of the four homes that used to exist on the spot, only one still stands with its windows covered in boards. Trails elsewhere on the property lead between thorn bushes to former encampments of people living in a forested clearing. Tarps tied to trees, abandoned clothing, and an overturned kiddie pool mark their passing.
The only remaining building on the property stands abandoned. [Photo: Will Sweger]
The pattern here mirrors that taking place elsewhere in the city—investment firms purchase land, then it sits vacant for months or years while they await funding and approval from the city to begin constructing new housing. In the interim, squatters make use of the properties as a place to stay.
Mount Baker Associates LLC started buying land on the acre and a half site in 2008, paying millions for property a short distance from the Mt. Baker light rail station. A contract rezone dispensed by the city allowed the two new buildings to stand seven and eight stories tall.
“The City of Seattle has been really supportive of our project, a little slow in the permitting process. They’re a little behind the eight-ball now, but in terms of their support for our project we were very pleased,” said Michael Ross, the Principle of Reve Development and joint owner of the site.
A former encampment on the building site remained empty. [Photo: Will Sweger]
Robert Spitzer, the other co-owner present Friday explained, “We all knew that this bench above the valley, tucked away next to the greenbelt and close to what was then the planned light rail station, would be a great place for a lot of people to live. Best of all, we’re building what is sometimes called ‘workforce housing,’ accessible to most Seattle residents, in a beautiful place close to transportation and shopping.”
The new complex will use the city’s Multifamily Tax Exemption Program, giving the owners a tax discount if they guarantee 20 percent of the new units will be deemed “affordable” by attaching their rental price to percentages of the area median income. The building will offer studio, one and two bedroom units with prices starting at $1,450 a month for studios. The 20 percent units will begin renting at $1,028 for studios, $1,344 for one bedroom units and $1,836 for apartments with two bedrooms—prices still out of reach for many residents in the community.
The project will also take advantage of the government’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program which grants foreign investors lawful permanent residence visas for investing in businesses projected to create employment in rural areas or places with high unemployment. President Donald Trump renewed the almost three decade old EB-5 program as one of his first acts in office, and according to the Congressional Research Service, 84 percent of visas the program granted went to Chinese investors in 2015.
Members of the investment group take turns demolishing a fence on the property in front of news crews. [Photo: Will Sweger]
Christopher Chen procured $500,000 mostly from Chinese investors for the new development. As his family looked on, he took turns with co-owners Ross and Spitzer piloting a small excavator to tear down the dilapidated fence on the property.
Amenities in the plans right now call for a small theater, a fitness center, garden areas, rooftop decks, and a bocce ball court. The building will also feature 221 parking spaces in an underground garage. Osborne Construction Co. plans to complete the site in the summer of 2019, with the Indigo Management Company lined up to provide building administration.
Will Sweger is a contributor at the South Seattle Emerald and a resident of Beacon Hill. His work has appeared in Seattle Weekly, Curbed Seattle and Borgen Magazine. Find him on Twitter @willsweger
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MFTE is a joke; I can not believe tax exemption is given to developers for units at this cost. This is NOT affordable!!
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White Sox sign Adam Dunn to a 4 year, $56 million deal
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ December 2, 2010 6:11 pm
Tags: 2011 mlb draft, Adam Dunn, Elias rankings, Kenny Williams, Paul Konerko
Merkin @ CWS:
One of the offseason priorities for the White Sox soon could be fulfilled through the free-agent signing of Adam Dunn, who agreed to a four-year deal worth $56 million, pending a physical.
… Dunn had expressed a desire to do more than simply serve as designated hitter, but Dunn also could see time at first base for the White Sox, even if free agent Paul Konerko returns. Dunn, 31, reportedly was looking for a four-year, $60 million deal, and with the White Sox already committed to $81 million through 13 players — not to mention arbitration increases due to John Danks, Carlos Quentin and Tony Pena — bringing in Dunn seemed less likely at that asking price.
… If Konerko decides to return to the White Sox, the team would have a potent middle of the order somewhat akin to the Konerko/Jim Thome combination from 2006 to the end of ’09. Adding that sum total to the payroll could mean the subtraction of a player such as Quentin or even Mark Buehrle, as well as a young player such as Tyler Flowers taking over behind the plate. Buehrle would be a possible trade option, as he’s set to earn $14 million in the final year of his four-year, $56 million deal. But the left-hander has full no-trade protection, and if dealt, an extra contractual year kicks in for 2012 at $15 million.
Since Dunn is a Type-A free agent who declined arbitration, the Sox gave the 23rd pick in June’s draft to Washington.
UPDATE: Dyck:
Asked if the Sox had payroll room to sign both Dunn and Konerko, Williams said, “Not only do we have room, but it would be the ideal from our perspective.”
White Sox offer arbitration to Paul Konerko, J.J. Putz; not on A.J. Pierzynski, Manny Ramirez
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ November 23, 2010 3:13 pm
Tags: A.J. Pierzynski, Elias rankings, J.J. Putz, Kenny Williams, Manny Ramirez, trade rumors
scott merkin tweets:
White Sox offer arbitration to Konerko, Putz; Decline arbitration on Pierzynski and Manny Ramirez.
UPDATE: Konerko, Pierzynski and Ramirez are Type-A free-agents. Putz is a Type-B. Merkin explains what happens now:
Konerko, 34, has been classified as a Type A free agent, meaning the White Sox will receive two extra Draft picks in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft if Konerko declines arbitration and signs with another team. Konerko and Putz have one week to decide if they will accept the arbitration offer, with Nov. 30 standing as the deadline.
A first-round pick would go to the White Sox from the Konerko-signing team, as long as that team’s pick is not protected in the Top 15. The White Sox also would receive a sandwich pick in between the first and second rounds.
It’s unlikely for Konerko to accept this arbitration offer, meaning he would be under the White Sox control for just the next season at an increase from his $12 million salary in 2010. Konerko figures to command a multiyear offer, based on his overall body of work, his leadership skills and his .312 average, 39 home runs and 111 RBIs put up last year, with the White Sox certainly remaining in the picture.
Putz, 33, meanwhile, has Type B classification, meaning the White Sox would receive a supplemental selection between the first and second round if he declines arbitration and signs elsewhere. If Putz accepts arbitration by next Tuesday, the White Sox would have an important bullpen cog back in the fold for 2011 at a cost slightly above the $3 million Putz earned in 2010.
UPDATE #2: Padilla @ ESPN:
Williams suggested that not offering arbitration to Pierzynski was a sign of respect:
“We felt that if we did offer arbitration to A.J. and there were [compensation draft] picks involved that it would potentially hurt a guy that is loyal to us and has been a stud behind the plate and brings it every day,” Williams said. “We just didn’t want to do that. The market will define what his worth is and there will be a time in the offseason when we will get together with his guy and discern the options for bringing him back and whether it’s affordable.”
UPDATE #3: Here’s MLBTR’s Free-Agent compensation primer. and MLBTR’s Free-Agent compensation offer tracker.
Paul Konerko and A.J. Pierzynski are officially Type-A free-agents
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ October 29, 2010 3:19 am
Tags: A.J. Pierzynski, Elias rankings, J.J. Putz, Paul Konerko
MLBTR:
Paul Konerko — 78.095
A.J. Pierzynski — 80.804
Manny Ramirez — 76.154
J.J. Putz — 62.213
A.J. Pierzynski and Paul Konerko to be Type-A free-agents
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ October 5, 2010 9:11 pm
Tags: A.J. Pierzynski, Elias rankings, Paul Konerko
Matt Thornton – 86.094
Here are the spreadsheets.
A.J. Pierzynski and Paul Konerko are still on track to be Type-A free-agents after this season
Tags: Elias rankings
MLBTR crunches the numbers. Here’s the AL catchers section:
Name Team Type Score
Joe Mauer Minnesota A 92.411
Victor Martinez Boston A 87.946
A.J. Pierzynski Chicago A A 80.804
Jorge Posada New York A A 77.679
Kurt Suzuki Oakland A 77.679
Matt Wieters Baltimore A 72.768
Mike Napoli Los Angeles A B 71.875
September 19 numbers:
Paul Konerko and Manny Ramirez are also on track to be Type-As. Konerko was on track to be a Type-B until the 8/27 update. J.J. Putz is on track to be a Type-B. Alexei Ramirez is on track to be a Type-A but he isn’t a free-agent after this season.
Spreadsheets at the link.
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ September 19, 2010 9:41 pm
September 9 numbers:
Paul Konerko and Manny Ramirez are also on track to be Type-As. Konerko was on track to be a Type-B until the 8/27 update. J.J. Putz is on track to be a Type-B. Matt Thornton, club option for 2011, is on track to be a Type-A. Alexei Ramirez is on track to be a Type-A but he isn’t a free-agent after this season.
A.J. Pierzynski and Paul Konerko are on track to be Type-A free-agents after this season
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ September 9, 2010 12:57 pm
Paul Konerko and Manny Ramirez are also on track to be Type-As. Konerko was on track to be a Type-B all year before the last update (9/2). J.J. Putz is on track to be a Type-B. Matt Thornton, club option for 2011, is on track to be a Type-A. Alexei Ramirez is on track to be a Type-A but he isn’t a free-agent after this season.
Bengie Molina Texas B 72.768
August 22 numbers:
Paul Konerko and Manny Ramirez are also on track to be Type-As. Konerko was on track to be a Type-B in the last update. J.J. Putz is on track to be a Type-B. Matt Thornton, club option for 2011, is on track to be a Type-A. Alexei Ramirez is on track to be a Type-A but he isn’t a free-agent after this season.
A.J. Pierzynski still on track to be a Type-A free-agent after this season
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ August 22, 2010 9:24 pm
Paul Konerko and J.J. Putz are on track to be Type-Bs. Matt Thornton, club option for 2011, is a Type-A. Alexei Ramirez is on track to be a Type-A but he isn’t a free-agent after this season.
Tags: A.J. Pierzynski, Elias rankings, J.J. Putz, Matt Thornton, Paul Konerko
August 2 numbers:
Paul Konerko and J.J. Putz are on track to be Type-Bs. Matt Thornton, club option for 2011, is a Type-A. Alexei Ramirez is again on track to be a Type-A (he had slipped to Type-B) but he isn’t a free-agent after this season.
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ August 4, 2010 8:38 pm
July 26 numbers:
Bengie Molina Texas A 73.333
Paul Konerko and J.J. Putz are on track to be Type-Bs. Matt Thornton, club option for 2011, is a Type-A. Alexei Ramirez is on track to be a Type-B but he isn’t a free-agent after this season.
A.J. Pierzynski on track to be a Type-A free-agent after this season
Tags: A.J. Pierzynski, Alexei Ramirez, Elias rankings, J.J. Putz, Matt Thornton, Paul Konerko
Paul Konerko and J.J. Putz are on track to be Type-Bs. Matt Thornton, club option for 2011, is a Type-A. Alexei Ramirez slipped to a Type-B but he isn’t a free-agent after this season.
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ July 14, 2010 7:12 pm
AL catchers:
July 4 numbers:
Paul Konerko and J.J. Putz are on track to be Type-Bs. Matt Thornton, club option for 2011, is a Type-A. Alexei Ramirez is a Type-A but isn’t a free-agent after this season.
A.J. Pierzynski: currently a Type-A free-agent after this season
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ July 4, 2010 7:00 pm
American League Catchers
Paul Konerko and J.J. Putz are Type-B. Matt Thornton, club option for 2011, is a Type-A. Alexei Ramirez is a Type-A but isn’t a free-agent after this season.
A.J. Pierzynski profiles as a Type-A free agent
Filed under: Chicago White Sox — The Wizard @ May 17, 2010 3:15 pm
Eddie Bajek has reverse-engineered the Elias Rankings, and he’s providing his work exclusively here at MLB Trade Rumors. The player stats used start with the beginning of the 2009 season and run through May 15th, 2010. We still have 4.5 months for these to change. …
A.J. doesn’t seem to be be very far from the cutoff point though. And Paul Konerko profiles as a Type-B.
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Home News Blog 2016 June 16 SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY HOMES BREAKS GROUND ON NEW NEIGHBORHOOD IN DINUBA, CALIF.
San Joaquin Valley Homes Breaks Ground On New Neighborhood In Dinuba, CA
DINUBA, Calif. – Local homebuilder San Joaquin Valley Homes (SJV Homes) has broken ground on the last parcel in Viscaya, a master-planned community offering 84 single-family homes at Saginaw Avenue and Euclid Avenue in Dinuba. Model construction will begin in mid-July 2016, and a grand opening is scheduled for September 2016.
“This new community in a very desirable area of Dinuba will offer premium family homes at affordable prices,” said Joe Leal, co-founder for Visalia-based San Joaquin Valley Homes. “We expect it to be very popular.”
Viscaya will offer four three- and four-bedroom floor plans with three different elevations, ranging in size from 1,443 to 1,872 square feet, on spacious lots averaging 7,000 square feet, with some home sites as large as 11,877 square feet. The open floor plans, with Mediterranean, Tuscan and Craftsman exteriors, will offer kitchens that flow into great rooms and two- and three-car garages. The diverse new floor plans are filled with popular amenities and designed to fit a variety of lifestyles and family sizes.
The three schools that will serve this community are in Dinuba Unified, Roosevelt Elementary, Washington Intermediate and Dinuba High schools. Dinuba is in Tulare County, with a population of about 21,500. The Alta District Museum is located in a restored railroad station in Dinuba; the museum has a collection of materials to illustrate local history.
Viscaya will be close to shopping and major employers including Fruit Patch and Ruiz Food Products. El Monte Park and Recreation Park are also nearby. With easy access to Highway 99, Viscaya will be less than an hour from Fresno and 40 minutes from the Fresno Yosemite International Airport.
Viscaya is SJV Home’s seventh neighborhood in Tulare County and tenth joint venture with Presidio Residential Capital.
To sign up on the interest list for these beautiful new homes, click here or call us at 559-732-2660.
About SJV Homes
Deeply rooted in residential construction, the founders of Visalia, California-based San Joaquin Valley Homes have built thousands of quality homes and attractive neighborhoods for Central Valley residents. Founders Joe Leal, Jim Robinson and Randy Merrill share a vision of delivering excellence through every level of building, delivering wonderful homes in great neighborhoods. In 2013, SJV Homes combined forces with Presidio Residential Capital, a real estate investment company based in San Diego.
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Travel Services, Corporate Travel
American Express to Vote in Favor of Concur-SAP Merger
- Sep 20, 2014 12:00 pm
Strategic differences between American Express and Concur didn’t stop American Express from investing in the growing company, and it will vote in favor of the merger and make a windfall.
— Dennis Schaal
Such are the dynamics of business travel and financial markets that it turns out that American Express, which has been a vocal critic of Concur’s open booking initiative over the years, actually wields a 15% ownership stake in Concur, and has agreed to vote in favor of SAP’s $8.3 billion acquisition of Concur.
Under the terms of a Concur-American Express voting agreement, published in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing a day after the Concur-SAP merger announcement, American Express agrees to vote its shares in favor of the merger, not to sell them, and to oppose any other “extraordinary corporate transaction other than the merger” in the event that another suitor enters the fray.
The agreement is good through February 18, 2015, by which time SAP and Concur expect that the merger would have received regulatory approvals, and the transaction should be closed.
While Concur has been a maverick in debuting its TripLink solution, which enables business travelers to take advantage of their companies’ negotiated rates when booking on consumer websites such as United.com, Avis.com and Budget.com, conservative forces in business travel, such as American Express Global Business Travel, have opposed the move and sought to entice employees to book through prescribed corporate booking tools instead.
But that strategic opposition in the business travel marketplace hasn’t stopped American Express from investing heartily in a growing company, Concur. With SAP paying Concur shareholders $129 per share in cash — a 20% premium over Concur’s closing stock price the day before the merger announcement — American Express stands to make a windfall on the merger.
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Slither.io Vs MooMoo.io
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A number of new io games are hitting the market, on a regular basis. Two of the most popular games among the io games are slither.io and moomoo.io, which are worth playing. Slither.io is a snake game that is quite common on the internet. you will start as a small snake at firs. Then, you will grow up into a great snake by gathering the baits around you. In moomoo.io you start a game in the forest. Players are using axes, swords or arrows to increase their level, weapons and clothes. After that you should be the first by killing the opponents. In this article, we are going to talk about slither.io vs moomoo.io topic.
Who Is The Winner Of Slither.io Vs MooMoo.io
Both slither.io and moomoo.io are two games, which are quite popular among internet gamers, and the games can be played online, either by visiting the website, of by opening the apps, which are meat for the games. Both the games are quite addictive, and you should try out both of them, as the two games are of two varieties, and the goals of the two games are completely different. Here is a brief differentiation of the two games, such that you can choose the best game, depending on the genre you love.
Slither.io Game
The game of slither.io is all about a snake, where you will have to control the snake, such that you can top the leaderboard. It is the only objective of the game. In adddition, there is not level system in the game but growing of snake is the most important objective. If you are willing to know about slither.io vs moomoo.io, as far as the controls of the game is concerned, in slither.io, all the game control will take place with the help of the mouse, and the keyboard is of no importance in the game. The game is all about reaching the top of the leaderboard.
Moomoo.io Game
As far as the game of moomoo.io is concerned in the fight of slither.io vs moomoo.io, the later is all about controlling a character, where you will have to control the man, in order to kill other characters, which appear in the game. There are level system, different weapons and clothes in the game. In the following game, as well, you will have to reach the top of the leaderboard. But, in the following game, you can control the character, and can even ride cars, making the game an open world type. Thus, if you are looking for a game with short goals, go for slither.io, else choose moomoo.io.
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Delta Force sniper who fought in Mogadishu dies
by George E. Hand IV Nov 18, 2019
James "Jim" P. McMahon in Mogadishu Somalia during Operations Gothic Serpent in 1993.
James “Jim” McMahon was my friend. There’s no argument or pretense in this. I forced my friendship on him the same way I did with many of the operators in the Delta Force: by memorizing their first names from a roster then greeting them in the spine — the long (LONG) hallway that traversed the length of the Unit’s main cantonment building.
Staff Duty consists of a pair of men who stay up all night near the commander’s office monitoring phones and handling a host of other routine functions. There was a large binder in the Staff Duty office filled with the photos of every person assigned to the Unit. There was an identical photo binder at the front gate maintained by the 24/7 guard teams.
For lack of scintillating activities to keep my mind off of sleep, I paged through that tome for a hateful amount of hours memorizing every first name of all of the people in our family. I admit I started with my brother operators because I just happen to be that sort of asshole, but I finally got around to everyone. I would then test myself on the names over and over through the night.
I noted the preponderance of what I call: “Old-School American Name Standard.” That is, names like James, John, Mike… etc. Out of curiosity I counted the redundant names to reveal that, in fact, James/Jim was the most popular tallying up to 19, followed by John, then Mike — no Ryders, Striders, Chases, Colts, Jadens… OMG, Jaden!
“Oh, we named him Jaden after his great grandfather Jaden who commanded a company of infantry in the Somme and Verdun during WWI.”
“Captain Jaden… stand your men to with fixed bayonets, and prepare to assault the German trenches, man!”
The fun came in the morning while heading to breakfast:
“Morning Jim… howdy John… what’s up, Mike… G’day, Ms. Denise — looking sharp; how’s the kids? Have a good day!”
Those who didn’t find that creepy felt compelled to learn my name. Jim McMahon was one of those who reciprocated and we never, from that point on, passed each other without shaking hands, waving a greeting, or just pausing for a chat. Jim was a phenomenal soldier and a large personality among the brothers of C-Squadron.
Jim fought a good fight in the Battle of the Black Sea in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993. He was not there when I got there, as he was severely wounded and already evacuated to Landstuhl, Germany with scores of other men form Task Force Ranger that were wounded in action. I never understood the full range of his injuries until we spoke about it years later. I know from his brothers that he continued to fight on in the battle and never stopped despite his wounds.
We two retired from the Unit and the Army at about the same time. We both sought out careers in the Information Technology field. As dumb luck had it, we both ended up going to the same training institute in downtown Fayetteville — what a thrill it was to see him there, another brother to huddle with and vent about how horrible everyone and everything was outside the honor and dignity of the military.
I never was in the same Squadron with Jim, so I never got to learn whether he was a super- or sub-human as a squadron player. I only ever knew him as a fair-weather brother for company and conversation.
It’d been so many years since his name or face had even crossed my mind. Now these memories rush back to me as if poured through a fire hose. So many pleasant grinning faces. So many handshakes and waves.
Sergeant First Class James McMahon passed away on November 5. He was 64.
Que le bon Dieu lui garde et protège pour toujours.
By Almighty God and with honor,
geo sends
About George E. Hand IV
Master Sergeant US Army (ret) from the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, The Delta Force. Post military I worked for 16 years as a subcontract to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on the nation's nuclear test site north of Las Vegas Nevada. Currently, I am working for DeliverFund llc as an Intelligence Analyst and street operative in the fight against human trafficking. I'm a master cabinet-grade woodworker and master photographer. I have high military ratings in six foreign languages.
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ITP V.05 DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: "DIG"
ITP V.05 DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: "DIG": A quick review of the music documentary DIG. DIG chronicles the rise of the Pacific Northwest 90's retro rock scene. DIG features a sweltering rivalry between the Johnstown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols. Upon first screening of this movie, I must say, I absolutely HATED both bands, the Dandy Warhols and the Johnstown Massacre.I HATE that retro rock shit, garage band rehash crap. These bands could be right out of the 60's (Stones, Beatles ect.)..
Once I got past the my lack of musical interest the movie compelled me like a driver watching a car wreck. Both bands (The Dandy Warhols and the Johnstown Massacre) get signed, the Johnstown Massacre to Interscope, and the Dandy Warhols to a major label (forgive me I forgot which one).Both bands, long time scenester freinds struggle with the expectations of the music industry and how to adapt with out self destructing..
"We're the most well adjusted band in America"-Dandy Warhols lead singer
Of course the major difference between the two bands The Dandy Warhols and the Johnstown Massacre is one band is clearly on the road to self destruction, and the other has adapted, being well adjusted. The Johnstown Massacres vocalist is the most compelling character in DIG, for his manic depressive behavior charateristics, industry rebellion and untimate self destruction. As "difficult" as Anton Newcomb is, he is a mastermind and no dummy, and his failure is his own intent....Newcomb states in DIG "I have no problem with people making money off our music, it's just that I'm the letter writer and they are the mail man" (or something like that..) as Newcomb rightfully reffered to the music industry metaphorically as a "mafia".
The AOR execs suck both bands off, to the point that no one, including the bands crash course in music industry 101 are naive anymore. An interesting statistic pops up during DIG: Nine out of TEN bands FAIL, 85 to 90% of all records recorded on labels NEVER recoup.In essence the music industry is the only "business" that has that high percentege of failure rate and now you wonder why these same music industry execs cry record labels are no longer making money. LOL..All of this was BEFORE NAPSTER.
The Johnstown Massacre, lead by singer Anton Newcomb, even though the better band musically, self destruct from drugs habits, personality disorders, strife and onstage fights within the band. The Dandy Warhols became HUGE in Europe (Europe is always ahead of America in music, art and culture) thanks to a commercial featuring one of thier tunes, and well, they were more well adjusted, (but not a better band than the Johnstown Massacre) now with families and houses..
To Anton Newcombs credit, he and the Jonestown Massacre started the whole Pacific Northwest (Oregon) retro rock scene, and he was a little a head of his time. Of course this retro crap they play on the radio (The Strokes) are a direct descendant and influence from Newcombs The Johnstown Massacre (and perhaps the Strokes are a commercial and generic replacement)... I have a bit of respect for the manic Anton Newcomb of the Johnstown Massacre, he wanted no part of the trendy music industry mafia, and while he could have behaved, Newcomb continues to release, record, and tour independently, a coup de ta on the industry within in itself..No failure there.
Perhaps the standard industry practices are what kills the artists and the industry can't just blame downloading, it's the way the industry is set up, with it's hyperbole of crap that has killed music as we know it... Good movie, check out DIG for your self.
Posted by SPAK at 12/29/2005 02:44:00 PM
Are you a NAZI?
I took this online test today, wich I found on a forum..Speaking of nazi's and facists,. are YOU a NAZI? Alot more people are neo facist conservative and brainwashed by "conformity of thought" than one might think.
Take the NAZI test here: :http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=17675020579094199926
My results: The Expatriate
Achtung! You are 15% brainwashworthy, 22% antitolerant, and 19% blindly patriotic Congratulations! You are not susceptible to brainwashing, your values and cares extend beyond the borders of your own country, and your Blind Patriotism does not reach unhealthy levels. If you had been German in the 30s, you would've left the country.
One bad scenario -- as I hypothetically project you back in time -- is that you just wouldn't have cared one way or the other about Nazism. Maybe politics don't interest you enough. But the fact that you took this test means they probably do. I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt.
Did you know that many of the smartest Germans departed prior to the beginning of World War II, because they knew some evil shit was brewing? Brain Drain. Many of them were scientists. It is very possible you could have been one of them.
Conclusion: born and raised in Germany in the early 1930's, you would not have been a Nazi.
Hi fives and smiles all around. Random Thoughts part two journal entry up next. Thanks-Tee-Stay metal, Stay Brutal, and Stay ANTI NAZI-Thanks-Tee-\m/ -l-
WHITE SUPREMCIST ACTIVITY VS. HIGH SCHOOL VIOLENCE
3/3/2010-EDITORS NOTE: This journal entry was written in 2005, I'm guessing and is now edited.I'm sure those national socialists would have never shown up had this been a black on black or white on black crime, and I'm sure these nazi's have their own agendas and couldn't possibly hold hands in unity against high school violence and sing "Kum Ba Ya".
FYI, it is almost predictable that self righteous nazi's aren't wound to tight, as (national socialist) Jim Leshkevich committed a murder/suicide (murdering his wife and killing himself) in 2007.
BTW, ITP does NOT condone the violence vs. this skater "goth" kid, nor does it condone national socialists. However, we at ITP do show compassion for the VICTIM as we don't want white supremacists exploiting these issues of violence, so tell them nazi's to fuck off.
First of all, NAZIS have come to our region here in Ulster County, New York. Earlier this year, a few black students at Kingston High School maliciously beat a white student... The white student accrued serious eye injuries that required various surgeries. Instead of the parent of the victim of this pointless beating perceiving this incident as random school violence (IE Columbine High School massacre when WHITE students commit atrocious crimes), the parent called in her old buddies in various National Socialist Nazi groups to "protest" so called hate crimes against whites or the national socialists came to her.
Fine if they weren't NAZI'S....Back in 2000, MTV suspended all programming in honor of Matthew Shepard whom was brutally murdered for being gay in Laramie Wyoming.. Hate crime statistics were scrolled down for an hour after the show stating the irony that many hate crimes are committed BY many people of color against other races as well... The irony in all of this is that the KKK and NAZI'S are one of the most notorious hate groups both nationally and internationally and are considered a domestic terrorist organization. The KKK have committed hate crimes before the 70's and let's face it, got away with it, until the civil rights movement of the 60's and even then, many civil rights workers lost their lives.The students charged with the brutal beating of the white student at the notoriously BAD Kingston High School were not charged with a hate crime but were charged with felony assault.
It is soo SAD, that after all of the civil rights gains of the last century that NAZIS have card de blanche to hold a rally (November of '05) in Kingston, NY almost unchecked. If a group would want to protest the war in Iraq, they would have to go through a whole lot of bureaucracy and red tape to obtain permits to do so, there fore a blatant double standard..There have been some god awful crimes committed in the HV area this year. The kid that went on a random shooting spree at the Hudson Valley area mall, Kingston, NY.this year. The convicted sexual offender whom murdered Robin Conroy here in New Paltz, NY after being let out on R and R for alleged rape. The convicted sexual offender whom went on a shooting spree at his former place of employment in Orange County, NY here in the Hudson Valley area..It never ends and it goes to show you how malicious and gullible people are these days, even here in the burbs. Keep in mind, that some of the most brutal crimes this year were committed by WHITES, there fore white rage.
What is the point of hate groups exploiting high school violence? What about school security, anti gang programs, after school programs, and non violent conflict mediation's. If the Guardian Angels went to Kingston, NY, I would applaud that, NAZI's hell no.
MORE on the NAZI rally in Kingson, NY (November of '05): From a local newspaper: Regional News Police turn out in force for no-show demonstration 10/28/2005 KINGSTON - Police beefed up patrols around Kingston High School on Thursday after hearing that a demonstration, mentioned on Web site that promotes white supremacist materials, was planned outside the Broadway building in response to an Oct. 7 assault near the school.
A white student was beaten and a black student was charged in that assault, but police have said the incident was not racially motivated.
Thursday's demonstration, which was promised by an out-of-state radio host and mentioned on his Web site, never occurred, and a posting on the site on Thursday admitted no rally ever was planned. But "there will be activity in Kingston" in the future, the site said.
The Web site advertises whites-only books and related products.
Kingston Police Chief Gerald Keller said extra officers were sent to the area around the high school for a couple of hours on Thursday morning as a precaution. There also were reports of police stationed on Midtown rooftops.
Thursday's activity came one day after city police reported that laminated cards bearing swastikas had been left at schools and other locations in Kingston.
The biggest crime of this whole issue at Kingston High School is that a notorious white supremacist exploited this whole issue of teen/high school violence to promote more hatred in the form of white supremacy and white nationalism. His name is Hal Turner and he doesn't live in the Hudson Valley Area, Turner doesn't even live in NY..
MORE on HAL TURNER and his White Nationalism: .
Kingston, NY -- [Bill: Note that this is not, at this point, an official NSM event, but something Hal Turner has called for that we here may be taking off.]
Thursday, October 20, 12:02 AM EDT
TARGET: KINGSTON, NY!
TIME TO RALLY IN SUPPORT OF WHITE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE BEING BEATEN, ROBBED AND INTIMIDATED AT KINGSTON, NY HIGH SCHOOL!
14 YEAR OLD WHITE STUDENT SAVAGELY BEATEN BY NEGRO APE!
Boy bashed so badly in his face that he needs reconstruction surgery. Smashed cheek and orbit bone around eye requires saline bag wraped around eyeball to hold it in his head! Nigger called the boy a "white nigger" as he was attacking him, yet cops say incident has "no racial overtones."
The mother of boy called-in to Hal Turner saying other white kids in that school are robbed and beaten everyday. I have promised this mother action in support of her son and I mean to make good on that promise.
I call for a rally of MILITANT, pro-white people to stand with me in front of Kingston High School, DURING SCHOOL HOURS, to let those savages know they will answer for their attacks on white children.
I want a militant display of solidarity so the animals in Kingston know we're sick of this bullshit and we're not going to take it anymore. Details about the rally will be posted on this web site in coming days.
http://www.halturnershow.com
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ATTN: Bill White, Editor
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dhyphen@yahoo.com: As in a recent journal entry, it is to cliche to just say this racisim and hatred of minorities (coming from anyone) must end, we have to act. Send an e-mail to Metal heads Against Racism and the National ARA organizing against National Socialists, White Supremicists and thier activities. There is a link on the right hand side of this journal "Metal Heads Against Racism" as one could get in touch with them,along with the National ARA, or the local ARA here in the Hudson Valley Area whom have group on Yahoo.com. The white supremicist rally WAS held ( in late November of '05 btw in Kingston. NY) with white supremicists wearing swasticas instead of white hoods More about the KSH incident from a local newspaper.
The incident that seems to have started everything was the Oct. 7 melee that ended with Hedrick hospitalized. According to news reports, as well as published accounts from the boy's mother, Rebekah Hedrick, Robbie was returning to school from an early lunch (at 10:45 a.m.) with his 14-year-old friend, Michael Mahler, when Williams and another boy made comments about the Goth boys' hair. When Hedrick responded, Williams grabbed him and punched him once. Mahler tossed soda at the boys, causing more stomping before police arrived and Hedrick was taken to Benedictine Hospital.
Following an Oct. 8Daily Freeman report on the incident, which referenced a pair of Sept. 30 assaults along Broadway involving a group of 10 to 12 kids, a second report came out on Sunday, Oct. 9 that noted the severity of Hedrick's injuries, which demanded three hours of immediate reconstructive surgery, and the fact that the boy would not only be out of school six weeks, but possibly would not go back to Kingston High, according to his parents.
Within days, the Freeman stories were being posted on the Vanguard News Network website, as well as a second website belonging to right-wing radio host Hal Turner, who describes his two-hour radio show, broadcast from New York City on Wednesday nights, as "designed to be controversial. The show is brash, harsh, irreverent, funny, scary ... and much more."
The roll-out into the larger world of what many describe as "neo-Nazi" or White Supremacist propaganda results, it turns out, from the efforts of National Vanguard member Jim Leshkevich of West Hurley, a 50-year-old truck driver and longstanding political gadfly who claims to have been banned from the Daily Freeman's "comments" section online.
"It was my opinion that the police were hiding a hate crime so I started reaching out to the boy's mother," said Leshkevich, whose National Vanguard HV website describes his group as "the leading organization fighting for the rights and survival of European-Americans in an increasingly hostile world."
"The last words out of the mouth of that savage who beat the Hedrick boy were, 'I hate.' I called the mother just for the hell of it and found that she was feeling betrayed by everyone so I assured her she could get her story heard if she called Hal Turner," he said.
According to Leshkevich, Hedrick told him stories, once he got her talking, about hearing of teachers, students and even nurses at Benedictine suggesting that her son "had got what he deserved." He urged her to call Turner's show on Oct. 12 but she "chickened out." Leshkevich talked to Turner about the case on Oct. 19, and then was surprised when Mrs. Hedrick spoke on air about what had happened, 85 minutes into the two-hour broadcast.
"He's not going back to that school," she said after describing Robbie's being punched by "those colored kids."
Turner then spoke of coming up to Kingston High to hold a "pro-white rally to let the non-whites know their time is over," adding that, "We have a very nasty form of justice."
You can hear the mother sounding nervous as he speaks about getting in touch with "Yankee Jim," as Leshkevich calls himself online, and then starts talking about how "they don't want us to use the word blacks."
When he starts talking about what they'll be doing to the Kingston High African-Americans (using a controversial racial epithet) Hedrick gets off the phone fast and Turner goes on to talk not only about "these subhuman brown-skinned monsters," but how he would be getting out "all the National Socialists, the KKK, the Aryans, the National Vanguard," all within the coming two weeks.
"I call for a rally of MILITANT, pro-white people to stand with me in front of Kingston High School, DURING SCHOOL HOURS, to let those savages know they will answer for their attacks on white children. Let's make a militant display of solidarity so the animals in Kingston know we're sick of this bullshit and we're not going to take it anymore," Turner posted on his website the following day, Oct. 20.
The next day, Oct. 21, he stepped up his rhetoric: "If need be, I can tell rally attendees to come to the event HEAVILY ARMED WITH FIREARMS. I can also contact and deploy SNIPERS with .50 Cal. Sniper Rifles to protect rally attendees. I hope none of that will be necessary."
By Sunday, Oct. 23, Turner was starting to list specifics for a march.
Thanks-Tee-Stay Metal,Stay Brutal, Stay DIVERSE \m/ -l-
101 rules of PROG (Progressive) metal
A little metal humor here, not to be taken litterally, although some do. The 101 rules of prog (progressive) metal... From the Opeth forum (UltimateMetal.com.):
Thanks-Tee-Stay Metal, Stay brootal, Stay Troo- \m/ -l-
#1 vbmenu_register("postmenu_4267567", true); 101 rules of prog metal The 101 Rules of Progressive Metal
1. Insist that your definition of prog metal is sacred and that the only progressive bands are the one you deem to be so.
2. Accuse anyone who disagrees with you regarding rule 1 of lacking musical intelligence and not being a true prog fan.
3. Have contempt for mainstream music.
4. Insist that most people listen not to the music, not to the lyrics but only the chorus and that is why prog metal is not mainstream.
6. When showcasing a new prog metal band to a non-musician friend, put on the most technically difficult song, and skip directly to the solo part.
7. If your friend says that it is cool, tell him that he has grasped the grandeur of prog and shown that his intelligence is superior to that of the mainstream sheep.
8. If he doesn´t, accuse him of lacking musical intelligence and not being a true prog fan.
9. Renounce all contact with friend in rule 8. Racial purity isn´t all bad.
10. Make sure your drummer has a double bass pedal.
11. If he hasn´t, kick him out and get another one who has. Single pedal is NOT prog.
12. Own every side-project a member of Dream Theater has been involved in. Listen to approximately none of them regularly.
13. When a mainstream fool asks you what prog metal is, tell him something along the lines of "prog is the evolution of musical expression and experimentalism in rock." In any case, make sure that the person in question is left with no idea of what prog metal is. He wouldn´t have understood anyway.
14. Insist that music should always progress, although as long as you write an album in the prog vein, you don’t necessarily have to.
15. Accuse anyone who disagrees with you regarding rule 14 of lacking musical intelligence and not being a true prog fan.
16. Refer to progressive metal as intelligent music for intelligent people, preferably at every occasion where a mainstream group or genre is mentioned.
17. Note that the above does not qualify as arrogance any more than pointing out that wine is drink for the more sophisticated.
18. A song under four minutes is NOT prog. If you are stuck with a song under four minutes, insert a phrygian solo trade-off between the guitarist and keyboardist as long as needed.
19. If a mainstream fool tells you that shredders are mindless wankers, tell him that "at least they can tune their guitars, har har", and walk away defiantly.
20. Spocks Beard is NOT prog. If anyone disagrees, kill them.
21. Humming along with the melody to a prog metal song is forbidden. Burn all albums you own with hum-along melodies.
22. Loathe all music you used to like before you got into prog. This is not optional. When asked why, tell people that "I am into GOOD music now, why would I go back?".
23. Accuse any prog metal musician that cuts his hair of selling out.
24. Often state that you don´t only listen to prog. Jazz is a good choice.
25. Yeah...like you have more than 3 jazz CDs in your collection...
26. Never accept ANY Berklee graduates. The drop-outs are so much better.
27. Riffs in 4/4 are not progressive. If you happen to come up with a cool riff in 4/4, alternate between 4/4 and progressive time signatures like 7/8 every other measure to ensure the musical complexity synonymous with prog metal.
28. Be able to mention 20 bands noone has heard of, not even true prog fans. Own no releases of these bands.
29. Get an Ibanez. This is not negotiable.
30. Spend 5 hours every day critiquing other musicians on forums.
31. Spend 5 minutes every other day actually practicing your instrument.
32. Yell at people who headbang at concerts: They`re not prog enough to get the music, what do they expect?
33. Sus4 is your friend. To ensure that your album is a true progressive release, include at least one part where the keyboard plays ascending sus4 chords over a single-note broken rhythm in 7/8.
34. Make sure your bandname is either a
a) Oxymoron
-Silent Noise
-Tender Harshness
-Healing Gun
Some geeky sounding name ripped from some obscure book.
-Deitronus
-Tarakoch
-Fentaran
c) Random combination of at least 2 three-syllable words.
-Eternal Twilight Tranquility (Can`t get much progger than that)
-Redolent Arithmetic
-Evolution of Vernacular Domesticated
35. Don`t worry about if your band name makes any sense or not. Since 90% of your fanbase is from Brazil and Japan, you can safely ignore conventional English grammar and instead focus on what´s really important: The lyrics (see rule 36).
36. Write deep and ambiguous lyrics.
37. If unable to write deep and ambigous lyrics, include at least one of the following phrases to ensure recognition as lyrical genius in prog circles:
"I`m staring towards ascension divine, caught in my own revelation, a nightly mystery of soulburning apparition"
"Mornings` gentle caress, a ray of sunlight enveloping the spirit of the sleeper ventriloquist"
"A timid, palatable genocide, turn towards the decline of mankind, the festering wound of ages past changes into the soul-spirit of vestigial sentences."
38. Use a non-standard instrument like violin, saxophone or kazoo, regardless of how idiosyncratic it turns out to be. This constitutes being prog.
39. Make sure your bass-player has as many strings as possible. Don`t worry if he uses approximately three of the 11 strings on his custom Carvin 30 kg bass regularly, just give him a bass solo in the middle of your mandatory instrumental tune(more on that later)where he can really show the extent of his instruments capabilities. Imagine the range of scales on an instrument like that!
40. Release a live-album called "Live in Tokyo".
41. Change time signatures. Constantly.
42. Accuse anyone who does not do so of lacking musical intelligence and not being a true progressive musician.
43. Your amp MUST be a Mesa Boogie. If a friend of yours tries to convince you´re wrong and you should check out his Marshall tell him that his tone is thin and buzzy.
44. State that Metallica can´t properly tweak the boogies. They´re so... unprog!
45. Start a Dream Theater cover band with friends just starting out playing instruments. Spend half of the rehearsal talking shit about punk bands and how people don`t understand your music.
46. Play a shitty version of a humongously difficult DT song at a Battle of the Bands-type contest. Metropolis Part 1 or Dance of Eternity are both good choices, as is Erotomania.
47. When your band ends up last, shift all blame over to the judges; hey, they have no idea what good music is! Why else would they let that boring pop band win?
48. Talking about starting playing an instrument; always start with the most technically difficult song you know. Remember, this is a testament to your immense talent, so be sure to mention this on every internet community you happen to frequent.
49. When are you able to play something at half speed very sloppy, proudly state that you "nail" the song in question.
50. People are bound to ask for a recording of the feat mentioned in rule 49. However, you are not able to provide it to them, because a) your recording equipment got dissolved by digestive acid yesterday, you don`t need to prove anything to people. Your word should be good enough c) you don`t know anything about computers (even though you sit by one most of the day), as you spend most of your day practicing your instrument.
51. Tool is NOT prog. If anyone insists they are, kill them.
52. Hate Falling into Infinity. If the feeling that you actually enjoy FII(even the "proggier" songs like TOT)sneaks up on you during a glitch of concentration, remind yourself that DT sold out.
53. Actually, state that DT sold out on every good occasion. This means every time their name is mentioned.
54. Don´t be John Arch. Insist that any pre-Alder Fates is 100% not prog.
55. Do not move on stage. Don`t under any circumstances forget that nobody at prog concerts pays attention to the audience, including the band.
56. The best songs are those that are over 15 minutes, have multiple named sections, and have solos by everyone in the band INCLUDING the drummer.
57. Accuse anyone who disagrees with you regarding rule 56 of lacking musical inteli...Yeah, you`ve got it now, haven`t you?
58. Never ever under any circumstances say "Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence ruled."
59. Never let anyone tell you that Dave Weckl is better than any prog metal drummer. If they still insist, don`t kill them, but rather put on the Mike Portnoy drum solo from 1993`s "Live in Tokyo" vid, which still today is the benchmark for good drumming, REGARDLESS of genre.
60. It would still be a good idea to have that gun ready, though.
61. Drummers: Huge kits are MANDATORY!!!! If all you have is a 4-piece with 3 crappy cymbals, then you don´t belong on stage. A 5-piece single bass drum kit is the bare minimum and even that´s on the edges of bare bones. If you have a tiny kit BUY MORE DRUMS AND CYMBALS!!!!!!!
62. No, 6 toms are not enough, MORE DRUMS AND CYMBALS!!!!
63. Reform with old members and release an album intended to make up for years of bad reception from fans (see Yes) or claim your next album will be a return to past glory (see Queensryche). If it flops, be sure to blame a producer or record company.
64. When someone asks you why prog metal isn`t more popular if it is so darned good, tell them that it is because "it is over the mainstream peoples heads".
65. Talent = Technical skill. Hail any band with lightning-speed solos for their immense talent.
66. Publicly state that your band is non-religious, then make many religious and/or spiritual allusions in the lyrics.
67. Stress your openmindedness. State that you like all forms of music, except lower forms of music like pop, rock `n roll, blues, techno, trance, rap.
68. Accuse fans of the aforementioned genres of not being openminded.
69. Get a Kurzweil. As the undisputed <<>>, Jordan Rudess plays it, you have no choice but to get one yourself, no matter what synthezisers you actually like. ALL BOW TO THE MIGHTY 88-KEY <<>> KURZWEIL!!!
70. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-KURZWEIL!!!!(Futuruma fans will know what I`m talking about)
71. Show off with your equipment. Show off with your playing/singing. Show off with your *ahem* length. Show off with your girlfriend. Show off with anything you can think of. Show off with your DOG for god´s sake.
72. Get a dog.
73. Play air-drums or air-guitar at concerts. This will make sure that other prog fans recognize your immense talent.
74. Stuck in song-writing? Insert a part with a slow single-note gallop rhythm where the singer yells "ENTER THE SUUUNNNNNNNN" several times.
75. Note that you can substitute "ENTER THE SUUUNNNNNNNNN" for either of the following: "FATHER, MY ADOLESCENCY IS AGONNNNNYYYYYYY" or "THE APPARITION DIVIIIIIINNNNEEEE". All three are suitable choices.
76. What do you mean, you haven`t trigged your bassdrum?
77. Remember, faster=more progressive. Slow songs cannot be progressive, best example would be Pink Floyd.
78. If anyone says PF are prog, kindly refer them to rule 1 while you prepare to do a "Varg", so to say.
79. During recording, make sure that you accuse the producer, the recording engineer and half of your band of not playing the song properly at least once.
80. Make sure your album cover contains either a psychedelic computer-drawn image, a lavish painting with mythological figures, or is illustrated by Travis Smith.
81. Write epics.
82. In case you didn`t know, epics must be about adolescency, concerning a legend, or a deep dystopian tale where a cheesy fictional city/world/pizza shop serves as a metaphor for this world.
83. Have racks with loads of equipment.
84. Have racks without equipment. Who is going to see them if you don`t display them?
85. No intro for your song? Insert a single-note broken rhythm accented on the snare, with shifting keyboard chords underneath.
86. Refuse to lend prog CDs to mainstream friends. When asked why, tell him/her that (s)he "will understand when (s)he matures"
87. When playing ANY gig, from the lowliest bar to the most gargantuan arena, be sure that no member of the audience will leave without having heard every lick you are able to play.
88. Have at least 5 solo spots during a concert.
89. In case you have forgotten while reading this, prog metal is intelligent music for intelligent people.
90. No, Marillion is not prog. I kindly refer you to rule 20.
91. BOOOM!!!
92. Buy new albums from past prog-greats.
93. When they turn out to be crap and nothing like the old albums, hit yourself in the head with a hammer until you like them.
94. Hold that there is no bad prog, only DIFFERENT.
95. Of course, that only applies to bands you like. See Rule 1.
96. In case you wondered, Dream Theater is and will always be the benchmark for prog metal. The more something sounds like Images and Words, the more progressive it is.
97. Proclaim Rule 96 to people with a straight face in all seriousness. This is not optional.
98. Have side-projects. Make sure that all side-projects consist of pointless jamming over endless repetitions of clicheed riffs.
99. Make sure that at least one of your side-projects feature Mike Portnoy on drums.
100. If you cannot get Mike Portnoy, get someone who sounds like him.
101. You mean you have been reading this when you could have been practicing along to Metropolis Part II or composing a sidelong epic? For shame!!!!
Posted by SPAK at 12/15/2005 11:53:00 AM
Ballet Devaire NYC with ARSIS
Here's an interesting and TRUE story... Back in 2001/2002 a few drinking buddies of mine were throwing some brutal DIY hardcore and metal shows in New Paltz, NY at Cabaloosa's... One of the promoters was my old freind "Jake" as we used to call him "Jake the Vegan" OR "Vegan Jake"..At the time, Jake owned a vegan cafe (right off Main Str.in New Paltz, NY) wich served up some delicious vegan food where a fairly new tattoo parlor now resides... Well, his co promoter Andy graduated from SUNY New Paltz, NY and moved to New Jersey... When I was drunk in a local bar, I asked about Andy and Jake and people said that Andy was starting a ballet (no shit) backed by a METAL soundtrack, this was rumored about three years ago.... I sort of scratched my head as THAT INDEED was one of the most unique musical, artistic visions I have ever heard....
Screw that shit at Grabalooser's, this dude Andy is right on the money. True to his vision..(:Smacks head: I wasn't just drunk), Andy Carpenter founded Ballet Devaire in NYC as this ballet is backed to the brutal tunes of Opeth, My Dying Bride, and YES James Malone of Arsis... James Malone of Arsis will be playing all 13 minutes of the epic "A Diamond For Disease" (title track of Arsis's latest EP) LIVE during Ballet Devaire's January performances... Now if you go to Ballet Devaire's website, Benjamin Kolts (Ben Kolts of Hudson Valley area's death metal heroes Malamor) is on of the directors in cooperation with Blunt Force Graphics, and yes I recognize Andy (Carpenter) from his pic, from the old brootal shows here in New Paltz, NY....
I was wondering WHY I was getting so mutch e-mail from Ballet Devaire, everytime I praised Arsis, BAM, "You've Got Mail", oh wait, it's from Ballet Devaire... Aha.
It took me FOREVER to put one and one together, I was thinking "Do I know this people?", and YES I do... Small world, huh..I'm so PROUD of Andy, this dude had a unique vision, and it has come to fruition. Great for Andy, Ballet Devaire, Arsis, Ben (Malamor), Blunt Force Graphics and Willowtip records too.
Ballet Devaire's SEVEN, set to the brutal sounds of Opeth, My Dying Bride, and of course Arsis LIVE (great taste in music) should be interesting.... This should be awesome as I'm going to try to make one of these January performances.
Ballet Devaire's January performances, melding ballet with extreme metal, should be one of the most unique musical shows of the year... Horns up \m/ to Ben Kolts, Andy and Arsis for this unique musical and artistic vision and DO try to make these perfromances, you WILL NOT be dissapointed... Don't have that "I'm to brootal to go to the ballet" attitude, this will be an enlightening experience..
From Ballet Devaire www.balletdevaire.org
Ballet Deviare would like to thank everyone who has already purchased tickets and merchandise. This is the LAST WEEK for T-shirt/Hoodie preorders.
This is a ONE TIME ONLY offer. PREORDERS WILL END DECEMBER 18, 2005; AFTER THAT, THEY NOT BE AVAILABLE AGAIN WITH LIMITED AVAILABILITY AT THE PERFORMANCES. ALL T-shirts and Hoodies are on high quality American Apparel clothing. All proceeds go to the production costs of SEVEN.
Preorder at www.balletdeviare.org
LESS THAN A MONTH to reserve your seats for:
SEVEN: Ballet Deviare w/special guest ARSIS
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The visceral fusion of two seemingly total opposites. A maelstrom of a marriage between the beauty and grace of ballet, and the force and brutality of metal. Bringing high art and extreme music together…Ballet Deviare and special guests ARSIS present SEVEN, January 6-8 at 59E59 Theaters in New York City.<o:p></o:p>
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Works will be performed to the music of ARSIS (Jim Malone will be playing the 13 minute version of “A Diamond for Disease” live), OPETH, MY DYING BRIDE, JaKa featuring ELEKTROKILL, CRAIG ANDERSONIC and MARA’S TORMENT.<o:p></o:p>
Proud sponsors of Ballet Deviare: Ibanez, WSOU 89.5FM Seton Hall’s Pirate Radio, Riddick Brothers Design, Blunt Force Graphics, and Willowtip Records. <o:p></o:p>
Reserve your seats now by visiting www.balletdeviare.org and for more information.
Come experience high art, our way!
The return of the WORMS Exodus, Immolation, Cryptopsy East Coast tour dates
"It is so, and it can not be other wise"-Lord Worm- Cryptopsy..
Thankfully, Lord Worm/Cryptopsy, Immolation, and Exodus (Kirk Hammett of Metallica's old band featuring former Slayer skinsman Paul Bostaph) are hitting the road next spring... I'm glad Cryptopsy are coming back to the Hudson Valley area, because they couldn't make it from Canada to Poughkeepsie, NY last November on the Suffocation tour... Well pay backs a bitch, and we shall see Cryptopsy again in the month of my birth... I mean with Morbid Angel, Behemoth, Krisiun in early April and Exodus, Cryptopsy, and Immolation in late April, the rites of Spring and Beltane shall be celebrated righteously..
EXODUS, CRYPTOPSY, IMMOLATION:
Apr. 27 - West Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
Apr. 28 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance
Apr. 29 - Worcester, MA @ Palladium
Apr. 30 - New York, NY @ B.B. King's
Why concert attendence is dwindeling in 2K
Why is concert attendence dwindeling during the last 20 years? Don't people support live, original music anymore? Well apperently people don't support live music hence America's fascination with RAP (Retards Attempting Poetry) being whiggers, and wanabee ghetto/ganstas...
For one thing, RAP does not translate well live with the emphasis on samples, DJ's, lack of live instramentation and authentic musicians....While a few rap and R and B artists have either gotten a live band, (LL Cool J MTV Unplugged) or have always managed against the odds to put on a great live show (Public Enemy), most RAP and New Jack R and B is enjoyed in the context of club music, ala DJ's..
I've had freinds tell me, that back in the 80's here in the Hudson Valley area, unsigned bands drew 300-600 people in the middle of that glam trend back in the 80's..No shit... People used to PAR-TAY here in New Paltz, NY and spend half of thier pay check on bar hopping... People would come out just to socialize and if they saw a band they liked, they were instant fans... Of course since RAP and the local rave scene got big in the 90's, (I used to go to RAVES) the college students at SUNY New Paltz became clicky or eltists and would only go to see thier "freinds" in bands play, or prefered DJ's and club music, ick... Hence why 80's night ( a DJ spinning horrid nu wave hits) at Grabalooser (Cabaloosa with it's awful booking and ethics) draws well all the time, and a DJ playing crap at the local gay club (the WAVE) draws over 100 people (or more open only once a week) as opposed to live music of substance... Of course with the RAVE ACT implemented, the rave scene is dead, at least in small markets....
Also the lack of musical and promotional identity in bands, artists, and lack of good music venue..The lack of promotion including venues without websites ect.. (there IS the internet the information super highway-a double edged sword these days) networking and ETHICS in terms of DIY (Do It Yourself) booking as people have the wrong idea of "screwing" each other over.. Perhaps working together (show trading) or just being (or letting others be) independent...People are not interested in live music, they are interested in dramas and image over substance wich I and many others despise..... Gimmicks over talent, image over musical substance.. I'm NOT pandering to the lowest common denominator
As I've witnessed as a a college radio DJ, it does take some talent to be a good DJ in the context of mixing, scratching, ect... However, with the exeption of techno artists ala Squarepusher whom perform thier music with digital samplers, sythesizers,electronics, drum machines, laptops ect (without DJ'ing a record) very well live indeed.. Most RAP/RAGGHA ect. is enjoyed in the context of a mediocre DJ's in clubs..Ick....
At the most, venues book bad cover bands for the draw and alcohol sales as opposed to new up and coming original acts whom could be groundbreaking... Pretty pathetic huh? I found this post on a metal forum ( and I WILL protect the posters privacy) on WHY concert attendence has dwindiled during the last 20 years.Also, factor in the non smoking laws since the summer of 2003 (in bars, public places and clubs ect.) here in NY state wich make winter business in bars and music venues quite sparse (unless it is a huge package tour of national or international acts)..... Why stand OUTSIDE and smoke, missing a bands set in below freezing weather? .Shit, you could buy a six pack, drink and smoke (at the same time)in doors in the winter... Plus factor in with the hardcore scene, you bet, they are underage and the venues can't make a profit off underage kids as they are not old enought to drink alcohol.....
I can't say I've stopped going to concerts, I've stopped going to BAD concerts, with bad cover OR original bands playing... I don't go to the local bars to see the same crappy band (or horrid cover band) play... I don't have the $ for it, and it's not worth it because I don't like the music or the crowd... I also try to be economical., cut down on transportation costs to shows by perhaps car pooling, and getting a safe, sober ride to and from the show (designated driver).... New Paltz, NY implemented a Safe Rider program in local bars a few years ago, a free, safe, sober ride 10 miles in each direction to cut down on drinking, driving and DWI's..
Bands whom play out of the locality could do the same by investing in a van, motor home, or small bus to transport fans you sell tics to.. Promoters loove bands that bring thier own following, sell tickets, draw and make them a profit off of alcohol sales..Ex promoters (as I used to book local bands) hate it when bands act like morons, make threats and convert resources. You don't get booked by way of threats, blackmail,stealing gigs and a bad attitude ...
I go to see original death/extreme metal .bands play regardless of popularity or trends. I'm loyal to my scene of extreme metal. Most fans go to shows to see the national or international acts, not always the local openers.
I totally agree with this post btw... Support music and not rumors, and support LIVE music and muscians, not DJ's-Thanks-Tee-Stay Metal, Stay brootal,Support MUSIC not dramas. \m/ -l-
An articulate forum post (from a booking agent) on why concert attendence has dropped during the last 20 years::
As an artist booking agent (regional, small national) since 1982, I can tell you attendance for shows have consistently been dwindling since the late 80's, It used to be that a strong regional would draw 500 to a thousand (sometimes more!), but to day if a regional draws three hundred, that's exceptional. Young people are not going to shows in any numbers like they used to, they're not replacing the people who are now older that used to support live music all the time. I can remember in the 80's, I could book a band 5 to 7 nights a week at the same venue in a town of 30,000! Now I'm lucky to get a whole weekend at any venue for a band.
There are many reasons that live attendance has fell so sharply, they include competition from other entertainment mediums, such as video games, movie rentals, cable TV, surround sound home theatre, & the internet. People do not have to leave the house to be entertained, & that entertainment dollar is split up in to many ways, someone has to loose out.
Drunk Driving laws have hurt the bar business in general. The witch hunt for under age drinking has not helped, but one of the biggest reasons why bands on a grass roots level do not draw like they used to is that hard rock/heavy metal bands just don't entertain like they used to. All through the 80's there were many large regional cover bands that put on what amounted to a concert show, they had hundreds of par cans, huge light trees, hydraulics, large sound systems, even laser light shows! They knew how to work a room, they dressed the part, played the part, & people at it up! Club owners used to be more concerned with a bands production, then almost anything else, & they paid good money for it, some acts consistently made over two thousand dollars on a Friday or Saturday night, & a thousand on a week night! Then the alternative movement showed up & less wasmore. Bands started doing more original songs. The huge regional shows started disappearing, bands were popping up all over the place, willing to play for nothing, & the bar owners saw them coming! They would book these acts on 3, 4, band bills (still do) & have them split the door receipts. Well, you get what you pay for, & most these acts were total shit, the kids stopped coming to the live music venues because they were tired of paying $5.00 or more cover for bands that were worthless, especially in college towns. So, instead they turned to DJ, Rap, Raves, what have you, & live music has not recovered since, though there are signs of a slight come back.
I love good original music bands, but at a grass root level (meaning bars) people on a whole want to hear cover tunes, songs their familiar with, & who can blame them, especially when there is so much, well, untalented original acts out there. I believe in original music, you have to have it, but you have to play to the audience to, & I think more & more young bands are realizing this, hence I've seen more people at live shows the last two years. Let’s hope it continues, but what has all this to do with well known acts! Everything!
This ones for Dimebag Darrell Abbott- RIP Damageplan/Pantera one year ago today
EDITED 11/30/09-"Your trust is in Whiskey, Weed and Slayer"-PANTERA- It was one year ago today I heard the awful news of Darrell Lance (DIMEBAG) Abbott's, (Pantera/Damageplan) tragic murder in Columbus, Ohio. I had just woken up, turned on the god awful local radio stations... The radio announcer from WDST (Woodstock, NY) announced that a tragic incident had happened at a Damageplan show (featuring Vinnie Paul Abbott and Dime Bag Darrell Abbott, brothers and former members of disbanded Pantera) in Columbus, Ohio. The radio announcer had said a few people were shot, and then the announcer said Dimebag was shot and to log on to Blabbermouth.net.... I then turned OFF the radio, in total denial..I usually don't believe anything that local radio announcers say, because they are usually full of SHIT, and paid to talk shit.
I got dressed, and I walked to the store for cigarettes and chow..I was humming Pantera tunes to myself, "Walk", "A New Level" as if to will Dimebag back to life..I was thinking to myself, "Maybe something horrid happened at a Damageplan show, maybe someone got shot, but NOT to put Dimebag's life over concert attendees, but NOTHING happened to Dimebag right?
I even remember going to therapy that day, asking my therapist what had happened at that Damageplan show... Did someone have beef with our fellow metal head Dimebag? WHY? Why would someone do that to Darrel Abbott?
I got home and logged online, and before I could even get onto to Blabbermouth.net. the horrible news of Dimebag's death was reported on AOL News... I sat there shocked, then I logged on to Blabbermouth.net. and shook my head and said.."This is true, and this is horrible"..I went into the AOL metal chat and kids were freaking out while the elitist metal heads didn't know what to say.. ... I stated in the AOL metal chat it doesn't even matter if you're a PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN fan, it's almost irrelevant considering the circumstances.. Why is it that people are so OBSESSIVE about musicians, people in leadership positions, entertainers, athletes that they live vicariously through them not defining there identity independently?.... Do fans think they "own" these people in leadership positions.....Why is it that us Americans are so obsessed with weapons that we shoot any one whom we have a conflict with? Why isn't there tighter security, including metal detectors, magic wands at concerts, clubs, sporting events and mass gatherings? WHY?
I'm 35 and I'm not a kid anymore. I went to high school two blocks from where John Lennon (Beatles) was murdered at the Dakota in Manhattan, NYC 1980..My grade school teacher had to explain what went down that night between John Lennon and random wingnut Mark David Chapman..I was so young, I didn't understand the dark side of human psychology/pathology at 9 years old... Now, I DO understand although I don't agree about the psychology of socio and psychopaths..It IS important to get help.... Strawberry Fields across the street from the Dakota (in Central Park) is dedicated to the memory of John Lennon whom was murdered on this date on December 8th, 1980..Ironically.24 years to the date of John Lennon's tragic murder, Dimebag Darrell Abbott of Pantera/Damageplan was murdered onstage in an unrelated tragic incident.
What happened at that Damageplan show a year ago today? A former Marine, Nathan Gale whom was mentally disturbed and obsessed with the metal band PANTERA, scaled a fence armed with a machine gun and 50 rounds of ammunition..Gale walked on stage (through a unguarded stage door) and shot Damageplan's guitarist, Dimebag Darrell Abbott and members of Damageplan's crew and many fans. A great sharp shooting cop on a will and instinct walked into the back door of the club as Gale held a gun to the head of a hostage. The cop shot Nathan Gale in the head, killing him and ending the crisis.. By then, a few people, including "DimeBag" Darrrell Abbot (Pantera/Damageplan) were tragically murdered, many of whom were trying to help out in that tragic crisis.
BTW, Nathan Gale had NO relationship with either PANTERA or DAMAGEPLAN..Not AT ALL..... So Gales murder of Dimebag is not an issue of personal/ musical betrayal or vengeance.... Not that the act of murder would justify those intense emotions.... Gale's murder of Dimebag was not provoked but pre meditated... Despite Gales insistent behavior once stating that he "wrote" Panteras lyrics and Pantera "stole" his lyrics, the conflict was in Gales head as his delusions got the best of him... I would not dignify Nathan Gales existence by calling him a PANTERA fan (or Damageplan fan) even if he once enjoyed their music... Gale was clearly INSANE and out to murder Dimebag Darrell Abbott and not at the show to mosh, enjoy the music and meet people..
Dimebag's murder was clearly the act of a psychopath ( Nathan Gale was psychologically disturbed) as random as it was..
Metal horns \m/ to officer James N. for ending the crisis (at the Damageplan show) wich could have resulted in more dead... Nathan Gale was mentally ill, delusional and obsessed with Pantera and the bands 2003 breakup as Gale went on a violent shooting spree..Gale was previously discharged from the military and given orders to see a shrink... Very tragic story..
So pleease, check your head, don't be so obsessive about anyone, and no one owes nobody anything. Don't bring weapons to any concert, club, or mass gathering. Just bring a smile and a good attitude, and have a good time, and if you're not having a good time, then leave, so others can enjoy themselves, and so others can live..Check your EGO's, weapons and check your head....That goes for all of you, and all of US, in all circumstances.
Don't believe what you read in the metal tabloids about PANTERA's breakup. Those guys in PANTERA might have their differences, but alot gets taken out of context in the press (pandering to the lowest common denominator of tabloid press to make a profit) and Phil Anselmo is pretty torn up about Dimebag's death...It doesn't matter what was said in the press, those guys in PANTERA are brothers whom had the best times of their lives together and loved one another... Pantera have toured the world ten times over, and they wouldn't want anything BAD to happen to former and current band mates, friends, family and YES YOU the fans....
BTW, I've seen PANTERA quite a few times and I've had some great times at their shows. Fans have jumped from the lower tiers of Giants Staduim (NJ-OZZFEST) to mosh in the pit while Phil Anselmo yelled, "Get back in your seats!"..I've seen Pantera with Slayer and Fear Factory where there was literally a sick ass pit, with no where to run or hide...Every time I've seen PANTERA I've had a GREAT time, full floor pits everywhere, the smell of weed and beer..Phil Anselmo once explained that despite what the guys in the suits say, metal isn't dead, as he brought some of the best underground extreme metal acts on tour with him including the mighty MORBID ANGEL..Phil Anselmo IS into black and death metal.. I remember when I was a college radio DJ (WFNP 88.7FM-New Paltz, NY ) someone showed me the cover of PANTERA's very first album "Power Metal"..Umm, those guys in PANTERA put a hole in the ozone layer as they were sporting big hair ala hairspray and braces.. They were so young back then..
Pantera cut their hair, and changed their image to almost redneck, confederate flag waving, whiskey drinking, Southern thrashers..From there on in, I don't care how elitist of a metal head you are, PANTERA had the world headbanging......
Sure they were cries that PANTERA were an EXHORDER clone (NOLA thrash metal) but a band with one guitarist (Dimebag) never sounded better and PANTERA and EXHORDER made peace with the musical comparisons... I love the way DIMEBAG Darrel Abbott (PANTERA guitarist) brought rolling, staccato thrash riffs with a bluesy Southern groove into the mainstream of metal....Pantera songs like "A New Level" and "Fucking Hostile" had great, catchy thrash riffs and were often a gateway for metal nubies getting into the metal scene for the first time.
The last time I saw PANTERA was March 13th, 2001 (I STILL have the tic stub) at the Mid Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, NY with Morbid Angel and SoulFly.. I bought a tic for a friend to enjoy the show with.. I wanted to check out Morbid Angel again and.. Steve Tucker's vocals were AWESOME! Phil Anselmo was in fine form that night but also humble saying "Hey anytime you want us to play here, anytime"....PANTERA even did a cover of Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever"..Fun show!..
Dimebag Darrells death happened on the swing home after Damageplan's tour with Shadows Fall, and the Haunted late last year. The Abbott brothers formerly of PANTERA have played stadiums worldwide, but were playing smaller, intimate venues with their new project Damageplan a year after PANTERA's breakup.
This ones for Dimebag Darrell as someone online said "If there is a God in the sky, he took Dimebag away because God needed a drinking partner".
Nate Gale's murder of Dimebag Darrell should not reflect badly on metal fans as this was an isolated incident of a random wingnut...
All of us metalheads are part of the same community, we go to the underground shows (wich are smaller) and we look out for each other ... To be a fan of underground metal, it takes loyalty when your fave bands get no radio airplay and aren't on MTV... Underground extreme metal bands aren't rich as they take time off from their day jobs to tour... Metal fans are the most loyal, KNOWLEDGEABLE fans in any genre of music...
So before I go to sleep tonight, I will have a shot of black tooth grin for Dimebag in his memory..Thank you Dimebag for all the great music, memories, riffs, and the hell raising good times... BTW, anyone whom behaves as irrationally as Nathan Gale, including YOU (and we all have dysfunctions, personality disorders) and is that angry at someone whom they don't know in any aspect of the entertainment industry or any walk of life, check your head if you're than impulsive, manipulative, obsessive,or are going to "act out".. Also tell any one else whom exhibits this behavior (including extreme rage, violence and most of all jealousy) to check there head as well..Ratt them out, and don't associate with them for your own safety...After all, as PANTERA said, this is about "RE-SPECT"; Respecting your selves, and others.. It doesn't matter if you like everyone or not, it's about NOT being violent. "Can't you see I'm easily bothered by persistence, one step from lashing out at you...."Is there no standard anymore? "Be your self, by your self, stay away from me, A lesson learned in life, known from the dawn of time... RE-SPECT, WALK, what do you say? RE- SPECT, WALK..Go home PUNK"-PANTERA (Walk).
The irony of all of this, is that all those guys in PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN had a great relationship with their fans. Mucho support to all of the DAMAGEPLAN and PANTERA crew.
R.I.P. "Dimebag" Darrell Abottt (Damageplan/Pantera) this drinks for YOU \m/ -l-
Also, RIP John Lennon (Beatles) whom died on this date in 1980, as now is the best time to "Give Peace a Chance"..
11/30/09-I can't believe that shit happened to DIMEBAG, he was the sweetest, most charismatic, charming, awesome shredder in metal, a true, grounded, nice guy, with a heart the size of TEXAS..We will always remember DIMEBAG, and the great shows, pits, and good times.
R.I.P. TO SOME COURAGEOUS METAL HEADS, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED:
Nathan Bray of Columbus, Ohio
Erin Halk of Columbus, Ohio
Jeff "Mayhem" Thompson of Texas (SECURITY for DAMAGEPLAN)
I loved DIMEBAG's squealing guitar leads, riffs, and charismatic personality-\m/ -l- Getcha Pull
CBGB's OMFUG: Adios CBGB goodbye amigos/CBGB's closing for good
As this will be all for our old friends at CBGB's. Thankfully 70's punk killed disco ( disco and bland classic rock) although punk has sold out, CBGB's offered some of the best club gigs in the NY metro area for over 20 years. Metal, hardcore, metal core, grind, death metal, nu metal, nu wave, you betcha, CBGB's WILL be missed. Thank you Hillel Krystal and all at CBGB's for 20 years of great music. CBGB's OMFUG acronym=Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music for Unknowing Gormandizers..Thank you so much CBGB's for all you've done for music, standing ovation. Support music not rumors, support LIVE music not DJ's.
FROM CBGB's OMFUG:
"We are closing. Our landlord had neither the obligation nor the interest to give us a new lease when our old lease expired in August. Since then, we have been fighting a losing battle, trying to buy time, against our eviction."
"Unless a miracle were to happen, or the landlord were to have a change of heart, we knew we were gong to close. We just didn't know when. Now we do."
"An agreement has been reached... not to give us a new lease, but to give us time to find a new location."
"CBGB is officially closing by October 2006. No postponements, no court dates, no appeals... that's it."
"We are using this time to try and find a new location in New York."
"The rumors of us trying to open in Las Vegas and/or elsewhere are true... but not what you may think. We are staying in New York and we are looing for a space in downtown Manhattan. We are not moving to Las Vegas or anywhere else. We are, however, looking at opening up a sister club elsewhere... perhaps a CBGB West. But the original CBGB, though it will have to move, will remain in New York"
Stay metal, Stay brootal, Stay rational-Thanks-\m/ -l-
WHITE SUPREMCIST ACTIVITY VS. HIGH SCHOOL VIOLENCE...
The return of the WORMS Exodus, Immolation, Crypto...
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Report: Jachai Polite’s stock takes ‘massive tumble’ after awful combine
Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports
Before the NFL Scouting Combine, many analysts were high on the potential of Florida pass rusher Jachai Polite. After his performance on Sunday, that’s a thing of the past.
Polite showed up to the combine with more weight than he probably should and looked a bit on the pudgy side. He also ran an really poor 40-yard dash on Sunday (4.84 seconds) before citing an injury and opting out of the remainder of the drills.
#UF EDGE Jachai Polite with a 4.84u on his 1st 40 attempt.
1.71 10-yard split. pic.twitter.com/l8gJTE3m7F
— Steve Frederick (@_SteveFrederick) March 3, 2019
Furthermore, he came across poorly when questioned about a couple of interviews, specifically with the San Francisco 49ers and Green Bay Packers.
#Florida EDGE Jachai Polite said that when he met with the 49ers at the Combine, they didn’t even really talk football with him at all. “They just bashed me the whole time… Idk.”
— Trevor Sikkema (@TampaBayTre) March 2, 2019
The full exchange with Florida's Jachai Polite when he was asked about his meeting with the #Packers. pic.twitter.com/OD49VbAx8x
— Zach Heilprin (@ZachHeilprin) March 3, 2019
Due to these factors, Matt Miller of Bleacher Report says Polite’s stock “is taking a massive tumble.” Miller wrote on Twitter than he had five texts from scouts about how poorly Polite interviewed, and one of them called his injury “bulls***.”
Once projected to be a first-round pick, one wonders what Polite can do to stay in the Day 2 conversation going forward. Potentially a one-year wonder at Florida, Polite racked up 11 sacks last year after posting just four in his first two years at the university.
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Liverpool Attacks New Balance in Court
Premier League club Liverpool FC has cited sportswear brand New Balance’s inability to reach the distribution levels of rival Nike in a High Court battle which began on 18 October.
The club is being sued by the sports brand which argues that it is refusing to honour a renewal clause in New Balance’s current kit supplier contract, which will expire in May.
Liverpool are keen to sign a five year-deal with sportswear giant Nike to become its new kit supplier from the 2020-21 football season. New Balance claims it can match this offer and therefore its deal should be renewed under the terms of the initial agreement.
Court documents put the club’s position as follows: “The club does not consider the New Balance offer to be a genuine one. This is both because of the contrived and unconsidered replication of the warranties and terms in the Nike offer, and because New Balance cannot deliver on those warranties and terms.’’
Court proceedings have thus far centred on the level of global distribution each brand can offer.
The court papers reveal that, in 2018, Liverpool commissioned a review into New Balance’s global reach. It concluded that a brand such as Nike could “super charge distribution” in a way New Balance would not be able to match.
The Liverpool Echo reports that the court has heard how Nike has committed to stocking Liverpool products in 6,000 stores worldwide. Liverpool suggests New Balance has fallen well short of matching this figure, only achieving access to 2,975 stores between the start of its contract and the 2018-19 season. The club believes the level of distribution the brand predicts it can achieve in the next cycle to be ‘utterly fanciful’.
The ability of Nike to utilise global superstars such as Lebron James, Drake and Serena Williams to market products has also been cited in the case.
New Balance agreed to pay £45m ($58.4m) per year to become Liverpool’s official kit supplier in 2011. The last two home shirts produced by the brand have become the highest selling in the history of the club. The team’s on-pitch success has been a key factor in this.
Nike’s offer of a guaranteed £30m per year represents a significantly lower sum than was expected to be achieved by the European champions. However, it is the marketing and distribution potential within the deal which has proved decisive in attracting Liverpool.
The Athletic reported that the club sees its relationship with New Balance as beyond repair, whilst Nike has already spent $6m on material for the already-designed 2020-21 season kit.
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The Universal Ouroboros
This was one of the first sites I returned to again and again in the early days of the net.
I haven’t revisited it for years, but came across the link in one of my old blogs, and realised I’d been lucky to find these reference to the Ouroboros in the years before the net became deluged with New Age/New Thought/Christian Science reinventions.
“The word ‘Ouroboros’ is really a term that describes a similar symbol which has been cross-pollinated from many different cultures. From “Ouroboros,” there is the serpent or dragon gnawing at its own tail. The symbolic connotation from this owes to the returning cyclical nature of the seasons; the oscillations of the night sky; self-fecundation; disintegration and re-integration; truth and cognition complete; the Androgyne (see below); the primaeval waters; the potential before the spark of creation; the undifferentiated; the Totality; primordial unity; self-sufficiency, and the idea of the beginning and the end as being a continuous unending principle.
It represents the conflict of life, as well in that life comes out of life and death. ‘My end is my beginning.’ In a sense life feeds off itself, thus there are good and bad connotations which can be drawn.
It is a single image with the entire actions of a life cycle – it begets, weds, impregnates, and slays itself, but in a cyclical sense, rather than linear. Thus, it fashions our lives to a totality more towards what it may REALLY be – a series of movements which repeat.
“As Above, So Below” – we are born from nature, and we mirror it, because it is what man wholly is a part of.
Born from this symbolic notion, there are many different cultures which share this great dragon-serpent symbol
[…] It is of interest to mention that a symbol such as that of the Ouroboros is something which Carl Jung refers to as an archetype; it seems to makes its way into our conscious mind time and time again in varying forms.
[…]There is another mention of the Ouroboros laying at the edge of “the sea which surrounds the world,” called Pontus.
The first clues to this symbol go back as far as 1600-1700 BC in Egypt. Through the years the serpent moved on to the Phoenicians and the Greeks-who gave it the name “Ouroboros.”
The Greek translation means, “tail eater.” It has a strong relation to what is known as the Androgyne. The androgyne is the united male and female principles together. This is the prime primordial end to human endeavor, the reunion which births totality and creation. It is not unlike the idea of androgyny, which is a duality complete. “A return to wholeness.”
The third [image of those pictured above] is apparently an Aztec Ouroboros (with proportions that even Hermes would have found pleasing) originally from: Project Ouroborus at the University of Minnesota, which has a large and diverse selection of these impressive archtypes. The following commentary from this source links with what has already been said and also adds further points of interest:
This symbol appears principally among the Gnostics and is depicted as a dragon, snake or serpent biting its own tail. In the broadest sense, it is symbolic of time and the continuity of life. It sometimes bears the caption Hen to pan – ‘The One, the All’, as in the Codex Marcianus, for instance, of the 2nd century A.D.
It has also been explained as the union between the chthonian principle as represented by the serpent and the celestial principal as signified by the bird (a synthesis which can also be applied to the dragon). Ruland contends this proves that it is a variant of the symbol for Mercury – the duplex god.
In some versions of the Ouroboros, the body is half light and half dark, alluding in this way to the successive counterbalancing of opposing principals as illustrated in the Chinese Yin-Yang symbol for instance. Evola asserts that it represents the dissolution of the body, or the universal serpent which (to quote the Gnostic saying) ‘passes through all things’. Poison, the viper and the universal solvent are all symbols of the undifferentiated-of the ‘unchanging law’ which moves through all things, linking them by a common bond. Both the dragon and the bull are symbolic antagonists of the solar hero. The Ouroboros biting its own tail is symbolic of self-fecundation, or the primitive idea of a self-sufficient Nature – a Nature, that is which, à la Nietzsche, continually returns, within a cyclic pattern, to its own beginning. There is a Venetian manuscript on alchemy which depicts the Ouroboros with its body half-black (symbolizing earth and night) and half-white (denoting heaven and light).
[Further on the page we read:]
The sixth, a more ornate dragon-like example, is one of twelve emblems discussed in detail by Adam Mclean in terms of psychological and alchemical symbolism. (A Threefold Alchemical Journey Through the Book of Lambspring).
Emblem 6 from the Book of Lambspring is a clear statement of the Ouroborus, the serpent dragon that siezes its own tail and unites these polarities in forming its circle in the Soul.
As Mclean leads up to the latter example, he explains that:
The first layer of five emblems deal with the different facets of polarities in our inner world.
The second emblem shows a different aspect to polarities in the fight between the inner dragon and an armed knight (a St George figure) in the Forest of the Soul. In this emblem there is a sense that the polarities must struggle to overcome each other.
Next in Emblem 3 we have the beautiful picture of the meeting in a clearing in the forest of a magnificent Stag and a graceful Unicorn. The Stag as a symbol is often associated with the Sun and the Unicorn is usually linked with the Moon. These polarities are to be coupled together through the alchemist’s work.
Next, in Emblem 4, the polarities are seen in their manifestation as masculine and feminine, pictured here in the meeting of Lion and Lioness. We note how they raise their opposite paws (Lion – right, Lioness – left) mirroring the posture of the Stag and Unicorn in the previous emblem.
The fifth emblem, which completes this part of the sequence shows the wild Wolf and the tamed Dog fighting for supremacy. These polarities are further linked in the verse with the directions West (Dog) and East (Wolf). Thus we can see that the first five emblems show us different ways in which the polarities appear in our inner world. The dynamically opposed though balanced way of the two fishes, the battling of the Dragon and Knight elements, or Wolf and Dog, and the meeting and relationship indicated in the Stag-Unicorn and Lion-Lioness emblems.
The next five emblems seem to indicate different ways in which we must inwardly work to unite these polarities in our beings.
Emblem 6 is a clear statement of the Ouroborus, the serpent dragon that siezes its own tail and unites these polarities in forming its circle in the Soul.
These are but a few representations of the Ouroboros; there are many others, some more ornate, some less, and many in more complex configurations, especially in the alchemical context. Moreover, as Jack Lindsay explains in The Origins of Alchemy in Græco-Roman Egypt, (1970, pp.267-268):1
Ideas about the Ouroboros found their way into the literary world, e.g., in Artemidoros and Acrobius. The former, in his dream-book, remarks that ‘the dragon also signifies Time because it is long and undulant.’ The latter declares the two-headed Roman god Janus is the world:
‘that is, the heavens, and his name Janus comes from eundo [by going] since the world always goes rolling on itself in its globe-form … So the Phoenicians have represented it in their temples as a dragon curled in a circle and devouring its tail, to denote the way in which the world feeds on itself and returns on itself …
“It is also clear that it’s the Sun honoured under the name of Mercurius [Hermes] according to the cadeuceus that the Egyptians have consecrated to the god in the figure of the Two Serpents, male and female, interlaced. Their upper extremities bend round together, and, embracing one another, form a circle, while the tails, after forming a knot, come together at the haft of the caduceus and are provided with wings that start off at this point.
Even more interesting is the passage that ends the second book of Claudian’s poem, On the Consulship of Stilicho. Claudian came from Egypt and his imagery shows the Egyptian idea of the night-journey of the sun through the cave or tunnel in the earth. But the introduction of the Ouroboros in association with Natura (Physis), the various metals, and the Aged Seer strongly suggests one of the alchemic visions of revelation or initiation:
Far off, unknown, beyond the range of thought,
scarce reached by gods, the years’ rough haggard mother,
stands a primeval Cave in whose vast breast,
is Time’s cradle and womb. A Serpent encloses,
the Cave, consuming all things with slow power,
and green scales always glinting. Its mouth devours,
the backbent tail as with mute motion it traces,
its beginning. At the entrance Nature sits,
the threshold-guardian, aged and yet lovely,
and round her gather and flit on every side
Spirits. A Venerable Man writes down
immutable laws. He fixes the number of stars
in every constellation, makes some of them move and others hang at rest.
So all things live or die by predetermined laws…
When the Sun rested on the cave’s wide threshold,
Nature ran in her might to meet him; the Old Man bent
grey hairs to the proud rays. Of its own accord
the admantine door swung open, revealing
the huge interior, displaying the House
the Secrets of Time. Here in appointed places
the Ages dwell, with varying Metals marking
their aspect. Those of brass are there upheaped,
there stiff the iron, there the silver gleaming;
shy of earth-contacts, in a distinguished section,
is set the flock of golden years.”
From the above descriptions and the widespread occurrence of this Jungian archtype in both time and place it is also apparent that the Ouroboros embraces cyclic regeneration, rebirth, and the very foundations of life itself.
There is still much MUCH more on the Ouroboros at the link below
Source: Spira Solaris and the Universal Ouroboros
Posted on February 28, 2018 March 1, 2018 by ArsArteEtLaborePosted in Alchemy, Art, Egyptology, Gnosis, Inner journey, Jung, Nature, Ouroboros, Philosophy, Transformation, TransmutationTagged alchemy, Androgyne, As Above So Below, continuity, Cyclic, Dragon, Egyptians, ending is beginning, Gnosis, Gnostic, Greeks, inner world, Jung, Ouroboros, Phoenicians, self-sufficiency, serpent, struggle of the soul, Transformation, Transmutation.
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neith26 says:
This is by far my favorite symbol! I think Jung and after him Cambell deserve a great deal of credit for elaborating on the meaning of this symbol. You don’t have to turn lead into gold (Jung extensively studied alchemical texts which the symbol is associated with) he realized the gold was the result of integrating the shadow. The mysterious Ouroboros is simple, yet the most difficult task anyone can undergo, love your shadow. As easy as it sounds it is the hardest thing to do because it requires integrating everything rejected back into the whole. Often the mind is left with no certainty to cling to and the ego must surrender to the heart, a terrifying notion to a materialistic world. I have heard it described as the most painful thing anyone can face. Jung, Cambell, and I’m sure many others consider it the key to the liberation of mankind and a more peaceful world!
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Logan Review
Logan is a superhero drama film released in North America on March 3rd, 2017. It was directed by James Mangold (@mang0ld) and stars Hugh Jackman (@RealHughJackman), Dafne Keen (@DafneKeen) and Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew).
I grew up on the X-Men movies. My mom would rent each one as it came out and we’d watch it and nerd out over all the cool characters. Eventually, I was old enough to see them in theatres. They became events, my parents and I would see them on release and geek out afterwards the whole way home. I eagerly awaited each one, albeit a little less each time. And after 2016’s disappointing X-Men Apocalypse, I wondered if my love of this series was fading. These were the characters of my childhood- Professor X, Magneto, Storm and of course: Wolverine. These characters were so cool to my 10-year-old brain, so awesome and powerful. But as I grew up, the series didn’t really grow up with me. It floated in the mediocre middle ground of superhero storytelling that relied on flashy characters and drawn out action scenes to carry them rather than meaningful plots and dialogue. So I went into Logan with tempered expectations, but after the first scene these expectations were as shattered as the bones of several unfortunate thugs…
A Tormented Soul
As a kid, I always wanted to fly through the air like Storm and move cars with my mind like Jean Grey. But Wolverine was never really someone I wanted to be. Even at a young age I could tell that Logan’s life and experiences were unbearable. It was obvious that he was troubled, plagued by his past and pained by his present. And over the past 17 years of Hugh Jackman’s iconic Wolverine, it became abundantly clear to me that Wolverine is not someone I want to be. Even as the credits rolled at the end of Logan, I knew that this was still no superhero. This was a broken man, and Logan was about his redemption, his passing of the torch.
From the opening scene, it’s obvious that this Wolverine is much, much older. Struggling to walk, grizzly and grey-haired, it’s clear a lot of time has passed since we last saw Wolverine in action. The missing information in this timeline is never talked about aside from off hand comments. We never understand how Wolverine and Professor X came to be living in the Mexican desert, separated from the world that we know so well. There’s a lot of backstories that’s never discussed, a lot of gaps in the viewer’s knowledge that are never filled in. While I didn’t really mind not knowing, the people I was watching with were a little bothered by the jump in time. The probing questions left them wanting to know more and distracted them from the plot.
Missing pieces aside, the story that is present is strong, but a little familiar. The main crux of the film is how similar it is to other stories we’ve seen so often. The basic premise of grizzled, old, white, bearded man travelling across America with this young girl as they make their way through countless dangers is instantly recognisable to fans of The Last of Us, Maggie, The Road, BioShock Infinite and so on. It’s an almost tired formula at this point, a premise that is less meaningful every time I see it although the presence of a female character is still important. But where Logan stands apart in some regards is that the young girl accompanying Logan, Laura, doesn’t actually need protecting. In fact, she’s a more capable, more vicious fighter than the Wolverine himself. From the first fight scene, this girl is entirely capable and actually saves Logan more than Logan saves her.
All Hail Laura
Laura is the best thing to happen to X-Men movies since they went back in time. She’s an exemplary female protagonist done right and Dafne Keen absolutely nails the role. From mysterious wunderkind at the start of the film to fleshed out star by the end, Laura develops in the most effective way possible over Logan‘s two-hour running time. She has Logan’s attitude and “FU” outlook on life but as a little girl when she lashes out it would be funny if it wasn’t so vicious and terrifying.
Her relationship with Logan evolves and develops in a way no other character has meshed with the Wolverine in the past. Their dynamic goes from frustrating to funny to heartfelt all in well-written scenes and brilliant action shots. Their rapport by the end of the film had me grinning when they both unleashed their claws together and tore through thugs like they were butter, leaping over each other working as a team to dismember and disembowel. They never address teaming up, it just happens naturally as they become closer and get more comfortable with each other, something I don’t think Logan’s ever done in his life.
Hugh Jackman is synonymous with the Wolverine at this point. His patented sideburns and grizzly chest are ingrained in the brains of every movie goer who’s seen an X-Men movie. But as mentioned before, this time is different. This is Jackman’s last movie as the iconic mutant and knowing that many fans were going in expecting a trip down memory lane, but this time around Jackman brings an evolution of the Wolverine, one with never before seen depth.
This Wolverine is a long awaited old Logan, a side of the character fans have been begging to see for years. Based on Steve McNiven’s Old Man Logan comics, in this future the human geneticists have won and mutants have been widely eradicated from the planet. It’s in this world of immeasurable loss we find Logan, a man already plagued by loss in his hundred year life. There’s nothing left for Logan to fight for, nothing left to brood for. It’s in this world the Wolverine decides to help someone other than himself, one last time…
Just See It, Bub
Logan is the best X-Men movie ever, if not one of the greatest superhero movies ever made. It pairs the action that defines the genre with a meaningful story and deep characters that they traditionally lack. Dafne Keen shines in her first feature-length film and Hugh Jackman unleashes the claws for the last time. Whether you’ve never seen an X-Men movie or seen them all, you need to see this one.
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Trump, please build that wall. This movie sucked so bad, wetback mutants, illegally enter the US. Basically the entire movie right there.
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Peruvian Floral Reversible White and Grey Wrap Ruana, 'Silhouette'
Silhouettes in black and white depict flowers that bloom on sinuous tendrils. By Isidoro C'cahuantico, the reversible wrap is crafted of a luxurious alpaca wool blend. Especially warm, this fringed ruana cloak is timeless in its appeal.
55% alpaca, 45% acrylic
80.0 cm L x 124.5 cm W
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"I became enamored with the textile arts at first sight... My curiosity led me into the world of textiles, looms and weaves."
Isidoro C'cahuantico Mendoza was born on April 4, 1954, in a village near Cuzco. During the 1970s, he was forced to migrate when terrorist activities swept his region. Accepting various jobs, he soon found himself working as a janitor in a textile factory.
"I was completely fascinated with the work they were doing!" Isidoro recalls. "I became enamored with the textile arts at first sight.
"At night, when everyone had gone home and I was left alone to sweep and clean, I began to look at the looms and machines and to experiment with them, just out of curiosity. Some days later, one of the weavers complained to the supervisor that his machine was never the way he'd left it the night before. The owner asked who kept adjusting the loom, and was surprised beyond belief to learn that the culprit was me!
"She asked me why I was using the loom, and I replied that I wanted to learn to weave. She said that if I really wanted to learn, I should learn to assemble one of the spare looms in the warehouse.
"That was one of the most important and memorable moments in my life! My curiosity led me into the world of textiles, looms, knits and weaves.
"That was the beginning of a vocation, a great gift that I have now also passed along to my children. My two older children work with me, weaving and knitting fine alpaca textiles, and my daughter does the best crochet work I have ever seen. I hope all of my four children eventually develop my same love and passion for weaving!
"I would like to assure Novica customers that every garment we create carries with it our creativity and hard work. Your appreciation for our work motivates us to continue perfecting our skills and our art!"
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Q&A with Stuart Mason
Stuart Mason’s new record “Tradition” was released on May 26, 2015. Stream it or order Tradition HERE.
* Why do a solo album now? Is there a particular creative statement you are making with this record?
Tradition is my second solo record; the first was many years ago. My original plan was to record a collection of all originals, but I changed my mind and decided to record a collection of all American public-domain pieces. My gut told me that this made sense because a trad record was more likely to appeal to our current followers (my bands Molly’s Revenge, Little Back Train) as well as my venue contacts. This may sound like a purely fiscal decision, but the fact is that I dearly love the old songs and I felt contented once I had charted that new course, and it blossomed into something big enough to stand alone.
* Does the title Tradition have a significance beyond the public domain folk origins of most of the tunes?
I am also a visual artist. The graphic I developed for this project has a deer skull as its centerpiece. We have plenty of deer out here in California, but you don’t see people driving around with dead ones tied to the hood of their cars. Deer hunting is an annual tradition in West Virginia, where I was born and so was my father and grandfather. So the deer skull is to me a symbol of mountain traditions that tell me who I am and where I came from. I think many artists who delve deep into old-time music also dabble in a more traditional lifestyle; for example they might grow their own kitchen gardens in summer and split a huge woodpile in the winter. I have heated with wood in every house I’ve had since right after college. Traditional music is a way for people to connect with their heritage, whether it’s Delta blues or Tex-Mex or Scandinavian polkas. It can be a reminder of a simpler time, and a part of some larger commitment to a simpler, more rural lifestyle.
* Where do the traditional songs come from – are they from different eras and cultures? How do they fit together as a whole on this album?
I think all of it reflects my family roots and formative years in southern Ohio and West Virginia. My sources range from North Carolina fiddler Joe Thompson to Missouri collector Max Hunter, but most of the songs I would consider to be standards in the old time music world. I wasn’t on a mission to uncover obscure rarities, but rather to capture my arrangements of a handful of chestnuts that I have been singing for years. I threw in two sets of instrumental tunes as well, just to spice the collection with some sweet old melodies on mandola and guitar.
I think the defining sound on this record is that of my fretless tackhead banjo. Banjo maker Jerry James and myself designed and built this instrument from a mail-order frame drum and a beautiful walnut neck carved by Jerry. At the time I was listening to lots of 19th century banjo music and learning about the repertory of the hugely popular minstrel shows of the era. I started adapting some of my repertory to the instrument and I loved the mellow tone and lower-pitched tunings for certain songs. (My tackhead sounds best in F, a step down from normal.) Long-time fans who are accustomed to hearing me play my old Martin axe or Gibson 1918 mandola will hear that too, but the fretless banjo is something new in my sound.
Looking at the track list, it’s apparent that midwestern blues man Charlie Parr influenced me with some of his old gospel stuff. I did not intend for the record to have so much Jesus on it, but it makes sense because gospel music is huge in West Virginia and all of the eastern mountain states. Another influence is the akonting, a distant cousin of the banjo from Africa. A couple of the arrangements incorporate my own trancy, looping banjo licks, ideas that came directly from my exposure to West African akonting music.
* I take it that a number of the players on this album have worked with you before in Molly’s Revenge and elsewhere. How did you choose this particular mix of musicians?
I went into this project with the goal of keeping it simple and recording songs that I could perform live in a solo or duo setting. But it’s only natural to include your bandmates, and being in four bands I had plenty to choose from, so some of the arrangements gradually got more complex. You might call it feature creep, but I prefer to think of it as a community effort.
Amber Cross, who sang harmony on four tracks, is a bandmate and singer-songwriter with an amazing vocal timbre that sets the perfect tone for that archaic sound. (And her chickens lay very tasty eggs.) Fiddler Gary Arcemont has deep family roots in French Acadian music, and fortunately he was happy to tune down one of his fiddles to F and contribute an authentic vibe to this record.
I was able to include slide wizard Tony Furtado at the last minute. I happened to notice that Tony was coming to town for a couple of local shows, and contacted him about playing on the album. When he came into the studio, we ran his old Martin flattop into Steve’s 1959 Valco tube amp and got some fat tones by mixing the signal from his pickup with the pure acoustic sound. Tony did his homework, came in and nailed his parts. His participation added a lovely dimension that was not part of my plan, but just shows that sometimes it pays to be opportunistic and flexible.
* What is co-producer Ryan Davidson’s background? What was working with him on this album like?
I know Ryan Davidson though the trad Irish community in California –specifically the Chico scene, which has consistently produced great players over the years. (Fiddler John Weed, who also plays on this album, is another survivor of the Chico music scene.) Ryan and I typically run into each other a couple times a year, at a festival or a show, play tunes until the wee hours, and promise each other that we would find some way to collaborate. His eagerness and skill on the bass fiddle made him an obvious choice, and after working together for a while he proved to be invaluable. He is a trained ethnomusicologist, a luthier, and a singer-songwriter to boot, and when we started my album he was just coming off a solo project of his own. Working with Ryan was a kick–he has a great sense of humor, a serious work ethic and creative ideas as well. We both love traditional music whether it be American or Irish, and we write from that foundation, so we have a lot in common between us.
* How does this album connect with your own story and your West Virginia roots?
My first solo record Appalachian Bride focused on my West Virginia roots, with a mixture of original songs and traditional mountain music. I think this new record might be less self-centered and more about some of the great old songs that we sing around here when we get together to play music. There is an old time scene here on the Central Coast. I think we’re known for it and we’re very lucky to have it.
I invented the word “oldternative” to try and describe my approach to old-time music. Before the advent of commercial recording technology in the 1920s, American music was not yet homogenized. You had your Celtic ballads, primitive Gospel, field hollers, wedding dances, fiddle tunes, broadsheets, hits from the minstrel shows. All of this fed into the bluegrass phenomenon and eventually, what is now Nashville country music.
Bill Monroe wasn’t the only innovator, but he was a very influential filter on this process, along with the Carter Family, of course. It’s almost like you have an hourglass, and you pour all of the old, wierd Americana into the top, and out the bottom comes country music. But what if you went back to all that good old stuff and you modernized it, without the bluegrass influence? That’s what I call oldternative Americana. Old is the new alternative.
I use a banjo on this record, but it’s not anything like what a bluegrasser might play. My banjo’s design was inspired by 19th century minstrel banjos. The skin is tacked to the pot, the neck is fretless, and the strings are made of Nylgut, tuned a step below normal. I use a mandolin, but it’s a 1918 Gibson mandola with flatwound strings, bigger and lower-voiced than a bluegrass mandolin, and in a Celtic tuning. I sometimes utilize studio effects like telephoned vocals, doubled vocals and stomping feet. On one track, I clacked a set of deer antlers to the beat, because it sounded good to me. I just try to listen for what the song calls for, rather than trying to fit it into any formula.
* Any stories from the sessions that you’d care to relate?
The album was recorded at Painted Sky Studios in the tiny hamlet of Harmony, CA, which is located about halfway between Cayucos and Cambria along the world-famous Highway 1 Big Sur route. You blink and you miss it–most people do. The big sign says Harmony: Population 18. The biggest building is a former creamery and everywhere you look, there are historic markers, rusty tin roofs and weathered wood facades. Apparently there was a time in the 19th century when a big feud took place in the valley, with multiple revenge killings, until finally a truce was called. Part of the solution was to rename the place Harmony.
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great album Stu. THe more I listen the more I realize there is a lot of great music. Who is the maker of your banjo?
Stuart Mason says:
Ivan–thanks for your comment. I have three banjos made by Jerry James of Atascadero, CA. One is an open-back steel string, one is a fretless nylon string (used on this album) and the newest one is a nylon string fretless gourd banjo. http://jerryjamesbanjos.com
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The Korean War conflict was between North and South Korea and fought from 1950 to 1953. This lesson highlights the valor of the 146 service members awarded the US Congressional Medal of Honor from this war.
Summary of US Involvement in the Korean War
The United States has participated in several international conflicts during the 20th century including the Korean War. The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The US aligned with South Korea as part of a United Nation's Security Force. Many American men and women made the ultimate sacrifice by fighting and dying as part of US combat operations during this conflict. The US suffered over 33,000 combat related deaths during the Korean War. Many of these men and women exhibited extraordinary bravery and valor. This lesson highlights those US service members who fought during this war and were awarded the US Congressional Medal of Honor for their heroism.
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The United States highest military award is called the Congressional Medal of Honor and is awarded to members of the Armed Forces who demonstrate bravery in combat above and beyond the call of duty. The medals' history goes back over 150 years. The President normally presents the honor on behalf of Congress.
Overview of US Medal of Honor Recipients
According to the Center for Military History, United States Army, there are 146 Medal of Honor recipients. President Barack Obama recently honored 14 veterans of the Korean War with the Medal of Honor during a special ceremony in 2014. Of the 146 medal recipients, 107 were awarded posthumously. According to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, 7 Korean War Medal of Honor recipients are living and 139 deceased. While no women were awarded the honor, the Korean War Medal of Honor recipients represents the racial diversity of America. There are African, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish and Native American among the recipients. There are 93 Army, 4 Air Force, 7 Navy and 42 Marine recipients of the Medal of Honor.
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All of the Medal of Honor recipients demonstrated valor and bravery. The following provides examples of individual recipients courage:
Joe Baldanado, was an Army Corporal, volunteered to occupy a machine gun position, and killed many enemy soldiers before he succumbed to enemy fire;
William Thompson, was the first African American Korean veteran awarded the Medal of Honor in 1950. A grenade killed him as he covered his platoon's retreat from heavy enemy fire;
Hiroshi H. Miyamura Medal of Honor was classified 'top secret' because he was a POW at the time of his award. To prevent possible abuse to Miyamura while he was a POW by the North Koreans, the US did not disclose the details of his actions. In spite of the threat on his life by the enemy and his injuries, Miyamura killed over 50 enemy while operating a machine gun. After he expended his ammunition, he killed several additional enemy through hand-to hand combat;
Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr. helped prevent the enemy from taking over his company's area by firing is automatic weapon on the advancing enemy. He maintained his position until he was killed by enemy fire.
President Obama Honors Korean War Medal of Honor Recipients
As previously mentioned, on March 14, 2014 President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to nine Korean War veterans posthumously. These veterans were initially refused nominations earlier because of bigotry.
The names of the 2014 Korean War Medal of Honor Recipients are:
Corporal Joe R. Baldonado
Corporal Victor H. Espinoza
Sergeant Eduardo C. Gomez
Private First Class Leonard M. Kravitz
Master Sergeant Juan E. Negron
Master Sergeant Mike C. Pena
Private Demensio Rivera
Private Miguel A. Vera
Sergeant Jack Weinstein
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The Korean War was fought from 1950 to 1953. Over 33,000 Americans died in combat during this conflict. 146 veterans of the Korean War were awarded the nation's highest military award, the US Congressional Medal of Honor because of their bravery. These Medal of Honor recipients demonstrated the best qualities of American soldiers, airmen and marines: valor, bravery and courage. These recipients also represent the diversity of the United States armed services. Because of racism and bigotry, several deserving Korean War veterans were initially refused the Medal of Honor. President Barack Obama honored nine of these veterans of the Korean War with the Medal of Honor in 2014.
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OnePlus data breach: India's cybersecurity agency says data of around 3,000 users exposed
CERT-In has issued an advisory for OnePlus smartphone users in the country asking them to change their account passwords. In its advisory, the agency said that 'less than 3000 Indian customers' orders were exposed during the recent global system breach.Danish Khan | ETTelecom | Updated: January 06, 2020, 13:24 IST
CERT-In, India’s nodal agency for cybersecurity Tuesday late night issued an advisory for OnePlus smartphone users in the country asking them to change their account passwords. In its advisory, the agency said that 'less than 3,000 Indian customers' orders were exposed during the recent global system breach.
"The kind of information exposed such as name, address, email can be abused to impersonate as victim and gain access to other accounts. Even though OnePlus has claimed that password data was not accessed, users are still advised to change their passwords with a strong password," the cybersecurity agency said in its advisory with 'medium' severity rating.
In its advisory, the agency said that OnePlus has clarified that no payment card, bank account details or password breached and has stated that all affected users have already been notified by email.
OnePlus, which is still in the process of shifting its data to Amazon Web Services (AWS) India servers from Singapore, had faced a data security breach in 2018 as well where over 40,000 customers were affected, resulting in the exposure of bank card details.
OnePlus recently cemented its premium leadership in the July-September quarter with 35% market share, growing 95% on year, as per Counterpoint Research’s third-quarter data.
A query sent to OnePlus remained unanswered till press time. OnePlus, however, on Monday said that it was working with relevant authorities to further investigate the system breach.
CERT-In informed users of OnePlus smartphones in India that may receive spam and phishing emails as a result of this incident, thereby "they need to stay alert against these kinds of mails."
The incident follows the recent WhatsApp snooping incident, where at least two dozen Indian journalists, activists, lawyers and academics were targeted for surveillance. The Indian breach was reported after WhatsApp sued NSO Group, accusing it of helping break into the phones of 1,400 users across four continents.
The agency further advised users to not click on any attached or URL contained in an unsolicited email, even if the link seems benign.
Cyberlaw expert Pavan Duggal said that users will have to start incorporating cybersecurity as the way of life, and will have to be careful and exercise due diligence.
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Tim Cook: 4G network critical to bring 'richness' of iPhone
With telecom firms rolling out 4G high speed Internet services, Apple, which is seeing declining sales elsewhere in the world, is betting big on India as a growth market.PTI | May 20, 2016, 08:52 IST
On his maiden visit to India, Apple CEO Tim Cook today said it was "exactly the right time" to be in the country and the US firm presence will be for "hundreds" of years.
With telecom firms rolling out 4G high speed Internet services, Apple, which is seeing declining sales elsewhere in the world, is betting big on India as a growth market.
"Journey starts with the first step. We are not here for a year or few years, we are here for a long time, 100s of years. And we are a long term company. The thing that we make the most focus is iPhone. Its a key part," Cook told.
He added that in order to bring out the "richness" of the iPhone, 4G network is very important.
"4G network is beginning to come in now. I think it's exactly the right time to be here," Cook said.
In a recent analyst conference, Cook had said India presents a "really great opportunity" for Apple but slow networks and the informal retail structure there is preventing the tech giant from realising its full potential.
Apple has already announced setting up a software laboratory in Bengaluru as well as an office in Hyderabad to focus on development of Maps in India.
Cook had in a recent earnings call stated that he viewed "India as where China was maybe seven to 10 years ago from that point of view, and I think there's a really great opportunity there."
India is world's third-largest smartphone market with over 100 million smartphones sold last year. This is projected to grow 25% this year. But Apple's iPhone has only a 2% market share.
Cook's visit to India comes at a time when the US-based firm is focusing on new growth markets like India after posting its first-ever decline in iPhone sales.
In an interview earlier this month, Cook had said Apple sees a "huge market potential" for its products in India and that it is "really putting energy" in the country.
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Equirus Capital names Ajit Deshmukh as the head of investment banking in top management rejig
Garg will also drive the investment bank's operations into portfolio management services and wealth management, as well as its institutional equities arm, which has been operational for over five years, the statement said.Biswarup Gooptu | ET Bureau | April 22, 2016, 13:34 IST
Mid-sized investment bank Equirus Capital has named Ajit Deshmukh as the new head of its investment banking operations, a position that was formerly held by the Mumbai-headquartered merchant bank's founder Ajay Garg.
In an official statement, the investment bank said that Garg will "continue mentoring the investment banking team and will focus on broad-basing the financial services business for Equirus."
Garg will also drive the investment bank's operations into portfolio management services and wealth management, as well as its institutional equities arm, which has been operational for over five years, the statement said.
Prior to his elevation, Deshmukh led Equirus Capital’s technology practice, cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and fund raising for technology companies. Post the revamp, Sandeep Gogia will take over the responsibilities of both functions.
Prior to joining Equirus, Ajit was the founder and managing director at Wizarth Advisors, undertaking cross-border M&A and fund raising for technology companies, which was later merged into Equirus Capital.
Founded in 2007, Equirus Capital is a full-service investment bank offering private equity advisory, M&A advisory, capital markets advisory and structured finance services to mid-cap clients.
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COMPETITION: Win Tickets to The Treatment
Posted in Competition, Gig Listing, Music, News with tags 2014, Academy, Dublin, tag grey, THE TREATMENT, tickets dublin, win on June 16, 2014 by Tickets There
The Treatment will play their first ever headlining show in Dublin this Wednesday when they tear The Academy a new floor! Technically you should have bought your tickets months ago. If you didn’t – for shame! But thanks to the legends at MCD, we’re in a position to send you and a friend there for free. All you need to do is read our interview with Treatment guitarist, Tag Grey and answer the following question.
Question: What is the name of The Treatment’s new album?
Please send your name and the answer to ticketsthere@Hotmail.com for your chance to win.
Please Note: Competition closes tomorrow, June 17th at 18:00. Entrants must be 18+
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Posted in Interview, Music, News with tags 2014, Academy 2, Alice Cooper, Dublin, I bleed Rock N Roll, Interview, KISS, Motley Crue, Running with the Dogs, Slash, Stone Trigger, tag grey, THE TREATMENT, This Might Hurt, tour on June 16, 2014 by Tickets There
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Described as one of the most exciting bands to emerge from England in years, The Treatment are five guys who love rock ‘n’ roll. They released their debut album, This Might Hurt, in 2011 and its follow up, Running with the Dogs, earlier this year to massive critical acclaim. They’ve supported some of the biggest names in music and every year that passes brings nothing but new success. If you haven’t heard them yet, now is your chance to make amends as they’re coming to Dublin this week to play their first Irish headlining show and you don’t want to miss out.
Tickets There was fortunate enough to speak with The Treatment’s guitarist, Tag Grey and find out a little about the origins of the band, their touring experiences over the past few years and what it means to have Tommy Lee coordinate your birthday celebrations backstage.
Tickets There: Hi Tag, how are things going in the Treatment camp at the moment?
TG: It’s going great man. All the fans and all the press as well. And since Kerrang started picking up the last one, things have just been brilliant. It’s done a lot more than we dreamed it could have done. Really happy about it.
Tickets There: Running with the Dogs seems to be picking up a lot of new fans with previous critics highlighting it sounds far more accomplished than your debut, This Might Hurt. Do you feel this album is a stronger representation of the band?
TG: Ah yeah. I think Dhan (Mansworth – drums) was around fifteen or sixteen when he started writing and recording This Might Hurt. We’ve all grown so much as players and musicians that there’s no way you could compare the two. We were so proud with what we did with the first one but by the second one it was even better, you know? We changed loads of things during the recording – the guitars, the amps and the way we were recording. We were really happy with how it came out. It definitely captured another side of the band.
Tickets There: A lot of bands have great difficulty writing and recording their second albums. Did you feel any pressure after the success of This Might Hurt?
TG: We didn’t really think, but looking back we were so happy with the way it came out. There’s no comparison between the two and it’s all just gone in the direction we wanted it to. I don’t think we ever thought about having a problem with the second one, we just got on really. I mean we constantly toured since This Might Hurt came out so we were always recording and writing little bits and bobs.
Tickets There: That’s probably the best way to avoid the pressure.
TG: It’s brilliant actually, we all live with Dhan and our manager Laurie (Mansworth) has his own studio so we could just record whenever which was a massive help for the band.
Tickets There: Were you worried at all that the delay between Running with the Dogs and This Might Hurt might risk losing some of the momentum you’d created?
TG: This Might Hurt came out twice actually. It came out originally on Powerage and when we were picked up by Universal we re-released it with a bonus track so although it was released a long time ago, since the re-release it hasn’t been that long and we’ve just been on the road constantly. We wanted to make sure we had the album completely right. It wasn’t an intentional thing. We weren’t looking to get it out asap, we just wanted to stay on the road touring really. We’re definitely more of a live band.
Tickets There: Since the release of Running with the Dogs, have you noticed an increase in interest in the band?
TG: Oh massive. The first major tour we had was with Alice Cooper, which was a great tour to start with, but everything since just seems to take a step up. Lamb of God in America was the last big tour we did before recording the new album which was just insane. With this tour the first one we did was our own headlining tour which is just incredible. We went out and hundreds of people were turning up to see us which, for us is just an amazing feeling. We did the Islington in London, which has been a venue where we’ve seen so many of our favourite bands and you don’t realize what you’re doing until you’re standing on stage and all these people turn up. It’s just been amazing.
Tickets There: It sounds like things are really starting to get going for ye.
TG: (laughs) yeah, it’s been great. And now we’re going out and doing all the European festivals – it just keeps getting bigger and better. I can’t wait.
Tickets There: So let’s go back a little. How did the band get together?
TG: It was Dhan basically. He wanted to put a band together and his dad Laurie, he’s been in the music business and was in a couple of bands in the eighties so he knows everything. So they started looking around the country for musicians and that’s how we got the line-up.
We all moved in to Laurie’s house so it became a pretty wild one. Myself and Rick Newman (aka Swoggle) were living in a tent down the end and Dhan was still going to school every day. We started jamming in the shed and it’s just grown since then. We recorded the album and started touring.
Tickets There: It couldn’t have just happened that easily, right?
TG: Well, in the beginning it was quite hard as we couldn’t get into any venues. We were all under eighteen and they’d always kick us out. That’s how young we were when we started.
Tickets There: So none of you were close friends when you started the band?
TG: Me and Rick were the only ones, we went to school together. Dan found Rick and Rick knew me from School and that’s how I got the part. Matt (Jones, vocals) was on MySpace, do you remember? He found him and the original guitar player was from a music college and now we have Fabien who’s over from Germany.
Tickets There: It must have been strange all of ye moving in together at the time. Did ye drive each other crazy?
TG: Oh no, we’ve lived together for seven years so there’s no way we could do it if we didn’t get along. Of course it’s beyond argument; you can’t stick six guys together without the odd one. But as friends we’re as close as it gets. We don’t let anyone fuck with us man.
Tickets There: When you came together, did you know the type of band you wanted to be or did the style fall into place when ye met?
TG: It came together really as a group. We’d all grown up on similar styles of music so it just happened really. We didn’t decide on it, it just came together.
Tickets There: Would you credit Def Leppard or AC/DC more as the influence for the band? Be warned, I’m a Leppard fan…
TG: (laughs) Both of them I’d say. If there’s one band we all have total love for it’s the DC. I remember one year we all went to see them play Download and sitting there, watching a band you all completely fucking love was just amazing. But Def Leppard as well, they are a great, great band.
Tickets There: Hmmm, ok I’ll accept that. So how long did you stay practicing for before you started doing shows?
TG: For the first year of the band Dan was still going to school every day so the idea of touring was impossible. We spent the first year or two in the garage rehearsing, playing a few local shows. The first big one we got was opening for Black Stone Cherry and pretty much straight from that was Sonisphere and then straight onto Alice Cooper and Steel Panther after that. Then we played with Thin Lizzy, Slash and Status Quo, the list goes on man.
Tickets There: It certainly does. In your time together you’ve also supported Lamb of God, Motley Crue, KISS and many others. In fact, isn’t it true that Nikki Sixx personally got you onto their tour with KISS?
TG: Yeah, he did. He asked us to do it. That was three or four amazing months across America.
Tickets There: Nikki Sixx asking your band to open for them and KISS is pretty much a dream come true for any rocker. Can I ask how that came about?
TG: He’s just into young bands and listens out. We were on the Steel Panther tour and it was about 2 in the morning and a friend asked us if we’d twitter and none of us had. So we checked it and he had announced us for the whole tour.
Tickets There: And what’s it like, as a young band to go out there and play side by side with your heroes like that? Did you find yourself learning from them at all?
TG: Oh of course. We’ve learnt so much about how to work a crowd, how to play – how to do everything. You learn from your heroes don’t you, so to be able to support ‘em was such an experience and not only for ourselves, but the live experience as well is fucking great. You also learn from the best when it comes to partying as well (laughs).
Tickets There: Now that’s one, I heard a rumour that in your early years together you had a strict no partying rule on tour. How’s that holding up these days?
TG: (laughs) Yeah, when we first started we had a no drinking rule on tour. It was right place, right time but as we’ve gotten older… Number one is the gig, that’s all we care about. So long as that’s good, we’re good. But, I mean drinking-wise we have more of a laugh now. We’re always up and ready for a show and that’s what matters to us but I think it’s best to say we’ve gotten a little more relaxed (laughs.. Ed. – Laughs because he’s partied with bands like Motley Crue, KISS, Alice Cooper, Lamb of God and many others! – Legend!)
Tickets There: Phew, I was worried there you might shatter my dreams of the rock ‘n’ roll touring life.
TG: Well that was the problem for us as well (laughs)
Tickets There: Do you think allowing yourselves to relax more on the road helped fuel material for Running with the Dogs at all?
TG: Ah yeah, that comes from all the experiences we’ve had. It was Matt’s 21st when we toured with KISS and Motley Crue and Tommy Lee had him backstage and strippers were whipping him, he had a bottle of vodka poured all over his head – I mean how can you have a normal sensible lifestyle while those sorts of things are going on. It definitely helped come up with a few of the ideas.
Tickets There: And what’s it like touring with bands on the level of Motley Crue and KISS? You hear some awful things about support bands can be treated. Did you have any negative experiences?
TG: Everyone, not just Motley Crue, every single person I have toured with has gone beyond what they should have done to help us. The crews as well, every single person and every single band members just made a giant effort to make us feel welcome. Even small things like just someone like that saying hi to you – it makes you feel like it’s worth being on tour just for that.
Tickets There: So, you’re on the road again. Have you got many headlining shows on this leg or are you mostly playing festivals for the summer?
TG: We’ve got the two in Ireland – our first heading shows there actually and then our first headline show in Paris. They’re all going to be wicked. The rest are all festivals and then we have quite a few support slots in between. We’re opening for ZZ Top, Buckcherry and Alterbridge so it’s going to be pretty cool. We have a massive mixture of different places and hopefully later in the year there’ll be lots more coming on.
Tickets There: Is there anywhere in Europe you’re really looking forward to?
TG: Well the last time we went to Dublin we had the wildest time ever. It was great because we did two shows there so we had a night off and had a wild time. Also Italy, for me I love Italy and it’s going to right in the middle of summer so it’ll be buzzing. Everywhere though brings something new.
Tickets There: From the list of festivals you have, you play to a lot of different crowds. How are the reactions when you to play, say Graspop compared to supporting Status Quo?
TG: We’ve done Hammerfest a few times when we’re on with Feed the Rhino – really heavy band and we go down incredibly. I think we have an energy where we just want to go out there and cause absolute chaos by playing classic rock tunes. So we can fit in on any bill.
The response we’ve had from different bands has been incredible. Like recently we went out and support Airbourne and their crowd was just up for it, they wanted to cause a riot. Then we can go on with Quo who are older and more musical and we can go out and have a great show as well.
Tickets There: Is there anyone left that you’d love to go out and support on tour (Apart from Def Leppard and AC/DC of course)?
TG: If Guns N’ Roses get back together (laughs). Could be waiting a bit though.
Tickets There: I better let you head off and get ready for the tour. Just before I do, do you have any plans to tour outside of Europe this year? Just in case your friends on other continents are reading.
TG: It’s something that hasn’t been planned yet, but if something came up we definitely would. We haven’t toured Europe in such a long time and we want to get something big across here. With the record being out here we want to get on the road and support it. If something came up tomorrow, we wouldn’t complain though. Sit around and do nothing or tour? It’s not a question is it (laughs)
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Clusterfuck Update 7/26: Free Agent Deals And McNabb To Vikings
Monty McMahon July 26, 2011
Probably going from one shit team to another.
Although teams can’t begin signing free agents until Friday, they were able to negotiate with them beginning today. Several clubs took advantage and reached agreements with players.
Of course, the Green Bay Packers were not one of those clubs. That being said, some of today’s player movement will impact the Packers and their quest to repeat in 2011.
Here are the important developments. We will update as more come through.
The [intlink id=”35″ type=”category”]Minnesota Vikings[/intlink] have had discussions with the Washington Redskins about a trade for Donovan McNabb. At one point, the deal was said to be done, pending McNabb agreeing to a new contract. Later, it was reported the Vikings and Redskins had not agreed on compensation.
A source with knowledge of the discussions tells us that, while a trade may indeed happen, the report of a deal being in place between the Vikings and Redskins is premature. Per the source, no agreement has been reached on the compensation the Redskins would receive.
The Vikings see McNabb as a stopgap solution while rookie Christian Ponder learns the offense. We fully expect this deal to get done. We also fully expect the Vikings to finish last in the NFC North with or without McNabb.
Former Packers quarterback Matt Hasselbeck is leaving the Seattle Seahawks. There have been separate rumors of him signing with Tennessee and Oakland.
Once the Seahawks learned of Hasselbeck’s intentions, they went out and signed former Vikings quarterback Tarvaris Jackson and former Cardinals and Texans quarterback Matt Leinart, who played for coach Pete Carroll at USC.
Jackson and Leinart will compete with Charlie Whitehurst for Seattle’s starting job.
The Carolina Panthers took one of the top pass rushers off the market by re-signing Charles Johnson to a six-year, $72 million deal that includes $30 million in guaranteed money.
That is insane money, but Johnson is only 25 and had 11.5 sacks for Carolina in 2010.
Even though Devin Hester wanted the Chicago Bears to sign him, receiver Santana Moss re-signed with Washington.
There wasn’t much doubt about this one, considering Moss wanted to return and Washington wanted him back. He got a three-year deal worth $15 million.
Not bad for a 32-year-old receiver.
The 49ers brought back former No. 1 overall pick Alex Smith on a one-year deal.
Smith can effectively be penciled in as the team’s starting quarterback this season, while rookie Colin Kaepernick develops.
The deal is reportedly worth $5 million.
The Jaguars, who are looking to retool their defense, are reportedly going to sign former Bills linebacker Paul Posluszny.
Posluszny is a tackling machine, who racked up 151 stops last season, and a major upgrade for the Jaguars.
And guess who was the first team to contact the prize of the free agent market, former Raiders cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha?
If you said the New York Jets, you win a chicken dinner.
New York would appeal to Asomugha both as a contender and because he wants to become an actor after football. It would also give the Jets the two best cornerbacks in the league with Darrelle Revis on the other side.
The Jets have also started negotiations to re-sign receiver Santonio Holmes.
The [intlink id=”126″ type=”category”]Detroit Lions[/intlink] will go to camp with two kickers.
The team re-signed Dave Rayner, who took over for long-time kicker Jason Hanson after he got injured last year. Rayner signed a one-year deal.
The San Diego Chargers signed former 49ers linebacker Takeo Spikes, who will play inside and shore up one of the weakest areas of their defense.
The Chargers had been a rumored landing spot for Nick Barnett.
If I were Ted Thompson, I’d be putting in calls to Buffalo and San Francisco to see if they want Barnett.
One of the second-tier cornerbacks is off the market. The Pittsburgh Steelers re-signed Ike Taylor to a four-year deal.
The Lions were reportedly interested in Taylor.
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FrozenFanatic84 July 26, 2011
hahahahahahahahaha bring it on McNabb! Can’t wait to watch Matthews break the single game sack total record on you!!!
iltarion July 26, 2011
McNabb in Minny is awesome. Love the idea. Minny is going to suck and be comical at the same time.
Haha… How can the Jets afford to spend $30 million on just their corners? They already had two really good ones in Revis and Cromartie. So, I really don’t see that as much of a change. I believe the Jets were over the cap though, so I still don’t think they can afford Asomughu. I bet they are hoping he’ll take an AFC Championship (the Jets perpetual resting place) discount.
Carolina, a guy with 11.5 sacks in one season is worth $12 mil a year? Hahaha… come on!
Typical Redskins debauchery. Santana Moss is an inconsistent and aging WR who really should be in the slot for the remainder of his career. I’ve give him $3 mil a year just out of respect, but the veteran’s minimum isn’t out of the question. The Redskins can ill afford to spend $5 mil a year on their #2 WR when they have other needs up and down their roster.
Andy July 27, 2011
because the jets really suffer on pass defense last year? That deal makes no sense but i’m all for other teams spending the house on players and then falling short.
Derek July 27, 2011
The McNabb negotiation is whats getting me through this week……. that’s funny stuff.
Landfill July 27, 2011
4th and 26
dontfavreitup July 27, 2011
Typical Vikings. Don’t know how to develop their own QBs, so they pick up a washed up veteran.
When’s the last time an over the hill QB has won the Super Bowl for the Vikings? Oh yeah, NEVER!
Keep putting your future on hold Vikes, it will be hilarious to see your team continually struggle for the next decade.
Right, because the Packers developed Rodgers by starting him immediately. Actually, I think he sat behind a washed up veteran for about 3 years. The fact of the matter is, the Vikings will be better with McNabb than a rookie trying to learn the NFL game amidst a lockout-shortened offseason.
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#EggcerptExchange – Alina K. Field
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less an a month left for the Eggcerpt exchanges… then blog life will slow down… HA…
writing comes with a needed dose of mental illness, especially if the voices in our heads get too loud… 😛 I don’t know about the rest of my fellow authors, but my head is usually buzzing with activity… very loud activity… but from that insanity come entertainment… from my personal favorite in the romance genre – fantasy, paranormal, and contempory… to historical, regency, sci-fi, Christian, new adult, goth… the list goes on and on…
Alina K. Field has stopped by today to give us a taste of what happens when the voices start screaming about Regency Romance… I hope everyone enjoys her blurb, excerpt, and an author interview that will give you a peek inside the main character of…
Liliana’s Letters….
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Liliana’s Letter
Lord Grigsby wants nothing more than to retreat to his study, but a promise to his long-dead sister has forced him back into society to broker the marriage of his nephew to the heiress whose money can save the young man’s estate. If only the young lady’s starchy hired companion would move out of the way.
Hired to launch an heiress’s society debut, seemingly straitlaced spinster Liliana Ashford’s future as a professional chaperone depends on the girl’s successful marriage. But Liliana had her own close encounter with a scoundrel years ago, and she won’t let her charge be forced into marriage to the same kind of rogue, no matter how hard the man’s widowed uncle tries to woo Liliana around to the match.
Secrets and a Scandalous Murder
A shadow from Liliana’s past appears bearing an unfortunate letter she wrote long ago, and then the earl is murdered, evoking the scandal of the season. While she scrambles to make a respectable match for her charge before her own past can be exposed, Grigsby sets about finding his nephew’s killer—and Liliana’s secrets.
“You clearly don’t approve of the match. Do you intend to openly oppose it?”
Her head whipped around, and she glared. “It’s not for me to approve or disapprove. Katie—Miss Mercer—will decide.”
Passion flashed in her eyes, sending an answering spark through him. She was magnificent, though so very mistaken. “Really? Then her father is more liberal than I expected.”
She looked him over more closely. “What do you know of this matter?”
I might ask you the same question. Her tone had been stiff, like the crystallized dome covering bubbling lava. He fixed her with his sternest glare, not entirely surprised at her cheek.
His glower didn’t impress her. She lifted her shoulders higher. Stood a little taller, proud, lovely, and filled with indignation.
Quite righteous indignation. He gave into an unmanly sigh, truly weary of his responsibility for Thomas. “I know a good deal, Miss Ashford. I have been negotiating for these nuptials. The arrangement is my doing as much as Mr. Mercer’s. Much more than it is my nephew’s. He is probably the least culpable, except for his abominable behavior.”
She clenched her hands tightly. “I see.”
“Thomas’s mother was my older sister. I made a promise to her that I would look after him.” Her gaze softened, and she bit her lip in a way that made him want to taste the part that she was nipping.
And where had that thought come from?
“And your nephew needs money and an heir.”
He nodded. As a woman of the ton, of course she would understand how marriage worked. Marriage wasn’t about love, or the bride’s approval, or a plump lower lip that begged to be kissed.
“He needs money most of all. He has a younger brother in the army who would make a far more dutiful earl.”
He covered his mouth with his hand. The words had rolled out, shocking him. He rarely spoke this frankly with any woman.
Very well, he never spoke this frankly with any woman.
She released a soft breath. “And there is the matter of the ore.”
His mouth gaped and he quickly closed it. Mr. Mercer had shared that information? Well. “That part of the county is rich with newly discovered veins of iron.”
That information brought her up straighter. She looked away, gazing intently at a thick, dark spot of foliage, making him want to pry into that sharp mind.
“I see,” she said. “I believe we should go back in now.”
Not yet. He tucked her hand over his arm but did not move.
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Interview with Liliana Ashford, heroine of Liliana’s Letter
My brother and his friends always called me “Lil” as a nickname.
Sadly, I was forced by circumstances to take employment as a companion to a wealthy young woman coming out into society. My job was to help her make a very good marriage.
Level of schooling, or self-taught
Like most of the girls of my class, I did not attend school. From time to time I had a governess or tutor, and I found solace, and much education, in books.
Must a lady as old as I am and still unmarried share her date of birth? No, I think not.
Most important goal
Before my marriage, my most important goal was to prevent my young lady from marrying Grigsby’s dreadful nephew. Now, I shall do my best to help my husband discover his nephew’s murderer.
Yes, we do have lotteries, but ladies do not generally participate. Still, if I could dream and find myself with a pot of money, I would establish a charity to help the young girls from the London rookeries into a better life.
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The moon rising behind the Empire State Building, January 12, 2020. | Gary Hershorn/Getty Images And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects. Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. Here’s the best the web has to offer for the week of January 12, 2020. At the New Republic, Alex Shepherd argues that Amazon has begun the process of making publishers redundant: To a large extent, book publishers have themselves to blame. Despite arguing that they provided necessary intangibles to the book-publishing process, they have spent the last decade gutting their marketing and editorial departments. It is increasingly common for publishers to work with freelance editors, many of whom recently left or were pushed out of prestige imprints, on projects. The layoffs were a cost-cutting move as conglomerate publishers consolidated imprints, but it has inadvertently leveled the playing field. 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Her life and work illuminate women’s ambivalence toward female power, and their uncertainty about whether that power should celebrate the feminine or reject it. At The Millions, Adam O’Fallon Price asks whether our novels have gotten too subjective: All of which is to say that one feels a consistent, accompanying shift toward the subjective in the fiction of our moment, in what it does and does not do. What it does do: relate intensely personal lived experience, depict trauma, and—maybe especially—project personality. What it does not do: usually attempt any sort of objectivity or try to situate a narrative in a moral framework. The problem with this is, from my point of view, situating narrative in a moral framework is what novels do better than really any other type of art. No other narrative form can so dexterously tell a story while critiquing it, a sleight-of-hand enabled by the engaged moral interplay of an author/narrator with his or her narrative. The reluctance to engage on this level may become an inability, and this is a loss. Not just artistically, but socially, as well. During times of moral crisis like the one we’re living in, we need books of moral power and daring that challenge us. Books that are willing to take a stand, and in doing so, dare us to do the same. In celebration of its 125th anniversary, the New York Public Library released its top 10 most-checked-out books of all time. Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day tops the list. Notably, although the NYPL’s list is dominated by children’s classics, Goodnight Moon does not appear. It gets an honorable mention, with the explanation that “extremely influential New York Public Library children’s librarian Anne Carroll Moore hated Goodnight Moon when it first came out,” so the library failed to acquire it as long as she was there. Which: What? At Slate, Dan Kois investigates everything going on in that disclaimer: Miss Moore’s taste was particular. 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After a long hiatus, the Atlantic has started publishing short fiction again, beginning with a short story by Lauren Groff: The women were drinking peach schnapps, telling stories about the worst things they’d ever done. They had already skimmed through the missing years in haste, as though the past were gruesome, the two decades of lost friendship something untouchable and rotten. Maybe it was, Nic thought. Melodie had said she was a real-estate agent in San Luis Obispo, still playing the field. Her face was so artificially plumped and frozen that it resembled a Greek-chorus mask that had slid between genres and settled on tragicomedy. Sammie was overripe, a bruised apple. Five kids with Hank, she had said with a sigh, all seven of them packed into the little house her mother had left her, in the same little town where the women had all grown up. At BookRiot, Jeffrey Davies explains how his love for Nancy Drew taught him to reject toxic masculinity: So in 5th grade I picked up a Hardy Boys book and was determined to love it. I hated it, but I forced myself through every word. And while I’m still mad at myself for forcing myself through a book I actively remember hating, it taught me something about myself (which I would later learn again working in retail): I’m very bad at pretending to care about things that I don’t care about. I didn’t care about the Hardy Boys. I cared about Nancy Drew. And here’s the week in books at Vox: In 2020, Little Women has a men problem. But it used to be seen as a story for everyone. Capitalism is turning us into addicts As always, you can keep up with all our books coverage by visiting vox.com/books. Happy reading!
The children’s librarian who hated Goodnight Moon The moon rising behind the Empire State Building, January 12, 2020. | Gary Hershorn/Getty Images And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects. Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. Here’s the best the web has to offer for the week of January 12, 2020. At the New Republic, Alex Shepherd argues that Amazon has begun the process of making publishers redundant: To a large extent, book publishers have themselves to blame. Despite arguing that they provided necessary intangibles to the book-publishing process, they have spent the last decade gutting their marketing and editorial departments. It is increasingly common for publishers to work with freelance editors, many of whom recently left or were pushed out of prestige imprints, on projects. The layoffs were a cost-cutting move as conglomerate publishers consolidated imprints, but it has inadvertently leveled the playing field. Dean Koontz no longer has to go to a big publisher to have his needs met; Amazon and Bantam, his former publisher, are drawing from the same talent pool. At LitHub, James Wood thinks through the differences between journalistic and academic criticism, and how to best combine the two: Not to think about literature evaluatively is not to think like a writer—it cuts literature off from the instincts and ambitions of the very people who created it. But to think only in terms of evaluation, in terms of craft and technique—to think only of literature as a settled achievement—favors those categories at the expense of many different kinds of reading (chiefly, the great interest of reading literature as an always unsettled achievement). To read only suspiciously (Stakes¹) is to risk becoming a cynical detective of the word; to read only evaluatively (Stakes²) is to risk becoming a naïf of meaning, a connoisseur of local effects, someone who brings the standards of a professional guild to bear on the wide, unprofessional drama of meaning. At the Outline, Leah Finnegan argues that we need to stop comparing people to poor Joan Didion all the time: The Didion comparison irks me mostly for how boringly lazy it is, especially when it is used by writers, whose job is presumably to write original thoughts composed of original words. The work of a young female writer may indeed resemble Didion’s in that she is also women whose work involves observation, analysis, and sentences, but there is little depth to the comparison beyond that. Haley Mlotek neatly summed this up in a 2015 Awl article: “Joan Didion is a living stereotype and I only mean that in the most literal definition of the term: Joan Didion functions as a mental shortcut. Joan Didion requires very little explanation to a very large group of people, representing a class of consumers who tend to be young, female, upper middle class, white, and somewhat inwardly tortured.” Also at the Outline, Sarah Menkedick defends the much maligned Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert: Gilbert represents the fantasy of many women writers — the juggernaut bestseller, the speaking gigs and financial success and adoring fans– and also the nightmare: the contempt of critics, the “chick lit” label, the inability to crawl out from under a single book that has been deemed unabashedly female and therefore unworthy of serious critique. Her life and work illuminate women’s ambivalence toward female power, and their uncertainty about whether that power should celebrate the feminine or reject it. At The Millions, Adam O’Fallon Price asks whether our novels have gotten too subjective: All of which is to say that one feels a consistent, accompanying shift toward the subjective in the fiction of our moment, in what it does and does not do. What it does do: relate intensely personal lived experience, depict trauma, and—maybe especially—project personality. What it does not do: usually attempt any sort of objectivity or try to situate a narrative in a moral framework. The problem with this is, from my point of view, situating narrative in a moral framework is what novels do better than really any other type of art. No other narrative form can so dexterously tell a story while critiquing it, a sleight-of-hand enabled by the engaged moral interplay of an author/narrator with his or her narrative. The reluctance to engage on this level may become an inability, and this is a loss. Not just artistically, but socially, as well. During times of moral crisis like the one we’re living in, we need books of moral power and daring that challenge us. Books that are willing to take a stand, and in doing so, dare us to do the same. In celebration of its 125th anniversary, the New York Public Library released its top 10 most-checked-out books of all time. Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day tops the list. Notably, although the NYPL’s list is dominated by children’s classics, Goodnight Moon does not appear. It gets an honorable mention, with the explanation that “extremely influential New York Public Library children’s librarian Anne Carroll Moore hated Goodnight Moon when it first came out,” so the library failed to acquire it as long as she was there. Which: What? At Slate, Dan Kois investigates everything going on in that disclaimer: Miss Moore’s taste was particular. She loved Beatrix Potter and The Velveteen Rabbit and was a steadfast believer in the role of magic and innocence in children’s storytelling. This put her in opposition to a progressive wave then sweeping children’s literature, inspired by the early childhood research of the Cooperative School for Student Teachers, located on Bank Street in Greenwich Village. The Bank Street School, as it became known, was also a preschool and the teacher training facility where Margaret Wise Brown enrolled in 1935. This progressive wave was exemplified by the Here and Now Story Book, created by Bank Street’s leading light Lucy Sprague Mitchell in 1921. A collection of simple tales set in a city, focusing on skyscrapers and streetcars, it was a rebuttal to Moore’s “once upon a time” taste in children’s lit. After a long hiatus, the Atlantic has started publishing short fiction again, beginning with a short story by Lauren Groff: The women were drinking peach schnapps, telling stories about the worst things they’d ever done. They had already skimmed through the missing years in haste, as though the past were gruesome, the two decades of lost friendship something untouchable and rotten. Maybe it was, Nic thought. Melodie had said she was a real-estate agent in San Luis Obispo, still playing the field. Her face was so artificially plumped and frozen that it resembled a Greek-chorus mask that had slid between genres and settled on tragicomedy. Sammie was overripe, a bruised apple. Five kids with Hank, she had said with a sigh, all seven of them packed into the little house her mother had left her, in the same little town where the women had all grown up. At BookRiot, Jeffrey Davies explains how his love for Nancy Drew taught him to reject toxic masculinity: So in 5th grade I picked up a Hardy Boys book and was determined to love it. I hated it, but I forced myself through every word. And while I’m still mad at myself for forcing myself through a book I actively remember hating, it taught me something about myself (which I would later learn again working in retail): I’m very bad at pretending to care about things that I don’t care about. I didn’t care about the Hardy Boys. I cared about Nancy Drew. And here’s the week in books at Vox: In 2020, Little Women has a men problem. But it used to be seen as a story for everyone. Capitalism is turning us into addicts As always, you can keep up with all our books coverage by visiting vox.com/books. Happy reading!
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It's been called the largest art movement in the world, and perhaps the most controversial. And now, for the first time ever, it has a home. Last month, the only museum dedicated exclusively to graffiti opened in Miami, one example of how the illegal street art that emerged 50 years ago has gone mainstream. Correspondent Kenneth Craig takes us inside the groundbreaking showcase at the new Museum of Graffiti.
Inside Miami's Museum of Graffiti It's been called the largest art movement in the world, and perhaps the most controversial. And now, for the first time ever, it has a home. Last month, the only museum dedicated exclusively to graffiti opened in Miami, one example of how the illegal street art that emerged 50 years ago has gone mainstream. Correspondent Kenneth Craig takes us inside the groundbreaking showcase at the new Museum of Graffiti.
Frank Cruz always told other people's stories. Now, he tells all in his memoir about his days as a reporter, Telemundo co-founder and everything in between. He carved paths for others along the way.
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They may be small creatures, but sea urchins have become a big problem in our oceans. Due to an ecological imbalance, they're devouring marine habitats off America's West Coast and elsewhere, impacting other species. Help may be on the way from a unique partnership between scientists and a seafood company. Correspondent John Blackstone shows us how they're looking to turn a menace into a meal.
Sea urchin population explodes off West Coast They may be small creatures, but sea urchins have become a big problem in our oceans. Due to an ecological imbalance, they're devouring marine habitats off America's West Coast and elsewhere, impacting other species. Help may be on the way from a unique partnership between scientists and a seafood company. Correspondent John Blackstone shows us how they're looking to turn a menace into a meal.
China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation, as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbor increasingly isolated by the West. Emer McCarthy reports.
Myanmar, China ink deals to accelerate Belt and Road China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation, as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbor increasingly isolated by the West. Emer McCarthy reports.
New tactic in combating exploding sea urchin population
As kelp forests off America's West Coast are being decimated by voracious urchins, threatening other species' survival, a unique partnership between scientists and a seafood company hopes to turn a menace into a meal
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TEL AVIV - Members of the Knesset for the ruling Likud party's main challenger, Blue and White, signed a letter in 2015 aimed at pressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel a meeting with then-presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
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Actress Bella Thorne has a thing for roses In a house of themed spaces, Thorne created a wall of roses for her ultra pink dining room. A hot glue gun is a key tool in her arsenal.
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A 'red hot' setup: Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant attempt to play cupid for their parents
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Winter storm affecting millions in the Midwest is headed for the Northeast All flights in and out of Chicago's O'Hare Airport were halted Friday night.
On Tuesday evening, the Democratic-debate moderator Brianne Pfannenstiel posed a challenging question to presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg. Tiffany, a young mother in Iowa who’d had to quit a job she loved because child care was eating up two-thirds of her income, had written in, pointing out that many parents in the state had to either quit their jobs or settle for cheaper, lower-quality child care. “How will you prioritize accessing quality affordable child care in your first 100 days in office?” Tiffany wanted to know.“It makes no sense for child care to cost two-thirds of somebody’s income. We’ve got to drive it to 7 percent or below, and zero for those families who are living in poverty,” Buttigieg began, citing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ standard of 7 percent of household income as the high-water mark for child-care affordability. “But this is happening to folks at every level of the income spectrum,” he added, promptly coining something like a catchphrase. “I meet professionals who sometimes say that they’re working in order to be able to afford child care, in order to be able to be working.”The ouroboros-like dilemma of having a job that only barely covers the expenses of child care, which you only need because you have a job, existed long before Pete Buttigieg put clever wording to it. Arguably, it has existed for as long as individual people have both worked and had kids, and has been exacerbated in the past half century by the normalization of households in which both parents or the sole parent work outside the home and the skyrocketing costs of child care. But working to afford child care, in order to work is both a catchy, pithy description of a problem that has plagued working parents for decades and an oversimplification of it.The average cost of child care in the United States is between $9,000 and $9,600, according to a 2019 report from the nonprofit group Child Care Aware; that comes out to about 11 percent of married couples’ income on average, and 36 percent of single parents’ income, according to the same report. But as Child Care Aware also notes, those averages don’t mean much when child care costs vary so wildly between states, between regions, and between urban and rural environments. In the Northeast region of the U.S., for example, the average cost of one year of child care for a four-year-old and an infant came out to more than $26,000. In Seattle, annual child care for just one infant can cost upwards of $23,000, eating up 62 percent of the median single-parent income in that area.As a result, Francine Blau, who teaches economics at Cornell University, noted that there are a lot of Tiffanys in the United States—working parents who watch in frustration as significant chunks of their paid income goes directly to child care and end up leaving the workforce because of it. “There’s considerable research that shows that the higher the cost of child care, the lower the probability that women will be in the labor force,” she said.Buttigieg’s framing, however—that many parents are working just to afford child care, and need child care because they work—also makes the problem seem deceptively easy to solve.If all or most of one parent’s income were being canceled out by the costs of child care, perhaps the obvious solution would be for that parent to simply, like Tiffany, stop working and stay at home. But as Blau pointed out, in many cases, it’s not a one-to-one ratio; a significant portion of the income may be going to child care, but perhaps the rest is needed to buy the groceries or make the monthly rent payment. “Even if [child care] is eating up half of a parent’s income, the family may need the other half so much that they just have to keep working,” Blau said. Buttigieg’s catchy phrasing, in other words, conveys what one might even say is the easiest version of this problem to solve: It implies a sort of perfectly symbiotic relationship between child care and paid income, like you could drop one and thus cancel the need for the other—when in reality, many couples need both.And single parents, Blau added, are in an even tougher spot. “Single parents have much less of a choice,” she said. Because in a single-parent household forfeiting one income would mean forfeiting the only income, “those parents just have to figure out how to do all of it.”[Read: Why child care is so expensive]There are two ways, Blau said, that governments can go about taking some of the child-care burden off of working parents’ shoulders: by providing subsidies or tax credits to help working parents pay for child care, or by providing the child care itself. Usually the latter involves something like the expansion of the existing public school system to also offer care for children younger than school age, she noted, and mentioned Sweden as an example.An adviser to Sweden’s minister of gender equality wrote in the New York Times in 2013 that the Swedish system is often called “educare” because of its two-pronged aim to “enable parents to combine parenthood with work or studies and to encourage children’s development and learning.” Fees for municipality-provided preschools “are directly proportional to the parents’ income and inversely proportional to the number of children in a family. The fee can be up to 3 percent of a family’s monthly income, but must never exceed 1,260 Swedish krona, or $196, per month.”Whether the United States will eventually adopt a similar system in the face of a growing child-care crisis—or choose to intervene in some other way—is, of course, a larger question. Americans, Blau noted, are often resistant to the idea of government-provided services, and might be especially skeptical of the idea of expanding public schools to include child care in a time when American students’ test scores are falling behind other developed countries’. Then again, she noted, it was only five or so decades ago that public schools successfully added, and swiftly normalized, a program that gave working parents an extra year of daytime child care: kindergarten.
Working to Afford Child Care So You Can Work On Tuesday evening, the Democratic-debate moderator Brianne Pfannenstiel posed a challenging question to presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg. Tiffany, a young mother in Iowa who’d had to quit a job she loved because child care was eating up two-thirds of her income, had written in, pointing out that many parents in the state had to either quit their jobs or settle for cheaper, lower-quality child care. “How will you prioritize accessing quality affordable child care in your first 100 days in office?” Tiffany wanted to know.“It makes no sense for child care to cost two-thirds of somebody’s income. We’ve got to drive it to 7 percent or below, and zero for those families who are living in poverty,” Buttigieg began, citing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ standard of 7 percent of household income as the high-water mark for child-care affordability. “But this is happening to folks at every level of the income spectrum,” he added, promptly coining something like a catchphrase. “I meet professionals who sometimes say that they’re working in order to be able to afford child care, in order to be able to be working.”The ouroboros-like dilemma of having a job that only barely covers the expenses of child care, which you only need because you have a job, existed long before Pete Buttigieg put clever wording to it. Arguably, it has existed for as long as individual people have both worked and had kids, and has been exacerbated in the past half century by the normalization of households in which both parents or the sole parent work outside the home and the skyrocketing costs of child care. But working to afford child care, in order to work is both a catchy, pithy description of a problem that has plagued working parents for decades and an oversimplification of it.The average cost of child care in the United States is between $9,000 and $9,600, according to a 2019 report from the nonprofit group Child Care Aware; that comes out to about 11 percent of married couples’ income on average, and 36 percent of single parents’ income, according to the same report. But as Child Care Aware also notes, those averages don’t mean much when child care costs vary so wildly between states, between regions, and between urban and rural environments. In the Northeast region of the U.S., for example, the average cost of one year of child care for a four-year-old and an infant came out to more than $26,000. In Seattle, annual child care for just one infant can cost upwards of $23,000, eating up 62 percent of the median single-parent income in that area.As a result, Francine Blau, who teaches economics at Cornell University, noted that there are a lot of Tiffanys in the United States—working parents who watch in frustration as significant chunks of their paid income goes directly to child care and end up leaving the workforce because of it. “There’s considerable research that shows that the higher the cost of child care, the lower the probability that women will be in the labor force,” she said.Buttigieg’s framing, however—that many parents are working just to afford child care, and need child care because they work—also makes the problem seem deceptively easy to solve.If all or most of one parent’s income were being canceled out by the costs of child care, perhaps the obvious solution would be for that parent to simply, like Tiffany, stop working and stay at home. But as Blau pointed out, in many cases, it’s not a one-to-one ratio; a significant portion of the income may be going to child care, but perhaps the rest is needed to buy the groceries or make the monthly rent payment. “Even if [child care] is eating up half of a parent’s income, the family may need the other half so much that they just have to keep working,” Blau said. Buttigieg’s catchy phrasing, in other words, conveys what one might even say is the easiest version of this problem to solve: It implies a sort of perfectly symbiotic relationship between child care and paid income, like you could drop one and thus cancel the need for the other—when in reality, many couples need both.And single parents, Blau added, are in an even tougher spot. “Single parents have much less of a choice,” she said. Because in a single-parent household forfeiting one income would mean forfeiting the only income, “those parents just have to figure out how to do all of it.”[Read: Why child care is so expensive]There are two ways, Blau said, that governments can go about taking some of the child-care burden off of working parents’ shoulders: by providing subsidies or tax credits to help working parents pay for child care, or by providing the child care itself. Usually the latter involves something like the expansion of the existing public school system to also offer care for children younger than school age, she noted, and mentioned Sweden as an example.An adviser to Sweden’s minister of gender equality wrote in the New York Times in 2013 that the Swedish system is often called “educare” because of its two-pronged aim to “enable parents to combine parenthood with work or studies and to encourage children’s development and learning.” Fees for municipality-provided preschools “are directly proportional to the parents’ income and inversely proportional to the number of children in a family. The fee can be up to 3 percent of a family’s monthly income, but must never exceed 1,260 Swedish krona, or $196, per month.”Whether the United States will eventually adopt a similar system in the face of a growing child-care crisis—or choose to intervene in some other way—is, of course, a larger question. Americans, Blau noted, are often resistant to the idea of government-provided services, and might be especially skeptical of the idea of expanding public schools to include child care in a time when American students’ test scores are falling behind other developed countries’. Then again, she noted, it was only five or so decades ago that public schools successfully added, and swiftly normalized, a program that gave working parents an extra year of daytime child care: kindergarten.
Italian authorities have confirmed a painting found hidden in the wall of a Piacenza art gallery is the long-lost "Portrait of a Lady" by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.
Painting found hidden in Italian gallery wall confirmed as long-lost Klimt Italian authorities have confirmed a painting found hidden in the wall of a Piacenza art gallery is the long-lost "Portrait of a Lady" by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt.
Buckingham Palace is in the middle of a royal shuffle, as members of the staff for Prince Harry and wife Meghan are being redeployed. Prince Harry is reportedly hoping to join his wife and son Archie in Canada after more meetings next week. Imtiaz Tyab is in London with the latest.
Harry and Meghan's future up in the air Buckingham Palace is in the middle of a royal shuffle, as members of the staff for Prince Harry and wife Meghan are being redeployed. Prince Harry is reportedly hoping to join his wife and son Archie in Canada after more meetings next week. Imtiaz Tyab is in London with the latest.
Millions in the path of a large-scale winter storm
Heavy snow will fall across two-thirds of the US, including the Midwest and Northeast, as millions remain in the path of a dangerous winter storm through the weekend.
Millions in the path of a large-scale winter storm Heavy snow will fall across two-thirds of the US, including the Midwest and Northeast, as millions remain in the path of a dangerous winter storm through the weekend.
Space X is gearing up for a crucial test that could help send astronauts to space from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade. The unmanned Dragon capsule will intentionally break off from the Falcon 9 rocket minutes after liftoff Sunday. The unmanned in-flight abort test aims to prove Space X can return astronauts to safety in the event of an emergency. Mark Strassman reports from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where Saturday's launch was postponed due to weather.
Space X launch scrubbed, flight aims to test safety procedures Space X is gearing up for a crucial test that could help send astronauts to space from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade. The unmanned Dragon capsule will intentionally break off from the Falcon 9 rocket minutes after liftoff Sunday. The unmanned in-flight abort test aims to prove Space X can return astronauts to safety in the event of an emergency. Mark Strassman reports from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where Saturday's launch was postponed due to weather.
Strum these: A $500K diamond-studded Fender Strat and an axe filled with water
Guitar sales are up, thanks to YouTube and Spotify where interest in classic rockers Tom Petty, Jimi Hendrix and Prince lives on.
Strum these: A $500K diamond-studded Fender Strat and an axe filled with water Guitar sales are up, thanks to YouTube and Spotify where interest in classic rockers Tom Petty, Jimi Hendrix and Prince lives on.
The Iowa caucuses look like a hot mess
First things first: The theme song of the week is Murder, She Wrote.
The Iowa caucuses look like a hot mess First things first: The theme song of the week is Murder, She Wrote.
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Certain victory for President Whatshisname
Tony Blair, or 'Mr Flash' as he is now known in Brussels, is not going to get the new EU presidency. The man shaping up to get the post is...well, what he looks like is becoming clear, but just who he is remains uncertain.
The back room dealing seems to have decided that he must be: first, from an EU country that is a member of all the deals -- the Schengen agreement, the single currency, the defence commitments, the lot. Second, from a country that is not too big, yet not too small. Third, is someone who in the past has successfully done a six-month stint in the rotating presidency of the European Council, but is still young enough not to look like a reheated left-over. Fourth, is from the centre-right grouping in Europe. The point of that is to allow the new EU foreign minister to be drawn from among the euro-left.
And fifth, is acceptable to Angela Merkel. In fact, you can forget points one to four. The only point that really counts is the fifth point, that the new president is acceptable to the German Chancellor. Such is her power she is already being called 'la grande électrice' -- the great voter.
There are only two European figures who seem to match all those points: Jan Peter Balkenende, prime minister of the Netherlands, and Wolfgang Schussel, former chancellor of Austria. In fact, most people reckon that only Balkenende really matches all the points, but Merkel is reckoned to think Schussel would make a good candidate, so he is in the running.
Luckily for both the men, 'global name recognition' has never actually been part of the job description, despite what the Blair camp has been pushing all these months. If either Balkenende or Schussel tried to walk into the US State Department, they'd most likely be tackled and cuffed by security as unknown aliens.
Some are worried of course because the thing Balkenende is best known for outside the Netherlands is looking like Harry Potter. His appearance might detract from whatever gravitas the euro-elite hope to add to the office.
I don't think they should worry about that. Since the new president's new foreign minister would be drawn from the left, that means David Miliband is well-placed to make it as the foreign minister. He looks like Donny Osmond. And what he looks like with that banana in his hand is anybody's guess. President Potter, by contrast, would look just fine.
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Cameron surrenders
David Cameron's position on the Lisbon Treaty has just moved from the deceitful and ambiguous to the dishonest and contemptible.
With the Czech president ready to sign the thing, Cameron has been forced to say more than just 'we will not let matters rest' if the treaty is in force when and if he becomes prime minister. And what he is now saying, in effect, is that he will not have his government do anything to change the effects of the treaty on Britain.
His line is now that the Tories will promise to pass a law giving a 'referendum guarantee' on all future transfers of power to Brussels. There are about three big things wrong with that statement, but start with number one: it implies that the transfers of powers to Brussels in the Lisbon Treaty and earlier treaties should therefore stand. All Cameron is now saying is that he will stop any more powers shifting to Brussels without holding a referendum.
So this is his position: under Lisbon, Britain loses control of its home office and justice policies, its foreign policy, its control over intelligence and the surveillance of citizens, it hands the fate of individual British people and businesses over to a new supreme court called the European Court of Justice and to arbitrary extradition to foreign courts, and so much more, and worse. But what Cameron is now saying is that all that is okay, he can live with that. His position is that he is willing to surrender Britain to Lisbon. He won't try to take back any of those powers handed to Brussels against the will of the people. Instead, he will just promise not to let any more go to Brussels, at least, not without a referendum.
But no law passed in Westminster can be immune to change by a future government. Even if such a promise of a law to force referenda on future issues had any point -- and it hasn't, and I will get to that in a moment -- it could be changed by whatever government succeeds a Cameron government. It is a meaningless promise.
More, one of the many powers the Lisbon Treaty hands to Brussels is a new power which will allow the treaty to be self-amending. That means that the necessity of the European Union institutions getting permission from the member states for an increase in powers will now no longer be necessary: the Lisbon Treaty is not only Britain's new constitution, it is Britain's new constitution which can be changed by groups of foreign powers gathered behind closed doors in Brussels.
And Cameron is willing to let that stand, because 'senior Tories' -- unnamed, but try the names Clarke and Helseltine -- 'accept it would be futile to hold a referendum on a treaty that has already been ratified across the EU.' Tripe.
One, Cameron has led the British to believe he will give them a chance to vote on the treaty, and it is contemptible now to let the Tory euro-quislings lead him to betray this trust. It would not be 'futile' to hold a referendum, it would be principled and just.
Second, Martin Howe QC, who recently contributed to the drafting of the Conservative Party's Bill for a Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, told me earlier this month how a future Tory government could proceed to get fundamental changes made to the Lisbon Treaty: 'An incoming Conservative government should proceed at first by reasoned argument, politely asking our European partners to agree to the changes which it seeks by pointing out the advantages of an improved and more harmonious relationship in the future between the UK and its partners. It should also emphasise that the Lisbon Treaty has no political legitimacy whatever in the UK because it was pushed through Parliament in breach of Labour's election commitment to hold a referendum on the European Constitution -- of which Lisbon is just a re-hash.'
'If reasoned argument falls on deaf ears then an incoming Conservative government would be politically and morally justified in taking stronger steps to secure redress for the offensive imposition of the Lisbon Treaty without a vote of the people. Until its grievance is remedied, the UK should veto any further treaty changes and any other increases in EU powers which require unanimous assent, such as budget increase. If other member states try to abuse their powers under the Treaties by forcing through measures under QMV [qualified majority vote] which are targeted against us, we should not hesitate to disapply those measures under our own law.'
Yet Cameron, or whichever euro-quisling has his hand up Cameron's back and is moving his mouth, says such a clear and forceful move by a British government would be based on 'isolationism' and not 'realism.' That was a bad choice of words by the Tory leader. Some of us have been covering this story so long that we recognise the vocabulary. It is the vocabulary of deceit which the Howe-Heseltine-Clarke team of euro-collaborators worked out to undermine Margaret Thatcher's attempts to resist European demands for Britain to hand over ever-more power to Brussels.
Britain remains, despite these years of Blair-Brown government, one of the greatest economic, financial, trade and military powers of the world. Cameron would like us to believe that if we do not please some team of Belgium-Finland-Portugal and whatever other little chaps who may gather around France, then Britain will be 'isolated.' It is not possible to isolate Britain. Even if Britain left the EU altogether, it would not be possible to isolate Britain. All European countries trade freely with each other, even the ones such as oil-rich Norway and bank-rich Switzerland, who are not and do not want to be members of the EU.
As for being 'isolationist' -- Cameron needs to tell his party just when he decided 'independence' is to be condemned as 'isolation.'
And in all of this, what is to become of William Hague? He has over these past years staked out his position against the euro-quisling collaboration pushed by men such as Heseltine and Clarke. Will he, can he, stay on a front bench where such surrender has become policy? If he does, he will be no better than Cameron. And Cameron is no good at all.
Comrade UKIP
I'm at the European Council here in Brussels, it's 8 o'clock and the Euro-heavies such as Sarkozy, Merkel and the rest are about to go into their private, flash dinner. It is a bit like waiting outside the Sistine Chapel for the white smoke. At some point, the prime ministers and presidents are going to have to decide among themselves if Blair is going to get the EU presidency or not. Not that they will tell us tonight...
Some of us out here corralled in the press bar have noticed we hear UKIP politicians quoting Lenin: 'Worse is better.' By 'worse,' they mean Tony Blair as the new 5-year President of the European Council. UKIP reckon a President Tony would be a vote-getter for them.
I'd say they are right. But I'd also say -- and I've heard it from both the Continental left and the British right - that Blair is going to be stopped. The price may be David Miliband as EU foreign minister.
When Lenin said 'worse,' did he ever imagine 'worse' could be bad enough to include Miliband?
L'Europe, c'est moi, at £900,000 a day
It's been pretty clear for some time -- well, clear to me at least -- that there is one overriding reason why President Sarkozy of France has been pushing for Tony Blair to be made the first President of the European Council, in effect, to be made the first head of state of this new country called the EU.
It is because Blair is the only European politician whose vanity Sarkozy can count on to aggrandise the office. I'm dead sure Sarkozy reckons that after he is through being president of a country which is second-rate in terms of international influence, he can become President of Europe. That would let him claim to be the equal to the American president and the Chinese dictator.
But he wants to make sure that no dull Dutch or Finnish technocrat takes the job first and shapes it into not much more than a five-year term as a conference-convener.
Sarko intends to inherit a presidency with grandeur, and he knows that among European politicians he has only one equal in the love of the gilded life: Tony Blair. If the French president can get Blair into the office first, he can be sure that Tony and Cherie between them will inject enough limousines, private jets, state banquets and ceremony to keep him happy when he arrives to take over.
What Sarko dreams of is being the 21st century Sun King. He knows Tony will lay out a path to euro-Versailles for him.
Just how much grandeur does Sarkozy imagine Europe owes him? Yesterday the EU Court of Auditors published their accounts of his spending during the six months France held the rotating EU presidency last year. The accounts show the French president was spending European taxpayers' money at the rate of about £900,000 a day, making the total spend for the 26 weeks in which France held the presidency equal to £154m.
Among the most absurdly immoderate of the spending binges by Monsieur le Roi Soleil-Rotating President was his EU-Mediterranean summit, which cost £15m for two days' frolics. Calculations for the cost per head of the big-event dinner was £4,500.
Imagine Sarkozy having the run of the European president's entertainment budget for a full five years.
Lesson: never cooperate, never collaborate, never compromise
Collaborators always learn too late.
Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, spent €500,000 of the airline's money to help lock up a Yes vote in Ireland's recent referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
Among other things -- among too many other, and ghastly things -- the treaty will allow the EU to impose direct taxation.
Today a document leaked from the European Commission to Open Europe has come to light. It shows that among the means by which Brussels intends to raise revenue for the ever-increasing EU budget is by levies on flights.
Given how much fuss O'Leary has been making over a €10 tourist tax imposed on airfares in Ireland, I can expect he will get even more steamed up when the Commission loads something similar on airfares across 27 countries.
Earlier this month, O'Leary and other Irish airline executives issued a statement claiming that since the €10 tax was imposed last April, monthly traffic at Dublin airport has fallen by 15 percent. That represents a loss of three million passengers in just a single, small EU country.Try it at a multiple of 27 countries and a loss of tens of millions of Ryanair passengers.
To quote Ayn Rand: 'Evil requires the sanction of the victim.'
Or as some eurocrat might put it: 'Thanks, sucker.'
So, Mr Griffin, which British aboriginals, exactly?
I thought I'd run this picture from the Daily Mail in the blog in response to Nick Griffin's insistence on the protection of what he calls British 'Aboriginals.'
I've spent a big part of my life in England, so I'm very familiar with the many different tribes of British aboriginals. There is the type seen here on the left, in a picture taken from Thursday's Daily Mail. I've run it because it is not being seen just by the millions who read the newspaper and the website. The American-based news website Drudge Report is running it, too, and Drudge has 24m hits a day. A few more of these pictures and in America the term 'frightfully British' will mean only 'incontinent vulgar drunken Anglo-Saxon.' Up until now, it has only meant, 'bad teeth and indifferent personal hygiene.'
Then again, there are other tribes of British Aboriginals. The excellent Tory MEP Daniel Hannan mentioned just such people in his blog the other day, and I recognised them from my time living in Hampshire. Back from Brussels and visiting his constituency, Hannan 'was struck by how unpolitical most Tories are. They are good citizens, who run almost every local voluntary association, from the British Legion to the Neighbourhood Watch. Although they dislike paying tax, they give generously to charity...they are utterly without the self-righteous hatred of the other side that one so often finds on the Left.' (He left out that they all wear cardigans and have a rota for the flowers in the church).
I'd picture most of such British Aboriginals like this (below), no matter whether they are Tories or not. Here is a pair of World War II Land Girls reunited recently:
What I would never imagine in the midst of such a decent tribe is a man like Nick Griffin. What the Question Time confirmed was what was obvious anyway: Mr Griffin is dull-witted, undereducated and crass. He and his party have succeeded only because the other parties have deserted one of the most unhappy of the British aboriginal tribes, the white jobless ex-industrial working class.
Question Time confirmed two other things. First, that other politicians don't know how to deal with him. The Tory, Labour and LibDem pols went on the show and started off at maximum indignation-pitch. That was not the way to do it. It only made Griffin look more dangerous than he is.
Second, the show confirmed that the non-politician on the panel, the writer Bonnie Greer, is one very cool woman, in both senses of the word. She knew just how to pitch her response to Griffin -- slightly amused, slightly interested, utterly un-intimidated, very relaxed, very well informed.
I was longing for her to paraphrase Disraeli: 'Yes, I am a black, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were trading gold, gems and rare spices with the princes of the Mediterranean.'
Patten, up close and canine
Speaking of the eurofanatic undead of the Tory party, Chris Patten is back in the news today. According to an Open Europe translation of an interview in El Pais, the ex-Commissioner for External Relations has said Tony Blair is not suitable for the job of EU President, but the former Spanish prime minister, Felipe Gonzáles would be a 'very good candidate.'
Great, now we have a Tory pushing for a socialist as EU President. But then, Patten is auditioning for the job of EU Foreign Minister, so maybe that is just casting-couch stuff.
Still, I have a slight soft-spot for Patten. My last flat in Brussels shared a landing with the flat Patten kept when he was Commissioner. He wasn't around much -- Commissioners spend most of their time in air planes -- but sometimes in the morning my spaniel-ish dog and I would get to the small lift at the same moment as Patten and his driver-bagman. The flunky would indicate my dog and I were to wait until the lift returned. Patten however would wave us in: he clearly grasped the urgent need for dogs to get outside first thing in the morning.
The Commissioner perhaps would not have been so friendly if he had realised my dog also had the habit of getting onto his side of the balcony and standing, transfixed and tail-wagging, at the Patten bedroom window. What the dog was looking at I do not know and do not want to imagine.
The shameful silence of the Tories
As Vaclac Klaus is smeared and threatened by eurofanatic politicians across Europe, not one word of condemnation of this bullying has been spoken by David Cameron or anyone on the Conservative front bench. Yet of course Klaus is the one man who has offered the British any hope they may yet escape from the new EU constitution.
No, all we hear from the Tories instead is that Michael Heseltine is now due to join Ken Clarke in any Cameron government. Heseltine and Clarke are the two men who led the Conservatives into policies of British surrender on Europe.
Cameron's silence on the bullying of Klaus and his open support for Tory quislings tells us exactly what we can expect any Cameron government to look like. And here it is:
Vichy forgets
This man (above) is Bernard Kouchner, French Foreign Minister. Yesterday he joined in the threats being made by Germany and other European powers against Vaclac Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, who is refusing to sign the Lisbon Treaty. Kouchner sneered at the attempts by Klaus to protect his country's sovereignty: 'A single man will not know how to oppose the will of 500 million Europeans.'
Kouchner should not be so sure. This man (below) knew how.
In Prague: Very well then, alone
Just in case you are wondering where President Klaus of the Czech Republic finds the courage to resist German-led demands that he surrender Czech sovereignty and sign the Lisbon Treaty, I give you a reminder of the last time Germany insisted on a united Europe: German tanks, 1939.
Mr Klaus is now insisting his country be given an opt-out from the treaty's charter of fundamental rights. Without an opt-out, he says, there is a danger that the heirs of the Sudeten Germans - the ethnic Germans who were thrown out of the Sudetenland after 1945 for collaborating with the German invaders -- could go to the European court to claim back their family property.
The demands by Mr Klaus are finding resonance with the Czechs. But fears of a flood of Germans into what were within living memory Nazi-occupied territories are not confined to the Czechs. In 1992, the Danes insisted on an opt-out from the Maastricht Treaty which would allow them to keep their laws prohibiting German property ownership on the coast. Even now, the sight of German-registered Mercedes-Benz muscling into rented holiday properties in Jutland can cause anxiety among Danes.
An update, Oct 15: Open Europe has just published a translation of a comment by a German Euro-MP, Jo Leinen, published in the Prague Monitor. Leinen, a social democrat, says that 'If he [Klaus] refused to sign the Lisbon treaty after the positive decision of the Czech Constitutional Court, other constitutional institutions should launch impeachment of him.'
This is beyond arrogant. Any attempt by any foreign politician to overturn the constitutionally-established head of state of another country is wrong; having a German try it on the Czech president is outrageous. I can't even be bothered to say, 'How dare a Berlin politician behave like that?' I'll go straight to what I heard from a cockney years ago: 'Give 'em two coats of grey paint and they'll start it all over again.'
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Here are the priciest resi sales in Chicago this week
The list includes a condo at Hayden West Loop and 3 homes in Lincoln Park
By Brianna Kelly
From left: 1109 W. Washington Blvd., 1943 W. Cortland St., 2753 N. Hampden Ct. (Credit: Redfin)
Three homes in Lincoln Park made the list of the five priciest residential sales in Chicago this week. The trio was divided up into a condo unit, a single-family home and a three-flat. The top-floor condo was the priciest of the lot.
But the residential sale that took the overall top spot on this week’s list was also a flip. The three-bedroom condo unit in the Hayden West Loop sold for $2.5 million.
The total of $9.9 million for all five was slightly below the previous week’s $12.7 million total. Maybe that can be blamed on the runup to Thanksgiving and the inevitable tryptophan overload?
Price and property details were found using Redfin, from Nov. 22 to Nov. 29.
1109 W. Washington Blvd. 6D | $2.5 million | West Loop
In the swanky Hayden West Loop building, many of the condos have sold for more than $2 million and a handful have sold for over $4 million. This three bedroom, 3.5 bath condo on the sixth floor of the 28-unit building has a private elevator. It also boasts walk-in pantries, built-in espresso machine and an oversized terrace. The nearly 3,300-square-foot unit sold for $2.2 million in July. By September it was back on the market, with a $2.6 million asking price. Amir Fouad of @properties represented the seller and Dina Howell of @properties represented the buyer.
1943 W. Cortland St. | $2.2 million | Bucktown
An adjacent lot was included in the sale of this five bedroom, 3.5 bath single family home in Bucktown. The lot can be used as a side yard or sold separately from the three-story home. At more than 4,500 square feet, the house boasts a recently-renovated kitchen, mahogany soaking tub in the master suite bathroom and a large deck on the first level. The home previously sold for $1.9 million in August 2017. It was listed by Jeff Lowe of Compass. Amanda McMillan of @properties represented the buyer.
2753 N. Hampden Court 5B | $1.8 million | Lincoln Park
This condo on the top floor of the 15-unit Hampdens building has four bedrooms and 4.5 baths. At nearly 3,000 square feet, its features include a large outdoor terrace, wet bar with wine fridge and two heated covered parking spaces. Raj and Niles Patel of Core Luxury Real Estate Inc. had the listing.
1930 N. Cleveland Ave. | $1.8 million | Lincoln Park
This four-bedroom, 3.5 bath home recently underwent a renovation that updated the kitchen, family room and bathrooms. Five fireplaces are spread throughout the is 4,400-square-foot, three-story home, which also features outdoor spaces. It was listed by Janet Owen of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff. Jeff Lowe of Compass represented the buyer.
2238 N. Burling St. | $1.3 million | Lincoln Park
There are a total of six bedrooms and four bathrooms in this brick three-flat in Lincoln Park, which dates to 1886. It was advertised as a rare opportunity to convert to a single family home or build new. There is just one other sale in Redfin’s records, which shows it was purchased for $338,000 in May 1993. Cindy Wilson of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff had the listing. The buyer was represented by @properties broker Emily Sachs Wong.
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The Impossible Burger is Worth the Animal Testing
Evan Anderson May 8, 2019 May 3, 2019 Activities
Plant-based burgers are experiencing quite the renaissance right now. The Beyond Burger has been available at Carl’s Jr. for quite some time; the Impossible burger is set to be available at Burger King nationwide; Del Taco now has a Beyond Meat taco; and the Impossible burger is popping up in smaller restaurants all over. Just last week, Beyond Meat went public, with extraordinary results so far, and Impossible Foods is reportedly struggling to keep up with demand.
These are reflective of a surging interest in plant-based burgers. People are trying the Beyond Burger and the Impossible burger and are finding that it scratches their meat itch, and opting for these animal-free options rather than beef patties.
So everyone’s happy, right? Of course not, it’s 2019.
With the rising popularity of the Impossible burger has come reinvigorated scrutiny of the company’s decision to use animal testing. In August 2017, Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown addressed the ‘agonizing dilemma’ of being forced to conduct animal testing in an open letter.
In the letter, Brown outlines the reason the animal testing was conducted: the company discovered that heme, an iron-containing molecule, was the key to creating a product that tastes like real meat. They discovered a way to produce heme in large quantities by “using yeast modified with a gene from a plant,” the letter says.
Because the process of creating this heme was novel, they were required to obtain approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Says Brown, “[W]e believed that there was sufficient compelling scientific evidence for the safety of our heme protein (soy leghemoglobin) that no rat testing was required for conclusive proof of its safety.”
Unfortunately, they were wrong. Although a panel of experts in 2014 deemed the ingredient “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS), and voluntarily submitted their data to the FDA, the FDA still “had some questions.”
Although Brown does not go into detail about what these questions were, he implies that animal testing was the only way to address these questions: “The FDA reviewed the data and had some questions. To address them, we conducted additional tests. It is industry standard to perform rat feeding studies to demonstrate that a food ingredient is not toxic and is safe; most companies that submit a GRAS notification to the FDA include tests that use animals as subjects.”
Brown is candid about his struggle with this:
I personally abhor the exploitation of animals not only in the food system but in testing and research. In my 3-decade career in biomedical research, I always avoided using animals in experiments and developed new experimental methods to eliminate the incentive for using them. And I have been a vegetarian for more than 40 years and have totally avoided animal products for the last fourteen years.
But we were confronted with an agonizing dilemma: We knew from our research that heme is absolutely essential to the sensory experience meat lovers crave. Replacing animals in the diets of meat lovers would absolutely require heme. So without the rat testing, our mission and the future of billions of animals whose future depends on its success was thwarted. We chose the least objectionable of the two choices available to us.
Brown goes on to explain how the company minimized the harm this testing would inflict, including by using the smallest number of rats possible to produce statistically valid results; using rigorous methods that ensured it would never have to be done again; and selecting the most humane lab they could find.
Nonetheless, as PETA reported, 188 rats were killed following the trial. PETA characterizes the decision to test on rats as “voluntary,” and that Brown “admitted that the test didn’t have to be conducted,” but does not cite any source to support this claim. In a rather tone-deaf diatribe, PETA goes on to list other vegan burgers, like the Beyond Burger, which were not tested on animals.
But as much as vegans enjoy the Impossible burger, it’s not really for us. Many vegans abhor the taste of meat, and the idea of eating something that’s meant to taste like meat evokes disgust. I enjoy the Impossible burger, but I understand that other vegans don’t like the taste.
It’s for meat-eaters, and it makes little sense to disparage the company for following the standard process to produce a product that will save lives.
Let’s think about this for a minute. Let’s take Brown’s word for it that without animal testing, the ingredient would have been less likely to be approved (the alternative seems to be the nonsensical notion that he actually is in favor of animal testing and lied about it, despite being vegan — unless he’s lying about that, too!). Let’s also put cows and rats on equal footing — any harm we cause to a cow is just as wrong as any harm we cause to a rat. Even though this is neuroanatomically unlikely, since a cow is likely to be significantly more sentient than a rat, let’s just go with it.
If 188 rats died to produce the Impossible burger, if the burger saves 188 cows, it’s neutral — neither a net positive nor a net negative. You don’t need me to spell this out for you, but I will anyway: way, way more than 188 cows have been saved because of the Impossible burger. Therefore, the Impossible burger is a net positive — and a rather extraordinary one at that, given its popularity even among meat-eaters.
And it doesn’t even make sense to be opposed to vegans eating the Impossible burger, either. The animal testing was already completed; unless we are to believe that consuming an Impossible burger is to somehow stomp on the grave of those poor rats, there is simply no argument that eating one causes further harm in any way.
On top of that, even if the animal testing was completely unnecessary, it was probably still worth it. Alternative forms of testing other than animal testing would have undoubtedly caused delays in the Impossible burger coming to market; even if this delay was only a single day, since the Impossible burger sells more than 188 burgers in a day, they would still be doing the right thing by opting for animal testing. Think about the number of people consuming an Impossible burger today who would otherwise have have a regular beef burger. That number is certainly higher than 188. If Impossible Foods didn’t conduct animal testing to gain approval, those people would be eating a beef burger today. That’s a far worse scenario.
So yes, the Impossible burger was worth the animal testing. As Brown states at the end of his letter, “choosing the option that advances the greater good is more important to us than ideological purity.”
Now that’s a company I can get behind.
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Primal says:
A cow is more sentient than a rat? Where on earth would you get that idea?
The Reasoned Vegan says:
The idea is that sentience roughly corresponds to brain size. Small differences in brain size — such as the variation we might see in humans — is unlikely to predict level of sentience. On the other hand, large differences in brain size — like that between a rat and a cow — almost certainly correspond to differences in level of sentience.
That way of reasoning is speciesism. The thing we should fight as vegans, you know?
Hey there – I’ve written elsewhere about how speciesism isn’t necessarily harmful.
https://thereasonedvegan.com/2018/01/18/speciesist-and-vegan/
TL;DR, one can value a human life more than the life of a mouse without causing harm to the mouse. But if we believe that this superiority justifies killing a mouse, then it’s a problem. Speciesism isn’t harmful unless and until it’s used to justify causing harm to a sentient creature. Even further, I would argue that we are all valuing our own life more than other animals’, because even a vegan existence contributes to animal suffering — just far less than a vegetarian or omnivore.
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Why You Need to See Kubo and the Two Strings
August 25, 2016 November 29, 2016
A beautiful woman navigates the seas one stormy night, her eyes heavy with sorrow and exhaustion. Powerful currents pull her back towards danger, but fear pushes her forward. A wave rises forty, fifty feet above her, and as it is about to crash down on her, she holds up a pick and strikes her three-stringed shamisen (Japanese lute).
The sound waves slice through the water, and the woman reaches the shore. She unwraps a bundle of cloth, and inside is an infant Kubo, a bandage over his left eye.
“My grandfather took something from me,” Kubo narrates, “but that was the least of it.”
Laika Studio’s Kubo and the Two Strings opens with a short but powerful introduction.
Already we know this is some good old-fashioned storytelling. Magic? Check. Runaway? Check. Mysterious scar/injury? Check. Tyrannical male relative? You betcha.
From here on out, Kubo embarks on a quest to find a magic set of armor, and each stage of his journey introduces an eccentric sidekick.
“I. Love. You….Monkey?”
It’s difficult to figure out which character I love best from Laika Studios’ Kubo and the Two Strings. And what a beautiful problem that is to have. On the one hand there’s the gruff but completely lovable Monkey voiced by Charlize Theron.
On the other hand there’s Matthew McConaughey’s equally lovable and endearingly dim-witted Beetle, a six-legged bug-human-hybrid with a heart of gold. And, of course, there’s Kubo (Game of Thrones’ Art Parkinson) himself: a one-eyed boy who carries far too many sorrows on his young shoulders.
Laika’s gorgeous animation style captures both the love and ferocity within each character: Monkey’s fur looks soft enough to touch but her steely expression holds no softness.
Beetle’s armor is dark and unbreakable, but his eyes are bright and often…vacant. Kubo lets his hair fall around his face in a carefree rather than morose way. A great responsibility weighs on him, but he stops to marvel at the music and magic of the world.
And that’s another great aspect of the film: its magic. Many sci-fi and fantasy films these days over-explain why a magic or alternate world is the way it is. Sometimes the lore is really interesting and sometimes it’s an annoying, unnecessary exposition.
Kubo, however, keeps it to a minimum.
That’s pretty much how the magic works for the rest of the film. Where did the shamisen come from and how does it work? What are the limits or possibilities of Kubo and his mother’s powers? Is the magic infinite? Does it drain the user?
The ambiguity, in a way, gives more credibility to this beautiful and fantastical world that director Travis Knight has created.
Where Kubo falls short though is its timing. At an hour and forty minutes it’s longer than the average kids’ movie, but the final act felt a bit rushed.
Monkey is introduced early in the film, so she has a good amount of time to evolve and have a strong character arc.
Beetle, however, shows up significantly later and his arc is pushed aside so that he can continue to be the boneheaded comic relief.
Honestly, it’s pretty cute and I wouldn’t give up any Beetle screen time, but his “big moment” (I can’t say much more without spoiling it) is incredibly rushed and short-lived as the story jumps back to Kubo’s quest.
Then there’s the big bad villain, Kubo’s sinister grandfather (voiced by Ralph Fiennes).
Ralph Fiennes is always good at bringing the terror and malevolence to a character, so he’s nothing to sneeze at when he finally confronts Kubo.
However, the fight is a little…awkward. The first blow Kubo deals looks like the death stroke, but Grandfather seems unaffected. And every subsequent blow seems less and less effective.
But the themes of love and acceptance to bring the movie back to its warm, gooey center just in time for the credits to start rolling.
Ultimately, the first eighty minutes were spectacular, amazing, movie-going bliss while the last twenty minutes were a brief hangover. Despite my hatred of hangovers, Kubo and the Two Strings is a drink I would gladly have again.
★★★★ Kubo and the Two Strings has its narrative shortcomings, but they are overshadowed by heartwarming characters brought to life by mesmerizing feats of stop-motion technology.
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Moe ran as fast as he could towards the chateau. He was sure that the answer to his mysterious adventure would be found inside its walls. If he could just get in touch with Francois Lambert, Moe thought, but the Frenchman had also vanished and the police were on the lookout for any sign of him.
When Moe reached the chateau he was able to slip inside using the skeleton key Francois had given him so he could use the bathroom facilities on the ground floor of the house. Moe had never gone any further inside than that and so it was with some trepidation he began to look around inside the huge building.
When Moe reached the chateau he was able to slip inside using the skeleton key Francois had given him so he could use the bathroom facilities on the ground floor of the house. Moe had never gone any further inside than that and so it was with some trepidation he began to look around inside the huge building. Down in the wine cellar Moe found evidence that there had been someone else in the chateau after he had locked up the last time. There were footsteps in the dust and signs that something on one of the walls had been disturbed.
He paused for a moment, did he want to risk getting trapped underground again, especially when he still hadn't been in touch with Grayson to let him know he was okay and would be coming home soon? As he was pondering on what to do next, Moe noticed a niche in the wall he hadn't spotted originally as it was partially hidden next to a shelving unit. Inside was another book.
Gingerly he drew the book out and went back through into the Butler's Pantry to sit down and examine his discovery. It was another diary, this one had been written by Monique's Lady's Maid, a woman called Marie.
Rapidly turning the pages, Moe found his explanation for the tragic outcome of Francois and Monique's love story. It seemed Marie had been paid by a man called Javier Foulk to intercept the letters between the lovers. He was Monique's guardian, a miserable young man who stood to inherit all of her wealth if she died unmarried. His father had been a great friend of Monique's father, Marie had written, but unfortunately his son had not had the same strength of character.
Marie herself had been seduced by Javier and had fallen pregnant. He had promised he would marry her if she helped him discredit Francois so that Monique wouldn't marry him.
Moe wiped at his eyes as he continued to read the tale of woe for, true to form, Javier had proved a liar and Marie had been shamed as an unwed mother. Monique had vanished before Marie had been able to tell her the truth and Francois left the country shortly after and so the involvement of Javier had never been discovered. Moe drove back into Champ Les Sims to visit the local Gendarmerie and to hand over both the diaries. He hoped they would be able to investigate further and clear up the mysterious disappearance of Monique and lay her ghost to rest. He also hoped that poor Marie was at peace knowing that the authorities would be doing their utmost to find Javier and bring him to justice.
As for him, he was going to catch the next flight back to the Cape and home to Grayson and Violetta. Grayson thought he was going mad. He couldn't understand where Moe was when he'd been seen in Champs Les Sims but still hadn't returned home. He'd taken to visiting the local cemetery where he sobbed his heart out night after night as their regular babysitter looked after Violetta.
Eventually Aeisha and Morgan Inkbeard brought him to his senses by pointing out that Violetta already had one Dad missing and that Grayson's actions were causing her to miss out on more fatherly affection as he spiralled into the depths of despair. Moe was waiting at the airport for his flight home. He'd popped into the cafe to get something to eat when he was approached by a woman he thought he'd seen before at the Nectary in the company of a photographer.
She asked if he was Moe Pesce and if he was responsible for creating the beautiful garden at the old chateau in Champs Les Sims. When Moe confirmed he was the landscape gardener, she revealed her name as Suzie Clapper, a journalist employed by the glossy magazine Lifestyle Now and that her employers wished to add him to their books as their gardening expert for an extortionate sum of money as a retainer. Grayson was reading, Violetta was upstairs asleep and life had settled into something of a routine when his phone rang. Glancing at the caller ID Gray let out a shriek, it was Moe's number displaying on the screen.
Quickly he answered the call and heard the voice of his beloved on the other end telling him not to worry he was about to catch a flight home from Champs Les Sims and Grayson simply wouldn't believe the story he had to tell him when he got back. When Moe got home Grayson was painting, as he usually was once Violetta was safely tucked up in bed. He heard a soft sound behind him and, turning, was back in the arms of the love of his life.
Tears poured down both men's faces as they clung to each other, incoherent words of endearment floating off onto the night air.
It was a long night as they stayed up well into the early hours, Moe explaining everything that had happened to him while he was away and Grayson updating him on Violetta's development. Moe couldn't wait to see his daughter and as soon as it was late enough, he went into her bedroom to wake her up. Violetta was too small to articulate her joy at her Daddy's return, but she threw her arms around Moe's neck and wouldn't let go.
It was a joyful family which settled down to breakfast, Grayson kept holding Moe's hand as if he expected him to disappear again and Violetta was chattering away in her own baby talk and life settled back down into a comfortable routine.
Fate smiled as she had one final hand to play and this one would be a wild card.
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#1Midnight222Apr 27, 2011
Great to catch up with this family again but I have to say way too short and way too long between the previous chapter and this one. I love your writing style and I am looking forward to the next chapter.
#2FlatterApr 27, 2011
Lots of strange happenings and lots of open questions. Why didn't Moe call Grayson immediately after leaving the underground? He should care more for the feelings of his lover than spending the next hours with reading! Why is the chateau deserted again? And why are there so many diaries lying around (and why did Marie leave her diary when she left)? The story gets more interesting with each chapter!
#3emilymarie0201Apr 27, 2011
I'm so glad you wrote another chapter! I wish it wasn't so short though I hope you updated sooner rather than later!
#4fredbrennyApr 27, 2011
Thanks for another upload! Have to agree with Kaz and Em...too short I'd LOVE to read more about this family. And yes... like Flatter mentions.... why are all these very personal diaries everywhere? Beautiful screenies too. Hurry up with the next part!!!
#5spladoumApr 27, 2011
This is one of those chapters that raises significantly more questions than it answers. I wonder if we'll ever really know the whole truth of this mystery ...
#6MangioMay 4, 2011
Congrats on the feature Wish the story was a tad longer.. The mystery is such a suspense.. Violet is so cute Can't wait for more
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Barclays U18 Premier League: Man City’s Winning Streak Halted By Bolton
Posted by Tom Bennett ⋅ February 16, 2014 ⋅ Leave a comment
Filed Under Barclays U18 Premier League, Bolton Wanderers, Brandon Barker, Elliot Newby, Jamie Thomas, Jason Wilcox, Jorge Intima, Manchester City, Thierry Ambrose, Tom Walker
Jorge Intima starred for City in a squad that was by no means under-par.
Manchester City’s 13-match winning streak came to an abrupt end yesterday morning as they were thrashed 5-2 by Bolton Wanderers.
Kean Bryan, Thierry Ambrose, Brandon Barker and Jorge Intima all featured for City in a side that couldn’t have been much stronger.
Tom Walker and Jamie Thomas put the Trotters 2-0 up before half-time and Elliot Newby fired them 3-0 ahead just after the break.
But City looked to have launched a comeback and possibly got themselves back in the game when Barker and Ambrose struck within two minutes of each other to reduce the deficit to just one goal.
Walker and Thomas both netted their second goals of the game to put the hosts 5-2 up by the final whistle and revive their otherwise disappointing season in true fashion.
Full results: (via @chelseayouth)
Bolton 5-2 Man City (Thomas 2, Walker 2, Newby (BWFC); Ambrose, Barker (MCFC)), West Ham 4-0 Reading (Makasi, Bywater, Gordon, Nasha (WHU)), Middlesbrough 4-0 Wolves (Cooke, McCarthy, Griffiths, Jowers (MFC)), Norwich 3-1 A.Villa (Randall 2, Byrne-Hewitt (NCFC); Abdo (AVFC)), Tottenham 3-0 Leicester (Akindayini 2, Ogilvie (THFC)), Chelsea 2-2 Arsenal (Clarke-Salter, Abraham (CFC); Smith, Mavididi (AFC)), Liverpool 1-0 Sunderland (Phillips (LFC)).
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May 19 2007 5 Comments
Tokyo tickle
With Tokyo literally teeming with a multitude of maid cafes, all the way from fairly regular cosplay-themed retreats to convent-like coffee shops, it was arguably only a matter of time before a more mature take on the trend was introduced — the cleverly named haunt Hand Maid being decidedly more interested in draining its customers vessels than keeping them topped up.
In fact, dispensing with beverages altogether, the establishment — which has a branch in both Tokyo and Osaka — offers a much more hands-on approach, with its maid uniform-clad staff members offering those who have been palmed off by their partners, or are reluctant to try out some rough and ready robotic relief, a little more of the human touch.
Details of the various specialities on offer can be seen at the official site here, which perhaps predictably also includes a schoolgirl outfit option; however despite the lack of nudity and mostly manga depicted deeds, it’s perhaps not exactly best suited for browsing at work or when grandma is about.
All in all, a place where a myriad of variations are available, provided of course the customer doesn’t decide to rub the staff up the wrong way. Plus, in true maid style, the personal service is second to none, and with bookings also available, the staff are more than happy to wait patiently for each customer to come.
Categorized: Food and Drink, Sex
Bill Clinton says
Sounds like a great idea…only question is…do they wash their hands off before they bring me my cup of coffee? I don’t take cream with my coffee, bleh.
allen yee says
there is new british UK movie now same theme IRINA PALM with Marianne Faitfull playing , er, palmist…..
Ben says
Where’s the Tokyo one located? I only see Umeda in Osaka listed on the site
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A MIDI signal transmitted by changing the pressure of a MIDI controller while it's held. (Useful for creating crescendos or decrescendos). There are two types of aftertouch: Channel Pressure (Monophonic Aftertouch) and Key Pressure (Polyphonic Aftertouch).
alternate notation
Alternate methods of notating music, such as slash notation, which indicate free interpretation or "comping" of passages. Finale also displays one and two-bar repeat symbols.
Assignment List
A list of staves designated for expression assignment. An Assignment List can be chosen directly from the Assign popup menu of the Expression Selection dialog box. Assignment Lists are defined in the Assign to Staves dialog box.
Assignment Lists
An imaginary line used to align the bottom edge of font characters. Finale displays arrows that control the baseline positioning for lyrics and chords.
beat chart
A set of handles (accessed through the Measure tool) used to adjust the horizontal position of notes. Handles appear either on the beat (Beat Spacing) or on each note of a measure (Note Spacing). Adjusting the handle for one note or beat will move the notes in all staves at once, keeping them rhythmically aligned.
beat charts
A particular position on the Page (Page View), or a measure (Scroll View) that can be saved and recalled.
Broadway Copyist
A font that looks like handwritten notation typically seen in Jazz and Studio music.
MIDI channels are used to transmit and receive MIDI information such as note on and note off messages as well as controller and patch information to your MIDI device(s).
A Finale file similar to a Clipboard file that can actually be saved to or loaded from your hard drive to copy or paste into Finale files. They are created by holding the OPTION key down while choosing Cut or Copy from Finale's Edit menu.
Context-Click
To context-click, hold down the CONTROL key and click the item you would like to edit. A context menu appears with one or more options. Most items can be context-clicked with the Selection tool.
Continuous Data is a broad MIDI term which includes both Controller data, such as volume or aftertouch, as well as patch, pedaling, and pitch wheel information. Continuous Data is not associated with particular notes, but is stored with measures.
Document Style
A Document Style is a model document with settings that can be inherited by new scores created with the Setup Wizard. Document Styles differ from templates in that you still need to specify which instruments appear in your score; you can also associate a Document Style with a particular Setup Wizard ensemble so that it is always used for that ensemble.
Equal division of the octave. A term describing how many equally-spaced steps there are per octave in a given equal temperament system. For example, in 12-tone equal temperament (the Western chromatic scale), there are 12 notes per octave, each equivalent to one half-step. This is represented as 12-EDO.
EDUs, or ENIGMA Duration Units, are Finale's high-resolution measurement for the duration of notes and rests, defined as 1024 EDUs per quarter note.
EDUs
Environment for Notation utilizing Intelligent Graphic Music Algorithms. A revolutionary method for producing computer music notation. As early as 1939, Winston Churchill had presaged its development, as evidenced in his famous quote that modern music notation would someday be "wrapped in an enigma."
An EPS file is a high-resolution graphics file format that uses PostScript to define images and text. You can create music examples in Finale and save them as EPS files for use in desktop publishing and word processing programs.
EPUB is a free and open standard for distributing content via electronic stores such as iBooks and Google Play.
Enigma Transportable File. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, this format was used to transfer files between Windows and Mac for Finale files. ETF files could be saved in Finale versions 2006 and earlier.
EVPU
EVPUs, or ENIGMA Virtual Page Units, are Finale's flexible units of measurement used to calculate the size and spacing of your music, defined as 288 EVPUs per inch or 24 EVPUs per space. You can display the measurements in more common units such as inches, centimeters, points or spaces.
EVPUs
A frame is a layer that contains one measure's worth of music. You can have up to four layers of music per measure, so one measure can contain up to four frames.
A template behaves like a piece of stationary in Finale. When you open a template document, Finale opens the last two pages of the Setup Wizard where you can customize the template’s title, composer, time signature, key signature, and other settings. Upon finishing the Wizard, Finale opens a new untitled document based on your settings (so you don’t accidentally change the original).
FTMX
A small square which appears on currently "selectable" elements in the score. Handles allow you to select, edit and adjust musical elements in the score.
HyperScribe
A patented method of entering music in Finale by transcribing a real-time MIDI performance into notation. It transcribes the music onto one or two staves, even if you alter the tempo as you play.
Insertion Cursor
When drag-copying and pasting/inserting stacks, Finale displays a green border/insertion cursor if the specified target is eligible for a stack paste/insert. Finale displays a red border/insertion cursor if the specified target is not eligible for a stack paste/insert.
In terms of the Finale interface, an instrument refers to the collection of settings for each row listed under the Instrument column of the Score Manager. These include staff properties (staff name, transposition, clef, etc.), playback sound, channel, and other settings. An instrument may include more than one staff (e.g a piano grand staff).
key velocities
Strictly speaking, key velocity refers to the pressure or force with which a piano-style key is depressed. A key velocity value can be used in MIDI to denote the attack tone or the volume of a MIDI event (although MIDI CC 7, Volume, is more common for the latter). In Finale, key velocity is generally interpreted as volume, with one notable exception being several of the Garritan Instruments for Finale.
keyboard equivalent
A shortcut or alternate method of choosing a menu command, or performing a function.
keyboard equivalents
A positioning of the printed page so that it is that is wider than it is tall.
An independent overlay of music in the same measure. Each Finale document consists of four transparent layers, each of which can contain its own rhythmically independent inner voice. Only one layer can be active (frontmost) at a time, however; the layer selection pop-up menu appears in the lower left corner of your Finale window, indicating which layer is active. Note that each layer may also contain 2 independent voices.
learned chord
Chords that Finale has analyzed during chord entry that do not match any chord in it's chord suffix library. When Finale encounters a chord it does not recognize, it lets you define it yourself, or Finale makes its "best guess." You can change the definition or spelling of learned chords.
learned chords
Sets of musical symbols, expression markings, and other important musical elements that are stored on your hard drive. Because you may want to use different kinds of symbols in different kinds of pieces, Finale includes a way to save any special symbols you create while working in a document (articulations, chord symbols, and so on) into a standalone library file. These libraries may then be “loaded into” any document. A Finale document with no libraries loaded will seem stripped-down, because each time you open a selection dialog box (to place an articulation or chord symbol, for example), it will be empty. That’s why the Maestro Font Default file has already been loaded with the most commonly used libraries so you can begin work immediately.
One of Finale's music character fonts. Both TrueType and PostScript versions are supported.
master expression
All expressions that are subject to a Score List include a master expression, which is the first occurrence of the expression (vertically) in the score. When you drag this expression, all other occurrences of the expression (in both the score and parts) move uniformly. Press ` (tilde) while dragging a master expression to move it independently.
master expressions
metatool
A Finale keyboard shortcut that lets you enter markings very quickly. Up to 36 Metatools can be programmed for the following items: Articulations, Chord Symbols, Expressions, Key Signatures, Time Signatures, Selection, Repeats, and Tuplets. The name for these shortcuts gave rise to the old chestnut, "I never metatool I didn't like."
MIDI is a standardized protocol by which music applications, computers and MIDI instruments talk to each other.
A type of file written in a standardized format that can be understood by music programs from different manufacturers so that one file can be used in several different programs. For example, music created in any sequencer program can be opened by Finale and converted into written notation.
MIDI Time Code
A type of signal that is used to synchronize one or more MIDI devices to another MIDI device, which generates the signal. This signal allows the devices to play "in time" with each other.
An intelligent copy of one or more musical source regions that are dynamically linked: when the source measures change, the mirror also changes.
Modified Stave Notation
"A term given to describe music in large print. MSN enlarges the music generally and makes a score more consistent, but it also alters the proportions involved. The spacing of notes is adjusted and other features such as articulations and expression marks may be disproportionately large." UK Association for Accessible Formats. "G003: Creating Clear Print and Large Print Documents", p. 59ff.
MUS or .mus. A standard MakeMusic notation or music file used through Finale 2012.
A standard open format for exchanging digital sheet music. MusicXML provides a solution for tasks such as publishing interactive musical scores on the Internet and collaborating with other musicians who use different music applications.
MUSX or .musx. A Finale Notation File is the standard MakeMusic notation or music file, introduced in Finale 2014. It can be read by either the Mac or Windows version of Finale.
non-standard key signature
A key not based on a 12 tone scale that supports a harmonic scheme around a circle of Fifths. For example, a quarter tone scale.
non-standard key signatures
note off
MIDI signals that instruct MIDI instruments to play or stop a note, "turn on" and "turn off," respectively.
note on
A Note Type is the instrument assignment paradigm used for percussion notation and is part of a staff's percussion layout. Note Types and their corresponding MIDI notes can be referenced and edited in the Percussion MIDI Map Editor dialog box. The staff position and noteheads of a Note Type can be edited in the Percussion Layout Designer dialog box.
Note Types
A former Finale feature that suppressed any empty staves (in a staff system) from page view and the printed page. Optimization was replaced with the Hide Empty Staves command in Finale 2011.
A handle in the Shape Designer that anchors your shape, acts as the zero point for the rulers and positioning coordinates, and indicates where your shape’s handle will appear once you’ve placed it into the score. The origin appears as a small circle in the center of the drawing area.
Particular instrument sounds within a MIDI channel. Consists of a simple program change or a combination of bank and program changes. Different MIDI device and software manufacturers may refer to a patch as a sound, part, voice, or program.
percussion layout
A percussion layout is a list of percussion instrument variables available for use in a staff. These variables include staff position, notehead style, and Note Type (snare drum, cymbals, etc.). Percussion Layouts are defined in the Percussion Layout Designer dialog box.
percussion layouts
percussion MIDI map
A Percussion MIDI Map is simply a list that matches each percussion instrument in a sound library with a particular MIDI note number (e.g. bass drum = 36, snare drum = 38, etc.). These maps are required to properly assign the same percussion notation to various playback devices, and are also used to accommodate the many different percussion sound banks that can be used for input with an external MIDI device.
Petrucci
One of Finale's music character fonts, named for Ottaviano Petrucci, the sixteenth-century Italian who first used movable type for printing polyphonic music. Both TrueType and PostScript versions are supported.
As you move the pitch wheel up or down (on MIDI keyboards so equipped), the pitch of the entire keyboard shifts up or down by an amount you program on the MIDI keyboard itself. Finale records and plays back pitch bends (the smoothly graduated, continuous shift of pitch that occurs when you use the pitch wheel).
Plug-ins extend abilities to the existing program and are usually written as separate applications by various engineers.
A positioning of the printed page so that it is taller than it is wide.
positioning triangles
Several tools provide four positioning triangles to the left of the score that allow you to vertically adjust the baseline for items in the adjacent staff. These triangles can be used to position lyrics, chords, and expressions. The leftmost triangle positions items for every staff in the score in all systems. The second triangle from the left positions items in the adjacent staff. The third triangle from the left positions items in the adjacent staff in the adjacent system only. The fourth triangle from the left specifies the vertical positioning for the next item entered.
A page-description language that computers and high-resolution printers use to communicate with each other.
PostScript listing
A special type of text file containing all of a document's printing information. You can send the listing to any PostScript printer directly, without having to run Finale to print your document.
print disability
"A print-disabled person is anyone for whom a visual, cognitive, or physical disability hinders the ability to read print. This includes all visual impairments, dyslexia, and any physical disabilities that prevent the handling of a physical copy of a print publication." UK Association for Accessible Formats. "G009: Modified Stave Notation", p. 5, sourced from Copyright Licensing Agency Print Disability Licensing Scheme, Guidelines for Licensees 2010.
A process of rounding off rhythmic values of notes played in a MIDI performance to the nearest selected duration, resulting in a cleaner transcription of the notes.
The printed and electronic versions of the Finale Quick Reference Guide accompany all new Finale purchases. Only the electronic version is included with Finale upgrades. The printed guide includes both Mac and Windows versions.
Random Access Memory, is a computer's internal working memory. This is not the same as the storage capacity of the computer's hard drive.
score list
Score lists are applied to expressions that apply to the full score including tempo marks, tempo alterations, and rehearsal marks. They indicate the staves on which these expressions should appear and can be edited in the Category Designer dialog box.
score lists
Shape Expression
A graphic expression mark, such as a vertical bracket, grand pause, or hairpin, added to the score with the Expression tools.
Shape Expressions
Simple Entry caret
The Simple Entry caret is a vertical line in the score that indicates where the next note entered will appear. The next note entered could be the pitch displayed on the caret (which can be moved using the UP and DOWN ARROW) – initiated by pressing the RETURN key, a note letter typed on the computer keyboard, or a pitch or pitches played on a MIDI device (with Use MIDI Device for Input checked under the Simple menu). To activate the Simple Entry caret, from the Simple. menu, choose Simple Entry Options, check Use Simple Entry Caret, and click OK.
Smart Shape
Curves and lines that expand and compress if a measure width changes. They also automatically separate if the shape needs to stretch across more than one staff system in Page View.
Smart Shapes
A set of General MIDI sounds included with Finale. The SmartMusic SoftSynth is provided both as a soundfont for MIDI playback and as a plug-in for Audio Units playback.
SMSS
A selected region including full measures in every staff is called a measure "stack" and is indicated by highlighting extending from the top to the bottom staff, including the area between staves.
Staff Set
A particular group of staves displayed in Scroll View, using the View menu. They let you display only the staves you need to edit, rather than all the staves in the score.
Staff Sets
symbol font
A Symbol Font, with regards to Finale, is a font that is not re-encoded when a document is opened cross-platform. Maestro is a symbol font. It has exactly one encoding (character #247 always equals the same symbol regardless of platform). Some characters in non-Symbol Fonts (such as Times) are encoded differently on Windows than on Mac (for example, character #247 on Mac may be represented by #233 on Windows). Finale detects files that were last saved across platform and must re-encode all non-symbol fonts. MacSymbolFonts.txt is a list of all Symbol Fonts. Finale refers to MacSymbolFonts.txt while re-encoding to ensure no font listed in MacSymbolFonts.txt is re-encoded.
symbol fonts
One of Finale's percussion and shape note fonts. Both TrueType and Type 1 PostScript versions are supported.
Text created and edited in the score that is enclosed in a "Standard" rectangular frame for which a border can be displayed, or a "Custom" frame that you create. They can be placed anywhere in the score, and displayed on a single page or a range of pages.
Text Expression
A text marking, such as dynamics or tempo markings, added to the score with the Expression tool.
Text Expressions
Tagged Image File Format—format for storing bitmap images/graphics. This format is supported on both Mac and Windows (.tif extension) and does not require a PostScript printer.
tiling pages
A way of printing out very large scores (e.g.: 11" by 17") onto several smaller pages that can be taped together. A portion of the full score page appears on each printed page.
A location where one records or plays back a musical message — usually a portion of the total arrangement. Tracks are for convenience; channels are required.
In Finale, the term "trigger" describes a keyboard shortcut that is used to display the Waiting for Input dialog box while entering music with the Simple Entry caret. Once displayed, a Metatool key can be used to enter certain markings, or the marking can be chosen from a selection dialog box.
TrueType font
Scalable fonts used to display and print your Finale documents. These fonts do not require a PostScript printer.
TrueType fonts
The irregular division of notes into a given beat (i.e. 3 into 2). Includes triplets, quintuplets, septuplets, etc.
tuplets
tutorial document
Finale includes a number of tutorial files that complement the Finale Tutorials. To access a tutorial document, choose File > Open and double-click the "Tutorials" shortcut. If you have navigated away from the default "Finale Files" folder, a different folder may appear when you choose File > Open. If this is the case, access the Tutorial documents by navigating to the /Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2014/Music Files/Tutorials folder.
Type 1 font
Refers to PostScript printer fonts. PostScript printers use Type 1 fonts to accurately scale text on the printed page at any resolution.
Type 1 fonts
Independent musical voices that respond with different stem direction depending upon which note(s) the Voice 2 notes were "launched." Only two voices are available per layer.
word extension
An underline that is used to indicate that a syllable is being sustained through more than one note. In Finale, word extensions expand and contract along with the music as you enter additional lyrics and modify the page layout.
word extensions
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More than 2 sentences about Two Sentence Horror Stories
Aleyse Shannon
Photo: Stage 13 (The CW)
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, August 22. All times are Eastern.
Two Sentence Horror Stories (The CW, 9 p.m.): There’s something endearingly fellow-kids-ish about the half-hour CW series that proudly proclaims itself to have been “inspired by the viral fan fiction of the two sentence horror genre.” (What?) As Jacob Oller at Paste succinctly put it, it may be “the first time a Reddit thread has gotten its own TV show.” And yet, we cannot deny that we are into it.
Case in point: “Tutorial,” which centers on a beauty vlogger whose camera captures an unexpected visitor.
And hey, while we’re talking about scary shit that involves streaming video, you could take this light TV day as your chance to finally sit down and watch Cam.
The watched becomes the watcher in the brilliantly inverted techno-thriller Cam
If you asked us if it were possible to do a feminist take on a Brian De Palma movie, we’d have been
Either way, there are webcams and there are scares, so enjoy. Seriously, Cam rules.
The Good Place season three (Netflix): The day you’ve been forking waiting for has arrived. (Technically, it arrived on Tuesday.)
The Good Place returns for its final season late next month, so you’ve got plenty of time to catch up (or, if you’re like us, re-watch).
Lodge 49 reminds us how ludicrous—but still meaningful—our reality is
Bite your tongue: The Terror: Infamy's ratio of scares to clichés remains hard to swallow
On Becoming A God In Central Florida finds its voice in butchered gators and tear-soaked waterslides
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January 1, 2020 / 7:40 PM / 17 days ago
Late Wickham striker for Palace frustrates Norwich
(Reuters) - An 87th minute goal from Connor Wickham, allowed by a VAR review, earned Crystal Palace a 1-1 draw at bottom club Norwich City, a bitter blow for the struggling Canaries.
Soccer Football - Premier League - Norwich City v Crystal Palace - Carrow Road, Norwich, Britain - January 1, 2020 Crystal Palace's Connor Wickham scores their first goal REUTERS/Chris Radburn
On a day when fellow strugglers Aston Villa, West Ham, Watford and Southampton all enjoyed vital wins, dropping two points was a bitter start to the year for promoted Norwich.
Daniel Farke’s side are rock bottom on 14 points, seven points adrift of 17th placed Aston Villa and need a radical upturn in form to reach safety.
The side bottom of the Premier League going into a new year has been relegated in 23 of the previous 27 seasons and Norwich are winless in eight games with just one victory in 16 matches.
Norwich had led after a fourth minute goal from Todd Cantwell and dominated for large stretches but were unable to add to their tally — Kenny McLean hitting the bar in the 73rd minute.
But Palace drew level when Wilfried Zaha slid a pass across the face of the goal to Wickham who slid the ball home, only to see the offside flag raised.
However a VAR review ruled that Wickham was just onside when the ball was played and reversed referee Jon Moss’s decision.
It was the latest VAR blow for Norwich who had a Teemu Pukki goal overturned in their 2-2 draw with Spurs on Saturday.
“It is unbelievably disappointing to concede in the 88th minute and it feels like a loss,” said Farke.
“The lads deserved the three points but the reality is only one.
“We cannot influence the other results. We have to come as close to 40 points and it is a long road. It would have been a massive step today so feels even more disappointing to concede the late goal,” added the German.
Palace boss Roy Hodgson felt his side had been rewarded for their approach in the second half.
“It was very close (for the goal). You think it might be offside and with the technology you see someone has stuck a foot out, leaned forward and the margins are fine,” he said.
“We looked like we could score a goal but couldn’t. We took chances in the end with 4-2-4 and got our reward, the boldness of the move paid off,” he said.
Palace are in ninth place on 28 points.
Reporting by Simon Evans, Editing by William Maclean and Pritha Sarkar
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The University of Stirling was founded by Royal Charter in 1967, making it the first new university in Scotland for over 400 years.
Since the University of Stirling opened in 1967 on a greenfield site outside the town it has grown into a major research centre, with a large science park located immediately adjacent to the main university campus. Known as Innovation Park, the science park is now home to 40 companies engaging in various forms of research and development.
The main campus is approximately two miles from the city of Stirling, but is much closer to the town of Bridge of Allan. The campus was formerly the estate of Airthrey Castle and the castle building is now part of the teaching facilities and offices.
Learning, living and socialising for students takes place primarily in the community environment of the single campus. Bridge of Allan is the nearest town and can be reached in approximately 15 minutes by foot. Bus transport is available for students travelling to Bridge of Allan and Stirling town centre.
University of Stirling is ranked between 351-400th in the Times Higher Education rankings. Stirling is ranked 901-1,000 in the Shangai Jaio Tong rankings and is not a member of the Russell Group of universities.
University of Stirling is ranked =68th in the National Student Survey Satisfaction rankings.
Stirling has over 2,000 international students from more than 70 countries studying at the university. This number represents about 19% of all students.
Stirling has a total student population of just over 11,500 students. Just under 8,500 are undergraduate and just over 3,000 are postgraduates.
93.8% of Stirling university graduates enter directly into work, further study or training within 6 months of graduation (source:HESA). A breakdown of post graduation employment by course, showing the split into professional/managerial positions, rather than general employment figures, is available from Unistats an independent source of university data. For more information, please visit the REF Information page.
There are more than 60 student societies at the University of Stirling, including Philosophy, Creative Writing; Debating, Video Games and E-Sports, Medieval History and Business.
The Atrium in the Andrew Miller Building has several retail outlets including a bookstore, general store, food shops and a bank. Due to its central location, the Atrium is the principal hub for most day-to-day campus activities and it links the library and the Student Union Centre as well as having connecting bridges to on-campus student residences.
One of the University’s founding principles was that art should be part of the everyday cultural experience and this led to the opening of the MacRobert Arts Centre. This is a small theatre and cinema complex and is open both to members of the University community and to the general public. The University of Stirling has its own fine art collection comprising over 300 works including paintings, tapestries and sculpture.
Stirling is a major centre of sports training and education in Scotland. University students can participate in a variety of activities including swimming, football, golf, taekwondo, tennis, rugby, triathlon and rowing. Three purpose built sports facilities are located on campus: the headquarters of the Scottish Institute of Sport; the Scottish National Swimming Academy and the Gannochy National Tennis Centre. The University of Stirling also has its own 9-hole golf course and driving range.
There are a number of student Halls of Residence located on-campus offering self catering accommodation for all first year undergraduates and many students in later study years, the lowest price for a single bedroom with shared bathroom and kitchen is £95.00 per week.
There is no catered university accommodation.
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Fees for full time undergraduate courses start at £12,450 for most Arts & Humanities and Business related subjects and Maths, rising to £14,820 for Laboratory based subjects like Biology and Engineering courses.
REF (Research Excellence Framework) was an independent government review conducted into the quality of research at UK universities and published in December 2014. This information highlights subjects of specialism within each university. We have listed all subject areas where at least 60% of the research conducted in these specific fields has been graded 3 or 4 stars. (4 stars being the highest ranking REF award). For more information, please visit the REF Information page.
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Islam, while it has features that are more biblical than “Bible Christians,” such as men with beards, women with burkas and both living in tents, is too close to Gnosticism, Masonry and Mormonism–and frankly too racially zealous–to make a genuine appeal to what is good let alone godly in us. With that being said, Islamophobia is no way to win hearts. So I’ve compiled a word list for our education, courtesy of etymonline.com:
Allah: 1702, Arabic name for the Supreme Being, from Arabic Allahu, contraction of al-Ilahu, from al “the” + Ilah “God,” related to Hebrew Elohim.
salaam: Muslim greeting, 1610s, from Arabic salam (also in Urdu, Persian), literally “peace” (cf. Hebrew shalom); in full, (as)salam ‘alaikum “peace be upon you,” from base of salima “he was safe” (cf. Islam, Muslim).
Islam¹: “religious system revealed by Muhammad,” 1818, from Arabic islam, literally “submission” (to the will of God), from root of aslama “he resigned, he surrendered, he submitted,” causative conjunction of salima “he was safe,” and related to salam “peace.”
Earlier English names for the faith include Mahometry (late 15c.), Muhammadism (1610s), Islamism (1747), and Ismaelism (c.1600), which in part is from Ishmaelite, a name formerly given (especially by Jews) to Arabs, as descendants of Ishmael (q.v.), and in part from Arabic Ismailiy, name of the Shiite sect that after 765 C.E. followed the Imamship through descendants of Ismail (Arabic for Ishmael), eldest son of Jafar, the sixth Imam. The Ismailians were not numerous, but among them were the powerful Fatimid dynasty in Egypt and the Assassins, both of whom loomed large in European imagination.
Muslim: 1610s (n.), 1777 (adj.), from Arabic muslim “one who submits” (to the faith), from root of aslama “he resigned.” Related to Islam.
jihad: 1869, from Arabic, usually translated as “holy war,” literally “struggle, contest, effort,” from infinitive of jahada “he waged war, he applied himself to.” Used in English since c.1880 for any sort of doctrinal crusade.
sharia (n.): Islamic religious law, 1855, from Arabic shari’ah “the revealed law,” from shar’ “revelation.”
burka (n.): 1836, from Hindi, from Arabic burqa’. A loose, usually black or light blue robe that is worn by Muslim women, especially in Afghanistan, and that covers the body from head to toe.
Taliban: Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan, Pashto plural of Arabic tālib “student,” so called because it originated among students in Pakistani religious schools. Group formed c.1993. Often incorrectly treated as singular in English.
al Qaida²: also Al-Qaeda; name of a loosely structured jihadist movement founded c.1989 by Osama bin Laden; from Arabic, literally “the base.” A common Arabic term among Muslim radicals from the wider Islamic world who came to Afghanistan in 1980s and fought alongside local rebels against the Soviets, and who regarded themselves and their struggle not merely in Afghan terms but as the “base” or foundation of a wider jihad and revival in Islam. Used by Bin Laden’s mentor, Abdallah Azzam (1941-1989), who referred to the “vanguard” which “constitutes the strong foundation [al-qaida al-sulbah] for the expected society.” In the U. S., the term first turns up in a C.I.A. report in 1996.
Al Jazeera: In Arabic, al-ǧazīrah literally means “the island”. However, it refers here to the Arabian Peninsula, which is شبه الجزيرة العربية šibh al-ğazīrah al-ʿarabiyyah, abbreviated to الجزيرة العربية al-ğazīrah al-ʿarabiyyah.
terrorism (n.) 1795, in specific sense of “government intimidation during the Reign of Terror in France” (March 1793-July 1794), from French terrorisme (1798), from Latin terror³.
“If the basis of a popular government in peacetime is virtue, its basis in a time of revolution is virtue and terror — virtue, without which terror would be barbaric; and terror, without which virtue would be impotent.” (Robespierre, speech in French National Convention, 1794).
General sense of “systematic use of terror as a policy” is first recorded in English 1798. At one time, a word for a certain kind of mass-destruction terrorism was dynamitism (1883); and during World War I frightfulness (translating German Schrecklichkeit) was used in Britain for “deliberate policy of terrorizing enemy non-combatants.”
¹ “…Islam is the only major religion, along with Buddhism (if we consider the name of the religion to come from Budd, the Divine Intellect, and not the Buddha), whose name is not related to a person or ethnic group, but to the central idea of the religion” (“The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity,” Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 2002).
² “Every Muslim, from the moment they realise the distinction in their hearts, hates Americans, hates Jews, and hates Christians. This is a part of our belief and our religion. For as long as I can remember, I have felt tormented and at war, and have felt hatred and animosity for Americans” (Osama bin Laden, interview aired on Al-Jazeera, December 1998).
³ terror (n.) late 14c., “great fear,” from Old French terreur (14c.), from Latin terrorem (nominative terror) “great fear, dread,” from terrere “fill with fear, frighten,” from PIE root *tre- “shake” (see terrible). Meaning “quality of causing dread” is attested from 1520s; terror bombing first recorded 1941, with reference to German air attack on Rotterdam. Sense of “a person fancied as a source of terror” (often with deliberate exaggeration, as of a naughty child) is recorded from 1883. The Reign of Terror in French history (March 1793-July 1794) so called in English from 1801. Old English words for “terror” included broga and egesa.
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“It’s a strange world.”
It’s a special time when I can crawl away from my responsibilities to enjoy a strange, entrancing work of cinema. Blue Velvet is one of David Lynch’s most beloved films, though often discounted as a precursor to Mulholland Drive. I saw it for the first time today, and I thought it was absolutely mesmerizing in a more accessible, focused way that I’ve never seen from Lynch before. It plays like a dark mystery while also providing a sensual, reflective breakdown of a common Lynchian theme: seeing.
The film starts like a Scooby Doo episode. Kyle MacLachlan plays Jeffrey Beaumont, a young man returning to his hometown after he father suffers a mysterious stroke. Jeffrey finds a severed human ear in the grass off the road and takes it upon himself to find the truth. What makes Jeffrey such a fascinating character is his unflinching desire to know more straight from the start. He ignores the police’s request to back away from the investigation, and he follows his own set of clues to the apartment of Dorothy Vallen (Isabella Rossellini) where he gets what he bargained for and far more. Events escalate absurdly until Lynch arrives at some fascinating conclusions about scopophilia, power and submission, and the darkness lurking beneath suburban life.
I mentioned that Blue Velvet is about seeing, and I found this taking on a number of forms. Jeffrey is the prime “seer” of the movie, borderline voyeuristic in his stalking of the dark, mysterious Dorothy Vallen. He seems to hold magical properties for sight, catching small details throughout the movie such as the severed ear in the grass or the hidden key in Vallen’s apartment that someone in the real world would never notice so quickly. There’s a charm to Jeffrey, as if some force is granting him this keen awareness of the world, reminding me of the character MacLachlan would go on to play in Twin Peaks. Sight is also explored in other facets, including the blind convenience store worker who astounds Jeffrey with his ability to see through other means. It’s a motif that drives both the story and themes in a fascinating way, as if we’re also stalking the intimate moments of the film ourselves.
Jeffrey is also granted sight into both of the movie’s worlds: the clean-cut, suburban world of his family and the seedy city nightlife. Lynch uses constant foils to highlight this contrast, the most significant being Dorothy Vallens and Sandy Williams (Laura Dern). Jeffrey is forced to decide between a wholesome life with Sandy or to continue his dangerous love game with Dorothy. These foils manifest in other ways, too, such as the use of dominating figures: the wily antagonist Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) violently controlling of Dorothy and the straight-laced Detective Johnson, overprotective of his daughter Sandy in a more wholesome, more fatherly sense.
This is a deceptively accessible work for Lynch’s canon. It boats some grounded mystery (and noir) elements that are only enhanced and deconstructed by Lynch’s twisted direction. This film certainly warrants future viewings for me, and I look forward to digging even further below the surface with Blue Velvet in the near future.
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Laugh Out Loud – Sydney Comedy Festival 2019
The Sydney Comedy Festival will celebrate its 15th year by delivering some of the finest comedians from all over the world to our shores for another huge event across four weeks from 22 April to 19 May 2019.
Festival’s favourite international regulars including; Australia’s adopted son of standup comedy Arj Barker (US), Geordie improviser extraordinaire Ross Noble (UK), and feel-good funny man Stephen K Amos (UK).
Adding more punch to the line-up is the Irish comedy legend Jimeoin, the acclaimed Scottish stand-up and Netflix star Daniel Sloss (SCO), comic nurse Georgie Carroll (UK/AUST), and New Zealand International Comedy Festival’s 2017 Best Newcomer Award winner Melanie Bracewell (NZ).
Local stars joining the line-up include TV regular Nazeem Hussain, the acid-tongue prince Joel Creasey, the hilariously outspoken Akmal, Australia’s only Turkish comic Tahir, musical comedy duo The Stevenson Experience, and rising star and Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s 2017 Director’s Choice Award winner Demi Lardner.
Leading the second announcement is a raft of the UK’s most side-splitting comedians including effortlessly funny storyteller Joe Lycett, eccentric comedy genius Paul Foot, the charming Mark Watson, cheeky Scot Larry Dean and the delightful Jeff Green.
They will be joined by New Zealand favourites Angella Dravid, Cal Wilson and Guy Montgomery, the uproarious Des Bishop (IRE/USA), and rising sketch comedy stars Foil, Arms and Hog (IRE) who have over 35 million views on YouTube and coming off the back of a successful run at Edinburgh Fringe.
Australian comedy legends added to the line-up include the multi-award winning Felicity Ward, the witty and relatable Dave Hughes, the no-nonsense Luke Heggie, the red-bearded wonder Nick Cody, TV’s The Project’s Tommy Little, the sharp-witted snappy dresser Rhys Nicholson, and 2018 winner of TV’s I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Fiona O’Loughlin.
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The trades a clairvoyant would have made in 2016
Christmas is almost here (and so is Hanukkah), and so it is time for the Long View to revisit the offices of Hindsight Capital LLC once more. Hindsight Capital, for the uninitiated, is the hedge fund that beats all others year in and year out because it is endowed with 20/20 hindsight; it can see the future.
The returns to clairvoyance are potentially infinite, so it has a few restrictions: no individual securities, no leverage and no trading through the year, other than one fixed opportunity to change trades at midyear (which turned out to be very useful in 2016). It can, however, bet on assets to fall in price, by borrowing them and then selling them. These are the trades that won in 2016:
Move to Buenos Aires
Hindsight always locates in the country with the weakest currency, as this automatically makes returns look better. Despite a strong temptation to move to London, where it could see the Brexit vote coming, Hindsight chose Argentina, whose economy was obviously racked by inflation and doubt, even after the market-friendly new administration made a deliberate devaluation at the end of 2015.
The Argentine peso was the weakest currency in the world. Hindsight bought neighbouring Brazil’s real (the strongest) against the peso, and made 43.5 per cent.
Buy Brazil, sell China
Brazil entered the year in the grips of economic and political crisis. With riots on the streets and a president facing impeachment, Hindsight saw that it was time to buy. Brazil’s Bovespa rose more than 70 per cent in dollar terms. Meanwhile, China — a far healthier economy — still had to deal with the fallout from its burst equity bubble in 2015. Shorting the Shanghai Composite and putting the proceeds into Brazil’s Bovespa yielded 92.6 per cent in dollar terms.
Buy coal, sell clean energy
The Paris conference in December 2015 was an obvious watershed, coming after an aggressive campaign to divest from fossil fuels. Hindsight saw that the contrarian buying opportunity was there, shorted the S&P Global Clean Energy index, which fell, and bought the Stowe Global Coal index, which more than doubled. Resulting profit: 155.7 per cent.
Long US banks, short eurozone banks
The eurozone never took the needed action to clean up its banks’ balance sheets after the crisis. The US, with many fits and starts, did. With extreme low interest rates in Europe came extreme pain for eurozone banks while US banks surged with the Trump rally. Put the trades together and the profit was 34.6 per cent.
The Brexit trade
Naturally, Hindsight Capital’s managers saw the referendum coming. They sold pounds to buy bitcoins, a frothy cyber-currency that enjoyed another surge in 2016. By the end of the year, Hindsight made 118 per cent.
Hindsight also found the squabble over whether the Brexit vote had really been damaging to UK securities somewhat laughable, and put British clients into the FTSE All-World excluding the UK index (up 27.2 per cent in pounds), and not the FTSE 250 index of UK companies (up 2 per cent).
The relax trade
Hindsight saw the political shocks and also foresaw that the market would look straight through them. So it sold the Vix index, which tracks how much people pay in the options market to hedge against volatility. By year’s end it was at a 30-month low. Putting the proceeds into the S&P 500 helped generate a total return of 69 per cent.
The year of two halves trade
Hindsight Capital’s managers foresaw that the world would be gripped by a deflation and recession scare that would climax just after the shock of the Brexit vote. After that, with the talk increasingly of reflation through fiscal policy, and then the growth-friendly election of Donald Trump, it would be time to reverse the trade in favour of investments that benefited from growth and inflation.
Across the world and across the asset classes, Hindsight made huge money by reversing itself after June 30, which was at or very near the turning point.
Stocks v bonds: Hindsight was long US long Treasuries and short the S&P 500 until midyear (making 10.8 per cent) and then went long stocks and short bonds, making 26.8 per cent. Total cumulative return: 40.6 per cent.
Cyclicals v defensives: Hindsight shorted economically cyclical stocks and went long defensives for six months (10.8 per cent), and then reversed (making 26.8 per cent). Total profit: 40.6 per cent.
Precious v industrial metals: Buy precious metals when you are worried about growth, and switch to industrials when you think the economy can pick up. This trade made 17.1 per cent, then 31.2 per cent, for a total of 53.6 per cent.
Japanese stocks. The Topix collapsed into a bear market as investors braced for renewed deflation, and then recovered to end the year virtually where it started, as the yen fell, boosting stocks. Total profit from shorting and then going long: 54.4 per cent.
German Bunds: In arguably the most spectacular extreme of them all, German 10-year Bund yields dropped into negative territory by midyear. As the deflation scare receded, anyone (like Hindsight) now shorting the bonds did very well. Total return for those long and then short: 30.1 per cent.
Hindsight Capital benefited from a clear and sweeping midyear turning point. A trend has been established. Will it persist in 2017, through all the political uncertainties? Unfortunately, as ever, Hindsight Capital never tells me its trades in advance.
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Wearable tech and fitness trackers have been around for the better part of a decade, becoming a $330 million industry in 2013 according to the NPD Group. That number is set to explode after the September announcement of the Apple Watch, a new device that embeds fitness technology among its many features. It tracks body movement with an accelerometer, gauges workout intensity with a heart monitor, and determines the distance you’re running or walking with GPS information from a linked iPhone. Apple’s new product and other emerging fitness technologies are working to bring wellness fully into the digital realm.
What does the age of wearable technology mean for your business? The idea of the “quantified employee” is one that many businesses are thinking about. According to a recent article on Fast Company, over 13 million wearable technology gadgets will be integrated into corporate wellness programs within just five years. People are hungry for numbers in this era of big data, and wearable devices promise opportunities to track the health and wellness of employees in new ways.
Many company wellness programs have relied on self-reported data in the past, bringing the accuracy of the numbers into question. Even walking programs that used pedometers required participants to manually upload their steps to a device on a daily basis, creating a clunky system that lowered participation. New devices, however, allow for automation in data reporting. And easy reporting can motivate your workforce: Amy McDonough, director at leading wearable tech company Fitbit, explains on BenefitsPro how wearing an activity tracker can make people 40 percent more active.
There’s no doubt that many people want to work on their fitness; a Nielsen survey showed that more than 70 percent of Americans are trying to get healthier or maintain their health this year. Wearable fitness trackers can help by making people more aware of their health status. When your employees are motivated about getting healthy and have reliable data to help them get on the right track, it can lead to boosts in productivity. According to figures from workforce solutions company Circadian (featured on Forbes), absenteeism costs approximately $2,650 each year per salaried employee. By helping employees get access to fitness tracking data, employers could start seeing those hefty indirect costs go down.
Before you consider issuing fitness trackers to your employees, there are a few things you need to consider:
Can a third party safely aggregate your employees’ data in a way that both maintains user privacy and gives you insight on any impacts surrounding the productivity of your business?
Do you have a corporate wellness program that is compatible with the device(s) that you’ve chosen, and can that program help you with setup, troubleshooting and monitoring?
If you plan to offer financial incentives based on fitness tracker performance, have you considered if you’re making reasonable accommodation to any disabled employees? You may want to consult local equal opportunity employment regulations.
Do you have a good sense of the appetite of your employee population for a fitness tracking program? Wearables aren’t for everyone, and you’ll need to forecast positive ROI before undertaking a large technological investment.
When the Apple Watch becomes available to consumers in early 2015, developers all over the world will be scrambling to create apps that utilize its fitness tracking capabilities in all new ways. The quantified employee is here, and it will be up to businesses to decide if it’s something that they can embrace.
Andrew Reinbold has been focused on the health care marketing and communication space for over five years. He currently focuses on business to business content for WellPoint, Inc. that is relevant to employers and brokers as they navigate the changing healthcare environment.
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Prince William and Kate Middleton Show Off Their Playful Sense of Humor and it's Just the Best Thing Ever
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Dec 1, 2019 at 2:32 am UTC By Clarissa Wilson
Amid the gloom and doom going on in the Royal Family lately, with Prince Andrew on the verge of losing his Royal status and Meghan Markle and Prince William fighting with the media, Prince William and Kate Middleton still find time to laugh and have a sense of humor. It is so refreshing to see something fun and funny happen and to see them smile and laugh.
What is going on in the Royal Family? Prince Andrew was close friends with Jeffrey Epstein who was accused of sexual assault by many women, he and Trump were both accused of sexual assault by these women. Epstein went to prison for his sexual assault crimes and was found dead in his cell from an apparent suicide. What did Prince Andrew have to do with this and why is he at risk for losing his Royal status?
What are Prince William and Kate Middleton having fun with that is so refreshing for us to see amid the problems going on in the Royal Family?
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For one thing, according to Cheat Sheet, not only was Prince Andrew close friends with Epstein but he remained his close friend even after Epstein was accused of rape by several women. Also, Prince Andrew was even accused of raping a woman by the name of Virginia Roberts. Which, of course, Prince Andrew has flat-out denied these allegations.
Is Prince Andrew guilty of these allegations against him by Roberts? For one thing, he has contradicted himself during an interview with the BBC. He first stated he did not regret his friendship with Epstein one bit. Then, he turned around and said he regretted being his friend. He said that Epstein's suicide left him with many unanswered questions about him. He said he was deeply sympathetic to these women who had accused Epstein of these sex crimes and that he would be stepping down from his Royal duties until further notice. It makes you wonder if he is guilty after all and feeling the heat from it all!
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What is going on with Prince Harry and wife, Meghan Markle? Markle has had a few lies spread about her by the media and the couple is in the middle of lawsuits against a couple of the media outlets, including the UK media, the Sun and the Mirror. The Prince and his wife are spending time in the states for the holidays with her mother and to gain some privacy that they feel they deserve.
However, with all of this gloom and doom going on in the Royal Kingdom, Prince William and Kate Middleton were still able to have a sense of humor and laugh when they wanted to, which is just so refreshing after all of this bad stuff going on in the Royal Family. What is making their sense of humor come out amid all of this trouble in the Royal Kingdom?
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During a visit to the UK, Camila Cabello, her mother, and BBC 1 radio host, Chris James was having some fun in Kensington Palace. James dared Cabello to steal something from the Palace. He actually triple doggy dared her to steal something simple, He told her to steal a pencil. She said since he triple doggy dared her to steal it, she had to because you can't ignore a triple doggy dare and not do what you are dared to do. It is the way of life, according to Cabello. She said if there was one thing she learned in life was that you can never ignore a triple doggy dare.
So, Cabello stole the pencil and when James ratted her out right away to the Palace guards about it, she threw it into her mother's purse. Her mother said they had to give it back! It was all just a bit of fun.
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While Cabello was being interviewed on BBC 1 Radio by James, she was talking about it and, although declaring she still had the pencil she stole, she apologized to Prince William and Kate Middleton for the little mishap that happened. However, she again, made it clear that she was triple doggy dared to do it and it had to be done because of that.
Prince William and Kate Middleton chose to have fun with Cabello and tweeted their reply to her. They simply tweeted two big eyes, meaning they were surprised about this! Everyone loved this on Twitter and had a good laugh about it as did Prince William and Duchess Kate.
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This is not the first time they let their sense of humor shine through instead of getting mad about something so trivial. One time when their daughter, Princess Charlotte stuck her tongue out at their fans in the crowd earlier this year, instead of the Duchess getting mad about it, she laughed it off, letting her sense of humor come through once again.
This just proves how chill these two are in public, especially the Duchess of Cambridge, seeing as how she could have gotten mad at CHarlotte for "embarrassing her" in public. However, she laughed instead of getting embarrassed by her child, which every parent should do instead of getting angry with them.
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December 5, 2019 8:00
“Raw, exuberant, and utterly captivating ... A masterpiece of empathy and imagination.”
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
A magisterial work of bursting emotion and heart-rending humanism, Sean Baker’s sixth feature feels like the crescendo of the indie stalwart's career to date. Set on a stretch of Orlando asphalt not far from Disney World, this exquisitely realized film follows six-year-old Moonee (breakout star Brooklynn Prince) and her resilient mother Halley (Bria Vinaite), full-time residents of the squalorous zero-star motel The Magic Castle. While Moonee delights in the wonderland of her surroundings — a ragtag crew of playmates in carouselling supply — Halley scams and strips to support their hand-to-mouth existence, itself on the brink of collapse. Willem Dafoe, in an Oscar-nominated performance, is their tough-hided, kindhearted motel manager. Gorgeously shot on 35mm by famed Carlos Reygadas cinematographer Alexis Zabe, Baker’s widely applauded film is a poignant portrait of childhood, economic hardship, and love.
Print courtesy of A24.
Sean Baker will introduce The Florida Project and participate in a post-screening Q&A on Thursday, December 5 as part of our Opening Night event.
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There's Only One Game Of Thrones Fan Theory That Matters Anymore
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The time has come once again for Game of Thrones—the hit HBO show about hiking with your pals and smooching your relatives—to return to TV after a lengthy absence. The forthcoming eighth season will be the show’s last, and though it features only six episodes, it’s already been confirmed that they will all be over one hour long. The seventh season premiered way back in July 2017, and fans will have waited almost two years for new footage of siblings touchin’ butts by the time the eighth season starts on April 14.
***SPOILERS FOR SEASONS 1-7 OF GAME OF THRONES TO FOLLOW, OBVIOUSLY***
After a layoff that long, you might need a primer on where things stand as we head into the last six-to-nine hours of Game of Thrones ever. The show may be drawing to a bombastic conclusion and Thrones’ famously spread out cast of characters will only continue to aggregate, but after seven seasons of easter eggs and mysteries, there is still room for surprises. Most of the cards have been played, though that is no impediment to the community of enthusiastic Thrones theorists. It is time now to discuss the last and, in my opinion, most important Game of Thrones fan theory.
Season 8 will have to concern itself with the conclusions of two wars; one relatively normal one between the Lannister dynasty and the invading Targaryen-Dothraki-Dragons coalition, as well as the high-fantasy-ass conflict between what will probably be the survivors of that war and the army of ice zombies last seen breaking through The Wall with an undead ice dragon. The battlefield seems set. Everyone is accounted for and has chosen their sides. The only intrigue that remains is which characters will survive it all.
However, what this theory supposes is this: there is another army, a force glimpsed only once but hinted at a few other times that will enter and turn the battle for Westeros. I am talking, of course, about the Dog Army.
Game of Thrones has proven its commitment to being elliptical over and over again. The very first scene in the series showed some Night’s Watch dudes getting owned by white walkers, and the series will probably conclude with man’s triumph over the zombies. The first time we see the Stark family in the pilot episode, they stumble onto a family of direwolf puppies, and each Stark kid gets a cute little dog, most of whom die in horrible ways. Would it not be fitting if the show’s end also featured direwolves, too?
Only two direwolves are still alive. Arya’s wolf, Nymeria, was unaccounted for over the course of six seasons after Arya was forced to scare her away to spare her from execution. As she made her way through Westeros last season, she encountered a now-massive Nymeria leading a pack of big huge doggies.
The Dog Army theory is, essentially, that Nymeria and her pack of wolves will grow, move north, and take on the army of the dead as a surprise late entrant. I suppose you gathered that from our name for the theory, which was popularized last year before Arya returned to Westeros and then declined after Nymeria’s brief Season 7 cameo seemed like it resolved her arc for good. A variation on this theory proposes that Arya will either control Nymeria or become her, a possibility supported by her frequent and Bran-esque “wolf dreams” in the books. That would be rad, I guess, but not as satisfying as Dog Army, and also, the show hasn’t given her warg powers.
To the proof:
A visual effects supervisor told the Huffington Post late last year that Jon Snow’s direwolf Ghost would have “a fair amount of screen time” this season, where he “does some pretty cool things.” It stands to reason then that Nymeria also shows up.
It would be cool as shit and I like typing “Dog Army.”
The first clearly discernible figure in the show’s first trailer is a statue of a wolf seven seconds in. This is ironclad.
My earlier point about the elliptical nature of the show.
The history of direwolves’ effectiveness against zombies throughout the show’s run.
The primary impediment to showing direwolves on screen is how expensive and tricky it is to shoot with regular wolves. But the show took a hiatus specifically so it didn’t have to rush things, and they have to know Season 8 will be incredibly popular, so why not blow the wolf budget?
There you have it. Prepare for the Dog Army. Here is what a battle between a dog and an ice dog might look like.
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Movie Review: Permission (2017)
P Ramani
Written and directed by Brian Crano, Permission is a unique take on modern romance that deserves more attention than it’s gotten, particularly for its wide array of truly likable characters. Set in Brooklyn, the film examines a long-term couple who become interested in expanding their experiences beyond each other, and honestly considers the consequences of their decision to try opening up their relationship. Anna (Rebecca Hall, “Tumbledown”) and Will (Dan Stevens, “Beauty and the Beast”) are the central characters only in technicality though, as we also see plenty of Anna’s brother Hale (David Joseph Craig, “The Gift”) and Will’s best friend Reece (Morgan Spector, “The Drop”) who are in a monogamous relationship with its own problems — primarily revolving around Hale’s desire to have children.
Permission, therefore, is highly invested in more than one story, a fact which turns out to be both its best feature and its biggest problem.
It all starts with a drunken suggestion from Reece, but as we quickly discover, the idea of being with other people is more intriguing to the couple than they originally let on. For Anna and Will, that they love each other and plan to spend the rest of their lives together is a given, so there is no harm in simply sleeping with other people. Beginning their adventures by hitting a bar, the duo soon come face-to-face with the reality of their decision when the ruggedly charming Dane (François Arnaud, “The Man Who Was Thursday”) approaches Anna. Being careful to double-check with Will — the couple ask each other the question “Are you okay?” so much it’s both endearing and frustrating — she goes home with Dane. Later that week, Will meets Lydia (Gina Gershon, “My Dead Boyfriend”), an attractive older woman who visits his woodworking shop. Interestingly enough, Crano does not tiptoe around the difficult emotions in Permission, but does tiptoe around the sex itself, which is a shame. Without a clear sense of what their new sexual experiences provide, it’s difficult for us to understand why Anna and Will wanted to try this arrangement in the first place.
The performances throughout are noteworthy, with Hall in particular standing out as she tackles Anna’s underlying dissatisfaction in her current relationship and the possible factors behind it. With a thoughtfully written screenplay as the foundation, Hall is able to fully address her character’s need to discover who she is outside of her relationship. Stevens is also wonderful to watch as he infuses Will with a quirky charm and palpable pain in certain moments, although his character is slightly worse off as a result of a kinky preference shoehorned into a later scene. Both of their sexual partners, Dane and Lydia, are portrayed with a refreshing sense of individuality by Arnaud and Gershon, allowing the audience to stay immersed in their potential as actual people as opposed to stereotypical indie-drama characters.
The secondary plot, following gay couple Hale and Reece, also makes sure to infuse each character with enough personality to ensure that they are never seen as the “token gay couple” but instead are treated with the same sense of depth and honesty as Anna and Will. Craig’s ability to portray a quiet need for more is in perfect balance with Spector’s almost-aggressive representation of contentment. As an added bonus, Jason Sudeikis (“Sleeping with Other People”) is an understated joy as Glenn, a new father with whom Hale is able to talk openly about parenthood. Yet as the script bounces from story to story — revelation to revelation — we’re often left feeling that the whole thing is rushed, pulling us too abruptly out of moments of real poignancy. Given that one of the biggest strengths of Permission lies in its willingness to examine the raw emotions involved, it’s unfortunate to find its legs often cut out from underneath itself.
By attempting to say too much on the topic, Permission ends up not saying very much. Crano’s ability to approach the subject of monogamy without heavily leaning to either side is certainly commendable, but this film had the potential to expand how society views monogamy in a genuinely thought-provoking way. The theme is certainly nothing new, so it would have been a nice change for the material to be more vulnerable and challenging. Nevertheless, with a strong ending and remarkable characters, the film is certainly a thoughtful piece worth watching.
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Permission (2017)
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Brian Crano
Actor(s): Bridget Everett, Dan Stevens, David Joseph Craig, François Arnaud, Gina Gershon, Jason Sudeikis, Morgan Spector, Raúl Castillo, Rebecca Hall, Sarah Steele
Writer(s): Brian Crano
Producer(s): Giri Tharan, Joshua Thurston, Margot Hand, Rebecca Hall
Studio(s): Ball & Chain Productions, Good Deed Entertainment, Picture Films
Release Date(s): US: February 9, 2018
IMDb Info: Permission
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Home Business DHL Expands Africa Eshop Online Shopping Application to 34 Countries Across Sub Saharan Africa
DHL Expands Africa Eshop Online Shopping Application to 34 Countries Across Sub Saharan Africa
Platform introduced to an additional 14 countries across Sub Saharan Africa; Growth of online retail driving DHL Africa eShop’s rapid success.
Since its initial introduction in April of this year, the DHL Africa eShop app has seen its user base grow rapidly, and within the first three months of operation, it had already been rolled out to 20 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
DHL Express announced this week that the innovative mobile and desktop platform is now available in 14 additional countries across the region. This increases the platform’s reach to 34 countries across SSA.
Hennie Heymans, CEO of DHL Express Sub Saharan Africa, says that user uptake on the DHL Africa eShop app has been remarkable over the last five months, not only from the number of downloads, but just as importantly, from an order perspective. This is why we’re excited to launch DHL Africa eShop in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Lesotho, Liberia, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Sudan, and Togo.
“DHL adopted a phased approach for the rollout of the platform on the continent, with the initial launch implemented in 11 countries to test the market’s reaction. Within the first seven weeks, the response from the consumer market was so impressive, that the second phase was initiated – which added 9 more countries to the list. Now we are once again able to build on that momentum, with the biggest single rollout phase so far.”
The DHL Africa eShop app offers African consumers unprecedented access to international retailers on an easy-to-use platform, with great convenience and speed. It also enables many global brands to connect with a captive African market.
The DHL Africa eShop enables African customers to shop directly from over 200 US- and UK-based online retailers, with purchases delivered to their door, by DHL Express. This solution was developed in partnership with Link Commerce – a division of Mall for Africa.
He adds that while Africa’s ecommerce market is still lagging behind the rest of the globe in terms of annual turnover, it may well make significant strides to catching up in the near future. “A report by Statista reveals that e-commerce in Africa was valued at $16.5 billion in 2017. McKinsey adds to this calculation by predicting that this value could potentially reach $75 billion by 2025.”
As the global leader in express logistics, DHL is well positioned to connect African consumers with these exciting global brands. “We are committed to driving e-commerce growth on the continent for retailers as they work to expose their brands to international markets and also for consumers, who want easy access to global brands,” concludes Heymans.
DHL is celebrating the launch of the new countries with a promotion of $20 flat rate shipping for up to 5 items from over 100 US/UK selected sites to all DHL Africa eShop countries. The promotion is limited to Clothing and Accessory items only, and buyers need to use coupon code CELEBRATE when completing their order.
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