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Simulation on Fuel Metering Unit Used for TurboShaft Engine Model
Bin Wang, Hengyu Ji, Zhifeng Ye
Fuel Metering Unit (FMU) in fuel system of an aeroengine sometimes has direct influence on the engine performance, which is neglected for the sake of easy access to mathematical model of the engine in most cases. In order to verify the influence of FMU on an engine model, this paper presents a co-simulation of a stepping motor driven FMU (digital FMU) in a turboshaft aeroengine, using AMESim and MATLAB to obtain the steady and dynamic characteristics of the FMU. For this method, mechanical and hydraulic section of the unit is modeled through AMESim, while the stepping motor is mathematically modeled through MATLAB/Simulink. Combining these two sub-models yields an AMESim/MATLAB co-model of the FMU. A simplified component level model for the turboshaft engine is established and connected with the FMU model. Simulation results on the full model show that the engine model considering FMU characteristics describes the engine more precisely especially in its transition state. An FMU dynamics will cut down the rotation speed of the high pressure shaft and the inlet pressure of the combustor during the step response. The work in this paper reveals the impact of FMU on engine operation characteristics and provides a reference to an engine model for ground tests.
Fuel metering unit, stepping motor, AMESim/MATLAB, full digital simulation.
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Will Edward Jones stop advisors from using the CFP designation?
June 03, 2019, 4:15 p.m. EDT
Friction between the CFP Board and Edward Jones over the board’s new professional standards of ethics and conduct is leading some advisors at the firm to question whether they’ll be permitted to use the industry’s most popular credential.
The discord, spurred by recent Edward Jones messaging to advisors about the board’s efforts to update its standards, including a stronger fiduciary duty, has prompted some of the nearly 2,000 CFP professionals at the company to take their questions directly to the CFP Board.
“Edward Jones as a firm does not act as a fiduciary,” an advisor wrote to the board, according to a person who shared details of this and other letters. “Can you provide light on my situation? Will I be forced to choose between my designation or the firm where I have worked for more than 20 years?”
The dissention also raises broader questions for the firm and the profession: Could Edward Jones advisors compete without CFP marks at a time when thousands of advisors are signing up to earn the credentials? Will the board suffer if one of the nation’s largest brokerages shuns it? And if Edward Jones goes, will other firms follow?
Edward Jones, which has more than 17,000 advisors and $1 trillion in assets, has told employees that it is working on resolving issues with the board and has instructed advisors studying for the CFP exam to continue doing so. But what happens when the new, stronger standards of conduct take effect Oct. 1 is unclear.
“Edward Jones is constantly evaluating the overall landscape to best serve our clients. We continue to have discussions with the CFP leadership, but we have made no decision with respect to the CFP’s implementation date,” a company spokesman said in an email.
Among other sticking points, there are concerns about an expanded fiduciary obligation; about whether the CFP standards would conflict with the SEC’s proposed Regulation Best Interest; and how a firm will monitor an advisor’s responsibility to meet the standards.
Asked for comment on the matter, the CFP Board did not directly address Edward Jones’ concerns, but says it adopted its standards after “after extensive engagement with the public, CFP professionals and the firms at which CFP professionals work,” according to an emailed statement.
The board “believes that all CFP professionals regardless of the business model in which they work, may act as a fiduciary when providing financial advice to a client. We look forward to continuing to work with CFP professionals, and their firms, to develop additional guidance materials that reflect a CFP professional’s commitment to acting in their clients’ best interests.”
At least one advisor questioned whether it was time to get different credentials. But choosing another might be challenging.
While there are a slew of professional designations, few are as popular as the CFP, which has become something of an industry benchmark due to the board’s marketing and education efforts and the swelling ranks of CFPs. More than 84,000 financial professionals hold the certification. Some other designations are positioned as advanced professional development that complements what an advisor learns in preparation for the CFP exam.
Many firms have come to prioritize it. UBS, for example, encourages employees at its Wealth Advice Center to earn the credentials. Many wirehouse teams have a CFP or two on their teams. Merrill Lynch is the nation’s leading employer of CFPs, with more than 3,900 as of last year.
“The partnership between Merrill Lynch and the CFP Board is enormously strategic and deeper and deeper for us,” Merrill Lynch head Andy Sieg said at a CFP diversity conference in October.
It’s not clear that, should Edward Jones shun the CFP marks, that other competitors would follow. But there is precedent for such a move; State Farm forced its roughly 500 CFPs to relinquish the credentials when the board updated its standards in 2009 to include a fiduciary obligation under certain circumstances.
Edward Jones operates a unique model within the brokerage industry. The St. Louis-based company trains many of its own brokers rather than recruit talent from rivals. The firm typically operates offices in small towns and suburbs that are staffed by a single broker and an assistant whereas its wirehouse rivals prefer multiple brokers in centralized offices, often in urban locations.
If Edward Jones shuns the CFP marks, advisors at the company cannot easily decamp for a competitor. The firm is not a member of the Broker Protocol, and industrywide agreement that permits brokers switching firms to take basic client contact information with them.
In an SEC filing earlier this year, Edward Jones warned that state-level efforts to enact fiduciary rules “may have an adverse effect on the partnership's financial condition, results of operations, and liquidity.” It did not say anything with regard to the CFP Board’s new standards.
But, last year, Edward Jones and seven other brokerages asked the board to hold off while the SEC finalized its proposed Regulation Best Interest, citing concerns that the two standards would conflict.
“There is no compelling reason why the revised proposal should move forward at this particular juncture,” the firms wrote.
The CFP Board risked “adding to the growing patchwork of standards of care,” the firms warned. Lobby groups such as SIFMA and FSI, which represent brokerage firms, have taken a similar line against state fiduciary rules.
Regulatory standards of conduct have swung back-and-forth in recent years. When the CFP Board began revising its standards in 2015, the Department of Labor’s fiduciary rule appeared set to be the industry benchmark. Yet that regulation was vacated in 2018 when a federal appeals court ruled in favor of SIFMA, FSI and other lobbying groups that had sued the department to block the rule.
And, despite its name, the SEC’s controversial proposal falls short of a fiduciary standard which would have required advisors and brokers to act in the best interests of clients. The SEC’s proposed rule relies instead on disclosure of conflicts of interest. Commissioners will vote June 5 on whether to approve Reg BI.
The CFP standards are compensation neutral and are also specific to CFP holders, not firms, according to Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America and who was involved in developing them.
“It doesn’t require the elimination of conflicts, but it goes beyond the SEC by saying once you disclose your conflicts, then you need to manage them in the best interests of the customer,” Roper says. “Best interest actually means best interest under the CFP standard.”
Andrew Welsch
Senior Editor, Financial Planning
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Second Beaver Stadium 5K Raises $80K for Special Olympics
By Ariel Abramowitz
More than 1,600 runners and walkers participated in the Beaver Stadium 5K Run/Family Fun Walk , raising over $80,000 to benefit Special Olympics Pennsylvania. In only it’s second year, this new Blue-White Weekend tradition was able to double the previous number of participants and donations received.
Runners and walkers were greeted by Sue Paterno, former Nittany Lion standout Franco Harris, law enforcement officials and Penn State student-athletes as they made their way from the south tunnel of Beaver Stadium to the finish on the 50-yard line.
“We are thrilled beyond words,” said Paterno, who is a long-time supporter, volunteer and organizer with Special Olympics. “We want to make this event grow and grow.”
The Beaver Stadium 5K Run supports county chapters of Special Olympics and the SOPA state Summer Games, which are held annually at Penn State in June.
Ariel Abramowitz
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Explaining the Fro-Yo War: Who Came Out on Top
Fro-yo (or frozen yogurt) is the latest craze to take over Happy Valley. Healthier than ice cream with an infinite number of toppings, the combination is drive girls in droves downtown to get their fix. The addition of two new businesses has led to a extreme price war, with owners vying to have not only the best prices but each claiming their flavors are the best. Since we know our readers don’t have the time to try them all and decide for themselves, we did it for you and have decided which really hits the spot.
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Depressurization System by Coiled Pipes Applied to a High Pressure Process: Experimental Results and Modeling
J. M. Benjumea*, J. Sánchez-Oneto, J. R. Portela, E. J. Martínez de la Ossa
Department of Chemical Engineering and Food Technologies, Faculty of Sciences Agro-food International Excellence Campus CeiA3, University of Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain.
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© 2017 Benjumea et al.
* Address correspondence to this author at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Food Technologies, Faculty of Sciences Agro-food International Excellence Campus CeiA3, University of Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain, Tel: +34956016411; E-mails: josemanuel.benjumea@uca.es, jmbentri@gmail.com
The use of backpressure regulator valves is widespread in high-pressure processes both at laboratory and pilot plant scales, but being a single step for effluent depressurization, such valves may have some limitations at industrial scale. In an effort to improve the depressurization step, this work studies a system based on the pressure drop of a fluid that circulates through coiled pipes.
The equipment, based on three series of variable length coiled pipes, was installed to achieve depressurization of 240 bars in a SCWO pilot plant.
The experimental results were compared with those obtained by the modeling carried out using different friction factor correlations from the literature.
Among all the correlations tested, the Lockhart–Martinelli correlation showed the best agreement with experimental data. However, it was necessary to obtain an appropriate C parameter to achieve a good agreement with experimental data.
Keywords: Coiled pipes, Depressurization step, Experimental tests, Modeling, Lockhart–Martinelli correlation, SCWO plants.
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The Open Chemical Engineering Journal
Raffaele Marotta
Biography of Raffaele Marotta
Raffaele Marotta is Associate Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Materials and Industrial Production of the University of Naples Federico II. He is co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and several book chapters with more than 7400 citations (Google Scholar). He is involved in research activities in the field of Advanced Oxidation Processes, kinetic modeling of oxidation processes, solar chemical processes, removal of heavy metals from waters by solar photocatalytic technologies, hydrogen generation by photo reforming of organics, green and sustainable oxidation processes and hazard evaluation in nitration processes. He is in the editorial board of “Journal of Hazardous Materials” (Elsevier), “Nanoscience & Nanotechnology-Asia” (Bentham), “Clean Technologies” (MDPI). He is reviewer for more than 20 international journals and scientific committees.
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Synthesis of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for the Selective Extraction /Removal of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol
Experimental Study on Rational Water Injection Rate in Continental Sandstone Reservoirs
Integrated Reservoir Characterisation for Petrophysical Flow Units Evaluation and Performance Prediction
Production of Citric Acid from the Fermentation of Pineapple Waste by Aspergillus niger
Electrochemical Polymerised Graphene Paste Electrode and Application to Catechol Sensing
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Archives for EP2014
‘Grillage People’ no more: European Parliament group of Farage and Grillo collapses
Nigel Farage and Beppe Grillo (the ‘Grillage People’, as @Berlaymonster brilliantly renamed the duo) have just lost their group in the European Parliament.Latvian MEP Iveta Grigule left #EFDD group today. #EFDD no longer has members from at least 7 cou…
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It’s official: the 2014 European elections saw the lowest turnout ever
Remember how some tried to make a song and dance about the turnout in May’s European elections having increased for the first time since direct voting was introduced in 1979? Having dropped from 62% in 1979 to 43% in 2009, the 2014 elections saw a stag…
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European Parliament committees: more secret ballots and backroom deals?
EU democracy at work?The European Parliament has announced the composition of its Committees, with MEP groups hard at work negotiating the final deals to see who will be Chair and Vice-Chair of the different bodies.These Committees vary in importa…
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Could France and Italy provide Merkel with an excuse to drop Juncker?
The appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as next European Commission President is often boiled down to a stand-off between David Cameron and Angela Merkel. And it looks increasingly likely that there will be a vote on Juncker as early as at nex…
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Grillo joins Farage, but UKIP’s group in the European Parliament is not a done deal yet
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Battle for next Commission President is a proxy for a wider debate between two competing visions of Europe
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Who will win the race for the most anti-EU MEPs: Farage or Le Pen?
***Update 18:30*** We flagged up earlier that Beppe Grillo was in talks with Nigel Farage and it looks like they have gone well:#Grillo and #Farage agree to “begin discussions” over new EP group. They will meet again in coming weeks. http://t.co/5…
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Heads begin to roll in aftermath of European election shock
As might be expected after some shocking showings in the European Parliament (EP) elections, the heads have begun to roll – and rightly so, some would say.The most high profile resignation so far is that of the Spanish opposition Socialist leader Alf…
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Chasm Walkers
Model: d-ws12153
Author: Raquel Byrnes
Bio and Other Titles by Raquel Byrnes
Charlotte Blackburn—Legend, traitor, the Order’s worst nightmare —she escaped the torturous experiments by the villainous Viceroy Arecibo, but is forever changed. Now, she battles to retain her humanity as she fights to survive among the wild sky settlers of Outer City. But an old...
Charlotte Blackburn—Legend, traitor, the Order’s worst nightmare —she escaped the torturous experiments by the villainous Viceroy Arecibo, but is forever changed. Now, she battles to retain her humanity as she fights to survive among the wild sky settlers of Outer City. But an old threat emerges and Charlotte must choose between revenge and redemption.
Ashton Wells has one purpose: Stop Europe’s Coalition forces from slaughtering the citizens of The Peaceful Union to prevent the spread of the Trembling Sickness. But his plan to overthrow The Order from within is thwarted at every turn by his ex-love, Charlotte Blackburn. A woman he betrayed. His treachery resulted in her capture and now she will stop at nothing to destroy the Order – even if it means all-out war with Ashton.
Hunted by the brutal Viceroy and struggling to regain memories of the past two years wiped by The Order, Charlotte must fight to master the devices and startling abilities thrust upon her as a result of her capture. As Charlotte and Ashton endeavor to discover the real reason for what was done to her, they uncover an unfathomable plan against the most innocent of outer City's citizens.
With ruthless enemies mounting against the struggling citizens of Outer City, Charlotte must brave the terrors of the churning sea and face her darkest truth to retrieve a strange submersible machine—a device that may very well be humanity’s last hope of survival.
Plaza Exilio, Spain – December, 1889
Dirigibles and air ships circled the port’s landing base, falling lower and lower as the weight of the refugees aboard burned through the vessels’ fuel. Snow flurried on a bitterly cold wind chapping the faces of the countless people on the ground as they crowded along the ten-foot-high barricade that corralled the passengers disembarking from both air and sea ships.
Riley pushed through the crowd, his eye on the guards in thick black coats who stood peering over the top of the barrier preventing the mass of people from entering the receiving camp. Filter masks over their mouth and noses, they kept their rifles aimed at the surging mob and shouted orders in Spanish, demanding registration of names and presentation before the line of doctors. The port teemed with refugees shoving and shouting their way to the vast metal doors that guarded the entrance to Spain’s last remaining receiving base.
Riley’s mech-hand shuddered and whirred, the uncharacteristic cold slowing the mechanica, and he clenched his fingers working the gears. Europe suffered disrupted weather patterns as a result of North America’s Great Calamity, and in the decade since, the strange storms that froze the coast or charred the mountains with lightning had not dissipated. Today was no different, as the wan noonday sun did little to stave off the winter chill. Snow packed from thousands of footsteps crunched under his boots as he walked along the line of jostling bodies, which stretched for nearly a mile down the port.
The receiving camp would close for good today at sundown on orders from the European Coalition formed to deal with the Peaceful Union’s massive disaster.
His hand went to the green band of material sewn onto the sleeve of his leather duster—a symbol of his status as a refugee with a clean bill of health. The red wax stamped with the coalition’s symbol of an olive branch was already beginning to crumble from the frigid wind.
Through the crowd, a familiar face came into view. Cephas waved his arms over his head, catching Riley’s attention. His dark skin was dusty with dirt, and his rumpled clothes bore the grime of living in the filthy holding camp. The cracked lens of his spectacles held the red grime of ash. Still, he smiled warmly as he wove through the milling bodies and took up step next to Riley as they made their way to the entrance.
“Cephas,” Riley said, nodding. “How is Reena and the child?”
“Safely hidden,” he said and let a half smile escape. “Sheriff, there is news from Outer City—”
“Not here.” Riley glanced at the row of armed men lining the fence.
They walked together, Riley silent as he took in the chaos around him
“Coalition of Khent,” Cephas said, motioning to the guards. “The European committee meets this week, I heard. They talk of a full blockade against the Union territories.”
“Won’t do any good,” Riley said, adjusting his large brimmed hat on top of his head. “Once people make it across the noxious Atlantic, there’s no way they’re going back to the city-states. Better to risk dying of exposure out here than to try to survive the Trembling Sickness and wasteland poison back home.”
“But a blockade would stop trade with Europe. Medicine, food, steel, and textiles. We need those shipments to survive.” Cephas shook his head. “Would they cut us off completely? Thousands would starve to death.”
“The sickness is spreading and so is their panic. They saw what happened to the city-states left unprotected by the Tesla domes.” Riley slowed, a deep growl sounding over the noise of the crowd, making him miss a step. He paused, his heart ramping up as his gaze skipped from person to person looking for telltale signs of the affliction.
“Two years and we’re still fleeing for our lives,” Cephas continued. He wiped melted snow from his brow with the sleeve of his Reaper tunic. “And now this final port is closing. What will all these people do?”
The refugees piled against the high fence, banging their hands or trying to climb over one another to scale it. Children cried, their tiny faces marred with confusion and fear. Mothers shouted for their loved ones, separated from them in the melee, and desperately clung to the ones still in their arms.
Riley and Cephas skirted the intake line and made their way to the barred gate.
Soldiers stood eight deep at the doors checking for armbands and waving people through.
Riley kept his gaze on the crowd, his throat aching at the desperate faces. It was as bad now as it was two years ago when the first wave of people escaped the shores of the Peaceful Union and braved the lethal Atlantic to seek refuge in Spain and Portugal. Rumor was that some even made it across the ice shelf to Canada. Riley had heard news of death by trampling and uncontrollable riots in other coastal countries hit with the fleeing citizens of North America.
“We’ll figure something out,” Riley said absently. Another growl pulled his attention, and he stopped in his tracks at the sight before him. “What have they done?”
Cephas followed his gaze, the color draining from the man’s face. “Oh, no.”
A man infected with the sickness, a Trembler, writhed in a large cage near the gate. He gnashed his teeth and flailed his blue-skinned arms through the bars at the terrified passersby. Black eyes roving, a shudder wracked his body breaking bone. Keening with pain, he fell to his knees, still clad in the trousers and fine shirt he’d been wearing when the strange affliction overtook him. At least a dozen more cages lined the fence leading to the entrance.
A soldier wrestled with a screaming woman as he tried to shove her into an empty cage. She shook in his arms, her low moan a dead giveaway of her condition.
“They check for signs of the Trembling Sickness in the camps now too. All of us daily, even if we are already cleared,” Cephas muttered next to Riley. “They dragged a poor woman out yesterday because she was shivering from the cold. We haven’t seen her since.”
“It will get worse.” Riley turned at the grating sound of an iron-clad ship pulling into port. A stream of Peaceful Union citizens poured out of its hold. More refugees from the failing nation come to seek aid and shelter in Europe after the massive Reaper attack crippled half of the city-states of their country. “Won’t be long until it is not just Spain and Portugal, but all of Europe that starts to turn entire ships away on the rumor of sickness.”
“That is my fear,” Cephas muttered. “Or worse. Why waste time going through each camp person by person? How long until they slaughter all of us just to be sure?”
Fear eroded the fabric of decency. How long until it ripped apart humanity entirely? The line moved up, and Riley turned to show the guard his armband.
“Face.” The guard demanded, stepping forward and shoving Riley in the chest with his rifle. “Show me your temples.”
“What?” Cephas asked, startled.
Before Riley could remove his hat, the guard knocked it off. “Your temples and your fingers. Now.”
Riley stepped forward, nearly nose to nose with the guard, and held up his hands.
“No blue, see?” He stared him down, his anger barely contained. “I’ve been cleared.”
“You present every time you enter, or leave the camp,” the guard snarled. “Or you get shot. You choose.”
“We do not have a problem here.” Cephas picked up Riley’s hat, handed it to him, and then held his hands up as well. “I am not sick. He is not sick.”
The guard glanced at Cephas and then back at Riley. He turned, muttered something in Spanish to his man at the gate, and then motioned for them to enter.
Riley stepped past him, his gaze locking with the man as he went. Out of habit, Riley’s hand went to his hip, where his weapon would normally rest in its holster.
Cephas’s mouth twitched nervously as they side stepped the row of guards into the camp.
Walking through the gates, Riley paused, taken aback by how much had changed in the two months since he’d been here. Hundreds of new tents filled the area, makeshift shelters made out of sails and sheets and whatever else the refugees could find. Thousands more people had arrived. How would he locate one man in this sea of people? More importantly…how would he do it in time? He blew out a breath of frustration.
“You know for sure your contact is here?”
“Well, yes, I believe so, but that is what I wanted to speak with you about…” Cephas pulled a roll of crumpled aethergraph paper from his pants.
“Is he here or not?” Riley eyed the missive, waiting. “What are you not saying, Cephas?”
“Yes, he is here or he was a few days ago. I believe he is in the northern quadrant but there is something you must read first.”
Riley shook his head. “No time.”
“You will want to know this, Sheriff. Please, it is news from back home.”
“I just left Outer City a week ago. What could have gone wrong in the time it took the dirigible to fly here? Besides, Deputy Kiril is capable of handling whatever it is.”
He tried to continue, but Cephas stepped in his way.
“But it is why you are here. The reason you came all this way, Sheriff.” Cephas shoved the paper in Riley’s hand. “It is Dr. Bartlet. She sent this aether missive a few days after you left Outer City to come here. It is coded, but I deciphered it. Sheriff, it says they found Charlotte Blackburn.”
Riley’s world stopped. His pulse rammed in his ears, and all sound fell away. He took the message from Cephas with shaking hands. Gaze traveling the etching left by the electric rods of the machine, he traced the words on the paper with his fingers. Not believing, he read it again, making sure he understood every word.
You were right, Riley. She was exactly where you thought. We found her. We have her.
“They…” Riley tried to form words but his mouth was dry, his breath coming in hitches. He staggered, gripping the paper, unable to think. “She’s safe?”
“Go,” Cephas said, patting Riley on the shoulder. “Hurry back to Outer City. She is waiting for you.”
A deep ache in his throat made it impossible to answer. He nodded mutely, blinking rapidly as he tilted his face to the sky. Fine flecks of snow fluttered onto his skin, melting in the heat of his exhaled breaths. Two years in the grip of a madman and she had survived. His mind churned with anguish at the terrors she must have endured, but right now all that mattered was one thing.
Charlotte was alive.
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Dr. Peter David Beter - Audio Letter No. 17.
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Hello, my friends, this is Dr. Beter. Today is October 26,
1976, and this is my monthly AUDIO LETTER(R) No. 17.
Four months ago in monthly AUDIO LETTER No. 13 I reported the
presence of a Soviet nuclear weapon at Seal Harbor, Maine, placed
where it could destroy the summer homes of David and Nelson
Rockefeller. The rulers of the Soviet Union were embarking on an
all-out double-cross of their long time allies, the four
Rockefeller Brothers; and for the past four months we have been
in the grip of the "Soviet Missile Crisis of 1976"--a fact of
which most Americans are still unaware. The month before this
crisis began, in May 1976, I had revealed the rapidly mounting
fears of certain Trustees of the key Rockefeller-controlled
foundations that such a Soviet double-cross was imminent.
More than half a century ago a commitment was formed for the
creation of a One-World collectivist government to be ruled by a
mere handful of wealthy, immensely powerful individuals. This
drive, which long ago crystallized into the Rockefeller-Soviet
alliance, had been aided and abetted by the Trustees of the
Rockefeller-controlled group of foundations; but they have opened
Pandora's box, unleashing forces they can no longer control.
Certain of the Trustees realized this even before the actual
Soviet double-cross began. But the Gang of Four, the four
Rockefeller Brothers, could not bring themselves to believe it
until the Seal Harbor H-bomb was found by the United States Navy.
Now they know beyond any doubt that a Soviet double-cross has
been in progress against them--as well as against the rest of us.
But still the Rockefeller Brothers have not learned their lesson.
They still think that they can get back to business as usual with
their Soviet allies in their joint program for world domination.
And for the moment, the Soviet Union is doing everything possible
to encourage this false impression strictly as a tactic. The
Soviet Union was robbed of the element of surprise by my
disclosures in monthly AUDIO LETTERS Nos. 14 and 15, and they are
trying to lull the Rockefeller Brothers back to sleep so that
they can be successfully disposed of a little later on.
Beyond that, the Soviets did not expect to be caught in their
program of planting underwater missiles for a surprise attack;
and because they were caught and their missiles were removed
during August and September, they are proceeding with extra
caution right now. And so for the moment the alliance between
the four Rockefeller Brothers and the Soviet Union is
functioning, but it is now a false alliance. The Soviet rulers
are just biding their time, watching and preparing for another
chance to eliminate the Rockefellers and seize the whole world
for themselves.
Meanwhile you and I are again under attack jointly by the
Rockefellers and the Soviet Union. In a vain attempt to save
their own lives, the Brothers are bargaining away millions of
ours. At this moment the United States and Canada are once again
encircled by Soviet underwater missiles and prowling submarines;
but now, since Friday, October 1, 1976, the missiles are no
longer being removed!
Here are my topics for today:
Topic #1--RED FRIDAY AND THE CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY GENERAL GEORGE
S. BROWN
Topic #2--THE SWINE FLU COVER-UP FOR CHEMICAL WARFARE NOW UNDER
Topic #3--THE PHANTOM ELECTION OF 1976.
Topic #1--Last month in monthly AUDIO LETTER No. 16 I reviewed
for you the events that had taken place in the Soviet Underwater
Missile Crisis since recording AUDIO LETTER No. 15 in early
August. As I pointed out, Air Force General George S. Brown,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had so far played a
crucial role in preventing a Soviet surprise attack on the United
States, thanks to the actions taken by American Armed Forces
under his command. In August he had obtained the go-ahead from
President Ford, as Commander in Chief, to seek out and remove the
Soviet underwater missiles in our coastal waters. A remarkable
achievement, because Ford had to overrule Rockefeller agent Henry
Kissinger in giving this order!
Using the navigational coordinates I revealed in my August
tape, the United States Navy was able to remove all the Soviet
missiles in our territorial waters during the latter part of
August. On September 1, 1976, with the threat presumed to be
over, General Brown wrote me a letter, which was widely
publicized, seemingly dismissing my charges, but actually opening
the door for communication between us.
On September 7 I had information about a new round of missiles
that were being planted by the Soviets. I wrote General Brown to
request a meeting, and on September 16, 1976, I met with him at
the Pentagon in his office for well over an hour. During that
meeting I gave him the navigational coordinates for 48 new Soviet
missiles threatening the United States and Canada from locations
in our territorial waters--and again he ordered prompt action by
the United States Navy to start removing them. But as I warned
last month, the Soviet Union is not giving up; and on top of
that, General Brown confronts terrible opposition WITHIN the
federal government! So I asked you to express your support for
General Brown to strengthen his hand for our country's benefit.
Now you can begin to see why. On October 17, 1976, selected
excerpts from an interview with General Brown were leaked to the
press a week prior to publication. These comments, taken out of
context, made it appear that General Brown was disparaging
certain of our allies; and instantly General Brown was at the
center of a storm of controversy. General Brown is being
criticized now for remarks in a six-month-old interview which was
rejected for publication then, yet has magically surfaced now!
Certain individuals have arranged for the story to be made public
at this time as an indirect means of attack that obscures the
facts. The real reason for efforts to get rid of him is his
dedication to our country's defense.
What is happening now to General Brown is standard practice in
Washington today. The idea is to get something on someone,
anything, that can be made to look bad by the media, and put it
in his dossier for future use. Thus a dark cloud is always handy
later on in case it is needed to blackmail, or destroy, or
intimidate someone.
In General Brown's case, he was set up with this particular
cloud by none other than his boss, Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld, who was the CIA contact man in the White House and is
still a CIA operative now.
Last spring a political writer and cartoonist drew a cartoon
of Rumsfeld, and Rumsfeld called him to ask if he could have the
original. The political writer agreed, and it was also agreed
between them that Rumsfeld would get Brown to give the political
writer an interview. The interview was not used at that time,
six months ago. Even when General Brown was questioned
intensively by the Senate two months later when his confirmation
for a second two-year term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff was being decided upon, the interview still did not emerge.
But now, after helping prevent thermonuclear war for over two
months, by doing his duty Brown is in hot water.
The Rockefeller Brothers are making a desperate effort to put
things right back on track with the Soviet Union, and they have
decided that Brown must go as part of the price of reinstating
so-called detente. The controversy now surrounding Brown is
intended to build up until he resigns, is dismissed, or loses his
influence and credibility. This is totally unrelated to the
election, contrary to appearances.
In this situation, it is more important than ever that you
show your support for General Brown. His enemies are trying to
bring him down by means of a battle he must fight with both hands
tied behind his back. If he were to publicly reveal one word
about the Soviet missile crisis and his role in combatting it--in
other words, the real reasons for his present troubles--General
Brown could be instantly dismissed, court-martialed, and
imprisoned! And speaking out, he would be rewarded with personal
disaster; and the major media, under the thumb of the gang of the
Four Brothers, would then pull out all the stops in a campaign to
discredit whatever he said so that no one would believe it. By
the same token, if Senate Bill No. 1 promoted by Attorney General
Levi had passed earlier this year, I, too, could be imprisoned
for telling you the truth about the Soviet missiles aimed at you
because, my friends, this information is classified "Top Secret",
not because the Government wants to keep anything from the
Soviets, they know all about their own offensive weapons planted
in our waters--it is YOU that the Government wants to keep in the
dark for their own protection, not yours!
Even if you have already written to General Brown to express
your support, I urge you to do so again by letter, telegram, or
Mailgram. My good friend Mr. Edward Durell, an industrialist who
lives in Berryville, Virginia, is urging his associates to write
their Congressmen showing their support for General Brown, and to
send a copy of each letter to:
General George S. Brown
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Grant Avenue, Fort Myer
Arlington, Virginia 22211.
I think this is an excellent suggestion, and I urge you to do the
same. You may want to write to both of your Senators too, and
send copies to General Brown as well. Just address your letter
Congressman (or Senator) so-and-so
House (or Senate) Office Building
Washington, D.C. ... The zip is:
20515 for the House Office Bldg.
20510 for the Senate Office Bldg.
The controversy over General Brown, my friends, is only the
most visible part of a terrible reversal in our country's
fortunes that has occurred this month. The turning point came on
October 1, 1976, a "RED Friday" for the United States of America.
That was the day that President Gerald Ford caved in to pressure
from the Rockefeller-Soviet-Kissinger team.
Two closely related events took place on October 1, 1976:
One was the appearance in the Washington Post of a story by
Woodward and Bernstein, no less, that the Watergate Special
Prosecutor's investigation of President Ford was (quote)
"serious." The story, complete with big headlines, shook the
Stock Market where rumors circulated that Ford was about to step
down. But, most importantly, Ford himself was given a clear
signal that swift political destruction awaited him if he did not
play ball with the Rockefellers. Originally, Nelson Rockefeller
had arranged for the Watergate-related investigation of Ford as a
means of forcing Ford from office and in putting himself in
position as "Acting President" under the 25th Amendment to the
Constitution; but due to the Soviet Missile Crisis, that scenario
has been scrapped because the Watergate Prosecutor's
investigation was used instead to apply pressure for a different
That different purpose had to do with the second major event
that took place on Red Friday, October 1--the visit to the White
House by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko! It was reported
that Gromyko's reception at the White House was the coolest it
had ever been since Ford became President--and no wonder. When
Gromyko told reporters afterward that he and Ford, quote: "spoke
of the most cardinal issues" he was deadly serious. He was
referring not to SALT talks or the Middle East but to the threat
of war between the Soviet Union and the United States.
When I recorded monthly AUDIO LETTER No. 16 last month on
September 25, the second round of Soviet underwater missiles,
whose locations I had given to General Brown during our meeting
on September 16, had practically all been removed by our Navy.
But the Soviets were already beginning to plant a third round of
these missiles, using the missile-laying mini-subs I described
last month, which are specially designed to elude detection by
our coastal sonar defenses.
As of September 25, one of these Soviet mini-subs was resting
on the bottom of Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk, Virginia. A mishap
had killed the crew, so the mini-sub was resting there like a
giant nuclear mine in American waters waiting for the Navy to
recover it. Meanwhile over 142 Soviet submarines were deployed
in attack positions along the East, West, and Gulf coasts of the
United States. During those last few days of September there
were growing indications that the Soviet missile crisis might
actually break out into the open for all to see, just as it must
do if the Soviet plans for nuclear attack world-wide are to be
stopped.
For example, a speech which I mentioned last month delivered
on September 24 by Navy Secretary William Middendorf used the
word "emergency" three times to describe our present naval
plight, and concluded his speech in the words, and I quote:
"Our concern today is the future. The ominous words of Admiral
Gorshkov and the cold steel of his ships tell us that we are in
an emergency situation right now. Something must be done. The
threat is real, and the choice is ours. We must make the right
decisions now while we have these few precious moments of freedom
left, or be willing to suffer the consequences."
Then on September 27, 1976, the Norfolk, Virginia Ledger-Star
newspaper published an article by reporters Garland Bradshaw and
Jack Kestner who had flown to Washington on September 23 to
interview me about my charges of Soviet underwater missiles. The
article did exactly what honest journalism is supposed to do. It
exposed the readers of the Ledger-Star to the fact that I have
charged the Soviet Union with planting offensive nuclear weapons
in our territorial waters, and did so in a fair, objective way.
They did not try to convince their readers either to believe or
disbelieve my charges, but included background information on
both sides as available from their own sources. The important
thing is that the Ledger-Star reported fairly about my charges to
a readership that can be considered an expert audience about such
things, since the Norfolk area is the biggest naval concentration
in the United States.
Yes, things were beginning to break into the open--but then
came Red Friday October 1. President Ford and White House aide
William Hyland met with Gromyko, Henry Kissinger, and Kissinger's
State Department Counselor, Helmut Sonnenfeldt. Gromyko demanded
that the Soviet Union be permitted to sneak into Chesapeake Bay
to recover their dead missile-laying mini-sub near Norfolk. In
return for that, Gromyko said the Soviet submarines deployed at
battle stations along our coasts would disperse. Kissinger and
Sonnenfeldt counseled Ford to agree to this offer by Gromyko as a
reasonable and sound compromise. As always, Ford was confronted
with the standard Kissinger option: "Do you want peace? Or war?"
And on top of that, Ford knew that the Watergate-related
political time bomb was all set to go off if he resisted, and so
he caved in and agreed. Blackmail and threats won the day for
the Soviet Union!
The same day, Henry Kissinger pressed his advantage and also
induced Ford to issue a secret Presidential Order to the Military
from that day onward to flatly deny all my charges when asked
about them. In other words, they are now under presidential
orders to lie in order to keep the truth about the Soviet
missiles from the public. This blackout on the Soviet missile
story is not for the purpose of avoiding a confrontation with the
Soviets, because that has already occurred; and it is not for the
purpose of buying time while we get into a better military
posture. Since Red Friday, October 1, the third round of Soviet
missiles, which have been newly planted around our country, are
still there! The blackout, my friends, is only to keep YOU in
the dark.
This situation here stands out even more boldly when compared
with the behavior of some of our allies who are now alerted to
Soviet plans. Ironically October 1, 1976, the day President Ford
caved in to the Soviet Union, was the same day that the Irish
Navy successfully concluded a naval confrontation with the
Soviets on the high seas. A huge Soviet fishing trawler, so
called, was caught operating illegally inside the Irish 12-mile
limit near Cork Harbor the previous day, and the Irish fishery
protection vessel, L. E. Grenay, went after the trawler to make
an arrest. The trawler fled into international waters, but the
Irish vessel gave chase, brought the trawler to a halt by firing
warning shots across her bow, and sent a boarding party aboard.
The Soviet Captain was totally uncooperative, but the Irish sent
reinforcements, and ultimately had more than 50 men aboard the
Soviet ship. The Soviet trawler entered Cork Harbor under arrest
with the Irish boarding party still aboard and accompanied by two
Irish naval vessels. It was correctly reported by the Cork
Examiner newspaper for Friday October 1, 1976, that, quote:
"The confrontation was regarded as the biggest and potentially
most dangerous that the naval service has faced in its history of
fishery protection."
The Irish were prepared to apply whatever force proved to be
necessary to arrest the intruding Soviet ship. And why? Because
Cork Harbor itself is one of the locations from which a Soviet
underwater nuclear weapon was removed by the Royal Navy in
August, using information in my monthly AUDIO LETTER No. 15. The
Irish now know quite simply that no intruding Soviet ship is to
be trusted.
But here in the United States the Soviet Navy was allowed to
intrude into our waters Monday night, October 4, under the RED
FRIDAY AGREEMENT reached between Ford and Gromyko in the White
House. At approximately 10:00 PM local time the Soviets
retrieved the dead mini-sub from its position on the bottom of
Chesapeake Bay outside Norfolk, operating under cover of
darkness. The missile-laying mini-sub left the Norfolk area that
night in Soviet hands--and with it went what may have been our
only chance to learn the details of the technology of the
mini-subs and their sonar-defeating system so that we could begin
defending ourselves against them. At the same time we lost a
golden opportunity to galvanize the whole world into standing
with us against an all-out common foe, the Soviet Union, by
announcing the capture of the mini-sub, displaying it on
television, and revealing what the Soviets had been doing with
these subs.
If our country were run today by civilians of integrity,
honor, and courage who were trying to serve the people of the
United States of America instead of trying to merge our lives
with that of the Soviet Union, such a thing could have been done.
Swift action could have been taken to do this after I first
notified the Pentagon of the presence of the mini-sub near
Norfolk on Monday, September 20; but NO, that's not the way it
works today. All opportunities for the United States to act
sensibly for the good of its people must be suppressed,
sabotaged, thrown away. Only in this way can we be ground down
to such a low level of life that the goal of the White House
Merge Directive can finally be achieved. That Directive, in
existence for decades, is to the effect that our lives are to be
so altered that they can be comfortably merged with life in the
Soviet Union.
By the following day, the Soviet submarines at battle stations
along our shores had dispersed, as agreed; but within a few more
days they were back again--and they are there now. They are not
at this time deployed in the precise patterns that they were in a
month ago, which indicated readiness for an immediate attack, but
they are present in international waters just off our shores in
great numbers. As of October 11, 1976, 164 Soviet submarines
were on station in the waters near Canada and the United States,
including Hawaii; and the situation has not changed significantly
since then.
Since Red Friday, October 1, I have been cut off from contact
with General Brown, and none of the Soviet underwater missiles in
Canadian and American waters have been removed since that day.
As of now, 50 Soviet nuclear missiles and bombs are planted in
American territorial waters plus the three (3) missiles in the
Gulf of Panama whose coordinates I gave last month. ln addition,
seven (7) missiles are now planted in Canadian waters, whose
coordinates I have already given to Canadian Intelligence.
My friends, there will be no effort by the United States Navy
to remove the nuclear missiles in our waters unless it is forced
by a new surge of public awareness and demand for action, because
Nelson Rockefeller's wife arrived in Moscow and on October 12
delivered a personal letter from Nelson Rockefeller to the
Kremlin. In this hand-delivered letter Nelson Rockefeller made
the following pledges to the Kremlin on behalf of the "Gang of
Four", quote:
"There will be no further harassment of your submarines, nor
will your underwater missiles and bombs be taken up. The credit
squeeze by banking circles will be lifted. You will not be
required to sell gold. We will send gold for products delivered.
American know-how, grains, and food stuffs will continue to be
provided. You must reinstate the 'NUCLEAR SAFE ZONE' agreement."
The coordinates of all the Soviet weapons now in American
territorial waters have been transmitted to a number of reliable
men in the United States Intelligence Community, except for the
newest missile, which was planted three days ago in Delaware Bay
39 39' 35" North 75 32' 20" West.
Action will therefore be possible if the Military can once again
be free to do its job.
At least Great Britain, which had 29 new Soviet nuclear
weapons in her waters as of October 11, 1976, is taking action
once again to get rid of them. By October 22, four days ago, the
Royal Navy had removed all but 10 of them, and is still fast at
work. As for Latin America, all the missiles I revealed last
month are still there with two exceptions--British Honduras and
Guatemala were targeted by one missile each, but these have now
been removed.
Our controlled major media tell us nothing at all about the
Soviet missile threat that is ready to engulf us in thermonuclear
war, but instead divert our attention to the case of the Navy
F-14 fighter that plunged off a carrier deck into the North Sea
six weeks ago on September 14, 1976. Great attention is being
given to the F-14, and we are being fed all sorts of lies that
the Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat flown to Japan by a defecting pilot is
hopelessly inferior to the F-14. But the Soviet Navy hasn't even
bothered to try to retrieve the plane. They already know all
about the F-14, and it doesn't worry them.
As for the Phoenix Missile which separated from the F-14 when
it hit the water, the Soviets know where it is too, but have not
yet picked it up. The Phoenix Missile is resting on an
underwater plateau far to the south-southeast of the point where
the F-14 was found. The coordinates of the Phoenix Missile are:
61 - 26 - 6 North, 1 - 23 - 16 West.
And so, my friends, the great war game continues. Our Armed
Services are allowed to participate in NATO and other training
exercises, but are forbidden by Rockefeller hired hands from
doing anything about the real life-and-death threat now lurking
within our own territorial waters. We are being made sitting
ducks for attack; and, in fact, we have already been attacked by
the Soviet Navy because on October 3, two days after Red Friday,
the Soviet submarines along our East, West, and Gulf coast
performed an experiment in radioactive chemical warfare with all
of us as the guinea pigs.
Topic #2--On October 5, 1976, just as the so-called "SWINE FLU"
inoculation program was getting under way, news reports suddenly
told us that we were experiencing fallout from an alleged Chinese
atmospheric nuclear blast on September 26. Oddly enough, the
initial reports about this came from the East Coast, especially
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut; but certain
areas of the Pacific Northwest were soon mentioned as being
affected too. We were told that radioactive iodine-131 was
showing up in milk at various locations; but we were also
assured, as we invariably are whenever any radioactive hazard
appears, that there was really no danger.
In the days that followed we continued to hear about the
supposed Chinese fallout, but other things probably seemed even
more worrisome. For example, elderly people began dying of heart
attacks shortly after taking swine flu shots, causing widespread
alarm at first. But the Government quickly assured us that their
deaths didn't really matter at all, that they would have died
anyway; and the swine flu inoculation program went right back
into high gear.
And then there were the strange outbreaks of an unknown
"mystery illness" at electronics plants in western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Oregon. The employees, most of them women, experienced
headaches, nausea, stomach pains, difficulty in breathing, a
feeling of being intoxicated in some cases, and even fainting
spells. This time the swine flu vaccine could not be the culprit
because the victims had not received it. Instead, some were
worried that the swine flu itself had struck. Others remembered,
with a shiver, the equally mysterious "Legionnaires Disease" that
had sickened nearly 200 people in Philadelphia and killed more
than two dozen of them two months earlier.
My friends, there is actually no mystery at all behind these
developments and more like them that you can expect to see. All
of these cases I have mentioned are man-made and deliberate, but
those who are responsible for them are neither telling you about
them nor leaving clues that will be found in normal medical
investigations of these episodes. We in the United States are
now under attack in a campaign of experimental testing of
chemical warfare weapons so that they can be employed later on
with precision and devastating effect against us in full scale
war--that is, if we let it happen.
For years all the major countries of the world have been in a
continuing race against time to discover ever more sophisticated
forms of bacterial and chemical weapons, some of them amounting
to doomsday weapons capable of destroying all life on this
planet. Only mad men would even consider using such weapons, but
only mad men deliberately cause wars for their own greedy
purposes, too--and war is very near at hand right now.
A few years ago a nerve gas called sarin was perfected in a
facility in Colorado. A tiny amount escaped, and two shepherds
and their 7000 sheep were killed. In response to the public
outcry that resulted, a statement was issued that the Chemical
Warfare Service had destroyed the sarin gas and was no longer
doing such research--but that was a lie. Experimentation still
continues today on all kinds of such poisons, and at a furious
As of right now, many hideous lethal ailments can be inflicted
on whole populations as operational weapons. These include black
plague, smallpox, meningitis, dysentery, gangrene, yellow fever,
tetanus, botulism, typhus, hepatitis, Bang's disease, and Q
fever. Thirty grams of Q fever is sufficient to infect over
150-million people, and it is considered especially convenient
since any individuals who are to be saved in such an attack can
first be immunized against it! Such selective immunization could
easily be done, for example, under the cover of a mass
inoculation program like the swine flu program.
Q fever, though, is mild by comparison to a nuclear gas called
AP-7 which is being manufactured in Uruguay and Argentina by
American and European subsidiaries of Rockefeller-controlled
conglomerate corporations. Two thimblefuls properly distributed
could kill 180-million people; and one pound, all life on the
face of the earth. Unless and until these hideous weapons are
unleashed on the earth, they remain in a condition in which they
can be destroyed and neutralized; and it is essential that they
be destroyed instead of just being handed around from one agency
to another, as Senator Frank Church permitted last year in his
shellfish toxin shell game. But other types of chemical and
biological weapons are also of great interest to weapons
researchers which can be used in more selective ways or to
produce lower-order effects than the poisons I have just
described.
The Soviet KGB, which works hand in hand with the
Rockefeller-controlled CIA, now has access to whole families of
such chemical weapons which can be adjusted in exact dosage and
formula to produce a variety of effects on victims. These were
and are intended for use as part of the program to eliminate
effective opposition by the people of the United States to the
planned Rockefeller dictatorship here in America and our
conversion into the most valuable of all slave nations for the
Before these new weapons can be used with confidence though,
they must be tested, and that testing is going on now. As a
cover for the periodic episodes of strange illnesses that will
occur here and there around the United States while this testing
is going on, the trumped-up swine flu threat was developed.
On March 24, 1976, President Ford announced his proposal for
the unprecedented nation-wide inoculation program supposedly to
fend off the strange swine flu virus. To this very day not a
single case of swine flu has been confirmed anywhere in the
United States since President Ford's announcement.
Last February in monthly AUDIO LETTER No. 9 I revealed that
the Government had panicked because of my disclosure that the
Fort Knox Bullion Depository contained leaking canisters of
deadly plutonium superpoison, and in January 1976 dumped part of
the poison into underground streams beneath Fort Knox. Later
when the swine flu charade was announced, I was able to tell you
of the Government's plan to use this device to cover up the real
cause when and if the poison from Fort Knox began surfacing at
various points in the southeastern United States and causing
sickness and death. But it wasn't until July of this year 1976
that I received information about the rest of the swine flu
story, and at that time the far more imminent threat of the
Soviet missile crisis involving a Soviet double-cross of the four
Rockefeller Brothers had to take precedence.
The reason that the Government concluded last January 1976
that they could get away with dumping the plutonium poison from
Fort Knox into underground streams, which would surely carry the
poison elsewhere, was that the swine flu campaign had already
been planned for another purpose. That purpose was to serve as a
cover to explain the effects that would be caused when chemical
warfare experimentation began, as planned, in July 1976 in our
country. So when I revealed the presence of the leaking
plutonium superpoison in the Central Core Vault of the Fort Knox
Bullion Depository, they concluded that they could just dump some
of it underground and cover up that, too, with the swine flu
swindle.
In late July 1976 the joint KGB-CIA chemical warfare
experimentation program began in Philadelphia at the American
Legion Convention. A convenient test group was assembled, and it
was exploited. Data was desired for the effects of a formulation
of the new family of poisons on older men in particular, and the
American Legion Convention was chosen as the perfect target.
Aerosol spray cans containing poisoned room freshener were used
to selectively saturate the atmosphere of the Legionnaires.
Afterwards the special spray cans were taken from the hotel,
leaving the city by airplane from a small airport on the
northwest side of Philadelphia. Two of the active ingredients in
the poison that produced the Legionnaires Disease were plutonium
and zirconium.
The next experiment occurred late in August 1976 about a month
after the Legionnaire episode, and had quite a different purpose;
and so a different poison formula was used. Plutonium was again
an ingredient, as it is in the entire line of chemical warfare
agents now being tested; but this time the formula was designed
for very rapid effect with the victims receiving a massive dose.
On a day late in August two Air Force C-141 Starlifter transport
aircraft that were preparing to leave McGuire Air Force Base in
New Jersey on flights over the Atlantic were sabotaged by the
placement in their cockpits of concealed canisters of poison gas,
rigged so that the gas would be released in flights without being
detected. The two planes left McGuire at nearly the same time,
and crashed within hours of one another when approaching separate
destinations in Greenland and England. The very next day, with
the wreckage of the aircraft hardly cooled, a Pentagon spokesman
said, quote:
"Sabotage does not appear to be a factor. It's not even being
considered as a factor."
Officials also said there was no apparent connection between the
crashes. Apparently leaving the same Air Base at practically the
same time and then crashing almost simultaneously without warning
is not supposed to suggest the possibility of anything but
coincidence. No doubt it is also coincidence that McGuire Air
Force Base, the origin of these two strange fatal flights, is
right next door to Fort Dix where the whole swine flu cover-up
scare originated!
The successful experimental sabotage of the two C-141s
provided valuable data to the Soviets, since it gave them some
measure of the operational reliability of the formula used for
that purpose. Now, when they are ready to wage war, they have
another weapon tested and proven--the placement of canisters of
poison gas in the cockpits of numerous Allied aircraft to make a
shambles of our air power just when we need it most.
Next came the mystery disease in the electronics factories.
This time more data on women was wanted, especially since the
Legionnaires Disease did not kill many women. The ideal target
would be some assembly plants containing a high proportion of
female employees. To avoid too strong a public uproar, sublethal
doses were used; but again a key active ingredient was plutonium,
and many of the classic symptoms of radiation sickness were
produced.
Finally in early October, this month, the first chemical
warfare experiment was performed against the entire population of
the United States. On October 3, while the huge fleet of Soviet
submarines I told you about last month were still deployed at
precise intervals very close to our shores, the submarines
released a very fine dispersion of plutonium into the atmosphere
along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of the United
States. Unlike normal fallout produced by nuclear weapons, the
invisible clouds of plutonium from the Soviet submarines were
released at relatively low altitudes. The theory was that the
plutonium clouds released in this way would diffuse inward over
land from all of our shorelines and ultimately settle mainly on
North America with very little of it reaching high enough
altitudes to be swept around the globe to the Soviet Union. But,
my friends, this time they miscalculated and the nation-wide
plutonium cloud experiment backfired.
Here is what happened: The early progress of the plutonium
cloud was just as planned. The invisible clouds of plutonium
diffused inward onto the East Coast and onto the Gulf Coast, and
along the West Coast moved inland much more rapidly due to the
assistance of prevailing westerly winds. By October 5 the
expanding plutonium cloud had penetrated a hundred miles or so
inland from the East and Gulf coasts and as far as the Rockies,
where it entered from the Pacific Northwest. That was the day
that the cover story about Chinese nuclear fallout suddenly
appeared, pinpointing areas along the East coast and Pacific
Northwest as being most heavily affected so far. Thus in case
the Soviet plutonium cloud turned out to have unexpectedly strong
effects, Red China had already been identified as the scapegoat.
Over the next two days, the plutonium cloud gradually grew
together over the midwestern United States, forming finally a
continuous blanket over practically all of our land area. At the
same time, the plutonium cloud had also been expanding outward as
well as inward from our coastlines, and by October 8 large areas
of Canada and Mexico were also affected. Prevailing winds were
also tending to move the expanding plutonium cloud eastward out
over the Atlantic; and at this point things began departing from
Soviet calculations.
In recent days there has been an extremely unusual shift in
the position of the high altitude jet stream to a position much
further south than normal. The jet stream has a lot to do with
our weather; and in the case of the Soviet experimental plutonium
cloud, it did enough by causing the plutonium cloud released by
the Soviet subs to drift away from the United States sooner than
expected and to settle all over the Soviet Union
itself--definitely not according to plan. As of now, it has
largely dissipated and does not continue to be a threat. The
main problem that is left is that practically everyone in the
United States plus much of Mexico, Canada, the British Isles, and
Europe have suffered some exposure to this plutonium, though
fortunately it was at a relatively low experimental level this
The best protective measure against radioactivity is, of
course, to avoid it; and that is exactly what Nelson Rockefeller
did, forewarned about the plutonium cloud to be released by the
Soviet subs. When the plutonium drifted inward from our shores,
Nelson and Happy Rockefeller just happened to be elsewhere, in
London. After all, Nelson wants to stay as healthy as possible
so that he can relish his planned elevation to the position he
has craved for decades--President of the United States and of the
THE PHANTOM ELECTION OF 1976
Topic #3--Nelson Rockefeller keeps saying, "I'm relaxed. I
haven't got a worry", and seems from the generous media coverage
he is now receiving to be almost a wistful, nostalgic figure
fading from the public scene before our own eyes. Meanwhile, he
is made to appear a refreshing point of interest against the
background of a presidential campaign that has turned off
millions of voters. But what is not being reported in the
national press is the strenuous campaign Nelson Rockefeller is
carrying on right now all over the country, currying the favor of
members of Congress. What is actually going on now is that
Nelson Rockefeller is down to his ninth and final scenario to
become President. Barring some unforeseen development, he is now
counting on his final backup plan to make him Chief Executive of
the United States. All of his previous scenarios have been
disrupted, one after another, and this is his last hurrah; and
yet when he says "I'm relaxed", he means it because this time he
is confident that he has it "in the bag."
The Rockefeller-controlled major media have from the start
turned the presidential election 1976 into a media event,
disfranchising the American electorate in the process. Now the
media are making both Carter and Ford look unappetizing to vast
numbers of voters, trying to insure both a low turn-out and a
very close election. In addition, the Rockefellers have a
spoiler in the race, Eugene McCarthy, for the young voters.
Everything possible is being done to make sure that the outcome
of the election on November 2 is very close and that no one gets
a mandate. The plan is to create doubt as to the outcome,
possibly even triggering demands for recounts. This situation
will be used to focus public attention on the electoral college.
As you know, when you vote on Election Day you don't vote
directly for a presidential candidate but for his elector; but
unknown to the American people, certain key electors have already
been reached by Rockefeller agents. On December 13, 1976, the
electors will do their voting. The results will then be sent for
safekeeping to the president of the Senate, who just happens to
be Nelson Rockefeller, and they will remain in his possession for
over three weeks until January 6, 1977. On that day, acting in
his official capacity, Rockefeller will open the envelopes
containing the votes of the electors, and the votes will be
tallied; and if all goes according to Nelson Rockefeller's plan,
he will announce that no candidate has received the required 270
electoral votes and therefore that no one has been elected.
Therefore, under the Constitution, Congress will then be required
to select a President and Vice-President from among the leading
candidates in the election. But things not being normal,
Congress may not be able within the short space of two weeks to
choose either a President or a Vice-President, so that as of
noon, January 20, 1977, the United States of America will no
longer have either a President or a Vice-President.
This plan, my friends, is the real reason why the usual
elaborate preparation of inaugural facilities is not taking place
this year. Instead, we are told folding chairs will be
used--folding chairs for a folding election.
Nelson Rockefeller spent over 25-million dollars to get
himself confirmed almost two years ago as Vice-President, so he
still has a residue of good will in Congress. In addition, he is
quietly courting Congressmen all over the country because he
plans to be the likely choice of Congress to become Acting
President with an open-ended term that carries no specific time
limit. This will be according to Section 3 of the 20th Amendment
of the United States Constitution. Once in that position, Nelson
Rockefeller will begin consolidating his power with all possible
speed. His goal: The declaration of a "National Emergency"
invoking Executive Order 11921 signed very quietly by President
Ford on June 11, 1976.
As I have explained in earlier tapes, our freedoms under the
Constitution will be suspended if this Executive Order is used,
and Nelson Rockefeller may well be on his way to making his
dictatorship permanent. But should any candidate win by a
landslide on Election Day, Rockefeller's plan will be rendered
unworkable.
Until next month, God willing, this is Dr. Beter. Thank you,
and may God bless each and every one of you.
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Researchers discover new research use for plaque
by University of Nevada, Reno
Centuries ago, dental calculus would build up through the years, layer after layer, like a stalagmite, sometimes reaching impressive proportions. University of Nevada, Reno researchers have discovered that analysis of tiny fragments of this material can be used effectively in paleodietary research - the study of diets of earlier ancient and populations - without the need to destroy bone, as other methods do. Credit: Photo by G. Richard Scott, University of Nevada, Reno.
While we may brush and floss tirelessly and our dentists may regularly scrape and pick at our teeth to minimize the formation of plaque known as tartar or dental calculus, anthropologists may be rejoicing at the fact that past civilizations were not so careful with their dental hygiene.
University of Nevada, Reno researchers G. Richard Scott and Simon R. Poulson discovered that very small particles of plaque removed from the teeth of ancient populations may provide good clues about their diets. Scott is chair and associate professor of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts. Poulson is research professor of geological sciences in the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering.
Scott obtained samples of dental calculus from 58 skeletons buried in the Cathedral of Santa Maria in northern Spain dating from the 11th to 19th centuries to conduct research on the diet of this ancient population. After his first methodology met with mixed results, he decided to send five samples of dental calculus to Poulson at the University's Stable Isotope Lab, in the off chance they might contain enough carbon and nitrogen to allow them to estimate stable isotope ratios.
"It's chemistry and is pretty complex," Scott explained. "But basically, since only protein has nitrogen, the more nitrogen that is present, the more animal products were consumed as part of the diet. Carbon provides information on the types of plants consumed."
Scott said that once at the lab, the material was crushed, and then an instrument called a mass spectrometer was used to obtain stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios.
"It was a long shot," he said. "No one really thought there would be enough carbon and nitrogen in these tiny, 5- to 10- milligram samples to be measurable, but Dr. Poulson's work revealed there was. The lab results yielded stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios very similar to studies that used bone collagen, which is the typical material used for this type of analysis."
Scott explained that the common practice of using bone to conduct such research is cumbersome and expensive, requiring several acid baths to extract the collagen for analysis. The process also destroys bone, so in many instances, it isn't permitted by museum curators.
As for using hair, muscle and nails for such research, Scott said, "They are great, when you can find them. The problem is, they just don't hold up very well. They decompose too quickly. Dental calculus, for better or for worse, stays around a very long time."
Scott said that although additional work is necessary to firmly establish this new method of using dental calculus for paleodietary research, the results of this initial study indicate it holds great potential.
"This is groundbreaking work," Scott said. "It could save a lot of time and effort, and also allow for analysis when things like hair, muscle and nails are no longer available."
The study, "Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes of human dental calculus: a potentially new non-destructive proxy for paleodietary analysis," is published in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science.
New technologies challenge old ideas about early hominid diets
Journal information: Journal of Archaeological Science
Provided by University of Nevada, Reno
Citation: Researchers discover new research use for plaque (2012, May 2) retrieved 18 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2012-05-plaque.html
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Online Free Roam Coming to Need for Speed Payback; Officially Confirmed
by Aiman MaulanaJanuary 2, 2018
It looks like the folks over at EA and Ghost Games have been kind of busy lately. Need for Speed Payback has been confirmed to have online free roam, and it’s coming soon.
Online Free Roam Coming to Need for Speed Payback
Online Free Roam coming 2018, Happy New Year from everyone at Need for Speed! 🎆 pic.twitter.com/Ht8cRsvQQA
— Need for Speed (@NeedforSpeed) January 1, 2018
To kick off 2018, Electronic Arts and Ghosts Games revealed that a new online feature will be coming to Need for Speed Payback this year. This feature is the much requested Online Free Roam mode that would allow players to explore Need for Speed Payback’s large world with others online.
This news was delivered via the official Need for Speed Twitter, so details on the mode are still quite scarce other than the fact that we will be receiving it sometime this year. 2017 was a pretty rough year for EA, so it’s good to see that they are kicking off this year by confirming that they are adding a much-requested feature to one of their bigger titles from last year. You can check out the full tweet at the top of this post.
Need for Speed Payback is actually the 23rd entry in the long-running Need for Speed series, which began on the Panasonic 3DO all the way back in 1994.The game was unveiled back in June before appearing at EA’s E3 Press Conference. Need for Speed Payback features an action-heavy single-player campaign that follows a group of friends as they try to fight off an evil cartel.
Need for Speed Payback is currently available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Pokdepinion: Well, with the must requested feature about to be added to the game, fans of the game will soon have more stuff to do in Need for Speed Payback. Online free roam is a great idea nowadays, wished they included it from the beginning.
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A 2013 photo of a 13-foot-long Burmese python captured in the Everglades.
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The headline at Smithsonian magazine is "The Snakes That Ate Florida," and the accompanying story makes clear there isn't much hyperbole going on. The story looks at the explosion of Burmese pythons in the Everglades.
These invasive creatures—which likely got their start in the area when owners who bought them from pet stores released them—can grow up to 20 feet long and weigh 200 pounds, and yet are surprisingly hard to find despite their size.
They have decimated the Everglades' population of small mammals—rabbits, raccoons, opossums, etc.—a phenomenon maybe best exemplified by the disappearance of once-common roadkill. It's possible hundreds of thousands of pythons live in the Everglades now, and the story by Ian Frazier focuses on the fight for "containment and control," because outright elimination is impossible.
Frazier accompanies a team led by biologist Ian Bartoszek of the Conservancy of Southwest Florida into the Everglades and details their main method: They currently follow 23 "sentinel" males fitted with radio transmitters, and those males lead them to breeding females (sometimes with up to 100 eggs) that are captured and euthanized.
Non-sentinel males meet the same fate, though some are turned into sentinels themselves. One all-star sentinel named Elvis has led them to 17 other pythons alone.
The story has plenty of heebie-jeebie moments: In a burrow, Bartoszek once found a "breeding ball" of pythons—a 14-foot female and six males. "We were catching snakes so fast, each of us had one in each hand, and I was standing on the others so they couldn’t get away," he recalls.
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KR101716421B1 - Method for providing information and medical diagnosis apparatus thereto - Google Patents
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An information providing method for detecting movement of an examinee located on a table for medical diagnosis, comparing the degree of sensed motion with a predetermined threshold value, and providing guide information for guiding the examinee in relation to the motion according to the comparison result And a medical diagnostic apparatus.
[0001] METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION AND MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS THERETO [0002]
The present invention relates to a method for providing information during diagnosis of a subject to be examined by a medical diagnosis apparatus and a medical diagnosis apparatus thereof. Specifically, the medical diagnostic apparatus relates to providing information on the movement of the examinee.
A computer tomography (CT) system captures and synthesizes a plurality of x-ray images, rotating about one or more axes for an object. Since the CT system can provide a cross-sectional image of a target object, the CT system has advantages in that the internal structure of the target object can be expressed without overlapping with a general x-ray imaging device, and is widely utilized.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) systems expose the nucleus to magnetic fields and then display the image as information obtained through resonance. Magnetic resonance imaging is noninvasive, has excellent contrast in contrast to CT, and has no artifacts due to bone tissue. In addition, the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus has an advantage that various cross sections can be photographed according to a desired direction without changing the position of the object, and is widely used with other image diagnostic apparatuses.
On the other hand, the motion of the testee, which occurs in the process of diagnosing the examinee, results in motion artifacts in the medical image. Motion artifacts appear as bright noises on the image, or in unnecessary forms of repeated density. In particular, motion artifacts are frequently encountered when photographing a patient or a child who is expected to have a high degree of motion.
And provides a method of providing information for minimizing motion artifacts when the medical diagnostic apparatus diagnoses a subject. Specifically, the present invention provides an information providing method and a medical diagnostic apparatus for providing guide information to a subject and a user as the movement of the subject is detected, and for controlling the diagnostic process.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information providing method comprising: detecting movement of a subject placed on a table for medical diagnosis; Comparing the degree of motion sensed with a predetermined threshold; And providing guide information for guiding the subject in relation to the movement, in accordance with the comparison result.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the guide information includes information on the degree of motion sensed.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the guide information includes information on a threshold value.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the providing step provides the guide information using at least one of text, graphics, and audio data.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the degree of motion is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the guide information includes information indicating that re-photographing of the subject is required.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the guide information includes information about at least one of an angle, a position, and a direction for moving a diagnostic region of a subject.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for diagnosing a subject to be examined, comprising the steps of: photographing a diagnosis part of a subject; and providing the captured image together with the guide information.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the providing step provides an example image, which is stored in advance with respect to a diagnostic part of a subject, together with guide information.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the providing step provides guide information on an in-bore display.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of detecting a subject, the method comprising the steps of: capturing a diagnostic region of a subject to be examined, wherein the sensing step senses the subject's movement from the captured image.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the photographing step photographs a diagnostic region using at least one of an ultra-high speed camera and a wide viewing angle camera.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the detecting step detects movement using a sensor provided on at least one of a table on which a subject is placed and a coil mounted on the subject.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a sensor includes at least one of a pressure sensor, a tilt sensor, an acceleration sensor, an acceleration sensor, a gyro sensor, a magnetic field sensor, and an optical sensor.
According to one embodiment for solving the above technical problem, the method further includes the step of receiving an identification signal from an identification device mounted on a test subject, and the sensing step includes the step of detecting motion based on the identification signal .
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the detecting step detects movement based on a change in intensity of an identification signal.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method further includes acquiring a medical image through a protocol for diagnosing an examinee, wherein the sensing includes comparing motion images to detect motion .
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the sensing step may include detecting motion by comparing image characteristics of the medical images.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for diagnosing a test subject, the method comprising the steps of: stopping a protocol for diagnosing a subject when the degree of motion is equal to or greater than a threshold value.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of controlling a wireless communication system, the method comprising: resuming an interrupted protocol when a degree of motion is less than the threshold value.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of diagnosing a subject, the method comprising the steps of: storing a start of a protocol for diagnosing a subject when the degree of motion is equal to or greater than a threshold value.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the degree of motion is less than a threshold value, the method further includes the step of initiating a reserved protocol.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a medical diagnostic apparatus includes an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus or a CT (Computed Tomography) apparatus.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the providing step provides guide information to at least one of a user and a subject of a medical diagnosis apparatus.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a medical diagnostic apparatus comprising: a sensor unit for detecting movement of a subject placed on a table for medical diagnosis; A motion calculation unit for comparing the detected motion level with a predetermined threshold value; And an output unit for providing guide information for guiding the examinee in relation to the movement, in accordance with the comparison result.
There is provided a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute an information providing method for solving the above technical problem.
1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a medical diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a medical diagnostic apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart showing an information providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of providing guide information according to the degree of motion sensed, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 9 is a diagram for explaining a threshold of motion in relation to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig.
10 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention for providing guide information.
11 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention for detecting the movement of an examinee using a camera.
12 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention for detecting the movement of a subject using a camera.
13 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention for detecting movement of an examinee using various kinds of sensors.
Fig. 14 is a diagram showing an embodiment for providing guide information for a movement to a testee in relation to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig.
15 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment for providing guide information via an in-bore display, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
16 is a diagram showing an embodiment for providing guide information to a testee in connection with an embodiment of the present invention.
17 is a diagram showing an embodiment for providing guide information by using an image of a subject to be examined, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
18 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment for indicating a protocol in which motion is detected, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
19 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of resuming an interrupted protocol, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 20 is a diagram showing an embodiment for displaying a medical image in which motion is detected, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. Also, in certain cases, there may be a term selected arbitrarily by the applicant, in which case the meaning thereof will be described in detail in the description of the corresponding invention. Therefore, the term used in the present invention should be defined based on the meaning of the term, not on the name of a simple term, but on the entire contents of the present invention.
When an element is referred to as " including " an element throughout the specification, it is to be understood that the element may include other elements as well, without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In addition, the term " part " used in the specification may be embodied in software, and may also be embodied in hardware components such as an FPGA or an ASIC. However, " part " is not meant to be limited to software or hardware. &Quot; Part " may be configured to reside on an addressable storage medium and may be configured to play back one or more processors. Thus, by way of example, and not by way of limitation, " a " is intended to be broadly interpreted in consideration of not only software components, object oriented software components, class components and task components, but also components such as processes, Routines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables. The functions provided in the components and " part " may be combined into a smaller number of components and " parts " or further separated into additional components and " parts ".
As used herein, an " image " may refer to multi-dimensional data composed of discrete image elements (e.g., pixels in a two-dimensional image and voxels in a three-dimensional image) . For example, the image may include X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, and medical images of objects obtained by other medical diagnostic systems.
Also, in this specification, an "object" or "examinee" may include a person or an animal, or a part of a person or an animal. For example, the subject may include a liver, a heart, a uterus, a brain, a breast, an organ such as the abdomen, or a blood vessel. The " object " may also include a phantom. A phantom is a material that has a volume that is very close to the density of the organism and the effective atomic number, and can include a spheric phantom that has body-like properties.
In this specification, the term " user " may be a doctor, a nurse, a clinical pathologist, a medical imaging specialist, a radiologist, or the like, and may be a technician repairing a medical device, but is not limited thereto.
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in order to facilitate a person skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.
The medical diagnosis apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a sensor unit 110, a motion calculation unit 120, a user interface unit 130, and a control unit 140. The configuration shown in FIG. 1 is merely an example, and the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may further include various other configurations in addition to the illustrated configurations.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 performs a medical diagnosis process for the examinee. The medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can scan the subject and generate and output a medical image. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 according to one embodiment may include at least one of an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus, a CT (Computed Tomography) apparatus, and an X-ray apparatus.
On the other hand, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can detect the movement of the examinee during diagnosis of the examinee. The medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can detect the subject's movement through various methods such as a sensor, a medical image, and a camera image during diagnosis of the subject. In addition, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may provide various information to at least one of the user and the subject according to the movement of the subject, and will be described later in detail.
The sensor unit 110 detects the movement of the subject. Also, the sensor unit 110 can measure the degree of the detected motion. The sensor unit 110 according to an exemplary embodiment may detect movement of a subject placed on a diagnosis table or a cradle for medical diagnosis.
On the other hand, " motion " may mean a change in the measured physical property value with respect to the testee. Specifically, the sensor unit 110 can measure the physical property values associated with the testee using various kinds of sensors, and can determine that the " motion " is detected as the measured characteristic values change.
Also, " motion " can be expressed as " amount " representing the amount of change in the physical property value. That is, the sensor unit 110 can detect the " motion " and measure the " degree of motion ".
For example, the sensor unit 110 can sense the movement by measuring the change in the tilt of the examinee using the tilt sensor. In addition, the sensor unit 110 may measure a change in pressure on the diagnostic table of the examinee through a pressure sensor, or may detect a movement by measuring a frequency magnitude change of an RF signal through an RF sensor.
The sensor unit 110 can detect the movement of the examinee using a plurality of sensors of various kinds. For example, the sensor unit 110 may include an optical sensor such as an infrared sensor, a tilt sensor or a pressure sensor for detecting a change in the position or pressure of the testee as described above, And an RF sensor for measuring a change in size.
The sensor unit 110 can detect motions of a subject by making use of various means such as an acceleration sensor, a gyro sensor, and a magnetic field sensor in addition to the various kinds of sensors described above.
In addition, the sensor unit 110 may sense the movement of the examinee based on the medical image as well as the sensor for the physical property value. That is, the sensor unit 110 can obtain the difference of the image characteristic values by comparing the plurality of medical images obtained through the protocol, and can detect the motion according to the calculated difference value.
Specifically, when the user's motion occurs during the medical diagnosis, motion artifacts may occur in the medical image, and the sensor unit 110 may compare the most recently acquired medical image among the generated medical images with other images .
For example, the sensor unit 110 may compare the reference medical image stored in advance with the currently obtained medical image for the protocol in progress, or may compare the medical image acquired and stored in advance with respect to the protocol in progress. The reference medical image may be an average image of a plurality of medical images obtained through a protocol or may be an image selected by a user from among a plurality of medical images obtained through a protocol.
Accordingly, the sensor unit 110 can detect blurring in the vicinity of the boundary of the object displayed on the image and noise occurring in the medical image with respect to the currently generated medical image. Further, the sensor unit 110 may compare the photographed region of the examinee appearing on the medical image or compare the change of the vector direction of the photographed region.
That is, the sensor unit 110 can calculate the difference value by comparing the image characteristic value including the brightness, the saturation, the sharpness, and the position of the boundary line of the medical image with the previously captured medical images, The motion of the examinee can be detected from the motion artifact.
In another example, the sensor unit 110 may detect the movement of the subject from the image of the subject directly observing the subject using the photographing means. That is, the sensor unit 110 can analyze an image of a subject created using various types of photographing apparatuses such as an infrared camera, a high-speed camera, and a wide viewing angle camera included in the photographing unit 150, which will be described later. This embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the photographing unit 150 in Fig.
As another example, the sensor unit 110 can detect the movement of the testee even by user input. That is, the sensor unit 110 can detect the movement of the examinee based on the user input received by the input unit 132 of the user interface unit 130, which will be described later. Specifically, as described above, the sensor unit 110 may actively detect the movement of the examinee, or may sense the movement manually as the user input is received.
The motion calculation unit 120 compares the degree of motion of the sensed subject with a predetermined threshold value. The motion calculation unit 120 may compare the degree of movement of the subject measured by the sensor unit 110 with a threshold value stored in advance in association with the physical property value. For example, when the sensor unit 110 detects a movement from a pressure change on a test subject's diagnostic table, the motion calculation unit 120 may compare the physical property value of the pressure change with a pre-stored threshold value for the pressure .
The threshold value may be predetermined and matched to each of the physical property values as described above. The threshold value can also be determined in advance according to the kind of protocol that is going on with respect to the object. That is, even for the same physical property values (e.g., pressure), different thresholds can be determined for protocols that require measurement of relatively accurate results and protocols that require relatively less accurate measurements. For example, the motion calculator 120 may set different threshold values in the case of a scout scan and a brain scan.
As another example, the threshold value may be determined according to the position on the K-space where the medical image data is acquired. That is, the motion calculation unit 120 sets a lower threshold value (i.e., a more sophisticated comparison) with respect to the data in the center portion on the K-space, and sets a higher threshold value (i.e., Less sophisticated comparison) can be set.
The user interface unit 130 provides the user with various information related to the diagnosis of the examinee and receives input from the user to control the medical diagnostic apparatus 100. [ The user interface unit 130 according to one embodiment may include an input unit 132 and an output unit 134.
That is, the user interface unit 130 may provide various types of information to the user, such as outputting the generated medical image on the screen or outputting the guide information to the user as graphics / text. In addition, the user interface unit 130 may output information on an ongoing protocol on the screen, and may provide the user with information about the diagnostic region.
The input unit 132 means means for the user to input data for controlling the medical diagnostic apparatus 100. [ For example, the input unit 132 may be a keyboard, a mouse, a keypad, a dome switch, a touch pad (contact type capacitance type, pressure type resistive type, infrared detection type, surface ultrasonic wave conduction type, A measurement method, a piezo effect method, etc.), a jog wheel, a jog switch, and the like, but is not limited thereto. Particularly, when the touch pad forms a layer structure with the display panel of the output unit 134, it can be called a touch screen.
The input unit 132 according to an embodiment of the present invention can detect not only a real-touch but also a proximity touch. The input unit 132 may sense a touch input (e.g., touch & hold, tap, double tap, flick, etc.) with respect to the guide information to be output. Also, the input unit 132 may sense a drag input from a point where the touch input is sensed. On the other hand, the input unit 132 may sense multi-touch input (e.g., pinch) for at least two or more points of the guide information.
The output unit 134 outputs various information generated and processed by the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 to the user. The output unit 134 according to one embodiment may include an image output unit (not shown) for outputting a video signal and an audio output unit (not shown) for outputting a sound signal.
On the other hand, the video output unit displays various information processed by the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 and outputs the information. For example, the image output unit can output various information related to the diagnosis of the examinee, such as the generated medical image, the protocol in progress, and guide information for guiding the examinee. The information displayed on the above-mentioned video output unit screen is merely an example, and the video output unit can output various types of information on the screen.
On the other hand, " guide information " means information for guiding the subject in relation to the detected movement. More specifically, the guide information may mean information about an instruction or instruction determined according to the degree of movement of the examinee. For example, the guide information may include a notification message that utilizes at least one of graphic, text, and sound data as information instructing a testee to not move.
The output unit 134 can output guide information expressed by text, graphics, and audio data using the video output unit 134 and the audio output unit 134, and a specific example will be described.
According to an embodiment, the image output unit may output various information such as the degree of motion of the sensed subject, information on the threshold value, and information indicating that re-photographing is necessary, as guide information. Further, the image output unit may output information on the movement direction, the position, and the angle as guide information for moving the diagnostic part of the examinee. The image output unit may output an example image of the diagnostic region of the examinee or may output an image of the diagnostic region of the examinee. Specific examples of the guide information will be described later.
The output unit 134 according to one embodiment can provide guide information according to the comparison result of the motion calculation unit 120. If the detected degree of movement of the examinee is equal to or greater than the threshold value as a result of the comparison, the output unit 134 may provide guide information indicating that the movement of the examinee needs to be controlled. In other words, the output unit 134 can output guide information for guiding the examinee to stop the movement because the movement of the subject can affect the diagnosis.
On the other hand, if the detected degree of movement of the examinee is less than the threshold value, the output unit 134 may simply provide information on the motion. That is, the output unit 134 can provide guide information that a slight degree of motion that does not affect the diagnosis is detected. Furthermore, the output section 134 may provide guide information that warns the subject not to move more severely.
As another example, the output unit 134 may not provide guide information on motion. That is, since it is extremely difficult for the examinee not to move completely due to respiration or the like during diagnosis, the output unit 134 may not provide the guide information for the motion that is much smaller than the threshold value.
On the other hand, the output unit 134 can output guide information for guiding the examinee, as well as information on the threshold value, and a concrete embodiment will be described with reference to Figs. 8 and 10. Fig.
The output unit 134 according to one embodiment can provide the guide information to the user and / or the testee. That is, the output unit 134 may output guide information to a user located in a console room, or may provide guide information to a test subject, which is a diagnostic target located in a shield room. The specific information providing method and output destination of the output unit 134 will be described later in conjunction with the embodiments.
On the other hand, when the video output unit is configured as a touch screen, the video output unit (not shown) may be used as an input unit in addition to the output unit. That is, the image output unit may be used as a stylus pen or an input unit for receiving a touch input using a part of a body, and as an output unit for outputting information.
The image output unit may include a liquid crystal display, a thin film transistor-liquid crystal display, an organic light-emitting diode, a flexible display, and a three-dimensional display 3D display). In addition, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may include two or more image output units according to the embodiment.
The image output unit according to one embodiment may include an in-bore display for outputting an image inside the bore of the medical diagnostic apparatus 100. [ A specific embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
The sound output unit 134 outputs information to be provided to the user as audio data. For example, the sound output unit 134 may output various information such as a notification message indicating that motion has been detected, a message indicating the progress or termination of the protocol, and guide information for guiding the examinee. Also, the sound output unit 134 may output audio data using a warning sound or previously stored sound data.
The control unit 140 controls the operation of the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 as a whole. For example, the control unit 140 may control the motion controller 140 to compare the information of the subject's movement sensed by the sensor unit 110 with a threshold value. Alternatively, the control unit 140 may control the output unit 134 to provide the guide information according to the comparison result of the motion calculation unit 120.
2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a medical diagnostic apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention. 2, the configuration of the photographing unit 150, the image processing unit 160, the communication unit 170, the protocol management unit 180, and the memory 190 will be described in addition to the contents described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 2, the description of the parts overlapping with those described above will be omitted.
The photographing unit 150 photographs a specific object with respect to the information providing method of the medical diagnostic apparatus 100. [ For example, the photographing unit 150 can photograph the diagnostic region of the examinee to generate an image of the diagnostic region.
The photographing unit 150 may include at least one of an infrared camera, a high-speed camera, and a wide viewing angle camera. On the other hand, the photographing unit 150 may be provided in the shield room where the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 is located, or inside the bore of the medical diagnosis apparatus 100, or may be directly attached to the RF coil or the examinee.
Meanwhile, the sensor unit 110 may analyze the image captured by the photographing unit 150 to detect the movement of the examinee. Also, the output unit 134 may provide the image photographed by the photographing unit 150 as guide information.
The image processing unit 160 generates a medical image that is a result of diagnosing a target object. The image processing unit 160 can generate medical images by analyzing the medical data obtained by scanning the target object. For example, the image processing unit 160 can process medical diagnosis data according to various kinds of modality such as an X-ray image, a CT image, and an MRI image to generate a medical image.
The communication unit 170 is connected to a network by wire or wireless, and communicates with an external device or a server. The communication unit 170 can exchange data with a hospital server, an external server, and an external device connected through a PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System). In addition, the communication unit 170 may perform data communication according to the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) standard.
The communication unit 170 may transmit and receive a medical image through a network, and may receive a data request signal or a device control command. In addition, the communication unit 170 can also transmit and receive a medical image photographed by a device other than the medical diagnostic apparatus 100. [
The communication unit 170 may include one or more components that enable communication via a network, and may include, for example, a short-range communication module, a wired communication module, and a mobile communication module.
The short-range communication module means a module for short-range communication within a predetermined distance. The local area communication technology according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a wireless LAN, a Wi-Fi, a Bluetooth, a zigbee, a Wi-Fi Direct, an ultra wideband (UWB) IrDA, Infrared Data Association), BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), NFC (Near Field Communication), and the like.
The wired communication module refers to a module for communication using an electrical signal or an optical signal. The wired communication technology according to an exemplary embodiment may include a pair cable, a coaxial cable, an optical fiber cable, an ethernet cable, have.
The mobile communication module transmits and receives radio signals to and from at least one of a base station, an external terminal, and a server on a mobile communication network. Here, the wireless signal may include various types of data depending on a voice call signal, a video call signal, or a text / multimedia message transmission / reception.
The protocol management unit 180 manages the progress of a protocol for capturing an examinee. That is, the protocol management unit 180 starts a protocol for photographing a predetermined part of a testee, holds off the start of the protocol, suspends an ongoing protocol, or resumes the interrupted protocol. can do. On the other hand, when an external input signal for selecting a diagnostic region from the user of the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 is received, the protocol management unit 180 can determine a protocol for the region and proceed with the protocol.
Also, the protocol management unit 180 can acquire the information of the pulse sequence used in the protocol. That is, as described above, the protocol diagnoses the object using at least one pulse sequence, so that the protocol management unit 180 may obtain information on the pulse sequence included in the protocol of the site to be photographed. Accordingly, the protocol management unit 180 can control the progress of the pulse sequence included in the protocol. Described in detail, the protocol management unit 180 can control the progress of the pulse sequence included in the protocol to start, stop, or resume any one of the pulse sequences.
Also, the protocol management unit 180 can manage the progress of the protocol according to a predetermined criterion. For example, the protocol management unit 180 may suspend the protocol when the subject's movement is detected, and stop the protocol if the detected degree of motion is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value. As another example, the protocol management unit 180 may resume the protocol in which the degree of motion detected is changed to be less than or equal to the threshold value or the external input signal is interrupted.
Meanwhile, the protocol management unit 180 can sequentially process at least one pulse sequence included in the protocol, and may also select several pulse sequences. That is, the protocol management unit 180 may extract one or more pulse sequences among the pulse sequences included in the protocol according to an arbitrary reference or an external input signal, and proceed with the extracted pulse sequence. Alternatively, the protocol management unit 180 may determine the order and list of pulse sequences for imaging, and may sequentially process the determined pulse sequences.
The memory 190 stores various data generated and processed by the medical diagnostic apparatus 100. [ For example, the memory 190 may store information on the movement of the examinee sensed by the sensor unit 110. [ In addition, the memory 190 may store information on threshold values used by the motion calculator 120 in correspondence with physical property values. Further, the memory 190 may store the medical image generated by the image processing unit 160. [
Hereinafter, a method of providing information using the configuration included in the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 will be described with reference to FIG. 3 to FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an information providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. 3 includes a sensor unit 110, a motion calculation unit 120, a user interface unit 130, a control unit, a photographing unit 150, an image processing unit 160, A protocol management unit 180, and a memory 190, in a time-series manner. Therefore, even though omitted from the following description, it can be understood that the above description regarding the configurations shown in Figs. 1 and 2 also applies to the flow charts shown in Figs. 3 to 7.
In step 310, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 starts diagnosis of the examinee. When the examinee is placed on the diagnosis table or the cradle of the medical diagnostic apparatus 100, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 starts the protocol selected for the examinee. On the other hand, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can automatically start the diagnosis when the examinee moves to an attitude and position suitable for diagnosis, and can manually initiate the diagnosis by user input.
In step 310, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can diagnose a target object by utilizing various devices such as an RF coil or an X-ray detector.
In step 320, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects the movement of the examinee. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect the subject's movement during the medical diagnosis started at step 310. [
1, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect the movement of a testee using various kinds of sensors. For example, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can measure a change in a physical property value and detect motion using a tilt sensor, a pressure sensor, an optical sensor, an acceleration sensor, and an RF sensor provided near a diagnostic table. In addition, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may compare the plurality of medical images, which are the diagnosis results of the object, to detect the movement of the examinee.
In step 330, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 compares the detected degree of motion with a threshold value. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may compare the degree of motion measured in step 320 with a predetermined threshold value. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may match and store threshold values in advance for various kinds of sensors, and compare the threshold value and the degree of motion when motion is detected.
As described with reference to FIG. 1, the threshold value may be determined in advance according to the type of the sensor that sensed the motion, or may be determined in advance according to the type of the protocol selected for the object. In addition, the threshold value may be determined according to the spatial position of the K-space.
In step 340, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 provides guide information for guiding the examinee. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may output the guide information according to the result of comparing the motion and the threshold value in step 330. [ The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 according to one embodiment can provide guide information to at least one of a user and an examinee, and can provide guide information using at least one of graphic, text, and sound data.
A concrete embodiment of steps 330 and 340 will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. FIG.
4 is a flowchart showing an information providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 4, the description of the parts overlapping with FIG. 3 is omitted.
In step 430, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 compares the detected degree of movement of the examinee with a threshold value. Subsequently, in step 440, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 proceeds to step 450 if the degree of motion is equal to or greater than the threshold value, and proceeds to step 460 if the degree of motion is less than the threshold value, based on the comparison result.
In step 450, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 provides guide information indicating that re-imaging is necessary. That is, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 recognizes that the reliability of the diagnosis result for the examinee can not be guaranteed as the movement of the examinee is equal to or greater than the threshold value.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can provide the user with guide information for interrupting the protocol and guiding the control of the subject's movement. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display and output guide information to a user using graphic and text data, and may output guide information using sound data.
Alternatively, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may provide guide information informing the examinee that the extent of the movement is so severe that the re-photographing is proceeding. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may provide guide information so that the examinee can stop the motion of the examinee himself / herself. A specific embodiment in which the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 provides guide information to the examinee will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 15 to FIG.
In step 460, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 provides guidance information on the movement. In other words, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 recognizes that the movement of the subject is negligible and can be ignored when the movement of the subject is less than the threshold value.
In step 460, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may recognize that a motion has been detected but no further action is required, or a stop or re-capture of the protocol is required. Accordingly, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can simply provide guide information indicating that motion has been detected.
For example, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may output guide information that warns that the protocol is interrupted when it moves more severely, and may output guide information on a result of comparing the sensed motion and the threshold value.
In step 470, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 proceeds to diagnosis of the examinee. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can resume the suspended protocol or proceed with the protocol that has proceeded.
In step 510, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 initiates a protocol. In FIG. 5, the protocol is described as an example of diagnosis of a target object. In step 520, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 senses the subject's movement during the course of the protocol.
In step 530, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 compares the detected degree of motion with a threshold value. Subsequently, in step 540, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 determines whether the degree of motion is equal to or greater than a threshold value.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 proceeds to step 550 if the degree of motion is equal to or greater than the threshold value, and proceeds to step 555 if the degree of motion is less than the threshold value.
In step 550, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 interrupts the protocol in progress. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can expect that the movement of the examinee will interfere with the diagnosis, as the movement of the examinee exceeds the threshold value. Thereby, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can stop the protocol.
On the other hand, in step 555, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 continues to proceed with the disclosed protocol. That is, when the movement of the examinee has a slight influence on the diagnosis and can be ignored, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can continue the protocol.
Alternatively, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 may continue to perform the protocol when the subject's movement affects the diagnosis or the medical image, but the degree of the influence can be corrected through an algorithm or an image post-process.
In step 560, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 provides the guide information according to the comparison result. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can provide guide information for guiding the subject under the result of the comparison, as described in step 450 of FIG.
In step 570, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects the movement of the examinee. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can continuously detect the movement of the examinee in order to determine whether the movement of the examinee sensed in step 520 is resolved.
In step 580, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 determines whether the degree of motion sensed in step 570 is equal to or greater than a threshold value. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 keeps the protocol interrupted when the subject's movement continues to be detected above the threshold value. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can suspend the protocol until the movement of the testee is detected as below the threshold value.
In step 590, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 resumes the interrupted protocol when the degree of motion sensed in step 570 is lowered below the threshold value. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can wait for the protocol to proceed until the influence of the testee's movement on the diagnosis can be ignored.
According to the embodiment illustrated in FIG. 5, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can suspend the protocol as the motion is detected that is equal to or greater than the threshold value. Accordingly, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can minimize the influence of the motion artifact on the medical image.
In addition, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can automatically restart the protocol after the degree of movement of the examinee is reduced to less than the threshold value, thereby efficiently proceeding diagnosis of the examinee. Of course, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may resume the protocol interrupted by the user input for resuming diagnosis.
In step 610, the testee is placed in the diagnostic table for medical diagnosis.
In step 620, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects the movement of the examinee. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect the subject's movement before the diagnosis (for example, protocol) for the subject is started.
In step 630, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 compares the detected motion with a threshold value, and in step 640, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 determines whether the degree of motion is equal to or greater than a threshold value. If it is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the process proceeds to step 650. If the threshold value is less than the threshold value, the process proceeds to step 655.
In step 650, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 suspends the initiation of the protocol. That is, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can expect the influence of the sensed subject's movement on the protocol to be serious, and can wait without starting the protocol.
In step 655, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 initiates a protocol. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can start the protocol by disregarding the movement of the examinee sensed to a degree less than the threshold value.
In step 660, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 provides the guide information according to the result of the comparison of the movement of the examinee and the threshold value. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can provide guide information for guiding the examinee, as described in step 450 of FIG. On the other hand, in step 660, since the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 is before the start of the protocol, it may not provide information related to the interruption of the protocol.
In step 670, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 continuously detects the movement of the examinee. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect whether the subject's motion continues to exist or whether there is no more motion than the threshold value.
In step 680, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 compares the degree of movement of the examinee sensed in step 670 with a threshold value. If the difference is equal to or greater than the threshold value, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 continuously detects the movement of the examinee.
On the other hand, if the motion below the threshold value is detected, that is, if the testee's motion is negligible, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 advances the protocol in step 690. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can start the protocol that was suspended in step 650. [
According to the embodiment described in Fig. 6, when the movement of the examinee is equal to or larger than the threshold value, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can suspend the start of diagnosis regardless of the input of the user who starts the diagnosis of the object. Then, when the movement of the subject is eliminated, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can automatically start the diagnosis.
7 is a flowchart showing an information providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 7, the description of the parts overlapping with those described in FIG. 4 will be omitted.
In step 740, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 provides the guide information according to the result of the comparison between the movement of the examinee and the threshold value. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can provide guidance information indicating that the degree of motion is too severe to require re-imaging or that the protocol is interrupted. In addition, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 may provide guide information indicating that the motion is detected, but the influence on the diagnosis is negligible due to the slight influence, or correction is possible by the post-image processing.
In step 750, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 extracts a protocol in which a motion over a threshold value is detected. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can diagnose a target object through a plurality of protocols as the diagnosis progresses, and can extract a protocol in which a motion exceeding a threshold value is detected among a plurality of protocols.
In step 760, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 displays the protocol extracted in step 750. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display a marker in a protocol in which a motion is detected from among a plurality of protocols, or may create and display an extracted protocol in a separate list.
In step 770, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 proceeds with the protocol extracted in step 750. [ That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can proceed to the extracted protocol after the entire protocol is terminated. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may proceed with an automatically extracted protocol following the entire protocol, or may proceed based on user input.
According to the embodiment described with reference to FIG. 7, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can proceed to a protocol which is expected to generate motion artifacts by detecting a movement of a subject having a threshold value or more, and obtain accurate diagnosis results.
In the illustrated embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects the movement of the examinee. (810) Then, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 provides guide information for guiding the examinee. As illustrated in FIG. 1, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may provide guide information using at least one of text, graphics, and sound data.
At the top of FIG. 8, an embodiment is shown in which the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 provides guide information to a testee using text data and graphic data. First, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 displays an image on the output unit 820 to focus attention of the examinee during the medical diagnosis. Then, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 displays a gauge 825 for comparing the detected degree of motion with a threshold value.
As described with reference to FIG. 1, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can utilize various kinds of physical property values as threshold values. For example, the gauge 825 shown in FIG. 8 may mean an angle change, a velocity change, an acceleration change, a change in intensity of an RF signal, and the like of a subject to be examined.
Also, although not shown, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display the degree of the detected motion with respect to the threshold value in numerical form together with the gauge 825. [ For example, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may indicate that the degree of the currently sensed motion is 60% of the threshold value.
On the other hand, since the detected motion is less than the threshold value, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 displays only the gauge 825 as guide information, but does not display a specific instruction or a command for controlling the motion to the examinee.
Subsequently, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can sense that the degree of movement of the testee increases. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display the gauge 835 on the output unit 830 to display information on the degree of the increased motion.
In addition, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may output guide information for controlling the movement of the examinee on the output unit 830. [ In the illustrated embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 outputs text data " It is difficult to make accurate diagnosis when moving " as guide information.
Next, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 senses that the degree of movement of the examinee further increases. Accordingly, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can provide the guide information informing that the diagnosis is restarted on the output unit 840.
As shown in the figure, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can output, as guide information, text data indicating " corrected imaging is performed " to the output unit 840. [ On the other hand, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can display a gauge 845 indicating that the degree of the movement of the examinee has exceeded the threshold value on the output unit 840.
According to the illustrated embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can provide guide information to the examinee in accordance with the comparison result between the degree of movement of the examinee and the threshold value. Accordingly, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can induce the examinee to control the motion by himself / herself.
On the other hand, in the embodiment shown in the lower part of FIG. 8, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 outputs guide information using sound data. (850) That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can output the guide information appearing on the output units 820, 830 and 840 of FIG. 8 by using the previously stored sound data.
As shown in FIG. 1, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can measure the degree of movement of the testee using various kinds of sensors. On the other hand, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can compare the measured value 920 with the threshold value 910 stored in advance for the sensor of the type that sensed the subject's movement. It has been described above that the threshold value 910 can be set differently according to various criteria.
When the measured value 920 is less than the threshold value 910, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 recognizes that the movement of the testee is mild and continues the diagnosis. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may ignore the motion of the examinee or remove motion artifacts through a post-process of the medical image.
On the other hand, when the measured value 920 is equal to or higher than the threshold value 910, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can retake the testee. (940). That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can stop the diagnosis, and the diagnosis can be resumed according to the input in which the movement is no longer detected or received from the user.
First, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 senses the movement of the examinee. (1010), the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may provide guide information using at least one of graphic, text, and sound data, as described with reference to FIG.
10, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 provides guide information for moving the diagnostic part of the examinee on the output unit 1020. [ That is, when the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 scans the subject's brain, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect whether the subject's brain is in the correct position and posture.
Then, when the subject's head moves to the left from the reference position, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can provide the guide information for guiding the subject to be moved to the right side of the head. Meanwhile, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display a gauge for comparing the degree of motion sensed by the output unit 1020 with a threshold value, and in the illustrated embodiment, the gauge may mean an angle of the diagnostic region. Further, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can provide various information such as the moving direction, the moving distance, and the position, as guide information, in addition to the angle at which the examinee's diagnostic region is moved.
When the examinee moves the head to the reference position in the right direction according to the guide information, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect the movement of the diagnosis site. Then, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can display on the output unit 1030 that the diagnosis site is the correct position and posture.
Further, when the subject's movement is eliminated, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can output the image before the motion is detected on the output unit 1040. [
8, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may output the guide information using the sound data. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may load and output the sound data corresponding to the guide information displayed on the output units 1020, 1030, and 1040.
11 to 13 illustrate and explain various embodiments in which the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects the movement of the examinee.
11 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention for detecting the movement of an examinee using a camera. 11A, 11B, and 11C illustrate an embodiment of the photographing unit 150 that detects the movement of the examinee at various positions, respectively.
11A, the MRI apparatus 1110 is located in the shield room 1100, and the examinee 1130 is located on the diagnosis table 1120. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may include a camera 1140 for sensing the movement of the examinee 1130 in the shield room 1100.
That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect the movement of the subject 1130 from the image captured and generated by the camera 1140. For example, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect the movement of the examinee 1130 by measuring the amount of change in color, saturation, brightness, etc. of pixels in a moving image. Alternatively, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may provide the user with an image captured by the camera 1140, and may sense the movement of the subject 1130 according to the input received from the user.
In Fig. 11B, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 includes a camera 1150 inside the MRI apparatus 1110. Fig. The camera 1150 photographs the subject 1130 as described in FIG. 11A, and the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can sense the movement of the subject 1130 from the photographed image.
Meanwhile, the cameras 1140 and 1150 shown in FIGS. 11A and 11B may be replaced with optical sensors such as an infrared sensor, and various sensors described with reference to FIG. 1 may be utilized.
In Fig. 10C, the camera 1160 can be attached to the examinee 1130. Fig. In other words, the camera 1160 in FIG. 10C does not take the subject 1130 but takes the inside of the bore of the MRI apparatus 1110. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect whether the examinee is moving by analyzing an image of the inside of the MRI apparatus 1110 taken by the camera 1160 by using an indicator or the like capable of distinguishing the bore internal image.
In other words, the camera 1160 attached to the examinee 1130 moves according to the movement of the examinee 1130, which may cause a shake or a change in the internal image of the MRI apparatus 1110. On the other hand, in addition to the embodiment shown in FIG. 10C, the camera 1160 may be attached to the RF coil to take an inside of the MRI apparatus 1110. FIG.
12 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the present invention for detecting the movement of a subject using a camera. In the illustrated embodiment, the CT device 1210 diagnoses a subject 1220 that is located on the diagnostic table and moves into the bore.
On the other hand, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can photograph a subject through a camera 1230 located near the CT apparatus 1210. [ Alternatively, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may photograph the movement path of the diagnosis table in which the examinee 1220 is located in the CT apparatus 1210.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect the movement of the examinee 1220 from the image of the examinee 1220 or the image of the movement path of the table. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect whether the subject moves by analyzing the image captured by the camera 1230 as described with reference to FIG. In addition, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect the degree of movement of the examinee.
13 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention for detecting movement of an examinee using various kinds of sensors. Fig. 13A shows a piezoelectric sensor, and Fig. 13B shows an RF sensor.
13A, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 detects the movement of the examinee 1310 by using the piezoelectric sensors 1320 and 1330 attached to the examinee 1310. The piezoelectric sensors 1320 and 1330 can detect the movement of the subject and convert it into an electrical signal. Accordingly, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can measure the intensity of a signal received through the piezoelectric sensors 1320 and 1330 and the frequency change, thereby detecting the movement of the examinee 1310 with respect to a predetermined region.
13B, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 detects the movement of the examinee 1340 using the RF sensor 1360. [ That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 receives the RF signal transmitted from the identification device 1350 attached to the examinee 1340 through the RF sensor 1360. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may then detect the movement of the examinee 1340 from a change in intensity or a change in frequency of a signal received by the RF sensor 1360. [
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention can detect the movement of a testee using a plurality of sensors. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can sense a movement from a change in a physical property value measured by each of a plurality of sensors. Further, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may sense the direction of movement from one or more sensors whose characteristic values change among a plurality of sensors.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 has been described above with reference to FIG. 1, in addition to the sensors described in FIGS. 13A and 13B, that various kinds of sensors can be utilized. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can measure the amount of change in the physical characteristic value using the sensor, and detect the amount of change as the movement of the testee. Further, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may compare the measured change amount with a threshold value that is previously matched to the physical property value, and determine whether the degree of movement of the examinee is equal to or greater than a threshold value.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 provides guide information for guiding the subject on the output unit 1400. [ As described above, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can provide the guide information to at least one of the examinee and the user.
In the illustrated embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can capture a medical image of a subject's head and sense that the subject's head has rotated during shooting. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects the movement of the subject's head and outputs guide information for guiding the subject's head to rotate at an angle suitable for shooting.
Specifically, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can display a line 1420 on the image of the subject to be examined and display the relationship with the reference angle. Further, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display information on the angle of rotation of the head of the examinee using the graphic data 1410 and the text data 1430.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can display the head angle of the examinee suitable for photographing from the inadequate angle section by using the graphic data 1410. [ Accordingly, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can provide different kinds of guide information based on the corresponding angular section of the examinee's head angle.
For example, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may provide guide information indicating that the photographing is proceeded / resumed when the head angle of the examinee is included in the reference angle section. On the other hand, when the subject's head angle is included in a range other than the reference angle section, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may provide guide information indicating that the subject's head angle needs to be rotated along with guide information indicating that the shooting is interrupted have.
15 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment for providing guide information via an in-bore display, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 15A shows an invoiced display for an MRI apparatus, and FIG. 15B shows an invoiced display for a CT apparatus.
In FIG. 15A, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can utilize the invoiced display 1510 in outputting the guide information to the testee. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can display and output the guide information inside the gantry of the MRI apparatus 1500 through the invoiced display 1510. [ 15B, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can display guide information inside the gantry of the CT apparatus 1520 through the invoiced display 1530. [
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 projects a beam forming an image on a wall surface inside the gantry, and a wall surface inside the gantry can function as a screen for a beam of the projected image.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can utilize the head mount display 1620 in providing guide information to the examinee 1610. [ The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may output the guide information on the head mount display 1620 to provide image data for guiding the movement of the examinee 1610. [ On the other hand, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may use the headset 1630 to provide sound data to the examinee 1610. [
In addition to the embodiments shown and described in FIGS. 1, 15 and 16, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can output guide information to the examinee and the user by utilizing various kinds of output means.
In the embodiment shown in Fig. 17, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 takes a picture of a testee using a camera. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can photograph the subject similarly to the embodiment described with reference to Figs. 11 and 12. Fig. On the other hand, in FIG. 17, it is shown that the subject's head is photographed, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The medical diagnosis apparatus 100 may photograph another diagnostic region of the subject.
First, in the left side of FIG. 17, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects the movement of the head, which is a diagnostic region of the examinee. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can sense that the head of the examinee has been rotated to the left. In the illustrated embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects that the subject's head is rotated to the left by about 30 degrees from the reference position.
Then, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can display guide information indicating that it is necessary to rotate the subject's head to a position suitable for diagnosis. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can display the information 1720 on the movement of the examinee on the output unit 1710, that is, the rotational angle and the rotational direction of the head.
On the other hand, the medical diagnosis apparatus 100 can display the image 1730 of the head of the examinee as guide information. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can display the image 1730 of the examinee's head together with the information 1720 about the subject's motion together. Further, as shown in the drawing, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display the GUI 1740 informing that the re-photographing is necessary because the movement of the subject is higher than the threshold value as guide information.
In the embodiment shown on the right side of FIG. 17, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects that the angle and direction of the examinee's head are adjusted. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects that the angle and direction of the head of the examinee are rotated to the left by about 5 degrees from the reference position.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can display the corrected image 1760 of the angle and direction of the subject's head as guide information and display the image 1770 of the subject's head. Further, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display the GUI 1780 as guide information indicating that the diagnosis is not required to be interrupted or suspended, as the movement of the testee is detected as below the threshold value.
According to the above-described embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can intuitively provide guide information on the movement to the examinee and the user. That is, the examinee and the user can easily compare the position of the current diagnosis part with the position suitable for diagnosis.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 according to the embodiment may display the previously stored example image as the guide information, rather than the image of the subject directly photographed. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may store an example image matched for each diagnostic region and protocol, and may load and display an exemplary image corresponding to the detected degree of motion as the subject's motion is detected.
In the illustrated embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 is capable of extracting and displaying the motion-detected protocol among the plurality of protocols 1810. [ That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 displays a plurality of protocols 1810 in progress with respect to the examinee on the output unit 1800. Then, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can detect that the degree of the subject's movement is equal to or greater than the threshold value in the course of the third protocol.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display the GUI 1820 indicating that a motion exceeding the threshold value is detected in the third protocol. In the illustrated embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 displays a marker marked with the symbol "! &Quot; as a GUI 1820.
Accordingly, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can selectively extract a protocol in which motion is detected from among a plurality of the entire protocols 1810. [ Then, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can guide the user to proceed with the protocol in which the motion is detected and the retaking is requested, when the progress of the entire protocol 1810 is terminated. The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can automatically proceed the protocol in which the motion is detected after the end of the entire protocol 1810 or proceed according to user input.
19 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of resuming an interrupted protocol, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. Blocks 1900 shown in Figures 19A and 19B respectively represent protocols.
In FIG. 19A, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 detects the movement of the testee during the course of the third protocol (1910). The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may stop the third protocol 1910 and resume the third protocol 1910 if the testee's motion is detected below the threshold value.
In Fig. 19B, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 senses the subject's movement during the progress of the third protocol 1910. Fig. Unlike FIG. 19A, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can skip the third protocol 1910 in which motion is detected, and start the fourth protocol.
On the other hand, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may proceed to the third protocol 1910 in which motion is detected, after the end of the entire protocol. (1920). That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can automatically re-advance the third protocol 1910 when the photographing of the entire protocol is finished, or can further proceed according to the user's input.
Fig. 20 is a diagram showing an embodiment for displaying a medical image in which motion is detected, according to an embodiment of the present invention. The plurality of medical images shown in Fig. 20 are images obtained by photographing the subject's head in a sagittal view.
The medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can display a marker on an image in which a motion is detected among a plurality of medical images. In the illustrated embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 displays a marker 2010 of a black frame on an image photographed through a protocol in which motion over a threshold value is detected.
In addition, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display a marker 2020 with a white border on an image photographed in a protocol in which a motion below a threshold value is detected. That is, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may indicate that the protocol is not interrupted because the influence of the subject's movement is detected using the marker 2020 with a white border, but the influence on the diagnosis is not significant.
Although not shown, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may display a marker indicating that the medical image is a motion compensated image through a post-process using another visually distinguishable marker.
According to the above-described embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can allow the user to easily recognize which of the medical images is necessary for re-imaging.
According to another embodiment, the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 may extract only the images in which the motion exceeding the threshold value is detected among the obtained medical images as a separate list and display them on the screen. Accordingly, the user of the medical diagnostic apparatus 100 can easily confirm the medical image in which the motion is detected, and determine whether or not to re-capture the medical image.
On the other hand, the above-described method can be implemented in a general-purpose digital computer that can be created as a program that can be executed in a computer and operates the program using a computer-readable medium. Further, the structure of the data used in the above-described method can be recorded on a computer-readable medium through various means. Program storage devices that may be used to describe a storage device including executable computer code for carrying out the various methods of the present invention should not be understood to include transient objects such as carrier waves or signals do. The computer readable medium includes a storage medium such as a magnetic storage medium (e.g., ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, etc.), optical reading medium (e.g., CD ROM, DVD, etc.).
According to the medical diagnostic apparatus and the information providing method according to the drawings and the embodiments described above, the user and the examinee can easily and intuitively confirm the movement of the examinee sensed during the diagnosis. By receiving the guide information on the movement of the examinee, the user can efficiently and proactively conduct the medical diagnosis.
Further, the user can control the medical diagnosis process by using the information on the movement of the examinee, and may perform the re-photographing if necessary. The examinee can immediately recognize the influence of his or her movement on the photographing. The influence of the examinee can be minimized by calibrating according to the attitude and position presented by the guide information, and the attitude and position can be corrected You may.
It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Therefore, the disclosed methods should be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. It is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.
100: Medical diagnostic device
120: Motion calculation unit
190: Memory
A method for providing information in a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus,
Sensing movement of a patient on a table for medical diagnosis;
Comparing the detected degree of motion with a predetermined threshold value;
And providing information related to the motion to the patient through a display shown inside a bore of the MRI apparatus, in accordance with the comparison result.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the information includes information about the degree of the detected motion.
Wherein the information includes information about the threshold value.
Wherein the providing step provides the information using at least one of text, graphics, and audio data.
Wherein when the degree of the movement is equal to or greater than the threshold value, the information includes information indicating that re-imaging of the patient is required.
Wherein the information includes information about at least one of an angle, a position, and a direction for moving the diagnostic region of the patient.
The method may further include the step of photographing the diagnostic region of the patient,
Wherein the providing step provides the photographed image together with the information.
Wherein the providing step provides an example image stored in advance with respect to the diagnostic region of the patient together with the information.
Wherein the providing step provides the information on an in-bore display.
Wherein the detecting step detects the movement of the patient from the photographed image.
11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the photographing step photographs the diagnosis part using at least one of an ultra-high speed camera and a wide viewing angle camera.
Wherein the sensing step senses the motion using a sensor provided on at least one of a table on which the patient is located and a coil mounted on the patient.
Wherein the sensor comprises at least one of a pressure sensor, a tilt sensor, an acceleration sensor, an acceleration sensor, a gyro sensor, a magnetic field sensor, and an optical sensor.
The method further comprises receiving an identification signal from an identification device mounted on the patient,
Wherein the sensing step senses the motion based on the identification signal.
Wherein the sensing step senses the motion based on a change in intensity of the identification signal.
The method may further comprise acquiring a medical image through a protocol for diagnosing the patient,
Wherein the detecting step detects the motion by comparing the medical images.
Wherein the detecting step detects the motion by comparing image characteristic values of the medical images.
The method further comprising the step of stopping the progress of the protocol for diagnosing the patient if the degree of motion is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
The method further comprising the step of resuming the interrupted protocol if the degree of motion is below the threshold.
Wherein the method further comprises suspending the initiation of a protocol for diagnosing the patient if the degree of motion is greater than or equal to the threshold value.
Wherein the method further comprises initiating the pending protocol if the degree of motion is below the threshold.
Wherein said step of providing further comprises the step of providing said information to a user of said MRI apparatus.
A sensor unit for detecting movement of the patient on the table for medical diagnosis;
A motion calculation unit for comparing the detected degree of motion with a predetermined threshold value;
And an output unit for displaying information related to the motion in a bore according to a result of the comparison and providing the information to the patient.
Wherein the information includes information about the degree of the sensed motion.
Wherein the information includes information on the threshold value.
Wherein the output unit provides the information using at least one of text, graphics, and audio data.
Wherein when the degree of the movement is equal to or greater than the threshold value, the information includes information indicating that re-imaging of the patient is necessary.
Wherein the information includes information about at least one of an angle, a position and a direction for moving the diagnostic region of the patient.
Wherein the magnetic resonance imaging apparatus further comprises a photographing section for photographing a diagnostic region of the patient,
Wherein the output unit provides the photographed image together with the information.
Wherein the output unit provides an example image stored in advance with respect to the diagnosis region of the patient together with the information.
Wherein the output provides the information on an in-bore display.
Wherein the sensor unit detects the movement of the patient from the image taken by the imaging unit.
Wherein the photographing section photographs the diagnosis region using at least one of an ultra-high speed camera and a wide viewing angle camera.
Wherein the sensor unit senses the movement using a sensor provided on at least one of a table on which the patient is placed and a coil mounted on the patient.
Wherein the sensor unit receives the identification signal from the identification device mounted on the patient and senses the movement based on the identification signal.
Wherein the sensor unit senses the movement based on a change in intensity of the identification signal.
Wherein the MRI apparatus further comprises an image processor for acquiring a medical image through a protocol for diagnosing the patient,
Wherein the sensor unit compares the medical images to detect the movement.
Wherein the sensor unit senses the motion by comparing image characteristic values of the medical images.
Wherein the MRI apparatus further comprises a protocol management unit for conducting a protocol for diagnosing the patient,
Wherein the protocol management unit stops the progress of the protocol for diagnosing the patient when the degree of motion is equal to or greater than the threshold value.
And the protocol management unit resumes the suspended protocol when the degree of movement is less than the threshold value.
Wherein the protocol management unit holds the start of a protocol for diagnosing the patient when the degree of motion is equal to or greater than the threshold value.
And the protocol management unit starts the pending protocol when the degree of motion is less than the threshold value.
Wherein the output unit provides the information to a user of the MRI apparatus.
A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for implementing the method according to claim 1.
Wherein the output unit outputs a screen including the information so that the patient can visually recognize the information.
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You Had Me At Ahoj
tags: 1930's, Bačsky Petrovec, Education, Evangelical Lutheran, Pivnica, Slovak, Yugoslavia
Pauline with her parents and brother Andy, early 1930's in their backyard behind the bakery.
Pauline remembered the exact moment she first laid eyes on Jaro. She was smitten with the handsome young man who strode confidently into her father’s bakery one spring day, greeted her with a friendly “Ahoj”, and proceeded to order a kifle. Pauline knew immediately that she would marry him. She could tell he was well educated by the way he looked and carried himself; Jaro was tall and thin, and impeccably dressed in a fine suit, unlike other Slovak men in the village. He smiled self assuredly across the counter at her as she admired his stylish haircut: short on the sides and long bangs that swept back and over to the right with a cowlick in front that could not hide ears that stuck out on each side. She thought they were endearing.
Jaro in High School, early 1930's. Jaro is standing at the very back, on the far left.
Pauline had arrived in the village with her family from Soljany, Croatia, about the same time Jaro had gone off to high school in Bačsky Petrovec. Pauline, on the other hand, had finished elementary school in Croatia, and when they moved to Pivnica she had stayed home to look after her young brothers while her father ran the bakery and her mother cooked and cleaned for their five employees.
Pauline with her brothers Andy and Peter, and the family's animals. No wonder I love fresh goat cheese.
Jaro made the half hour commute on dirt roads from Pivnica to Bačsky Petrovec and back daily with other Slovak friends on the Suster family truck. The school was the only secondary school in Vojvodina that was taught in Slovak. It had been built after WWI when it became legal for the first time in hundreds of years to speak, write and teach in the Slovak language. Jaro and his brother Igor were lucky to have the school nearby; when their father Michal wanted to attend high school two decades earlier, he had to move away for four years to Dolny Kubin, several hours away in Slovakia.
Jaro's high school in Bačsky Petrovec, Vojvodina
Jaro's class around 1933. Jaro is lying down in the front , second from the right.
For the most part, life was good in the early 1930’s for Pauline and Jaro and their families. After the destruction and hardship brought on by two Balkan Wars and WWI, the citizens of the young country of Yugoslavia enjoyed peace and prosperity for nearly two decades. They had more freedom living under the rule of the King of Serbia than they had under the previous Hapsburg Empire which had attempted to suppress and eradicate Slovaks and Protestants.
aro Suster, high school graduation picture, mid 1930's
Judging from the clothes Pauline, Jaro and their friends wore and the activities they engaged in, their families were relatively well off. Both families belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church where a strong emphasis had been placed on the value of education. In the 1930’s, Pauline’s family ran the popular bakery and Jaro’s family had a large farm out of town; a home in town with a lumberyard that Jaro would soon take over; and his father had been a successful banker (interestingly, only 15% of bankers in Yugoslavia were non-Jewish at the time). For the next few years during their courtship and early marriage, this blissful lifestyle would continue, although a dark shadow was slowly falling.
Pauline and Jerry with a friend in her parent's backyard (same spot as in the first picture, above), around 1936. Pauline has a beautiful dress on with buttoned leg of mutton sleeves, and a lacy collar. She's holding a hat, and Jaro's kindly holding her purse; each of them has a flower pinned to their lapel. Underneath Jaro's chair is his cherished camera box. Notice the lime washed tree, a practice still done today in Vojvodina each April, right around Easter, to protect the trees from pests.
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Hi there. Yes, all the kids were good looking, weren’t they? I’ve been researching your side of the family – finding lots of interesting stuff, and have been in contact with some distant relatives I found on the Internet. Also watched Tim McGraw, the country singer, on the TV show Who Do You Think You Are? – his 8th great grandfather was a Palatine immigrant with the Plato family, along with Elvis Presley’s family!
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It's Movie Week: Les Cahiers du Tom Green (An Early Clue to the New Direction)
Okay, this is just too funny. An inspired wiseguy named RJ White has got a website at which he he posts mock-up fake DVD box cover art for Criterion Collection editions of movies you wouldn't...er...expect Criterion to actually put out.
My favorite?
Ah, Freddy Got Fingered. I actually got decent money to review it over at the TVGuide website in 2001, although in retrospect I probably should have put in for combat pay.
As I wrote at the time this little number hit the multiplexes, how you might respond to a film by then fashionable MTV irritant/auteur Tom Green is, shall we say, a matter of taste, although using the word taste in a discussion of Green obviously requires several leaps of faith. In any event, when I saw FGF at a screening, I seemed to be surrounded by two basic demographic types -- people who laughed uproariously every time its star fondled the penis of a large animal, and people who headed for the theater doors with a speed usually associated with pursuit by the Hounds of Hell.
It's also occurred to me since that Freddy Got Fingered is, on one level, positively inspirational; if you've ever wondered whether you could write and direct a big-budget feature film that could be deemed worthy of release by a major studio, one viewing of this exercise in willful stupidity would be a world-class confidence builder. Amazingly enough, it has a plot; aspiring cartoonist named Gord Brody (Green) labors mightily to convince his blustering father (Rip Torn) that he's not the slacker moron everyone — including the audience — quite correctly assumes him to be. The obligatory subplots include one involving Gord's handicapped girlfriend, Betty (Marisa Coughlan), a rocket scientist (really!) obsessed with fellating her unrealistically unwilling swain, and another about Gord's younger brother, the titular Freddy (American Pie's Eddie Kaye Thomas) and false charges of sexual abuse (this is where the fingering part comes in). Really now, could anything be more hilarious?
To be scrupulously fair, this is not perhaps the worst gross-out comedy ever made, although it's hard to ignore the strain of gratuitous cruelty that runs through it (a running gag features a little kid getting the crap whacked out of him repeatedly). Also: Green deserves numerous demerits, above and beyond the awfulness of the film, for restaging the classic Buster Keaton falling house gag without its visual punchline (i.e., you never see Gord standing, unhurt, amidst the rubble).
I should add that the estimable A.O. Scott -- who's pretty much my favorite critic in any field -- actually made a case for the film as some kind of genius avant-garde performance art in his New York Times review back in the day. I've forgiven him for it, although I still find it baffling.
I should also add that a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded to the first reader who guesses its relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Cinema Listomania.
Wednesday Beatles Karaoke
Okay, I lied about Movie Week resuming today -- the scheduled big DVD round-up proved too time consuming for my active, now, a go-go lifestyle, i.e. I flaked.
But in its stead, please enjoy the Fab Four and the astonishing backing track (sans vocals or that famous McCartney bass line) of their 1966 masterpiece "Rain."
Words fail me. Truly.
[h/t Steve Schwartz]
You Stay Classy, Republicans!
Our brethren and, uh, cistern on the right got caught stealing again.
“NBC News: @TomPetty unhappy with Michele Bachmann’s use of ‘American Girl’ and in process of issuing [a cease and desist] letter,” Matt Ortega reported on Twitter only hours after hours after Bachmann used the popular song to kick off her campaign.
NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell confirmed that report Monday night.
“And details matter, and when Bachmann left the stage here, her campaign played the Tom Petty hit song, ‘American Girl,’” O’Donnell said. “Turns out petty isn’t pleased. His manager says they will ask the Bachmann campaign not to use that song.”
Petty also issued a cease and desist letter to then-Governor George W. Bush for illegally using “I won’t back down” at his rallies.
Look, dudes, it's not our fault all you got is Ted Nugent. Run the country on "Wango Tango": it's a more reasonable platform than you have now.
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We Interrupt This Movie Week for a Special Tuesday Essay Question
Bruce Springsteen's "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" from The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973).
1. This is the greatest single rock track ever recorded. Seriously -- name a better one.
2. This is what prog would have sounded like if anybody in any of those prog bands had, in fact, a scintilla of soul.
[Movie Week resumes tomorrow]
It's Movie Week: Last Exit to Hong Fat
As promised, and forty years in the making -- here's the digital version of Party. The 1970 student film starring my then Jefferson Airplane-influenced rock band as well as just about every hippie at C.W. Post College at the time.
Written and directed by Jeff Alan Gross, and unseen by sentient mammalian eyes anywhere until a couple of weeks ago.
Occasional technical crudities notwithstanding, if you want to know what it felt like to be a 20-something at a liberal arts college around the time of Kent State and the subsequent curdling of the 60s counter-culture, you could do a lot worse than check this out.
BTW, you can also watch it, in a slightly bigger sized frame but the same resolution, over here. And special thanks to W. Sachs Gore for uploading it, a technical feat beyond my poor abilities.
Arizona, Take Off Your Rainbow Shades
No Listomania today, as I'm taking a well-deserved break after a couple of very exhausting weeks. The List will return next Friday, however, and in fact all of next week is going to be a kind of special programming deal, so stay tuned: In the immortal words of Edith Prickley, "Could be a hot one!!!"
In the meantime, my old college chum J.D. Gath, seen below in a still from that 1970 college film I've been bending your ear about for the last several weeks...
...has a very cool contest for you. And since it's in the service of a terrific cause, I thought I'd share.
WIN A TRIP TO TIERRA MADRE!!!
That’s right! You can win an all-expense paid, three-day, two-night trip for two to the Tierra Madre Horse Sanctuary in Cave Creek, Arizona.
The winner and guest will be staying at the Spur Cross Inn, a lovely spirit-of-the-west bed & breakfast in historic Cave Creek. The Saguaro Casita features a king-sized bed, a built-in daybed, a fireplace and a garden tub with Jacuzzi-type jets, as well as a kitchenette, cable TV and wireless internet. The picture window views of the mountains to the north are unmatched in the Sonoran Desert.
You can visit their website at Spur Cross B&B.
A full breakfast will be served daily in the main house.
Plus there are two horses on the premises -– a rescued ex-polo pony and her two-year old son. And they’re friendly, too.
Transportation will be provided by Tierra Madre and our winner and guest are welcome to spend as much time here on the ranch as they desire.
One evening will feature a cook-out here at the ranch and one night we’ll have dinner at one of the top restaurants in Cave Creek. Also, the quaint little town of Cave Creek is a terrific place to shop for all things western and features dozens of mom and pop stores within a short walking distance of each other.
This is your chance to come and hang out with the Horses of Tierra Madre and to be a living part of the day-to-day workings of the ranch.
The winner will have the choice of two weekends: either Friday, Saturday & Sunday, October 7, 8 & 9 or October 14, 15 & 16.
The winner will be chosen on Saturday, July 30th and will be notified immediately.
As always, raffle tickets are available at $10 for one ticket and 3 tickets for $25.
Entry donations can be sent via the PayPal function on our website, at How to Donate, or check or money orders can be mailed to:
Tierra Madre Horse Sanctuary
The value of this prize is estimated at about $2,000.
And -- if you live in the Phoenix area, don’t hesitate to enter. Everybody can use a weekend away from home. And we’ll throw in two airline tickets to either Los Angeles or Las Vegas!
This is the best raffle we’ve ever done; if I were you, I’d enter early and often.
The Horses of Tierra Madre can’t wait to meet and hang out with you!
Oh - & we’ll provide the treats.
Sounds fantastic -- a chance to see the American West AND help out a guy doing really wonderful stuff simply because he's a mensch.
Thursday Stones Karaoke
From late 1966 or early '67, please enjoy The Rolling Stones, with (presumably) Nicky Hopkins on keyboard(s), and an alternate instrumental backing track for what became perhaps my favorite song on their underrated Satanic Majesties album -- the haunting sci-fi romance "2000 Man."
Well, my name is a number
A piece of plastic film
And I'm growin' funny flowers
In my little window sill
Dont you know I'm a 2,000 man
And my kids, they just don't understand me at all
Well my wife still respects me
I really misused her
I am having an affair
With the random computer
Don't you know I'm a 2,000 man
Oh daddy, proud of your planet
Oh mummy, proud of your sun
Oh mummy. proud of your sun
Oh daddy, your brain's still flashin'
Like it did when you were young
Or do you come down crashin'
Seeing all the things you'd done
All was a big put on
Oh mummy. proud of your son
And you know who's the 2000 man
And your kids they just won't understand you at all
One of Jagger's niftier lyrics, IMHO, but of course this track is unedited and considerably longer than the finished version, so good luck matching the words if you're trying to sing along.
I should add that while the electric guitar riffage Keith provides on the opening is perfectly serviceable, I nonetheless miss the gorgeous acoustic picking he replaced it with on the album. On the other hand, even in the sort of sloppy and untogether shape this is in, it's still light years better than the late 70s cover by Kiss.
Wednesday Lovin' Spoonful Karaoke
From October 1966, please enjoy the seriously and inexplicably underrated Lovin Spoonful and the instrumental track to their gorgeous folk-pop ballad hit "Rain on the Roof." Featuring some of the loveliest fingerpicking ever heard by sentient mammalian ears and Zal Yanovsky's brilliant fuzz-guitar imitation of the sound of a French Horn.
At this point I would usually post the song's lyrics and encourage you to sing along, but I don't think I will today, given that the track is simply perfect without any vocals at all.
Seriously -- this is like a great little piece of chamber music, just as it is.
Roosevelt Island Mon Amour
So, as I may have mentioned, last week's screening of the unseen for four decades 1970 student film Party -- featuring my then band God (don't ask) and just about every other hippie at C.W. Post College at the time -- was an absolute joy.
All sorts of old friends who either worked on, acted in, or just were buds with the people involved in the production showed up, including the film's co-stars Frank McGrath and Linda Megna --
...and even though most of us hadn't seen each other since the mid-70s, the years fell away almost magically. I can't remember when I've had a lovelier afternoon.
Fortunately, the great Jefferico Alano Grosso, celebrated Italian director of films and flicks, was on hand to record the occasion in a charming mini-documentary.
If the last 30 seconds of this don't bring a tear to your eyes...
I should add that Party itself will be available for viewing online sometime in the next week or so. I don't want to oversell the thing, but time capsules of what it was like to be in your early 20s at a liberal arts college circa Kent State and the curdling of the counter-culture don't come any more evocative.
The Big Man 1942-2011
Oh hell, this is just such sad news: Clarence Clemons, the legend-in-his-own-right saxophone player of Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band (and probably the greatest stage foil/second banana in rock history) died over the weekend at the (too young) age of 69.
Of course, in recent years, as the jazz and r&b influences almost completely disappeared from Springsteen's music (for whatever reason), Clemons, alas, had less and less to do, both on record or onstage. In fact, by 2007 and Bruce's Magic album, which I actually love, you could barely hear CC playing the glam-rock/ersatz Phil Spector horn lines buried in the mix of the wonderful "Girls in Their Summer Clothes"...
Bruce Springsteen - Girls In Their Summer Clothes .mp3
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..and as a result, it has become fashionable of late in certain critical circles to say that the guy was in fact a rather mediocre player.
Of course, to the people who say that, I can only reply -- Clarence wailed the passionate, soaring and gloriously melodic extended sax solo on "Jungleland"...
...and just out of curiosity, what have you ever done that's remotely as memorable and moving? Or likely to be of as much interest to anybody fifty or one hundred years hence?
Those Rumors About Andrew Breitbart and Syphilis Just Won't Go Away!
I, for one, hope conservative provocateur Breitbart really didn't f**k and infect a defenseless goat, but until he he lays these stories to rest, people can't help but speculate.
Will no one think of the kids?
Weekend Listomania (Special The Man Can't Bust Our Music! Audio/Video Edition)
Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental prop jet mechanic Fah Lo Suee and I will be off to Tinseltown, i.e. fabulous Hollywood California, for a weekend story conference about the most eagerly awaited Marvel Comics superhero film adaptation of them all. Yes, the X-Men's Iceman is finally getting his own movie, and frankly there has never been a better High Concept than the one genius creator Stan Lee came up with back in 1963: A man is bitten by a radioactive ice cube. Who amongst us does not remember where we were when we first read his origin story.....
In any case, and because things will be relatively quiet around here for a couple of days, here's a fun and not particularly relevant to anything in particular little project to help us wile away the hours till we return:
Best or Worst Pre-Punk or Post-Punk Politically Themed Rock Record!!!
Just in case you don't see where I'm going with this, I'm specifically excluding first generation punk bands like the Sex Pistols or the Clash because they're just a little obvious. And I'm insisting that we limit the discussion specifically to rock records, for sort of the same reason -- all that early Dylan or Phil Ochs folkie protest stuff is way too obvious.
And yes, I'm sure we've done something more or less similar to this in the past, but I've been kind of obsessing on the awfulness of our national discourse of late, so indulge me.
And with all that stuff out of the way, my totally top of my head Top Five is/are:
5. Vince Vance and the Valiants -- Bomb Iran
This is so offensive in so many ways that it's hard to enumerate, and it has been ever since it first appeared in 1980. I should add that John McCain's reintroduction of it to the American public during the 2008 campaign is yet one more reason that there's a special mavericky Circle of Hell awaiting him.
4. The Beach Boys -- Student Demonstration Time
I suspect that rewriting the Leiber and Stoller prison classic to reflect the political turmoil of the early 70s seemed like a good idea at the time, and in fairness what resulted is a terrific performance and production. Unfortunately, it sounds crassly opportunistic and condescending to contemporary ears (or at least mine) and I've got to say it comes damn close to ruining the otherwise wonderful Surfs Up album for me.
3. Tonio K. -- La Bomba
Words fail me. In this case, words in Spanish.
2. Randy Newman -- A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
"Let's turn history's pages, shall we?" Okay, this isn't a rock record, but Newman's a genius and his own category, so I'm making an exception. Besides, this characteristically ironic rumination on the USA in the waning days of the unimaginable catastrophe that was the Bush-Cheney era is perhaps the profoundest thing the guy has ever written. Certainly it's the most depressing.
And the Numero Uno "Up Against the Wall, Running-Dog Lackey of the Bourgeoisie" rockers of them all clearly have to be....
1. Rage Against the Machine -- Bullet in Your Head
I basically think these guys hearts are in the right place, and Tom Morello is a pretty cool guitarist, if not particularly my cuppa tea, stylistically. But gimme a break, RATM -- the revolution will most definitely not be televised. More to the point, it will not be marketed by Epic Records and the Sony Corporation, the capitalist megaliths for whom you toil. For money.
Alrighty, then -- what would your choices be?
Surprisingly Cool Unsolicited Song of the Week (An Occasional Series)
From the City of Brotherly Love (and also Frank Rizzo, but that's another story) please enjoy Philadelphia combo Venice Sunlight and "Annabel," the utterly charming lead single off their just released EP Vs. the Rabid Rabbits
Hey -- terrific pop/punk guitars, winsome vocals and the song's put together like a charm; what more could anybody want?
Seriously, for reasons I don't need to get into at the moment, it's been a very long time since I've been in the front seat of a convertible, roaring down the turnpike on a sunny day with the car stereo blasting. Let's just say, then, that if I was to be doing such a thing in the near future, this is precisely the kind of song I'd want to be hearing.
You can find out lots more about the band over at their Facebook page; if you leave a comment, tell 'em PowerPop sent you.
Gold's Jim
That's Jim as in McGuinn; not my cleverest pun, but what the hey.
In any case, from 1996, doing business -- in a very Dukes of Stratosphear kind of way -- as The Fraternal Order of the All, here's clearly way underrated singer/guitarist Andrew Gold and the very Byrds-ish "Somewhere in Space in Time."
Seriously, if you're any kind of serious fan of the original Byrds circa 1965-67, this is going to make you wet your pants.
For those keeping score at home, this is an all but perfect mash-up of "She Don't Care About Time," "The World Turns All Around Her" and "Eight Miles High." Plus the backwards guitars from Younger Than Yesterday. And whoever is doing the rhythm guitar and drums is replicating David Crosby and Michael Clarke from the Turn! Turn! Turn! album in a way I frankly hadn't thought possible.
My old bandmate Andy "Folk-Rock" Pasternack, who sent me this, put it better than I ever could:
"I am completely speechless. As amazingly great as this is (again, if you haven’t already heard it), wait for the solo at 2:16. This is like the most breathtakingly great homage ever. "
.Have I mentioned that if you're a serious Byrds fan this will make you wet your pants?
Slacker Monday
Sunday's big college reunion and movie screening -- I'm too tired to even post a link -- was an absolute gas.
Here's how I dressed for the occasion, for those who weren't there.
Anyway, I'm still recovering, and a certain shady dame has given me an amazing early birthday present: We're going to see Brian Wilson at a small club tonight.
Regular posting will resume tomorrow, is what I'm trying to say.
God and Man at C.W. Post: Part Deux
No Listomania -- musical or cinematic -- this weekend, mostly because I'm approaching burnout from anticipating, organizing and co-hosting a de-facto college reunion happening on Sunday. Which, as you may recall from an earlier self-indulgent essay, will feature the first screening in decades of an artsy 16mm student film from 1970 -- Party -- in which my then band (we were called God, don't ask) performs absolutely live in a concert sequence.
Nobody involved with this flick -- including the two stars, who have a nude love scene -- has seen the damn thing since the middle of the 70s, so apart from the whole catching up with 30 people I haven't laid eyes on in years, this is going to be an interesting afternoon, I'll tell you that for free.
Here are two more screen caps director Jeff Alan thoughtfully sent me -- it's from a concluding bit where my bandmate Tony Forte smashes a cheap Japanese guitar (bought specially for the occasion) in an homage of some sort to Pete Townshend. Or possibly Jeff Beck in Blow Up.
Wny I'm shaking my fist at Tony is beyond me; frankly, I don't remember much about the filming.
In any event, I'll let you know how the soiree shakes out. And the movie is going up on YouTube as soon as I can figure out how to do it.
Thursday Monkees Karaoke
From 1967, and the sessions for their masterpiece Headquarters, here's the pre-fab four and the final instrumental track of Mike Nesmith's glorious folk-rock classic "You Just May Be the One."
By the way, there are no non-Monkees or session musicians playing on that track. It's really them. All of it. Peter Tork on bass and Mickey Dolenz on drums (Nesmith is on the 12-string, obviously). And you should start singing the thoughtfully included lyrics below at the :09 seconds mark.
All men must have someone, have someone
Who'd never take advantage
Of a love bright as the sun.
Someone to understand them,
And you just may be the one.
Who'd never take for granted
All the pleasures and the fun.
Someone to stand beside them
I saw when you walked by
The lovelight in your eye
And I knew I must try
To win you more than just a friend,
I'm starting near the end,
And here I go again.
And just to add a little note of obnoxious self-aggrandizement, here's a live cover version of the song by The Floor Models -- featuring a bass player whose name rhymes with Sleeve Nimels -- at the Other End in Greenwich Village, circa 1982.
The harmonies aren't stellar, and the recording is crappy, but boy, the band really cooks IMHO.
Wednesday Bruce Springsteen Karaoke
From the Darkness on the Edge of Town sessions (1978), here's The Boss and the E-Street Band with the instrumental track for Springsteen's 60s r&b-influenced knockout "Talk to Me." One of many great songs that huge putz/producer Jon Landau kept off the final Darkness album, but which is now one of Southside Johnny's signature tunes, thanks to its appearance on the Asbury Jukes' masterpiece Hearts of Stone (also from 1978).
The intro ends approximately 25 seconds into the track; start singing the thoughtfully supplied lyrics below at that point. There's a hole later on where the sax solo is supposed to go, but you can find that on your own.
Well every night I see a light up in your window
But every night you won't answer your door
But although you won't ever let me in
From the street I can see your silhouette sittin' close to him
What does it take?
To get you to
Until the night is over
Come on, baby
Well until the night is over
I got a full week's pay
And, baby, I've been working hard each day
I'm not asking for the world you see
I'm just asking, girl
Well late at night I hear the music that you're playing soft and low
Yes and late at night I see the two of you swayin' so close
I don't understand, darling, what was my sin?
Why am I down here below while you're up there with him?
What must I pay?
Little darling, won't you
And baby I've been working hard each day
I'm just asking girl
And baby
I've been working hard each day
I'm down on my bended knees
I'm just asking darling please won't you
Come on talk to me
Till the sun comes up
Andrew Gold 1951-2011: A Final Postscript
From the 2006 Buffalo Springfield tribute album Five Way Street, here's a pretty damned impressive live version of "Bluebird," with Andrew doing business as Byrds of a Feather.
Because Gold was a member of the Peter Asher/Linda Ronstandt L.A. soft-rock Mafia in the 70s, a lot of critics with a punk and post-punk axe to grind have tended to sell his artistic contributions short; frankly, I may have done it myself from time to time. But the guy was clearly a hell of a musician, and I think the world would be a poorer place without some of the records he played on and arranged. "You're No Good" immediately springs to mind....
...especially that Beatles-ish minor key riffy guitar breakdown solo section after titular star Ronsztadt temporarily shuts her not as soulful as it should be yap.
Happy Birthday: TWILLEY Edition!
Many happy returns to Dwight Twilley, who's been kicking ass and taking names for close to 40 years, keeping the pop flame alive when no one else was. Thanks, man!
Buy Twilley and yourself a present! The reviews were great! (And Kid C totally recommends.)
Andrew Gold: Possibly Still Not Dead
So apparently there may be a whole Mark Twain-ish "The rumors of my death have been greatly exagerrated" kind of deal going on for Linda Ronstadt guitarist Andrew Gold.
Which is to say all sorts of bloggers have been posting obits for the guy, even though there's no mention of his passing over at his official website and I can't find any definitive news at more traditional outlets like the NY Times.
Hopefully the estimable craftsman is still with us; I'll keep you posted as this shakes out.
I should also add that I once got into a great deal of trouble with certain readers of Stereo Review when I allowed in a column at the time how Gold's "Lonely Boy" -- his big hit, as seen in the above clip -- was actually a quite delightfully winsome and melodic piece of post-Beatles pop/rock. I remember in particular one letter to the editor in which I was told "Shoes, the Sneetches, and [some other then current indie fave] are pop. 'Lonely Boy' is pap. You should learn the difference."
Behold, I thought to myself when I read it, the perils of being insufficiently cynical for some people.
POSTSCRIPT: The June 6 2011 Los Angeles Times made it official. Apparently, Gold had been fighting cancer for some time; although he was supposedly making progress, he died of a heart attack in his sleep. He leaves three children, and -- even more heartbreaking -- his mother Marni Nixon.
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Weekend Cinema Listomania (Special Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen! Edition)
Video event of the week: Might Summit Entertainment's DVD of the latest Nicolas Cage piece of action crap Drive Angy by any chance be what we're talking about? Are HBO's respective disc version box sets of the vampire soap opera True Blood: The Complete Third season, conceivably in the sanguinary running? Or is it by any chance possible that Paramount's Blu-ray update of Sergio Leone's fabulous Once Upon a Time in the West is, in fact, The One?
All worthy (except for the Cage movie, obviously) but for my money it simply has to be Warner Home Video's release of MGM's unseen for decades and quite spectacular version of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic novel Night Flight, directed by Clarence Brown.
By unseen, we mean that it was pulled from circulation in 1943, although the reasons are unclear; presumably, some sort of copyright dispute with the publisher's of the book. In any case, the film -- the story of heroic aviators trying against desperate odds to deliver polio serum while the women they love bite their nails -- is a sort of action-adventure version of one of Metro's all-star parlor dramas a la Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight, which is to say that Clark Gable, John and Lionel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy try their damndest not to be upstaged by some extremely impressive aerial photography of rickety biplanes in the South American skies. As you might expect, it's something of a curio; Brown's direction is alternately ahead of its time (very impressive relentlessly moving camerawork) and old-fashioned (the actors mostly declaim as if they're in a Victorian melodrama), and the aforementioned quite breathtaking aerial photography is interrupted by a lot of surprisingly unconvincing process shots. Still, as vault exhumations go, this one is a doozy, and it's nice to have the picture available finally, especially in WHV's razor sharp transfer (the print itself is in mostly first-rate shape).
In any case, you can -- and I think it would be a good idea -- pre-order Night Flight over at Amazon here.
And with that out of the way, and because things are doubtless going to be a trifle quiet around here for a while, here's a fun and clearly relevant little project to help us wile away the hours:
Best or Worst Aviation-Themed Feature Film!!!!
And my totally top of my head Top Five is/are:
5. Millenium (Michael Anderson, 1989)
Former Charlie's Angels pin-up Cheryl Ladd stars as one of a group of cops from the far future who comes to our present to stage plane crashes in order to avert a holocaust that has rendered the human race genetically impotent in the 30th century. Or something. Not as bad as it sounds, actually, and who knew Ladd could act? Not so sure about frequently mistaken for a 2X4 co-star Kris Kristofferson, though.
4. Snakes on a Plane (David R. Ellis, 2006)
I'm sorry -- that's motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane. Motherfucker.
3. The Fighting Devil Dogs (William Witney and John English, 1938)
Vintage Republic serial nonsense, with a villain -- The Lightning -- who is pretty obviously the inspiration for Darth Vader, and whose villainy mostly takes place aboard his fabulous Flying Wing, a giant futuristic aircraft-carrier-in-the-sky recycled with great glee from an earlier (less amusing) Dick Tracy serial.
2. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
Great flying scenes, an amazing cast including Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, and typically snappy Howard Hawks-ian dialogue and action, and yet Angels has always left me cold. I mean, I like Hawks as much as the next auteurist, but in this case all that macho romantic fatalism and bravado seems kind of creepy. IMHO.
And the Numero Uno "up, up and away!" epic of them all simply has to be...
1. Flying Down to Rio (Thornton Freeland, 1933)
For obvious reasons (NOT Fred and Ginger). And also for one immortal line, when a WASP-ish socialite, upset that star Delores del Rio seems to be getting all the guys, asks "What do Latin girls have south of the border that we don't?"
Future Events Such as These Will Affect You in the Future
I know what you're thinking -- what the world really needs right now is a tribute album for pioneering first generation British punk bands The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned.
Well, gosh darn it -- you're in luck, because now there is one!!!
The short version (from the press release):
There are 18 tracks on the album, with 6 tracks each dedicated to the Pistols, the Clash and the Damned. All the bands were tasked with providing covers of a high standard. Expectations were high, and yet the artists managed to create something new & radically different.
The bands featured are The Sex Pistols Experience, Leatherface, Terry Edwards (Serious Drinking, Higsons, Tindersticks), Steve Drewett (Newtown Neurotics), Attila the Stockbroker, The Blaggers ITA, Bleach, Anhrefn, The Price, Red Letter Day, The Bolsheviks, Identity, Exit Condition, Robb Johnson and The Urchin String Quartet!
Having now listened to it, I can report that while No Future is as patchy as most tribute albums tend to be, there's nothing on it that dishonors the originals. I can also report that I find it perhaps overly amusing that the Sex Pistols Experience is billed here as "the UK's top Sex Pistols tribute band"; I'm assuming this means that there's more than one. Heh.
In any case, not being a huge Damned fan, I was surprised that the Leatherface cover of "Melody Lee" below...
...got under my skin in very short order. I should also add that Steve Drewett's version of "Capital Radio" is the bees knees, as today's kids say.
Bottom line: You can -- and on balance, I would say you should -- order it over at Amazon here.
I Hate to Break It to Ann Althouse, But Posting Stuff on a Free Service Is Not a Guarantee of Immortality
Our Down Under blogging pal Peter Scott informs us that during the recent unpleasantness with Blogger, his old -- and invaluable -- site was disappeared.
To his credit,Peter did not -- unlike a certain box wine drinker and law professor -- have some crazy relative start a Facebook page devoted to the lunatic theory that this was done deliberately because of his political views.
Instead, Pete did the sensible thing and resumed business at a new address.
So -- get over to Peter's Power Pop and give our antipodean buddy some love.
Records? What are Records?
From the just released second EP by Stag, please enjoy the infectious ode to vinyl (and 70s pop culture cheese in general, at least in the video) "Love Her Records."
I am informed that Stag are a bunch of Seattle club band veterans, except for the lead singer, who used to be the frontman of That Petrol Emotion, an apparently well-regarded 80s/early 90s (mostly) Brit act that I managed to miss entirely back in the day. I am also informed that their influences include The Who and Cheap Trick. I'm hearing a bit of The Raspberries and a little Todd Rundgren in the above clip as well, unless my ears deceive me.
Actually, I'm at the point lately where I don't trust my immediate judgement on bands like this. I sometimes get the feeling there's a bit of the Dancing Bear thing going on, which is to say I may enjoy what they're doing not because it's being done particularly well, but out of gratitude that it's being done at all.
I haven't made up my mind about Stag, is what I'm saying, but I'm going to check 'em out some more. If you're similarly inclined, you can start over at their Facebook page.
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Los Angeles Dodgers at St. Louis Cardinals Odds, Start Time, Prediction
The St. Louis Cardinals are hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight in Major League Baseball action. The game is scheduled for a 7:00 p.m. start time and it will be televised nationally on ESPN. The MLB Odds for the game have the Dodgers favored to pick up the win on the road.
Los Angeles -117
Total: 8.5 runs (-115 under)
The Dodgers are throwing Kenta Maeda tonight. His ERA is high at 5.08 but has a record of 4-2 on the season, on the road he has struggled in three starts. Maeda has an ERA of 6.60 in those starts while allowing opponents to hit .288 against him, he's yielded 17 hits in 15 innings, including five home runs. In order to beat St. Louis tonight, he surely has to have a strong start.
Current Cardinals are hitting .323 against him in 31 at bats. That's a very small sample size but a handful of Cardinals have had success against Maeda.
St. Louis will be throwing Michael Wacha, he's 2-2 with a 3.66 ERA covering eight starts. Wacha has been strong at home, going 2-0 with a 2.35 ERA covering 30 2/3 innings over five starts. His splits are certainly key for Wacha, whose numbers are awful (0-2, 6.19) away from home. Current Dodgers are hitting .350 against him over 80 at bats.
The Cardinals are struggling at this point, losers of two straight has seen them fall to 3-7 the last 10 games overall. The Dodgers are winners of five straight, they have won eight of the last 10 games overall. Both teams find themselves in second place, the Dodgers are trailing the Colorado Rockies by a half-game in the NL West, St. Louis is a game and a half behind the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Tobias Björkgren Brings Our Brand New Octa Softbox To A 400-Year-Old Castle
Written by: Fredrik Franzén
A new softbox has been added to Profoto’s growing assortment of RFi Softboxes. It is an octa softbox. A four-foot octa to be precise. Not too big, not too small. Just perfect. Swedish photographer Tobias Björkgren has tried it out. Here is his story.
Ulfsunda Castle in Sweden is old. More than 100 years older than the United States in fact. Built in 1647 during The Thiry Year War, the castle has seen its fair share of historical figures and events.
Latest in line is the world’s first shoot with our brand new octa softbox: the Softbox RFi 4’ Octa. The shoot was done by Swedish portrait and fashion photographer Tobias Björkgren. As historic events go, it might not be able to compete with royal declarations and weddings. Still, we think it deserves its own story.
“I shot at Ulfsunda Castle because I wanted to create a feeling of indifferent luxury,” says Tobias. “The model Vanessa Hulot is French and I knew the styling would be quite elegant, so I wanted to play off that. But I didn’t want it to get too serious. It should be like “hey, I live in a castle but I don’t care!”
“That said, I didn’t want it to get too nice and clean,” adds Tobias. “That is why I wanted to add an element of surrealism to the equation. I didn’t just want elegance. I wanted it to feel a bit dirty and cool too.”
The location and the styling provided the elegance. The model’s expression provided a sense of indifference. And the lighting provided the dirt and cool.
Tobias brought a B1 Location Kit and two Light Shaping Tools to the shoot – the standard Zoom Reflector and the brand new octa softbox. He also brought a Softgrid and some colored gels with him. Camera-wise, he had a PhaseOne 645DF IQ140, with a Schneider 80 mm/or 55 mm, equipped with an Air Remote, so that Tobias could wirelessly sync and control his flashes.
“The short answer to why I shoot with Phase One is that the final result looks better,” says Tobias. “The clarity you get with these babies is just amazing.”
Lighting-wise, the plan was to use the B1 with a Zoom Reflector and green gel as fill light, and the B1 with the octa softbox as main light. The fill light would be set to slightly lower power and bounced off walls and roofs to flood the scene with green light. The main light would be set to a higher power and, thereby eliminating the green light wherever it hit Tobias’ subject.
“The setup was pretty simple,” says Tobias. “I’m usually obsessed with creating a clean, almost perfect light. But in this case I wanted it to be dirtier and ugly in nice-kind-of-way, if you know what I mean?
“The most challenging part of the shoot was rather that I had almost no time to prepare. The day of the shoot was my very first time at Ulfsunda Castle, which meant that I had to quickly scout the location and find a number of different spots to shoot at while the make up and styling was done.”
Tobias acted fast and found no less then seven different spots in this short amount of time.
Keep reading for a quick rundown how a few of them were created.
“The shot of Vanessa standing in front of the chandelier ended up being my favorite,” says Tobias. “I like her look in this one.
“I was obviously shooting from a very low position here, literally laying on my back on the floor. The fill light with the green gel was behind and to the right of me, bouncing off the wall and the ceiling. The main light, the ofta softbox, was standing camera left on a stand, just slightly above Vanessa. The octa softbox was also equipped with a Softgrid to a lightly more directed light.”
“The shot where Vanessa is laying on a pile of golden pillows was the most fun to shoot,” says Tobias. “This one was actually shot in the bathroom of the dressing room we were assigned to. It was the last shot we did that day. It was late in the afternoon, and we already had bunch of shots. But I felt that something was missing.
“That’s when I had this idea to put all the pillows from the dressing room on the bathroom floor, climb up on the toilet-seat and shoot Vanessa from above, lying on the pillows. I think it’s a nice example of the stupid situations you’re willing to put yourself in as a photographer to get your shot!
“In this case, both B1s were standing camera left. The one with the Zoom Reflector and the gel was quite far behind me and aimed directly at Vanessa. The main light, the octa softbox, was standing much closer and effectively overpowering the green light.
The rest of the shots were done in pretty much the same way, with slight variations to the position and angle of the flashes. But it was always two flashes, and they were always equipped with a Zoom Reflector with a green gel and a Softbox RFi 4’ Octa with a Softgrid.
“I like the new octa softbox, “says Tobias. “The three-foot octa is bit small to light a whole person, and the five-foot is a bit too big to bring on-location. The four-foot is just perfect. Plus its shape creates a beautiful round catch light. It looks almost like the sun.”
See more of Tobias work at his website.
Learn more about the new Softbox RFi 4’ Octa and other RFi softboxes here.
Gear list:
2 x B1
1 x octa + softgrid
1 x Speedring
1 x Zoom Reflector
1 x Air Remote
Camera PhaseOne 645DF, IQ140,
80mm Schneider on green envy 3 LS f/2.8
55mm Schneider for the rest
Team credits:
Photographer Tobias Björkgren
Stylist Madelene Billman
Hair & makeup Sofia Sjöberg
Model Vanessa Hulot
Assistant Felicia Linden
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Record Labels: How it All Starts with a Logo
by pete Brandinglogo
There is something about the mythos of a record label.
Iconic organizations like Atlantic and Def Jam are akin to museums and have played host to the biggest names, songs, and albums music will ever know.
Perhaps it’s to do with the music industry as we know it. It’s an exciting and mysterious world that involves the most creative minds of a generation. And these artistic people must find a way to monetize their unique creations.
Which brings us to the fabled studio magic… where transcendently timeless songs are put together. Not just plain old songs – but musical masterpieces that shape the social consciousness and cultural zeitgeist. Oh yeah, and these recordings also earn millions of dollars for the studio and musicians alike.
Music studios help bring a musician’s vision to life with a deft mix of technical proficiency, artistic nuance, and business acumen. And as such, are an overwhelmingly powerful entity. It’s not just world-famous conglomerates like Warner Brothers or Sony that can make an impact. Independent Labels are one of the most crucial components of the industry.
There’s one thing you’ll notice about most successful labels, however, whether independent or major. It’s that, for the most part, they care deeply about their image.
Thereby making physical appearances a surprisingly invaluable facet of an industry that’s auditory by nature.
Profitable labels pay attention to the visual aspect of their business as much as what they’re hearing. Many artists possess distinct looks and dress a specific way to establish a motif. How musicians look on an album’s cover matters almost just as much as the album’s songs. And when a look cohesively jives with the sound, there’s a thematic harmony that’s conducive to art in its highest form.
If you own a record label, you know full-well that the competition is fierce. To survive and thrive in the industry, you must apply the above principle to your own brand image.
This outlook starts with your logo, which – in most cases – is the first impression people will have of your studio.
In a nutshell, your logo is your identity as a music recording company. A striking design that attracts the eye will boost sales on appearance alone. On top of that, an increase of talented artists who connect with your overall vibe (further enhanced by your visual motif) will take notice as your record sales increase.
Below, I’ll examine further why a logo can contribute so prominently to your label’s overall success.
Books, Food, and Other Metaphors
We all know the phrase, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover.’
The reason why people are so insistent about using the above phrase is that it’s just human nature to judge everything, initially, by its appearance. We try to go beyond how things look, yet can’t help but succumb to our base instincts.
Think about it, the brain can see images that last for just 13 milliseconds, so it only makes sense that humans would be biased towards visual stimuli.
To add on another visual-related cliché, humans also eat first with their eyes. Meaning, that how something looks (in this case, food) has a psychological effect on our overall perception of the object.
Okay, maybe humans don’t eat music. Though I’ve heard someone who visited their share of Grateful Dead Concerts tell me he could taste each note. But that’s a different story altogether.
Furthermore, your recording studio might boast some of the most state-of-the-art equipment in the world. You might be the next coming of Mozart, and Quincy Jones combines as a producer and composer. Still, if your label design fails to strike some form of a visual cord, your record sales will likely end up a touch flat—at best. Plus, top talent won’t be clamouring to sign the dotted line if your logo is anyway off-key.
Take Death Row Records, for example. Do you think bubble letters and gentle imagery would have attracted its roster of edgy hip hop talent as well as millions of rebellious teens?
Would Atlantic have ever recorded Zeppelin, Wiz Khalifa, or Bruno Mars if it didn’t give off bluesy R & B vibes with its logo?
Then, what of more corporate studios like Warner Brothers and Sony? The cleanness and precision of those logos establish professionalism sought after by many musicians.
But let’s break it down to its barest elements and eliminate factors such as brand identity and demographics. If your logo resembles the work of someone in their first week of photoshop lessons, what self-respecting artist will want it disgracing their album?
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Learning from the Masters
Now, it’s time to learn from the example of some of the top label logos in the music industry:
DFA: When Lightning Strikes
New York dance-punk and the DFA lightning bolt are symbiotically connected. It’s this unique relationship that symbolizes a time and New York City that was encapsulated by monstrous beats and massive electronic sound.
The label was responsible for albums artists such as Rapture, Cut Copy, and LCD Soundsystem.
DFA’s punk aesthetic is perfectly captured with the stick and poke tattoo appearance of the lightning bolt. The idea behind the execution was to add a human element—so it didn’t seem like it came from a machine (a corporate machine, one could safely assume).
This appreciation of ragged imperfections is what dance pop-punk was all about. It’s a subtle-yet-powerful touch in the logo that made both fans and artists of the genre lean towards the label. Such a self-aware logo showed the company had their finger on the pulse of its audience.
Death Row Records: Truth in a Name
Yes, we’ve brought up Death Row already—but it’s always worth taking another gander at the equally famed and infamous music recording company. To be honest, the history of Death Row could make for an Oscar-Winning true crime movie.
It’s that air of mystery, scandal, and violence that makes the record label so alluring. Of course, big boss Suge Knight’s shady past and present add as much to Death Row’s story as anything else.
There’s an air of criminal authenticity in Death Row’s abrasively jagged electric chair design, complemented by the aggressively stark colours. Audiences generally are drawn to authentic designs that speak their truth.
Alternative Tentacles: Nocturnally Inclined Design
Winston Smith was the collage artist whose most revered piece of work was the Alternative Tentacles logo.
In 1979, the Kennedys recorded a self-produced single called California Über Alles under the Alternative Tentacles name. It grew to attract some of the most successful acts in the American alternative and punk scenes, such as Butthole Surfers and DOA.
What I appreciate most about the bat symbol is its establishment of a “creatures of the night” vibe. Those partaking in an alternative lifestyle who’d write this music, listen to it, or do both would immediately identify with the bat symbolism and dark colour motif.
Apple Records: The Fruit of Quality Design
Gene Mahon is the mind behind the corporate logo design for the Beatles’ multimedia company, Apple Records.
The approach is minimalist, yet entirely outside-of-the-box and creative just the same. It’s a bright green Granny Smith apple—and albums would feature the common fruit whole on it’s A-side. Then, in a clever twist, the B-side would be featured with the apple cut in half.
The logo itself was straightforward. Yet, it interacts with the content on the album cover in a way that’s both genius and thoughtful.
Differentiating Your Brand from the Pack
The music industry is harsh—especially when you’re starting as a label and working hard to catch a big break. Alternatively, even if you’re an established label, it’s not like the competition disappears at any point.
But let’s examine newer, smaller, and independent labels for a moment, before going any further.
You might have a relatively bare-bones operation and, therefore, zero marketing clout throughout the industry. Yes, you have the channels available that everyone else does; social media, word of mouth, and perhaps you can send around flyers. However, even these marketing methods become less impactful without piles of money to throw around.
That isn’t to say you can’t catch the eye of a lucrative audience. You just have less of a chance. So, when someone does happen to come across your studio’s label, why not ensure it’s an artistically crafted tour de force that refuses to be forgotten?
It’s Time to Invest in Your Music Company Logo
Big, small, medium, and minuscule music businesses alike always need to be hyper-conscious of their brand image if they plan on growing.
And in the music world, which is wildly artistic and imaginative, visual aesthetics are an integral part of the package.
Therefore, a record label’s logo is almost as crucial as its business model, mission, mantra, and musical proficiency.
I’d suggest going as far as to suggest that your logo should encapsulate all the elements mentioned above in one iconic image.
If you’re interested in finding a logo that sets your music company apart and strengthens its brand image, contact us today. You’ll be captivated once you’ve seen our portfolio of enticing designs.
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Hard News by Russell Brown
10:50AM Jul 7, 2016 • Read Post
Hard News: The war is still with us
Russell Brown, 10:50 Jul 7, 2016
PS: I’ve copy-pasted the quoted passages straight out of the original posts, hyperlinks and all, and many of those links are now dead. I guess there’s a lesson there about the nature of internet permanence. Everything is somewhere, but it might not be where you left it.
izogi, in reply to Russell Brown, 11:18 Jul 7, 2016
The WayBack machine helps though, for anyone keen on chasing the links.
eg. The NYSE banning Al Jazeera.
Rich of Observationz, 12:43 Jul 7, 2016
And you're surprised that the thinking, progressive people that form the members and supporters of the UK Labour party don't want to elect another Blairite leader?
Kumara Republic, in reply to Rich of Observationz, 13:20 Jul 7, 2016
To think I had respect for Tony Blair once. But now, the Chilcot Inquiry has reinforced him as a man of his times. And it seems the inquiry is also the knockout blow for UK Labour's Blairite holdouts trying to back-stab Corbyn...
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/chilcot-inquiry-report-tony-blair-iraq-war-forever-remembered-jeremy-corbyn-a7122621.html
The southernmost capital … • Since Nov 2006 • 5423 posts Report Reply
I'm interested in Blair's motivation though; was it:
- a genuine belief that islamist terrorism was a serious threat to the integrity of British society and the only way to deal with that was to forcibly impose a friendly, liberal government in all muslim-majority states?
- belligerent liberalism: a belief that western states had the right and duty to impose 'good government' on 'lesser breeds without the law'?
- a belief that Britain's interests were inextricably entwined with the US and could only be served by following in lockstep with whatever the US decided?
- a desire for economic gain from imposing governments that would trade with the US/UK on favourable terms?
- or that he was just a CIA agent doing his job (or his wife was)?
bob daktari, in reply to Rich of Observationz, 13:59 Jul 7, 2016
or a look at me I'm important and powerful and how cool is that, war rocks!
coupled with now in hindsight... I'm bloody rich
the predictions of the anti war "mob" were and continue to be the most accurate of all the soothsayers - why have intelligence agencies at all?
auckland • Since Dec 2006 • 538 posts Report Reply
Nick Russell, 14:13 Jul 7, 2016
I reckon the Chilcot report is to the UK Labour Party as the EU referendum was to the Tories - a bone thrown to the base by the leadership (Gordon Brown in Chilcot's case) to keep them happy. Both have been remarkably effective at making sure that arguments are polarised, positions entrenched and prejudices or suspicions reinforced.
I'm sure this must be good for someone, somewhere, but I don't know who.
Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 125 posts Report Reply
Bevan Shortridge, 17:33 Jul 7, 2016
Robin Cook’s speech in Parliament upon his resignation from cabinet in 2003 over the war is online, and worth watching:
Ianmac, 19:47 Jul 7, 2016
Two or three years ago John Campbell interviewed Blair who was here on a short visit. Blair's genial grin faded when he was faced with John's direct questions re Iraq. Blair was indignant I think, that some silly colonial should ask him to justify his position.
Bleneim • Since Aug 2008 • 135 posts Report Reply
Ianmac, in reply to Ianmac, 19:49 Jul 7, 2016
"John Campbell interviews British Prime Minister Tony Blair during his visit to New Zealand. Discusses his unrepentant desire to complete what he sees as his obligations in Iraq and his relationship with USA President George Bush. "
Found it but no footage???
I do like the Daily Rupert …
Rich Lock, in reply to Nick Russell, 20:20 Jul 7, 2016
Both have been remarkably effective at making sure that arguments are polarised, positions entrenched and prejudices or suspicions reinforced.
You're going to have to explain to me how Chilcott has caused "positions [to be] entrenched and prejudices or suspicions reinforced" on the pro-war side.
I've seen and heard a lot from the warmongers in the last day or two, desperately squiming and spouting the same old, same old. But now these tinpot emperors can't even pretend to have clothes, and their trenches have been thoroughly over-run.
back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply
Rich Lock, in reply to Rich of Observationz, 20:22 Jul 7, 2016
I'm interested in Blair's motivation though
look at me I'm important and powerful and how cool is that, war rocks!
Marc C, 20:54 Jul 7, 2016
"Much of what Chilcot said last night was, to a greater or lesser extent, already known. A good deal of it was known before the invasion even took place."
Yes, that is what I thought, following the news on Al Jazeera last night, and hearing more about it today, some via New Zealand news and analysis.
In my view this good report comes not only 7 years too late, it comes rather something like 10 years too late. Those that followed events before and after 2003 will know what happened, how intense the debate was, and how the US government actually pushed many of its allies and friends into joining the campaign to invade Iraq.
I followed most of it when based in Europe, and so did not read all that Russell presents here, as I was somewhat disconnected with Aotearoa for a while. Bush and Blair were not much "loved" in much of Continental Europe, that was for sure.
I followed developments over the years, watched the execution of Saddam Hussein, and felt numbed by the following years of terror, of almost daily reports of bomb and sniper attacks, killing endless civilians. It was numbing - the horror, as after a while it seemed one had to compare attacks by counting the casualties, to assess the severity and significance of them. Shia turned against Sunni and vice versa, Kurds played a separate role, and achieved autonomy of sorts.
Now we have the Mid East in total chaos, almost at least, and who knows where all this shit will end. Thanks to Tony Blair, that sell out character, I remember him being so cosy and loyal with Bush, it was almost embarrassing.
Bush that "born again Christian" went on a crusade, he had made his mind up before all efforts to try and deal with Saddam with peaceful and non war ways were even tried:
http://www.biography.com/people/george-w-bush-9232768#early-life
"George W. Bush credits his wife for bringing his life in order. Prior to marriage, he had several embarrassing episodes with alcohol. Soon after marrying Laura, he joined the United Methodist Church and became a born-again Christian."
I read this with disbelief in that same "bio":
"Bush declared that Iraq hadn’t complied with inspections, and on March 20, 2003, the United States launched a successful invasion of Iraq, quickly defeating the Iraqi military. Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, fell on April 9, 2003, and Bush personally declared an end to major combat operations on May 1, 2003. With a power vacuum in place, Iraq soon fell into a sectarian civil war."
That is the US government of then version of events, I remember that idiot and war monger ("wannabe Christian") Bush stand on the aircraft carrier announcing "victory" of sorts?!
More on that man here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
After 9/11 the US and Bush soon went from shock and upheaval into "crusader" mode, and that is what has brought us the reaction of the other extreme that there is in Iraq and Syria, in the most vicious way. First they dealt to Afghanistan (still fighting the Taleban), then Iraq (still in turmoil), remember the "axis of evil" and all such slogans?
But now we live in the "post truth era", our own government has shown us, how the truth that was presented on all this yesterday, will not be all that relevant to the people that are young today, as they consume stuff that is "well presented" (i.e. censored), by commercial interests and governments. "Dirty politics" did not change the vote, nor will Chilcot influence many. Does anyone still talk about the "Panama papers", for instance?
Chilcot matters to us older ones, most younger ones are inundated with superficial info, they will never read the details about all this, they want quick, soft and easy "news", and decide what is of use to them, what not. Prepare for a less informed, less analysing, less scrutinising future democracy, where also the UN may be rather irrelevant.
Presentation and appearance matter, not contents, it seems.
Chilcot's report seems to get somewhat less attention in the US, where it should actually be obligatory reading for people.
For those that care, here is the hard news stuff:
http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/
Tom Semmens, in reply to Rich of Observationz, 21:17 Jul 7, 2016
My view is Blair became increasingly messianic over time. Wikipedia’s entry on Blair contains a useful entry on this, and I think the timelines of his growing sense of his religious mission are significant. IMHO, the entire current PLP Blairite movement displays behaviour that can only be best described in terms of having a messianic self-belief. But if that is the why, what about the how?
I recently finally finished reading Christopher Clark’s “The Sleepwalkers.” Reading in Chilcot of the systemic failures of numerous key officials to understand – let alone their reluctance to take responsibility for and act upon – their roles in the checks and balances of democratic government is depressingly resonant of 1914. Just as then, we see a parade of officials and politicians at various levels testing a system whose workings are seemingly beyond their comprehension. The machinery of the British ruling class is exposed – as in 1914 – as little more than a shambolic collection of amateur and mediocre actors with no single logic or master narrative to help them understand their purpose. In such a vacuum of purpose it was easy for the one man who was sure of his mission to over-ride the vaunted “checks and balances” of Westminster democracy.
The consistent failure of the British governing class to do it’s proper constitutional job in times of crisis has much wider implications than just Iraq. Britain is a leading member of NATO and an independent nuclear power. Reading Chilcot, who can have any faith in the British ruling class being able to cope with a crisis in the east with Russia?
Sevilla, Espana • Since Nov 2006 • 2213 posts Report Reply
Joe Wylie, in reply to Tom Semmens, 21:36 Jul 7, 2016
Britain is a leading member of NATO and an independent nuclear power.
Of all the "independent" nuclear powers, Britain would seem to be the only one whose ability to use its nuclear weapons is dependent on technology supplied by a foreign power, namely Trident. Both its army and air force have long reverted to being strictly conventional forces.
Ross Mason, 21:45 Jul 7, 2016
I’ve been watching this on BBC/Skynews from Prague. Fascinating.
I recall Blair praying a lot over whether he should go to war. God spoke to him apparently.
No mention of God in the report it seems…..
I suspect it is now the god afflicted guilt that is seeing him ‘travel to the Middle East 3 or 4 times a month’.
Lies, deceit, utter bullshit about WMDs seem words that fail to describe what Rumsfeld, Bush(s), Rice and those truly nasty bastards Wolfowitz and Chaney got up to. What is thankful is that Clark had the gumption and the guts to say stuff you to the USA.
Oh…and lets not forget what happened to the poor bastard who spilled the beans on the Dodgy Dossier. David Kelly.
No wonder a little tipping of the scales was needed – or, as Blair also put it in his book, “politicians are obliged from time to time to conceal the full truth, to bend it and even distort it, where the interests of the bigger strategic goal demand that it be done”.
Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1589 posts Report Reply
Kumara Republic, in reply to Russell Brown, 22:46 Jul 7, 2016
Rupert the First is easily the latter-day William Randolph Hearst.
Rob S, 22:47 Jul 7, 2016
The Iraq war was primarily an American imposition on the Middle East.
Blair was led into it by the fool Bush.
I suggest that the Project for the New American Century was the philosophical background and impetus for the war.
Bush the Younger, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, et al signed up for a clever wheeze that came out of a strand of right wing American exceptionalism that was enjoying It's high tide mark with the downfall of European communism.
With no brake on America as the world hyperpower anything seemed possible which included imposing democracy on the middle east at the point of a gun.
The fall of the twin towers in New York was the opportunity seized on by these chickenhawks to instigate a war that would be used to shape the middle east into a democratic, capitalistic wet dream that would display American power to all.
Blair got played and was a fool.
He should have been able to discern that he was being sold utter bullshit as was obvious to anyone who could parse the gung ho tripe coming from the U.S. intelligence services that had been suborned to the PNAC cause with dissenting views sidelined. Freedom fries anyone?
Where is the American version of the Chilcot enquiry?
If you think Vietnam was a clusterfuck what terms would you use for Iraq?
These people have walked away from one of the most idiotically mendacious and downright criminal actions of my lifetime.
History is already judging them and they're lucky that they aren't in the Hague arguing their case.
Others are paying in blood for this war, real blood, real pain, a lot of others.
Whilst these scum walk away with only a shit reputation, such is the way of things Blair is rolling in money post disgrace and has had the gall to put himself up as a peace broker in the middle east.
As I write this I just get angrier and angrier.
It won't be the establishment cleaning the mess up, as they've been shown up as the bloodless shits you've always suspected they were.
There are a lot of institutions that don't seem to be fit for purpose.
Who is cleaning them up?
-apologies for venting.
Since Apr 2010 • 136 posts Report Reply
tussock, 02:09 Jul 8, 2016
The largest protests the western world had ever seen were on the streets of their major cities on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. There is almost no mainstream record of that. Millions of people marched, and it was ignored.
The politicians, the press, they wanted a war. Anything said they shouldn't have a war was ignored, everything said maybe it was possible there was a reason to have one was seized on and played up endlessly, without any checking at all.
The documents presented to the UN about WMDs were a from a decade old university thesis, everything else was thrown out because it didn't say what they wanted to hear. Carl Rove summed them up nicely, as described by a reporter. "The aide" is Carl Rove.
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works any more." He continued "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
They don't actually believe in empiricism. Evidence, that's not how the world works any more. They know what it is and reject it. You just invade Iraq and make it work and then that's the new evidence, just because. When John Key talks about getting another scientist if you don't like the science, about how climate change isn't a problem because science will solve it (despite all of science pointing out what a colossal problem it is, and already having given them the solutions, which they ignore just because they're going to do that other thing and then you can study that instead), that's the same deal.
They went to war in Iraq because it was going to be easy, and work really well, and be hugely profitable and help the people of Iraq too, because everyone saying otherwise just hasn't seen it happen yet. Just like that.
Blair was the same, the war was going to go gloriously and promote Britain to being a new world leader and authority on all that is right and good, just because that's what they were going to do. When evidence means nothing, that's all there is left.
Ian Dalziel, in reply to Russell Brown, 06:31 Jul 8, 2016
Everything is somewhere, but it might not be where you left it.
Continental drift plays havoc with geo-political borders, as well...
:- )
Paul Campbell, in reply to tussock, 09:13 Jul 8, 2016
There were reportedly 750K of us in San Francisco when the bombing started in Iraq, so many that BART (the regional rapid transit system, which had put on extra trains) was so backed up that people were still leaving the station at the beginning of the march at the same time that people were entering the station at the end of the march to go home
Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2609 posts Report Reply
ubernaut, in reply to Rob S, 10:10 Jul 8, 2016
Amen Rob.
And though you wisely avoid going further to touch the third rail, it seems I have a death-wish.
PNAC was/is explicit - that their actions were intended first and foremost to advance the interests of Israel by breaking up the middle east into small warring statelets that could never pose a future threat or challenge to Israel.
PNAC and the neocons have been media-savvy and have dropped out of the public conversation, despite the fact they still hold extensive power in Washington.
Robert Kagan (an original PNAC founder), his wife Victoria Nuland, and a slew of others still call many of the shots in Washington.
I'm amazed Russell has conspicuously avoided joining these dots in his more recent columns. Victoria Nuland had a conspicuous role in the Ukraine coup - it was clearly a neocon project in it's own right, and yet the PA conversation around Ukraine was slewed towards discussion of "democratic protest".
Overthrow of Assad and breakup of Syria is literally part of the publically released PNAC documents from the 2002 era and clearly part of the same project and intent, yet Russell's more recent columns and the PA conversation in general has omitted this almost completely.
It's looked to me as though the PA discussion has been hijacked over time by responding and commenting on the mainstream narrative - talking about talking for the sake of the conversation rather than setting the conversation. Maybe I've just misunderstood what the purpose of the blog was.
Wellington • Since Sep 2012 • 2 posts Report Reply
Nick Russell, in reply to Rich Lock, 10:30 Jul 8, 2016
Because while the Chilcot report is utterly damning it falls frustratingly short on most of the Stop The War Coalition bumper stickers. Does it actually say for example that the war was illegal, or that "Blair lied"?
Blair is touting those lines for all he is worth.
What surprises me now is that Blair has been (quite rightly) damned by one and all but that Bush and co in the US seem to be getting a free pass. Maybe it's because we expected better of Blair.
Does it actually say for example that the war was illegal,
It wasn't "illegal" (as a whole) under British law simply because Britain (and most other states including NZ) don't subordinate their domestic laws to the UN charter. The only sanctions under that can be applied by the UN and (usually) to states (and require the authority of the Security Council, which would obviously not be granted when a member of that body is at fault).
That doesn't make it justifiable as good policy, but it isn't going to get Blair jailed unless he can be proved to have engaged in a narrowly illegal act, such as authorising kidnap or torture.
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A guide to Twitter for PR
Much of the current chatter about Twitter lacks persective: it's like a running commentary on a child's first steps. But Drew B's Guide to Twitter is practical and intellectual too – it's started a discussion about whether this is primarily a broadcast or a messaging system. Useful and interesting.
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My first impression of the new design for our university website was negative. I thought it looked like a sports news channel. (Thanks to Wayback Machine, here’s a snapshot of how the home page looked five years ago.)
My second impression (I’ve been living with it for a week now) is much more positive. I think it’s a brilliant innovation to turn a university in the direction of YouTube. Not just sports, but news and teaching can be delivered by video, and it’s a medium designed to appeal to young people.
I’ve also taken a look at the Quarkbase results to view a dashboard of data on this website. Unfortunately, Quarkbase will only search for top level domains (eg typepad.com), not subsidiary sites (such as prstudies.typepad.com) so it’s not best suited for blog monitoring.
Shiny new Chrome
This is a test post using Google’s new browser, Chrome. I like the integration of search with the address bar and find multiple tabs essential (as poineered in Firefox and now used in Internet Explorer), but have spotted one minor glitch while using Typepad.
Wiki wars
This is fun. On one side are the bloggers and social media advocates; on the other side are the academics. The question is whether students should cite Wikipedia. Guess where I stand.
Note on netiquette
The conference is called EuroBlog, so it’s not surprising we’re encouraged to blog live during the event (as it happened the WiFi connection wasn’t consistent enough to allow me to do this.).
So it’s OK to concentrate on screen and keyboard and ignore the speakers. Does this give me a licence to check emails, RSS feeds, blogs and Facebook? What about phone and text messages? What about talking to my neighbour?
I should put myself in my students’ seats more often. It’s not such a comfortable place to be.
From walkie talkies to the mobile internet
In my childhood, the dream present was a pair of ‘walkie talkies’. In their absence, we were quite proud that a string held taught between two empty tin cans created a workable low-tech alternative.
Today, everyone has a much more powerful communications device in their pocket. And it’s not limited to phone calls and texts; you can have web browsing in the palm of your hand, too.
I, too, was trying a 3 Skype phone before Christmas. I found the mobile Skype function a disappointment, so chose not to blog about it. Yet the revelation to me was just how much web browsing is possible with a 3G phone. Those of us who remember WAP and recall the huge prices paid at auction for 3G spectrum had every right to be suspicious of the functionality and the likely cost to us of embracing this new technology. Yet for some, the ability to update your Facebook status at any time and to view a YouTube video will certainly be worth the cost. For some applications, the phone is now a realistic alternative to a PC or laptop.
For me, I’m not ready to abandon my familiar phone or laptop yet. But I have acquired an iPod Touch because I love the interface and Wi-Fi web browsing in the palm of my hand – without the need to pay for a phone contract (or without the distraction of phone calls). So these are my chosen mobile devices: a 2G Motorola phone for the necessary evil of phone calls and texts; and an iPod Touch for the fun of browsing when out and about.
Gail also uses two devices: a standard Nokia phone and a Blackberry (used for emails only).
I know it’s possible to have one device providing phone calls, music, photography, web browsing and emails – but I’m not yet ready to pay for it. What’s your favourite mobile device?
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From startup to expansion to acquisition, Medline ReNewal is an economic development success story. Founded in Sisters as Medisiss in 1997, the company launched with the revolutionary idea of transforming single use medical devices into renewable assets. Four years later, Medisiss relocated to Redmond to expand and over a decade became one of the city’s most successful manufacturers. By 2012, its reputation in the healthcare industry attracted the interest of Medline, the largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies. The company was acquired in 2012 and became Medline ReNewal.
Shortly after acquisition, Medline ReNewal shifted the company’s original focus on surgery centers to larger hospital groups and acute care facilities where market demand for medical device reprocessing was rapidly increasing. In three short years, Medline more than doubled its production output. This success also created a problem - the company was running out of room to process, store, and ship its products.
Considering its growth trajectory, Medline needed a long term solution, and fast. Running its operations in 28,000 square feet of multiple leased commercial buildings was becoming unsustainable. “We were sending product to on-site storage containers, covering it with tarps in the parking lot, stacking it down the halls,” says Steve Bettis, VP of ReNewal Operations. “The lack of space was starting to impact product flow and decrease efficiencies.”
Jon Stark at REDI had been working with both Bettis and company president Frank Czajka from the time of acquisition. He knew Czajka wanted to keep operations in Redmond, and that he had been deeply impressed by the dedication and skills of the employees and their love for the region. However, without an available facility for expansion, Czajka was having to consider relocation. For REDI, the focus had swiftly gone from helping the company expand to making sure it would stay.
While other states were competing with incentives and offers, REDI understood that incentives were only part of the solution for Medline. As a fourth generation, family-owned company, Medline holds a long-term view of growth and investment with a strong commitment to community engagement and social responsibility. Above all, the company wanted to make sure that Redmond was a serious partner committed to supporting decades of its growth.
Spearheaded by Stark, REDI launched into action aligning city leadership, state government and local support. From incentives to land sites, Stark and his team worked alongside Medline to develop a plan. After months of collaboration, the company purchased 12 acres in Desert Rise Industrial Park. In July 2017, it finished construction of a 50,000 square foot custom designed facility on three of those acres. Medline also put its community values into practice by investing back into the local economy. Of the $12 million invested in the new building, 95% of the dollars were directly reinvested back into contracts with Central Oregon builders and contractors. Presently operating at 40% capacity in its new facility, the company employs nearly 200 employees with plans for ongoing future expansion.
“REDI was absolutely key to this project. As a company, we believe in long-term strategic growth. That means if we’re going to invest in building facilities and expanding our operations, we want to make sure we’re doing it in a community that is engaged and supportive. Jon and his team showed us they were serious about those values by creating a solution for lasting success.”
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Elizabeth Warren Named in New Lawsuit by Nick Sandmann Claiming Damages For Calling His Face “Punchable”
Just one day after CNN settled a $275 million defamation lawsuit against them for falsely portraying a Covington Catholic High School kid as a racist and a perpetrator of “hatred” toward people of color, Nick Sandmann is now going after high profile congresswoman, Senator Elizabeth Warren, along with Ana Navarro, Maggie Haberman, and Kathy Griffin.
Reza Aslan is the CNN host who first published the now-deleted tweet asking rhetorically, “Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?”
According to a lawsuit provided to PJ Media, “the tweet calling Sandmann’s face ‘punchable’ further spread the false narrative that the Covington Catholic boys had aggressively insulted the Native American man, when that was not the case,” it writes. “The lawsuit, which Barnes provided to PJ Media, would slap Aslan with a minimum of $135,000 in damages.”
False and Defamatory Accusations against the plaintiffs are defamatory per se, as they are libelous on their face without resort to additional facts, and as clearly demonstrated here, [the plaintiffs] were subjected to public hatred, contempt, scorn, obloquy, and shame,” the lawsuit argues.
The lawsuit then lists several “labels” that are now tied to the kid’s image for the rest of his lifetime, including, “racist,” “shameful,” “compared to genocide,” cavemen gestures,” “bullies,” and “be punched in the face.”
It should be noteworthy to mention that the high profile liberal Democrats mentioned in this lawsuit were not the only influential names to spread falsehoods about Sandmann. Highly popular and influential Southern Baptist leader, Beth Moore, also joined the chorus of liberals denouncing him, stating things such as “reeks of the vomit of hell,” and “glee in dehumanizing,” receiving thousands of likes an re-tweets on social media.
It is not yet known if Sandmann will go after Beth Moore for her libelous accusations against Sandmann but if he does decide to do so, it should be noted that many Southern Baptist leaders are known for this kind of behavior.
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Justia Regulation Tracker Agencies And Commissions Securities And Exchange Commission Self-Regulatory Organizations; Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change Relating to Its Payment for Order Flow Pilot Program, 33271-33272 [E7-11551]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change Relating to Its Payment for Order Flow Pilot Program, 33271-33272 [E7-11551]
Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 115 / Friday, June 15, 2007 / Notices additional competition in the market for such products. V. Conclusion It is therefore ordered, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,34 that the proposed rule change (SR–NYSEArca– 2007–37), be and it hereby is, approved on an accelerated basis. For the Commission, by the Division of Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated authority.35 Nancy M. Morris, Secretary. [FR Doc. E7–11552 Filed 6–14–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8010–01–P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION [Release No. 34–55891; File No. SR–Phlx– 2007–39] Self-Regulatory Organizations; Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change Relating to Its Payment for Order Flow Pilot Program Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2 notice is hereby given that on May 18, 2007, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc. (‘‘Phlx’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule change as described in Items I, II, and III below, which Items have been substantially prepared by the Exchange. Phlx has designated this proposal as one establishing or changing a due, fee, or other charge imposed by Phlx under Section 19(b)(3)(A)(ii) of the Act 3 and Rule 19b–4(f)(2) thereunder,4 which renders the proposal effective upon filing with the Commission. The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments on the proposed rule change from interested persons. jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Statement of the Terms of Substance of the Proposed Rule Change The Phlx proposes to extend its payment for order flow pilot program, which is currently in effect until May 27, 2007, for an additional one-year period until May 27, 2008. This proposal is scheduled to expire on the * * * * [EQUITY OPTION] PAYMENT FOR ORDER FLOW FEES* (1) For trades resulting from either Directed or non-Directed Orders that are delivered electronically and executed on the Exchange: Assessed on ROTs, specialists and Directed ROTs on those trades when the specialist unit or Directed ROT elects to participate in the payment for order flow program. * * * (2) No payment for order flow fees will be assessed on trades that are not delivered electronically. QQQQ and options that are trading in the Penny Pilot Program—$0.25 per contract Remaining Equity Options—$0.70 per contract See Appendix A for additional fees. *Assessed on transactions resulting from customer orders and are available to be disbursed by the Exchange according to the instructions of the specialist units/specialists or Directed ROTs to order flow providers who are members or member organizations, who submit, as agent, customer orders to the Exchange or non-members or nonmember organizations who submit, as agent, customer orders to the Exchange through a member or member organization who is acting as agent for those customer orders. The [is proposal] payment for order flow fees [will be in effect for trades settling on or after October 1, 2005 and] will remain in 5 The provisions of Phlx Rule 1080(l) are in effect for a one-year pilot period. The Exchange filed a separate proposed rule change to extend the Rule 1080(l) one-year pilot program for an additional year until May 27, 2008. See Securities Exchange Release No. 55803 (May 23, 2007), 72 FR 30413 (May 31, 2007) (SR–Phlx–2007–37). 34 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2). CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 3 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(ii). 4 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(2). 35 17 19:26 Jun 14, 2007 Summary of Equity Option Charges (p. 3/6) * June 11, 2007. VerDate Aug<31>2005 same date as the one-year pilot program in effect in connection with the provisions of Exchange Rule 1080(l) relating to Directed Orders.5 Other than extending the date of the pilot program for an additional year, no other changes to the Exchange’s current payment for order flow program are being proposed at this time. The Exchange is also proposing to make minor clarifying changes to the Exchange’s Summary of Equity Option and RUT and RMN Charges fee schedule to update the language that appears in a footnote and to clarify the title relating to the Exchange’s payment for order flow fees. Below is the text of the proposed rule change. Proposed deletions are in [brackets]; proposed additions are italicized. Jkt 211001 PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 33271 effect as a pilot program that is scheduled to expire on May 27, 200[7]8. ***Any excess payment for order flow funds billed but not utilized by the specialist or Directed ROT will be carried forward unless the Directed ROT or specialist elects to have those funds rebated to the applicable ROT, Directed ROT or specialist on a pro rata basis, reflected as a credit on the monthly invoices. At the end of each calendar quarter, the Exchange will calculate the amount of excess funds from the previous quarter and subsequently rebate excess funds on a pro-rata basis to the applicable ROT, Directed ROT or specialist who paid into that pool of funds. * * * * * II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change In its filing with the Commission, the Exchange included statements concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change, and discussed any comments it received on the proposed rule change. The text of these statements may be examined at the places specified in Item IV below. Phlx has prepared summaries, set forth in Sections A, B, and C below, of the most significant aspects of such statements. A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Statement of the Purpose of, and Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Change 1. Purpose The Exchange states that the purpose of extending the Exchange’s payment for order flow program for an additional year is to remain competitive with other options exchanges that administer payment for order flow programs.6 Currently, the following payment for order flow fees are in effect at the Exchange: 7 (1) Equity options (other than those options that trade as part of 6 See e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 53969 (June 9, 2006), 71 FR 34973 (June 16, 2006) (SR–CBOE–2006–53); 55265 (February 9, 2007), 72 FR 7697 (February 16, 2007) (SR–CBOE–2007–11); 55271 (February 12, 2007), 72 FR 7699 (February 16, 2007) (SR–ISE–2007–08); and 54152 (July 14, 2006), 71 FR 41488 (July 21, 2006) (SR–ISE–2006– 36). 7 See Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 53841 (May 19, 2006), 71 FR 30461 (May 26, 2006) (SR– Phlx–2006–33); 54297 (August 9, 2006), 71 FR 47280 (August 16, 2006) (SR–Phlx–2006–47); 54485 (September 22, 2006), 71 FR 57017 (September 28, 2006) (SR–Phlx–2006–56); 55290 (February 13, 2007), 72 FR 8051 (February 22, 2007) (SR–Phlx– 2007–05); and 55473 (March 14, 2007), 72 FR 13338 (March 21, 2007) (SR–Phlx–2007–12). E:\FR\FM\15JNN1.SGM 15JNN1 33272 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 115 / Friday, June 15, 2007 / Notices jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES the Exchange’s Penny Pilot Program) 8 and options on the Russell 2000 Index 9 traded under the symbol RUT and options on the one-tenth value Russell 2000 Index traded under the symbol RMN, are all assessed $0.70 per contract; and (2) options that trade as part of the Exchange’s Penny Pilot Program are assessed $0.25 per contract. Trades resulting from either Directed or non-Directed Orders that are delivered electronically over AUTOM 10 and executed on the Exchange are assessed a payment for order flow fee,11 while non-electronically-delivered orders (i.e., represented by a floor broker) are not assessed a payment for order flow fee.12 The purpose of making minor technical changes to the payment for order flow fee section of the Exchange’s Summary of Equity Option and RUT and RMN Charges fee schedule is to delete obsolete words. Additionally, the purpose of deleting the words ‘‘equity option,’’ which appear in front of the payment for order flow fee section is to more clearly reflect that RUT and RMN, although index options, are also 8 Currently, the following option classes, listed by symbol, are traded in the Penny Pilot Program: QQQQ, IWM, SMH, GE, AMD, MSFT, INTC, CAT, WFMI, TXN, A, FLEX, and SUNW. See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 55290 (February 13, 2007), 72 FR 8051 (February 22, 2007) (SR–Phlx– 2007–05). The Penny Pilot Program is scheduled to expire on July 26, 2007. If the Penny Pilot Program is not extended, the Exchange intends to file a separate proposed rule change to make any necessary changes to the payment for order flow pilot dates. 9 Russell 20007 is a trademark and service mark of the Frank Russell Company, used under license. Neither Frank Russell Company’s publication of the Russell Indexes nor its licensing of its trademarks for use in connection with securities or other financial products derived from a Russell Index in any way suggests or implies a representation or opinion by Frank Russell Company as to the attractiveness of investment in any securities or other financial products based upon or derived from any Russell Index. Frank Russell Company is not the issuer of any such securities or other financial products and makes no express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose with respect to any Russell Index or any data included or reflected therein, nor as to results to be obtained by any person or any entity from the use of the Russell Index or any data included or reflected therein. 10 The term ‘‘AUTOM’’ is used interchangeably with the term ‘‘Phlx XL,’’ the Exchange’s fully electronic trading platform for options. The Exchange intends to file a separate proposed rule change to update its rules to reflect that orders are now delivered electronically over Phlx XL. 11 Specialists and Directed ROTs who participate in the Exchange’s payment for order flow program are assessed a payment for order flow fee, in addition to ROTs. Therefore, the payment for order flow fee is assessed, in effect, on equity option transactions between a customer and an ROT, a customer and a Directed ROT, or a customer and a specialist. 12 Electronically-delivered orders do not include orders delivered through the Floor Broker Management System pursuant to Exchange Rule 1063. VerDate Aug<31>2005 19:26 Jun 14, 2007 Jkt 211001 assessed payment for order flow charges.13 This proposal, consistent with the Exchange’s current payment for order flow program, will remain in effect as a pilot program that is scheduled to expire on the same date as the one-year pilot program in effect in connection with the provisions of Exchange Rule 1080(l) relating to Directed Orders.14 2. Statutory Basis The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change to amend its schedule of fees is consistent with Section 6(b) of the Act 15 in general, and Section 6(b)(4) of the Act 16 in particular, in that it is an equitable allocation of reasonable fees and other charges among Exchange members. B. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Statement on Burden on Competition The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will impose any burden on competition not necessary or appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. C. Self-Regulatory Organization’s Statement on Comments on the Proposed Rule Change Received From Members, Participants, or Others No written comments were solicited or received with respect to the proposed rule change. III. Date of Effectiveness of the Proposed Rule Change and Timing for Commission Action The foregoing proposed rule change has been designated as a fee change pursuant to Section 19(b)(3)(A)(ii) of the Act 17 and Rule 19b–4(f)(2) 18 thereunder, because it establishes or changes a due, fee, or other charge imposed by the Exchange. Accordingly, the proposal will take effect upon filing with the Commission. At any time within 60 days of the filing of such proposed rule change the Commission may summarily abrogate such rule change if it appears to the Commission that such action is necessary or appropriate in the public interest, for the protection of investors, or otherwise in furtherance of the purposes of the Act. 13 See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 55473 (March 14, 2007), 72 FR 13338 (March 21, 2007) (SR–Phlx–2007–12) (The Exchange assesses equity option charges, including payment for order flow charges, on options on RUT and RMN). 14 See supra, note 5. 15 15 U.S.C. 78f(b). 16 15 U.S.C. 78f(b)(4). 17 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(ii). 18 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(2). PO 00000 Frm 00082 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 IV. Solicitation of Comments Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and arguments concerning the foregoing, including whether the proposed rule change is consistent with the Act. Comments may be submitted by any of the following methods: Electronic Comments • Use the Commission’s Internet comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ rules/sro.shtml); or • Send an e-mail to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File Number SR–Phlx–2007–39 on the subject line. Paper Comments • Send paper comments in triplicate to Nancy M. Morris, Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, NE., Washington, DC 20549–1090. All submissions should refer to File Number SR–Phlx–2007–39. This file number should be included on the subject line if e-mail is used. To help the Commission process and review your comments more efficiently, please use only one method. The Commission will post all comments on the Commission’s Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/ rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all written statements with respect to the proposed rule change that are filed with the Commission, and all written communications relating to the proposed rule change between the Commission and any person, other than those that may be withheld from the public in accordance with the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for inspection and copying in the Commission’s Public Reference Room. Copies of such filing also will be available for inspection and copying at the principal office of Phlx. All comments received will be posted without change; the Commission does not edit personal identifying information from submissions. You should submit only information that you wish to make available publicly. All submissions should refer to File Number SR–Phlx–2007–39 and should be submitted on or before July 6, 2007. For the Commission, by the Division of Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated authority.19 Nancy M. Morris, Secretary. [FR Doc. E7–11551 Filed 6–14–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 19 17 E:\FR\FM\15JNN1.SGM CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 15JNN1
[Release No. 34-55891; File No. SR-Phlx-2007-39]
Self-Regulatory Organizations; Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc.;
Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change
Relating to Its Payment for Order Flow Pilot Program
on May 18, 2007, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc. (``Phlx'' or
``Exchange'') filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
(``Commission'') the proposed rule change as described in Items I, II,
and III below, which Items have been substantially prepared by the
Exchange. Phlx has designated this proposal as one establishing or
changing a due, fee, or other charge imposed by Phlx under Section
19(b)(3)(A)(ii) of the Act \3\ and Rule 19b-4(f)(2) thereunder,\4\
which renders the proposal effective upon filing with the Commission.
The Commission is publishing this notice to solicit comments on the
proposed rule change from interested persons.
\3\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(ii).
\4\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(2).
The Phlx proposes to extend its payment for order flow pilot
program, which is currently in effect until May 27, 2007, for an
additional one-year period until May 27, 2008. This proposal is
scheduled to expire on the same date as the one-year pilot program in
effect in connection with the provisions of Exchange Rule 1080(l)
relating to Directed Orders.\5\
\5\ The provisions of Phlx Rule 1080(l) are in effect for a one-
year pilot period. The Exchange filed a separate proposed rule
change to extend the Rule 1080(l) one-year pilot program for an
additional year until May 27, 2008. See Securities Exchange Release
No. 55803 (May 23, 2007), 72 FR 30413 (May 31, 2007) (SR-Phlx-2007-
Other than extending the date of the pilot program for an
additional year, no other changes to the Exchange's current payment for
order flow program are being proposed at this time.
The Exchange is also proposing to make minor clarifying changes to
the Exchange's Summary of Equity Option and RUT and RMN Charges fee
schedule to update the language that appears in a footnote and to
clarify the title relating to the Exchange's payment for order flow
Below is the text of the proposed rule change. Proposed deletions
are in [brackets]; proposed additions are italicized.
Summary of Equity Option Charges (p. 3/6)
[EQUITY OPTION] PAYMENT FOR ORDER FLOW FEES*
(1) For trades resulting from either Directed or non-Directed
Orders that are delivered electronically and executed on the Exchange:
Assessed on ROTs, specialists and Directed ROTs on those trades when
the specialist unit or Directed ROT elects to participate in the
payment for order flow program. * * *
(2) No payment for order flow fees will be assessed on trades that
are not delivered electronically.
QQQQ and options that are trading in the Penny Pilot Program--$0.25 per
Remaining Equity Options--$0.70 per contract
See Appendix A for additional fees.
*Assessed on transactions resulting from customer orders and are
available to be disbursed by the Exchange according to the instructions
of the specialist units/specialists or Directed ROTs to order flow
providers who are members or member organizations, who submit, as
agent, customer orders to the Exchange or non-members or non-member
organizations who submit, as agent, customer orders to the Exchange
through a member or member organization who is acting as agent for
those customer orders. The [is proposal] payment for order flow fees
[will be in effect for trades settling on or after October 1, 2005 and]
will remain in effect as a pilot program that is scheduled to expire on
May 27, 200[7]8.
***Any excess payment for order flow funds billed but not utilized
by the specialist or Directed ROT will be carried forward unless the
Directed ROT or specialist elects to have those funds rebated to the
applicable ROT, Directed ROT or specialist on a pro rata basis,
reflected as a credit on the monthly invoices. At the end of each
calendar quarter, the Exchange will calculate the amount of excess
funds from the previous quarter and subsequently rebate excess funds on
a pro-rata basis to the applicable ROT, Directed ROT or specialist who
paid into that pool of funds.
In its filing with the Commission, the Exchange included statements
concerning the purpose of and basis for the proposed rule change, and
Item IV below. Phlx has prepared summaries, set forth in Sections A, B,
and C below, of the most significant aspects of such statements.
The Exchange states that the purpose of extending the Exchange's
payment for order flow program for an additional year is to remain
competitive with other options exchanges that administer payment for
order flow programs.\6\
\6\ See e.g., Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 53969 (June
9, 2006), 71 FR 34973 (June 16, 2006) (SR-CBOE-2006-53); 55265
(February 9, 2007), 72 FR 7697 (February 16, 2007) (SR-CBOE-2007-
11); 55271 (February 12, 2007), 72 FR 7699 (February 16, 2007) (SR-
ISE-2007-08); and 54152 (July 14, 2006), 71 FR 41488 (July 21, 2006)
(SR-ISE-2006-36).
Currently, the following payment for order flow fees are in effect
at the Exchange: \7\ (1) Equity options (other than those options that
trade as part of
the Exchange's Penny Pilot Program) \8\ and options on the Russell
2000[supreg] Index \9\ traded under the symbol RUT and options on the
one-tenth value Russell 2000[supreg] Index traded under the symbol RMN,
are all assessed $0.70 per contract; and (2) options that trade as part
of the Exchange's Penny Pilot Program are assessed $0.25 per contract.
Trades resulting from either Directed or non-Directed Orders that are
delivered electronically over AUTOM \10\ and executed on the Exchange
are assessed a payment for order flow fee,\11\ while non-
electronically-delivered orders (i.e., represented by a floor broker)
are not assessed a payment for order flow fee.\12\
\7\ See Securities Exchange Act Release Nos. 53841 (May 19,
2006), 71 FR 30461 (May 26, 2006) (SR-Phlx-2006-33); 54297 (August
9, 2006), 71 FR 47280 (August 16, 2006) (SR-Phlx-2006-47); 54485
(September 22, 2006), 71 FR 57017 (September 28, 2006) (SR-Phlx-
2006-56); 55290 (February 13, 2007), 72 FR 8051 (February 22, 2007)
(SR-Phlx-2007-05); and 55473 (March 14, 2007), 72 FR 13338 (March
21, 2007) (SR-Phlx-2007-12).
\8\ Currently, the following option classes, listed by symbol,
are traded in the Penny Pilot Program: QQQQ, IWM, SMH, GE, AMD,
MSFT, INTC, CAT, WFMI, TXN, A, FLEX, and SUNW. See Securities
Exchange Act Release No. 55290 (February 13, 2007), 72 FR 8051
(February 22, 2007) (SR-Phlx-2007-05). The Penny Pilot Program is
scheduled to expire on July 26, 2007. If the Penny Pilot Program is
not extended, the Exchange intends to file a separate proposed rule
change to make any necessary changes to the payment for order flow
pilot dates.
\9\ Russell 20007[supreg] is a trademark and service mark of the
Frank Russell Company, used under license. Neither Frank Russell
Company's publication of the Russell Indexes nor its licensing of
its trademarks for use in connection with securities or other
financial products derived from a Russell Index in any way suggests
or implies a representation or opinion by Frank Russell Company as
to the attractiveness of investment in any securities or other
financial products based upon or derived from any Russell Index.
Frank Russell Company is not the issuer of any such securities or
other financial products and makes no express or implied warranties
of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose with
respect to any Russell Index or any data included or reflected
therein, nor as to results to be obtained by any person or any
entity from the use of the Russell Index or any data included or
reflected therein.
\10\ The term ``AUTOM'' is used interchangeably with the term
``Phlx XL,'' the Exchange's fully electronic trading platform for
options. The Exchange intends to file a separate proposed rule
change to update its rules to reflect that orders are now delivered
electronically over Phlx XL.
\11\ Specialists and Directed ROTs who participate in the
Exchange's payment for order flow program are assessed a payment for
order flow fee, in addition to ROTs. Therefore, the payment for
order flow fee is assessed, in effect, on equity option transactions
between a customer and an ROT, a customer and a Directed ROT, or a
customer and a specialist.
\12\ Electronically-delivered orders do not include orders
delivered through the Floor Broker Management System pursuant to
Exchange Rule 1063.
The purpose of making minor technical changes to the payment for
order flow fee section of the Exchange's Summary of Equity Option and
RUT and RMN Charges fee schedule is to delete obsolete words.
Additionally, the purpose of deleting the words ``equity option,''
which appear in front of the payment for order flow fee section is to
more clearly reflect that RUT and RMN, although index options, are also
assessed payment for order flow charges.\13\
\13\ See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 55473 (March 14,
2007), 72 FR 13338 (March 21, 2007) (SR-Phlx-2007-12) (The Exchange
assesses equity option charges, including payment for order flow
charges, on options on RUT and RMN).
This proposal, consistent with the Exchange's current payment for
order flow program, will remain in effect as a pilot program that is
relating to Directed Orders.\14\
\14\ See supra, note 5.
The Exchange believes that the proposed rule change to amend its
schedule of fees is consistent with Section 6(b) of the Act \15\ in
general, and Section 6(b)(4) of the Act \16\ in particular, in that it
is an equitable allocation of reasonable fees and other charges among
Exchange members.
\15\ 15 U.S.C. 78f(b).
The Exchange does not believe that the proposed rule change will
impose any burden on competition not necessary or appropriate in
furtherance of the purposes of the Act.
No written comments were solicited or received with respect to the
proposed rule change.
The foregoing proposed rule change has been designated as a fee
change pursuant to Section 19(b)(3)(A)(ii) of the Act \17\ and Rule
19b-4(f)(2) \18\ thereunder, because it establishes or changes a due,
fee, or other charge imposed by the Exchange. Accordingly, the proposal
will take effect upon filing with the Commission. At any time within 60
days of the filing of such proposed rule change the Commission may
summarily abrogate such rule change if it appears to the Commission
that such action is necessary or appropriate in the public interest,
for the protection of investors, or otherwise in furtherance of the
purposes of the Act.
\17\ 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(3)(A)(ii).
\18\ 17 CFR 240.19b-4(f)(2).
Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and
Use the Commission's Internet comment form (http://
www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml); or
Send an e-mail to rule-comments@sec.gov. Please include
File Number SR-Phlx-2007-39 on the subject line.
Send paper comments in triplicate to Nancy M. Morris,
Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, NE.,
All submissions should refer to File Number SR-Phlx-2007-39. This file
number should be included on the subject line if e-mail is used. To
the Commission's Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/rules/
sro.shtml). Copies of the submission, all subsequent amendments, all
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be available for inspection and
copying in the Commission's Public Reference Room. Copies of such
filing also will be available for inspection and copying at the
principal office of Phlx. All comments received will be posted without
change; the Commission does not edit personal identifying information
from submissions. You should submit only information that you wish to
make available publicly. All submissions should refer to File Number
SR-Phlx-2007-39 and should be submitted on or before July 6, 2007.
For the Commission, by the Division of Market Regulation,
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Justia Regulation Tracker Agencies And Commissions Securities And Exchange Commission Sunshine Act Meeting, 34494 [E7-12152]
Sunshine Act Meeting, 34494 [E7-12152]
Download as PDF rwilkins on PROD1PC63 with NOTICES 34494 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 120 / Friday, June 22, 2007 / Notices applicable law and governing Qualified Plan documents. 7. As long as the 1940 Act requires pass-through voting privileges to be provided to Variable Contract owners, an Adviser and any General Account will vote their respective Shares in the same proportion as all variable contract owners having voting rights with respect to that Insurance Fund or Portfolio; provided, however, that an Adviser or any General Account shall vote its Shares in such other manner as may be required by the Commission or its staff. 8. Each Insurance Fund will comply with all provisions of the 1940 Act requiring voting by shareholders, which, for these purposes, shall be the persons having a voting interest in the Shares of the respective Portfolio, and, in particular, the Insurance Fund will either provide for annual meetings (except to the extent that the Commission may interpret Section 16 of the 1940 Act not to require such meetings) or comply with Section 16(c) of the 1940 Act (although each Insurance Fund is not, or will not be, one of those trusts of the type described in Section 16(c) of the 1940 Act), as well as with Section 16(a) of the 1940 Act and, if and when applicable, Section 16(b) of the 1940 Act. Further, each Insurance Fund will act in accordance with the Commission’s interpretations of the requirements of Section 16(a) with respect to periodic elections of directors/trustees and with whatever rules the Commission may promulgate thereto. 9. An Insurance Fund will make its Shares available to a Separate Account to fund a Variable Contract offering interests based on those Shares and/or to a Qualified Plan at or about the same time it accepts any seed capital from an Adviser or General Account of a Participating Insurance Company. 10. Each Insurance Fund has notified, or will notify, all Participants that Separate Account prospectus disclosure or Qualified Plan prospectuses or other Qualified Plan disclosure documents regarding potential risks of mixed and shared funding may be appropriate. Each Insurance Fund will disclose in its prospectus that: (a) Shares of the Insurance Fund may be offered to Separate Accounts funding both variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies and, if applicable, to Qualified Plans; (b) due to differences in tax treatment and other considerations, the interests of various contract owners participating in the Insurance Fund and the interests of Qualified Plans investing in the Insurance Fund, if applicable, may VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:51 Jun 21, 2007 Jkt 211001 conflict; and (c) the Insurance Fund’s Board will monitor events in order to identify the existence of any material irreconcilable conflicts and to determine what action, if any, should be taken in response to any such conflict. 11. If and to the extent that Rule 6e– 2 and Rule 6e–3(T) under the 1940 Act are amended, or proposed Rule 6e–3 under the 1940 Act is adopted, to provide exemptive relief from any provision of the 1940 Act, or the rules promulgated thereunder, with respect to mixed or shared funding, on terms and conditions materially different from any exemptions granted in the order requested in the Application, then each Insurance Fund and/or Participating Insurance Companies, as appropriate, shall take such steps as may be necessary to comply with Rules 6e–2 or 6e–3(T), or Rule 6e–3, as such rules are applicable. 12. Each Participant, at least annually, will submit to the Board such reports, materials or data as the Board reasonably may request so that the directors/trustees of the Board may fully carry out the obligations imposed upon the Board by the conditions contained in the Application. Such reports, materials and data will be submitted more frequently if deemed appropriate by the Board. The obligations of the Participants to provide these reports, materials and data to the Board, when it so reasonably requests, will be a contractual obligation of all Participants under their Participation Agreements with the relevant Insurance Fund. 13. All reports of potential or existing conflicts received by the Board, and all Board action with regard to determining the existence of a conflict, notifying Participants of a conflict and determining whether any proposed action adequately remedies a conflict, will be properly recorded in the minutes of the Board or other appropriate records, and such minutes or other records shall be made available to the Commission upon request. 14. Each Insurance Fund will not accept a purchase order from a Qualified Plan if such purchase would make the Qualified Plan an owner of 10 percent or more of the assets of any Portfolio of an Insurance Fund unless the Trustee for such Qualified Plan executes an agreement with the Insurance Fund governing participation in the Insurance Fund that includes the conditions set forth herein to the extent applicable. A Trustee for a Qualified Plan will execute an application containing an acknowledgement of this condition at the time of its initial purchase of Shares. PO 00000 Frm 00069 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Conclusions Applicants submit that, for the reasons summarized above and to the extent necessary or appropriate to provide for the transactions described herein, the requested exemptions from Sections 9(a), 13(a), 15(a), and 15(b) of the 1940 Act and Rules 6e–2(b)(15) and 6e–3(T)(b)(15) thereunder, in accordance with the standards of Section 6(c) of the 1940 Act, are in the public interest and consistent with the protection of investors and the purposes fairly intended by the policy and provisions of the 1940 Act. For the Commission, by the Division of Investment Management, pursuant to delegated authority. Florence E. Harmon, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. E7–12077 Filed 6–21–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8010–01–P SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Sunshine Act Meeting FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: [72 FR 33545, June 18, 2007]. Open meeting. 100 F Street, NE., Auditorium, LL–002, Washington, DC. STATUS: PLACE: DATE AND TIME OF PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED MEETING: Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Additional Item. The following matter will also be considered during the 10 a.m. Open Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, June 20, 2007: The Commission will consider whether to adopt amendments to Rule 105 of Regulation M that would further safeguard the integrity of the capital raising process and protect issuers from manipulative activity that can reduce issuers’ offering proceeds and dilute security holder value. Commissioner Atkins, as duty officer, determined that no earlier notice thereof was possible. At times, changes in Commission priorities require alterations in the scheduling of meeting items. For further information and to ascertain what, if any, matters have been added, deleted or postponed, please contact the Office of the Secretary at (202) 551–5400. CHANGE IN THE MEETING: Dated: June 19, 2007. Nancy M. Morris, Secretary. [FR Doc. 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Sunshine Act Meeting
Federal Register Citation of Previous Announcement: [72 FR 33545, June
18, 2007].
Status: Open meeting.
Place: 100 F Street, NE., Auditorium, LL-002, Washington, DC.
Date and Time of Previously Announced Meeting: Wednesday, June 20,
Change in the Meeting: Additional Item.
The following matter will also be considered during the 10 a.m.
Open Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, June 20, 2007:
The Commission will consider whether to adopt amendments to Rule
105 of Regulation M that would further safeguard the integrity of the
capital raising process and protect issuers from manipulative activity
that can reduce issuers' offering proceeds and dilute security holder
Commissioner Atkins, as duty officer, determined that no earlier
notice thereof was possible.
the scheduling of meeting items. For further information and to
ascertain what, if any, matters have been added, deleted or postponed,
please contact the Office of the Secretary at (202) 551-5400.
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Mars Orbiter Mission
Getting Into Martian Orbit! (Review)
September 25, 2014 Robin Mathew Rajan Leave a comment
Mars Orbiter Mission aka Mangalyaan, successfully made into the Mars orbit! Kudos to all people who streamlined this project!
The spacecraft has been unofficially called since as Mangalyaan (मंगलयान). The term Mangalyaan is actually referred as ‘Mars Vehicle’. Mangal (मंगल) means Mars and Yaan (यान) means Vehicle.
Mangalyaan Quick Timeline
With the success of Mars mission, India became the first country in Asia and also the first country ever in the world to place a spacecraft into Mars orbit in its very first attempt. That’s a huge record breaking success. Along with it, ISRO became the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the European Space Agency. Also to noted that our mission is the cheapest Mars mission compared to other successful and failed global missions. No space for poverty vs. scientific achievements here.
Quotes from Times of India
At approximately Rs 450 crore or around $75 million, the cost of the mission was only about one-tenth of the $670 million Nasa spent on its Maven explorer.
European space agency’s 2003 Mars express orbiter had cost about $386 million. Another exploration mission by Japanese, which failed to enter the Red Planet’s orbit, had cost more than double than that of Mangalyaan. Russia’s Phobos-Grunt which failed to leave the earth’s orbit cost about $117 million.
India has been particularly proud that MOM was developed with homegrown technology.
Quotes from BBC
Many, however, say this bid to reach Mars is a “delusional dream” of India seeking super-power status since 400 million Indians still live without electricity and 600 million people still do not have access to toilets.
However, in real terms, the Mangalyaan has cost India just about four rupees (seven cents; four pence) per person – which is chicken feed for a country of 1.2 billion people.
Another quote from BBC
Though India says its Mars mission is the cheapest inter-planetary mission ever to have been undertaken in half a century of space exploration, some are questioning its scientific purpose.
“This is a highly suboptimal mission with limited scientific objectives,” says D Raghunandan of Delhi Science Forum, a think tank.
Others like economist-activist Jean Dreze have said the mission “seems to be part of the Indian elite’s delusional quest for superpower status”.
Rejecting such talk, a top government official says: “We have heard these arguments since the 1960s, about India being a poor country not needing or affording a space programme.
“If we can’t dare to dream big it would leave us as hewers of wood and drawers of water! India is today too big to be just living on the fringes of high technology.”
We had a few technical challenges though. The hardest one was the use of PSLV to launch the spacecraft instead of GSLV. PSLV is a Polar launch vehicle and GSLV is Geo-Stationary launch vehicle. Technically, Polar launch vehicles are not designed to launch interplanetary space missions. The world uses Geo-Stationary launch vehicles for that purpose. But the real hard nut was the trust bit. PSLV has proven its worthiness in many successful missions, while GSLV had a very few successful missions.
Because of the use of PSLV, we had to take few series of orbit raising maneuvers instead of placing the spacecraft directly into Trans-Martian Trajectory (direct injection). That’s the reason why NASA’s MAVEN reached Mars first even though it was launched some days after the launch of Mangalyaan. But many are largely ignorant about this fact and they use this information to criticize the side-step of India’s first inter-planetary mission. Sad!
But hey, that’s ok. After all, we did reached Mars in our first attempt, didn’t we? 😉
Getting into Martian Orbit [infographic]
One suggestion to ISRO
Almost all NASA materials are in the public domain. NASA materials are not protected by copyright unless noted! Refer: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/policies.html#Guidelines
I would suggest adapting the same policy for ISRO too. That’s one area where ISRO still lacks. Refer: http://www.isro.org/scripts/termsofuse.aspx
If ISRO officials are reading this article, please consider my suggestion to remove the copyrights.
If you can’t read the Devanagari (देवनागरी) Hindi (हिन्दी) scripts used in this article, please turn on Unicode (UTF-8) support in your web browser or install supported fonts.
Further reading: http://www.isro.org/mars/updates.aspx, http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/09/draft-indias-mom-spacecraft-arrive-mars/
Corrections and suggestions to this article are most welcome.
Copyright: Text is licensed to Robin Mathew Rajan under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.
For those who don’t know, the ‘Creative Commons’ license doesn’t forbid copying. It actually allows anyone to copy the licensed text. But with only one condition! Proper source must be specified with the copied text. That is, if someone copied some text which is licensed under the Creative Commons, he/she must attribute/acknowledge the original source and author of that text.
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The Roman Show
ROMAN SHOW
Author Archives: romandh
Article author romandh
Rodolfo Roman is the host and director of The Roman Show. He is also a ring announcer for international mixed martial arts promotion Titan FC airing on UFC Fight Pass and a freelance writer for The Miami Herald.
The Roman Show covers Wrestlemania 28 (Images)
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Wednesday of Wrestlemania 28 week in Miami The Roman Show was in full force during the Wednesday of Wrestlemania 28 week. We attended the Wrestlemania 28 press conference at the Eden Roc in Miami Beach, where the superstars of the WWE universe spoke to the press. The most anticipated match in WWE history between The…
The Roman Show Wrestlemania 28 Coverage
The Roman Show will be in full force covering Wrestlemania week all over South Florida. Our crew is working diligently to provide you with the most of this significant time for pro wrestling fans. Keep it tuned to our blogtalkradio link: www.blogtalkradio.com/rodolforoman, our Youtube channel: rroman0201, twitter: @romandh and our website. Also, we recommend visiting…
The Roman Show 3-27-12
The Roman Show welcomes Kamala Jr. who said his father, Kamala, might be losing his right leg. Last year, Kamala had his left leg amputated due to complications of diabetes and high blood pressure. Also, JB Cool, Andy Powers and Aski called in to the show. Listen to internet radio with rodolforoman on Blog Talk…
MMABy romandh March 27, 2012 Leave a comment
With just a few days left before Wrestlemania 28, The Roman Show welcomes Stevie Richards, Shockwave and Tommy Vandal. Listen to internet radio with rodolforoman on Blog Talk Radio
UFC former champ Rashad Evans on The Roman Show
Interviews, MMA, UncategorizedBy romandh March 22, 2012 Leave a comment
Randall Villafañe of El Octagono.com contributed to The Roman Show with an exclusive interview with former UFC champion Rashad Evans. Hear what he has to say in regards to his upcoming fight against UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones.
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Chutzpah finished 16th overall for Division 2 second last year. Owner, Bruce Taylor, makes an effort to compete in major races out of Sydney, as well as competing in Melbourne with his two yachts – this Caprice 40 and a Sydney 38. It paid when this Chutzpah won the 2018 Noakes Sydney Gold Coast race after the Victorian skippered it to eighth overall and third in Division 2 of the 2017 Rolex Sydney Hobart. He finished second in Division 2 in 2016, after placing 18th overall in the 2015 race, following a heart-breaking second to Wild Rose by a little under 39 minutes in 2014 – but he did win Division 2. The Caprice 40’s other best Hobart results were fourth in 2007 and fifth in 2013.
With various Chutzpahs, Taylor’s other best results were second overall in 1990 and second in IMS Division 3 in 1994 (371 boats raced), sixth overall in 2001. Since 1986, he has owned six Chutzpahs, clocking up 33 straight Hobarts and scoring divisional places in the majority. Taylor and son Drew is the only father/son combination in history to sail 25 plus Hobarts together and are not likely to ever be superceded. The small tight-knit crew can boast over 220 Hobarts between them and many would love to see them win ‘the Hobart’.
Yacht Name Chutzpah
Sail Number R33
Owner Bruce Taylor
Skipper Bruce Taylor (38)
Navigator Kingsley Piesse (36)
Crew A Taylor (26), D Watson (1), G Gourley (32), I Taylor (18), L Attersall (3), P Sandles (18), P Fletcher (32), J Permezel (32), D Taylor (27)
State VIC
Club RYCV
Type Caprice 40
Designer Reichel Pugh
Builder Hart Marine
Construction Carbon/GRP
LOA 12.35
Beam 3.787
Draft 2.68
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Corinthian - IRC 6
Filepro is best known as Cuckoos Nest when originally owned by Nigel Holman. With the designer David Lyons aboard, Holman won one of the toughest Sydney-Hobarts 1993 (under IMS, Wild Rose co-won under IOR), the year she was launched. She also finished second over the line to the 47ft Ninety Seven; only 38 from 104 starters finished. She placed 20th in the 1998 race when known as Rapscallion-Team Syntegra. Other Sydney Hobart results include 61st in the 50th race in 1994, while she retired in 1997.
Tasmanian Craig King bought and renamed the boat Interim to finish 12th for a Division B win in the 1999 Sydney Hobart; placed 10th in 2000, 14th in 2003 and 12th in 2004. Her latest owner, Tim Gadsby, races Filepro locally with a syndicate from Bellerive Yacht Club. The crew for Hobart is a core group that have sailed together for over 25 years, including competing in the 48th and 50th Hobarts on the Farr 1104, Invincible, and are joined by other local yachties. The boat has recently undergone a restoration in preparation, and in an effort to present the boat in showroom condition for the 75th race.
Yacht Name Filepro
Sail Number A22
Owner Tim Gadsby
Skipper Tim Gladsby (2)
Navigator Matthew Denholm (2)
Crew A Grant, G Watkins (2), N Corkhill, S Speirs, S Desmarchelier (5), C Thorpe, T Behrens, D Watkins (1)
State TAS
Club BYC
Type Lyons 40
Designer David Lyons
Builder Rennie Craft
LOA 12.1
Beam 3.7
Draft 2.6
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Mr. Hamilton, a private investor and contrarian analyst, publishes Zeal Intelligence, an in-depth monthly strategic and tactical analysis of markets, geopolitics, economics, finance, and investing…
Gold Stock Valuations
By Adam Hamilton - May 06, 2004, 12:00 AM CDT
The last few years have probably been the most educational and eye-opening for investors in the past seven decades. The spectacular rise, ferocious crash, and devastating bust in general equities have blessed us with rare front-row seats to witness timeless financial-market truths in action, lifted right out of dusty old history tomes.
One of the greatest lessons learned from the bubble is that valuation is everything over the long-term. Nothing is more important. If long-term investors buy when stock valuations are historically high, they are virtually guaranteed to lose money on their investments, period.
The wisdom of buying at low valuations and selling at high valuations forms the very foundational basis of contrarian investing. Valuation Theory has been extensively observed and tested for centuries and is the most ironclad and rock-solid long-term law of the financial markets. Those who ignore it do so only at their own peril.
While the Great Bear of recent years has gradually taught general investors that valuations matter, contrarians have known it all along. Interestingly however, some of these same contrarians who wouldn't be caught dead buying companies like General Electric and Microsoft at 30x+ earnings are buying gold stocks. Unfortunately most gold stocks themselves currently sport very high valuations, presenting a quandary for contrarians.
If market history irrefutably teaches that buying at high valuations is a fool's game, then why are contrarians willing to buy gold stocks trading at 50x to well over 100x earnings? Are the gold-stock owning contrarians being played for fools? Are gold stocks themselves somehow exempt from the timeless laws of valuation?
As a gold-stock owning contrarian myself, I don't think contrarians buying gold stocks are degenerating into starry-eyed slack-jawed conventional investors willing to buy at any price. At the same time, I am certain that gold stocks are not exempt from the ironclad financial-market laws of valuation.
So can a gold stock trading at a conventional bubble valuation above 28x earnings actually be a good contrarian investment? Yes! This certainly sounds like a glaring contradiction at first, but the magic of the commodities markets makes it possible. To understand why, we have to first contrast conventional and commodities-based businesses.
In any business, a company sells its product for a profit. The company can increase its profits by raising the price of its product, increasing the sales volume of its product, or by lowering the cost of its product. In today's brutally competitive global economy, often the only way that most mature companies can grow their profits is by lowering their costs.
For a conventional business, raising prices is a very difficult proposition. The higher a product is priced, the more competition it draws as other companies around the world seek to carve out a piece of the profits pie. For example, LCD televisions are expensive now, but their profit margins are so large that high-tech companies all over Asia are jumping into the game to manufacture LCD TVs. As these new factories come online, LCD TV prices and profits will plunge dramatically in the next couple years.
Increasing sales volume is also very challenging, as higher sales in mature industries primarily come from cannibalizing market share away from other companies. For example, there is a finite market for new computers. If Dell continues to increase its market share, other companies will lose. Every marginal computer that Dell sells will be one less for HP or Gateway to sell. Dell's impressive growth is carved directly out of its competitors' profits.
Thus lowering costs is often the only viable option to grow profits in mature industries. Lowering costs is the primary driver behind outsourcing. If your company is manufacturing anything in the States, and paying high American wages, it is just impossible to compete with a factory in Asia paying Asian wages. Lowering costs can only go so far though, as the cost of a product will never go to zero no matter how cheap labor and materials become in some far-off corner of the world.
Because it is so difficult for big mature companies in conventional businesses to grow their profits, high valuations are seldom justified. A company trading at 30x earnings today will take a whopping 30 years to earn back the price investors paid for it if its profits do not grow. And since it is so difficult to raise prices or increase sales in mature industries, and since cost cutting can only go so far, earnings growth in large companies is rarely high enough to justify stellar valuations.
Now most of the time, commodities-based businesses feel these same pressures. They have no control over their selling prices since the free markets set commodities prices. They constantly strive to lower their costs of production by becoming more efficient. And they slowly grow their profits by increasing their sales through higher production. But commodities producers have one key advantage that blows normal companies out of the water.
While the prices of normal products like LCD TVs and computers are never likely to enter a bull market and go significantly higher, commodities prices do witness periodic bull markets. The net effect of these bull markets on the profits of commodity-producing companies is nothing short of phenomenal. Commodities bulls enable profit growth in mature companies that is utterly breathtaking, far beyond anything else witnessed in the conventional markets!
Gold-mining companies are the perfect example of this amazing profits leverage inherent in commodities companies.
In normal stable gold-price environments, gold miners face the same pressures as conventional businesses. Prices are out of their control, they can only cut costs so far, and most profits growth comes out of increased production. Increasing production means bringing new mines online, a capital-intensive and slow process that takes years to complete.
Thus, if the gold price is flat and not expected to rise in the future, buying gold stocks at bubble valuations over 28x earnings is as foolish as buying tech stocks at bubble valuations. There is no way that earnings will grow fast enough to justify excessive valuations so gold-stock prices are doomed to collapse to return their valuations to historical norms.
A bull market in gold, however, changes everything!
In a bull market, gold producers receive a windfall as the price they receive for their product climbs. This fantastic event is something almost never witnessed in conventional mature non-commodities-producing businesses. As the gold price rises and increases gold miners' profit margins, both their production costs and production levels remain roughly the same. The net result is profits multiplying fast enough to defy imagination.
Our first graph this week attempts to illustrate this phenomenon. It plots the profits per ounce earned by a gold-mining company as the gold price climbs higher. For this example we are assuming a cost of production of $400 per ounce. The rising gold price is shown on the horizontal axis and the profits per ounce earned on $400-cost gold are shown by the black line on the left axis.
The rainbow-colored lines, slaved to the right axis, illustrate the ratio of the increase in the gold miner's profits to the increase in the price of gold itself, at different production costs. A ratio of 2x, for example, means that a gold miner's operating profits are growing at twice the percentage rate as the increase in the price of gold itself. Since gold is currently near $400 today, $400 is our baseline for gold percentage gains in this graph.
Now this graph looks a bit odd, like some child went wild with crayons, but it is easy to understand and very important. If you can grasp these key concepts, you will be able to understand why contrarians are willing to buy gold stocks at high valuations in a gold bull and still earn enormous profits on their investments.
In this example, our mining company can chisel gold out of the bowels of the Earth at an average cost of $400 per ounce. These costs include the heavy equipment necessary to mine, the labor to get to the gold, the fuel and supplies, the depreciation of the enormous up-front capital investments to sink the shafts, all the administrative salaries, basically all the costs involved in running a gold-mining operation. Gold mining sure isn't cheap or easy!
With a $400 cost, our company isn't doing well today with gold trading under $400. It is operating at a loss. If we expected $400 gold to persist into the foreseeable future, then investing in this company would be a foolish decision. There is no sense buying any stock only able to sell its product at or below cost. But if the gold price is expected to march higher in a gold bull, then this $400-cost company is an ideal investment.
Once the gold bull pushes the gold price to $425, our company is suddenly able to earn a $25 per ounce profit. It is not much, and depending upon the company's share price it may have a very high price-to-earnings ratio at $425 gold. Yet, even if it is trading at 100x earnings, this is right where contrarian investors want to buy it, when it starts showing profits in an ongoing gold bull.
Once gold gets to $450, our miner has now doubled its profits per ounce with zero additional effort. Its costs are the same, its production is the same, but the free markets are generously enabling it to sell its product at a higher price. While gold itself is only up 12.5% from $400, our miner's profits have doubled to $50 per ounce mined as gold went from $425 to $450. The profits leverage of an unhedged gold miner to the price of gold is simply magnificent!
The red line above, tied to the right axis, illustrates the enormous profits leverage for a company able to mine gold at $400 per ounce. Point 1, the first white circle above, shows the profits leverage curve at the $450 level we just discussed. Gold is up 12.5% from $400, but our miner's profits are up 100%. This 100% increase in profits divided by the 12.5% increase in gold yields a profits leverage ratio of 8x at this point. Our miner's profits are soaring at 8x the rate of the price of gold!
And it gets even better as gold keeps meandering higher in its bull market. At $500 gold, our company is able to sell every ounce of gold it pulls at a $100 profit. While gold is up 25% from $400, our miner's profits are up 300% from the $425 gold days when it was just squeaking by. A 300% profits increase divided by a 25% gold increase yields a profits leverage ratio of 12x, labeled as Point 2 in the graph above.
Since the profits leverage ratio multiplies the fastest right after a gold miner becomes profitable, due to the easy percentage gains from small numbers, this ratio gradually moderates at a higher gold price. It is still pretty extraordinary however!
Point 3 on the red curve above is noted at $600 gold. At this point the gold bull has pushed gold 50% higher than it was at $400, yet our miner's profits have increased to $200 per ounce, or 8x as high as they were at $425. This 700% increase in profits yields a profits leverage ratio of 14x, very impressive for a mere 50% increase in the gold price!
The red profits leverage line is plotted based on a $400 cost of production, but five other higher costs are drawn above in different colors. These illustrate the profits leverage multipliers of a higher-cost gold miner compared to the same percentage increase in gold from $400. We added these lines because it is really important to point out that this leverage exists throughout the whole spectrum of a gold bull, not just the early years when the gold price first exceeds production costs.
It is interesting, however, that the slope of subsequent profits leverage curves moderate. A gold company producing gold at $500 per ounce has a smaller, but still enormous, profits leverage multiplier compared to a gold company producing gold for $425 per ounce. While this multiplier is highest for companies just moving into profitability, it certainly does not disappear later on at higher gold prices and costs of production.
Amazingly, a single company can even witness its profits leverage soar on multiple curves throughout a gold bull, multiplying its profits even more dramatically. This is due to the peculiar nature of gold-bearing ore bodies. At one part of a mine, gold may be economically mineable at $400. As soon as gold heads north of $400 and the gold company believes it will stay higher, they can start mining this gold at $400 per ounce and watch their profits head up the red curve.
But at this very same mine, the other end of this ore body may have gold that costs $450 to mine. Naturally it is silly to mine gold for $450 when the gold price is $400, so the mining company does nothing. But once gold crosses $450 and heads higher suddenly a company can add additional production at $450 that was previously uneconomical. This extra production at $450 rides the yellow curve higher and adds to a company's overall profits leverage.
Between the powerful profits leverage curves as gold rises, the ability to bring on new production as rising prices make previously uneconomical ore bodies profitable, and the compounding nature of these subsequent leverage curves, the ultimate profits growth in gold miners during gold bulls can be staggering.
During a gold bull a gold miner's selling prices rise, its costs remain stable, and its production either remains stable or expands as well if it can mine previously unprofitable ore. The net result is profits that literally explode higher in even the most mature and largest of the unhedged mining companies.
While most mature companies in conventional industries have zero hopes of seeing their profits multiply by 10x or more in the space of a few short years, such events are common for gold miners during a major bull market in gold. This immense profits leverage rapidly nullifies extreme valuations in gold stocks. A contrarian can buy a gold stock trading at 100x earnings in the early stages of a gold bull, watch his stock price soar, and still end up with a vastly higher stock at a far lower P/E ratio.
While this concept is pretty simple, it is still difficult for a lot of hardcore contrarians to swallow. The idea of buying anything at stellar valuations is so foreign to the whole realm of contrarian thought that it just gives some contrarians a nasty headache. To prove that this theory actually works in the real world, however, all we have to do is look at Newmont Mining in this gold bull to date.
Newmont (NEM) is the General Electric of the gold-stock world. It is the world's best and biggest unhedged gold miner. NEM utterly dominates the blue-chip gold-stock indices, accounting for 27% of the market capitalization of the XAU and 16% of the HUI. This monster, also listed in the venerable S&P 500, expects to mine a phenomenal 7m+ ounces of gold in 2004.
I have long been a fan of Newmont, first recommending it to my clients as a long-term investment in early 2002. It remains an anchor in our long-term gold-stock portfolio today. As outlined in the latest issue of our Zeal Intelligence newsletter for our subscribers, I am also now recommending specific call options on NEM as I expect it to soar higher in the next major gold upleg.
As this second graph shows, even the largest unhedged gold mining companies like Newmont are witnessing soaring profits and plummeting valuations in this young gold bull. The blue line tracks the daily stock price of NEM since 2000, when the bull market in gold stocks began. The red and yellow lines tied to the right axis show monthly data, highlighting NEM's collapsing P/E ratio and its soaring market capitalization.
When can a contrarian buy an elite stock in a mature industry trading at 160x earnings, earn huge profits during a Great Bear market, and still be holding the stock today at far lower valuations? In a bull market in gold! Long live the commodities!
Just as the abstract gold-stock profits leverage discussion above predicts, as gold marches higher the valuations on gold stocks collapse. Gold behemoth Newmont soared from around $13 in late 2000 to $50 late last year, a magnificent 285% gain during the worst stock market environment since the Great Depression. Investors in Newmont were richly rewarded.
Yet, way back in late 2000 and early 2001 when NEM and gold stocks were bottoming, the valuations on these stocks looked almost as outrageous as the NASDAQ tech bubble! The red line above highlights NEM's P/E. The best time to buy, amazingly enough, was when NEM was trading at the ridiculous level of 130x to 160x its meager gold-bottom earnings!
At the time, gold was in the process of bottoming and was approaching $250 in early 2001. Needless to say, it was very difficult for gold miners to earn profits in this brutal environment. They either had tiny profits which made their valuations look huge, or they actually lost money. In NEM's case, it did both. While it had minuscule profits in late 2000, the 18-month gap above with no red data highlights a period of time when NEM was losing money and therefore had no P/E ratio.
Yet, as the gold price marched higher, gradually NEM's profits leverage multiplier kicked in. Even though its stock price was relentlessly rising, its valuations started to fall. By mid-2002, its earnings were back and its P/E was cut in half even though its stock price was twice as high as the late 2000 bottoming days. Of course 80x earnings was still obnoxiously high, but contrarians knew that as the gold bull powered higher NEM's earnings would only balloon ever larger.
As its valuations fell for most of 2003 and 2004 while its stock soared, today NEM is trading a bit above 30x earnings. Yes, this is still overvalued from a classic contrarian standpoint, but as the gold bull continues NEM's earnings will grow rapidly right along with it. Almost regardless of how high its stock price trades, its P/E is likely to continue to shrink as its earnings multiply.
In the real world of today's gold bull, the world's biggest and best unhedged miner witnessed a massive 285% bull-to-date gain in its stock price. Its market capitalization, the yellow line, soared by 702% from just over $2b in 2000 to over $18b in 2004. Yet, its valuation collapsed by 81% from trading at 160x earnings when the gold bull began to just over 30x earnings today. Wow.
These amazing results are due to the profits leverage multiplier of gold mines in a gold bull market. And if a massive market leader like Newmont can witness this phenomenon even at its vast scale, imagine how much more powerful the leverage is for smaller gold-mining companies. Generally the larger a company the more difficult it is for the markets to bid its share price higher, so NEM really is the most conservative example possible to illustrate the valuation wonders inherent in a major gold bull.
So, during a gold bull market, contrarians can buy gold stocks at valuations that seem irrational and still earn huge profits. A rising gold price grows profits far faster than most gold-stock prices can rise, shrinking valuations. Because of the powerful nature of the gold-miner profits leverage multiplier, contrarians can even ignore gold-stock valuations altogether if the gold price is expected to head significantly higher, like today.
The primary caveat I have regarding gold stocks is to please realize that this profits leverage applies only to unhedged miners. Avoid hedgers in a gold bull like the black death!
Hedged miners have already locked in a future selling price for their gold, so even if the gold bull continues higher they cannot sell their gold at higher prices. Their contractual obligations keep them from participating in the gold bull and their share prices suffer accordingly. If you would like more background on this crucial distinction, please check out my "Gold Stock Investing 101" essay of a couple years ago.
As I have advised my subscribers in recent newsletters, high gold-stock valuations are no reason to avoid buying unhedged gold stocks during a gold bull. Gold miner profits usually multiply far faster than gold share prices and valuations are reduced over time even as stocks power higher.
In the latest May issue of our monthly Zeal Intelligence newsletter just published, I even outlined my six favorite gold and silver stocks for the next major upleg in gold. Subscribe today or be left behind when the current fantastic buying opportunities evaporate.
As contrarians have always known, valuations do matter. But in the peculiar situation of a major commodities bull market, P/Es of commodities-producing companies plummet as their profits soar. High valuations are very common at major commodities bottoms since the producing companies are barely getting by, but once commodities prices recover their earnings and stock prices soar at the very same time their valuations collapse.
Don't let high valuations scare you away from investing in commodities producers during a commodities bull.
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11/21/2019 01:19:00 AM Earth Alliance, Geopolitics, GESARA, Intel, Judy Byington, Restored Republic, RV/GCR
Restored Republic via a GCR Report as of Nov. 21 2019
Compiled 21 Nov. 2019 12:01 am EDT by Judy Byington, MSW, LCSW, Therapist ret, Journalist, Author, “Twenty Two Faces: inside the extraordinary life of Jenny Hill and her twenty two multiple personalities” – a child who was repeatedly raped, tortured and then forced to view a Child Sacrifice done by a Satanic Coven under direction of a “Dr. Green” – a CIA Operative well known to thousands of Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivors across the US, Canada, UK and Australia as their torturer-Head of the CIA Nazi Mind Control Program, MKULTRA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F626Lsrdwg4
Source: Dinar Chronicles
The below is a summary of information from the Internet. It would be up to the individual reader to do their own research and decide whether or not it is valid. A Special Thank You to those very dedicated and brave intel providers who wished to remain unnamed, to Brad who does great research and Ken who uncovers almost unlimited intel on pedophilia to Save the Children.
This has finally come to be. I wish you well in your humanitarian efforts and look forward to seeing you on the other side of the reset where together, we will make life better for all.
Patience is a Virtue. Having Virtue is a sign of a good moral being. Good moral beings have the power to overcome evil and change the world. Judy
Divide They Try, Fail They Will for WWG1WGA; Support POTUS; Follow Q; Trust Plan
Q: We have it all. A Traitors Justice Episode 8 (HD): https://www.youtube.com/watch
Q: We Are The Plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRtEgdgj_XQ&t=130s
A coup against Trump by Barak Obama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTcjw…
Judy Note: No one but one or two in the world knew the exact time or date of the Global Currency Reset, though there were some intelligent guesses: Today Wed. Nov. 20 a Far East source said to Bruce, “Hang on. All your dreams will come true on Wed. 20 Nov.,” while Bruce thought many believed that the reset would either happen, or be completed by Thanksgiving Thurs. 28 Nov.
MarkZ still thought that the 800#s would be released sometime between now and Thurs. 21 Nov., while US Bank personnel were told that the reset would happen by Thanksgiving 28 Nov.
For the last five days there have been no US Petrodollar auctions in Iraq – meaning no banks have been making money. The reset had to happen for auctions to start up again. On Mon. 18 Nov. the Iraqi press announced an RV of their Dinar – that couldn’t happen without the Global Currency Reset.
A lot began happening that last Mon. 18 Nov. – right after those named in the FISA Abuse Report were allowed to read their charges and began making deals in exchange for evidence against their higher ups. On that same Mon. 18 Nov. the FISA Abuse Report release date which was to be that Monday, was changed to early Dec. and then President Trump called a non-scheduled secret meeting with Secretary of the US Treasury Mnuchin and Head of the Federal Reserve Powell, all-the-while a number of people began flying into the new US Treasury in Reno for currency exchange appointments and US Bank personnel were told the reset would for sure happen before Thanksgiving.
Evidently the next day on Tues. 19 Nov. several high name people were arrested, while Q advertised on his website that Glenn Beck released a bombshell audio from the Ukraine repudiating the impeachment narrative – that, of course, was not picked up by Mainstream Media fake news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TFh1YJynGA
From Thurs. 20 Nov. on it was suspected that information from the FISA Abuse Report would be leaked out to the press and was expected to cause considerable chaos because of the big names said to be criminally charged. Rumor suggested that the report would officially be released around the time of the anniversary of JFK’s assassination (Fri. 22 Nov.), JFK Jr’s birthday (Mon. 25 Nov.), or Thanksgiving (Thurs. 28 Nov.) and before the author, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wed. 11 Dec.
A. Nov. 20 2019 Chat with MarkZ: https://www.twitch.tv/theoriginalmarkz
1. As of this morning Wed. 20 Nov. there has been no new movement in exchanges and redemptions.
2. MarkZ’s Paymaster was very excited about things happening today Wed. 20 Nov. and by tomorrow, Thurs. 21 Nov.
3. MarkZ believed the Reset, CMKX deliveries and Mass Arrests would begin at the same time.
4. A number of big names were arrested yesterday Tues. 19 Nov.
5. MarkZ believed that we were going to see a lot of big things going on this week.
B. Bruce: A source from the Far East told Bruce, “Hang on. All your dreams will come true on Wed. 20 Nov.” Many believed that the reset would either happen, or be completed by Thanksgiving, Thurs. 28 Nov. Zim redemption was expected to be done within 4-5 days of the 800#s release. (Currency exchanges for Contract Rates would have 30 days).
C. Nov. 20 2019 TNT Call Ray, Tony: https://twitter.com/the_tnt_team
In Iraq Auctions of the fiat US Dollar have been stopped for five days now – meaning no banks were making money off of currency. The reset had to happen for auctions to start up again.
D. Q Posts for Nov. 19:
Nov 19 2019 11:42:46 (EST) 3603
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TFh1YJynGA
(Glenn Beck revealed a Ukraine bombshell audio that repudiated the impeachment narrative)
Phones were present.
FISA goes both ways.
Information warfare.
[Feb 11 2019]
“Step Four: Open ‘new’ Fake & False investigations as CHAIRMAN of the House Intel Comm to retain disinformation campaign designed to keep liberal/D Americans onboard to regain POWER & PREVENT prosecution – Executive Time!” – Q
Pre_public_awareness?
LIKE CLOCKWORK.
[D][1-6]
https://twitter.com/AndrewKerrNC/status/1196877496949657600
(The Clinton Foundation has lost $49.6 million since 2016.)
PAY-FOR-PLAY only works when you hold a position of POWER.
It’s only a matter of time.
There is no STEP FIVE.
E. Our Global Financial System and the Archon Bloodline’s Ninth Circle Satanic Cult
Parts of this article were taken from a former member of the Illuminati as written for The Final Wakeup Call: http://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2019/08/28/the-archon-bloodline-rulers/
In order to implement a Global Currency Reset, the BRICS Nations, President Trump, Interpol and the White Hats had to take over the entire global financial system from none other than the Archon Bloodline‘s Ninth Circle Satanic Cult.
Since the early 1900s the global financial system has been ruled by the Archon Bloodline which was composed of 13 very wealthy families. These Satanists who included the Roman Pontiff and Queen of England, were liars and war criminals, some pretending to be Jews, who were in reality Khazarian Mafioso, Royalty, Nazis and Pedophiles.
To a common person on the street they were known as Queen Elizabeth, Rothschilds, Bushes, Clintons, Rockefellers, Morgans, Mellons, Pope Francis and a hidden Jesuit hierarchy. They were all of the same bloodline and cousins, nephews, uncles and nieces of each other.
These private bloodline families had run the global financial system by funneling US taxpayer dollars through their privately owned IRS and Federal Reserve to the independent City States of the Washington District of Columbia, the Queen’s City of London, the Vatican Bank, United Nations City State – located in New York City – and Central Banks across the globe.
To gain and keep power in order to influence various countries’ political affairs they blackmailed politicians and global elites through a regular but secretive worship of Satan in Child Sacrifice rites that included pedophilia parties. The more innocent the victim, the more power they felt in the ceremony. They obtained their child and human trafficking victims by birthing their own and through use of various mafias which were into international child sex and human trafficking, drug and gun running rings, with the monies laundered through the Vatican Bank.
F. International Child Sex Trafficking:
Former Trenton NY Police Officer gets 30 Years for Multiple Child Sex Abuse Offenses: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/more-sports/former-trenton-police-detective-gets-long-term-for-child-sex-abuse/ar-BBWXmlO?ocid=spartandhp
G. Research Resources:
President Trump’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
President Trump’s Email: whitehouse.gov@gmail.com
President Trump was Q: https://youtu.be/BcV9Qc5gYTQ https://vimeo.com/362919470
Q Tweets: https://twitter.com/3days3nights?lang=en Q Posts: https://qanon.pub/
Q Posts Twitter: https://twitter.com/3days3nights?lang=en Q Website: https://qmap.pub/
JFK Jr. Twitter: https://twitter.com/john_f_kennnedy?lang=en
George’s (JF Kennedy Jr.?) Email: George@The CollectiveQ
George The Collective Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecollectiveq
EyeTheSpy Twitter: https://twitter.com/TrueEyeTheSpy
Captain Field McConnell aka Abel Danger Website: https://www.abeldanger.org/
The US Department of Justice: https://www.justice.gov/news
Updates for the Week Prior (See bottom parts of the below for info on exchanges):
Special Restored Republic via a GCR Report as of Nov. 20, 2019
Restored Republic via a GCR: Update as of Nov. 20, 2019
https://operationdisclosure1.blogspot.com/2019/11/restored-republic-via-gcr-as-of-nov-21.html
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Bryan Tye appointed Director of Operations for Reynolds Jet
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Cincinnati, OH – Tuesday, October 4, 2016 – Reynolds Jet, a leading aircraft management and jet charter company, is pleased to announce that Bryan Tye has been appointed Director of Operations, effective immediately. Bryan is based in Reynolds Jet’s headquarters, at Hangar 4 on Lunken Field.
Bryan, who has been with the company since 2010, steps out of his previous role, that of Chief Pilot, to focus on operational efficiency and – with Reynolds Jet as their dedicated flight department – strengthening each aircraft owners’ aviation function and ownership experience.
J Mercer Reynolds, Founder and President of Reynolds Jet said: “We are delighted to welcome Bryan into this key role; his experience will be invaluable as we begin the next chapter of Reynolds Jet. Bryan has a strong track record of leadership and driving efficiencies, and I am confident that he will help us to build on our existing operations and exceptional aircraft support services.”
Commenting on his promotion, Bryan said: “This is a really exciting time at Reynolds Jet; not only as the company strengthens its position as the largest operator of Lunken-based aircraft but also as we ramp up our efforts for our aircraft owners – to provide them with excellent operational and financial stewardship.” Bryan continued: “The support we deliver maximizes their operational performance, delivers peace of mind, and improves their asset efficiency and availability. I plan to help drive our exceptional operational support to the next level.”
Reynolds Jet’s private jet services comprise both aircraft management and jet charter through its popular Jet Program product and on demand jet charter service. The company also offers customers an empty leg service on its managed aircraft, presenting travelers – whether flying for business or leisure – the chance to fly private for just a fraction of the price.
As the largest operator of Lunken airport-based aircraft, the company is recognized for its heritage of large operator expertise, systems and knowledge with dedicated operator agility, focus and attention to detail. Booking a private jet charter through Reynolds Jet could not be easier and the jet charter prices are the most competitive in Cincinnati. The company has a diverse range of private jets within the large cabin, midsize, and light jet categories. With the right aircraft for the right journey, chartering a plane out of Lunken airport is simple and seamless with Reynolds Jet
About Reynolds Jet:
Since 2008, Reynolds Jet has established itself as one of the leading private jet charter and aircraft management companies by consistently providing exceptional boutique services and unparalleled quality to its customers. Large operator expertise, systems and knowledge fused with small operator agility, focus and attention to detail are among the key drivers for Reynolds Jet to consistently outperform any other in the business. The company’s operations are classified with the ARGUS International Platinum Rating – recognized as the ultimate validation of operational excellence and flight safety best practices – and holds IS-BAO Stage II registration, a set of performance-based and process-orientated standards recognized throughout the world.
Reynolds Jet headquarters are based at Lunken Airport, Cincinnati, OH and has offices in Austin, TX. It is the largest operator of Lunken Airport-based aircraft, and the Reynolds Jet managed fleet available for private jet charter currently stands at seven aircraft, across the large, super-midsize, midsize and light jet categories. News and information are available at www.ReynoldsJet.com.
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Efficient Seawater Desalination and Hydrogen Production Possible With New Catalyst
TOPICS:CatalystsDesalinationGreen EnergyHydrogenUniversity of Houston
By University of Houston November 17, 2019
Researchers from the University of Houston have reported a significant breakthrough in producing hydrogen and clean drinking water from seawater, one of the most abundant resources on earth.
New catalyst efficiently produces hydrogen from seawater, holding promise for large-scale hydrogen production, desalination.
Seawater is one of the most abundant resources on earth, offering promise both as a source of hydrogen – desirable as a source of clean energy – and of drinking water in arid climates. But even as water-splitting technologies capable of producing hydrogen from freshwater have become more effective, seawater has remained a challenge.
Researchers from the University of Houston have reported a significant breakthrough with a new oxygen evolution reaction catalyst that, combined with a hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst, achieved current densities capable of supporting industrial demands while requiring relatively low voltage to start seawater electrolysis.
Researchers say the device, composed of inexpensive non-noble metal nitrides, manages to avoid many of the obstacles that have limited earlier attempts to inexpensively produce hydrogen or safe drinking water from seawater. The work is described in a study published on November 8, 2019, in Nature Communications.
Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH and a corresponding author for the paper, said a major obstacle has been the lack of a catalyst that can effectively split seawater to produce hydrogen without also setting free ions of sodium, chlorine, calcium and other components of seawater, which once freed can settle on the catalyst and render it inactive. Chlorine ions are especially problematic, in part because chlorine requires just slightly higher voltage to free than is needed to free hydrogen.
Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH and M.D. Anderson Chair Professor of physics, said the new catalyst allows researchers to avoid many of the obstacles that have stymied the widespread use of seawater to produce hydrogen. Credit: University of Houston
The researchers tested the catalysts with seawater drawn from Galveston Bay off the Texas coast. Ren, M.D. Anderson Chair Professor of physics at UH, said it also would work with wastewater, providing another source of hydrogen from water that is otherwise unusable without costly treatment.
“Most people use clean freshwater to produce hydrogen by water splitting,” he said. “But the availability of clean freshwater is limited.”
To address the challenges, the researchers designed and synthesized a three-dimensional core-shell oxygen evolution reaction catalyst using transition metal-nitride, with nanoparticles made of a nickel-iron-nitride compound and nickel-molybdenum-nitride nanorods on porous nickel foam.
First author Luo Yu, a postdoctoral researcher at UH who is also affiliated with Central China Normal University, said the new oxygen evolution reaction catalyst was paired with a previously reported hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst of nickel-molybdenum-nitride nanorods.
The catalysts were integrated into a two-electrode alkaline electrolyzer, which can be powered by waste heat via a thermoelectric device or by an AA battery.
Cell voltages required to produce a current density of 100 milliamperes per square centimeter (a measure of current density, or mA cm-2) ranged from 1.564 V to 1.581 V.
The voltage is significant, Yu said, because while a voltage of at least 1.23 V is required to produce hydrogen, chlorine is produced at a voltage of 1.73 V, meaning the device had to be able to produce meaningful levels of current density with a voltage between the two levels.
Reference: “Non-noble metal-nitride based electrocatalysts for high-performance alkaline seawater electrolysis” by Luo Yu, Qing Zhu, Shaowei Song, Brian McElhenny, Dezhi Wang, Chunzheng Wu, Zhaojun Qin, Jiming Bao, Ying Yu, Shuo Chen and Zhifeng Ren, 8 November 2019, Nature Communications.
In addition to Ren and Yu, researchers on the paper include Qing Zhu, Shaowei Song, Brian McElhennyy, Dezhi Wang, Chunzheng Wu, Zhaojun Qin, Jiming Bao and Shuo Chen, all of UH; and Ying Yu of Central China Normal University.
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‘El Camino’ lives in the shadow of ‘Breaking Bad’
October 22, 2019 Israel Wheatley 0 Comments better call saul, tv show, UCCS
Israel Wheatley
iwheatle@uccs.edu
Stars: 3/5
Turns out that even with the best writers and directors, filmmakers have not fully escaped the era of sequels, prequels and reboots. As the highly anticipated follow-up film to the television phenomenon “Breaking Bad,” “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” has fallen victim to the trap of our age, unlike its cousin series “Better Call Saul.” It is nearly impossible for a sequel or prequel not to live in the shadow of its predecessor, so there is some room for us to forgive “El Camino” for how it has fallen short, especially with such beloved characters and story.
Reprising his role as Jesse Pinkman, Aaron Paul gives a performance totally respectful of his character from the parent series. “El Camino” follows the character after having escaped from his captors, who forced him to continue his work cooking methamphetamine for their illegal drug trade. With the collapse of Jesse and Walter White’s business and Walter’s ultimate death, Jesse is now fleeing from the police as one of the most sought-after criminals in the story’s universe and is now also in search of a new identity after he threw away his chance at a new life in the fifth and final season of the series.
“Breaking Bad,” regarded as one of the greatest and most beloved series of the 2000s, ended with a bang so perfect and satisfying that a follow-up would not be necessary, but it still left us wanting more. That is what “El Camino” did; it has given us the final course of the meal, that shot of grappa or espresso signifying the close of a wonderful evening. No matter how delicious that last bite or sip is, it will not ever meet the same level as the main course, as “Breaking Bad” did.
At times it feels snubbed of those perfect shots and seamless dialogue, which the series delivered on at nearly every moment. However, that is to be expected with the change in format from television to film. New characters—sometimes too many—are introduced and follow a comfortable pattern of development, but those characters that return from the series lack a bit of je ne sais quoi from their pasts. They just do not work as well in the new format.
Even with small frustrations like character appearances and quick pacing, “El Camino” still manages to quench your thirst for what comes next and will leave you craving more. Even so, it would be sad to see more and more added to the story only to sacrifice quality in the story that has already been told. The series ended on its own terms before it drew on too long like so many other shows, which makes this movie a risk. But hey, it has done its job by drawing the story to a (hopefully absolute) close.
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New IceBrowser Web Users Internet World Privacy
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — IceBrowser.co announces its Beta launch of a new add-on browser designed to allow users to privately and securely access the Internet. IceBrowser is an effective way to prevent government and corporate trackers from invading online privacy and a virus-free environment by providing browser services from the most private countries in the world. IceBrowser will operate via the user-friendly Cocoon platform. Cocoon, the renowned web privacy add-on, will work in conjunction with Gerald Baton of IceBrowser.co to keep browsing data away from the prying eyes of corporations and governments by allowing you to surf from privacy-friendly countries, such as Iceland, thanks to the cloud.
Today’s Internet presents a troubling conundrum for anyone who values privacy. It’s the most powerful expression of humanity’s technological prowess, but it’s also rife with a dizzying array of dangers, some obvious and others less so. Identity theft, malware, phishing scams, and data tracking perpetrated by major technology companies, not to mention the National Security Agency (NSA), all combine to make for a treacherous digital terrain. Users who log on with no thought for their own safety will inadvertently put themselves in harm’s way.
The solution to this problem involves leveraging hardware and software at the bleeding edge of Internet and communications technology: the cloud. Many web surfers are already comfortable with the notion of storing documents, music, movies, and eBooks in the cloud. IceBrowser takes things one step further by storing all browser-related information- cookies, metadata, history – on its encrypted servers in Iceland and other safe countries like Norway or Switzerland. Coupling this new tactic with the already proven effectiveness of Cocoon’s superb malware protection and browsing security will ensure a potent defense against unwanted probing and tampering. Without taking this precaution, user data is free for marketers to use as research material or for governments to intrude on citizens’ private activities.
With a strong record of defending personal privacy in the Information Age, Iceland and other top privacy countries are uniquely positioned to foster the development of companies like Icebrowser. Technologist and software engineer Bill Zimmerman had this to say of IceBrowser’s home territory: “Iceland places an exceptionally strong emphasis on privacy rights, such that what is now commonplace in the U.S. and parts of Europe would be unthinkable there.”
Cocoon Co-Founder and CEO Jeff Bermant believes the time is ripe for the kind of user-centric service offering represented by IceBrowser. “Every day in America, we read about how U.S. government surveillance programs have crept into our private lives and snapped up all our online communications. Despite the scare tactics of the Patriot Act, the FISA Amendment Act, and the FISC, or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, we still believe that online privacy has a right to coexist on the digital highway.”
The data concurs with Bermant. National polls and rapidly circulating petitions prove that the American public are not OK with their personal information and web surfing habits becoming part of some monolithic Big Data labyrinth. Cocoon and IceBrowser have created a way out of this maze that’s robust, economical, and sustainable, ensuring safe browsing today and tomorrow.
About Virtual World Computing
Cocoon is a free, all-in-one Firefox plugin developed by Virtual World Computing (VWC) of Santa Barbara, California. Cocoon’s core business model is built on trust, and its mission is to put users in control of their Internet experience by ensuring that their computer and personal information is secure and protected from malicious attacks, invasive corporate and government snooping, and other invasions of privacy.
About Ice Browser. efh
Ice Browser.efh is a company whose mission to create safe and secure browsing for users who wish to store their data in private and safe countries.
Jeff Bermant, Co-Founder & CEO
Virtual World Computing
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Ice Browser, ehf.
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gerald@cloud-chain.com
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fronthaul
Contributor(s): Corinne Bernstein
Fronthaul, also known as mobile fronthaul, is a term that refers to the connection of the C-RAN, a new type of cellular network architecture of centralized baseband units (BBU), at the access layer of the network to remote standalone radio heads at cell sites. Due to the rising demand for C-RAN (often spelled out as either cloud radio access network or as centralized radio access network) deployments, using fronthaul as a method for supporting all generations of wireless communication has gained attention.
Disparate radio elements are connected to the centralized controllers through the Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI), which refers to the mainstream transport protocol in modern fronthaul networks. The latest CPRI specification adds capacity to remote radio heads, achieves higher-order MIMO and allows multi-carrier configuration. This type of interface supports shared infrastructure and dynamic capacity allocation, which enables the reality of a completely open RAN that can be used for future 5G applications and deployment scenarios.
Fronthaul is one of many factors that may enable distributed LTE-Advanced networks to make data travel faster and coverage denser in the future. Operators using the 5G architecture with a virtualized access layer attached to the mobile core could receive vastly improved performance at the access layer of the network. Additionally, virtual radio access networks (vRANs) might require fronthaul to maximize cost savings and efficiency, which is a solution that network operators are pursuing to take advantage of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) capabilities.
Although fronthaul significantly boosts network performance by making it more flexible and efficient, many factors can affect performance and must be considered before adopting it as standard. These factors include network topology, the amount of fiber in the ground, the type of spectrum and the current lack of a fully open interface.
Fronthaul vs Backhaul
While backhaul is a well-known wireless networking term, fronthaul is similar in concept but less familiar. Wireless backhaul is the use of wireless communications systems to get data from an end user to a node in a major network such as the internet or the proprietary network of a large organization. With fronthaul, remote radio heads separate the radio elements of a base station from the baseband controller resulting in easier radio deployment at the top of a cell tower and increased signal coverage range.
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Tag Archives: Mike Leigh
The Stuart Excellence In Bay Area Theater Awards for 2013
Stuart Bousel gives us his Best of 2013 list.
Three years ago I decided that I wanted to start my own Bay Area Theater Awards, because my opinions are just as legitimate as anyone else’s, the awards I give out are as valuable as any other critical awards, (recipients of the SEBATA, or the Stuey, if you prefer, get nothing but my admiration and some free publicity), and also because there’s a fairly good chance that I’ve seen a lot of theater the usual award givers haven’t seen. The best thing about the Bay Area theater scene is that there is a huge diversity in the offerings, and so much on the table to begin with. No one person can see it all, and therefore it’s important to share with one another the highlights of our time in the audience seat, if only to create a greater awareness of what and who is out there making stuff.
Also, there are some people who think I don’t like anything, and I feel a need to not only prove them wrong, but to do so by expressing how much of the local color I do love and admire, as opposed to just pointing out that the reason they think I don’t like anything is because I generally don’t like *their* work (oh… I guess I did just point that out, didn’t I?). Normally I post these “awards” on my Facebook page, but this year I decided to bring them to the blog because the mission statement of the SEBATA is pretty in-line with the mission statement of Theater Pub, and having come to the close of an amazing year of growth for the blog, it now has a much farther reach than my Facebook page could ever hope to have. Congratulations SF Theater Pub Blog- you just won a Stuey.
Anyway, because I am a product of the generation that grew up with the MTV Movie Awards- and, because I’m the only person on the voting committee and thus can do what I like- I have decided that my categories are purely arbitrary and can be stretched to allow me to write about anyone I feel like. The two limits are 1) I can’t give myself an award (though I can have been involved in the show on a limited level) and 2) I won’t go over thirteen (though there may be ties for some awards). Because seriously, how (more) self indulgent would this be without either of those rules? Oh, 3) I won’t give out awards for how bad something was. I’m here to be positive. And chances are those people were punished enough.
To all my friends and frenemies in the Bay Area Theater Scene… it’s been a great year. Let’s you and me do it again sometime. Well… most of you.
And now, presenting the Fourth Annual Stuey Awards…
“Pint Sized IV” (San Francisco Theater Pub)
Pint Sized Plays gets better each year, and it’s honestly one of two things I actually miss about working at the Cafe Royale (the other is the uniqueness of doing Shakespeare there, which for some reason works in a completely magical way I wish it worked more often on traditional stages). This year the festival was put together by Neil Higgins, who did an amazing job, and I think we had some of the best material yet. The evening as a whole felt incredibly cohesive, with a theme of forgiveness and letting go, archly reflective of our decision to leave the Cafe Royale, and I think incredibly relevant to a lot of our audience. We knew Pint Sized could be very funny, and very socially pointed, but I’m not sure we had ever conceived of it as moving and this year it was, thanks in no small part to our writers (Megan Cohen, Peter Hsieh, Sang S. Kim, Carl Lucania, Daniel Ng, Kirk Shimano and Christian Simonsen), directors (Jonathan Carpenter, Colin Johnson, Tracy Held Potter, Neil Higgins, Charles Lewis III, Meghan O’Connor, Adam L. Sussman) and actors (Annika Bergman, Jessica Chisum, Andrew Chung, AJ Davenport, Eli Diamond, Caitlin Evenson, Lara Gold, Matt Gunnison, Melissa Keith, Charles Lewis III, Brian Quakenbush, Rob Ready, Casey Robbins, Paul Rodrigues, Jessica Rudholm). The evening would start off with a magical performance by the Blue Diamond Bellydancers, whose combination of skill and spectacle got our audiences excited for what was to come. As we moved through the pieces, each by turns funny and poignant, each in some way or another about finding something, losing it, letting it go, and then coming back stronger, you could feel the audience grow warmer and closer each night. By the time Rob Ready gave the closing monologue, fixing each audience member in turn with a smile, you could feel everyone really listening and you could hear a pin drop in the room, and that’s saying something for the noisy by nature Cafe Royale. I think a lot of love went into the festival this year, and not just because it might be the last, and the product of that love was real magic and like the best theater- you had to be there. And if you weren’t, you really missed out.
BEST SHOW
“The Motherf**ker With The Hat” (San Francisco Playhouse)
I saw a lot of decent, solid, well done theater this year but I had a hard time connecting to a lot of it, which was rarely a flaw with the show and probably had more to do with where I was/am as a person (lots of change this year). Then again, something about really good theater is that it can get you out of your own head and into some other world, for a while. Towards the end of the year, I saw three shows I really really liked: “Crumble, or Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake” at Bigger Than A Bread Box Theater Company, “Peter/Wendy” at Custom Made Theater Company, and “First” at Stage Werx, produced by Altair Productions/The Aluminous Collective and Playground. Still, San Francisco Playhouse’s production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s “The Motherf**ker With The Hat”, directed by Bill English, was probably my favorite show of the year. Who knows why it has an edge on the others? Maybe because as someone who spent most of their childhood weekends in New York it seemed oddly familiar, or maybe it was the deft handling by the universally excellent cast (Carl Lumbly, Gabriel Marin, Rudy Guerrero, Margo Hall, Isabelle Ortega) of the complex relationships and dialogue that Guirgis does so well, or maybe it was just refreshing to see such a simple, honest play in what, for me, was a year characterized by a lot of stylistically interesting but emotionally cold theater. There is something very passionate, scathing, bombastic and yet also humble and forgiving about Guirgis’ work that I think makes him such an important voice in modern American drama and English’s production brought all that out with an easy grace. The show really worked, and got me out of my head, and when I went back to my life I felt much better for the journey. What more can you ask of a theater experience?
BEST READING
“Paris/Hector” (San Francisco Olympians Festival)
I attend a lot of readings every year, and run a reading festival myself, so I’ve come to greatly value a really well done reading. This year, the award goes to director Katja Rivera and writers Kirk Shimano and Bridgette Dutta Portman, whose pair of one acts about the pair of Trojan princes Paris and Hector made for one of the best nights of this past year’s San Francisco Olympians Festival. Part of what I loved about it was that in one evening we saw the amazing variety the festival can offer: Kirk’s play was a comedy with a poignant moment or two, while Bridgette’s was a faux-classical drama- written in verse no less. Though the writers are the center of attention at the festival, credit really has to be given to Katja Rivera, who as the director of both pieces, made many simple but effective choices to highlight the best elements of both works and utilize the talents of her excellent cast: Yael Aranoff, Molly Benson, Jeremy Cole, Mackenszie Drae, Allison Fenner, Dana Goldberg, John Lennon Harrison, Michelle Talgarow, Alaric Toy. With the combined excellent story-telling of the performers (including beautiful and surprising singing from Yael, Molly and Dana), the thoughtfulness of the scripts, and the cohesiveness of the whole, this night of the festival stood out best in what was a consistently strong year at the Olympians.
BEST SHORT PLAY
“My Year” by Megan Cohen (Bay One Acts Festival)
Megan Cohen’s “My Year” is the kind of thing I wish more short plays would be: dynamic, personal, and complete. In a sea of short plays that are really fragments, or meet-cute plays, it’s always lovely to see something with a beginning, a middle, and end, and full-formed characters having actual interactions and not just feeling like Girl A and Guy B, thrown together by the whimsy of the playwright to make a point (though of course, the right playwright can pull that off- which is why so many people try to ape it). A friend of mine described “My Year” as “A fun little 90s indie film on stage” and my reaction when watching it was “Oh, Dear God, convince Meg to let me write a companion piece to this!” because let’s face it: at least a third of what I write is a 90s film on stage. My own vanity aside, what I loved about this play (directed by Siobhan Doherty, starring Emma Rose Shelton, Theresa Miller, Nkechi Live, Allene Hebert, Jaime Lee Currier, and Luna Malbroux) was that it felt constantly on the move, while still being mostly composed of intimate moments between a group of women at a birthday party. Like a lot of the theater that I really loved this year, it also just struck a personal chord, watching this young woman (Emma Rose Shelton) trying to enjoy the party her friends have thrown for her (though she doesn’t like surprise parties) despite there being no food and a random stranger (Theresa Miller) who worms her way in only to turn out to be the troublemaker she’s originally pegged for. Megan’s writing had its usual combination of smart and sentimental, but whereas a lot of her other work heads into absurdity and/or extreme quirkiness (not that this is bad), “My Year” stayed very grounded and found its meaning in that effort to stay grounded, making what might be a quiet little play in anyone else’s oeuvre, a nice change of pace in Cohen’s. The final moment, where the characters howl at the moon because what else are you going to do after a shitty birthday, felt like a communal sigh even the audience was in on, probably because we could all relate to Shelton’s character, and while having always loved and admired Meg’s work, this is probably the first time I related to it so wholeheartedly.
The Peter O’Toole Award For General Awesomeness
Linda Huang (Stage Manager, Tech, Box Office, Everything)
You know how the Oscars and Tonys give out Lifetime Achievement Awards for people whose contribution is so massive that it would kind of be criminal to pick one work or contribution so instead they just get an award for basically being themselves? You know, like how Peter O’Toole got that award because at some point somebody realized that he was pervasively brilliant and always in fashion and therefore easily forgotten because things like “Oh, well, he’ll win next year” often times factors in to who we recognize, meaning things like reliability and consistency do not? Well, for the first time ever in the history of the SEBATAs, I’m creating The Peter O’Toole Award for General Awesomeness and giving it to Linda Huang, without whom, in all seriousness, I believe that small theater in San Francisco would probably grind to a halt. Earlier this year, I got recognized by the Weekly as a “Ringmaster” of the theater scene, but frankly I (and people like me) could not do what we do without having Linda (and people like her) constantly coming to our aid despite being paid a fraction of what they’re worth and half the time being forgotten because what they do isn’t in the immediate eye of the audience. Linda is a total gem of the theater scene. She wears many hats, though she’s probably best known for running light boards, and one of my favorite things when attending the theater is running into her, usually working in some capacity I previously was unaware she was qualified to do (note: Linda is qualified to do everything). What I love best about Linda (aside from her cutting sense of humor and tell-it-like-it-is demeanor) is her incredible generosity: she does so much for local theater and rarely gets paid, and even when she does get paid she often says, “Pay me last.” A true team player, and one we don’t thank enough, especially as she’s the only person who seems to know how to get the air conditioning in the Exit Theatre to work.
BEST BREAK THROUGH
Atticus Rex, Open Mic Night In Support of the Lemonade Fund (SF Theater Pub/Theater Bay Area Individual Services Committee)
I never expected to include a note about someone who performed at an open mic/variety show, but I wanted to shout out to Atticus Rex, a young performer who literally made his performance debut at the San Francisco Theater Pub/ISC fundraiser for the Lemonade Fund this year. A last minute replacement, Atticus and a friend performed some original hip-hop for our audience of mostly performance professionals and their friends, and despite the formidable crowd and the first time nerves, he basically killed it. Even when he made a mistake it worked: he’d call himself out, apologize, and start again, somehow without ever missing a beat. His lyrics are very tight and poetic, and the contrast between the power in his words and his humbleness at approaching and leaving the stage works so well you’d almost think it was an act- except he later confessed he’d never performed live before, and it couldn’t have been more sincere. With genuine hope he never loses his sincerity, while also continuing to grow his confidence and experience, I wanted to take a moment to say congratulations once again, and thank you for reminding us all what it looks like to really take a risk onstage.
BEST CHEMISTRY
Genie Cartier and Audrey Spinazola (Genie and Audrey’s Dream Show, SF Fringe Festival)
What’s potentially cuter than “Clyde the Cyclops?” Very little, but these two ladies and their breathless, funny, and surreal little clown show come dangerously close to giving Clyde a run for his money, and it’s the only show I saw at the Fringe this year that I wished my boyfriend had also seen. Bravely straddling the bridge between performance artists and acrobats, this collage of monologues, poems, jokes, mime, clowning, puppetry, stunts, music, and children’s games, is like watching two hyper-articulate kids on pixie sticks go nuts in a club house, but only if those kids had an incredible sense of timing and arch senses of humor (not to mention very flexible bodies). I’ve never been a huge fan of circus stuff (I like it as an accent, sometimes, but as entertainment on its own it doesn’t tend to hold my interest long), but I think I’d be a fan of anything that had these two women in it. Their ability to play off each other is the key to making their show work, and when you watch it you have that sense of being let into the private make-believe world of people who have found kindred spirits in one another. It’s an utterly magic combination and from what I know of other people who saw it, it basically charmed the pants off everyone. Or at least, everyone who has a soul.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Ben Calabrese (Apartment in “Crumble, or Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake”)
I saw a lot of great performances by men this year (Sam Bertken in “Peter/Wendy”, Tim Green and Gregory Knotts in “First”, Paul Rodrigues “Pint Sized Plays IV”, Will Hand “Dark Play”, Casey Robbins “Oh Best Beloved!”), but this one really took my breath away (though since Sam Bertken actually got me to sincerely clap for fairies in Peter/Wendy, he gets a second shout out). Ben’s role, which is to literally embody the voice of a neglected apartment, is the kind of role that could either be the best thing about the show, or the worst. Luckily for Bigger Than A Breadbox’s production of “Crumble, or Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake (written by Sheila Callaghan), Ben rocked it. Bouncing around the stage, dive bombing the furniture, all the while spouting, eloquently, Callaghan’s beautiful and complex monologues, Ben was so utterly watchable it was impossible not to buy the conceit of the role, and so moments when he has an orgasm from having the radiator turned on, or turns his fingers into loose electrical wires, don’t seem ridiculous, but made immediate and total sense. It’s usually not a compliment to tell an actor they did a tremendous job being an inanimate object, but what Ben did so well was illustrate that a home, while not “alive”, does indeed have a life to it. And if that life occasionally fixes the audience with Ben’s particular brand of “scary actor stare” why… all the better.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
Brandice Marie Thompson (Georgia Potts in “First”)
Oh, this was a tough one. As usual, the actresses of the Bay Area are kicking ass and taking names no matter what their role, and my decision to pick Brandice above the rest is because I think she best exemplified that thing which so many actresses have to do, which is take a relatively underwritten role in a play about men and turn it into a rich, believable character who somehow manages to steal the show. Evelyn Jean Pine, who wrote “First”, is a fantastic writer and she writes women and men equitably well, and due credit must go to her for the creation and inclusion of this character in a story mostly about male egos, but in a lesser capable actresses hands, this role could have been annoying, or forgettable, or purely comical, and Brandice avoided all of these traps while making the character utterly charming at the same time. The truth is, her arc became much more interesting to me than that of the main character, and I think a strong argument could be made that “First” was just as much about Georgia as it was about Bill Gates. Director Michael French no doubt had a hand in this too, but in the end it’s a performer who makes or breaks a role and Brandice’s ability to combine mousy with spunky with unexpected and yet thoroughly authentic character turns was deeply satisfying to watch. Georgia kicked ass and took names, because Brandice does. Runners up: Melissa Carter (“Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake”, Bigger Than A Breadbox), Allison Jean White (“Abigail’s Party”, SF Playhouse), Sam Jackson (“Oh Best Beloved!”, SF Fringe Festival), Courtney Merril (“Into the Woods”, Ray of Light), Elissa Beth Stebbins (“Peter/Wendy”, Custom Made Theatre Company).
BEST FUSION THEATER PIECE
“Nightingale” (Davis Shakespeare Ensemble/SF Fringe Festival)
This little gem at this year’s fringe festival was adapted from the myth of Philomel by Gia Battista, with music by Richard Chowenhill, directed by Rob Sals (with Battista), and staring Gabby Battista, April Fritz and Tracy Hazas as three remarkably similar looking women who each take a turn playing the heroine of a bizarre fairy tale (all the other characters in the story are played by them as well). Dance, pantomime, narration, song and traditional theater techniques all came together in a way that was astonishingly clean and charming in its simplicity. The black and white aesthetic used to unify the look of the show and performers gave the whole thing a quality both modern and timeless, and in its gentle, dreamy tone the sharp elements of social commentary and satire often seemed more brutal and impactful. Of everything I saw at the Fringe this past year, which included a number of excellent works, this piece has stayed with me the longest.
BEST SOLO SHOW
“Steve Seabrook: Better Than You” by Kurt Bodden (The Marsh)
I saw a lot more solo performance than usual this year (including works by Annette Roman, Laura Austin Wiley, Alexa Fitzpatrick, Jenny Newbry Waters, Rene Pena), and realizing how good it can be is, in and of itself, kind of a miracle because I used to say things like, “Theater begins with two people” and “If Aeschylus had wanted to write sermons he wouldn’t have added Electra”. Kurt’s show was not created this past year, it has a long history, but I only saw it in its most recent Marsh incarnation and I’m hoping he’s been able to find ways to keep it going (his Facebook feeds indicate this is so). A satire of motivational speakers and the cult of self-improvement, “Steve Seabrook” manages to be so much more by combining satirical fiction with moments of the kind of personal monologue (still fiction) that permeates solo shows. The result is a sense of development, of a story (Steve’s) unfolding in real time while another story, (Steve’s Seminar) plays itself out over the course of a weekend. Playing off the convention of a backstage comedy (we see the seminar, then we see Steve when he’s not “on”), Kurt’s brilliance as a performer is evident in the seamless transition from one to the other, again and again, carrying a throughline that shows us not only why Steve buys into his mantras, but why any of us buy into anything we’ve come up with (or adopted from someone else) to keep us moving through life’s ups and downs. At once very funny and cutting, while also moving and real (and yes, fuck it, kind of inspirational), Kurt’s show also gets a nod for its fantastic takeaway schwag: a keychain light with Steve’s name on it, with which every audience member is encouraged to shine their light in a dark world.
Rebecca Longworth and Joan Howard, “Oh Best Beloved” (SF Fringe Festival)
“Oh Best Beloved” got a lot of attention and deservedly so- well acted, well designed, it was a genuinely fun piece of theater. Perhaps most deserving of being singled out in the project, however, are director Rebecca Longworth and partner Joan Howard, who share credit for conceptualizing the show (in which Joan also played a part and had, in my opinion, the single best moment in the show), and who lead the rest of the company in adapting the material from Ruyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories”. Anyone who saw the show could easily see that it had about a million moving parts, and Longworth and Howard’s ability to keep all those plates spinning on a small budget and under the strict conditions of the San Francisco Fringe Festival (they literally put up and pulled down a full set with each performance) is worthy of award in and of itself, but the level of commitment and craft they were able to pull from their design team and performers was equally as impressive. Everything about the show, even the parts that didn’t work as well as others, felt thought through and done with panache, making this ambitious and unique experience a delightful jewel in the SF Fringe Festival’s crown.
Bill English, “Abigail’s Party” (SF Playhouse)
Scenery in general doesn’t do much for me. I enjoy good scenery, but the best scenery should kind of vanish into the background, in my opinion, and be something you barely pay attention to. As a result, I’m often just as happy with a blank stage, or really well thought out minimal set, as I am with a full one, so long as the play I’m watching is good. That said, every now and then I will see a set I just adore, and this year it was Bill English’s set for SF Playhouse’s “Abigail’s Party”, by Mike Leigh, directed by Amy Glazer. Basically a living room/dining room/kitchenet combo, this fully realized “home” was very well crafted as a place, but more importantly, it really worked as a place where people lived. The 70s style was at once present without being overwhelming, evoking the time period without looking like it was a homage to the time period, or a museum dedicated to 70s kitch. I mean, it honestly reminded me of numerous homes I’d played in as a child (I was born in 1978) and all the wallpaper looked like wallpaper in my parents’ home before my mother completely re-did the house in 1990 because “we can admit this is ugly… now”. The amazing thing about English’s set is that it didn’t seem ugly, in spite of being made up entirely of patterns and colors we now find appalling. He made it all work together, the way people once did, and the final result was simultaneously comfortable and dazzling. I remember thinking, waiting for the play to begin, “I could live here.”
And last, but not least, every year I pick…
MY PERSONAL FAVORITE EXPERIENCE TO WORK ON
“The Age of Beauty” (No Nude Men Productions/The Exit Theatre)
I had taken a break from directing my own work, but with this nine performance workshop I allowed myself to re-discover that, as much as I like directing plays by others, there is nothing quite as satisfying as feeling like I’m telling a very personal story of my own and having the final say on how that happens. Of course, such experiences are only rewarding when you get to work with great actors, and I was lucky to have four amazing women (Megan Briggs, Emma Rose Shelton, Allison Page, Sylvia Hathaway) who were willing to go on this adventure with me, always keeping stride as I made cuts and changed lines, memorizing a mountain of material in Emma and Sylvia’s case, and crafting subtle characters who had to be both different from each other and relatively interchangeable at the same time. When I had a hard time articulating what I was going for, they would nod and smile and then show me what I meant by doing it better than I could describe it. When the show opened by the skin of its teeth it had one of those minor miracle opening nights, where even though you’re just a tiny bit unprepared (all my fault, I kept changing the script), it somehow all comes together and really works. Over the course of the show, as their performances grew and refined (our final two nights were simply perfect), I was able to see what flaws still remained in the script (two pages, middle of scene of scene two were cut the day after we closed), and any writer of new work will tell you that’s the best experience you can hope for on a first production. Shout outs to my awesome design team Cody Rishell, Jim Lively and Wil Turner IV! “The Age of Beauty” helped restore some of my lagging faith in the theater process, and made me commit to doing more of my own work in the coming year.
Stuart Bousel runs the San Francisco Theater Pub blog, and is a Founding Artistic Director of the San Francisco Theater Pub. You can find out more about his work at http://www.horrorunspeakable.com.
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Safe Passage Granted to Redbreasts in Kalmykia in the Spring!
By Save Branta, Save Branta
Published 27.02.2019 Updated 27.02.2019
Recently we received great news from our Project partners in Russia – the Government of Republic of Kalmykia has closed the spring hunting in 2019! In October last year the LIFE for Safe Flight partners in Russia initiated a high level meeting in Kalmykia to discuss issues with spring hunting and options to reduce its impact on migratory waterbirds. The experts and state officials agreed on the need to explore the possibility of closure of the spring hunting and then the local government made the necessary steps towards this decision. The governmental ordinance for closure of the spring hunting has been announced earlier this month.
Harvesting prior to the breeding season is widely considered ‘unwise’ since it has impact on the breeding population leading to deduction from the pool of breeding individuals. Factors increasing the cost of spring hunting are monogamy, high breeding output, high summer survival and weak density dependence in summer, such that the population is mainly regulated through winter conditions. Recent data assessments indicated the high potential mortality due to poaching and illegal killing of Red-breasted Geese during spring and autumn migration through Kazkahstan and Russia. It is estimated that as high as up to 40% of the global population might become victim of poaching incidents during these periods. Therefore one of the main objectives of the current “LIFE for Safe Flight” project are directed towards mitigating these threats and limiting or/and adapting the spring hunting in the key range countries such as Russian Federation.
The closure of the spring hunting on geese in Kalmykia and taking into account the ban on spring hunting on waterfowl in Kazakhstan since 2017 will grant a safe passage for the Red-breasted Goose population and many other threaten waterbirds including the Lesser White-fronted Goose! Kalmykia and Northern Kazkahstan are key bottleneck areas during migration of both species and this will ensure better survival for the birds heading towards their breeding grounds. Given that it is expected this summer to be good for lemmings (thus ensuring better breeding season for waterbirds in the Arctic) we could expect a positive boost of the population of the arctic breeders including the Red-breasted Goose.
Congratulations for the efforts of our Russian colleagues for ensuring and making possible the wise decision on the closure of spring hunting in Kalmykia!
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March TBR
February 29, 2016 February 29, 2016 Jade @ Scatterbooker tbr, Uncategorized bookblogger, bookreview, f*ck love, lady chatterley's lover, madame bovary, march tbr, reading list, the thorn birds
I’m just going to post a short TBR list for March. I’ve just begun a new semester of uni which has a fairly heavy work load, so I want to take it a bit easy on myself. I will hopefully be able to sneak a few surprise reviews in, though!
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
From the David Bowie Reading Challenge #DBowieBooks
LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley’s marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralyzed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husband’s words, finds herself involved in a passionate relationship with their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. Lawrence’s vitriolic denunciations of industrialism and class division come together in his vivid depiction of the profound emotional and physical connection between a couple otherwise divided by station and society.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
When Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary she imagines she will pass into the life of luxury and passion that she reads about in sentimental novels and women’s magazines. But Charles is a dull country doctor, and provincial life is very different from the romantic excitement for which she yearns. In her quest to realize her dreams she takes a lover, and begins a devastating spiral into deceit and despair.
Flaubert’s novel scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857, and it remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of character and society.
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Powered by the dreams and struggles of three generations, THE THORN BIRDS is the epic saga of a family rooted in the Australian sheep country. At the story’s heart is the love of Meggie Cleary, who can never possess the man she desperately adores, and Ralph de Bricassart, who rises from parish priest to the inner circles of the Vatican…but whose passion for Meggie will follow him all the days of his life.
F*ck Love by Tarryn Fisher
Helena Conway has fallen in love.
Unwillingly. Unwittingly.
But not unprovoked.
Kit Isley is everything she’s not—unstructured, untethered,
and not even a little bit careful.
It could all be so beautiful … if he wasn’t dating her best friend.
Helena must defy her heart, do the right thing, and think of others.
Until she doesn’t.
February Wrap Up
February 28, 2016 February 28, 2016 Jade @ Scatterbooker monthly wrap up, Uncategorized amreading, book review, bookblogger, books, David Bowie Reading Challenge, DBowieBooks, february tbr, monthly review, monthly wrapup
February has been another busy month for me. I’ve read seven books, including two from my David Bowie Reading Challenge #DBowieBooks. I was also lucky enough to receive two ARCs from the lovely people from HarperCollins Publishers Australia, Missing, Presumed and The Yearbook Committee.
It was the last month of my university holidays, so I did my best to relax as much as possible. I had lots of beach days, walks around the neighbourhood and vegged out in front of Netflix quite a bit. I’m beginning to feel that Sunday night feeling, but times about a million right now, though!
In crazy cat lady news, my new cat, Ziggy, has settled in very nicely. She’s starting to get along very well with her new brother, Zeus, besides from the occasional play fight and game of chasey!
Books I Read in February
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia Graves (Translator)
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets–an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow in reputation and influence over the past two decades. It is now widely recognized as one of the most brilliant and accessible histories of early Christian spirituality published in our time.
In 1945 an Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, thirteen papyrus volumes that expounded a radically different view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from that of the New Testament. In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today.
With insight and passion, Pagels explores a remarkable range of recently discovered gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, to show how a variety of “Christianities” emerged at a time of extraordinary spiritual upheaval. Some Christians questioned the need for clergy and church doctrine, and taught that the divine could be discovered through spiritual search. Many others, like Buddhists and Hindus, sought enlightenment — and access to God — within. Such explorations raised questions: Was the resurrection to be understood symbolically and not literally? Was God to be envisioned only in masculine form, or feminine as well? Was martyrdom a necessary — or worthy — expression of faith? These early Christians dared to ask questions that orthodox Christians later suppressed — and their explorations led to profoundly different visions of Jesus and his message.
Brilliant, provocative, and stunning in its implications, The Gnostic Gospels is a radical, eloquent reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.
Rebecca’s Tale by Sally Beauman
April 1951. It has been twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, and twenty years since Manderley, the de Winter family’s estate, was destroyed by fire. But Rebecca’s tale is just beginning.
Colonel Julyan, an old family friend, receives an anonymous package concerning Rebecca. An inquisitive young scholar named Terence Gray appears and stirs up the quiet seaside hamlet with questions about the past and the close ties he soon forges with the Colonel and his eligible daughter, Ellie. Amid bitter gossip and murky intrigue, the trio begins a search for the real Rebecca and the truth behind her mysterious death.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
“What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence.”
In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him – but at what cost?
Social prophecy? Black comedy? A study of free will? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates “nadsat”, the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
Edith Hind, the beautiful, earnest Cambridge post-grad living on the outskirts of the city has left nothing behind but a streak of blood and her coat hanging up for her boyfriend, Will, to find. The news spreads fast: to her parents, prestigious doctor Sir Ian and Lady Hind, and straight on to the police. And then the hours start to dissolve and reality sets in.
Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw soothes her insomnia with the din of the police radio she keeps by her bed. After another bad date, it takes the crackling voices to lull her to sleep. But one night she hears something. Something deserving of her attention. A girl is missing. For Manon the hunt for Edith Hind might be the career-defining case she has been waiting for. For the family this is the beginning of their nightmare.
As Manon sinks her teeth into the investigation and lines up those closest to Edith she starts to feel out the kinks in their stories and catch the eyes that won’t meet hers. But when disturbing facts come to light, the stakes jolt up and Manon has to manage the wave of terror that erupts from the family.
A stunning literary thriller that shows the emotional fallout from the anxious search for a young woman and lets you inside the mind of the detective hell-bent on finding her.
The Yearbook Committee by Sarah Ayoub
‘smart, funny and relevant’ – Melina Marchetta, bestselling author of LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI, SAVING FRANCESCA and ON THE JELLICOE ROAD
Five teenagers. Five lives. One final year.
The school captain: Ryan has it all … or at least he did, until an accident snatched his dreams away. How will he rebuild his life and what does the future hold for him now?
The newcomer: Charlie’s just moved interstate and she’s determined not to fit in. She’s just biding her time until Year 12 is over and she can head back to her real life and her real friends …
The loner: At school, nobody really notices Matty. But at home, Matty is everything. He’s been single-handedly holding things together since his mum’s breakdown, and he’s never felt so alone.
The popular girl: Well, the popular girl’s best friend … cool by association. Tammi’s always bowed to peer pressure, but when the expectations become too much to handle, will she finally stand up for herself?
The politician’s daughter: Gillian’s dad is one of the most recognisable people in the state and she’s learning the hard way that life in the spotlight comes at a very heavy price.
Five unlikely teammates thrust together against their will. Can they find a way to make their final year a memorable one or will their differences tear their world apart?
The Serenity Stone Murder by Marianne Jones
The peaceful city of Thunder Bay is shocked when one of its most prominent businessmen is murdered with a stone stolen from a nearby church garden. Visiting the city to attend a retreat, friends Margaret and Louise become intrigued by the circumstances surrounding the murder and quickly find themselves embroiled in the investigation. Will they discover that they’ve stepped into something they won’t be able to walk away from? Will the murderer target them next?
Review: The Serenity Stone Murder by Marianne Jones
February 28, 2016 February 28, 2016 Jade @ Scatterbooker 2016 Book Review, 4 star review, book review, Uncategorized amreading, book review, bookblogger, marianne jones, mystery, the serenity stone murder
When Margaret and Louise set off to visit Thunder Bay, Ontario, for a church retreat they get a lot more than they bargained for. Instead of a nice relaxing holiday, they experience a series of unfortunate events that end up in a murder investigation. Will they solve the mystery of the Serenity Stone murder or will they become the killer’s next victims?
This was a really fun short read. Louise and Margaret are lovely characters. They’re two women in their 50s and Jones did a brilliant job of developing their bantering style of relationship. Louise and her cheeky dog brought a lot of smiles and lightness to the overall feel of the story and were a perfect foil for Margaret and her slightly grumpy ways.
Title: The Serenity Stone Murder
Author: Marianne Jones
Published: September 6th 2014 by Split Tree Publishing Inc.
Source: Review copy from author
My Rating: 4/5 stars
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Review: The Yearbook Committee by Sarah Ayoub
February 24, 2016 February 24, 2016 Jade @ Scatterbooker 2016 Book Review, 5 star review, australian author, book review, Fiction, Uncategorized, Ya amreading, book, book review, bookblogger, books about bullying, contemporary, fiction, harpercollins, sarah ayoub, the yearbook committee, YA, young adult
The Yearbook Committee is being described as this generation’s The Breakfast Club and I can see why! The setting for this novel takes place in a private school. Five Year 12 students are thrown together onto the yearbook committee and we get to read about their progress over the entire school year.
The story is told from the perspective of each of the members of the yearbook committee who are all dealing with their own personal issues while they are completing their final year of high school. Despite the fact that almost none of them are on the committee by choice they gradually form friendships with each other and put together a pretty amazing yearbook.
The Yearbook Committee tackles some serious issues. Bullying is a major theme, and it’s the kind of insidious, relentless gossip that is unfortunately far too common among females. It can be so difficult to pinpoint or deal with and I think Ayoub did a brilliant job of depicting it realistically. This kind of bullying has always been around in high schools (and some workplaces!), but it can be so much worse when it moves online. The problem with the internet is that everything on it is permanent and public. So, unlike the pre-internet days when you could go home from school and it didn’t exist bullying now follows teenagers everywhere they go, even when they graduate! Apologies for the rant here, but it’s a subject dear to my Internet Communications geek heart. Getting back on topic, brilliant job by the author to raise such an important issue in the language that teenagers will pay attention to!
This novel also tackles such issues as family and peer pressure, mental illness, self-esteem issues, gender stereotyping and questions about friendships, decency and life after school. And it is all presented in a non-preachy and brilliant story with interesting and well-developed characters that teenagers and YA fans will fall in love with. Bonus points from me because it was set in Sydney with many references to my hometown, Melbourne. And yes, Charlie should definitely visit Lord of the Fries when she goes to Melbourne for the weekend, but not with Pete because he’s a jerk!
Title: The Yearbook Committee
Author: Sarah Ayoub
Published: 29 February 2016 HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary
Source: Review copy from HarperCollins Publishers Australia
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Review: Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
February 24, 2016 February 24, 2016 Jade @ Scatterbooker 2016 Book Review, 4 star review, thriller, Uncategorized amreading, book review, bookblogger, books, crime, crime thriller, fiction, harpercollins, harpercollins publishers Australia, literary fiction, missing presumed, mystery, susie steiner, thriller
Beautifully written crime thriller
When Edith Hind suddenly disappears the police immediately treat her case as high priority. Her father, Sir Ian Hind, is a prestigious doctor with connections to the royal family and politicians so they don’t want to stuff this one up. Missing, Presumed is told from the perspectives of Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw, Edith’s mother, Detective Constable Davy Walker and Edith’s best friend, Helena. Through the multiple points of view, we are able to see the effect a missing person case has on everyone involved, both the police investigating and the family and friends who are going out of their minds with worry.
I really enjoyed reading this novel from the multiple points of view. This allowed far greater character development than you normally find in crime thrillers. Steiner did a brilliant job of bringing each character to life and I enjoyed finding out more about each character by reading about them through the eyes of the other people they interact with.
This novel is also beautifully written. It is a bit of slow-boil thriller, but it is definitely worth the wait because by the time I got to the twists and final reveal I felt like I was reading about people I knew intimately. Add this one to your TBR list if you like crime thrillers with the depth and observation of literary fiction.
Title: Missing, Presumed
Author: Susie Steiner
Published: 1 March 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Literary Fiction
Review: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
February 23, 2016 February 24, 2016 Jade @ Scatterbooker 2016 Book Review, 4 star review, book review, David Bowie Reading Challenge, David Bowie Top 100 Books, DBowieBooks, Fiction, Uncategorized a clockwork orange, amreading, anthony burgess, book review, bookbloggers, books, classic books, david bowie, David Bowie Reading Challenge, David Bowie Top 100 Books, DBowieBooks, dystopian novel, fiction, literature, nadsat, Reading Challenge, science fiction, scifi
Horrorshow raskazz with lashings of ultraviolence!
A Clockwork Orange is a modern classic. Published in 1962, it depicts a frightening dystopian future where youths hopped up on drugs run riot in the streets and terrorise people in their own homes. Alex, our humble narrator, is one of those youths. Even though it is obvious he knows better, he is determined to continue on his merry way wreaking havoc with his droogs (friends), until they set him up and he is sent to prison. Alex undertakes an unusual and horrifying form of ‘therapy’ which makes him physically unable to perform or even think about acts of violence and is unceremoniously discharged from prison and left to fend for himself.
This novel raises some important questions about the matters of free will and choice. Is it morally ethical to remove a person’s ability to choose their own behaviour? How about when it means they will cease to commit acts of violence against others? Clearly the message this novel conveys is that is unethical to remove a person’s free will. I almost began to feel sorry for Alex when he was first released from prison and was unable to defend himself, but I soon got over that when he went straight back to his old ways as soon as he was able to.
My edition does contain the final chapter which is missing from many versions, as well as Stanley Kubrick’s film. I found it to be a bit of let down. I liked the idea of Alex deciding to change his ways, but thought the way he reached his decision was a bit unbelievable. It didn’t gel with anything we’d heard from him previously to just up and decide to be good for no other reason besides he wants a wife and child one day. Of course, I believe anyone can change, but there usually needs to be some kind of motivating event. Like maybe an actual wife and child.
Besides from that, it’s a must read. The made up language, nadsat, can be difficult to get into. I found this nadsat dictionary very useful for the first few chapters, but it is quite easy to get into the hang of it.
EDIT 24/02/16
I forgot to include my David Bowie song to match A Clockwork Orange. Obviously it’s Girl Loves me!
Title: A Clockwork Orange
Author: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 0241951445 (ISBN13: 9780241951446)
Genre: Classics, Sci Fi, Dystopia, Literature
Source: Own Copy
This book is part of the David Bowie Reading Challenge #DBowieBooks
Books Read: 4/100
Review: Rebecca’s Tale by Sally Beauman
February 22, 2016 Jade @ Scatterbooker 2015 year in review, 5 star review, book review, Fiction, Uncategorized 5 star review, amreading, book, book review, bookbloggers, fiction, gothic, historical fiction, mystery, rebecca, rebecca sequel, rebecca's tale, sally beauman, suspense
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again…
Rebecca’s Tale is an unauthorised sequel of Daphne du Maurier’s classic Gothic mystery. The year is 1951 and Colonel Arthur Julyan, long-time friend of the De Winter family, is still haunted by the circumstances of her death. With the help of his daughter, Ellie, and mysterious newcomer, Terance Grey, he determines to uncover the mysteries surrounding Rebecca’s death and her life before Manderlay.
The novel is told from multiple points of view, Colonel Julyan, Ellie, Terrance Grey, and Rebecca. During the course of their investigations Rebecca’s journal is discovered! Her journal details her childhood and why/how she came to marry Maxim De Winter and come to Manderlay. I loved reading from Rebecca’s point of view, even if she is proven to be an unreliable narrator, along with everybody in this story.
A lot of people have posted negative reviews of this novel. I think the biggest issue is that this version of Rebecca doesn’t match the way they see her. The author does use quite a lot of poetic license to create her version of Rebecca and the other characters. I really love this novel, though. It’s not quite as atmospheric or mysterious as the original, but it was still a very enjoyable read.
Title Rebecca’s Tale
Author Sally Beauman
ISBN 006117467X (ISBN13: 9780061174674)
Genre Mystery, Suspense, Historical Fiction, Gothic
Source Own Copy
My Rating 5/5 stars
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Kindness Fund
52 Lives and Scamp & Dude have joined forces this month to do something kind for children affected by bullying.
Do you know a child who has been through a difficult time as a result of bullying? Let us know and we may be able to help.
Every week, 52 Lives aims to change people’s lives and spread kindness, but this summer we’d like to do even more. So we have teamed up with the lovely people at Scamp & Dude to do something kind for children who have been bullied. We will be choosing a small number of children to surprise with a special treat – it might be tickets to a theme park, the toy they’ve always wanted…whatever will bring a big smile to their face and remind them that the world is filled to the brim with kind people.
Please note, as much as we would love to help every single child nominated, we sadly won’t be able to. But we will make sure that every child nominated receives a kind greeting card from Jaime (founder of 52 Lives) and Jo (founder of Scamp & Dude). We will aim to send all the gifts and cards before the summer holidays.
The form below needs to be completed by the child’s parent or guardian, and children nominated must be based in the UK. We respect the privacy of you and your child, so no information submitted in your nomination will be shared publicly without your permission. If you have any questions, please contact us.
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The best children’s digital books are hybrids between print books and digital games. Well-designed digital books can contribute to children’s vocabulary growth, comprehension, engagement and enjoyment of the story, writes Professor Natalia Kucirkova.
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Reading to your child? Digital books are as important as print books
OPINION: Instead of propagating a false dichotomy between print and digital books we need to start asking which books work best for which children and families.
Natalia Kucirkova
Professor of Early Childhood and Development at the University Stavanger, Norway and Senior Research Fellow at the University College London, UK
Published wednesday 11. december 2019 - 10:59
Responding to the growing interest in children’s e-books, Amazon has recently launched a new Kindle for kids. Yet the only story we hear about children’s reading on screen is how bad this is in comparison to reading print books. Indeed, American Paediatricians herald children’s print books as superior to digital books and an article in the New York Times advocates the view that e-books offer little value to young readers.
Portraying digital books as undesirable risks removing an important reading opportunity for children who might need such books most. The added value of digital books for children with special educational needs and language impairments is well-documented for children’s language or reading comprehension skills. Interdisciplinary research evidence shows that high-quality digital books - from e-books to story apps - can be beneficial to children’s reading experiences.
Print book meets digital game
If you have never seen a digital book, imagine illustrations with moving story characters, sounds and voiceovers, driven by a text-based story. Such e-books are also called picture book apps and can be accessed on smartphones or tablets. Tablets are available in 95.2 % of Norwegian kindergartens (Monitor, 2019) and the VEBB project funded by the Research Council of Norway has developed an online assessment tool for picture book apps in collaboration with kindergarten teachers.
The best children’s digital books are hybrids between print books and digital games. Well-designed digital books can contribute to children’s vocabulary growth, comprehension, engagement and enjoyment of the story. In some cases, an e-book can be as helpful as a parent reading with the child. This is particularly important for parents who are not used to reading routines at home or who are expected to read books that are not in their native language.
Children enjoy digital books as much as print books, if not more. Reading digitally is a preferred way of reading for reluctant readers, readers with few (or any) books at home and children who traditionally don’t enjoy reading on paper. While for adult readers digital texts are often skimmed and perceived differently than print books, children grow up surrounded with digital texts.
Avoid too many bells and whistles
There are challenges to address.
Too many commercial digital books are of low quality, with a “drill and skill” approach and little creativity. The intimate experience of reading to a child can become dominated by parents giving the child instructions on how to interact with the many bells and whistles in the app.
More government support is needed for content produced in local languages and supporting publishers to develop content specifically for digital books.
The “gatekeepers” Google and Apple need to change their publishing rules to allow for proper quality checks and support of independent publishing models.
And more collaboration between research and design is needed to develop higher-quality digital books. The International Collective of Research and Design in Children’s Digital Books, led by a team at the University of Stavanger, is a good step forward. The Collective brings together researchers, designers and developers in order to create the high-quality digital books our children deserve.
Reluctant parents
Research shows that parents are often sceptical of digital books’ potential to aid their children’s learning and they strongly prefer print books for children’s reading at home. This is understandable considering that reading digitally is not the same as reading a print book.
Reading digitally demands a different skills repertoire, including different ways of tapping, pressing and swiping pages. Parents and children who are not used to read with screens tend to focus on the reading device, which disrupts the experience. Moreover, too many interactive features can take the child’s attention away from the story, which impedes learning from the book.
Yet, story-making as part of digital reading can bring families together around a literacy activity. Reading digital books that parents and children can create themselves, supports parent-child bonding and contributes to a positive atmosphere at home. Therefore, instead of propagating a false dichotomy between print and digital books it is better to start asking which books work best for which children and families.
More focus on reading, less on format
In order to harness the full potential of digital books, we need to develop guidelines and best practice examples for joint parent-child e-reading. Another fruitful area is to design digital books that strategically involve the adult in the experience. A recent study developed an enhanced e-book, with questions and prompts for the parent. The researchers showed that reading such an enhanced e-book can increase parent-child conversation and positively involve both partners in the session.
Let there be no doubt – print books are, and will continue to be, important for all children’s reading. For babies and infants in particular, who treat books as objects and like to chew on them or hide behind them, print books are much better than e-books. As children grow up and learn the first letters and words, it is important that they are exposed to a variety of story types. This is not only about diverse story plots but also diverse story formats, such as e-books or story apps.
The earlier children are exposed to such variety, the better they become at making discerned choices about the books they like to read. The more they read, the more they learn about others and about literature. This often leads to children’s own production of texts. It is this cycle and not a binary digital/print reading that we should be propagating among parents and their children.
Natalia Kucirkova is Professor of Early Childhood and Development at the University Stavanger, Norway and Senior Research Fellow at the University College London, UK. She co-edits the Book Series Children’s Reading and Writing on Screen, leads the International Collective Children’s Digital Books and is author of How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books (UCL Press). @NKucirkova
Listen to Professor Kucirkova talk about digital children's books in the video below:
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The noble world of porcelain
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Alexander II opened tonight an exhibition “The noble world of porcelain” at the White Palace. This is the third in a series of exhibitions under the name “Treasures of the Royal Compound” in which the public will be introduced to rare and exceptional cultural heritage of the Royal Palaces. H.E. Mr. Predrag Markovic, Minister of Culture, Media and Information Society, Mrs. Ljiljana Miletic Abramovic, director of the Museum of Applied Arts and Mr. Dragomir Acovic, chairman of the Royal Council also addressed the guests and media at the opening.
The exhibition was opened by The Crown Prince who emphasized: “I believe that our citizens will enjoy this exhibition, and that it will motivate them to think about tradition and art, and make them realize how beautiful and useful in everyday life”.
Our famous artist Ms. Svetlana Stojanovic, cembalo and Ms. Karolina Beter, flute, performed a short music program.
The opening of the exhibition was attended by H.E. Mr. Mario Eduardo Bossi de Ezcurra, Ambassador of Argentina, H.E. Mr. Borisa Arnaut, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina, H.E. Mr. Alexandre Addor Neto, Ambassador of Brazil, H.E. Mr. Wolfram Maas, Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany, H.E. Mr. Semuel Samson, Ambassador of Indonesia, H.E. Mr. Yossef Levy, Ambassador of Israel, H.E. Mr. Nils Ragnar Kamsvag, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway, and many other distinguished guests.
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The Sermsang Khushig Khundii solar power plant in Tuv aimag, Mongolia. Source: ADB
July 8 (Renewables Now) - Thai solar power producer Sermsang Power Corporation PCL (BKK:SSP) said today that a solar park in Mongolia with a direct current (DC) capacity of 16.4 MW has commenced commercial operations.
The Khunsight Kundi solar park is located in the south of Ulaanbaatar city, near the new international airport.
The plant has a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 15 MW of its capacity with the National Dispatch Center (NDC). It will sell electricity at a feed-in tariff (FiT) of USD 0.162 (EUR 0.144) per kWh.
Sermsang Power bought a 75% stake in the project late last year. Sharp Energy Solutions Corporation (SESJ), part of Sharp Corp (TYO:6753), announced the completion of the facility last month.
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February 10, 2019 by SWestfall3
I’ve been watching Dynasties on BBC America, and I have been waiting until the series got to the African wild dog episode. African wild dogs, which the series calls “painted wolves” in light of a direct translation of their scientific name, Lycaon pictus, are critically endangered canids. Only 6,600 of them exist in the wild, and the series hooked up with Painted Dog Conservation to follow the high drama of two packs living at the Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe.
The story starts with a pack led by Tait. Tait is a ten-year-old breeding female, and she has over 200 descendants. One of these is Blacktip, the breeding female of growing pack, that now needs more territory to feed itself. Tait’s pack is in a pretty bad state. Their numbers are small, and because the African wild dog range in the park is surrounded on two sides by lion and spotted hyenas, Blacktip’s pack drives Tait’s pack from its territory.
Tait’s family escapes to lion country, where they are forced to hunt impalas, choke down some bits of meat, and then run like hell when the lions eventually show up. Blacktip’s pack lives very nicely, but they are forced to remain stationary while Blacktip nurses her pups. When they get old enough to move, Blacktip leads her pack against her mother in lion country, a campaign that will prove disastrous.
Spotted hyenas kill at least one pup, and lions almost off the rest of the litter. However, they are saved when a foolish African buffalo comes charging onto the scene. The buffalo was unexpected, but the lions hate buffalo more than they hate African wild dogs– and certainly prefer their meat. So the lions kill the buffalo, and the pups are spared.
The campaign ends when a Nile crocodile catches one of Blacktip’s pups and drags it into the Zambezi. It is the most graphic scene in the whole episode. I could not help but feel for the poor wild dog as it died in the crocodile’s jaws. This is a horrible way to die.
After that campaign, Blacktip retreats to her old territory, and Tait’s pack is able to return to its old haunts. Just before we hear that they have returned, Sir David Attenborough narrates that Tait died at the hands of lions. She was too old to keep running. Her mate refused to leave her side, and he dies at the hands of the lions. Surely, this scene had to have been witnessed, but it was probably too horrific to be shown as part of this documentary.
The film ends with Tait’s family hooking with some errant males. Their booming cries are hauntingly beautiful as the new males join up. A new mated pair is being crowned, and Tait’s daughter Tammy becomes the new lead female. And Tait’s dynasty continues on.
This film shows many amazing hunting scenes. I’ve never before seen any footage of African wild dogs hunting baboons, a pretty dangerous undertaking. Baboons are smart and strong and have massive canine teeth. But the dogs are able to cause such chaos in a baboon troop that some young ones do get left unattended in the melee.
In another hunt, Tait’s pack runs an impala into the Zambezi, where the crocodiles instantly devour it. You almost feel the dogs’ pain as that impala leaps into the water. That good meat, now lost to the archosaurs.
In another scene, we see Tait’s tiny litter of only two pups that are almost instantly threatened by honey badgers. One of Tait’s daughters flies into action and begins harrying the ratels to drive them off.
This film was such wonderful high drama. It was like the story of Exodus from the Old Testament, complete with its own Moses figure who never makes to the Promised Land, that mixes in with the story of Ernest Thompson’s Seton’s story about Old Lobo, the marauding wolf of the New Mexico ranges that dies because he will not abandon his mate.
And this story is fully true and documented before the rolling cameras.
Every time I watched those dogs run on their hunts, I thought how much they reminded me of sighthounds. Their svelte frames seemed to glide across the plains, running hard and fast after the game. Dan Belkin famously compared the saluki’s running style to this species, and in watching their endurance runs, I have to agree.
I particularly have enjoyed the way this series has made a conservation message part of the documentaries. In this one, the final part has Sir David Attenborough and the wild dog trackers standing and sitting among the packs. They tell us of the real problems facing these dogs. They need big territories to hunt their game, but most of the painted wolves don’t live in national parks. Livestock ranchers and pastoralists shoot and poison the dogs, even if they have legal protections. Zimbabwe has set up corridors for wildlife that allow travel between parks, but most African countries that have these dogs have not. So they must constantly run a gauntlet of often hostile humanity as they try to survive at the edge of lion and hyena territories.
The painted wolf, the painted dog, the African wild dog, or the Cape hunting dog are all names that we use for this animal. I prefer “painted wolf,” but I realize that no one knows what I’m talking about when I use that term. I hope that this film popularizes that name a bit more. The name “African wild dog” connotes something feral, something that we can just kill off and not consider more deeply.
Lycaon pictus, the painted wolf, has a far more noble connotation. No, they aren’t as magnificent as lions, but in their intense social behavior, we surely must see ourselves. Like us, they evolved in Africa as a distant running predators, and we probably were intense competitors for he same sorts of antelope. Our kind wound up taking over the whole world. Theirs remained in Africa, and now our kind has come quite close to wiping them off the face of the earth.
Films like this episode of Dynasties fully reveal the plight of these amazing creatures. They are pack-hunting wolves evolved in parallel on the great continent of Africa, and we are only now realizing their marvelous ways.
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on February 10, 2019 at 3:25 pm massugu
Thanks for the link — gonna watch it now.
on February 11, 2019 at 12:02 pm Nick DeStefano
Your comprehension of that wonderful Dynastie show I watched yesterday allowed me to mentally view it once again. The Painted Wolves are a beautiful breed. Its a shame they have been almost destroyed.I am 79 yrs of age and have just been introduced to this wonderful animal for the very first time . Its really unusual that the major Zoos of the world do not have or display these beautiful and unusual creatures. You have a great site here. I was first attracted to it by the Komondor which is another animal that I have only seen for the very first time. By the way our site is under construcion again. Thank You……..
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Labour, Mobility and Heritage
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lundi 6 juin 09:00 AM à 12:30 PM (3 heures 30 minutes)
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Recent writing in heritage studies and related disciplines has highlighted the stories and histories of working class people as an overlooked and, at times, marginalized element of the collective heritage imaginary and authorized heritage discourses (Klubock and Fontes 2009; Shackel, Smith and Campbell 2011). The heritage of work has the potential to generate powerful and at times difficult engagements with places where the nature of employment, industry and life have changed as a result of development and economic restructuring. An element of these dynamics that has not received much attention from scholars of heritage, however, is the need for people to move to earn a living. Unequal economic opportunities across scales—from the global and transnational, to the regional, to the local—incite and implicate a range of mobilities, from temporary and circular migration, to periodic absences from the home and extended daily commutes. Approaching this reality through a heritage lens may entail the destabilization of places and sites as the locus of heritage-making, opening the possibility of approaches that privilege the lived experience of workers with simultaneous and at times contradictory place attachments. As the literature on “new mobilities” has shown, mobility is an increasingly pervasive feature of economic and social life in the 21st century, but it has a history that is at times forgotten, diminished or misrepresented. Individual and community stories of the uprooting of lives, relationships and attachments to place and home that inevitably accompany work-related mobility are often held in private, as are the challenges associated with living and working in uncertain, precarious and at times unwelcoming arrangements and conditions.
The principal aim of this session is to provide a basis for the generation of understandings of the heritage of mobility related to labour, work and employment. The focus will be to engage with the lived experiences of workers by sharing the stories of individuals and communities affected by mobile work. Moreover, the inclusion of papers treating various forms of work-related mobility will permit a broader discussion on how heritage could be conceptualized in research that privileges mobility (although not a privileged mobility). The session will also encourage participants to consider creative and inclusive methods for representing and rendering visible the intersection of mobility and heritage. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome.
Dr Lachlan Barber
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Dustin Valen (McGill University)
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Sharon Roseman (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
10.00 Heritage of Penal Labour: Rethinking Work in Tracing Historical Movements within and Beyond Prisons
Shu-Mei Huang (National Taiwan University)
11.00 Heritages of Labour and Mobility in Rural Manitoba
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This Week in Review: A unique paywall plan in Boston, and ethics at TechCrunch and the Times
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news.
Paid and free, side by side: The Boston Globe became the latest news organization to institute an online paywall this week, but it did so in an unprecedented way that should be interesting to watch: The newspaper created a separate paid site, BostonGlobe.com, to run alongside its existing free site, Boston.com. PaidContent has the pertinent details: A single price ($3.99 a week), and Boston.com gets most of the breaking news and sports, while BostonGlobe.com gets most of the newspaper content.
As the Globe told Poynter’s Jeff Sonderman, the two sites were designed with two different types of readers in mind: One who has a deep appreciation for in-depth journalism and likes to read stories start-to-finish, and another who reads news casually and briefly and may be more concerned about entertainment or basic information than journalism per se.
The first thing that caught many people’s attention was new site’s design — simple, clean, and understated. Tech blogger John Gruber gave it a thumbs-up, and news design guru Mario Garcia called it ”probably the most significant new website design in a long time.” The Lab’s Joshua Benton identified the biggest reasons it looks so clean: Far fewer links and ads.
Benton (in the most comprehensive post on the new site) also emphasized a less noticeable but equally important aspect of BostonGlobe.com’s design: It adjusts to fit just about any browser size, which reduces the need for mobile apps, making life easier for programmers and, as j-prof Dan Kennedy noted at the Lab, a way around the cut of app fees required by Apple and others. If the Globe’s people “have figured out a way not to share their hard-earned revenues with gatekeepers such as Apple and Amazon, then they will have truly performed a service for the news business — and for journalism,” Kennedy said.
Of course, the Globe could launch the most brilliantly conceived news site on the web, but it won’t be a success unless enough people pay for it. Poynter’s Sonderman (like Kennedy) was skeptical of their ability to do that, though as the Atlantic’s Rebecca Rosen pointed out, the Globe’s plan may be aimed as much at retaining print subscribers as making money off the web. The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple wondered if readers will find enough at BostonGlobe.com that’s not at Boston.com to make the site worth their money.
The TechCrunch conflict and changing ethical standards: Last week’s flap between AOL and TechCrunch over the tech site’s ethical conflicts came to an official resolution on Monday, when TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington parted ways with AOL, the site’s owner. But its full effects are going to be rippling for quite a while: Gawker’s Ryan Tate called the fiasco a black eye for everyone involved, but especially AOL, which had approved Arrington’s investments in some of the companies he covers just a few months ago. Fellow media mogul Barry Diller also ripped AOL’s handling of the situation.
At the Guardian, Dan Gillmor said that while he doesn’t trust TechCrunch much personally, it’s the audience’s job to sort out their trust with the help of transparency, rather than traditional journalism’s strictures. Others placed more of the blame on TechCrunch: Former Newsweek tech editor Dan Lyons said TechCrunch’s people should have expected this type of scenario when they sold to a big corporation, and media analyst Frederic Filloux said TechCrunch is a perfect example of the blogosphere’s vulnerability to unchecked conflicts of interest.
There was more fuel for those kinds of ethical concerns this week, as the winning company at TechCrunch’s annual Disrupt competition was one that Arrington invests in. But Arrington had an ethical accusation of his own to make at the conference, pointing out that the New York Times invests in a tech venture capital fund which has put $3.5 million into GigaOM, a TechCrunch competitor. Poynter’s Steve Myers detailed the Times’ run-ins between the companies it invests in and the ones it covers (and its spotty disclosure about those connections), concluding that even if the conflict is less direct than in blogging, it’s still worth examining more closely.
As it plunged further into its battle with TechCrunch late last week, AOL was also reported to be talking with Yahoo, which recently fired its CEO, about a merger between the two Internet giants. All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher said there’s no way the deal would actually happen; Wired’s Tim Carmody called it a “spectacularly crazy idea” and GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram agreed, while Business Insider reminded us that they said a year ago that AOL and Yahoo should merge.
Meanwhile, the New York Times’ David Carr homed in on the core problem that both companies are facing: The fact that people want information online from niche sites, not giant general-news portals. “As news surges on the Web, giant ocean liners like AOL and Yahoo are being outmaneuvered by the speedboats zipping around them, relatively small sites that have passionate audiences and sharply focused information,” he wrote.
Facebook opens to subscribers: It hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention as some of its other moves, but Facebook took another step in Twitter’s direction this week by introducing the Subscribe Button, which allows users to see other people’s (and groups’) status updates without friending or becoming a fan of them.
As GeekWire’s Monica Guzman and many others noted, Facebook’s “subscribe” looks a heck of a lot like Twitter’s “follow.” When asked about similar Google+ features at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, a Facebook exec said it wasn’t a response to Google+.
Guzman said Facebook is putting down deeper roots by going beyond the limits of reciprocal friendship, and GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram pinpointed the reason why this could end up being a massive change for Facebook: It’s beginning to move Facebook from a symmetrical network to an asymmetrical one, which could fundamentally transform its dynamics. Still, Ingram said Twitter is much better oriented toward being an information network than Facebook is, even with a “Subscribe” button.
The change could have particularly interesting implications for journalists, as Poynter’s Jeff Sonderman explained in his brief outline of the feature. As he noted, it may eliminate the need for separate Facebook profiles and pages for journalists, and while Lost Remote’s Cory Bergman said that should be a welcome change for journalists who were trying to manage both, he noted that shows and organizations may want to stick with pages.
News Corp.’s scandal widens: An update on the ongoing scandal enveloping News Corp.: A group of U.S. banks and investment funds that own shares in News Corp. expanded a lawsuit to include allegations of stealing, hacking, and anti-competitive behavior by two of the company’s U.S. subsidiaries — an advertiser and a satellite TV hardware manufacturer. As the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple noted, these are old cases, but they’re getting fresh attention, and that’s how scandals gain momentum.
James Murdoch, the son of News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch, was also recalled to testify again before members of Britain’s Parliament later this fall, facing new questions about the breadth of News Corp.’s phone hacking scandal. The Wall Street Journal examined the scandal’s impact on the elder Murdoch’s succession plan for the conglomerate, especially as it involves James. The company’s executives also announced this week that they’ve found tens of thousands of documents that could shed more light on the phone hacking cases.
Reading roundup: Here’s what else went on this week:
— The biggest news story this week, of course, is actually 10 years old: Here’s a look at how newspapers marked the anniversary of 9/11, how news orgs used digital technology to tell the story, and a reflection on how 9/11 changed the media landscape.
— Twitter introduced a new web analytics tool to measure Twitter’s impact on websites. Here’s an analysis from Mathew Ingram of GigaOM.
— At an academic conference last weekend, Illinois j-prof Robert McChesney repeated his call for public funding for journalism. Here are a couple of good summaries of his talk from fellow j-profs Axel Bruns and Alfred Hermida.
— Finally, here’s a relatively short but insightful two-part interview between two digital media luminaries, Henry Jenkins and Dan Gillmor, about media literacy, citizen journalism and Gillmor’s latest book. Should make for a quick, thought-provoking weekend read.
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Arrington, Blodget, WikiLeaks, Irene - but is it journalism?
Buzzmachine :: Four incidents of late challenge the very notion of journalism. Michael Arrington, Henry Blodget, Wikileaks, and TV’s Irene coverage each in their own way raise the question: What is journalism? And does it matter?
Journalism is not defined by who does it and who does it does not define journalism.
Jeff Jarvis: "I define it broadly — some would say too broadly, but I am always afraid my umbrella is not broad enough. I say that journalism helps a community organize its knowledge so it can better organize itself. I say that a community can now share its information without us, so we journalists must ask how we add value to that exchange. I use Andy Carvin as a model of adding value through vetting, questioning, challenging, and giving context and attention to the end-to-end, witness-to-world flow that already goes on without him. But he violates plenty of rules, passing on information before it is known to be true — so we can get closer to what is true.
Jeff Jarvis: What is journalism, really? Does it matter?
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Mediatwits #9: Twitter Buys Tweetdeck; Facebook's Role in Breaking News
Welcome to the ninth episode of "The Mediatwits," the weekly audio podcast from MediaShift. The co-hosts are MediaShift's Mark Glaser along with PaidContent founder Rafat Ali. This week's show looks at the recent purchase of Tweetdeck by Twitter, and the questions it raises about companies starting businesses on the platform of other companies. If you run an app for Twitter but aren't bought by Twitter, where does that leave you?
This week's special guest is Jen Lee Reeves, who teaches at the Missouri School of Journalism and is the interactive director for KOMU-TV. She has been covering the recent tornadoes and bad weather in Missouri and using her TV station's Facebook page to connect with its community. Finally, the talk turns to conflicts of interest for entrepreneurial journalists and tech bloggers such as Michael Arrington, Kara Swisher and Om Malik. Should they be able to invest in companies they cover, be venture capitalists themselves? How do they maintain credibility?
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Rafat taking one more trip
1:08: Getting to Uzbekistan
2:20: No media fact-finding
2:45: Rundown of the show's topics
Twitter buys Tweetdeck
04:30: What will Twitter do with it?
07:05: Dick Costolo remains Twitter CEO (for today)
08:40: Inhibiting innovation?
10:25: TechCrunch Disrupt startups not tied to Twitter, Facebook
Interview with KOMU's Jen Lee Reeves
11:10: Background on Reeves
13:35: Heavy Facebook use in mid-Missouri
15:30: How Facebook use is different from Twitter
18:45: People coming to KOMU page rather than just reading news feed on Facebook
21:40: KOMU website changes to "river of news"
Conflicts for tech journalists
23:45: Background on conflicts for Michael Arrington, Kara Swisher, Om Malik
25:55: Rafat on how PaidContent dealt with conflicts
28:10: Mark notes the problem might be what people don't cover too
30:10: Om Malik was a respected journalist before becoming venture funder
Twitter Buys TweetDeck at WSJ Digits
What the Tweetdeck Acquisition Means for Marketers at AdAge
Newsroom, Community Use Facebook as Key Hub After Joplin Tornado at MediaShift
Images and Video from Joplin Tornado at KOMU
KOMU on Facebook
Kara Swisher, Michael Arrington, and me: New conflicts, and new opportunities, for the tech press at Nieman Lab
Godspeed on That Investing Thing, Yertle-But I Still Have Some Questions for Your Boss, Arianna at AllThingsD
Arrington Says The Real Conflict Of Interest In Tech Reporting Has Nothing To Do With Money at Business Insider
It's Hilarious That Mike Arrington Gets Beat Up For Investing In Startups When Om Malik Is A Partner At A VC Firm at Business Insider
Don't forget to vote in our weekly poll, this time about how journalists can deal with conflicts:
What's the best way for journalists to deal with conflicts of interest?Market Research
Mark Glaser is executive editor of MediaShift and Idea Lab. He also writes the bi-weekly OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. He lives in San Francisco with his son Julian. You can follow him on Twitter @mediatwit.
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AOL's Tim Armstrong to Mike Arrington: paid content can work
Techcrunch :: Tim Armstrong and Michael, Arrington touched on a variety of subjects, including AOL’s agressive content strategy at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. While AOL’s content has remained free, Armstrong does seem to think that a paid content model can work. “It’s a matter of how you do it…but I’m a long term believer in paid content as a strategy.”
Continue to read Leena Rao, techcrunch.com
Tags: AOL Business Issues Paywall Disrupt New York Michael Arrington paid content paywall Techcrunch Tim Armstrong
Kara Swisher, Michael Arrington, and me: New conflicts, and new opportunities, for the tech press
Changing technology is changing journalism in more ways than we can probably even understand. One of those changes concerns the definitions of “journalist” and “journalism” themselves, the question of who’s permitted to make or contest those definitions, and the other question of whether those lines are fair to draw in the first place.
This is one story about an instance of this argument that’s unusual for at least four reasons:
It involves some of the biggest bloggers in tech and in journalism
It happened on Mother’s Day;
It happened on Twitter;
I started it. And it was an accident.
Arrington and his investments
The focus of this particular argument was Michael Arrington. Arrington was an angel investor in technology startups before he founded TechCrunch, one of the biggest and most influential technology and tech business news sites on the web. For a few years, he was an investor and a publisher too.
In March 2009, in a post titled “The Rules Apply To Everyone,” he announced that he was going to discontinue investments to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. Then on April 27 of this year — some time after TechCrunch and then the Huffington Post had been acquired by AOL — he wrote “An Update to My Investment Policy,” announcing that he was investing in companies again, including companies and industries covered by TechCrunch.
Arrington acknowledged that from time to time, this would create conflicts of interest in his coverage, but promised he would disclose those whenever possible. He also wrote: “Other tech press will make hay out of this because they don’t like the fact that we are, simply, a lot better than them.”
The next day, AllThingsD‘s Kara Swisher wrote “Godspeed on That Investing Thing, Yertle–But I Still Have Some Questions for Your Boss, Arianna.”
Swisher wasn’t exactly polite to Arrington — the Yertle the Turtle comparison, and all — and said his post and policy were “vaguely icky.” But the thrust was directed not at Arrington or TechCrunch, but at Ariana Huffington, who is newly ranked above Arrington on AOL’s organizational chart:
Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn’t really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site covers? ….
[W]hile I kind of understand where Arrington is coming from, what I don’t understand is how this kind of convenient and on-the-fly rule-making can govern a much larger company whose strongly and repeatedly stated goal by Huffington herself is to create quality journalism….
Simply put, does AOL, which is touting itself as a 21st-century media company, need to have 21st-century rules of the road? Or perhaps not so much?
Who’s a journalist? What’s journalism?
These questions are contentious and much-contended. They also often obscure what might be a more meaningful inquiry into what makes for best journalism practices in this new world. How much do writers need to tell readers about themselves? Is a tweet a story? Now that journalists have more means to address each other and each other’s work directly, what’s the most appropriate way to do it?
When professional journalism organizations had a near-monopoly on publishing and broadcasting tools, they were largely able to dictate the codes of the trade among themselves. It’s easy to overstate how homogeneous those were, especially at different points in history. But it’s definitely true that as new publishing tools and new media companies are disrupting established businesses, they’re disrupting those codes, too.
The technology press is arguably at the head of this disruption. Tech blogs and media companies were (and are) among the first and most successful competitors to print and broadcast journalism. Because tech outlets also usually cover media-producing and media-consuming technology, they’re among the most reflective on their own tools.
They have also been the most entrepreneurial, partly mirroring the industries they cover. That’s how TechCrunch works, and also how AllThingsD works. Those outlets both put together big technology conferences. They both work very hard for the bottom line. They’re both 21st-century media companies.
“Screw Them All”
On May 7, Arrington responded to Swisher and other writers who’d questioned his new policy, in a blistering (even for Arrington) post titled “The Tech Press: Screw Them All.” In particular, he called out Swisher, her parent company AllThingsD, and her employee Liz Gannes, accusing them of being equally conflicted and much more evasive about their conflicts:
AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher, the chief whiner about our policy, is married to a Google executive. This is disclosed by her, but I certainly don’t see it as any less of a conflict than when I invest in a startup. And yet she whines. One of her writers, Liz Gannes, is married to a Facebook consultant. She covers the company and its competitors regularly. She discloses it as well, but it isn’t clear whether or not her husband has stock in Facebook. That’s something as a reader I’d like to know. And regardless, it’s a huge conflict of interest. I think someone will think twice before slamming a company and then going to sleep next to an employee of that company. Certain adjectives, for example, might be softened in the hopes of marital harmony….
Why do the people who complain the most about TechCrunch have these vague conflicts of interest themselves? Why aren’t they more forthcoming in their disclosures? How do they justify their hypocrisy, even to themselves? Seriously, how?
Aaaannnd this is where we jump to Twitter.
[View the story "Kara Swisher, Michael Arrington, and Me" on Storify]
Meanwhile, Columbia’s Emily Bell hit on one of the few really good ideas to come out of this whole mess:
[View the story "A new beat: accountability in tech press" on Storify]
Dave Winer — who would go on to discuss the idea in more detail with Jay Rosen — may have put the best coda on the whole affair with his post, “Journalist or not? Wrong question“:
[F]ights over who’s a journalist or not are pointless.
However, there is a line that is not pointless: Are you an insider or a user?
Insiders get access to execs for interviews and background info. Leaks and gossip. Vendor sports. Early versions of products. Embargoed news. Extra oomph on social networks. Favors that will be curtailed or withdrawn if you get too close to telling truths they don’t want told.
All the people participating in the “journalist or not” debate are insiders. They are all compromised. Whether or not they disclose some of these conflicts, none of them disclose the ones that are central to what they will and will not say.
That’s where we’re left. Are you in or are you out?
Image by Joi Ito used under a Creative Commons license.
Tags: Regular post accountability journalism AllThingsD conflict of interest Dave Winer Emily Bell Kara Swisher Liz Gannes Michael Arrington Silicon Valley Storify tech press TechCrunch technology journalism
4 Minute Roundup: AOL Buys TechCrunch; Knight Updates News Challenge
4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.
In this week's 4MR podcast I look at the recent shopping spree by AOL, including buying tech news blog TechCrunch for more than $30 million. PaidContent founder Rafat Ali tells me what TechCrunch needed to do to finally seal the deal. And I also talked with Knight Foundation's director of digital media, John Bracken, about recent changes in the Knight News Challenge contest for next year's entrants.
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Here are some links to related sites and stories mentioned in the podcast:
AOL Tried To Buy TechCrunch Twice Before at Business Insider
AOL Officially Announces Acquisition of 5Min at MediaMemo
AOL Will Buy TechCrunch, Mike Arrington and All at ClickZ
AOL Acquires TechCrunch at PaidContent
AOL's Wild Acquisition Day Concludes With Thing Labs, Maker of Brizzly at PaidContent
5th Knight News Challenge Opens For Entries Oct. 25 at Knight Foundation
Knight News Challenge '11 focuses on new areas at Lost Remote
Also, be sure to vote in our poll about what you think about AOL buying TechCrunch:
What do you think about AOL buying TechCrunch?survey software
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Inc.com: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington on breaking news and building trust
Great interview with TechCrunch founder and serial entrepreneur Michael Arrington on his approach to publishing, journalism and work.
On breaking news:
We break more big stories than everyone else combined in tech – and that’s not prebriefed news or something that was handed to us. I judge my own performance based on that. When we break a story, that’s a point. When someone else breaks a story, we’re minus a point. And I want to be positive points.
On dealing with sensitive information:
Negotiating with companies over how news breaks is a big part of what we do. I don’t think traditional journalists would do this or admit to it, but a source might say, “Yeah, we just got bought, but can you please not write about it for a week, because it might kill the deal?” Unless I know lots of other journalists are sniffing around, I generally defer to the entrepreneur. We probably lose half of those stories, but it’s the right thing to do. It builds trust. People aren’t going to tell you things if they don’t trust you.
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Mountain Home F-15Es Coming to Boise
by Scott Wolff Apr 6, 2015
Any FighterSweep fans in the Boise, Idaho area? If so, you’re in for a treat this summer! The Civil Engineering squadron at Mountain Home Air Force Base will be resurfacing the runway, so for three weeks up to 54 Boeing F-15 Strike Eagles will be relocating to Gowen Field in Boise.
Residents of Boise can expect louder than normal jet noise, as well as greater frequency, than what they routinely experience with the Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt IIs of the Idaho Air National Guard. Nothing like the “Sound of Freedom,” courtesy of Pratt & Whitney and General Electric afterburning turbofans, right?!
In addition to moving the aircraft, about 800 personnel from Mountain Home’s 366th Operations Group will commute to Boise each day for flight operations, which are scheduled tentatively from August 2-24. The 366th will be working out of facilities currently not in use by the Air Guard, needing the ramp space and buildings for maintenance activities, aircrew flight equipment, and other basic needs for flight operations.
A Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle from the 389 FS returns to park at Mountain Home AFB after a late-day DCA sortie.
The 389 FS “Thunderbolts,” 391 FS “Bold Tigers,” and 428 FS “Buccaneers”–a joint USAF/RSAF unit flying F-15SGs, are the three units affected most by the runway repairs. Even though the press release mentions August, F-15Es have been parked on the ramp at Gowen for the past couple of weeks, so the transition is already underway. If you have the opportunity to go out and take a look, please do so! I’m sure the Gunfighters would enjoy seeing the support!
About Scott Wolff
is the host, editor, and also a contributor to FighterSweep. He joined a well-known aviation lifestyle publication in early 2010 as a photographer, and a year later started writing feature articles. Since then, he has moved into a managing editor position at that publication. He holds a private pilot certificate and draws on his experience as a flight operations director in the airshow industry, as well as fourteen years spent in public service, to generate military and government-related content. Scott has received military altitude chamber training, emergency egress training, and has logged time in a variety of civilian and military aircraft.
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On December 8, 2017 By Sarah Ruffing RobbinsIn Blog, Community
I’m listening to the Code Talkers.
They tell a story about America that I want to hear.
“My name is Peter MacDonald,” said a righteously proud, now ninety-year-old leader of “the thirteen surviving Navajo Code Talkers” at the White House recently. In a ceremony that should have focused on the pivotal contributions of these Diné/Navajo World War II heroes, controversy emerged.
As multiple Native commentators pointed out quickly on social media, the vital role of the Code Talkers’ protecting crucial information from the enemy through use of the Navajo language was initially diminished in the moment via President Trump’s co-opting the occasion.
He denigrated Senator Elizabeth Warren with the “Pocahontas” reference he’s often used as a put-down and spoke in what a number of listeners felt was a demeaning tone to the courageous elders supposedly being honored.
The President calls a white woman "Pocahontas"—who was a Native American victim of child rape—at an event "honoring" Diné WWII code talkers, all in front a portrait depicting the original architect of Indian removal, Andrew Jackson. https://t.co/Du9DDg2cC3
— Lakota Law Project (@lakotalaw) November 27, 2017
Furthermore, in what, in retrospect, we might now see as an ironic forecasting of yet another governmental encroachment on Native heritage just announced this week, he positioned the podium where Peter MacDonald would give a brief address just in front of a portrait of President Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson, lead perpetrator in the infamous nineteenth-century Removal of many Native peoples from their homelands—engineering through manipulative political maneuvering what history today often calls the “Trail of Tears.”
But MacDonald determinedly—and compellingly soldiered on. In response to what could have been the dominant narrative of this occasion’s staging, MacDonald offered a counter-narrative.
MacDonald shared what Thomas King might term a “Native narrative,” using story for ethical impact. He presented an account of Code Talker history via what scholars like Scott Lyons and Malea Powell could salute as an example of adept rhetorical sovereignty in action. MacDonald’s comments first recalled the contributions of the Code Talkers as protectors of America who hid top-secret military messages’ strategic meaning in their Native language. He then offered up an unambiguous, open call to all of us to embrace shared community in these troubled (and often troubling) times. He urged listeners both to celebrate the US’s “diverse communities” (with their “different languages, different skills, different talents, and different religions”) and to honor the “freedom and liberty that we all cherish,” by coming “together as one,” to ensure that America will “remain so strong.”
In advocating, specifically, for a national museum to honor the history of the Code Talkers, MacDonald also pointed to the importance of safeguarding cultural resources as community-building archives. The “code words” used by the Code Talkers during WWII battles had to remain “all subject to memory only,” and could not be shared beyond the code-keepers’ circle, he said, in order to protect secret communiques’ battle-crucial content. But now, he explained, we need to make their story available to all Americans as a reminder of our best national values. This is an archive too important to lose.
I’m afraid that not everyone in the audience grasped the message offered through this vital cultural code. Earlier this week, President Trump announced an un-doing of National Monument status for much of the land that had been established by Presidents Clinton and Obama in Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand-Staircase-Escalante. Bears Ears National Monument will shrink to less than 20% of its original size. Grand Staircase will be cut approximately in half.
Hoodoos at sunrise in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Photo by Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management
The President’s announcement was held in front of an audience assembled to reflect that there is, we should acknowledge, some local support for this change. In that vein, he has cast the move as a rescue of lands that his Democratic predecessors wrongly grabbed away from potentially productive economic development. However, multiple conservationist groups have raised objections, as NPR has reported. A lawsuit is already being filed.
Meanwhile, Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye has also critiqued the decision. He decried the lack of consultation with tribal communities in the region. And Navajo leaders protesting in the Utah Capitol expressed a (sadly futile) wish that Trump would have visited the sites before putting so many ancient cultural artifacts and sacred sites in jeopardy by removing the protection of monument designation.
Cliff formations at Bears Ears National Monument
I wish President Trump had been listening more carefully to the story Diné/Navajo leader Peter MacDonald told. As Thomas King might remind the President: “Don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now.”
I, for one, am trying to listen to the Code Talkers. I hope others will as well.
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On January 9th, the Federal Aviation Administration sent a message to workers warning them about engaging in ‘political activity,’ according to emails obtained by The Young Turks.
“Employees are responsible for acquainting themselves with restrictions on partisan political activity and for not engaging in prohibited actions,” the email read. “It is important to ensure that remarks made in any forum regardless if made in connection with work or by a person identified as an FAA employee, comport with governing rules and regulations.”
This warning comes amid the fourth week of the record-breaking government shutdown, during which FAA employees have been working without pay.
In another, separate email, an FAA administrator warned employees that speaking out could have consequences. “Please be mindful of this guidance to avoid any unnecessary scrutiny,” they wrote.
One FAA employee responded to the email with criticism.
“Isn’t there also guidance about getting paid to work and forcing folks to work without pay being illegal?” they wrote, replying all to thousands of FAA employees.
“These people are not allowed to speak out. They are expected to work without pay, though,” the anonymous source who provided the emails told TYT.
“Not paying Air Traffic Controllers is akin to not paying ER doctors,” TYT’s source said. “These people are smart, have incredibly hard training and literally hold lives in their hands. They are continuing to show up without pay because they truly care about the safety of people within their care.”
There are currently 24,000 FAA employees working through the shutdown. Earlier this week, a federal judge ruled that the government did not have to pay federal employees currently being forced to work.
FAA unions say that the shutdown could pose a safety risk to air travel.
“Without a fully functioning FAA, a layer of safety is missing,” Mike Perrone, the national president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, told the New York Times.
“Every day that goes by that the government is shut down, safety is going to be compromised,” he added. “Every day that goes by, something could occur that causes a crack in the system.”
“People get on planes and think the pilot is in control,” TYT’s source said. “The pilot is not in control. They’re just hitting buttons. Controllers are keeping planes from hitting each other or the ground.”
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2015 NBA mock draft: Take 4
Jonathan Givony, DraftExpress.com
June 16, 2015, 11:33 PM UTC
1. Minnesota Timberwolves – Karl-Anthony Towns (PF/C, Kentucky, Fr., 19, 7-0, 248): While Towns won't be working out for any teams anytime soon, that won't stop Flip Saunders from picking him here if he believes he's the best talent available. The gap between Towns and Jahlil Okafor has widened significantly in recent months, to the point that it feels like a foregone conclusion that Towns will be going No. 1.
2. Los Angeles Lakers – Jahlil Okafor (C, Duke, Fr., 19, 6-11, 272): The Lakers have reportedly locked in on drafting their center of the future at No. 2, and Okafor seems to be the man for the job. His fit on the roster isn't great considering the existing pieces in place, but that won't stop them from taking him if they feel he's the best talent available.
3. Philadelphia 76ers – Kristaps Porzingis (PF, Sevilla/International, 19, 7-0, 230): While Porzingis' camp is rumored to be cool on the Sixers as a potential destination, that certainly won't stop general manager Sam Hinkie from picking him. Joel Embiid's recent injury setback has made Porzingis a lot more attractive, and there's still a great deal of uncertainty regarding when Dario Saric, who is more of a small forward, will come over. According to what we're told, it absolutely won't happen before 2016, and could get pushed back to 2017 when he’s no longer bound by the NBA rookie-scale contract. Regardless, Hinkie believes in swinging for the fences in search of maximum potential, and Porzingis, with his tremendous athleticism and sweet shooting stroke, certainly has a great deal of that.
4. New York Knicks – D'Angelo Russell (PG/SG, Ohio State, Fr., 19, 6-5, 193): The Knicks will be doing backflips in their war room if the Sixers indeed decided to pass on Russell. Not only is he a tremendous talent, but he also fits the triangle offense to a "T," and his ball-handling, shooting and unselfishness could go a long way in starting to fix many of the issues on the Knicks roster.
5. Orlando Magic – Willie Cauley-Stein (C, Kentucky, Jr., 21, 7-1, 242): Orlando has a talented roster, but is still trying to find a way to operate in sync with a glaring lack of defense and rim protection in the frontcourt. Cauley-Stein is the most versatile defender in this draft class, and should have no problem playing alongside the likes of Nikola Vucevic, Channing Frye and Tobias Harris, giving new head coach Scott Skiles plenty of lineup flexibility. Pairing him with Victor Oladipo, Elfrid Payton and Aaron Gordon would give the Magic one of the most athletic young rosters in the NBA. The Magic will also likely give a long look at the floor-spacing options in this draft, including Mario Hezonja and Kristaps Porzingis.
6. Sacramento Kings – Mario Hezonja (SG/SF, Barcelona/International, 20, 6-8, 200): Vlade Divac, now the top decision maker in Sacramento, took a while to come back from the Adidas EuroCamp in Treviso, electing to spend more time in Europe. With Divac having seen little to nothing of any of the American prospects, Croatian Mario Hezonja is rumored to be the player he's currently most comfortable with, aided greatly by his deep connections in the Balkan region. Hezonja won't be done playing for Barcelona until after the draft, but there is still some uncertainty about who exactly will be making the pick here.
7. Denver Nuggets – Emmanuel Mudiay (PG, Guangdong/International, 19, 6-5, 200): The Nuggets would likely be extremely pleased to see Mudiay, considered a top-three prospect until January, fall to them here. Ty Lawson's future in Denver remains unclear. Regardless, the two can play together in the same backcourt until that gets figured out thanks to Mudiay's outstanding size and length.
8. Detroit Pistons – Justise Winslow (SF, Duke, Fr., 19, 6-7, 222): Winslow's stock surged in the NCAA tournament, and he might be slightly disappointed to fall this far because of the emergence of the two Europeans in the top six. Detroit is rumored to be heavily involved in trade discussions for this pick, and might not be the team ultimately selecting here. Regardless, Winslow is a steal here, and has the perfect skill-set and temperament for what the Pistons and Stan Van Gundy are looking for.
9. Charlotte Hornets – Devin Booker (SG, Kentucky, Fr., 18, 6-6, 206): Charlotte was one of the worst outside-shooting teams in the NBA last season, which could make Booker an attractive option at this spot in the draft. He plays a real position of need at shooting guard, which was occupied by the streaky shooting Gerald Henderson, who has a player option on his contract for next season. That's even more the case now that Lance Stephenson has been traded.
10. Miami Heat – Stanley Johnson (SF, Arizona, Fr., 18, 6-7, 242): Miami could seemingly go in a lot of directions here, with a trade certainly being one potential option. The Heat desperately need athleticism on the wing to hopefully replace Dwyane Wade one day, and Johnson certainly has a great deal of upside to grow into long-term. He has outstanding potential as a defender and is a developing shooter, which is something the Heat could absolutely use.
11. Indiana Pacers – Myles Turner (C, Texas, Fr., 19, 7-0, 239): The Pacers have indicated they intend to play a faster and more open style of offense next season. Drafting a stretch big man like Turner could make sense with that in mind, especially if Indiana is serious about moving on from potential free agent Roy Hibbert (player option).
12. Utah Jazz – Frank Kaminsky (PF, Wisconsin, Sr., 22, 7-1, 231): The Jazz have built one of the most talented young rosters in the NBA with an exciting blend of length and athleticism. Outside shooting has long been a priority of this new regime, and with that in mind, drafting one of the best shooters available in Kaminsky could make a lot of sense. As good as the Rudy Gobert/Derrick Favors 4/5 combo is defensively, it would be helpful to have a real stretch-4 to plug in at times to help the team's spacing.
13. Phoenix Suns – Trey Lyles (PF, Kentucky, Fr., 19, 6-10, 241): The Suns sport a shallow frontcourt by Western Conference standards, and could well look to bolster their size and length inside at this pick. Lyles brings a valuable combination of versatility and offensive skill, which could be helpful to this rebuilding squad.
14. Oklahoma City Thunder – Cameron Payne (PG, Murray State, So., 20, 6-2, 183): After suffering a minor injury in Indiana, Payne is back on the workout circuit, trying to find a floor for himself. He's worked out for teams drafting anywhere from the high lottery to the 20s, as there are seemingly a number of trade scenarios in play that could see him end up being selected by a team that doesn't currently hold a specific pick.
15. Atlanta Hawks from Brooklyn Nets – Kelly Oubre (SF, Kansas, Fr., 19, 6-7, 203): Oubre's stock has been volatile in recent weeks. He's been getting mixed reviews in private workouts and background checks. Atlanta could well decide to swing for the fences and pick him here if he's still available. His size, length and potential as a perimeter shooting/multi-positional defender could be extremely attractive alongside the Hawks' existing roster pieces.
16. Boston Celtics – Sam Dekker (SF, Wisconsin, Jr., 21, 6-9, 219): The Celtics need a true rim protector, but that will be difficult to find at this stage of the draft. Instead, they may look to add some depth at the 3/4 spots, where they are fairly shallow at the moment. Evan Turner started at small forward for most of last season, but is approaching the final season of his contract and has yet to prove himself as a long-term keeper. At the 4, the Celtics have been starting 30-year-old Brandon Bass, who becomes a free agent this summer (as does his backup Jonas Jerebko). Dekker knows how to play without the ball and fits into an unselfish and team-oriented offense, which could endear him to head coach Brad Stevens.
17. Milwaukee Bucks – Bobby Portis (PF, Arkansas, So., 20, 6-11, 246): The Bucks are shallow at the power forward spot after trading Ersan Ilyasova to the Pistons. Jabari Parker and Giannis Antetokounmpo are both combo forwards, and potential free agent Jared Dudley (player option) sees minutes there as well. Portis is more of a traditional 4/5 who projects to be able to space the floor, which is an absolute necessity with the non-shooting Michael Carter-Williams as the primary ball-handler. Portis' toughness and aggressiveness will be welcomed by Jason Kidd.
18. Houston Rockets from New Orleans Pelicans – Tyus Jones (PG, Duke, Fr., 19, 6-2, 185): Since Patrick Beverley (restricted free agent) went down with an injury, the Rockets have been giving heavy minutes to 37- and 38-year-old Jason Terry and Pablo Prigioni, neither of whom have fully guaranteed contracts next season. With that in mind, point guard is absolutely a position the Rockets could look to address with this pick. Jones, Jerian Grant and Cameron Payne are all likely to come off the board around this spot. Jones' shooting, playmaking and high basketball IQ will fit in nicely alongside the pieces the Rockets already have in place. His defensive limitations could be minimized with former Defensive Player of the Year Dwight Howard behind him.
19. Washington Wizards – Jerian Grant (PG, Notre Dame, Sr., 22, 6-5, 198): The Wizards have a nice core in place with John Wall, Bradley Beal and Otto Porter, and could look to address the backup point guard spot, which has been a rotating door of players for some time now. Grant is a local player whom the organization will have a strong comfort level with and is big enough to spend some time in the same backcourt as Wall, which could give the team nice roster flexibility.
20. Toronto Raptors – Kevon Looney (PF, UCLA, Fr., 19, 6-9, 222): With Amir Johnson entering free agency, the power forward position is one the Raptors could clearly look to address in this draft. Looney was projected as a top-10 pick by some outlets for most of the year and has good value at this spot. His length and perimeter shooting ability could be intriguing.
21. Dallas Mavericks – R.J. Hunter (SG, Georgia State, Jr., 21, 6-6, 185): The Mavs didn't have much depth on the wing this season, and that might become even more of an issue once Monta Ellis opts out of the final year of his contract. R.J. Hunter has excellent shooting mechanics and good instincts as a passer, which could help him find a role alongside the likes of Dirk Nowitzki and Co. in Rick Carlisle's offense.
22. Chicago Bulls – Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (SF, Arizona, So., 20, 6-7, 211): The Bulls have good depth throughout their roster, but might want to start thinking about adding more firepower on the wing as Mike Dunleavy Jr. (who turns 35 this summer) enters free agency, potentially along with 34-year-old Kirk Hinrich (player option). Justin Anderson has the size, length and athleticism to guard shooting guards and small forwards and could bring multi-positional versatility and toughness to an already physical roster.
23. Portland Trail Blazers – Rashad Vaughn (SG, UNLV, Fr., 18, 6-5, 199): The Trail Blazers suffered a serious setback when Wes Matthews went down with a season-ending injury, and could look to bolster their depth on the wing, where they have a number of potential free agents this summer and next.
24. Cleveland Cavaliers – Montrezl Harrell (PF, Louisville, Jr., 21, 6-8, 253): With Kevin Love, Tristan Thompson, Kendrick Perkins and Shawn Marion entering free agency, the Cavs could well look to bolster their frontcourt depth. Harrell is a long, athletic and physical power forward who can finish around the basket, crash the offensive glass and play competitive defense, which makes him a perfect fit on this roster.
25. Memphis Grizzlies – Justin Anderson (SF, Virginia, Jr., 21, 6-6, 231): The Grizzlies are already lacking depth at the small forward position, and could lose Jeff Green to free agency, which will only increase their sense of urgency. Ranking 29th in the league in 3-pointers made this past season, they will undoubtedly look at the best shooters available here. Anderson made 45 percent of his threes at Virginia and has multi-positional versatility defensively with his 7-foot wingspan.
26. San Antonio Spurs – Anthony Brown (SF, Stanford, Sr., 22, 6-7, 211) All three of San Antonio's shooting guards (and five of their six wing players) become free agents this summer, which could definitely prompt the Spurs to look closely at their wing options in the draft. Brown shot 44 percent on threes this season, is highly unselfish and has multi-positional versatility defensively with his 6-foot-11-plus wingspan, which could help him find a role in Gregg Popovich's rotation.
27. Los Angeles Lakers from Houston Rockets – Delon Wright (PG, Utah, Sr., 23, 6-6, 181): With Jeremy Lin's contract expiring, the Lakers could certainly look at the point guard position either in the draft or free agency. Sporting the second-worst defense in the NBA, picking a big and long rebounder/defender like Delon Wright definitely makes some sense.
28. Boston Celtics from Los Angeles Clippers – Chris McCullough (PF, Syracuse, Fr., 20, 6-9, 199): With their second pick in the first round, the Celtics could simply look to swing for the fences for the highest upside player they can draft. At 6-foot-9, with long arms and soft touch, McCullough is talented enough to get drafted much higher than this, and Boston can afford to be patient and develop him.
29. Brooklyn Nets from Atlanta Hawks – Terry Rozier (PG, Louisville, So., 21, 6-2, 190) Brooklyn's point guard duo of Deron Williams and Jarrett Jack are both 31 years old and appear to be on the decline. The Nets could look to infuse some athleticism to their roster and the tough and energetic Rozier is one solid candidate.
30. Golden State Warriors – Jonathan Holmes (SF/PF, Texas, Sr., 22, 6-9, 242) Big men David Lee and Marreese Speights are both approaching the final year of their contracts. With that in mind, the Warriors could look to add some depth to their frontcourt. Holmes' potential as a stretch-4 could be attractive in an offense that revolves heavily around spacing and 3-point shooting.
31. Minnesota Timberwolves – Guillermo Hernangomez (C, Sevilla/International, 20, 6-11, 255)
32. Houston Rockets from New York Knicks – Arturas Gudiatis (C, Zalgiris/International, 21, 6-10, 253)
33. Boston Celtics from Philadelphia 76ers – Jordan Mickey (PF/C, LSU, So., 20, 6-8, 238)
34. Los Angeles Lakers – Nikola Milutinov (C, Partizan/International, 20, 7-0, 220)
35. Philadelphia 76ers from Orlando Magic – Rakeem Christmas (PF/C, Syracuse, Sr., 23, 6-10, 243)
36. Minnesota Timberwolves from Sacramento Kings – Jarell Martin (SF/PF, LSU, So., 20, 6-9, 239):
37. Philadelphia 76ers from Denver Nuggets – Robert Upshaw (C, Washington, So., 21, 7-0, 258):
38. Detroit Pistons – Mouhammadou Jaiteh (C, Nanterre/International, 20, 6-11, 247)
39. Charlotte Hornets – Dakari Johnson (C, Kentucky, So., 19, 7-0, 265)
40. Miami Heat – Cliff Alexander (PF/C, Kansas, Fr., 19, 6-9, 239)
41. Brooklyn Nets – Christian Wood (PF, UNLV, So., 19, 6-11, 216):
42. Utah Jazz – Andrew Harrison (PG/SG, Kentucky, So., 20, 6-6, 213)
43. Indiana Pacers – J.P. Tokoto (SG, North Carolina, Jr., 21, 6-6, 196)
44. Phoenix Suns – Cedi Osman (SF, Anadolu Efes/International, 20, 6-8, 190)
45. Boston Celtics – Richaun Holmes (PF, Bowling Green, Sr., 21, 6-10, 243)
46. Milwaukee Bucks – Michael Frazier (SG, Florida, Jr., 21, 6-5, 199)
47. Philadelphia 76ers from New Orleans Pelicans – Olivier Hanlan (PG/SG, Boston College, Jr., 22, 6-4, 186)
48. Oklahoma City Thunder – Norman Powell (SG, UCLA, Sr., 21, 6-4, 215)
49. Washington Wizards – Joseph Young (SG, Oregon, Sr., 22, 6-2, 182)
50. Atlanta Hawks from Toronto Raptors – Daniel Diez (SF, San Sebastian/International, 22, 6-8, 216)
51. Orlando Magic from Chicago Bulls – Pat Connaughton (SG, Notre Dame, Sr., 22, 6-5, 215)
52. Dallas Mavericks – Vince Hunter (PF, UTEP, So., 20, 6-8, 208)
53. Cleveland Cavaliers from Portland Trail Blazers – Tyler Harvey (SG, Eastern Washington, Jr., 21, 6-4, 181)
54. Utah Jazz from Cleveland Cavaliers – Larry Nance (PF, Wyoming, Sr., 22, 6-9, 227)
55. San Antonio Spurs – Awudu Abass (PF, Cantu/International, 23, 6-7, 224)
56. New Orleans Pelicans from Memphis Grizzlies – Shawn Dawson (SG/SF, Rishon Le-Zion/International, 21, 6-6, 195)
57. Denver Nuggets from Los Angeles Clippers – Aaron White (PF, Iowa, Sr., 22, 6-9, 220)
58. Philadelphia 76ers from Houston Rockets – Josh Richardson (SG, Tennessee, Sr., 21, 6-6, 200)
59. Atlanta Hawks – Alan Williams (C, UC Santa Barbara, Sr., 22, 6-8, 261)
60. Philadelphia 76ers from Golden State Warriors – Cady Lalanne (PF/C, Massachusetts, Sr., 23, 6-10, 241)
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Welsh Health Minister promotes home abortions
Vaughan Gething addresses Welsh Assembly Members
SPUC is currently challenging a similar move in Scotland
Health Secretary Vaughan Gething has said that the abortion pill should be authorised for home use.
Speaking in the Welsh Assembly on Tuesday, Mr Gething told members: "I have instructed officials to start work immediately on how we can amend the legal framework to allow for the treatment of the termination of pregnancy to be carried out at home."
He added: "My officials will now work with stakeholders to develop a fully-costed and timetabled implementation plan."
Not in keeping with the law
It is unclear what Mr Gething meant by "amend the legal framework", as Wales is subject to the 1967 Abortion Act, and so any amendment would need to be done in the Westminster Parliament. In Scotland, the Government claimed that it did not need to change the law to designate the home as a place where abortion could take place, although this is currently being challenged by a judicial review brought by SPUC Scotland.
The key grounds for SPUC's legal challenge are firstly,that the home is not an approved place for abortions to take place under the Abortion Act, and secondly, that it demands the presence of medical, nursing or clinical staff during a procedure.
SPUC challenge could have huge implications
In Westminster, a Government minister recently replied to a question saying: "abortions must be performed under the legal framework set by the Abortion Act 1967. We are not currently in a position to approve homes as a class of place under the Act."
He also said that while "the Scottish Government have made that decision...it is subject to a dispute and that a judicial review has been brought against it by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), which is obviously testing the legality of the Scottish Government and their powers to act. We shall look closely at developments in these legal proceedings, as well as any other evidence that arises."
An Irish doctor who is campaigning to repeal the Eighth Amendment, recently warned of the serious dangers of taking the abortion pill away from medical supervision.
News in brief:
Ireland: Facebook to target ‘dark ads’ ahead of abortion vote
Anti-abortion doctor’s address to First Communion Mass defended
Mum-to-be got her baby scan made into nail art… and people are loving it
Arizona Passes Law To Dictate How Separated Couples' Frozen Embryos Can Be Used
Dignitas backs Guernsey assisted dying campaign
Christian leaders unite to oppose assisted suicide in Guernsey
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Air France Limits Paris-Tehran Flights to Summertime Only
© Sputnik / Mihail Kutusov
https://sputniknews.com/world/201805031064103528-air-france-iran-flights/
Blaming poor economic performance for more than two years, Air France has decided to cut the service it provides through subsidiary Joon linking Paris and Tehran to just the summertime.
This past January, as part of a wider restructuring and rebranding, Air France shifted Tehran services from its main network to the newly launched subsidiary, Joon, which aims primarily at a younger clientele between the ages of 18 and 35.
Now, the company is cutting its Paris-Tehran route to only operate between the two national capitals during the summer season, to take effect October 28.
"Air France has decided to adapt its program to better match demand," the airline's spokesperson told Reuters Wednesday.
Observers say the carrier is concerned with the international uncertainty over whether or not US President Donald Trump will withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal struck between Iran, the US and other powers. People doing business in Iran have reportedly been reluctant to travel to the Islamic Republic to close deals until the sanctions issue is settled.
READ MORE: Netanyahu Seeks to Prod Trump to Withdraw From Iran Nuclear Deal — Reports
"This just shows how the uncertainty on the Iran deal is beginning to have an impact on the business sentiment towards Iran," a European diplomat said, according to Reuters.
© REUTERS / Raheb Homavandi/Files
'Sanctions on Iran Had Big Impact on Price, Availability of Oil' – Expert
According to Air France's spokesperson, the move wasn't driven by the political climate.
Meanwhile, flight schedule data from database firm OAG indicates that airlines flying to Iran from the UK, France, Germany and Turkey believe that demand for flights to Iran peaked last year.
According to the data, there were 6,281 scheduled one-way flights to Iran from those countries in the summer of 2017, compared to 5,594 planned for the summer of 2018. That is, however, higher than 4,666 in the summer of 2015.
READ MORE: Iran Vows 'Surprising' Response to Israel Amid Nuclear Deal Tensions
Earlier this year, Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways also ended flights to Iran and Uganda.
© AP Photo / Ronald Zak
US, EU Countries Sabotaging Russian-Chinese Initiative in Support of Iran Deal - Source
Trump has repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran, commonly known as the nuclear deal. In late January 2018, he intensified his rhetoric, asking the US Congress to address the flaws in the "terrible Iran nuclear deal" and threatening to pull out of it if they weren't fixed to his satisfaction. Trump is expected to announce his decision on the JCPOA by the May 12 renewal deadline. French President Emmanuel Macron recently flew to Washington to try and convince Trump to retain the deal, but had no luck.
The JCPOA was inked by the EU, Iran and the P5+1 group, which includes Russia, China, France, the UK, the US plus Germany, on July 14, 2015. Under the deal, Tehran pledged to not seek to develop or acquire nuclear weapons in exchange for the signatory powers lifting sanctions imposed against Iran for the purpose of stopping its alleged nuclear weapons development.
Condoleezza Rice Backs Trump's Possible Withdrawal From Iran Deal
'No Evidence of Iran Financing 9/11 Attacks Was Shown in the Case' - Writer
State of Science: Iran Overtakes Israel in Scientific Research Rankings
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Air France, Iran, France
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We Need Diverse Books To Enlighten, Not To Enforce Enlightenment
On Diversity in Literature and #WNDB
By Susan L. Lipson
I wish that discussions of the need for diversity in literature (#WNDB, a.k.a. We Need Diverse Books) focused more on realistically presenting the glorious array of humanity in literature than on zealously defying stereotypes. Defiance through diversity implies a defensiveness that ironically gives power to the stereotypes and undermines the very reasons behind the need for the #WNDB movement. I equate this to the use of the word “tolerance” to promote programs of unity among people, while paradoxically suggesting that differences must be “tolerated” (i.e., endured or allowed, implying a superiority of the one who must “tolerate” another). “Respect” is a much more apt term for the encouragement of open-mindedness and social harmony. And “diversity” in literature should encourage and facilitate respect, not enforce tolerance.
Similarly, the inclusion of the term “white privilege” in discussions of diversity in literature only serves as a finger-wagging kind of term to divide—and not even accurately—readers into the following subgroups: white people who have economic, educational, and social privileges and black people who do not. What about the white people who live in poverty—are they still “privileged”? Or the black people who are doctors, lawyers, authors, teachers, scientists, artists, etc.—are they “underprivileged”? Or the white people who are privileged in some aspects, but discriminated against in others—such as religion or sexual identity? Or the black people who are considered “privileged” by the “underprivileged” within their own racial group, and disdained as being “too white”? Or the non-white, non-black people who are left out of the discussion about “privilege” as the social illness that requires the good medicine provided by “diverse books” to heal the world? How can such divisiveness have arisen from a movement designed to grow inclusiveness?
Recently, an online debate I had with another writer about a reference to “white privilege” led to my being questioned about my understanding of “white privilege,” which the other writer defined as “white readers seeing diverse media starring people-of-color as ‘not for me.’” I pointed out that the term “white” in her definition is inadequate, since I teach many Asian students, and I have seen a few hesitate to read books I’ve handed to them that feature black kids as protagonists, whereas I’ve never seen such hesitation about books that feature white kid protagonists. I distinctly remember one such student saying to me, after reading a novel by Sharon Flake, “I never would have picked this up on my own, and I’m really glad you gave it to me. It was really good.” The term “white privilege” clearly is not applicable to a non-white reader who avoids books about “people-of-color” when she herself has brown skin. Also, what is the actual “privilege”—is it a socioeconomic advantage or a naïve mindset about the “underprivileged”?
One of my former students, a privileged black girl with a lawyer and a doctor for parents, who grew up in a predominantly non-black, upper-middle class neighborhood of whites and Asians, once told me that she found it offensive that she, a suburban black girl, had no black characters representing her in literature. I told her that I could relate to that because most of the Jewish kids in books I'd read were nothing like me at all; they showed up in Holocaust stories, or turn-of-the-century immigrant tales, or stories about Orthodox Jewish life, so unlike my own. The absence of people like us in literature is disappointing for us personally, but even more disappointing for the reasons that people unlike us know us only through outdated or stereotypical characters. Diversity must focus on realistic portrayals more than tokenism.
This exploration of the admirable, yet sometimes flawed #WNDB movement leads me to conclude that diversity in literature is not just about characters representing various races, cultures, religions, sexual identities, or physically challenged lifestyles. It’s not just about publishing books by authors who are “people-of-color” or of nonmainstream lifestyles (however "mainstream" is defined by publishers). But it is about opening our minds and our media to sharing stories about memorable, realistic people from all walks of life, as a means of broadening all readers’ perspectives and making readers not just see themselves in characters, but see themselves in relation to both familiar and unfamiliar characters. Diversity is universalism.
Labels: #kidlit, #publishing, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, #WNDB, #writingmemorablewords, children's books, diversity, literature, susan L. Lipson
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Our summer sale is almost over!
Oakreef
I’m confused
Kid Chaos
Hi, Confused! I’m Flabbergasted, nice to meet you!
Marc Whipple
Good! Confusion is a part of life. As are vengeance, fear and love. All facets must be embraced.
Potatamoto
*sigh* You know, I was all set to think better of Furnace here. I really thought when he started to flame up and shouted ‘Mega Girl’ in the last page he was going to try and leap to her rescue. Ah well. I guess I’m disappointed, but not surprised.
I think I’ve been looking at this wrong. Furnace is a misogynist asshole. Moonshadow’s a sociopathic moron. Great power might entail great responsibility, but in the real world nobody really cares about that. People are always going to be just people. And people kind of suck, by and large.
If I were Allison, I’d be mighty sick of people, mostly holier than thou douches, telling her that she somehow lacks the right to weigh in on moral and ethical issues because she ‘doesn’t really understand what it is to be HUMAN.’ Humanity isn’t defined by the capacity to be hurt or killed. A roach can be hurt or killed, and knows to shy away from circumstances that can do that. Humans are soft, hairless and slow. Physically speaking, there’s a hell of a lot of other creatures that are perfectly capable of killing/hurting/maiming us with very little effort.
The only real thing we’ve got on all the other teeming organisms on this planet (especially beetles. Beetles man. They’re everywhere. Be afraid. This is the planet of the beetles.) is that we can think…Homo SAPIENS…and Allison can think as well as anyone else. In fact, separated as she is from the atavistic fears of death and injury, I’d say she can think a bit more clearly than most.
Luvian Blue
To give furnace just a smidgen of credit (though I don’t know whether it’s deserved or not) Mary did pump him full of drugs, so we don’t know how impaired he is from that right now.
Besides that, I think your points are pretty spot on. Also people say Allison doesn’t understand fear and pain and the human condition, but she has family and friends. She understands loneliness and loss and feeling helpless. Just because she can’t be stabbed and can lift a car over her head doesn’t mean she’s heartless. It’s like people think that just because she’s pretty resistant to physical pain, she can’t understand any pain ever. Which is stupid.
Verdant_Samuel
We’ve also got our Terminator level endurance in most land environments, excellent healing ability (yaay scar tissue), and a host of other pretty badass adaptations. Like, thinking is really just the icing on the awesome that is humanity.
You forgot the most important one. Our ability to metabolize theobromine quickly. Primates can do it quickly enough not to die, and most other mammals can’t. The only other mammals I’m pretty sure can eat chocolate without dying from the theobromine are small rodents, and that’s just cause the caffeine will kill them first.
It depends on the type of chocolate. White chocolate doesn’t have any theobromine in it, while milk chocolate has it at low enough levels that a dog or cat would have to eat roughly their own body weight to get a dangerous amount. It’s when you get dark chocolate, baking chocolate, or cocoa mulch that you really start getting high enough theobromine levels that it’s a risk to your pets.
But milk chocolate and white chocolate are still bad for your pets- all that sugar will give them cavities.
pendraco
white chocolate isn’t, technically. there’s no cocoa butter or powder in it at all, just milk and sugar.
KatherineMW
Note to self: do not feed animals chocolate.
Graeme Sutton
Lockable knees yo. It’s what separates us from the apes.
You ever get roused out of several hours of unconsciousness by getting thrown into a metal railing gut-first while pumped full of scopolamine? it does tend to impair your ability to think straight.
Not scopolamine, sodium thiopental! It’s a whole ‘nother thing!
Darn. Well in that case go ahead and ignore what I said I’m sure it’s no longer relevant.
Have I told you lately that I love your turn of phrase, Potatamoto? Because I do. 🙂
Thomas McMullin
It’s a VGcats reference.
Moonshadow isn’t a sociopath. She just put herself in danger to save someone, demonstrating her ability to act on her conscience (something a sociopath doesn’t have).
Throwawayfukdisqus
It’s a jump to say that’s acting on conscience. ‘Do not kill until guilt is certain’ might just be a rule Moonshadow forces herself to follow, perhaps as a disfigured form of pride.
That said, I agree she’s not a sociopath. Realistically, sociopaths wouldn’t give a damn about rapists so long as they’re not personally affected, or at least not enough to dedicate their lives to their removal.
Travis Staggs
“I think I’ve been looking at this wrong. Furnace is a misogynist asshole. Moonshadow’s a sociopathic moron.”
And in saying this, you made me come to realize something: In addition to my thoughts that everyone is a psychic of some sort, you’ve expanded upon this in my mind. Maybe their powers are actually directly related to their innate mindstates. We have a girl who feels marginalized by the world who turns invisible. We have a man who can’t control his own anger that is a literal hothead. We have a girl who thinks her way is the best that can’t be stopped. We have a boy who was so much smaller than the problems he wanted to fix that can shrink, and we have a whole cast of people who think of themselves as monsters who have become monsters… so on and so forth.
So, which is the cause and which is the effect? Perhaps they’re actually intertwined fundamentally.
Furnace’s dickery… saves the day? My whole world is collapsing.
The problem with a world in which any old shmo has powers is that… well, any old shmo has powers. And a lot of people are too dumb to have powers. I can think of, like, my entire family who shouldn’t have superpowers.
Pol Subanajouy
I for one WHOLLY admit I shouldn’t be trusted with superpowers. That’d be an awful idea! 😀
darius404
The problem with a world in which any old shmo has powers is that… well, any old shmo has powers.
A story that really plays to this concept is Empowered. It turns out when random jackasses get superpowers, they’re now just random jackasses with superpowers. The majority of super”heroes” you see in the comic are just as petty and horrible as normal people.
Shoutout to Empowered. It’s amazing.
Ian Osmond
Depends on the power. Someone recently suggested the superhero “Surge”, who can go into a room and instantly tell which outlets and lights are properly wired and up to code, and even which circuit breaker goes with which things.
There are more people I’d trust with that power than with a lot of other powers.
Surge could only exist in her own world, though. She absorbs ambient electricity, something that even with her electric-storage gauntlets she occasionally needs to release or it will overload her very brain. Before that group of X-kids found her, Surge was using drugs to suppress her own natural abilities… and when they went to find her, one of the first things that happened was that someone used their powers on her without understanding the situation and because she had little capacity for her own rational reactions, she accidentally attacked one of them. Something like that would be hell for anyone to go through without the proper support.
Problem in the SFP world is that “the proper support” is not a fully realized network. There’s a few shrinks and some researchers but the watchers and the watched are flying blind because everyone’s only had a few years to work out from scratch how any of this stuff happens.
Sure, there are people who could be of use, be it matter-disintegration specialists who could help with the cleanup and removal of debris after a natural disaster, or empaths who could assist in psychiatric therapy… somebody like Superman would be a huge boon to underwater research since all you’d have to give him is a modified GoPro and he could easily put deep-sea exploration years ahead of schedule. There’s always alternative uses to powers, but you have to trust the people using them.
K25fF
Let’s see if we can mitigate the amount of murder going on, can we?
Ed D.
When Furnace leaps to the wrong conclusion, he really sticks to it. Impressive.
Like I saw saying in my post, I admire his dedication.
Rumble in the Tumble
Sodium thiapentol is a hell of a drug.
Sense. This makes none. Why not just let him die?
And I would think that he would assume that Mega Girl is the villain, at this point.
Nomac
That is what Mary is going for. She realizes that her whole interrogation setup flopped, so she’s going to Plan D, making Alison out to be responsible. She’s trying to avoid the blame to an extent.
He did… at first.
Greg E Downing
…okay. Now I’m fucking confused. All of that, and Furnace is the one she saves from a bomb that she herself strapped to him? Because he lost control and immediately tried to use his powers in spite of the warning? A) DID SHE NOT CONSIDER THAT and B) what in the world does she want from Furnace so badly that she’s willing to risk death? I mean, she’s already admitted that she’d kill Alison if given half a chance. But *Furnace* is who she saves?
Either there’s something not being said, or Mary was out and out lying about some things.
I think the theories were right, he sexually assaulted her in the past, and she’s hell-bent on exposing him to the world for it.
She said she wanted a confession, and implied that without it she wasn’t prepared to kill him.
I could be misremembering, but if that’s the case, it wasn’t her he assaulted.She’s already killed people for sexually assualting others even when they were found not guilty in court just because she thought their accusers had the stronger case. If she knew Furnace had assaulted anybody, including but not limited to her, he’d already be an ex-mysoginst.
I was going to argue that she killed a lot of people without bothering to be sure if they were rapists and abusers or not. But… then I remember the very first kill we were privy to. She didn’t just kill those boys. She had to hear it from the girl first. All the others, we didn’t have that, but it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen off screen. So maybe her pathology requires her to hear it before she feels justified.
And yet, she did try to kill Allison. Maybe she was just being coldly practical, and it managed to fall outside her code. Or maybe Mary knew she couldn’t kill her no matter what she did, and was just looking for a way to disable her the whole time.
Ugh. Brains and emotions are complicated.
masterofbones
She said that she didnt know if he had raped anyone, which is what the serum was for. So no, she doesn’t know.
She can’t just murder him, because that risks making him a martyr. She
needs to prove to everyone else that he’s scum that deserves to die
Lostman
Well Mary there are actually three idiots in this dam.
Adrienne Herbst
Oh god though, aren’t they all like, nineteen years old? My mind is going straight to WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN right now :/
Tsapki
I am thinking maybe early twenties actually. I know Allison is in college now and if not past her first year, I expect that being a superhero probably slowed down her education for a bit.
Unexpected and unusual on a couple levels. Five bucks says it’s an illusion.
Gus Snarp
Faking her own death?
Provoking him into attacking Alison, more likely. Nobody is really going to believe that he blasted her so hard that she was vaporized without leaving any residue behind.
Gryphonic
Keeping him from attacking the real Moonshadow. Possibly using Alison as an unwitting decoy, if I’m reading the angles right.
But… she’s also blocking out the sight of the arcing electricty. Which means that if drugged-and-disoriented Furnace goes after ‘Moonshadow’, he’s going to land right in it and die anyway.
You’re on!
∫Clémens×ds
Wait, why did Mary appear discontent of the fact that Furnace was going to explode? Wasn’t that the idea? The plan? Hello?
Also why is she bleeding? And not actively electrocuted, for that matter?
I am so confused by this sequence of events.
So Moonshadow genuinely won’t kill anyone who’s not guilty of rape or abuse. Even at the possible cost of her own life. The folk who said ‘Well, she’ll jus decide Furnace is guilty of something, regardless’ were wrong.
It’s a good narrative choice, because it forces us – and Allison – to engage with Moonshadow’s actual position, not a strawman version of it.
Uh….she cut Alison’s throat a few strips ago.
Its almost impossible to strawman Mary’s position. She kills people she thinks are bad. How would you make “Might Makes Right” sound worse than it is?
I think she was pretty sure that wouldn’t work; we all know Allison is invulnerable.
It’s very easy to strawman Mary’s position. So far, she has only killed people on strong evidence of guilt of actual, serious crimes against women. If she started killing people on no evidence based just on her own assumptions, or started killing people who were only tangentially connected to those crimes, that would make her more obviously wrong and remove the audience’s need to think about her actual views and methods (which are approximately the same as the Punisher’s, just with reference to a specific subset of crimes that are rarely prosecuted or punished).
I’m not saying she’s right. I don’t think she’s right. But I like that the comic is refraining from artificially weakening her position.
[S]he has only killed people on strong evidence of guilt of actual, serious crimes against women.
We don’t know that. All we know is that she’s killed a lot more people than anyone thinks she has, assuming she’s telling the truth. We have no idea what the circumstances of those killings were.
Some guy
You’re jumping to conclusions. Mary could have tossed the bomb away because he activated it while near her.
Though honestly, I would prefer it if you were right at this point.
She could have, but running away from him would be less dangerous than running towards him and cutting the bomb off. Cutting his throat would also have preventing him from using his powers and thus prevented the bomb from igniting.
Her actions only make sense if she deliberately wanted to keep Furnace alive now. That could be a point of principle, as I initially thought; or it could be that she wants to frame Allison in some way; or she wants to try to use him as a weapon against Allison.
zarawesome
I don’t understand the penultimate panel? She tossed the bomb over the edge and now she’s bleeding and she’s also on the water somehow?
Iarei
That’s Alison who was and is in the electric kiddie pool. Remember you’re dealing with an illusionist. Your object permanence has to survive sans visual continuity.
Sergio Le Roux
If she’s real, she’s bleeding from the shrapnel. No idea how she got down there in the water though, so she might be an illusion (the real one may be bleeding anyway).
Ah! You just made it click. Mary is fine. But she’s projecting the illusion of being hurt, because she STILL wants to get that confession.
I think that’s an illusion. Not sure what she’s trying to achieve with it, though…
If the explosion had really knocked her off the platform, it would have been back past Furnace and not forward. I’m confident that’s another illusions, and whether he goes toward it to attack or save his ‘rescuer’, he’s going to get electrocuted. See, that water all around ‘Moonshadow’ looks perfectly safe, doesn’t it?
William Lancaster
Maybe I’m missing something, but why did Moonshadow just save him?
Because she is trying to make Alison out to be the one who kidnapped him.
motorfirebox
No, because she hasn’t gotten a confession out of him. She’s doing this, at least in her own mind, for the sake of justice. Killing him without being positive he’s guilty doesn’t meet that criteria. It’s like how when a guy on death row has a heart attack, the prison medical staff still tries to save him.
…. the hell? I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t that.
Bakkonator
That guy definitely has some anger issues. His immediate response to everything is hightened anger with a propensity for violence.
I’m pretty sure that waking up after being tazed, kidnapped, and drugged in a strange place with unexplained violence going on around you is plenty of reason to be angry.
When all you have is a flamethrower, every problem looks flammable.
The meta-problem is, every problem is flammable.
Seriously, this is EXACTLY what we were all saying weeks ago when we were saying Furnace is a shitty superhero. This is ALL HE DOES.
Okay now I’m all kinds of confused.
Mary had to cut off Furnace’s bomb, and she came out of invisibility stealth to do so. But then she followed up by placing an illusion on Alison so she looks like Mary as a bit of misdirection. I’m betting it’s going to lead to explosive results. Is that what you are confused on?
That’s my take on it.
Coming out of stealth was deliberate on her part, since we already know that she’s perfectly capable of getting stabby without doing so.
Nightsbridge
I’m pretty sure that’s not what happened. We can see from Allison’s perspective, next to the fallen cable, and can look up to see Furnace. So we see that Furnace is looking away from Allison and toward something else with intense interest. This makes me think that Furnace is looking at the actual flesh-and-blood Mary right now.
Daniel Vogelsong
To recap, Mary stops the dude she was trying to make kill himself, from killing himself. Not that I’m sold on that actually happening, because we saw in a previous arc that he can flare to the point of MELTING BULLETS IN FLIGHT. But (ir?)regardless, Mary takes off the bomb vest and chucks it away… but she presumably is the only person in this room that could be killed by it. She wants him to die, hence the bomb vest, but now… I have no idea. It didn’t cause that much damage in the “Explosion relocation”, but it certainly wasn’t a dam-buster.
In other news, Mary heard my critique and made her illusion no longer have kneepads.
She wants him to get angry and threaten to destroy the dam, forcing Alison to kill him (thats my theory)
There’s an off chance that Mary wanted to draw a confession from him first and if he died now the timing would have been all of. Again, off chance. Mary and Chris are nothing if not erratic people.
She want to kill him but doesn’t want to die herself…
If I have to guess, Mary is trying to show Alison that Furnace will kill her without a second thought (as opposed to her, who didn’t kill Furnace when he was alive) using an illusion of her.
Furnace will blast the illusion. Alison will condemn him, but not do anything more forceful. Mary will have her proof that Alison only cares about murder when ladies are doing it. She’ll cut Furnace’s throat and peace out.
Jubal DiGriz
I don’t think Mary was thinking this through very. Allison has talked about how her training gave her all these preconditioned responses (“lock down the teleporter”). Perhaps Mary was reflexively “saving the hostage”.
It’s pretty clear Mary is fine with killing relative strangers. Perhaps all this staging was some effect of her building up the nerve to kill someone she knows?
Kiry
It was never *real* explosives, just shrapnel with tiny charges enough to propel them into a person. She didn’t want to actually explode the dam, but wanted to protect herself and scare him.
rpenner
“Explaining why someone is an idiot is a free action, isn’t it? No? Then I best get rid of this shrapnel-filled bomb before it explodes. I roll a 17, hows that? Good. What? OK, Saving versus death…. um, uh, oh.”
I think I speak for all of us when I say, “She’s… saving him? Whaaaaa?????”
Well, either she never intended to kill him and it was all about getting Alison on her side? Getting rid of Alison? A cry for help? I don’t really like any of those, or she thinks (or knows) that she can’t phase herself out of harm from a blazing inferno + explosion and is therefore saving herself? No, I don’t like that either. Let’s go with, she’s saving all the innocent people who ill be killed in the flooding if the explosion takes out the dam.
Except that the C4 exploded anyway. There’s nowhere near enough to take out the dam there, even if it was atttached to something structural, which it’s not.
He’s no good to her dead. Easiest explanation I can put out there. That pack on him only had some shrapnel and wouldn’t have caused any damage to the damn. Furnace certainly could if he went full on crazy and busted the damn but that is about it.
Kittenbot Doomypants
Except it obviously did damage to her. Looks like she’s holding her throat. Shrapnel slit her throat? Ironic, much?
He can’t really make a confession if he’s dead, now can he?
My impression is that Mary wanted him to know that it was her who caught him and she wanted him to know how powerless he was to stop her. When he didn’t stick to the script, Mary panicked (especially as it meant that the evidence she collected would be destroyed).
New nemesis established.
It’s OK, everyone, the white guy is about to solve everyone’s problems!
Furnace explodes, everyone fries!
Can Furnace die already? Being a tragic figure messed up by your upbringing is one thing, but being this dumb shouldn’t be allowed.
Mary, oh Mary, so quite contrary,
Why does your vest explode?
These blasting caps and det charge shells,
And angry man all in our room,
When you see contrary Mary,
Tear it off, refuse to terry.
When all his crimes you know,
Why exonerate him, Mary,
Standing on death row.
Mary, Mary, Mary, Mary.
My guess…Furnace is meant to BE the bomb. Get him riled up enough…
Now we get to enjoy the fun possibility that Mary’s faking her injuries for some later ploy
I have to admit, I’m impressed at Furnace’s commitment to being angry at the wrong person. First angry at Al who is trying to save him, then angry at Mary who actually kidnapped him but the ~wrong~ Mary. That’s dedication, folks. Haha. Still, I have to begrudgingly admit that making Al look like Mary is a smart tactical move on Moonshadow’s part during this pivotal moment.
For me, the jury is still out if Mary just pulled that last minute save because she was still unsure if Chris was guilty of rape, or if she was just worried about the explosion hurting her.
lizasweetling
I don’t think that’s what’s going on. we’ll have to wait and see how this works out.
I don’t think she made Al look like her?
Philip Bourque
Knowing he had a… reactionary personality, she straps bombs to him designed to be set up when he lights up and he’s the idiot?
“I’m an optimist.”
“You’re both wrong. You’re dead.”
Kensey
Mary never got the confession she wanted out of Furnace, so she’s forced to NOT let him die, otherwise her goal ultimately fails. Though, shrapnel to the torso is a bit of a departure from her goal as well.
Panel #7: Allison disrupts the current from the power cable to the water? it looks like Mary is kneeling in the water in panel 8…or is that just dissolution of her projection?
last panel: are things about to get…steamy?
also, sharp knife is sharp! (and non-conductive, having severed a rather large power conduit)
I’m pretty sure that “Mary” in the last panel is actually Alison.
It has to be. If Mary were in the water with the cable still live, under the Rules Of Cartoon Electrocution, she’d be dead.
The explosives were a threat to keep Furnace from using his powers. “If you use your anomaly they will kill you!” Unfortunately, Moonshadow was close enough that they would also kill HER.
When Furnace started using his powers anyway, she tried to get rid of the bomb before it could kill them both. Not sure why she didn’t just run – maybe she thought it would trigger an even larger explosion if it killed/ injured Furnace?
Either way, she ended up being injured by her own bomb. Better injured than dead, although now that Furnace is about to lose his temper she may end up both injured and dead. Illusions don’t help much against large explosions or firestorms.
Liz Mallory
Aaaaah! Holy crap!
chaosvii
S-s-stupid hero reflexes!
What the…?! Um, I guess she really, really, REALLY wanted to get Furnace to confess first? (In which case, her vendetta probably is personal.)
Well, she didn’t kill him before he woke up. Very clearly her goal isn’t simply his death. Don’t need cameras and truth serum for that.
Or she really really REALLY think’s she’s the hero of the story.
Everyone believes they are the hero of their own story. People who admit to and openly embrace that they are in some way shape or form, bad, wrong or evil are quite rare. Heck, almost every dictator throughout history basically believes they are saving the people they oppress from themselves.
I don’t think it’s necessarily personal. She’s spent all her adult life and much of her teenage years risking her life for other people. I think she’s simply got a set of principles. In her mind, she’s aiding the law; killing him without really solid evidence that he’s guilty is just murder.
Theory!
Mary is illusionizing (is it a word? Haha I don’t care) her injury. She’s just created a scenario where she’s saved Furnace from himself, and when Furnace (inevitably) responds by throwing a hissy fit, Alison will be on the scene to see (and hopefully react). This’d give Alison a visceral example of the extent of Furnace’s douchebaggery and Mary’s essential heroism/”heroism”, and suddenly Mary’s got Mega Girl on her side.
Alternately, and much more grim: Mary was Furnace’s victim, and she wants to hear him confess above all else. In which case . . . fuuuuuck.
spriteless
You can block a lot of heat from fire if you can block the whole light spectrum. Less so heat from convection, like boiling water.
I’m gonna assume everything on screen is an illusion until Mary exits stage left.
Maybe YOU’RE the illusion! http://oglaf.com/illusionist/
(That one is SFW but most of the rest aren’t at all)
Holy crap that’s fantastic xD
And even afterward, really.
S.I. Rosenbaum
guys you know I love you but I hvan’t been able to follow the action for pages now
Mary had Furnace tied up and drugged, with a vest of explosives strapped to him. The explosives looked big, but were actually very small, just big enough to kill Furnace himself if he set them off. Mary planned to get Furnace to confess to committing some kind of sex crime, most likely raping his former girlfriend, and then kill him.
Alison shows up, grabs Furnace, and runs off with him. While verbally sparring with her, Mary cuts a power line and drops it into the water Alison is standing in. Before it lands, Alison tosses Furnace to safety. Furnace wakes up.
On seeing Alison, and despite Mary’s warning, Furnace flames on, setting the charges on his vest to blow. Mary cuts the straps on his vest and jumps over the railing with the bomb, so that Furnace won’t die (he hasn’t confessed yet). Before she lands, Alison manages to pick up the electrical line so that Mary doesn’t fry. Mary throws the bomb, but it does off only a short distance from her. The small charges appear to have done enough damage to her that Mary is now bleeding heavily, though that could be an illusion.
And then you posted, and then I posted, and now here we are! And now I’m writing this! And now I’m writing this! And now I’m w
Okay, Furnace is not a likeable person, but to offer a bit of balance, he was knocked unconscious and drugged, and just woke up after being slammed into a handrail. So it wouldn’t be unusual for him to be disoriented and confused. Of course, blowing things up when you’re disoriented is not a good idea…
For Mary, earlier it sounded like she wasn’t sure whether Furnace is guilty – so maybe she is staying true to her principles, and not killing someone who she isn’t sure is guilty. Even if she didn’t want the explosives to go off, she could have just stabbed him if she wanted him dead.
Of course, this kind of situation, where the violence is spiraling out of control, is an illustration of why Mary’s approach is so problematic.
For Mary, earlier it sounded like she wasn’t sure whether Furnace is guilty – so maybe she is staying true to her principles, and not killing someone who she isn’t sure is guilty.
That’s my interpretation.
ok So I really need some clarification for this page. Which person is Furnace actually talking to on the first panel? Allison like everyone is assuming or Megagirl? is this the same person he’s talking too in the last panel? How the heck did Moonshadow end up off the rail, in the electrified water, and bleeding? I sort of missed the moment where she went from throwing the bomb away and bleeding down below. The transitions here are just extremely confusing and unhelpful to portray what’s going on.
Mary grabbed the bomb and jumped over the railing into the water. Alison seems to have grabbed the power line, picking it up out of the water before Mary landed in it. Mary threw the bomb, but it only got a few feet before it went off, damaging her hand badly enough for her to be bleeding heavily.
I guess what I want to say to Mary is, “If you don’t want someone to blow up, you should consider not strapping explosives to them in the first place.”
Syncline
I feel fairly certain that Mary just had a moment of old superhero
reflexes kick in and screw up her plan. It’s totally contrary to her new
personality in the midst of the crazy, because:
1) anyone that ‘new’ Mary can imagine she wants to strap explosives onto is
2) someone who can keep the bomb vest after they activate it.
Of course, the plan had a glaring issue. What plan was Mary following here, exactly?
one where crazy people expect other crazy people to act as if they are
sane and have a sense of self-preservation? Furnace has been heading
towards a horrible end for awhile. This isn’t avoiding his awful and
inevitable end, it’s just dragging out the show and adding yourself to
the final body count. On the bright side, it solves the crazy Mary
Jared Rosenberg
I think its likely that Megagirl is going to save Moonshadow. I mean after all Moonshadow hasn’t seen the error of her ways yet. They always have to do that before they die. (trope)
deebles
I’m not sure if that’s actually Moonshadow bleeding in the final frame, or Megagirl-made-to-look-like-Moonshadow. Illusions can be confusing 😛
Mary’s got a bit of a skewed moral compass here. She’s all geared up to kill this guy at a drop of a hat (or a cable), but NOT WITHOUT PROOF! I’m not sure if Mary is faking her injury, her hand probably did get caught in the blast. I’d be surprised if she wasn’t actually making the damage seem less extensive than it actually was.
“You’re rigged to explode!”
“Huh, what? Did some say get your flame on?” *WHOOSH*
“Argh, what went wrong? This plan was fool-proof!”
Well, SOMEONE just had to kidnap a bigger fool.
Sage Catharsis
Nah, she’s projecting over Alison so FireAsshole shoots at our heroine. Sorry I’m not the best at remember non-Nick names.
No, I don’t think that’s it, she clearly has a real knife, and as far as I know, Alison doesn’t have one
I don’t think that’s a skewed moral compass. Our own criminal justice system’s moral compass could use a little of that kind of skew.
Oh my god. Furnace just possibly turned this around… by being a complete idiot!
I swear, it’s going to turn out that there were never any explosives strapped to Furnace and that it was all an illusion. Even that beeping is probably some little buzzer Mary is pressing. Nothing in this freaking dam is legitimate.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is fantastic Moonshadow. I love this. Brilliant start to finish.
Did anyone else almost break their keyboard slamming their head into it? Dammit Furnace. Though, Mary’s response was interesting. Though, I suppose him dying BEFORE he confesses is no good. And Mary’s act of heroism looks as though it went all vampire and bit her in the neck. Potentially jugular? Ok, let’s be honest, it might have sliced her throat. Maybe she’s got some shrapnel in her chest, maybe it’s an illusion. Dammit Mary, stop screwing with everyone, so they actually know if you’re hurt!
So is Furance now blaming Moon?
or is he now. Pissed at Allison assuming that she was doing this to him and that moon just saved his life and got hurt doing it–making him even more pissed at allison?
Its abit hard to tell..
I’m assuming he is now recognizing Moonshadow as the enemy though
but man I am not fond of his jump to the burning attitude. cocktail of drugs and ptsd will do that though…
Hum I wonder if this will end up with Allison accidently killing furnace to save moon, or moon to save furnace.
or just everyone dies except her.
Oren Leifer
Who says that both of those people (the explosives-setter and the explosives-remover) were the same person. Which of them was Mary? Because Mary doing what she just did doesn’t make much sense, if she’s the one who rigged him up with the explosives in the first place, and the characters generally seem to have enough common sense to not set up plans they don’t intend to follow through on.
Unless the woman who just pulled the bomb off him isn’t Mary. We haven’t seen any true shapeshifters yet… (?)
Mary pulled the explosives off him because she hadn’t gotten a confession out of him yet. To Mary, killing him once she has proof is justice; killing him without proof is just murder. She doesn’t view herself as a murderer, she views herself as a vigilante taking care of criminals the law won’t punish.
Ross Van Loan
(Commentator whisper) Oh, a reverse deathtrap fumble! You see these with overly complicated plays like this, Bob! Let’s see how it plays out.
Stephanie Gertsch
Looks like Allison might be moving the live wires away from the water while the other two aren’t paying attention. That explains why Mary didn’t get electrocuted when she jumped into the water.
AlpineBob
Mary is thinking fast here. She has no chance against Alison, but Furnace, with newly enhanced powers, might. So she goes against her grain to get the vest off him, then fakes being injured in the explosion. Or maybe just the severity. Or maybe she miscalculated and actually was that badly injured. Hard to tell with her. Meanwhile Furnace takes on Alison and, if not incapacitated, Mary watches for a chance to exploit the battle to learn what she wants…
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Minnesota Budget Squabbles Might Spur Lawsuit
Kari Jahnsen
Minnesota’s budget negotiation was characterized by threatened vetoes and missed deadlines. After a 75-hour special session and the signing of nine budget bills in late May, the showdown between the governor and the legislature should have ended. Instead, the stakes have been raised.
Last Friday, the Minnesota Legislative Coordinating Commission passed a measure to seek outside legal representation against Governor Mark Dayton (DFL) after he vetoed $130 million in funding for the legislature. The governor vetoed the funding, with the cut to take effect for the fiscal biennium beginning on July 1, to attempt to force the legislature to renegotiate aspects of the $46 billion biennial budget, primarily concerning tax modifications.
A tax bill in question, House File 1, included several tax cuts that Governor Dayton opposed. He signed that bill, although he objected to the following stipulations:
Estate Taxes: The bill raises the exemption for 2017 from $1.8 million to $2.1 million. Estate tax exemptions will rise $300,000 annually, with the exemption set at $3 million for 2020 and all future years, but the increased exemption is still below the federal exemption.
State General Levy Tax: The levy tax is an extra, state-level property tax applied to businesses (and seasonal recreation properties, such as cabins) in Minnesota. The “levy” refers to the amount of tax revenue the state intends to collect that year. In the past, the amount collected was adjusted annually using an index based on government expenditures, meaning that the revenue collected from the tax rose each year. The new bill eliminates the inflation adjustment, functionally capping the revenue collected in future years.
Tobacco Taxes: The excise tax rate for tobacco products is set at a uniform standard of 15.2 cents per cigarette, compared to the previous statute that required annual indexing of the excise tax rate. The legislation also slashed the tax rate on premium cigars from $3.50 per cigar to $0.50 per cigar.
Governor Dayton argued in his correspondence with Speaker Kurt Daudt (R) that he only acquiesced to the tax bill because of a provision that would have defunded the Minnesota Department of Revenue if he refused to approve the $650 million in tax cuts. While the governor initially intended to enact the tax bill without a signature, he eventually did sign it to avoid legal ambiguity.
The legislature will require a special session to restore its funding. Governor Dayton said he will only call a special session if certain provisions of the budget are removed, including the tax modifications he opposes. The other items of contention include a provision that would bar undocumented immigrants from obtaining driver’s licenses, and a provision that alters the licensing process for Minnesota teachers. Like the contentious tax modifications, both these provisions are in bills that the governor has already approved.
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Hong Kong political unrest to impact 2019 advertising revenues
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Since March 2019, Hong Kong had been experiencing a series of protests against the pro-Beijing extradition bill proposed by the government. The Yuen Long violence incident happened on the 20th July further intensified tension between the public and force.
ABUdigital 2019 review: Asian broadcasters look to digital to counter falling ad revenues
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Elections in Asia Pacific to boost 2019 TV advertising revenues in the region
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The first half of 2019 witnessed a series of general elections in multiple countries in Asia: - Thailand in March, - Indonesia in April, - India in April to May, - Australia in May - and the Philippines in May IHS Markit Advertising service expects political campaigns to significantly boost TV advertising revenues in India and the Philippines; and moderately in Indonesia, Australia and Thailand.
Authorities fight TV and video piracy in Malaysia and Singapore
Kia Ling Teoh | February 15, 2019
Governments in Malaysia and Singapore are stepping up anti-piracy initiatives as pay TV operators and online subscription platforms suffer from the impact of set-top-boxes offering illegal access to their services. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) held an Anti-Piracy Summit on 14 February with support from Coalition Against Piracy, the Asia Video Industry Association, TV and online broadcasters Astro, Media Prima, Dim Sum, and iFlix. The event highlighted the revenues lost by industry and government because of piracy.
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IHS Markit analysts attended Asia TV Forum in Singapore on 5-7 December to catch up on TV and online video market trends in Asia. Global consumer platforms Facebook and Twitter were in the speaker line-up consisted alongside TV and online video companies. Key themes we noted are as follows: 1. Partnerships and collaboration among local and regional players are seen as key to fight the power of global giants such as YouTube, Facebook, Netflix and Amazon 2. Telecommunication companies are playing a bigger role in the TV and online video market, leveraging their user base and the mobile data they own
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Beware, My Lovely (1952)
Beware, My Lovely falls into that particular sub-genre of thrillers classified as “house invasion” films: a criminal or gang of criminals manage to break into a family’s home and take it over, transforming the safe suburban landscape into a land of dark shadows and looming threats. The sub-genre was particularly prevalent in post-World War II America as an off-shoot of Cold War paranoia and the increasing sense that the enemy could be the person next door. In Beware, My Lovely, the sub-genre also deals with the incipient sense of inferiority of post-war masculinity.
Beware, My Lovely is set in 1918 and features Ida Lupino as Helen Gordon, a widowed housewife preparing her home for Christmas by a spate of extensive cleaning. Her lodger is leaving for several weeks, and her young niece Ruth is of little assistance, so Helen calls in an itinerant handyman Howard Wilton (Robert Ryan) to help her with the heavy work. As Helen finds herself alone with Howard, it develops that the otherwise friendly worker has a serious psychosis. After a violent outburst, Howard confesses to Helen that he has occasional blackouts where he does things – including murder – that he later cannot remember. Although Helen tries to express sympathy for the damaged man, she soon discovers that Howard has locked them in the house and hidden the keys, prompting a battle of wills as Helen tries to convince the damaged Howard to let her go.
Beware, My Lovely is a chamber-piece of a film noir anchored primarily by Lupino and Ryan, with only a few supporting characters coming in and out. It moves quickly, developing Howard’s psychosis and subsequent possession of the house as something nearly outside of his control. Ryan plays his part with remarkable pathos: Howard isn’t a bad or evil person per se; he’s after nothing more than help and some cure for his loneliness, but is incapable of controlling his blackouts or his behavior within them. Refused entry into the army, Howard’s madness seems to be instigated by a sense that he’s “less of a man,” his violence directed at women that he believes are laughing at him. It’s Helen’s niece who prompts his outburst when she tells him that the housework he’s doing is “woman’s work.”
Lupino has a more thankless role. While Helen begins the film with a strong emotional character, her behavior sometimes borders on nonsensical. She never seems to get past her terror and so remains a victim throughout the film – a companion to similar female characters in home invasion films who never manage to get their hands on a coffee pot, a lamp, or a kitchen knife long enough to do something. While the audience shares her terror, her ineptitude becomes increasingly exasperating. This isn’t a slur on Lupino, however, who has one of the strongest screen personas you can ask for in a Classical Hollywood actress. But Lupino’s very strength of character makes Helen’s behavior seem unbelievable; Ida Lupino would never faint the way this woman does.
Despite Helen’s hysteria, there’s much to like in Beware, My Lovely. It maintains a claustrophobic atmosphere that does not let up until the final frame. Most of the film takes place within Helen’s house, juxtaposed occasionally against the world outside that goes along as it always had, developing into a seeming mockery of Helen’s situation. It’s the scenes of near-escape that have the most energy, as do the moments where Helen tries to convince Howard that she’ll help him if he’ll only unlock the front door.
Beware, My Lovely has the hallmarks of a classic, even if it falls somewhat short in the execution. Ryan and Lupino are attractive screen presences, and Ryan in particular uses his looming physicality and sorrowful eyes to excellent effect. If it never quite achieves the level it might, Beware, My Lovely is a diverting piece of thriller cinema.
Author LaurenPosted on July 27, 2015 Categories Films, Reviews, and Complainings about the State of MediaTags beware my lovely, ida lupino, robert ryan, thrillersLeave a comment on Beware, My Lovely (1952)
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So this used to be kind of an academic blog, but at least for now it’s going to be mostly a place to talk about current and upcoming fiction projects.
Next up on the ledger: “Summer in Canaan” in Taste Test: Scared Stiff, coming on Oct. 21st from Torquere Press.
Jacob, a schoolteacher and writer in New York City, feels a certain malaise one summer and heads upstate to a remote cabin in the hopes of reigniting his creativity. Once there, he meets Aaron, a local young man with a mysterious air about him. As they slowly begin to form a friendship–and Jacob feels a potential spark of something else–it becomes clear that Aaron is more than he seems.
Have a taste under the cut.
He stopped by the dock, reaching out to take hold of one of the posts and looking up. Aaron was wearing cut-off shorts that looked like they’d seen a few summers, bare feet dangling into the water and sending the smallest of ripples against Jacob’s arms and chest.
“Hi.” Where the hell did you go last time? But he didn’t ask it out loud, whether it was shyness or something else, and he wasn’t sure. Aaron was wearing a white tank top and Jacob watched the shift and flex of his bare arms as he leaned forward.
“How’s the water?”
Jacob shrugged and moved back in the water, trying to see Aaron’s face better. “Okay. It was a little cold at first.”
Aaron smiled. “You’re in the mountains, buddy. That’s why people come here.”
“Is that why you come here?”
“I told you, I live here.” Aaron laughed a little and Jacob shook his head.
“I mean here.” Jacob splashed a gesturing hand across the water. “The lake.”
“Oh.” Aaron looked off across the water, watching a cloud of gnats drift up and away, toward the trees. There was a tiny splash and a widening set of ripples as a fish leaped for them and vanished. “Yeah, I guess that’s got something to do with it.” He looked down again. “How long are you staying for?”
“A while. End of July, maybe. I have to be back in the city in August.”
Aaron cocked his head. “What for?”
“I’m a teacher.”
Aaron smiled again, a strange, small smile, a stretch of the lips that suggested a great deal more than it showed. “Never liked my teachers.” He paused for a second or two, kicking up a splash with one foot and sending it sparkling faintly through the air. “You’re okay, though.”
Jacob returned the smile. “I try.”
“I kinda wonder, though… how can you afford to come out here? I always heard teaching paid shit.”
Jacob laughed, a warm sound that worked slowly up through his ribcage and felt good in his throat. “Again with the questions.” He reached up a wet hand and beckoned, and it occurred to him then to wonder a little bit at what he was doing. Here, his ground was far less sure than at home. “Why don’t you come in, and I’ll see about answering?”
Aaron arched a brow. “What if I don’t want to?”
“What, are you scared?”
“You’re trying to goad me.” Aaron grinned widely. “Okay, fine. I’ll be goaded.” He stood up on the dock and stripped off his shirt, and as Jacob watched Aaron body come into view and tried to look like he wasn’t watching, he thought You haven’t actually ever seen me with all my clothes on, have you?
Not that it was a disadvantage he minded all that much. But it was nice to watch things even themselves out a bit.
“I’m holding you to it,” Aaron said, dropping his shirt onto the wooden planks and curling his toes over the edge of the dock. “You better answer me.”
“I said I might,” said Jacob, but Aaron was already diving in a graceful arc, up and out and over Jacob’s head, slicing into the water like a long blade. There was hardly any splash. Jacob watched it, feeling a twist of admiration and something deeper besides, and then a few feet away a wet red head broke the surface, laughing. Aaron palmed water out of his eyes.
Jacob smiled, swam closer. It was like a book, like a movie, like something he might come up with on a night when he was feeling particularly lonely. Streams of water trickled down Aaron’s face and neck, the strong lines of his shoulders barely visible above the water, and they were dusted with freckles just like the bridge of his nose.
“So,” he murmured, close but not touching, and he was still smiling. “My father died a few months back. He left me some money.” It hadn’t even come close to making up for everything, but he supposed it was a start.
Jacob shook his head. “Don’t be. I’m here.”
“You are,” said Aaron, and again he smiled that strange smile and began to swim a little distance away, and it was a distance that Jacob couldn’t quite bring himself to close, until the thunder began to rumble in the distance and it was time to say goodbye.
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2019 Eric Namesnik Memorial Open Features Pros, Olympians
NCAA mile champion Felix Auboeck will race at the meet, though he'll step a little outside of his comfort zone 2 weeks before the World Championships begin. Archive photo via Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com
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2019 Eric Namesnik Memorial Open
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The 2019 Eric Namesnik Memorial Open in Ann Arbor, Michigan will continue Club Wolverine’s legacy of Eric Namesnik. The former University of Michigan swimmer represented the United States at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, earning silver medals at each in the 400 IM. Namesnik died in 2006, at age 35, in a car crash, and has been memorialized both with this meet and with a statue outside of the Butler County YMCA, where he trained as a child.
In addition to his time as an athlete and a volunteer assistant at Michigan, he coached with Eastern Michigan and Wolverine Aquatics (now known as Club Wolverine) at the time of his death. This meet was formerly a part of the USA Swimming Grand Prix Series, which is now known as the Pro Swim Series, and in spite of no longer being in that rotation, it still draws a good field from across the country.
This year’s field will be headline by Club Wolverine athletes, which includes both teenage club swimmers as well as collegiate swimmers and post-graduate athletes. That includes 2018 NCAA 100 breaststroke runner-up Miranda Tucker, who will swim 5 races (including both breaststrokes); and NCAA 3rd-place finisher Siobhan Haughey, who will swim the 100 breast and 50 free. Among the headliners from the men’s team are 2019 NCAA Champion in the mile Felix Auboeck, who will swim the 50, 100, and 200 free; and fellow NCAA First Team All-Americans Miles Smachlo and Ricardo Vargas.
For Auboeck, who is primarily a distance specialist, he’ll instead swim the 3 shortest freestyles on the schedule in his final tuneup for the World Championships, where he’ll represent Austria later this month.
Among the swimmers from Michigan not competing is Maggie McNeil, the fastest freshman 100 yard butterflier in history last season. She’s preparing to represent Canada at the World Championships this summer.
But the locals won’t be the only high-profile swimmers in attendance: the Long Island Aquatic Club (LIAC), based in Long Island, New York, has brought a big contingent, as has another New York-based club: the Badger Swim Club.
Among the swimmers in attendance from LIAC is 14-year old Tess Howley, who in March broke the 13-14 girls’ 200 yard fly National Age Group Record in 1:55.29. She’s entered in 8 events, including that 200 fly, where she’s the 2nd seed in 2:12.78. She’s the top-of-the-heap for a LIAC club that boasted USA Swimming Gold Medal status in the 2017-2018 season. Her 17-year old teammate Chloe Stepanek, who was the 18 & under Winter National Champion in the 200 free, is also scheduled to swim.
Other Swimmers of Note from Other Clubs:
16-year old Lola Mull from Mid-Michigan Aquatics is scheduled to race 5 events, including as the #2 seed in both the 400 free (4:15.42) and 1500 free (16:40.03), and the 3rd seed in the 400 IM (4:58.26). The Northwestern commit is a Winter Juniors champion.
Among her competitors in that 400 IM is Paige McCormick from HEAT in Hudson, Ohio – a Louisville commit. McCormick has 9 entries, including the #2 seed in her best event, the 400 IM, in 4:51.80.
That 400 IM will be a great race for fans of high school swimming – it will also feature 18-year old Kaitlynn Sims as the top qualifier in 4:48.27.
Grace Cooper, who is an honorable mention top recruit in the high school class of 2020, is scheduled to swim 6 events, including marquee matchups in the 50 and 100 free against Siobhan Haughey.
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Eric was also the official assistant men’s coach from 1997 til 2004 when Urbanchek retired. Class act in and out of the pool.
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SWIMS lists Grace Cooper as 16. Including a meet she did last weekend…
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I don’t think Grace Cooper just finished her freshman year at Texas, she was listed as an honorable mention top recruit of 2020 this year. I think you guys confused her with Grace Ariola…
D’oh. You’re right. Thanks.
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Grace Cooper is verbally committed to Texas for fall of 2020.
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Fierce Grey Mouse Author Chantal Bourgonje will join Jon and Talkin' Pets 4/06/19 at 5pm ET to discuss and give away her new childrens book
Fierce Grey Mouse
The enchanting story of a Little Grey Mouse who desperately wants to be fearsome and strong. He does his exercises, eats his porridge, drinks all of his milk – and, soon enough, Little Grey Mouse grows to be fierce.
But, roaring and pouncing from his perch high up in a tree, Fierce Grey Mouse accidentally scares away all of his friends .
Fierce Grey Mouse soon realises the importance of friendship and being true to yourself: the message of the story.
Beautifully written and illustrated by the highly-regarded children’s illustrator Chantal Bourgonje, this book is a delight that young children and their families can share and enjoy.
Fierce Grey Mouse by Chantal Bourgonje
£6.99(UK), $9.99(US), 12.99(CAN)
In the US the book will be available in the beginning of May through Quarto Knows - https://www.quartoknows.com/books/9781787113121/The-Fierce-Grey-Mouse.html
A simple tale for young children about friendship and staying true to yourself
Previously awarded a Kirkus Star for books of remarkable merit, and received 5 star reviews (Interactive app version)
The delightfully illustrated animal characters tell the story to boys and girls of all nationalities
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Friends love you as you are, you don't need to make yourself different
You don't need to be 'fierce' to be happy!
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Chantal is a Dutch illustrator and writer of picture books, working from the Wiltshire countryside, where she lives with her partner and two whippets. Chantal’s inspiration comes from nature, her pets, the countryside, and all creatures living in it.
In 2011 she graduated with a 1:1 Honours degree in Illustration. Her graduation project was highly commended in the MacMillan Prize. In 2013 she was highly commended in the AOI Awards.
Since graduating Chantal has written and illustrated children's picture book apps, one of which was awarded a Kirkus Star for books of remarkable merit.
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MAMA’S LAST HUG Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by author Frans de Waal will join Jon and Talkin' Pets 3/23/19 at 5pm ET to discuss and give away his new book
MAMA’S LAST HUG
Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
by Frans de Waal
New York Times best-selling author Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefrontof animal research. Following up on his 2016 bestseller Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which investigated animal behavior and intelligence, his new book,MAMA’S LAST HUG: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves [W. W.Norton and Company, March 12, 2019; $27.95 hardcover], delivers a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals that is just as enlightening and provocative. Once again de Waal proves the perfect guide to the cutting-edge research that can help us understand the animal world. With dramatic stories of rats, horses, dogs, dolphins, elephants, and apes, among others, de Waal shows that humans are not the only species with the capacity for love, hate, fear, shame, joy, generosity, and empathy.
De Waal begins MAMA’S LAST HUG with the death of Mama, a fifty-nine-year-old chimpanzee matriarch who formed a deep bond with her caretaker, the biologist Jan van Hoof. When Mama was dying, van Hoof filmed their goodbyes and witnessed something remarkable: the emotions that Mama expressed were every bit as profound as those of van Hoof—she was sad to leave him but also recognized the sadness he felt and responded to it by comforting him.
This story and others like it form the core of de Waal’s argument. He points to lab experiments in which rats, when given the choice between eating a cookie or helping a fellow rat in distress, will choose to help. Dogs have been known to “adopt” the injuries of their companions, pretending to limp in response to the pain experienced by their owners. Chimpanzees like Mama have such a sophisticated sense of empathy that they grasp concepts of fairness and justice and use them to great effect inside their communities. In one common experiment, chimpanzees rejected food-sharing offers that seemed unequal, even when that rejection meant the participating chimps received no food at all. This is, notably, exactly what humans do in the same experiment.
De Waal discusses a whole range of complex emotions and how they manifest themselves in physical behavior and facial expressions. Both dolphin and killer whale mothers have been known to carry along the bodies of their dead children, often for days. Bonobos have deep-belly laughs, dogs hang their heads in shame, horses roll their eyes out of fear. Elephants revisit the bones of their loved ones, sometimes years after their companion has passed away. All of these have human counterparts.
De Waal also looks at the darker side of emotional intelligence. He recounts the story of an alpha male chimpanzee who was killed by an experienced older rival and a young-up-and-coming male. The calculating manner in which the duo trapped and killed the former leader, and the brutality of the violence done to the deposed alpha male, left no doubt in de Waal’s mind that what he witnessed was a case of murder among the chimps.
Following the lead of Aristotle, who imagined animals as a sort of reacting machine, Western society has committed to the idea that there is a fundamental distinction between the emotional life of humans and all other species. This line of reasoning extends to modern thinkers like Richard Dawkins, who suggests that all signs of emotional life in animals are illusory byproducts of a deeper relentless and amoral dive to maximize genetic duplication. De Waal systematically challenges all of these outdated theories, opening our hearts and minds to the many ways in which humans and other animals are connected to each other and can form the sorts of complex bonds that last a lifetime. MAMA’S LAST HUG is one of those rare books that will transform how readers view the living world around them and will shift how they understand their own connection to a family of all living things.
Frans de Waal has been named one ofTIMEmagazine’s 100 Most Influential People. Theauthor of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? among many other works, he is the C. H. Candler Professor in Emory University’s Psychology Department and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
TITLE: MAMA’S LAST HUG
SUBTITLE: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
AUTHOR: Frans de Waal
PUB DATE: March 12, 2019
PRICE: $27.95 hardcover
- Early Praise for Mama’s Last Hug -
“A captivating and big-hearted book, full of compassion and brimming with insights about the
lives of animals, including human ones.”
—Yuval Noah Harari, New York Times best-selling author of Sapiens
“I doubt that I've ever read a book as good as Mama's Last Hug: Animal and Human Emotions, because it presents in irrefutable scientific detail the very important fact that animals do have these emotions as well as the other mental features we once attributed only to people. Not only is the book exceedingly important, it's also fun to read, a real page-turner. I can't say enough good things about it except it's utterly splendid.”
—Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
“Before I realized Frans de Waal's connection to Mama's actual last hug, I sent the online video link to a large group of scientists saying, ‘I believe it is possible to view this interaction and be changed forever.’ Likewise, I believe that anyone reading this book will be changed forever. De Waal has spent so many decades watching intently and thinking deeply that he sees a planet that is deeper and more beautiful than almost anyone realizes. In these pages, you can acquire and share his beautiful, shockingly insightful view of life on Earth.”
—Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
“After you've read Mama's Last Hug it becomes obvious that animals have emotions. Learn how
they resemble us in many ways.”
—Temple Grandin, author of Animals Make Us Human and Animals in Translation
“Frans de Waal is one of the most influential primatologists to ever walk the earth, changing the way we think of human nature by exploring its continuity with other species. He does this again in the wonderful Mama’s Last Hug, an examination of the continuum between emotion in humans and other animals. This subject is rife with groundless speculation, ideology, and badly misplaced folk intuition, and de Waal ably navigates it with deep insight, showing the ways in which our emotional lives are shared with other primates. This is an important book, wise and accessible.”
—Robert Sapolsky, author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Another fascinating book from Frans de Waal. Once again, he makes us think long and hard
about the true nature of animal emotions.”
—Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape
Jim Colucci the author of "Golden Girls Forever" An Unauthorized Look behind the Lanai will join Jon and Talkin' Pets 3/2/19 at 5pm ET to discuss and give away his new book on sale 4/5/19
“Jim Colucci’s book captures all the fun of one of the most enduring series on television – and then some! I am more obsessed with The Golden Girls than ever. If I ever buy a house with a lanai, this book will be the first item I move in!”
— Lisa Lampanelli
“This marvelous book pays tribute to the talents of four remarkable women who left an indelible impression on me. You can be fabulous at any age! Thanks, Jim, for reminding us.
Golden Girls forever!”
— Jane Leeves
“I love The Golden Girls because they were the original Sex and the City girls. This book explores their amazing chemistry, and so much more.”
— Julie Chen
GOLDEN GIRLS FOREVER
An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai
By Jim Colucci
On sale: April 5, 2016
This spring Harper Design will publish GOLDEN GIRLS FOREVER: An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai (on sale: April 5, 2016; 368 pages; more than 230 color and black & white photos throughout; $35.00; ISBN: 9780062422903) by Jim Colucci, the first ever complete retrospective of the legendary TV sitcom featuring exclusive interviews with the cast and crew.
A treasure trove of must-see, behind-the-scenes material for the millions of fans worldwide, GOLDEN GIRLS FOREVER is an all-inclusive look at the beloved series, allowing readers to peer behind the cameras to trace the show’s journey from its inception to its enduring legacy with new generations.
The book also features synopses of beloved episodes; exclusive interviews with the show’s creators, actors, guest stars, producers, writers, and crew members; and a section of “Why I Love the Girls” commentary from such celebrities such as Laverne Cox, Zachary Quinto, and Perez Hilton. Also included are stills from the show, set design and costume design snapshots, and many never-before-seen photos. The result is a comprehensive depiction of The Golden Girls both in front of the cameras and backstage.
No retrospective of The Golden Girls would be complete without interviews with the stars themselves. Among GOLDEN GIRLS FOREVER’s gems are exclusive and revealing interviews with stars since departed, including one of the last interviews with the famously private Bea Arthur (1922-2009) and Rue McClanahan (1934-2010). Jim Colucci’s interview with the now 94-year-old Betty White rounds out this unprecedented look at the series.
Jim Colucci is a freelance entertainment writer whose work has appeared in such publications as TV Guide, Inside TV, Quick & Simple, InTouch, The Advocate, Next, and CBS’ Watch magazine, where he serves as a deputy editor. For over a decade, Jim delivered a weekly on-air report, “Must Hear TV”, as a correspondent for The Frank DeCaro Show on Sirius XM satellite radio and wrote the authorized companion book for Will & Grace, titled Will & Grace: Fabulously Uncensored. Originally from Wayne, New Jersey, Jim now lives in Los Angeles and New Jersey with his husband Frank and their mischievous Boston terrier, Gabby.
Over 230 color and black & white photos throughout, 368 pages, $35.00
Celebrity Dog Trainer to the Stars, Bash Dibra will join Jon and Talkin' Pets 2/2/19 at 5pm ET to discuss how to make your dog that obedient show dog
Bash Dibra is a big, ebullient man with a warm smile, a gentle manner, and a lifelong affinity for dogs. When he was only three years old and fled with his family from Albania to a refugee camp in Yugoslavia, he made friends with the attack dogs that guarded the compound. Later, as the family traveled through Europe, Bash was able to work with master dog trainers, and he continued his work when he came to the United States. Then came the opportunity to raise and train a wolf, and through this experience Bash developed his unique methods of dog training.
As author of six best-selling books on responsible pet ownership, training and the proper treatment of animals in the entertainment industry, Bash Dibra sets the industry standard of service to celebrities and their pets as well as to pets who are celebrities in their own right. Mr. Dibra has trained the pets of countless celebrities, including Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathleen Turner, Mariah Carey, Joan Rivers, Kim Bassinger and Alec Baldwin. His own pets are celebrities themselves, featured in motion pictures, television commercials and print ads.
Bash has appeared on countless TV shows promoting responsible pet ownership, and he works diligently behind the scenes for animal welfare and to promote animals in service to mankind. Bash credits his incredible way with dogs to his beloved wolf, Mariah, who taught him so much, and who was the official symbol of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo.
Denise Fleck author of The Pet Safety Crusader's "My Pet & Me Guide to Disaster Pawparedness" will join Jon and Talkin' Pets 11/17/18 at 5pm EST to discus and give away her new book
The Pet Safety Crusader’s
My Pet & Me Guide to Disaster PAWparedness
What Your Pet Needs YOU to Know to Save You Both
“Whether the wind blows, the ground shakes, the flames rise or snow and water fall from the skies, YOU must be prepared for your pet’s sake!” says Denise Fleck aka The Pet Safety Crusader™. “Disasters aren’t always on a regional scale. Power could go out on just your street or in only your building. A tree could fall on your roof or a water pipe could break in your home alone. Even without your neighbors being affected, your household of two-legged, four-legged, feathered, finned or scaled family members could be in distress.”
In “The Pet Safety Crusader’s My Pet & Me Guide to Disaster PAWparedness,” Fleck, who has personally instructed closed to 20,000 humans in animal life-saving skills and millions more on national TV segments, lays out the steps your pets need YOU to know to be READY, REACT and then RECOVER. “Training, supplies, a positive mental attitude and a plan can make all the difference,” she says. In addition to preparedness tips for humans and their animal companions, the author provides templates for your family's emergency plan, what to have on hand and skills to possess, suggestions for specific disasters ranging from earthquakes, hurricanes & chemical disasters to tsunamis, power outages and civil unrest. The book concludes with a comprehensive manual covering basic first-aid – should the worst happen – for those who walk on two-legs, four paws or hooves, fly, swim or crawl.
DENISE FLECK advised the Department of Homeland Security on their K9 Border Patrol First-Aid Program and drafted the Animal Emergency Plan for the City of Burbank, California. She has been twice-named a finalist as Pet Industry’s Woman of the Year, authored ten books (“The Pet Safety Bible” coming this June) and developed a line of pet first aid kits. Fleck recently relocated from Los Angeles to Atlanta where she resides with her husband Paul and their canine pack. Learn more at www.PetSafetyCrusader.com.
Available on Amazon or with other items at www.PetSafetyCrusader.com.
Denise covers an extensive amount of valuable information and the organized format and easy-to-understand “ready, react, recover” steps make it a resource that all pet owners can implement. The inclusion of the first-aid basics is a real bonus. Denise has, yet again, written a must-have title for every pet owner’s bookshelf!
--Beth Stultz, Vice-President, Marketing & Operations, PET SITTERS INTERNATIONAL
A must-have for every pet parent, charity and government agency! Denise's creative and insightful PAWparedness is stellar and spot-on. Buy two - keep one at home and the other in the car.
--Lynn Molnar, Founder
THANKFUL PAWS
You may think you understand all you need to know about pet safety, however, your eyes will be opened after reading "My Pet & Me Guide to Disaster PAWparedness" by Denise Fleck. This is a book to read, relish, and USE! I immediately downloaded a suggested AP on my phone, have printed the cards to carry in my wallet and feel so much better about how my pets will survive during and especially after, a disaster. Denise is an amazing expert on all things pet safety and this volume is her best yet. They say it's not IF a disaster happens, but WHEN. Read this book now so you & your pets are safe. I'm so glad I read it and I know you’ll love it too!
--Shawna Schuh, CSP
President of WOMEN IN THE PET INDUSTRY NETWORK
Author Francesco Marciuliano of "Claw The System" Poems from the Cat Uprising, will join Jon and Talkin' Pets 11/10/18 at 5pm EST to discuss and give away his book
THE REVOLUTION IS MEOW
From Francesco Marciuliano, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book
I Could Pee on This, comes the political cat book today’s felines (read: humans) so
desperately need. Written in the style of free-verse poetry, CLAW THE SYSTEM
(October 2018, $12.99) echoes the fears, frustrations, and concerns conjured by
today’s political climate through the mouths and typing paws of cats.
Watch the uprising unfold through anthems such as “I Need This To Stop,”
“What Do I Do with My Anger,” “How Can You Sleep?” and “A New Dawn.” Show
support for your feline friends and try to understand why they’re so spitting mad.
Wise beyond their appearance, these cats dauntlessly articulate their dread, their
anger, and their resolve, imploring humans everywhere to rise up with them.
Ultimately, CLAW THE SYSTEM is a book of action by authors who never doubt
themselves, never question their belief in what is just, and never for a moment
consider that you have a good sense of interior design as they bring down the
living room curtains.
Francesco Marciuliano is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling
book I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats as well as the bestselling
titles I Could Chew on This, I Knead My Mommy, You Need More Sleep, and I
Could Pee on This, Too. He writes the internationally syndicated daily comic
strips Sally Forth and Judge Parker in addition to his webcomic Medium Large.
He was the head writer for the twice Emmy Award-winning children’s show
SeeMore’s Playhouse and has written for the Onion News Network, Smosh, and
McSweeney’s. He also penned/typed/scrawled the play This Isn’t Working for the
New York International Fringe Festival.
Francesco has appeared in/on HuffPost, All Things Considered, SiriusXM,
BuzzFeed, the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Mental
Floss, and The A.V. Club. He lives in New York City with his two cats, Kiki and
Leelo, and eventually a dog, tea cup pig, and pygmy goat, unless the co-op board
says otherwise or checks.
Denise Fleck author of "Basic Bird First Aid" & "First Aid Basics for Rabbits and Pocket Pets" will join Jon and Talkin' Pets 10/27/18 at 5pm EST to dicuss and give away her new books
Rescuing Tweety or Helping Bugs Feel Better
BEFORE Veterinary Help is Available
OCTOBER 22nd, 2018…Two new books and online classes have been unveiled by Denise Fleck, the Pet Safety Crusader™, to help you help your smaller family members in the event of injury or illness and BEFORE you can get to veterinary care! “Basic Bird First Aid” and “First Aid Basics for Rabbits and Pocket Pets” provide the 4-1-1 you need to know should you share your life with or care for a bird, rabbit, guinea pig, hamster, gerbil, mouse or rat. The books and classes teach you how to check vitals and provide an overview into the care and basic needs for each species as well as susceptibilities to illness or injury. In addition to the books, the author has recorded two instructional webinars to help you grasp these basic skills at your own pace. After successful completion of a multiple choice and true/false exam, you will receive a certificate stating you have completed the training.
“Over the years, I have had scores of students use lessons learned in my classes to save an animal in need, and that is the best reward. Up until now that has been mostly dogs and cats, so I want to make sure humans also know how to care for our feathered as well as our tiniest furry best friends,” Fleck explains.
And besides helping pet parents, Fleck want to make sure pet sitters are true professionals continuing to up their education with certificate courses. “I also offer trainings in Dog & Cat First Aid, Senior Pet Care and Pet Disaster Preparedness because as cliché as it may sound, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail, and I feel it is so important that pet parents and sitters can react confidently using whatever is available at arm’s length. That could include improvising a splint, muzzle, bandage or pet transport, so being able to think on your feet comes with non-stop learning,” Fleck professes.
Having personally taught close to 20,000 humans and millions more on national TV, Fleck’s mission is to help YOU make a difference in the life of an animal through her books and courses. Denise has appeared widely on radio & TV (The Doctors, CNN Headline News, Animal Planet, Kirstie Alley's Big Life and had a weekly segment on KTLA in Los Angeles for several years), has written for pet publications/blogs and authored a dozen books. In 2018, she was named one of Pet Age Magazine's "Women of Influence," Voyage Atlanta Magazine’s “Most Inspiring Story” and won two special awards from the Cat Writers Association. With a soft spot for our older best friends, Denise serves as the President of the Grey Muzzle Organization (aiding senior dogs) and on the boards of both the Emma Zen Foundation (pet oxygen masks) and Thankful Paws (educating on proper procedures for establishing pet food banks).
Topics covered in “First Aid Basics for Rabbits & Pocket Pets” and “Basic Bird First Aid” include:
ü Attacks by Another Animals
ü Bleeding (including Blood Feathers)
ü Bone & Back Injuries
ü Burns
ü Breathing Difficulties & CPR
ü Bumblefoot
ü Dehydration & Diarrhea
ü Egg Straining
ü G.I. Stasis
ü Heatstroke
ü Poisoning
ü Regurgitation vs Vomiting
ü Shock
Both books are available in living color on Amazon while you can learn more about and register for the online classes at www.PetSafetyCrusader.com/products/classes/
Author Mark Winik will join Jon and Talkin' Pets pn 10/20/18 at 5pm EST to discuss and give away his new book "The Dog Healers"
Praise for Mark Winik's Debut Novel The Dog Healers
FINALLY! A truly powerful heroine. Mark Winik’s debut novel is the suspense packed story of a fierce young healer named Isabella who can breathe life into ailing dogs and turn race horses into champions.
In the tradition of Eva Peron, she ignores her Argentinian culture's ideas about female roles, plunging into the shadowy reaches of the horse racing world where thugs would turn her gift into riches. To her, money is just the means to her dream: creating a haven for all dogs, be they wretched, ill or aggressive. Isabella wields wit and charisma among society ladies, twisting gold-braceleted arms for donations, exerting a still greater spell on men.
This includes her handsome protégé Carlos, who yearns for the love Isabella shares with her dogs. But her dogs are her allies as villainous threats mount. Isabella faces the fight of her life, but when you've got dogs at your back, you're never alone.
Mark Winik is an entrepreneur and an internationally recognized, award-winning author of The Dog Healers. His inspiration for the story struck him on a trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina with his wife Norma where he met a dog handler named Carlos.
Carlos taught him an Ancient Tibetan technique on his dogs called Kum Nye. This gift of healing so captivated Mark that he knew he had to write about his experience and share it with others. Since its publish, The Dog Healers was awarded 2017 Pet Novel of the Year at The New York Pet Fashion Show and has received praise from Hampton Pet’s Publisher Gregg Oehler, NYC Mayor’s Alliance for Animals, Pet Philanthropy Circle and appeared in the summer reads “Editors Picks” in New Haven Magazine.
Mark has been interviewed by Pet Life Radio’s Animal Writes with Tim Link, DogCast Radio and Top Dog Tips. Mark is also the conceptual artist for his collection of The Dog Healers cartoons in collaboration with his illustrator, Ivan Camilli, and is also working on a documentary related to the book that aims to share the stories of individuals who have overcome significant trauma or life difficulties with the support of their therapy dog. The Dog Healers Facebook page currently entertains more than 30,000 followers.
Ken Foster author of "City of Dogs" will join Jon and Talkin' Pets 10/13/2018 at 5pm EST to discuss and give away his new book
Humans of New York meets The Dogist:
Photographic Encounters with 1,000 Dogs
CITY OF DOGS
N e w York Dogs, T h e i r N e i g h b o r h o o d s ,
a n d t h e P eo p l e W h o Lov e Them
CITY OF DOGS combines moving stories with candid
images to reveal the multifaceted relationships canine
New Yorkers have with their human counterparts.
Enlivened with striking photography, this book pays
tribute to the five boroughs and the dogs who fill them
with loyalty, love, and open-heartedness.
As joyful equalizers, dogs cut through boundaries of social
class and bring people together. Encapsulating the
character of New York and its neighborhoods, Foster and
Scott capture a wide range, including:
• Famous writer and Brooklynite
Jacqueline Woodson, whose
beloved Toffee taught her how to slow down, while her puppy, Shadow,
keeps her active.
• The dogs of Homeland Security at JFK airport in Queens, who maintain
the safety of hundreds of thousands of people traveling each day.
• The Moschellas from Staten Island, who learned to embrace surprise
with the arrival of their triplet children and two dogs.
• Will from the East Village and his corgi, Hobbes, who has taught
him unconditional love and motivates him to spend nights improving
himself professionally with online classes.
• Alex from the Bronx, who owes his sense of purpose to his pit bulls,
Luci and Max.
This perfect holiday gift book uncovers 80 dogs’ different personalities—from the
showboaters to the shy—and the owners who adore them. Bestselling writer Ken Foster and
renowned photographer Traer Scott illustrate the marvelous effect these dogs have on
their urban kingdom.
Ken Foster is the author of several books on dogs, including: The Dogs Who Found Me;
the New York Times bestseller Dogs I Have Met: And the People They Found; and the
national bestseller I'm a Good Dog: Pit Bulls, America's
Most Beautiful (and Misunderstood) Pet. His writing has
appeared in McSweeney's, The Believer, the San Francisco
Chronicle, Bomb, Fence, and Bark.
Traer Scott is an award-winning photographer and
author of ten books, including the bestseller Shelter Dogs
as well as Nocturne: Creatures of the Night, Finding Home:
Shelter Dogs and Their Stories and the forthcoming
Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal. Her work
is exhibited around the world and has been featured in
National Geographic, Life, Vogue, People, and O: The
Oprah Magazine, and on The New York Times’s Lens blog.
Avery, an imprint focusing on health, wellness,
cookbooks, fitness, psychology, and popular science, is
best known for publishing cutting-edge, but accessible
books from the top experts in their fields. Founded in 1976, Avery quickly established itself as the most
successful independent publisher of health books in
the market. Penguin Group (USA) acquired it as an
imprint in 1999 with a strong commitment to continue
publishing respected, up-to-the-minute books with a clear
focus on helping people make the most of their lives.
The Penguin Group (penguin.com) is a Penguin Random
House Company.
CITY OF DOGS Avery • Hardcover • 9780525535164 • $20 • On Sale: October 9, 2018
s t o r i e s by K e n Fo s t e r
Photos by T ra e r S c o t t
Gary Kowalski author of "The Souls of Animals" will join Jon and Talkin' Pets 9/29/18 at 5pm EST to discuss and give away his new book
The Souls of Animals
In this revised second edition of this celebrated book, Unitarian Universalist minister Gary Kowalski grapples with the big spiritual questions around our relationship with animals: Do animals have souls? Are they aware of death and are they conscious of themselves? Do animals have an inherent capacity to recognize beauty and can they create art? Do animals experience love? Do they know right from wrong? Why do birds sing? And ultimately what do we lose in a world without animals and what does that mean for our ongoing relationship with the creatures with which we share the world?
Kowalski offers beautifully written vignettes that shed light on these questions and much more. He explores how animals play, their sense of altruism, their capacity for love. By “desacrilizing” animals, Kowalski argues, we make ourselves less human. “If we are to keep our family homestead — Earth — safe for coming generations,” he writes, “we must awaken to a new respect for the family of life.” Praise for The Souls of Animals includes:
“Gary Kowalski helps us unlock the mysteries of animal spirituality. For as we have learned from the companion animals that share our lives and our homes, when we look into their eyes we see the reflection of our won humanity.”
—Kim Stallwood, Executive Director, PETA
“Gary Kowalski’s voice is one that empowers us to say in public what we have thought in private — that animals love their companions, know grief and hoy and play and create. The are truly our bothers and sisters in fur, feather and fin.”
—Tom Regan, author of The Case for Animal Rights
“This is an important book because it is so revealing of the animal soul that touches ours when we are open and receptive. In the process, our own souls are enriched.”
— Dr. Michael W. Fox, former vice president, the Humane Society of the United States
Gary Kowalski is a Unitarian Universalist minister in Burlington, VT. He holds degrees from Harvard College and Harvard Divinity School. A native of Oklahoma, he has served churches in Memphis, Tennessee, and Seattle, Washington, before moving to Burlington. He is the author of several books, including Goodbye Friend: Healing Wisdom For Anyone Who Has Ever Lost A Pet, also published by New World Library.
By Gary Kowalski · Preface by John Robbins · Foreword by Tom Regan
July 2007 · Animals · Trade Paper · B/W Photos
$14.00 · 160 pages · ISBN-10: 1-57731-590-1 · ISBN-13: 978-1-57731-590-2
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V.I. Sailing Association Names Cy Thompson ‘Virgin Islands Sailor of the Year’
Source staff - January 31, 2017
The Virgin Islands Sailing Association (VISA) has awarded Cy Thompson, two-time Olympic Laser sailor, the coveted title of ‘Virgin Islands Sailor of the Year’ for 2016.
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Registration is now open for the International Optimist Regatta (IOR), presented by EMS (Electronic Merchant Systems) Virgin Islands at www.regattanetwork.com. Scheduled for June 16-18, the regatta will kick off with the TOTE Maritime Clinic, June 12-14 and TOTE Maritime Team Race, June 15.
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Science Translational Medicine
Research ArticleFragile X Syndrome
Sustained correction of associative learning deficits after brief, early treatment in a rat model of Fragile X Syndrome
Antonis Asiminas1,2,3,*,
Adam D. Jackson1,2,3,4,*,
Susana R. Louros1,2,3,†,
Sally M. Till1,2,3,†,
Teresa Spano1,2,3,4,
Owen Dando1,2,3,5,
Mark F. Bear6,
Sumantra Chattarji2,3,4,
Giles E. Hardingham1,2,3,5,
Emily K. Osterweil1,2,3,‡,
David J. A. Wyllie1,2,3,4,‡,
Emma R. Wood1,2,3,4,§,|| and
Peter C. Kind1,2,3,4,§,||
1Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
2Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
3Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
4Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, Bangalore 560065, India.
5UK Dementia Research Institute at the Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
6Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
↵||Corresponding author. Email: p.kind{at}ed.ac.uk (P.C.K.); emma.wood{at}ed.ac.uk (E.R.W.)
↵† These authors contributed equally to this work.
↵‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.
↵§ These authors contributed equally to this work.
Science Translational Medicine 29 May 2019:
Vol. 11, Issue 494, eaao0498
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aao0498
Antonis Asiminas
Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
ORCID record for Antonis Asiminas
Adam D. Jackson
Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, Bangalore 560065, India.
ORCID record for Adam D. Jackson
Susana R. Louros
Sally M. Till
Teresa Spano
ORCID record for Teresa Spano
Owen Dando
Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.UK Dementia Research Institute at the Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.
ORCID record for Owen Dando
Mark F. Bear
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
ORCID record for Mark F. Bear
Sumantra Chattarji
Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.Patrick Wild Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9XD, UK.Centre for Brain Development and Repair, InStem, Bangalore 560065, India.
Giles E. Hardingham
ORCID record for Giles E. Hardingham
Emily K. Osterweil
ORCID record for Emily K. Osterweil
David J. A. Wyllie
ORCID record for David J. A. Wyllie
Emma R. Wood
ORCID record for Emma R. Wood
For correspondence: p.kind@ed.ac.uk emma.wood@ed.ac.uk
Peter C. Kind
ORCID record for Peter C. Kind
Optimizing therapeutic intervention for Fragile X Syndrome
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the FMR1 gene. Pharmacological intervention using the cholesterol-lowering drug lovastatin had therapeutic effect on behavior in patients. Selecting the time of intervention and the therapeutic protocol is critical for maximizing the therapeutic effects. Now, Asiminas et al. tested the effect of temporary early treatment with lovastatin in a rat model of FXS. The authors showed that 5-week treatment initiated before complete development of cognitive abilities rescued cognitive development. The therapeutic effect persisted for more than 3 months after treatment termination. The results suggest that lovastatin treatment initiated early during development might have disease-modifying effect in FXS.
Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is one of the most common monogenic forms of autism and intellectual disability. Preclinical studies in animal models have highlighted the potential of pharmaceutical intervention strategies for alleviating the symptoms of FXS. However, whether treatment strategies can be tailored to developmental time windows that define the emergence of particular phenotypes is unknown. Similarly, whether a brief, early intervention can have long-lasting beneficial effects, even after treatment cessation, is also unknown. To address these questions, we first examined the developmental profile for the acquisition of associative learning in a rat model of FXS. Associative memory was tested using a range of behavioral paradigms that rely on an animal’s innate tendency to explore novelty. Fmr1 knockout (KO) rats showed a developmental delay in their acquisition of object-place recognition and did not demonstrate object-place-context recognition paradigm at any age tested (up to 23 weeks of age). Treatment of Fmr1 KO rats with lovastatin between 5 and 9 weeks of age, during the normal developmental period that this associative memory capability is established, prevents the emergence of deficits but has no effect in wild-type animals. Moreover, we observe no regression of cognitive performance in the FXS rats over several months after treatment. This restoration of the normal developmental trajectory of cognitive function is associated with the sustained rescue of both synaptic plasticity and altered protein synthesis. The findings provide proof of concept that the impaired emergence of the cognitive repertoire in neurodevelopmental disorders may be prevented by brief, early pharmacological intervention.
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By Antonis Asiminas, Adam D. Jackson, Susana R. Louros, Sally M. Till, Teresa Spano, Owen Dando, Mark F. Bear, Sumantra Chattarji, Giles E. Hardingham, Emily K. Osterweil, David J. A. Wyllie, Emma R. Wood, Peter C. Kind
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Name Zenith El Primero 4069
Manufacturer Zenith (Details)
Jewel Count 31
Year(s) of Production 1969+
Height (mm) 6.6
Frequency (vph) 36,000
Power Reserve 50
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History: The El Primero calibre, which was first released in 1969 and is still produced today, was one of the first automatic chronograph movements and has a frequency of 36,000 alternations per hour (5 Hz). Notably, a modified version of Zenith's "El Primero" movement was used by Rolex from 1988 to 2000 for the Rolex Daytona chronograph. The "El Primero" movement's high rate allows a resolution of 1⁄10 of a second and a potential for greater positional accuracy over the more common standard frequency of 28,800 alternations per hour (4 Hz). The El Primero was honoured with a 2012 release of the El Primero Stratos Flyback Striking 10th, limited to 1,969 pieces (in honour of the original 1969 release date), that housed the same 36,000 vph movement and a sub-dial measuring in tenths of a second to make a complete rotation every ten seconds.
Zenith SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker. The company was started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot at the age of 22, in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel. Zenith was purchased by LVMH in November 1999, becoming one of several brands in its watch and jewellery division. Jean-Claude Biver became Interim CEO in 2017, replacing CEO Aldo Magada, who had replaced Jean-Frédéric Dufour in 2014. Zenith is one of the Swiss watch manufacturers that still produce their own movements in-house.
Favre-Jacot was born 1843 and died in 1917. He was an apprentice within the watchmaking industry while still a youth. Favre-Jacot at some time requested that a house be built for himself at Le Locle, by the architect Le Corbusier. He was also closely involved with another prominent architect, named Alphonse Laverrière. His relationship with this latter architect was the source of influence upon the Werkbund movement. The two men collaborated with a shared artistic vision of the nature of production, to the extent to which they themselves somewhat reformed the artistic situation within francophone Switzerland at the time.
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Okay Beerchasers – This is No Bar Joke!!
Posted on June 27, 2019 by thebeerchaser
(Cheers to my wonderful sister-in-law, Pam Williams, for doing the calligraphy and graphic above.)
Those who follow this blog, know that it started as a hobby after I retired in 2011 as the COO of Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt – a large Portland law firm where I had worked over twenty-five years. The whim to visit and write about bars and breweries came after a lunchtime drop-in to Lumpy’s Landing in Dundee on the way to the Oregon coast.
While the plan was initially to confine my exploits to just Portland area establishments, our retirement travel combined with my wife, Janet’s, discovery that she liked IPA’s rather than confining her beverage selection to strictly Oregon Pinots, offered the opportunity to expand this “journey” to Europe, Alaska, Hawaii, many regions of the US and throughout Oregon – from the coast to the Cascades to Eastern Oregon.
Raising a mug at the historic Dirty Nelly’s Tavern in Boston
So at the end of 2018, my count of reviews – all of them except when traveling, consisting of at least two visits, was at 287. Of these 111 were in the Portland metro area with the remaining 176 watering holes, scattered throughout the aforementioned localities. The post below – published in January provides a complete list by year of those venues:
https://thebeerchaser.com/2019/01/17/hey-have-you-seen-thebeerchaser-during-the-last-seven-years/
A week-long trip to Phoenix in March this year for Spring Training, hikes and Beerchasing upped that count by eight and reviews of four Oregon establishments, The Gemini in Lake Oswego, Old Town Brewing and the Bantam Tavern in Portland and Beachcrest Brewing on the Central Oregon Coast, raised the tally to 299.
The “living wall” at the unique Pigtails Bar in Scottsdale.
The threshold of this significant milestone, begged the question of the appropriate bar or brewery to “honor” as # 300 as well as which Beerchaser regular to ask to join me for that momentous occasion.
The Leaky Roof (hereafter “The Roof”) – a wonderful and long-time SW Portland neighborhood bar or gastro pub – founded in 1947 – originally as a food cart and one that survived a devastating fire, seemed fitting. It had been a convenient (two blocks away) and cherished gathering place for many after-work brewskis with my colleagues when I worked at the Oregon State Bar from 1979 through 1985.
I returned there after an absence of 33 years in June 2018, with Janet and some good friends and Beerchaser regulars (David and Kate Dickson and Roy Lambert and his spouse Mary Maxwell). We had a great meal and sampled their good tap list and I vowed to return for my second review and subsequent blog post.
The 2018 return visit
That occurred on May 6th and it was absolutely appropriate that my long-time friend, Dennis B. Fergson accompanied me. I first met Fergy in 1979, when I started at the Bar Association and the firm for which he was President and Chairman of the Board – JBL & K Insurance, served as the Bar’s benefits consultants.
After “retiring” from insurance and since he knows everyone in Portland, he has worked at Portland State University – first as Assistant Athletic Director and currently as Senior Philanthropic Advisor. (That means he knows who to approach in the Rose City to donate to the City’s excellent university – of which both my wife and I are alums in the graduate Masters in Public Administration program.)
I will return to Denny later in the post, but we had a great lunch – Fergy had one of the many – perhaps hundreds – of cheeseburgers he has consumed during lunches over our forty-year friendship. I had a great Reuben sandwich, which rivaled what former Mayor Bud Clark’s Goose Hollow Inn down the street claims as the “Best Reuben on the Planet.”
I was surprised that The Roof has not been named as one of Portland’s go-to bars in Willamette Week’s Annual Bar Guide – an excellent and comprehensive resource for Thebeerchaser since starting this hobby in 2011.
2017 Willamette Week Annual Bar Guide
Other than a brief reference in one article on pub crawls and a short review by legendary former WW Arts and Culture Editor, Mathew Korfhage in 2013, the only other hit from a Goggle search with WW and the name of the bar in the search terms is a 2017 WW article entitled:
“Portland Woman Sues State Senator Rod Monroe for $3 Million After a Leaky Roof in His East Portland Apartment Building Allegedly Left Her Disabled”. (emphasis supplied) It is unknown whether beer or any other alcohol was involved in this incident…..
Korfhage’s revew states, in part:
“The bar serves its once-blue-collar Goose Hollow crowd with triflingly cheap happy-hour food ($4.95 for a one-third-pound burger, 3-6 pm) and costlier dinners, including an excellent lamb shepherd’s pie ($14.50) so spiced it’s almost curried.
Great food besides good whiskey, beer and wine…
The website promises ‘the largest selection of Irish whiskey available in Portland,’and while we can’t verify the claim, the list doesn’t disappoint, with 24 marks and vintages of uisce beatha (the name for whiskey in Irish) in its tiny hearth-and-hardwood space. Dirt-cheap, triple-shot whiskey flights are available….”
I did not sample The Roof’s whiskey inventory – Irish, Scotch, Bourbon and Blended – extensive as you can see from their menu – and only had a few of the nine beers on tap – which I was glad to see included both Guiness and PBR.
The picture below shows that they have a classic bar set-up which attractively houses the various hard liquors for which the bar has developed a reputation. They also offer a nice selection of wines.
Another surprise in doing additional research on the bar, is the breadth and excellent quality of their menu – deserving of their claim to be a gastro pub. It ranges from a robust weekend brunch menu, a good selection of lunch options, to standard starters, sandwiches, salads and seven very reasonably priced dinner entree’s ranging from fried chicken to Shepherds Pie (Korfhage raved about this) to Pecan Crusted Trout to Stuffed Meatloaf – which could be topped off by Crème Brule’e or fried ice cream for dessert.
Great dessert options as well!
Sabrina, our personable and competent server with Denny
And I am sorely tempted to return for their Happy Hour – during certain hours every day of the week in which you could get a bowl of Guinness Irish Stew for a mere $4 plus a buck off your alcohol preference.
I have to admit that as I stated in one previous bar review, having lunch (or breakfast at The Dockside) with Fergy is like winning the lottery, but notwithstanding the character and personality of this remarkable gentleman, it did not influence my positive reaction when reconnecting with The Roof.
Dennis Ferguson, who was one of the Few and The Proud, during his service with the US Marine Corps, is also an outstanding athlete and family man.
We still laugh about the time in the early 1990’s when I walked into a lunch at Huber’s during some stressful law firm merger negotiations. After a few minutes of conversation, he said to me “Williams, you need to shape up. Quit slouching and get rid of the monotone and be a leader.”
A few cheeseburgers back……
He has always been motivated, but I think his tendency to be a mentor was born when he was allegedly on a business trip to Keokuk, Iowa in 1985. He left a message with the hotel front desk to give him a call at 6:30 and when he answered the next morning, the clerk said, “Mr. Ferguson, this is your wake-up call. What are you going to do with the rest of your life??”
When I told my wife that I was going to lunch at The Roof with Denny, she said, “Don, you better change. Denny always looks so classy!” To top that off, as we walked in, a well-known Portland investment adviser who knows both of us and walked in right before us and came over to our table, looked at Fergy and said, “You never age, do you?”
So to say the least, being around Dennis B. Ferguson ups one’s game, but regardless of whether you have the pleasure of his company in the future as I will, you should give the Leaky Roof a visit – and not just for a drink, but for lunch or dinner.
Perhaps it doesn’t get the publicity or accolades of The Goose because of the well-deserved fondness Portlanders have for Bud Clark, but it scores as one of the premium neighborhood gastro pubs in Portland.
The Leaky Roof 1538 SW Jefferson
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New Energy and Ideas at Old Town Brewing
Posted on February 26, 2019 by thebeerchaser
Old Town Brewing’s brewery and taproom on MLK Blvd – photo ,courtesy of Old Town Brewing
Notwithstanding the fact that there are many thriving breweries in Oregon, the micro-craft business in Oregon – it ranks fifth in the US for the number of breweries per capita – is extremely competitive.
An eastside mainstay closes its door in early 2019
This is evidenced by the closure of three major players in the Portland brewing scene just in the last several months – Alameda, Bridgeport and Burnside. (Click on the links on the names of the last two to see Thebeerchaser’s reviews.)
And Widmer Brothers, the Lompoc Tavern and Portland Brewing have also closed their pubs – gone, but not forgotten as good places to raise a mug.
Bridgeport joins the legendary Slab Town in closing its doors in NW
While some not familiar with the brewery business, have a dream of establishing their own operation based on their enjoyment from home brewing, it takes considerable planning, risk tolerance and devotion to long hours and meeting challenges to sustain a successful brewery or pub – and there’s also the initial capital to even open it.
Backwoods Brewings’ second location in the Pearl District
That is why I have so much respect for the entrepreneurial spirit of some of my favorites including Mark Becker of Flyboy Brewing, the Waters family of SW Washington’s Backwoods Brewing and Jim Mills’ from Caldera Brewing in Ashland – and these are just a few.
Add to those, Adam Milne, the founder and owner of Old Town Brewing (hereafter OTB) in Portland. I had dinner and beer with Adam and lawyer, Carson Bowler, on my second visit to Old Town’s operation in NE Portland – the brewpub and actual site where they brew their six flagship beers in addition to a number of limited batch seasonal brews.
By the way, due to the breadth of the story of Adam Milne and Old Town Brewing, it will be covered in two separate blog posts rather than the customary one narrative.
Adam Milne – young entreprenauer
The original, and now companion location is the well-known historic Old Town Pizza site. And the story is interesting and fulfills a dream – similar to those of the people mentioned above in their enterprises. Adam first visited Old Town Pizza when he was only nine years old. It was owned by the Accaurdi family who opened it in 1974.
“It was in the historic Merchant Hotel in Old Town and a hub for like-minded people with a radical agenda. It stood as a beacon for the local community; a place to break bread and enjoy your neighbor.” (Old Town Brewery web site)
That visit had an impact and demonstrates this young entrepreneur’s vision since he bought Old Town Pizza in 2003 when he was only in his early thirties – 33 to be exact.
He subsequently expanded to NE Portland on NE Martin Luther King Blvd in 2008, where he built the brewery and pub. Assistance came in the form of a low-interest loan from the Portland Development Commission in its effort to promote enterprise close-in NE Portland.
It now houses, in 6,000 square feet, an attractive and bustling brewpub in addition to their brewing hardware and canning/bottling equipment. Adam and his family live in the same neighborhood. This review will focus on the NE location rather than Old Town Pizza brewpub which is still located on Second and NW Davis Streets.
Those who view the story on the OTB website will see that the enterprise, since that time, has had two major expansions and thus may conclude that it’s been a smooth ride for this native of Marcola, Oregon, but that’s not the case. He graduated from Mohawk High School – with twenty-one other classmates in his senior class.
In 2003, to raise the capital to purchase Old Town Pizza, Adam mortgaged the equity in his home and sold a rental house to make the down payment. Only one month into the new venture, their primary refrigerator went out – they had no cash to replace it. He had to buy all new refrigeration and new pizza ovens. When I asked how they resolved, Adam chuckled and said, “I suppose that’s what credit cards are for!”
Attractive recovery from the 2012 fire in the second story
Then there was the fire upstairs at the NE brewpub in 2012, which resulted in closure of the pub for two to three months.
Many people are also familiar with Adam’s battle with the City of Portland over the Old Town Breweing trademark – the iconic “leaping white stag” – which was not only stressful, but the multi-year legal battle, resulted in significant attorney fees before OTB eventually prevailed and settled with the City.
Source of mult-year legal battle…
On both of my visits to OTB, I was accompanied by Carson Bowler, a partner at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt law firm and with whom I had the pleasure of working for a good portion of my 25 years at the firm.
Starting in 1990 and for four years, while at the U of O, Carson lived in the same fraternity – Sigma Nu – as Adam. Carson also bears a strong resemblance to former Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter, Art Vandely, President of Vandely Enterprises.
https://thebeerchaser.com/2014/01/31/beerchaser-of-the-month-art-vandelay/
Art Vandelay in his executive role has a different legal perspective…
This environmental attorney has enjoyed his friendship with Adam and stated:
“I’ve known Adam for more than twenty-five years. We were in the Sigma Nu house and his reputation then was that he was the nicest guy in the fraternity. Unfortunately, that reputation was accurate.
One could never lie to, or ‘borrow’ from or prank Adam without the everlasting worry that God, Himself would punish any such shenanigans with eternal damnation.
Adam always had one great idea too many until he didn’t and launched Old Town Brewing. It was in this enterprise that his ambition, good taste, generosity and entrepreneurial spirit blissfully collided to produce pure-love in a pint. Adam makes good beer because only good things come from Adam.”
We will get back to Adam in the second blog post, but first let’s talk about their quarters in NE Portland. The architect was another Sigma Nu at Oregon, Eric Aust, now practicing in Newport Beach, CA and who specializes in custom residential and commercial development.
https://www.austarchitect.com/old-town-pizza
He succeeded in making Old Town Brewing one of the most impressive and comfortable brewpubs I have visited in seven and one-half years of Beerchasing. Thebeerchaser is not conversant with technical design concepts and themes, but I know what I like and that was definitely the case with the environment at OTB.
While some of the new breweries and brewpubs in the Pearl are sleek and modern-industrial, the OTB building is rustic – large fireplaces, dark wood and a home-grown Northwest ambiance. And there are interesting historic photos as can be seen below.
For example, most of the wood in the two-story structure is reclaimed from an old tobacco warehouse in Kentucky. When we were touring,Adam stated, “You can still smell tobacco,” – (well, at least somebody without the sinus issues that plague me probably could….)
The round barrel tables are former sewing machine stands purchased from an antique store in nearby Aurora. The bar and backbar are very attractive and there are a variety of seating options.
Attractive bar
Okay, ambiance is nice, but what about the beer? OTB fares very well in that category which is evidenced by the extensive list of awards on their website dating back to 2013:
https://www.otbrewing.com/dock-sales
I will cover the beer in significantly more depth as well as the food and the trademark battle and show some of the pictures from my first visit – this time with two lawyers – the aforementioned Carson (not Washington) and his fellow lawyer in the Schwabe Natural Resources Group – Brien Flanagan, the Group Leader.
Bowler and Flannagan
Old Town Brewing 5201 NE Martin Luther King Blvd
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Thebeerchaser’s 2018 Annual Report
Posted on January 2, 2019 by thebeerchaser
The Beerchaser and wife, Janet at historic dive bar, Durty Nelly’s in Boston
Another year of Beerchasing concludes and after over seven years, the count of bars, pubs and breweries visited and reviewed logs in at 286 – with 111 of those in the City of Portland or metro area and the remaining 175 ranging from several in Europe to establishments in Alaska, Hawaii, various regions of the US and all across and down the coast of our wonderful state of Oregon.
Indeed, our retirement travel has expanded the scope of this retirement hobby, which I originally intended to be confined to those in Portland. The chart below was done after an intensive audit of all my posts during the last 7+ years – because when it comes to watering holes – accuracy is important…..
Portland Outside Portland Yearly Total Composite Total
2012 20 5 25 34
As has been the case each year, the number of views and visitors to Thebeerchaser.com has increased. And I beg your indulgence in spouting a few of these statistics – possibly because the habit was ingrained by reviewing the “always stimulating” management and productivity reports produced at a large law firm – Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt – one I was proud to call my work home for twenty-five years.
This year there were over 25,340 views of posts by 18,190 visitors – exceeding the record last year of 24,577 and 18,623.
And I still am surprised at where these visitors view the posts with 86% from the US and another 6% generated collectively from India, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany. The remaining 8% were people from 128 different countries, many of whom I suspect, Googled the term “Beerchaser” and were probably looking for something different than my bar tour.
The national flag of Lesotho
As usual, this hobby has been educational for me and 2018 was no exception. For example, it took some research to locate where the one view I got from Lesotho emanated – It’s an enclaved country of two million within the border of South Africa.
Note: Now it does not surprise me, but after publishing this post I got a comment from Jay Waldron, Schwabe partner and Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter (March 29, 2016) that he had ridden his motorcycle through Lesotho when he cycled through South Africa. Click on the link above to read about more of his exploits.
2011- 2018 Beerchaser Graph
(Notice the 377% increase in views from 2012 at 6,704 – the first full year – to over 25,000 in 2018.)
The Beerchasing Itinerary in 2018
As you might have noticed from the chart at the beginning of the post, the number of Portland bars at twelve, was one of the lowest counts since this blog was launched in 2011. This was because we traveled more and I had extensive involvement as a volunteer in the development of the Benedictine Brewery at the Mount Angel Abbey.
The Benedictine Brewery and St. Michael Taproom
I’m proud to say that we opened the Brewery and the St. Michael Taproom in September and so far, it has been a great success. It’s one of three breweries owned and operated by monks in the US and came to fruition after six years of planning, fundraising and construction. You should plan to visit the Taproom in 2019.
Portland Area Bars
While the number visited and reviewed was somewhat meager at only twelve, I Beerchased at some distinctive bars and pubs this year ranging from the classic NE Portland dive bar – The Standard to the upscale cocktail bar – Palomar – named Bar-of-the-Year by Oregon Live to a new and wonderful neighborhood pub not to far from my home in West Linn – The Salty Rhino.
Captain Eric (yellow shirt) skipper of the Brew Barge shirt) briefs his crew..
And there was the cruise on the Portland Brew Barge with my former Schwabe colleagues in August.
We also paid our first visit to what has become our new favorite place to eat and have a brewski or cocktail – Wilder Bar/Cafe in Northeast Portland. I included the Benedictine Brewery in Mt. Angel in the Portland area as everybody in the Rose City should make this short trip.
Wilder – A gem in NE
Of course, there were a couple misses – venues to which I would not return. These included the Happy Fortune and Bar 33 – Brooklyn. Read the reviews to determine why Thebeerchaser – who by his own admission – loves almost all saloons and pubs, thought these were not worth your time.
Stop in for a daiquiri at Palomar on SE Division
Name Location Type Date of Post
The Salty Rhino West Linn Neighborhood December
Palomar SE Cocktail December
Bar 33 Sellwood Neighborhood September
Benedictine Brewery Mount Angel Brewery and Taproom August
Brew Barge Downtown (River) Miscellaneous August
The Happy Fortune SW Miscellaneous August
The Standard NE Dive June
The Dockside North Neighborhood June
Oaks Bottom Pub Sellwood Neighborhood April
Wilder Bar/Café NE Neighborhood April
Woodsman Tavern * SE Neighborhood February
John’s Market Place Multnomah Village Bottle Shop January
* After seven years, The Woodsman Tavern has now closed and a new site for popular restaurant Tasty N Sons will open in the same quarters.
O.H.S.O. Brewery in Scottsdale
We traveled to Arizona for a week in the spring and while Phoenix/Scottsdale is definitely not our favorite urban spot in the US, there were some great breweries and hikes to make it a good trip.
The highlight of our travel in 2018, however, was an eleven day trip to New York City, Maine and Boston. While we love the Northwest, the frenetic and diverse culture of Manhattan; the scenery, including Acadia National Park; the micro-breweries in Maine (ranking third in breweries per capita in the US) and a night in the North End of Boston, made it a vacation to remember.
Overall, we visited thirty bars, pubs and breweries on these two trips.
The District Tap House in the heart of Manhattan’s Garment District
North Mountain Brewing Phoenix Brewery and Pub April
OHSO Brewing North Scottsdale Brewery and Pub April
McFate Brewing Scottsdale Brewery and Pub April
Wren House Brewing Scottsdale Brewery and Pub April
Scottsdale Beer Company Scottsdale Brewery and Pub April
Helton Brewing Phoenix Brewery and Pub April
Mesquite River Brewing Scottsdale Brewery and Pub April
Sun Up Brewing Scottsdale Brewery and Pub February
OHSO Brewing Phoenix Airport Taphouse February
Four Peaks Brewing Phoenix Brewery and Pub February
Goldwater Brewing Phoenix Brewery and Pub February
Two Brothers’ Brewing Scottsdale Brewery and Pub February
Durty Nelly’s Bar North Boston Dive Bar October 30
Shipyard Brewing Portland, Maine Brewery and Taproom October 30
Sebago Brewing Portland, Maine Brewpub October 30
Rising Tide Brewing Portland, Maine Brewery and Taproom October 30
Marshall Wharf Brewing Belfast, Maine Brewery and Taproom October 30
Sea Dog Brewing Camden, Maine Brewpub October 30
Rock Harbor Brewing Rock Harbor, Maine Brewery and Taproom October 30
Atlantic Brewing Bar Harbor, Maine Taproom October 18
Cottage Street Pub Bar Harbor, Maine Dive Bar October 18
Island Bar Southwest Harbor, Maine Dive Bar October 18
Sips Southwest Harbor, Maine Cocktail Bar October 18
Ebenezer’s Pub Lovell, Maine Neighborhood October 9
Standard Gastropub Bridgton, Maine Gas Station Bar October 9
Sea Dog Brewing South Portland, Maine Brewpub October 9
Heartland Brewing New York City Brewery and Pub October 1
District Tap House New York City Taphoue October 1
Mariott Pulse Rooftop Bar New York City Hotel Bar October 1
Mariott Pulse Patio Bar New York City Hotel Bar October 1
Atlantic Brewery in the heart of Bar Harbor, Maine
Beerchasers-of-the-Quarter
How can I rationalize the fact that in 2018, I named only two Beerchasers-of-the-Quarter (BOQ) – a contradiction to the name of the “honor.” Again, maybe it was the travel or prhaps it was involvement in the Benedictine Brewery……..however……
Mark Edlen outside his favorite bar in Portland
I prefer to assert that the gravitas of the two 2018 BOQs is expansive enough to justify naming only two. Portland developer, environmentalist, outdoorsman and civic icon, Mark Edlen, was named in February and it was a pleasure re-engaging with Mark, who I originally met in 1979.
Our law firm was also the beneficiary of his real estate expertise when he served as our commercial realtor for a number of years at Schwabe before he formed Gerding Edlen Development Co. in 1996.
Cyclist and outdoorsman
And I could also maintain with some accuracy, that the second BOQ – the 1967 Oregon State Giant Killer Football Team and it’s de-facto historian, Jud Blakely, if considered as individuals rather than as a group, would garner this designation for a number of years.
Jud, who is an SAE fraternity brother and has been a friend for over fifty years, was one of the early BOQs (September, 2013) based on his remarkable persona and achievements.
Any OSU alum, or for that matter, any Oregonian interested in one of the great historic athletic tales of the State of Oregon, should visit the website below for the complete story. It’s a labor of love by this OSU alum and former OSU Student Body President and I consider it the War and Peace equivalent to sports websites.
http://osu1967giantkillers.com
Blakely receiving his Bronze Star and promotion to captain from the Asst. Comandant of the Marine Corps.
https://thebeerchaser.com/2013/09/16/beerchaser-of-the-quarter-george-m-jud-blakely-iii/
Indeed, the story of the Giant Killers is so compelling, that it will require subsequent Beerchaser posts to complete the story of this unique team and the outstanding individuals.
https://thebeerchaser.com/2018/05/20/the-1967-osu-giant-killers-beerchasers-of-the-quarter-part-i/
And it was incredibly rewarding to interview or reconnect with some of my long-term friends who were either on the team or associated with the Giant Killer Era including Larry Rich, Craig Hanneman, Chris Wahle, Gary and Duane Barton and Scott Spiegelberg (played football after the Giant Killers and is now Director of OSU Varsity and Alumni Engagement) – but also to meet a number who I didn’t know until researching for the blog post.
The latter includes Billy Main, Steve Preece, Louis Armstrong, Bob Josis, Russ Jordan, and Don Wirth (former Executive Director of the OSU Alumni Association and a trustee of the OSU Foundation.)
Lunch at the Angry Beaver before the 2018 Washington State Football game. L to R (Billy Main, Jud Blakely, Don Williams, Karen and Steve Preece and Bob Gill)
Fear not for I have already identified my next two Beerchasers-of-the-Quarter and will get back on track with some very interesting people in 2019.
Similarly, since I have already visited, but not made a customary second visit and/or written the reviews of another ten Portland area bars and two from a trip to Palm Springs, Thebeerchaser will have no shortage of watering hole stories to relate. If you have a bar, pub or brewery that deserves inclusion, please let me know.
Stay tuned in 2019 for the fascinating story of Portland’s Old Town Brewing…..
And in January, I will also publish the complete (and audited) list of each establishment visited from 2011 to 2018 including the location and the date of TheBeerchaser post for those who want this data base as a resource.
I might even decide to identify a number of my favorite habitats of different types e.g. dive bar, neighborhood, sports, cocktail lounge, etc. during this journey as well as pointing out the few that I would recommend you pass by as they would not enhance your Beerchasing experience in my humble opinion.
At the covered bridge entrance to Pondicherry Park and the Pinehaven Trail in Bridgton, Maine
Now Edgar Allan Poe was not considered a really positive person based on his personal life including his military career including being purposely court-martialed at West Point, his marriage and his caustic literary reviews and writing on many macabre topics.
That said, it seems appropriate to start the New Year out with one of his poems on the merit of drinking ale. (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes)
Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.
At least he was positive about ale!
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The Burnside Brewing Company – Try the East Side
Posted on April 27, 2017 by thebeerchaser
2017 has seen Thebeerchaser’ Tour of Bars, Taverns and Pubs move slightly away (although never too far in physical proximity and thought) from classic dive bars to breweries and brewpubs. Recent visits to the relatively new Portland brewpubs of Ten Barrel and Breakside in the Pearl District were interesting (the reviews are forthcoming) but the east side of the Rose City cried out for attention.
While not in the legendary Barmuda Triangle southeast of the Willamette River and not a new establishment, having been opened in 2010, Burnside Brewing Company has a nice atmosphere, some good beer and a reputation for being a progressive and innovative force in the Oregon beer community.
Not only experts on the Code, but great people!
As has been the case at two prior Beerchasing events (Life of Riley Tavern (3/16/16) and Brannon’s in Beaverton (3/3/15) – a venue which had great potential, but unfortunately a rather short lifespan, I joined a distinguished and erudite group (if you will…..) – eight individuals who all are either current or former members (or have a direct connection) to the Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt law firm Tax and Estate Planning Group.
For the brewery’s grain storage
Burnside Brewing, like many of its competitors, is housed in a building with roots other than malt and hops – in this case an industrial laundry built in 1927, according to Mary, the manager. The exterior is pretty Spartan and aside from the massive and distinctive silo (used to store the grain for brewing) and the patio in front, Burnside looks like a plain industrial facility.
The availability of parking in its lot and spaces available on the street is a plus, however, and one which makes parking in the Pearl District frustrating.
The interior is spacious and pleasant with high ceilings, an exposed kitchen, a long walnut bar with walnut tables and a Pacific Northwest décor that is tasteful and interesting. Compared to a similar nearby (5 minutes or 2.3 miles) venue previously visited by Thebeerchaser – that being Ecliptic Brewing (5/6/15) – it has much better ambiance.
The lunchtime crowd had a nice energy – and it wasn’t just because of the outgoing natures of our cadre of tax lawyers who not only earned law degrees, but supplemented those three years with Master of Tax (LLM) degrees. This graduate degree required an additional year of focus on such stimulating topics as conduit entities, the assignment of income doctrine and constructive receipt.
The brewery prides itself on innovation and their “think-outside-the-box approach to brewing reminded me of the nearby Hair-of-the-Dog Brewery reviewed on this blog in February23, 2016 – https://thebeerchaser.com/2016/02/23/hair-of-the-dog-brewery
For example Burnside’s website states:
“The people of Burnside Brewing Co. make it what it is. They are risk takers, lovers of food to be enjoyed with easy to drink beers……takes an alchemist approach to enhance the craft beer and culinary experience……is widely recognized as a visionary leader in the Northwest brewing industry—bold enough to take risks and smart enough to leave a creative impression on your palate. The finished product is an outstanding combination of original cuisine and beer, both deeply rooted in innovation and quality.”
And the press and media reviews are very positive about this seven-year old venture of co-founders Jay Gilbert and Jason McAdam and echo plaudits for their creative approach to brewing, which the Portland Mercury described in a 4/28/2011 article, the year after the brewery opened, as “Beer-ed Science – Burnside Brewing’s Futuristic Fermentation.”
Beer-ed Science
Another example is this excerpt from the 2016 Willamette Week Bar Guide:
“Between its extensive, off-the-wall lineup of seasonals and decor guaranteed to appease the expectations of tourists visiting a Real Portland Brewpub™, Burnside has maintained its status as a must-visit for nearly six years…….. To complement its enduringly popular IPA and throwback Couch Select Lager, Burnside has concoctions infused with everything from Earl Grey tea to galangal, pumpkin puree and pepitas.”
We had various sandwiches on the lunch menu ranging from the chicken and the schnitzel sandwiches to the cubano and the burger. All were good and had a generous helping of fries although the prices were a little bit high at $14 and $12 for the burger. And one of the more pleasant parts of our lunch was the demeanor and competence of our server, Amethist, (she changed the y to an “i” but she is still a real gem!)
Amethist – a real gem!
Burnside takes pride in its food prep (“a menu offering cured meats, charcuterie, pickling, and culinary artistry all done in-house”) and gets good marks especially on the dinner menu for such entrées as Maple Cured Pork Loin ($15), Grilled Octopus ($16) or the old standard – Buttermilk Fried Chicken ($16.
There are also some good bargains during the Fermentation Hour menu and beer is only $3.75 for a pint on Wednesdays – $4.75 on other days) Check out their brunch menu – Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 3:00, where you might want to try the Pork Belly Eggs Benedict.
A Jambalaya special with chicken, shrimp and andouille sausage.
Since a majority of our group was still working, partaking of beer was minimal, but I returned a few weeks later and had a sample of the Isomer IPA and a pint of the Burnside IPA, two of their flagship beers – I understand why. The Isomer had a nice fruit taste and the IPA was just the right hoppiness for me.
Grace, the bartender also talked about the cherry wheat beer they were introducing later that day which would have been a good bet. And the pints were only $4.25.
National and State recognition for its beers
Burnside has been recognized for its beers, winning its first gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver in 2012 for Sweet Heat Ale (“The chutney inspired wheat beer made with apricots and Scotch bonnet peppers won the gold medal in the Herb and Spice Beer category.”
Sweet Heat Ale – Gold Medal Winner
More recent awards were at the 2017 Oregon Beer Awards including a silver medal for their Juin in the Belgian category and a gold in the dark and hoppy category for their Keg Nog.
One way to explore the broad selection of beers at Burnside and which draws rave reviews, is to try the sampler. As Grace explained, one can either sample the nine seasonal beers or seven perennials for $12 each or try the entire menu (usually 18 beers on their tap list) for a very reasonable $20. Typical reaction to the deal is this 12/5/16 review on Yelp:
“The fact that they offer a sampler of everything on tap for $20 is amazing. We split that sucker 3 ways and left feeling good. The vibe here is a cool and definitely different from the typical hipster brewery feel. It’s more classed up and full of adults on dates and stuff. That and 3 wet dudes at the bar drinking 17 beers (it’s now 18) for $20.”
Sample either the Perennials or the Seasonals or all 18 for $20
The following complaint about the sampler was a little bit unusual – it’s from 2014 so the sampler had only 12 beers for $16:
“……the sampler tray (made of wooden blocks) was filled with beer that the bar tender over poured so the sampler tray was seeping beer onto the table and the cups were dripping a lot when picked up.” Yelp 10/14
Most of my Beerchasing companions would not look at this as a negative and would just ask for a sponge and then slurp up the seepage, but then we are not a genteel crowd.
Now some who have read the past posts in which the Beerchasers attending are tax lawyers have questioned the quality of the conversation with such a learned professional group. They have asked rhetorically, “Who wants to ponder the advantages of an S versus a C corp while swilling the seepage on a beer sampler or downing a pint of the Burnside porter named ‘Guts and Black Stuff?’”
A great law firm with an outstanding Tax and Estate Planning group
But as I have stated before, this team is a well-rounded and quality group of individuals involved in broad civic, athletic and intellectual adventures. As evidence, take Pete Osborne – now partially retired and of counsel at Schwabe, but recognized by his peers as one of the brightest tax lawyers in Portland.
Pete Osborne
Pete and his wife Terry, now retired from the legal department at Standard Insurance, are reading the Modern Library list of the 100 best 20th century novels. Pete has checked forty-seven off his list although he admits that a number of them were read in his twenties ((on top of his law school reading….) including A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises both of Ernest Hemingway’s works on the list . He also stated:
“The biggest surprise author for me on the list was Carson McCullers’ ‘The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter’. The weirdest book so far is ‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Anthony Burgess.”
Note: I can identify with Pete’s earnest ambition although from a slightly different focus. Pete is reading 100 of the greatest novels and after five years of Thebeerchaser, I have now visited and/or written on 208 bars, taverns and pubs in Oregon, Europe and throughout the US. Having a “worthwhile” educational goal in retirement is very important!
Obornes rendering of The Three Sisters
In the prior posts, I also included some of Pete’s art, which is impressive and asked him to send me his latest piece which is untitled – a collagraph (a print made from a collage of various materials glued onto a board.)
Untitled caligrograph
As additional evidence that Pete is a Renaissance Man besides understanding the nuances of the Internal Revenue Code — he is a skilled poker player. He travels to Las Vegas each year for the World Series of Poker and reported that in 2016 while playing in the Super Seniors (over 65) No Limit Hold Em event last June, he placed 36th out of 1,476 entries – “This was in the money.”
Finished “In the Money”
One final note on Burnside Brewery. Some patrons prefer a venue where they can raise a mug without having to watch or listen to youngsters as part of the equation. Burnside is one of a number of breweries and pubs where kids are welcomed – until 10:00 PM when accompanied by an adult. However, sometimes this creates dissonance with the patron who craves a more sedate experience as evidenced by this 2/28/16 complaint on Yelp:
“Special note for Parents who bring in their precious spoiled children: DON’T!! Can’t you monitor your brood and keep them from tearing up the crayons so OTHER children may play with them???? Is it really that hard?? JUST STOP IT.”
At least the dispute wasn’t about the President.
Or perhaps the complainant was irate because his or her kid didn’t get to use the crayons. This was not a problem with the tax group because they unequivocally deferred to Pete’s use of the crayons given his artistic talents.
By the way, another interesting feature of the décor is the local art they feature. Most recently, one of the prominent pieces is the one of the “hairless cat” which changes colors and one unnamed source opined that the regulars would probably not be sorry to see it go. (While having no artistic judgement, it did appear to be inconsistent with the rest of the décor and was a distraction.)
In summary, Burnside Brewing Company earns good marks for ambiance, beer, food, parking, the staff and its entrepreneurial spirit. While there are some good options on the Westside, try this near Eastside venue and you will want to return.
Amethist and Grace at work with local art in the background (notice that the cat is now green…)
Be sure to say “hello” to both Amethist and Grace, and if it is a nice day, stretch out with a pint of Burnside’s Immaculate Decoction Belgian Strong Golden Ale and dig into W. Somerset Maugham’s novel Of Human Bondage.
British novelist and playwright
Then return and have their Too Sticky to Roll IRA and start your second work on the Modern Library 100 list – let’s say, Oregon’s own, Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion. Maybe Pete Osborne will be willing to start a book club with meetings at breweries – “Book and Brew” might be a good moniker!
Note: I see that Book & a Brew is also the label for a “……one stop monthly subscription (£12.99) service for book lovers and people who appreciate a nice brew,” but it should be noted that the brew, in this case, is tea rather than beer.
A good place for a book and a brew on a sunny day…
Burnside Brewing Company 701 East Burnside
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Amy Faust – Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter (and Mandolinist…)
Eating her lunch at 10:30 AM
It’s 4:40 AM on a weekday morning and Amy Faust reluctantly rolls out of bed after having racked up about 7 hours and 10 minutes of sleep – if you count the half-hour she spent reading her latest novel as slumber time. This has been the routine for the last eighteen years for this media personality – she’s the Amy of the Mike and Amy in the Morning Show which airs from 5:30 to 10:00 AM each weekday morning on KWJJ The Wolf at 99.5 FM. http://www.thewolfonline.com/shows/mike-amy-morning
Well, the above period of time needs to be modified to state, “This has been the routine for the last eighteen years except for about a two-year period between 2012 and 2014 when she slept more normal hours.” During that period, she made her living using her considerable talents in various other jobs, because management of the station had unceremoniously fired the popular duo in an economy move – they were replaced by a cheaper syndicated show based in Seattle.
But Amy’s morning routine returned in mid 2014 when she and her broadcast partner, Mike Chase, who after being terminated, had moved to North Carolina to take another broadcasting job, were reinstated. The station ultimately responded to the uproar from the Mike and Amy fans, which were voluminous and incessant. Perhaps, it’s best described by this June 12, 2014 excerpt from The Columbian – the newspaper in Vancouver where the duo has a lot of fans:
“Getting fired isn’t so rare, especially in the churning world of broadcast media. But getting rehired by a media company that publicly apologizes for its flub is a singular career achievement.
‘I want to speak to you about a mistake that ‘The Wolf’ made back on Aug. 6, 2012,’ program director Mike Moore of Portland country music station KWJJ ‘The Wolf,’ recently said on the air…….. Faust said she’d both halfway expected the pink slip and yet was ‘absolutely shocked’ that corporate station managers based on the East Coast actually went through with it.
But something unexpected happened, Moore continued: ‘Almost immediately, many of you told us that we’d made a mistake. We received thousands of calls, Facebook posts, emails and even snail mail letters. The overwhelming sentiment was that you really missed Mike and Amy, and you wanted them to come back. You also wanted a local show.’
Back on the bus…….
During their off-the-air stretch, Chase and Faust tried putting out a podcast and worked together for the quirky TV show ‘Portlandia,’ Chase as an actor and Faust as a location manager. Faust also did some writing, some traveling and some ‘sitting on the couch’ in genuine mourning, she said, because she’d loved working with her pal Chase and loved working in radio. Eventually, though, the station invited them back — and publicly called their firing a mistake.
‘I’m not gonna lie. It’s a little satisfying,”’Faust said.”
In Moore’s defense, Amy confirms that it was not his decision and he successfully campaigned hard to get them back on the air. It had been a perfect job for thirteen years and she remembers when they told her on a Monday with no notice “Your services are no longer required. Here’s a brown box to take out your stuff – and you should be gone within four hours…..” Her first reaction was to laugh and say, “Mike was right,” because he had the feeling for six months that they were on the chopping block and even said on the previous Friday, “I think we’re getting fired on Monday!”
With daughter, Alice
In retrospect, it was a positive experience because she was able to take time off with the six months salary remaining from what was a “no-cut contract,” and take a wonderful road trip to the Redwoods with her daughter, Alice, and then able to drive her to school each day.
Amy Faust is the first individual in 2017 to be named Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter and joins the “elite” list started on this blog five years ago which includes writers, military heroes, academicians and even the crew of the USS Constitution for their “legendary” war cruise in 1798. Although this is a blog about bars and beer, a number of these individuals have nothing to do with my favorite beverage – they are just interesting individuals who have made worthwhile contributions to society and have a good story which should be told.
Portland author, Brian Doyle ****
Past recipients have been authors such as Dr. Harry Frankfurt (On Bullshit) or Portland’s own Brian Doyle – **** see note at the very end of this post **** (Mink River and The Plover), athletes such as former All-coast and then NFL tackle, Craig “The Dude” Hanneman and Viet Nam veterans and heroes, Jud Blakely, Doug Bomarito and Steve Lawrence. And the most recent recipient before Amy, is also a media personality – The Godfather, Dwight Jaynes of CSN. To see the posts for this distinguished group, go up to the blog header and click on the tab entitled “Beerchaser-of -the-Month or Quarter.”
Jack, hosting Town Hall
And it should be noted that Amy becomes the first direct relative of another Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter. Her dad, Jack, retired appellate lawyer at the Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt firm and former moderator of the award-winning public affairs program, Town Hall which was broadcast for many years each Sunday on KATU, was so named in September, 2014.
The elder Faust’s story can be viewed at https://thebeerchaser.com/2014/09/02/john-r-jack-faust-fall-2014-beerchaser-of-the-quarter/
The Faust kids Barbara, Amy and Charlie
One of three children (also Barbara and Charlie) of Jack and Alice Faust, she was born in Portland and attended Wilson High School where she graduated in 1983 “as a straight B student – I was an academic late bloomer…….!”
An academic “late bloomer”
Her mom has been active in civic and public affairs having served as a commissioner over 6 years on both the State Commission for Women and the State Child Care Commission and was appointed by both Republican and Democratic Oregon governors.
Civic activist, Alice Faust
You can see by the picture below from Jack’s law school years that Amy grew up in a conservative and formal household……
Jack receiving nourishment from fellow law school classmae, Dave Krieger
Amy attended Scripps College, majoring in American Studies and loved it. During summers, she had internships first at KATU and then in Washington DC for the Senate Commerce Committee when Oregon Senator Bob Packwood served as its Chair. She also worked for Public Broadcasting in LA on some documentary films which gave her background for later work.
Admitting that “I had terrible taste in boyfriends in my youth” (something both her parents confirmed), she moved to New York after college graduation “driving my car across the country with a Frenchman.” After she sold it to an artist, the car was impounded shortly afterward and then smashed in a tow yard after being towed for non-payment of nine parking tickets. (Time constraints precluded research on similar outstanding tickets in Portland.)
The Dixie Chicks neednt have worried……
Her experience in New York lasted nine years in which she worked on freelance documentary productions including helping to write a news book for ABC with Peter Jennings.
She also appeared in a band named “Bushmills” in which she sang and played the mandolin in “underground clubs.” “We were an all-female group similar to the Dixie Chicks although with a lot less talent.”
She leveraged her experience as a disk jockey in college for a gig as a DJ in a venue named Rub-a-Dub – it was a club not a car-wash….
Kevin second from right) and Amy, Beerchasing at the Yard House
She met her future husband, Kevin, at a party in the Ex-Lax Building (“Things have been going smoothly ever since…..”). They were both dating other people and were friends for a year before they became a couple. They moved to a wonderful six-unit apartment in Brooklyn right across the street from the bakery where the movie “Moonstruck” was filmed.
“We paid only $350 per month and fortunately Kevin had handy-man talents which the 91-year old landlady needed because even though he was Catholic and had been an alter-boy, she always thought he was Jewish and discriminated in her leases.”
One of her real estate regrets is when they decided, based on cashflow (or lack thereof) to turn down the opportunity to buy the apartment building for $300,000 – it’s now worth $10 million!
Kevin, Mike and Amy
Kevin then graduated from the prestigious Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, with a degree in architecture where he was class valedictorian.
Founded in 1859, Cooper Union is among the nation’s oldest and most distinguished institutions of higher education. (He gave the valedictory speech from the same stage on which Abe Lincoln delivered what has become known as his “right makes might” address” in 1859.)
They moved to Ireland where Kevin taught architecture for a year in Dublin. Amy did a few television jobs as a production coordinator.
Then it was back to Portland with no jobs. They still live in the same NE Portland house that became their home in 1996. Kevin got a job in a high-end construction firm (Hammer and Hand) and Amy worked as a freelance writer and authored advertising copy for clients and produced television commercials. (“It was an experience where I was totally over my head and was stressful because I am not the epitome of a detail-minded person…”.
That’s when she first met Mike Chase – he auditioned (and got the part) for a bank commercial Amy produced. He had just been fired from a weekly radio show on 94.7 FM and got a job on 1080 AM, where he asked Amy to work on the weekly show “just for fun.” Flash forward to 1998 — Amy is pregnant and gets a call from Chase who has been hired by a country-western station and asks Amy to be co-host (“By the way, our show starts at 5:00 AM.”)
Their thirteen year run brings us back to the spontaneous termination and Amy is back trying to figure out what she wants to do when she grows up. So she returns to freelance writing and lands a gig as a location manager for Portlandia – a job she loved but was like solving a crazy puzzle for each show – trying to get the permits and the right background for each scene as well as figuring out details such as disposing of trash and parking for the cast and crew. She managed five people and did the job for about four months the first year and has worked a little on each season ever since.
Amy with her parents, Alice and Jack
Amy, notwithstanding her modesty, is a talented writer and also wrote a column for a low-budget publication – “Our Town.” After that it was freelance work for Willamette Week. You can see a sample of her writing at the end of this post. It will take you to an excerpt from the account of her dad’s fascinating experiences with the RajNeesh when he featured the topic of the cult’s “invasion” of Antelope, Oregon, on three separate Town Hall shows. The article was originally published in the July, 2014 edition of 1859 magazine. https://1859oregonmagazine.com/think-oregon/art-culture/rajneesh-oregon-cult-history/
This woman of many talents does not consider herself to be a local celebrity. “Because I’m on radio rather than television, I’m not recognized except when I go to hockey games or am in doctor’s offices.”
Her dad’s account contradicts that, however. “When I used to host Town Hall, people meeting Amy for the first time would always ask if I was her father. Now, I’m the one who gets the inquiry, ‘Is Amy your daughter?’”
Recognized at Grand Central Bakery by musician Bills Wadhams
Amy and I met for our first interview in Grand Central Bakery in NE Portland and about 45 minutes into the session, a guy walks up to her and greets her with a hug. It was Bill Wadhams who led a 1980’s one-hit-wonder band named Animotion. She had interviewed him while working for Willamette Week.
Perhaps she does not have the visual profile of local television personalities, but she was also “recognized” in the Buoy Beer Company Brew-pub in Astoria. “Our group was being kind of rowdy and I was talking and laughing rather loudly and a woman at the table behind us turned around and said, “Aren’t you Amy Faust from KWJJ The Wolf.”
A distinctive laugh…..
Evidence that she can be recognized by her laugh can be garnered by listening to this brief interview Mike and Amy had with Keith Urban. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=mike+and+amy+kwjj+the+wolf&&view=
Her preparation for the show (besides setting her alarm for earlier than any of us would want to consider) consists of filing things away for discussion pieces and the quizzes they feature each day. She also stays abreast of trending topics on social media and what’s going on in the community. “We’re always looking for topics. Our show is a context eating machine…”
Grant Constitution Team – Alice is the last student on the right next to coach, Jim Westwood – former Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter.
Daughter Alice is now a high school senior at Grant High and a member of the Constitution Team which recently placed first in the Oregon high school competition and will soon travel to Washington DC for the “We the People” national finals. She has previously admonished her mom, “Don’t ever mention me on the show.” Alice will attend the U of O in the fall.
I reminded Amy about a show I enjoyed some years ago when, in the absence of Mike Chase, she got her dad to be the guest co-host. “It was a fun show although I had a “dump” button with a seven-second delay to control what he was saying if necessary.” (She didn’t have to use it.”)
Amy is also active in the community. One of her favorite civic pursuits is volunteer coordinator for Portland Meet, an organization that “……welcomes and befriends immigrants and refugees, enriching community by creating mutually beneficial mentoring opportunities that promote cross-cultural learning, enhance work skills and build trust.”
Her involvement was inspired after she read the book What is the What, a novel by Dave Eggers based on one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, who after fleeing his country during the civil war, eventually immigrated to the US. The book portrays his “struggles to adjust to the mixed blessing of his new life.”
She teaches citizenship classes – the picture is of Howa, a woman from Somalia who gained citizenship after the class.
Subject of nightmares…..
Amy also related how their listeners “never forget anything” and in response to my question about examples of this premise, she launched into some interesting (if not curious) stories about her cat that used to lick the wax from her ears and the sucker fish that died an ignominious death in her basement after Amy forgot about it – “I still have nightmares about that.”
Each Beerchasing session in which Amy has joined Jack and her brother, Charlie, (at Kelly’s Olympian, MadSon’s Pub and The Independent) has elicited other great stories such as when she met Dolly Parton and the legendary, George Jones. They are always fun to hear her recount although people in surrounding booths often wonder who in the group has the unique laugh.
Jack, Amy and brother, Charlie in the center, Beerchasing at Kelly’s Olympian
While Mike and Amy’s gig on The Wolf is going quite well, I can assure you that should the ax fall again, Amy Faust will use her considerable talents on some new adventure. We can just take comfort knowing that it would never be working in a commercial aquarium……..
Excerpt from Thebeerchaser post on September 2, 2014
Three Town Hall shows on the Rajneesh and the Bhagwan concluded with two in Rancho Rajneesh – now, Antelope, Oregon. Ma Anand Sheila was the spokesperson for the Bhagwan. Amy Faust, Jack’s daughter and a local media celebrity, writes a compelling account of these shows in the July, 2014 edition of 1859 Magazine. (The first two shows had not gone well for the Followers and they balked at having the third one):
“Then, just one day before the scheduled taping (of the third show), they reversed their stance, sending my dad an apology and a boxed lunch from Zorba the Budha Deli. While my dad remembers his receptionist, Jeannine Marks, saying, ‘I wouldn’t eat that if I were you,’ like a good, waste-not child of the Great Depression, he wolfed it down. ‘What are they going to do,’ he replied, ‘poison me?’
The next day, his producer, India Simmons, got an odd phone call from Ma Prem Sunshine, asking simply, ‘How’s Jack today?”’Sunshine’s tone of voice prompted Simmons to call my dad, who was in fact at home in bed with a fever of 103, horribly sick for the first time since age 5. Not wanting to miss the show, he recruited my mom to drive him to Antelope, feeling nauseous the whole way.
After a heavy does of Tylenol, he hosted the show, which was indeed more damaging to the Rajneeshee reputation than the previous episodes. In the face of criticism from detractors, the Rajneeshees often broke into loud, disconcerting laughter, and at one point responded to an angry local by bursting into song.” (Jack Faust’s response in ending the chanting was, “This show is not a musical!”)
**** Note
My friend, Brian Doyle, author and University of Portland’s editor of their award-winning magazine, Portland, was recently diagnosed with brain cancer. After surgery, he is recuperating at home under the care of his wife, Mary. Whether Brian will be able to return to work is uncertain and his friends have started a “Go-Fund-Me” site to help with the costs of his recuperation.
The response so far has been good and if you want to contribute to this worthwhile effort, use the link below:
https://www.gofundme.com/betenderandlaugh
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Ancestry Brewing – “Anchoring” the Tualatin Beer Desert….
After my two visits to this small brewery in Tualatin, which opened in March 2016, I was prepared to describe it as just another of the many similar suds-related start-ups in Portland. In fact, the Portland metro area currently has 105 breweries. http://oregoncraftbeer.org/facts/
The brewery and taproom are located in a non-descript commercial complex on the Tualitan-Sherwood Highway in what Willamette Week described in 2016 as “the virtual beer desert of Tualatin.” It fits the description of one Trip Advisor reviewer who visited Ancestry within the last several weeks who stated:
“Weird location, meaning that if you didn’t know it was here, you wouldn’t know it was here, but you should stop by.”
The Sellwood Tap Room
My trip to what Ancestry labels its “Neighborhood Spot” in Sellwood – opened shortly after the brewery – presented a similar picture, at least externally. It’s housed on the first floor of a brick commercial building shared with a brokerage firm and space used for a yoga studio with condos in the several story structure above.
Sellwood “Neighborhood Spot”
As an aside, the challenge for both new and existing breweries in Oregon is mounting according to an excellent February 15th Willamette Week article entitled, “Over a Barrel.”
“…..the number of Portland area breweries has nearly doubled during the past four years……’In the past, there was enough growth to go around,’ says Brewers’ Association economist Bart Watson. ‘Now we’re seeing competition for tap handles. Growth of your own sales comes at the expense of other brewers.'”
Ancestry Brewing is both an interesting and heartening story and one which affirms the vitality and positive impact of micro-brewing on the Oregon economy and spirit. I was personally interested based on its ties to both the US Navy and Oregon State University through the owner, family members (they describe their beer as “family-crafted”) and a number of the brewery personnel.
Ancestry Logo
In fact, the Ancestry logo – an anchor and sextant on a signature blue color, are meant to pay tribute to Jerry, the brewery co-founder (father of Jeremy Turner, the General Manager’s and partner) in addition to Cellar Manager and brother-in-law, Mel Long, for their military time on the guided missile cruiser, Canberra and aircraft carrier, Coral Sea, respectively, during Viet Nam tours.
You can also commemorate this service by ordering the USS Canberra Burger (“1/3 lb. burger……with house sauce, pickles, lettuce, tomato and thin-sliced red onions with Tillamook cheddar cheese.”) or the USS Coral Sea Burger (“1/3 lb. burger topped with melted Brie and our house-made tomato-artichoke relish.”) Both are $11 and are two of the seven burgers/sandwiches on the menu.
The USS Coral Sea – big like the burger named after it at Ancestry
Although the burgers looked delicious and tempting, my friend, Walt Duddington (he also joined me on a previous Beerchaser trip to the Lutz Tavern – click on the name to see the review of this historic bar), opted for the Vegan Burger (“house-made vegan patty, grilled and topped with lettuce, tomato, onion and house-made pesto served on local chibbata”).
Walt’s expression, shown in the picture when his food was delivered was just as happy after he finished this healthy option – okay, I guess he did have French fries….! I had the same reaction to my Beer-battered Fish and Chips (the cod for $12 versus the $14 salmon option).
Another reason for the smile on his face is that he is recently retired from telecommunications firm Level 3 Communications, after nearly forty years in similar sales and management positions at US West, Electric Lightwave and Integra.
I first met Walt in the late ’80’s when he was the US West project manager for the installation of a new telephone system at the Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt law firm. Neither Walt nor I had smiles on our faces at that time and we had a lot of sleepless nights when the hardware vendor under-configured the system which resulted in system crashes and disconnected calls.
Better than a rotary-dial phone, but new technology can also have its challenges….
Fortunately, lawyers (about 150 of them) are very patient and empathetic with management on technology issues………He and his team also provided excellent support ten years later when Walt coached the Integra team which installed a multi-office network connecting the firm’s offices.
We also enjoyed the beer with lunch – an interesting and broad selection is available from what Ancestry describes as its “3 Pillars of beer – American, English, and Belgian.”
After sampling a few options – something which is appreciated at the brewpubs who provide this complimentary option – Walt chose the Seasonal IPA (“A light bodied ale with orange peel and pine like qualities” – 35 IBUs-5.3% ABV) and this guy who is not often a fan of IPAs described it as having a “robust, fresh aroma and chilled to the appropriate temperature – a nice complement to the meal.”
I had the Piney IPA (“Caramel and nutty undertones offset by solid hop finish, red berry and pomegranate flavors with a strong piney aroma and undertones of tropical fruit” – 61 IBUs-7.1% ABV) – a good brew.
Given the robust list of beers, if you or your group can’t decide, they have flights:
Single 4 oz. taster: $2.00 Flight of four: $8.00 Flight of six: $10.00
The space at the Tualatin taproom is like a lot of small breweries – somewhat sparse or meager on ambiance, although it is easy to envision people enjoying their brews on a nice deck which overlooks a wetland behind the structure.
The Sellwood Taphouse, while very small, is a nice space that started filling up on the Friday afternoon that I visited and had a great conversation with AJ Cabrera – the genial Restaurant Operations Manager who has been with Ancestry since its inception.
Dean on the left) and Ops Manager, AJ at Sellwood
He responded to my question about its heritage by affirming that it was the very space in which the legendary dive bar, Black Cat Tavern, served Sellwood regulars for decades before its demise for the current building as reported by an article in the Portland Tribune on 8/2/2013:
The historic Black Cat Tavern – gone but not forgotten. (Photo courtesy of Vicki Jean Beacuchamp
“After over 68 years, the Black Cat Tavern – a landmark in Sellwood, on S.E. 13th at Umatilla Street – will make its last call for beverages and spirits later this month, to the loyal customers who have patronized the establishment over the years.”
While the Sellwood spot doesn’t have the character of an historic dive bar, it’s a nice addition to the neighborhood. Although it is not as big as nearby Sellwood Public House, the space is a lot brighter and more inviting. Ancestry has discussed future plans to open two similar operations – one in St. John’s and one on SE Division.
Choosing from their twenty-five beers was a challenge, but I sampled both their flagship beer – the Best Coast IPA (77 IBUs – 7.0% ABV) and a Irish Red (21 IBUs – 5.4% ABV), I had a pint of the latter although either would have been a good choice.
The commitment of the family, a good business plan and fortuitous timing have all contributed to Ancestry’s success to this point: “But while the midsized craft breweries are squeezed by both the new brewers and large distributors, there remains a bright spot. Portland brewpubs are still doing very well….” (Willamette Week 2/15)
Sam Holloway – Professor and micro-brew industry expert
One of Thebeerchaser’s resources is Dr. Sam Holloway, University of Portland Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and consultant to the brewery industry (also one of three principals in the brewery consulting and educational firm Crafting a Strategy)
He was also Thebeerchaser-of-the-Quarter in August, 2015 https://thebeerchaser.com/2015/08/25/sam-holloway-educator-craftsman-and-beerchaser-of-the-quarter/
When asked about Ancestry, Sam’s comments were as follows (he disclaimed that Ancestry is a member-client-of Crafting a Strategy):
“I really like Ancestry brewing…….their beer and business model is rock solid. They’ve even done a few innovations in growlers, filling them in advance of the beer being ordered and utilizing a better seal/cap system……..Their business model is actually as creative and well executed as their beers. Both very good.”
Nice view of the brewery in operation in Tualatin
I would suggest that one of the reasons that there are many positive comments on the beer is Head Brewer, Trevor Laumann, who took his passion for home-brewing to the next step and graduated in 2015 from the Oregon State University Fermentation Science program.
Pints are a reasonable $5. The brewery and taprooms are open every day but Monday and minors are permitted from 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM.
Ancestry Brewing and Taprooms
Tualatin – 20585 SW 115th Ave. Sellwood – 8268 SE 13th Ave
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The Godfather, Dwight Jaynes —Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter
Posted on December 13, 2016 by thebeerchaser
“I’ve only known Dwight Jaynes for a little more than 40 years, so I’m still learning about the guy. But as far as I can tell, there’s never been a multi-media person of his caliber in the Portland area. Newspaper, radio, television — Dwight has done it all, and with a far higher degree of sensibility and skill and acumen than almost anybody else.
When they put together the Portland Sports Media Hall of Fame — and it’s high time for that to happen — Dwight will be a charter member.”
Long-time friend and co-author, Kerry Eggers
The quote above was authored this month by one of Oregon’s journalism icons – Kerry Eggers in response to a request I made about Dwight Jaynes for this blog. Dwight is usually identified by the moniker – “The Godfather.” And what is the background behind this effusive quote from his long-time friend. Well, the evidence is pretty compelling.
Let’s start with Dwight’s 2010 induction to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame and being named as Oregon Sportswriter of the Year five separate times. (Eggers has also garnered the accolade five times himself.)
He has made his mark both as a reporter and editor in the print media, become a familiar presence on radio as a talk-show co-host and analyst and one of the four regular commentators on the Talkin Ball television show following each Portland Trailblazer broadcast on Comcast. His one-on-one interviews on Comcast’s “Posting Up” with such sports luminaries as Charles Barkley, Phil Knight, Bill Walton and wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper were also notable.
Dwight at induction to the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame
In recent years, he’s also made the move to social media with a blog on Comcast and a new podcast with a creative moniker – “The Podfather’s Godcast.” Oh, and don’t forget his two books – one of which (Against the World) was coauthored with Eggers and the other – The Long Hot Winter – was a collaboration with former Portland Trailblazer player and coach, Rick Adelman.
To interview Dwight for the Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter, I suggested a venue for our lunch that both of us knew well – the Kingston – right across from Providence Park – and most recently known for the after-game celebrations by Portland State Football Coach, Bruce Barnum, who would buy everybody in the house a beer after one of PSU’s victories in his first year (up to a $500 tab….).
Lunch at the Kingston
Kerry Eggers’ quote aptly summarizes why I wanted to “honor” The Godfather as Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter – a Portland native – he graduated from Cleveland High School in 1965.
Most of the narrative will be on Dwight as an interesting guy who cares a lot about his family, his thoughts about his profession and Portland and what he thinks about topics you may not find in articles about him.
And as some background, my past quarterly Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter awards have gone to athletes, military heroes, authors, academicians – most of whom I have met, but not all – for example, the crew of the USS Constitution for their 1798 war cruise. The person or group “honored” may or may not have anything to do with beer or bars.
Such is the case with Dwight, who told me that he never drinks. “I used to spend a lot of time in Frank Peters’ Grand Café and the Peters’ Inn downtown when I worked for the Oregon Journal and The Oregonian, because colleagues would congregate there into the wee hours.”
Although I was well aware of who he was based on his thirty + years as a columnist for the Oregon Journal, the Oregonian and then as the inaugural editor of the Portland Tribune, I first met Dwight based on a failed bid to have lunch with him as part of a benefit in 2010 which radio station 750 -The Game, was sponsoring to help victims of the terrible earthquake in Haiti. He was then co-host of the morning show with Chad Doing and Antonio Harvey.
I bid $75 and left on a business trip to Chicago. Upon returning, I called and learned the bad news, but decided not to give up. I enjoyed his insightful columns and his candid conversation on the air about everything from the Blazers to why Portland does not have a Major League baseball team.
So I got his e-mail address and told him that although my bid didn’t make the cut, I would donate a similar amount in his name if he joined me for lunch. After all, a mid-60’s Cleveland grad and a 1966 Oregon City High School grad might have some common interests. His response was, “You don’t have to do that, I’d be happy to meet you for lunch.”
Wayne Twitchell – threw a mean fast ball even when he played for Wilson High
From my perspective, that lunch was great – we talked about high school sports figures from that era – Dwight had a great story about facing Wayne Twitchell – the 6’5″ 1966 Wilson High grad who was a fast-balling right-handed pitcher and basketball player for the Trojans. (It involves being the last batter to face him when Twitchell threw a no-hitter.)
Twitchell went on to pitch for five teams during his ten years in the Major Leagues including one All-Star game appearance in 1973.
Noted Oregon Journal sports columnist, George Pasero
The Godfather’s anecdotes from working with the icons in sports journalism such as George Pasero, Leo Davis and L.H. Gregory, are fascinating and could fill another book.
About a year passed and a few more lunches and I asked Dwight for a favor. I was working then as the Chief Operating Officer at the Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt law firm. Given a number of high-profile Oregon sports issues at that time and his reputation as a journalist and media personality, I thought our clients would be interested in hearing about his story and opinions about the changing role of the media in sports.
Based on the response from staff when we announced it, we decided to open it to firm personnel as well. Well, our largest conference room which seated about 120 people, was filled to capacity.
Since it was my idea, I was designated to introduce him and his characteristic modesty was typical in my response for information on his background – a two sentence e-mail……That meant I got to do the research and there was no shortage of information since even seven years ago, the search term, “Dwight Jaynes” generated 66,000 hits on Google, including this one by a colleague:
“To call Dwight Jaynes, Oregon’s Godfather of professional sports reporting would not be an exaggeration. Dwight has sports – and Oregon – in his blood…..and also in his resume.”
In addition to his resume and awards in articles in the Web, there were plenty of opinions on his work since he is known for his candid and sometimes blunt opinions of the actors and organizations involved in Oregon sports. According to an Eggers’ quote in a story he wrote about him in the Tribune, Dwight in his acceptance speech at the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame induction stated: “During my career, I’ve offended just about everybody……I’ve had the opportunity and I’ve taken advantage of it.”
For example, in a 2001 article in Willamette Week about his new job as founding Editor of the Tribune, two on-line commenters lamented:
“Dang, I’ll miss Dwight. He’s a great journalist and columnist. He always points out the not so obvious, even if it reveals the painful truth.”
“I hope he surfaces soon so he can do what he does best – observe, research and report.”
To which another reader – a guy named Bob, who obviously didn’t like some of his opinions, responded:
“Good riddance. Jaynes sucks…..!”
The Godfather – Dwight Jaynes — Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter
Well The Godfather was supposed to speak for about 45 minutes at Schwabe that day, but because of the reaction of the audience and considerable number of follow-up questions, he finally was able to get out of there for an interview with Phil Knight at Nike that afternoon after at least and hour and one-quarter. (And based on the reactions of both clients, attorneys and staff, I was a hero for suggesting the idea for which his honorarium was a bottle of wine…..)
Below are the highlights of our conversation at the Kingston:
Beerchaser: Okay, let’s get this one resolved early on – How did you get the moniker, “The Godfather,” which seems to be used more these days than “Dwight”?
Godfather: It was about ten years ago when I was working at 95.5 The Game, on the morning show with Chad Doing. Gavin Dawson, who was the host and now works at CBS radio in Dallas, came up with the label, but initially I didn’t like it. My brother, however, who has pretty good instincts, told me to “ride it out” and that it was working. It stuck.
Beerchaser: You worked with a lot of Northwest legends in sports writing. Who was the best and who was your favorite?
Sportswriter Bob Robinson
Godfather: Leo Davis was the best followed closely by Ken Wheeler, who helped me a lot. Bob Robinson was the best basketball writer and could remember the score of every game he covered.
And writing for the Oregonian in those days was great. We covered sports and the news very well. I was able to travel to every major sporting event that I wanted to cover. (Beerchaser comment: Those days are unfortunately gone and on one of the four days of the week a subscriber can get home delivery of The Oregonian, the delivery person almost needs to tie a rock to the paper to have enough bulk to throw it…..)
Not afraid to “tell it like it is.”
Beerchaser: You are known for your candor in writing and broadcasting and willingness to take a position where most of the younger crew throw “softballs” and hold back criticism, evidently to preserve relationships and sources. An example was your criticism of Mo Cheeks when he coached the Blazers and you were one of the few, if only Portland writers, pointing out his deficiencies as a coach. Comment on this.
Godfather: “Telling it like it is,” didn’t used to be rare as is the case now. I’ve been around long enough, where it’s expected. We never used to be friends with the people we covered and now that’s not the case with many in the profession. The people we covered weren’t our friends for obvious reasons.
In some respects, it’s like the current relationships on the field or on the court. In fact, I have seen members of the opposite NBA team go over and try to calm down an opposing player when he objects to a call to prevent his opponent from getting a technical and a fine. That’s a change from the past. (Beerchaser comment: Yeah remember Bill Laimbeer and the Detroit Pistons playing the Trailblazers….)
Beerchaser: What’s your favorite sport to cover?
Godfather: Baseball, then hockey and basketball, although I really have little interest in the NCAA and don’t watch college basketball. I really enjoyed covering the Portland WinterHawks.
Interviewing former Oregon State Beaver football coach, Mike Riley
Beerchaser: What was your best interview and some of the most memorable? The worst?
Godfather: Charles Barkley for “Postin Up” (http://www.csnnw.com/dwight-jaynesposting-brand-new-show) was my favorite and the best. He’s an amazing guy. (We didn’t get to broadcast if for a long time after it occurred because of the delay in getting his waiver signed and returned….) Magic Johnson and Carl Malone were also great to interview.
Not surprising – best interview!
Pistol Pete in 1967 – great basketball vision, but poor interview….
The worst was Pistol Pete Maravich early in his professional career with the New Orleans Jazz. (I then was able to relate my own Pistol Pete story of seeing him after standing in line all night outside Gill Coliseum in Corvallis when LSU played the Beavers on December 22, 1969.)
“It was basketball, Maravich style, replete with 45 personal fouls, seven technical fouls, 68 free-throw attempts, a fight, a player ejection and a crowd of 10,388 captivated by it all.”
Legendary ref, Frank Buckiewicz, officiated and when the fight between LSU’s forward, Lou Sanders and the Beavs guard, Vince Fritz, started, OSU’s Football Coach, Dee Andros – The Great Pumpkin – came flying out of the stands to try to break it up. https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Classic+basketball+bout.-a0156085283
Beerchaser: Your favorite and most respected coaches?
Godfather: My favorite coach was my Cleveland High baseball coach, Jack Dunn, who is 86 and still lives in Portland. http://portlandtribune.com/bnw/21-news/195802-home-run-hero-jack-dunn.
Legendary baseball coach, Jack Dunn
Jack Ramsey was not only a superb and unique coach, but a Renaissance Man and amazing human being. When the Trailblazers were in New York, Jack would take in a Broadway play(s) whenever he could.
Mouse Davis, the great Portland State Football coach, also rates very highly based on the breadth of his career and his record – not only did he play football, but his outstanding coaching record in high school (Hillsboro, Sunset and Milwaukie: 79-29 combined record including a State Championship at Hillsboro), college at PSU and Hawaii, and the pros (World League of American Football, the US Football League, Arena Football League, NFL and Canadian Football League). Beerchaser comment: In fact, speaking of Godfathers, “Davis is now widely regarded as the ‘godfather’ of the run and shoot offense.” – Wikipedia
Coach Darrell “Mouse” Davis when he coached at PSU
Beerchaser: I know that baseball seems to be your favorite sport. Not only have you covered it, but you also played it at Cleveland, helped coach at PSU and worked for the Portland Beavers in their heyday. Give us some stream of consciousness thoughts about baseball.
Godfather: Some people say, “It’s an old man’s sport,” but it’s big money and very successful on TV. It’s really one of the last pro sports that most millennials can affordably attend. Besides, it’s a spectator sport where you can both watch and also interact and have a good conversation with the people you’re there with. For example, going to a minor league game at the Hillsboro ballpark where the Hillsboro Hops play is a wonderful experience.
Portland should have a major league baseball team, but nobody wants to stand up and be an owner. (Dwight has also talked in some of our previous lunches about the failure of the City of Portland to show leadership in bringing a major league team to the Rose City.) The City will not build an acceptable facility like the municipalities who have teams. That also raised another issue on which he has a strong opinion: “The Memorial Coliseum should be torn down or recycled to create a new facility. It is not workable as an arena.”
Beerchaser: Tell us about your family.
Dwight, daughter Elizabeth and granddaughter
Godfather: My son, Will, is a law enforcement officer for the National Park Service at Great Smokey National Park and his wife, Molly, also works there for the National Park Service.
My daughter, Elizabeth Kulp, lives in Indiana, is raising three kids and is the owner of a small business. Unfortunately, I don’t get to see them as often as I would like.
Beerchaser: You’ve collaboratively written two successful books. In fact, I checked, and you can still get them at Amazon and on the “sale” table at Powell’s – albeit at a pretty cheap price…..! Tell us about them and any more in the pipeline?
With co-author Kerry Eggers
Against the World: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Portland Trail Blazers Chase for the NBA Championship – November, 1992 (Co-authored by Kerry Eggers)
The Long, Hot Winter: A Year in the Life of the Portland Trail Blazers – January, 1992 (Co-authored by Rick Adelman)
With co-author Rick Adelman
Godfather: There is no money in writing a book and it is a grind. Kerry and I alternated chapters in the second one. The book with Rick was written in one month due to the need to get it published while people were still interested. We transcribed reams of Rick’s dictation and notes, which had to edited and fact-checked to meet the Christmas deadline.
I just might have another book, but it would be a novel – a newspaper-related story reflecting the unique and funny people working for that type of organization.
Beerchaser: You’ve talked at some of our lunches about rules changes you would make in the NBA and I think those reading this might be interested in two of them that are kind of unusual. You know what they are….
Godfather: They should prohibit the hand slaps or high-fives after a missed free-throw by a teammate because of the amount of time it takes and because it is essentially a meaningless and robotic gesture. If they are going to be allowed, maybe it’s okay after a player makes the free-throw….
The flop rule implemented in 2012 has had some problems. It’s pretty subjective when a referee calls a flopping violation resulting in a $5,000 fine for the player after the second violation. The NBA should review each flop violation after the game and if the referee blew the call, he or she should pay the fine instead.
Beerchaser: Any final thoughts on your career?
Godfather: “The journalism and broadcasting business has changed so much, especially with the presence of social media. But I understand it, have adapted and love what I do. My cell phone is a primary tool in the job and makes life a lot easier. I never thought I would have a personal answering machine…)”
Dwight Jaynes, based on his wide-ranging professional accomplishments, deserves the title, Godfather, but he is also a great guy with a sense of humility and humor. Check out his blog and his podcast at CSN.
http://www.csnnw.com/author/Dwight-Jaynes
Boating with noted blogger, Jack Bogdanski
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Jay Waldron – Rugger, Rafter, Rider and Lawyer – Beerchaser of the Quarter
Posted on March 29, 2016 by thebeerchaser
Jay Waldron – Beerchaser of the Quarter
The newest Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter is Jay Waldron,a senior attorney at the law firm of Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt. We will examine the reasons why Jay is considered to be an outstanding lawyer, but his recognition on this blog transcends his legal accomplishments.
Jay, as has been the tradition at the Schwabe firm, has made significant contributions to the civic and non-profit community, but also left his mark in athletic arenas and with impressive adventures ranging from motorcycle racing to rafting some of the world’s most challenging rivers. He has also hit some pretty good bars in his travels around the world.
John Schwabe – a USMC hero with his wife, Jean
Let’s briefly look at the law firm’s legacy partners. The late John Schwabe, a Silverton, Oregon native and one of the founding partners, is known for his heroism as a marine officer fighting at Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan in the South Pacific in WW II. He was awarded the Silver Star and five Bronze stars. His heroics and that of one of the men in his outfit, were portrayed in a 1960 Hollywood movie – “Hell to Eternity.”
Wayne Williamson also served as a Naval officer in World War II and was known for his outstanding skill as a trial lawyer. And Wendell Wyatt, who joined the firm as a name partner in 1974, was a reconnaissance pilot during the War and went on to serve ten years in Congress, where he ably represented Oregon in the House of Representatives.
Wyatt – the former Congressman
Jay follows his colleague, Jack Faust, an outstanding appellate lawyer and former host of the award-winning public affairs program, Town Hall, as Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter (9/2/14 post). The photo below is also evidence that Faust did his part in both undergraduate and law school at the University of Oregon to promote the brewery industry in Oregon.
Faust – studying for finals at U of O Law School
Our “honoree” this quarter could be described as a “Renaissance Man.” Waldron fits the bill, based on his double major at Providence College in English and Philosophy, supplemented by his Master’s Degree from the University of Virginia. “The Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” He then enrolled in a UVA’s doctoral program and taught 7th-grade English in Appalachia while also coaching basketball during work on his Ph.D.
Dickinson – did not play rugby, but excelled at poetry
Three years of law school and graduation from University of Virginia (known as one of the nation’s top five law schools) came when he was an “older” student at twenty-nine. Jay admits that part of his motivation to attend law school was to continue playing rugby – begun seven years earlier in 1968 – he was on several Representative teams.
Third-year law student, James T. Waldron
Law school trained his instincts in advocacy. For example, that was when he first asserted, “If you are watching television, you’re not drinking alone.”
In 1966, Jay met his now wife of forty-eight years, Karen, while he was serving as a bouncer at a bar at Horseback Beach in Westport, Mass on the Atlantic Ocean.
“It was a Sunday night and she was not 21, but with that blonde hair and tan, there was no way, I wasn’t going to let her in.”
Jay obviously married up…..here with Karen in San Diego after they both bicycled from Lincoln City in 1975
Waldron then weighed 220 pounds and had long hair, which drew some comments when he applied for clerkships in Oregon where he wanted to move with his new wife. He landed a prestigious position with the late Federal District Court Judge, Otto Skopil.
Although he had never been to Oregon, he had the good sense to spend his first hour in the Rose City in the bar at the Veritable Quandary.
Evidence of pushing the boundaries……
When he informed the judge about his goal to work at a private law firm after a one-year clerkship, Waldron was admonished by Judge Skopil, “Most of your competitors for these jobs won’t have long hair.” Jay’s interview with Wayne Williamson went well notwithstanding his curly locks and he has worked at SWW for the ensuing forty years.
But there are a lot of great lawyers in Portland and at Schwabe. What qualifies Waldron to join the list of esteemed Beerchasers-of-the-Quaretr such as Princeton Professor Emeritus and author, Dr. Harry Frankfurt, Viet Nam veterans who both have been awarded Bronze Stars – Jud Blakely and Steve Lawrence and even the crew of the USS Constitution on their fabled 1798 war cruise?
Waldron’s guiding principle
Perhaps the key is Jay’s favorite quote from the late Edward Land, scientist, inventor and co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation: “Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.” So let’s review the evidence:
Athletics – Rugby, Boxing and Wild-horse Riding
After law school, Jay continued to play rugby for the legendary Portland Rugby Club, which was known for both its stellar play and after-match antics at their favorite bar – Jakes although the Horse Brass Pub also received its share of visits – see Thebeerchaser post on 5/23/13.
In fact, as set forth in this blog in a post dated 5/13/13, (see narrative below and at the end of this post) one incident in 1982 involved a California business man (Steven G. Hayford) who wore a tie into the bar at Jakes and commented about the inappropriate attire of the ruggers.
His subsequent letter to the manager of Jake’s requesting reimbursement for his silk tie (which Waldron cut in half) relates the incident and reads in part:
After-match drinking place
“…..we were assaulted by 5 to 8 of your largest patrons. My arms were pinned behind my back while a third cut my tie with a pair of scissors…..one mustached individual bounded over the bar to break up a possible ensuing riot. As each offending participant was twice as large as (we were) and a full four times as large as your bartender, a riot did not ensue, and my party bid a hasty (although loud) retreat.”
After coming across Thebeerchaser blog post many years later, Mr. Hayford, the “victim” posted the following good-natured comment about the incident:
“Hey! I’m Steve Hayford and I remember everything except disparaging what the gorillas were wearing. That tidbit must remain in dispute. Anyway, all is forgiven. Amazing what you find when you google your own name.”
Athletic, but absent minded when drinking
Another story involved the Club’s winter trip to New Zealand in 1980. While raising a mug(s) in a bar after the match, Waldron left an expensive coat in the bar that Karen had purchased for his trip. He sent what he thought would be a futile inquiry, but was surprised that six months later, when a sailor (and fellow rugby player) on one of the ships visiting the Portland Rose Festival called and said he had the garment.
They agreed to meet and have a beer at Jakes (obviously!) and Jay realized the next day that he had again left the coat that had traveled approximately 7,125 miles to Jakes. He never saw the coat again.
Rugby announcing
Our honoree also coached the Portland Pig Rugby Team for five years. He announced rugby matches aired on Fox and ESPN in a four-year stint and served on the board of the US Rugby Foundation.
You can see by the picture below that Jay invested some time as a boxer as well. This “career” started while in law school, when he became the sparring partner of Peter Schmidt, a former NFL player and Golden Gloves Champion who was in graduate school at UVA. Schmidt decided to enter as a heavy-weight in the heavily contested intramural boxing competition, usually the domain of undergrads.
The Dancing Bear on his way to the championship
He played rugby and drafted a reluctant but malleable Jay to not only spar with him, but also enter as a light heavy-weight. On weigh-in, Jay hit the scales at 178 so he could make weight – down from 217 and at the time of his matches he weighed 190 pounds.
Our Beerchaser honoree dressed in black for the matches and was booed by the crowd, but succeeded in winning the IM title as reported in the UVA newspaper:
“Jay Waldron captured (a) championship before a large, bloodthirsty crowd…..Waldron, the Dancing Bear of gridiron fame, continued his pursuit for recognition of Clark Hall’s (UVA Law School) Biggest Jock, with his unanimous decision……
Despite weakness from a beerless diet imposed by trainer, Jim ‘Bundini’ Abrams, Waldron dominated the first two rounds. The Dancing Bear got himself into trouble early in the third round, but Bundini’s exhortations and a solid shot to the chin rocked Waldron back to his senses and he rallied to win.”
Sparring with Ray Lampkin
Not content to walk away before he had long-term cerebral issues, he continued boxing, in a manner of speaking. In an attempt to be a Portland George Plimpton, he wrote a story for One Dollar Magazine, where he again became a training and sparring partner.
This time, however, it was with the #1 lightweight in the world – Portlander, Ray Lampkin. “I stayed with him when he ran, except he was in combat boots and I was in Nike’s,” Waldron recalled.
Lampkin finished his career with a total of 34 wins, six losses and one draw and was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. Probably his most well-known match was the 1975 World Boxing Association lightweight title fight that he lost to Roberto Duran in Panama. Waldron doesn’t remember any significant sparring injuries (which may not mean that there aren’t any…….)
Ray Lampkin
And finally, after what was probably a long and serious discussion with two rugby colleagues at Peters Inn and The Hobbit (Beerchaser post dated 1/23/13), Jay and his buddies decided to compete in the wild-horse ride competition at the Pendleton Roundup. (He grew up riding horses on his family’s property on Cape Cod.)
In this event which involved three guys who had to catch the horse, saddle it and ride it out of the arena. The result?? In the second year, they succeeded in at least saddling the horse……
Jay’s son, Shane, has followed in his dad’s coaching footsteps and is currently a coach with the Washington Redskins. This follows assistant coaching gigs at both Notre Dame, the New England Patriots and the University of Massachusetts. Karen is also a good athlete – both she and Jay have won Multnomah Athletic Club Decathlons in their age groups.
Wadron grew up sailing in the Atlantic, but perhaps after the wild-horse rides, decided he wanted a more adventurous water experience which resulted in his first raft trip on the Rouge River in 1980, led by his Schwabe colleague, Rocky Gill. And who knows whether it was that trip or just having a house on the Clackamas River for many years, but he began a remarkable saga of river exploration as follows:
Colorado River – three trips between 2006–2014 on a 16.5 foot cataraft down the entire length of the river.
A category-five rapid on the Colorado
Upper Yangtze in 1996 – these are some of the biggest rapids in the world. Jay said their party of fifteen started where explorer, Ken Warren quit and where the river was flowing an amazing 6-8 mph with 20 foot high rapids at some points during their eight-day trek. Jay became the first “Caucasian” to row a cataraft through all the rapids of the Great Bend of the Yangtze.
South America and Canada – he made additional raft trips down the Pacuare River in Costa Rica and the Bio-Bio and Futaleufu Rivers in Chile and the Chilko in British Columbia. He also rowed the Magpie River in Canada last year.
The Waldron house for many years
And speaking of the house on the Clackamas, the Waldron’s sold the venerable place in 2014 and moved to a condo in the high-rise Ladd – within a block of both the bars in Higgins and The Rookery in downtown Portland – and two blocks from the Schwabe Portland office.
While the Waldrons over the years had turned down multiple requests by studios to use the house in movies and television series, the new owners acquiesced. The first Twilight of the three-movie series used it as did Grimm in its Season-Three finale of a wedding scene.
Jay, Karen and Shane…and Seamus
Perhaps Jay and Karen’s decision was validated because there were multiple problems – freezing weather, a smoke alarm problem resulting in the police showing up. (http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2014/05/grimm_on_the_set_in_oregon_for.html)
Adventures in South America
While his rugby (and actions at bars afterwards) or river rafting exploits raise the question as to whether Jay has a death wish, his motorcycle trips may confirm it (he was once clocked at 155 mph on his Ducati).
Twenty-one different road trips throughout the US have been supplemented by a journey around both South Africa and New Zealand and a trek from Chile to the southern tip of South America.
He started riding when he was seventeen and now at seventy, will ride from Portland to Key West, Florida in May.
Civic and Charitable Work
The Schwabe firm has a rich legacy of non-profit activities and contributions to the state and region. Jay is part of this tradition and currently serves as the Chair of the Oregon Health Sciences University Board – his ninth year on the Board, having been appointed by former Governor Ted Kulongoski.
This position followed his appointment by former Governor Kitzhaber to the Port of Portland Board, where he served for eight years, six of that as President. Concurrent service (eight years) on the Board of Lewis and Clark College are also on his resume as is past service on boards for the North Clackamas School District and the Oregon Law Foundation.
And I got to see Jay in action during his three years on the Schwabe Board of Directors, when some partners in the firm, felt that given the changes in the legal profession, a rugby mentality might add a good perspective.
At Jay’s request, his fellow board members grudgingly agreed to move up the starting time for semi-monthly board meetings from 7:30 to 7:00 AM because of his busy schedule. They badgered him mercilessly when he showed up at 7:25 for the first meeting after the change commenced.
I got to personally witness Jay’s oratorical skills – not in the courtroom, but when he was on a panel at a City Club of Portland Friday Forum on regional transportation – when Jay was Chair of Metro’s Transportation Committee. I wondered how he was going to both integrate and deliver the bar joke that I gave him and urged him to try – he nailed it!!
“A traffic engineer walks into a bar carrying a piece of asphalt under his arm. The bartender asks him what he wants to drink. The engineer states, ‘Two beers – One for me and one for the road….’”
Legal Career
He “lost” the long hair….
Notwithstanding all his other activities, Jay has managed to fit in a legal career also marked by accomplishment. As a young lawyer of 37, he argued at the US Supreme Court on an appeal from Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals. (He represented publicly owned utilities in their battle with aluminum companies and the Bonneville Power Administration over a power contract issue. He has also appeared before the Oregon Supreme Court on a number of arguments and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Perhaps it’s Jay’s ability to analyze and critique the English language, begun in his undergraduate days and refined in law school, where he learned to interpret terms very literally. This trait was most aptly demonstrated after Jay and some of his fellow classmates moved from an apartment into a small house off campus. Shortly after the move, a small kitchen fire broke out and Jay phoned 911 to report it which resulted in the following dialogue:
Jay: I need to report a kitchen fire in our house.
911 Operator: Sir, please give us your address.
Jay: We just moved here a few days ago. I don’t know it.
911 Operator: (somewhat exasperated..) Sir, can you at least give me your street name?
Jay: Well, when I’m playing rugby, they call me “Bubba.”
Asked about his most memorable legal achievement, Jay responds that it was winning a $108 million arbitration, which included $8 million in post judgment interest on a contested energy contract. (Powerex v Alcan).
Another tradition at Schwabe has been ongoing pro-bono legal services for low-income clients at the East County Legal Clinic. Jay was involved in the founding of the Clinic and also received the Oregon State Bar Public Service Award for his pro bono work. His legal expertise as a trial lawyer in environmental and energy law are recognized by his selection as both an Oregon Super Lawyer and inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America.
Creative client entertainment
Waldron showed creativity in his client relations recently, when he had a group of important clients who flew into Portland. Rather than take them to the customary “stuffy” restaurant, Waldron consulted Thebeerchaser and elected to take them to Club 21 in Northeast Portland.
No, it’s not a strip club notwithstanding the name, but a great dive bar in a former Greek Orthodox church. The clients loved the ambiance and the “Build-Your-Own Burger” option for dinner.
Having just turned seventy, who knows what future legal milestones and adventures are still on Jay’s (and Karen’s) plate, but the newest Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter has traveled life’s journey to this point with a full mug!
The Dancing Bear is a good drinking companion – just remind him to take his coat with him when he leaves the bar and be comforted by the fact that he no longer chews on glass while drinking his favorite beer – Double Mountain India Red Ale.
Or ask him to quote from his favorite poem by Emily Dickinson: “Because I Could Not Stop For Death.” That might promote more of his stories that space constraints precluded this blog from covering. For instance, ask him about “hiding my beer money from a Mafia hit man while he held a gun to my head.”
Excerpt from Thebeerchaser Post of 5/13/2013
Scene of social upheaval
…….Yes, Thebeerchaser was skeptical, but these pictures attest to the fact that an alcove (in the Jake’s Bar) leading into the men’s room preserves some rugger nostalgia – thanks to John Underhill, Jake’s former manager and rugby player.
One of the best mementos is a letter to Jakes written by Steven G. Hayford on April 29, 1982. He took umbrage with his experience in the bar where:
“….. we were assaulted by 5 to 8 of your largest patrons. My arms were pinned behind my back while a third cut my tie with a pair of scissors…..one mustached individual bounded over the bar to break up a possible ensuing riot.
As each offending participant was twice as large as (we were) and a full four times as large as your bartender, a riot did not ensue, and my party bid a hasty (although loud) retreat.
…..I believe the ‘gorillas’ that attacked us belonged someplace other than at a high-class place like Jake’s and should have been evicted……I would like to consider the incident closed…but my bruised ego is preventing me from making a clean break……
“Gorilla Tactics with a Swiss army knife
I would appreciate it, if you would reimburse me for the nominal amount of $20…… for my silk tie. If you decline, I’m afraid…..people who wear ties will start avoiding your restaurant. Please consider my flippant tone a measure of my sense of humor and not as a lack of seriousness of this matter.”
The Hayford letter still on display at Jakes
Since the statute of limitations has tolled, Waldron is pretty candid about the incident and provides this perspective:
“He made a loud remark about the inappropriateness of our attire. We reacted immediately—Two 250 lb. players lifted him off his feet and pinned his arms , a Swiss army knife appeared on car keys from one of the player’s pocket and I cut it cleanly.
We placed the cut portion of the tie on the bar with a double margarita as compensation —I cut it with the scissors from a Swiss army knife — A warm night in Jake’s after rugby practice, we in shorts and practice gear, he and others were in suits.”
In the Rugger’s alcove at Jake’s
Now, Thebeerchaser does not condone social upheaval in bars, there should be consensus that unless you’re a client, it’s more interesting to hear Waldron’s rugby stories than his legal theories on siting of mining facilities or the definition of major stationary sources under Title V of the Clean Air Act.
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Kelly’s Olympian – Old but Still Chipper and What a Great Name!
Posted on August 14, 2015 by thebeerchaser
Kelly’s – Operating since 1902!
Those of you who have followed Thebeerchaser know that notwithstanding the name, this blog is not a rigorous journalistic or academic study of beer. Although, I love microbrews, I am always pleased and will opt for a $2.50 Happy-hour PBR rather than an esoteric and more expensive craft beer.
Darwin’s Theory – a wonderful dive bar in Anchorage
Rather, this blog chronicles my journey to what is now over a hundred bars, taverns and pubs in the last four years in Portland and the far reaches of Oregon, Alaska, Colorado, the southeastern US and several countries in Europe.
Dive bars are preferred, but regardless, this investigation involves dissecting the history and character of the watering holes, interviewing the bartenders and regulars and commenting on the distinguishing characteristics of each establishment.
The taverne at the summit of 9,744 foot Mt. Schilthorn in Switzerland
And one of the most enjoyable parts of these junkets has been the companions with whom I raise a mug. In many cases this has been Janet, my wonderful spouse of 35 years, (one reason she was named 2014 Beerchaser-of-the-Year) but others have included lawyers, investment analysts, academicians, consultants, retired friends and just plain folk (although no animals) to this point.
From left: Thebeerchaser; Jack, Amy and Charlie Faust, Jim Westwood and Jennifer Johnson
The most recent Beerchaser event was at Kelly’s Olympian – a unique (and I use that word with mindfulness of hyperbole) dive bar right in the heart of downtown Portland. Fortunately, my five companions that day were as fascinating as the bar in which we gathered.
Let’s begin with the bar. Kelly’s, opened in 1902, is the third oldest bar/restaurant in continuous operation in Portland and per the Kelly’s website:
The name was derived from the name of one of the original owners, “Kelly”, and the Olympia Brewing Company, which was involved in the inaugural opening so that it could sell its product, Olympia Beer. It was originally called “The Olympian Saloon”. The name “Kelly’s” was added a few years later…..
In the early days, it was a popular gathering spot for locals as well as visiting timbermen, sailors, shipyard workers, longshoremen and others passing through. In addition to being a popular bar, it had the reputation for having one of the most well known card rooms in all of Portland…and was truly a landmark.
Downtown on 4th and Washington
Legend has it that there used to be several secret entrances to the Shangai Tunnels, where Chinese immigrants and dockworkers lived and made their way about the underground of Portland.
……In one section of the basement is a peculiar patching of the wall and remnants of an old tile floor, from a rumored “speakeasy” that existed during the Prohibition years of the 1930′s.
The Bar at Kelly’s
So what’s changed from the early 1900’s and is Kelly’s still imbued with the personality chronicled in its archives? Or is it just another old bar struggling to survive given the advent of shiny brewpubs and corporate establishments proclaiming the 99 beers on tap available to patrons.
This excerpt from Barfly provides evidence (and I believe our group would concur) that it is the former:
There’s no longer a piss-trough down the foot of the bar……. After more than a century, adjustments have to be made to any establishment. Women can come and go these days, the cellar tunnels to the port have been sealed, and, a few years back, once three generations of family ownership changed hands, a dozen vintage motorcycles were hung from the ceiling.
Weird, that – sorta awful, sorta crazy – but, beyond niggling details (HD screens, paint job, more-than-edible food), it’s the same old bar. Servers still descend the trapdoor behind the bar to get ice. (Verified with Lucia, the Manager, that this is still the case and that’s where their kegs are also stored – see the picture below.)
Mary Kate opened the trap door and shows the steps descending to the cellar
Elderly regulars maintain their presence. The shoeshine stand disappeared, tragically, but a decent sound system lures rising bands and tastemaker DJ’s…… (the music started in 2008)…..(Barfly)
Faust (right) Beerchasing at the U of O
Before some additional comments about the bar, let’s talk a bit about my companions that day. Two of them (Portland lawyers Jack Faust and Jim Westwood) are former “honorees” as Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter by this blog. (Check the links on their names.) In fact, Westwood is the one who suggested we congregate at Kelly’s).
Westwood with caricature of his hero – George Washington
After having worked at a law firm (Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt) with over 100 attorneys for twenty-five years, my concern that at least three lawyers are really essential for meaningful dialogue, was allayed when Jennifer Johnson, Dean of Lewis and Clark Law School joined the group.
Jennifer’s career is impressive and besides, she is a great drinking companion! After law school, she was awarded a prestigious clerkship for Judge Alfred Goodwin in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
She then worked at the Davies Bigg firm (now Stoel Rives) specializing in real estate finance and land use, before joining the law school faculty in 1980, where her teaching awards are numerous and impressive including the Leo Levenson and Burlington Northern Foundation awards for excellence in teaching.
In 2008, Dean Johnson was named Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar in recognition of her exemplary teaching and scholarship in business law and was installed as the Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law. She became Dean of the Law School in 2014.
An award-winning professor before becoming Dean
I enjoyed talking to her when we first met at the Rookery, but heard from a friend – one of the 2015 graduating law students – how she distinguished herself at their graduation ceremony.
US Senator and Lewis and Clark Law School alumnus, Heidi Hietkamp, was scheduled to deliver the commencement address. But thanks to the dysfunctional body which may be mislabeled as the “Upper Chamber,” she was detained in Washington D.C. because of a Rand Paul’s filibuster on the National Security Agency’s controversial bulk collection of Americans’ phone records.
Lewis and Clark Law School Alum – Senator Heidi Hietkamp
Jennifer found out on Friday that the North Dakota Senator would not be able to make it to Oregon by Saturday afternoon. So Jennifer, pinch hit after writing her remarks on what turned out to be a long Friday night.
When I attended a graduation party for the law graduate the next evening, he and his parents both raved about how Jennifer “hit it out of the park,” with her remarks. They opined that it was the highlight of the ceremony.
Beerchasing at the Rookery – no Charlie Faust but add Schwabe attorney, Jennifer Woodhouse (left)
And before discussing Amy and Charlie Faust who rounded out on contingent, we should digress and mention that the same group we had at Kelly’s had Beerchased about six months earlier at The Rookery – at that time a fairly new and classy bar on SW Broadway.
The contrast in environment at the Rookery is described in one September 2014 Yelp review as:
“….really charming, I have a fondness for restoration projects and they did a wonderful job. We were eager to sample local brews and dig into taste bites….We ordered the charcuterie plate, mac & cheese and corned beef stuffed Yorkshire pudding.…….The mac & cheese was one of the best I can recall in ages and I never thought about stuffing a reuben into Yorkshire pudding, but …….it was a wonderful blend of Irish and British.”
Entertainment more genteel than rock bands at Kelly’s
It’s a suave and sophisticated bar on the second floor of SW Portland restaurant Raven and Rose. The dark wood panels, the clientele (mostly downtown professionals) and the menu are all good, but perhaps a little bit stuffy.
At Kelly’s, our group’s personality adapted to our environment. We were rowdier, drank cheaper beers and were less attentive to Jack Faust’s stories even though they are always captivating – but more so in a “dignified and staid” environment than in a dive bar with classic motorcycles hanging from the ceiling and tatted patrons.
What about Jack Faust’s two offspring – Amy and Charlie? Given their engaging personalities and interesting backgrounds, I knew that it did not take three members of the Faust family to ensure riveting conversation.
Charlie Faust with his Dad at Bailey’s
Charlie is a Portland mortgage broker. After graduation from U of O, he traveled for a year in Europe and SE Asia, then worked as a staffer for Senator Bob Packwood.
That prepared him to weather the storms when he worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration including the experience of being on the crew of a NOAA hurricane research plane during Hurricane Gloria in 1985 – peak winds of 155 mph. He has Beerchased previously at Marathon Taverna and Bailey’s Tap Room.
Charlie flew through Hurricane Gloria
Amy is a talented writer and popular Portland radio personality and the female half of the Mike and Amy Show on KWJJ The Wolf.
She has an interesting background and after graduating from Scripps College – one of the five prestigious Claremont Colleges in Southern California, she moved to New York where she both met her husband and even sang in an all-female alternative country band (negotiations to get tapes are underway at time of publication…).
The Mike and Amy Show, after thirteen years of great ratings, was unceremoniously canceled by station management in September of 2012. This was ironic because their show was one of five nominees for that year’s County Music Association Media Personality of the Year in the major markets.
Amy and Mike – the dynamic morning duo at KWJJ – The Wolf
Although it is unusual to hear management in any industry admit that it erred, in June 2014, based on listener demand and the poor ratings since the action, the duo returned to the airwaves and KWJJ Program Director, Mike Moore, announced:
“I want to speak to you about a mistake that ‘The Wolf’ made back on Aug. 6, 2012”
Mike Moore’s description on Linked In states, in part:
Tenacious program director with 15+ years of experience in providing strategy, vision…..developing and executing on-air and online strategies that provide cost-effective programming that positively impact bottom line without compromising quality.
He is still with KWJJ and perhaps his ability to reverse course is one reason. Typical of the responses to the return of the show was this one:
I am so very thrilled to have them back. It’s nice to listen to the radio again. (Yes, I haven’t been a listener since they were fired — I was brought up on KWJJ and have listened to that station since about 1972).
Former colleagues – Amy and Mary Kate
Amy also validated the cliché about Portland being a “small city” when she discovered that our friendly and competent bartender was Mary Kate, a former colleague from the Entercom who Amy ran into when Mary Kate was a bartender at Dukes – a bar on Division and then at another bar on N. Mississippi Avenue.
Now the current owner of Kelly’s is not without some celebrity. According to Willamette Week in its 2013 article on “Portland Hydro Hogs,” Benjamin Stutz is a lawyer and besides being co-owner of Kelly’s he develops condos and also owns a drive-thru pizza joint in Hillsboro (Motopizza). His wife Dr.Cynthia Gulick, is an osteopathic physician working in medical bariatrics.
They were “featured” as the top Portland “Water Hogs” in 2013, with residential consumption of 1,006,060 gallons. “(Their) apple tree-lined driveway (enters) a 3.3-acre property’s tennis court, swimming pool and a small vineyard of pinot noir grapes and also averaged 1.02 million gallons in the prior two years.” (Willamette Week 4/21/13)
For those who enjoy an occasional cold beer, this 2013 consumption would equate to 64,907 kegs of PBR – a small fortune even at Happy-hour prices.
Enough water in 2013 to fill almost 65,000 of these puppies!
Stutz was also on the Top Ten list of Hydro Hogs for 2011-12, but to his credit, has not “resurfaced” on the list since 2013.
And as for Body Art…..
As one might expect, the clientele at Kelly’s is diverse as described in a Zagat review: ….”a mix of punks, business types and ‘street urchins’ gathers for Pabst and ‘strong’ pours of Jack Daniels…..”
And, of course, with the bike theme, you would be correct in assuming that bikers – a group known for sporting body art, comprise a portion of the regulars.
In addition, a January 2014 Trip Advisor review after mentioning the biker contingent, also stated: “Of course, everyone working there sports multiple tattoos and piercings. No wimps allowed.”
The make-up of our group did not consist of professions known for their ferociousness or intimidation, (in fact Westwood before his legal career was a TV weatherman at KGW). We did not exhibit traits that allow you to drink without trepidation in a dive bar.
Based on that fact, I asked Jim if he had considered our vulnerability when suggesting Kelly’s.
He casually lifted his left sleeve to show me his recent tattoo, and assured me that this decoration – the numerals “1783” – while not typical of the more graphic tats displayed by the bikers, ensured our acceptance and respect. (Besides I was prepared to tell them that we knew Schwabe partner, Jay Waldron – no tattoos, but a former rugby player, biker and one who has kicked back more than a few beers with whiskey chasers at Kelly’s.)
Westwood – comfortable in his own skin – Still!
Westwood, who has served for fourteen years as coach of the Grant High School “We the People” Constitution Team, endured the pain from the needle after he delivered on a promise to his team members. He told them that if they won the 2013 National Championship, he would get a tattoo to recognize the victory.
Grant High National Championship Team in D.C. including Coach Westwood
Westwood’s most admired historical figure is President George Washington and 1783 is the year of two of the most significant events in our first President’s storied career as a military and political leader. We have to admire Westwood’s motivational skills and commitment as a coach.
The Kelly Motorcyles
The classic motorcycles are a distinguishing feature at Kelly’s. The description in their website does a good job conveying the effect:
The crowning glory is the collection of a dozen vintage motorcycles hanging from the ceiling and about, each restored to perfection. One of the owners is a motorcycle enthusiast and finally found a home for his impressive motorcycle collection.
Complementing the motor cycles are other motorcycle accessories, combined with museum quality neon signs, antique gas pumps and historic photos of Portland and motor cycles.
The inventory of the classic cycles at Kelly’s
We had a great time at Kelly’s and you should try it taking into consideration this closing description by the Portland Mercury:
The neon, the road signs, the decorative motorcycles all scream “theme bar,” but Kelly’s Olympian manages to avoid the inauthenticity the décor would imply….. Kelly’s has the gravitas of a place that’s been around for over a century.
The food is… well… bar food, but the drinks are on the deep side, the tap list is long, and much of the clientele could probably tell you a thing or two about motorcycles. It’s not quite a grim and gritty biker bar—but it’s not faking anything, either.
Due to the length of this post, we have not covered the quality bands which make Kelly’s a destination in the evenings. Check these out on the link to their website shown below. And check out the over 20 beers and one cider they have on tap at their Happy Hour from 4:00 to 7:00 each day and 11:00 to 1:00 on Thursday through Sunday.
(If you run into Jay Waldron, buy him a beer!)
Waldron – Cleans up pretty well and still has cred with bikers….
Kelly’s Olympian 426 SW Washington Portland
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Beerchaser Miscellany – A Compendium of Trivia and Bar-related Information
Posted on July 8, 2015 by thebeerchaser
Periodically Thebeerchaser blog has a post that departs from reviewing a single bar, tavern or pub and attempts to update you on various topics that may be of interest:
Thebeerchaser Tour of Bars, Tavern and Pubs – Initiated in August, 2011, this blog recorded its 50,000 view on June 9th. On that date, 51 individuals viewed 71 different Beerchaser posts. The count included ten visitors from eight different countries including Germany, Australia, Nigeria, the Czech Republic and Coasta Rica. They hit the blog as a result of internet searches.
The 121 individual blog posts since inception (each averaging about 1,500 words) comprise reviews of 63 Portland establishments, in addition to about 71 watering holes in Europe, Colorado, Alaska, Eastern and Central Oregon, Washington, the Oregon Coast and the Southeastern US (not yet posted).
Cpt. Blakely USMC – after patrol in 1966
This blog has also “honored” twenty-two individuals or groups as Beerchaser-of-the-Month or Quarter ranging from authors, to academics to athletes to those directly connected with beer such as the Beer Goddess (Lisa Morrison) in April 2015. Perhaps two of the most auspicious are Art Vandelay – CEO of Vandelay Industries and the crew of the USS Constitution.
Jud Blakely, besides being a hero for his actions in combat during the Viet Nam War and an excellent athlete and writer – as documented when he was named Beerchaser-of-the-Quarter in September 2013 – is also a whiz at using technology to communicate.
He is the talent behind the second and current Beerchaser logo and also responsible for the new “business cards” below – I often get requests from those I meet in watering holes to give them the blog address. (Jud’s creativity is exemplified by the slogan on the back of the card.)
Front and back of new “business cards”
And Thebeerchaser traffic has increased…….Counts and averages for the last four years are as follow:
August – December 2011: an average of 150 per month
2012: 6,703 views for an average of 558 per month
2013: 15,224 views for an average of 1,269 per month
January through June 2015: average per month has been 1,701
Bar Closings – A Concern Says Whom? – I noted with interest a December 2014 article in Willamette Week entitled, “Closing Time” with a subheading, “2014 Was Barmageddon in Portland.” The article maintained that the closing of notable bars such as Slab Town (reviewed in October 2013), Produce Row, the East Bank Saloon, and others such as Tiga, is the “canary in the coal mine.” It quoted one bartender as stating, “Every good bar, everything you see is going under. Everything is going straight to shit,”
Slabtown – Gone but not Forgotten..
However, the good news is that the article may have vastly overstated the situation. Anecdotally, Thebeerchaser in multiple visits to the nine PDX bars reviewed so far in 2015, ranging from dive bars such as the Yamhill Pub to genteel venues such as the Pope House Bourbon Lounge to the most recent historic gem, Kelly’s Olympian – has witnessed robust and enthusiastic crowds.
Step up to Joe’s Cellar – now reopened
And bars, like the mythical Phoenix, have a tendency to rise from the ashes. For example, Joe’s Cellar reviewed September 2011, closed because of structural issues and was reportedly gone for good. It reopened within a year and is now going strong.
The East Bank Saloon, a 36-year venue, was closed earlier this year and was reopened last month as “the blockbuster new bar” Bit House Saloon. (“Look for barrel-stave flooring, lots of brick and brass, an atrium and big French doors blowing out to a new fire pit in the back.”) The same scenario occurred with the Grand Café (reviewed in January 2013) whose proprietor was the well known, albeit controversial icon, Frank the Flake Peters, when he retired. It closed but has now reopened as the Pour Sports Bar and Grill.
The Not-so-Grand Departure of the Grand Cafe
A WW article late last year speculated that the historic treasure – the Skyline Tavern (reviewed in January 2014)would be closed and the property developed. The paper recently updated the news and reported that Scott Ray Becker, a local filmmaker, is the new owner and he plans to improve the bar including serving quality food rather than just micro-wave popcorn and pre-packaged sandwiches. Produce Row has also reopened.
One of Archambeaults and Boothbys contributions to Portland bar lore
And there’s Marcus Archambeault and Warren Boothby, who previously have done wonders refurbishing or resurrecting bars such as Club 21 (reviewed in September 2014) which replaced a lackluster predecessor.
They also opened Gold Dust Meridian (reviewed in October 2012) and the Double Barrel (reviewed in April 2015) – all of which have been visited (multiple times!) by TheBeerchaser and were great bars.
The refurbished Sandy Hut, is the latest example of their genius, and the changes to this historic dive bar will ensure that the beloved “Handy Slut” will serve a lot more PBR in future years. “..the sort of rearrangement a mother might give her son’s bedroom after he finally moves out: scrub the stink out of the carpets, move some furniture around and open a damn window.” Willamette Week 6/24-30/2015
The “Handy Slut” is refurbished and cleaned up – so to speak…..
Not to belabor the point, but let’s also consider the new Loyal Legion Bar – scheduled to open in July 2015 at Southeast Sixth and Alder, (“….about 120 seats clustered around a circular bar with kegs kept in a 50-foot long walk-in cooler in the basement .”) serving 99 beers in the historic building formerly housing the Police Athletic Association.
Or there is the once resurrected Bitter End Saloon on West Burnside – a Portland Timbers bar reopened in 2013 – closed again in April 2015, but evidently to be reincarnated again – as St. Helens a new bar.
Ecliptic – one of the 58 in Portland – with more on the way…..
And what about breweries and brewpubs? Portland now has more than any other city in the world – last year, according to the Oregon Brewers’ Guild, 28 new breweries opened in the Portland metro area. The total is now 83.
Many bemoaned the acquisition of Bend’s 10 Barrel Brewing by Annheiser Busch; however, shortly thereafter they opened a new 6,200 square foot pub in Portland on NW Flanders seating 175, with plans for a rooftop beer garden this summer .
Those like Thebeerchaser, who love the unique character and ambiance of Portland’s 750 + bars and taverns, should be more concerned with trends such as Burgerville, Starbucks, Music Millenium and theaters serving beer – “Entering a movie theater that doesn’t serve alcohol feels like finding a dry county in Nevada. (“It’s now) get your ticket, get your popcorn, get your pint. In fact, it suggests that very soon, theaters which serve beer and wine will soon outnumber those which don’t.”
I hope your join me in believing that people should drink their beers at their neighborhood bar – not at a fast food joint, a coffee shop run by an international corporation or a Regal Cinema. As quoted previously in this blog:
“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.” Samuel Johnson
“A bar is better than a newspaper for public discussion.” Author, Jim Parker
This is not to suggest that bar closures such as Slabtown, with its rich history, are not a loss and sterile corporate brew pubs don’t come close to replacing a venerable neighborhood bar. However, there are still a lot of new establishments ready to garner a loyal clientele and join the idiosyncratic hole-in-the-walls just waiting to become the new Cheers. The Lost and Found started by two female entrepreneurs in 2013 in North Portland is a great example. Another one – Shift Drinks – recently founded by two former Multnomah Whiskey Library employees on SW Morrison. Another trend is the advent of cider bars.
I will close this section with evidence from my own journey. In almost four years, I have reviewed 63 different bars and pubs in Portland. (And almost all of them were memorable…)
Only 29 of these made the “2015 Willamette Week Bar Guide” – their reporters’ 125 favorite watering holes. I am not worried about running out of establishments to visit on my continuing journey…..!
What About the Lawyers – I have talked to a number of lawyers for whom brewing was initially a hobby – until they realized that they enjoyed their avocation more than practicing law and are now an integral part of the craft brewing scene in Portland. Examples are the owner of the Occidental Brewery in St. Johns and Kevin Brannon, now a partner in the new Beaverton venue, Brannons’ Pub and Brewery. There are others as well.
It’s also interesting to note how attorneys who are still practicing law are also getting involved in the micro-craft industry. Even in 2010, the Portland Business Journal reported, “Oregon law firms are swallowing huge chunks of business as the state’s alcohol industry continues to thrive. The workload of attorneys representing wine, beer and liquor distillery interests have jumped between 20 percent and 30 percent during the last year.” (PBJ 11/19/2010)
Given some of the developments in the legal profession, perhaps the lawyer-to-brewer scenario will become a trend and lead to new “bars.” An example is reported in the ABA Newsletter, which cites the Washington D.C. lawyer who is ending his law practice to open a gourmet grilled cheese establishment combined with a wine bar. “Law lends itself to a certain kind of creativity, but this is a whole different thing.” (ABA Newsletter 2/26/2014)
And as Long as We Are on the Topic of Lawyers – My thirty-five + years working with lawyers at the Oregon State Bar and the Schwabe Williamson firm made me appreciate the passion, intelligence, commitment to civic and charitable service and communication skills of most of the individuals in this honorable profession. And one of the most interesting traits is their unabashed creativity in defending their position – some people mistake this for arrogance…..
An outstanding firm with great lawyers….
Two of my favorite examples occurred a number of years ago, but are still good examples – both involve prominent Portland attorneys and the accounts were reported in The Oregonian at the time. The third is from the weekly American Bar Association newsletter – always a good source of bizarre legal stories
Akin Blitz : While driving his German luxury car over a mountain pass and trying to get ahead of multiple vehicles including an RV – he asserted in court with a Powerpoint presentation supporting his position – that he had no idea he was traveling 76 mph in a 55 mph zone because of the vehicle’s “handling characteristics.” The judge, in fining him $182, informed him that Mr. Blitz – not the automaker was at fault.
Marc Abrams: Even more creative, this former Portland School Board member, explained his 88 mph speed (in a 65 mph zone) on Interstate 84 by the fact that he was following a deputy sheriff. Making the case more interesting was the deputy’s response that he was going 75 mph when Abrams first started following him and the deputy increased to 88 mph before he cited Abrams who continued to follow him. In a two-page letter to the court defending his actions the lawyer stated:
“I therefore have no basis to know my speed, having simply assumed I was within the limits on the basis of actions of the officer who subsequently cited me for doing precisely what he was doing.”
To bolster his position and because at the time, he was an Oregon Senior Assistant Attorney General, the intrepid lawyer offered a second defense – a statute that he asserted gave him immunity as a Justice Department employee (he was driving to Pendleton to meet with another lawyer on a State case). Unfortunately, neither the judge nor Abrams’ boss at the time – Attorney General Hardy Myers – agreed with this rationale. One of Myers’ Deputy AGs reportedly wrote in an interoffice memo that
The DOJ disagreed with this interpretation of ORS 464.530.
Abrams was not authorized to represent to the court that his argument reflects the views of the AG’s office.
The AG does not believe that any part of the state law immunizes the department’s employees from prosecution for traffic offenses.
The good news (at least for Abrams) was that the police officer cited him for the 75 mph speed and his ticket was $97 rather than $145 it would have been for the higher figure. (Based on the dollar amounts, you can tell that this was a number of years ago!)
Texas Lawyer, Martin Zimmerman: When his drunken driving defendant client blamed Zimmerman for his conviction (he didn’t remember his client’s name during jury selection, called no witnesses and fell asleep during the trial.)
“Zimmerman blamed sleep apnea for his naps during the trial….but defended his courtroom performance (rating it) an eight or nine out of ten……Zimmerman is planning on running for a judgeship next year, but he told the (Texas Express News) he doesn’t expect his napping to affect the election.” (ABA newsletter 9/18/13)
Deadwood, South Dakota (circa 1890)
And Maybe a Lawyer Should be Retained by this Saloon – While Republican Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee has adopted the campaign manifesto “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy,” a Deadwood, South Dakota saloon has a slight deviation (so to speak).
As reported last year by the Associated Press, his business complex would include a gun shop, pawn shop and a combined shooting range/bar offering expensive cigars to be named The Bullets and Beer Saloon. (Evidently his plans were successful as the link above is for the home page of their website)
“It’s all the things I like: alcohol, tobacco and firearms,” he stated.
To assuage those concerned about safety, he stated, “No one shoots or handles a real gun unless they can blow a 0.00 on a breathalyzer.” Furthering his business case, the proprietor also offers a simulator used to train law enforcement officers interactively. “We’re not using live ammo or a live gun or anything like that……It’s almost like gun karaoke.”
And the Deadwood City Council is doing its part by requiring no more than 50% of the business income can be derived from alcohol sales.
Beerchasing on the Springwater Trail
Beerchaser, David Dickson on the Springwater Trail
Last month, to offer a respite on an 18 mile bike ride along Portland’s wonderful Springwater Trail, Beerchaser regular, David Dickson, and I stopped on the return loop to have lunch and a brewski at the Springwater Station – a great dive bar on 82nd Ave. where the bike corridor crosses.
“From the looks of the building design, both inside and out, this bar/restaurant must have been a beautiful place 20 or so years ago. It is not currently a dive bar – but just give it a couple more years of neglect and it will easily fall into that category.” (Yelp June 2013)
The Springwater Station
April, the friendly and informative bartender, who also tends bar at Area 52 – “a blues bar with great jazz,” located in the Woodstock neighborhood on SE 52nd Str. filled us in.
David and I sat at the bar with some friendly regulars and consumed a draft beer while wolfing down a wonderful three-piece fish and chips special for the unbelievable price of $4.50. (We decided to splurge rather than opt for the two-piece option for $3.50.) If you are cycling or jus driving SE 82nd, stop and say hello to April.
April, the friendly bartender
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Tori’s Top 10 of 2019
Ah… here we are. Somehow I’ve managed to make it through another year despite it’s ups and downs! I also found myself straying away from anime and consuming a variety of different things this year.
For my 2019 article I decided to structure this as a general, “here’s 10 things I enjoyed” vs. “this was the #1 thing I loved this year and only this.” That was just too much stress.
I won’t ramble too much since I’m sure that’s not what you’re here for. I hope you enjoy my choices and let me know if you have any recommendations!
GunPla/PlaMo
This was honestly the most surprising favorite of the year. After many years of admiring all the Gundam kits in many vendor halls and my pals who can build the really fancy ones, I finally took the plunge. I thought, “Tori, you absolutely do not have the patience to do this.” and I sold myself short. Putting on music and working on a model kit is honestly the most zen I have felt in years. I also feel like I’m getting my money’s worth since I have to take the time to put it together myself which always makes me feel good when I finally get to display the finished product!
I’m looking forward to finally finding the courage to build the Miku kit. That was very much an impulse buy thanks to the guy at the booth encouraging me that I could do it.
As of now, I have 6 unfinished kits underneath my desk, which oddly enough there’s also my first Lego build in there too. Maybe my 2020 stretch goal is to get through all of these!
One Cut of The Dead
“While shooting a low-budget zombie film in an abandoned warehouse, the crew find themselves caught between actual zombies and a mad director who won’t stop rolling. If you think you know what happens next, think again. Filmmaker Shinichiro Ueda turns the film on its head more than once for one of the wildest, funniest, and most surprising zombie movies of all time.”
Alright, I don’t normally throw the phrase, “This is one of my favorite movies” around so lightly, but please believe me when I say One Cut of The Dead is absolutely one of my favorite movies.
One Cut of The Dead is truly something else, literally and metaphorically. This movie was made on a budget of $25,000 dollars which is pocket change in the film world. After being shown around in different film festivals, the movie managed to make a whopping $30.5 billion dollars world wide. Despite the lack of funds, this movie is incredible. The cast are out of this world and the director really had a fantastic grip on the story he was trying to tell.
One Cut is definitely a movie you want to go into knowing nothing about so stray away from any actual reviews. This one is also a lot of fun to group watch to see how others react to it.
POM!
“Legosi, a large gray wolf, is a timid and quiet student of Cherryton Academy where he lives in a dorm with several other carnivorous students including his outgoing Labrador friend, Jack. As a member of the school’s drama club, Legosi works as a stagehand and supports the actors of the club headed by the star pupil Louis, a red deer.
Out of nowhere, Tem the alpaca is brutally murdered and devoured in the night, setting a wave of unease and distrust between the herbivore and carnivore students. At the same time, Legosi has a fateful encounter with Haru, a small dwarf rabbit, and begins developing complex feelings for her.”
I’m really surprised to be enjoying this series as much as I am! Even though it’s not yet complete, I think it deserves a spot here, even if solely for that amazingly funky opening song.
Okay, so take the opening drama scene from Zootopia and then add a murder into the mix and you have Beastars. Just kidding…sort of. The cast of characters are all anthropomorphic animals, which is not something I’m hugely interested in. However, the characters are all interesting and relatable in ways that I never expected. Legosi and Haru are just… incredible.
The show was animated by Studio Orange who also gave us the wonderfully awesome Land of the Lustrous so that was the big draw for me. But, I ended up really enjoying everything else that makes up the show enough to stay around. Sadly, it doesn’t hit US Netflix until 2020, but you can pick up the manga as that’s been localized and is slowly coming out. I’ve gotten the first couple volumes and have been enjoying that just as much!
Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare
“Set in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, high school student Tasuku Kaname prepares to commit suicide after his classmates discover gay pornography on his phone. Before he is able to do so, he witnesses a woman jump from a window, only to discover her unharmed in the building where she jumped from. Tasuku discovers that the building is an open “drop-in center”, where he meets other people with various troubles and learns to accept his sexuality.”
I’m not sure where to start with this other than telling you that it’s only 4 volumes and please go purchase and read it immediately! The way the author uses visual metaphors to convey the very real and raw emotions our character goes through is just amazing.
Very rarely do I say that a piece of media handles any kind of LGBT+ anything well, but I truly believe Our Dreams at Dusk does. The mangaka, Yuhki Kamatani, identifies as non-binary which I think adds a depth to the work that just makes to so real and relatable. They’ve also stated the issues they had with gender identity growing up and how that’s somewhat reflected in this work.
I was very teary reading through this for so many reasons. It’s so refreshing to see LGBT+ couples and peoples portrayed with such authenticity, and never played for a joke or someone’s fetish, and I kept waiting for it with every page turn. Even if you identify as non-LGBT+, I think this is a very important work to read. It dispels so many myths and fears about us as people that I’m sure that thousands of young people are also going through in Japan. Everyone is on such a different journey in their life and it’s illustrated beautifully here.
Also, Haruko and Saki are the best and they deserve to always be happy forever!
The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
“As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. … Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.”
I can hear people groaning now, “You expect me to read a 400 page book that has no photos?“
Yes, yes I am.
Throughout the entirety of 2019, I got back into reading. It’s such a peaceful activity and I love how easily I can just zone out and forget about everything going on around me.
This book truly took me for a wild and exciting ride and I could hardly put it down. I will say there were times that I had to go back and re-read due to confusion. This book has almost 30 characters that are all important to the plot in one way or another! Think of Umineko or Higurashi, that’s the first thing that came to mind when I was reading through this. Huge cast, trapped in a time-loop, trying to solve murders and the identity of the murderer. I was so excited the entire time. I do have to say the closing paragraph of this book is one of the most beautiful and inspiring things I’ve read in a novel.
Very rarely do I find myself craving a book to be made into a movie or a television show but honestly, in the right hands I think this could do very well.
Moominvalley
Lest we forget the great Moomin boom of 2019.
Moominvalley is the latest animated iteration of Moomins, based on the Tove Jansson comic strips that ran from 1945 to 1993.
I’m not sure what I can say that’s new about Moomin, but I think this new adaptation captures well what makes the older cartoons so charming and fun! Moomin is one of my go-to things when I’m feeling down because I know it’s the visual equivalent of a good hug. You’re always guaranteed a laugh and a good time.
However, I can talk about how wild the voice cast is. Moomin is voiced by Taron Egerton, of Kingsmen fame and Moominmamma is Rosamund Pike! Now I can only imagine Moominmamma pulling a Gone Girl on Moominpappa. Hm.
While currently unavailable here in the US, there has been an official UK DVD release if you’re into importing.
Frozen: The Musical
Gosh, I really feel like I should be talking about the Sailor Moon live instead, but I’ll let Austin have that one. (Just know that she and I touched hands!)
Literally the morning we were about to leave for NYC, I snagged us cheap tickets to see the Frozen musical because I was too excited to sleep (so excited that I forgot my whole wallet at home but was able to board the plane anyway. Yikes).
This was my first Broadway show ever and I was so entranced by every moment. Not to mention, this musical fixes literally every problem I have with the original Frozen movie. Better character development, more songs, and more story. The technical effects that they used to portray Elsa’s powers were so awesome, I’d love to see how that was all done up close.
Our cast was really amazing, but I have to say young Anna and Elsa really stole the show. I find it so incredible that kids just just get up there on stage and remember all their lines and cues!
Anyway, this show made me realize just how much I care about Elsa as a character and I’m so sorry that I went through my edgy “I hate this movie ’cause it’s popular” as a teen with Frozen.
I do have to mention in passing, how I cannot stop listening to “Into the Unknown” and “Show Yourself” from Frozen 2. What amazing songs.
I’m just so grateful to have another Pokemon game to play. This was the one thing I was looking forward to all year and kept me going. I would have to say I have a very pro-Pokemon bias as Pokemon Red was the very first game I have vivid memories of playing, and I haven’t stopped with them since!
While, yes there are some genuine complaints to be had with this game, the fact that I can dress up my character, cook curry, and play with my Pokemon at camp, is enough to make me forgive any injustices. Mostly.
I’m glad I kept away from all the spoilers and leaks, because having the surprise of new Pokemon was just so joyful to me, no matter how strange some of them are. This is also one of the rare times I want to watch the corresponding anime season to learn more about the characters in-game!
I’m about halfway done with the game at this point but I got too distracted trying to build my dream team!
Romance is a Bonus Book
I’m praying to anyone who is out there listening that this show gets a season two, because one is just not enough.
“Cha Eun Ho is a successful author and a senior editor at a book publishing company. Kang Dan-i is a mother and former successful advertising copywriter. When Cha Eun Ho was a child, Kang Dan-i saved him from an accident and was injured. Cha Eun Ho helped her recuperate and they have been close friends ever since. When Kang Dan-i goes through a major life change and tries to re-enter the professional world, their lives become even more connected. They face personal and professional challenges as they slowly start to realize their true feelings for each other.”
I rarely watch k-dramas. As a matter of fact, the way I decide on them is seeing a random screen shot out of context on social media and if it makes me laugh or is intriguing, I’ll give it a go.
I am so glad that I stopped procrastinating on this one! It’s on Netflix so you can watch it too!
I just want to say how much I love Dan-i as a character and honestly I want to be more like her. No matter what happens to her, she is always finding a way to make it work, and that’s very admirable. I need to research more about this actress, I’d love to watch more shows with her in them.
I find it great that this show features a main character who is older. Dani-i is 37 in the present time of the story. I just feel like that’s so unheard of, since most dramas tend to have younger women being the main romantic focus. However, the rest of the cast is so memorable and fit beautifully into the roles they’re playing. The show can deal with some heavy things at times, but I feel like it never gets too cheesy or dramatic like most dramas are known for.
I would definitely recommend this for people who might not be into k-dramas or who are unsure of where to start in such a plethora of options. It’s so charming and an easy watch, I think you’ll like it!
I still don’t know what’s going on except I can make Norman Reedus piss and also chug Monster Energy Drinks™. Also, that ridiculous little baby has unearthed deeply buried motherly instincts that I never knew I had within me.
Moving on, it’s no Silent Hills but it’s still something really special.
I very much have a soft spot for Kojima-anything. When I was young and my mom remarried, my step-dad’s way of bonding with me was through playing games on his PS1. I remember growing up watching him play a lot of Metal Gear, which is probably something I shouldn’t have been doing at age 6, but hey I mostly turned out fine.
I’m really at a loss of words for this game. It’s just so otherworldly and cathartic. I love walking around the vast, open landscape, delivering packages, peeing, and playing with my pet baby.
It’s gripping and exciting, even if I can only vaguely begin to wrap my mind around it. I know it mostly has to do with how we’ve isolated ourselves as humans and other ‘ok boomer’ sentiments, but that is a message I somewhat agree with. I think it’s harder and harder for people now to feel comfortable with face-to-face communication because at times it can be difficult. I’m very excited to get to the end and to see what’s in store.
I’d recommend this solely for the way it’s going to make you feel. The game forces you to take your time and be patient and that’s something we could all use.
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The roof is extra
Posted on April 20, 2017 April 20, 2017 by jimduff
Hudson Legion Branch 115’s clubhouse roof leaks. So does the adjoining curling rink roof. According to the town’s new grants and certifications co-ordinator, the rink roof isn’t covered by the Canada 150 infrastructure grant the town has applied for. What is covered? We don’t know, but we handed the town a blank cheque for $555,000.
I daresay Hudson residents are thoroughly fed up hearing about that $555,000 loan bylaw for Community Centre renovations.
Because Tuesday’s register failed to gather enough signatures to force a referendum or withdrawal of the bylaw, this administration can move forward with the project on the vow that if it doesn’t get a federal Canada 150 infrastructure grant to cover half the cost, it won’t dip into the loan money.
But I think taxpayers should know the new Legion curling rink roof is suddenly no longer covered.
The following was published in today’s Local Journal:
According to Corriveau [Simon Corriveau is the town’s new temporary full-time co-ordinator of grants and certifications] there are items in the renovation project […] that the grant will not cover.
”The roof over the curling rink is the only portion not included,” said Corriveau. “The rest of the building is used by other groups as well as the Legion,” he added, clarifying that because the ice sheet is used for a sport, it would be covered by another type of grant. “We are hoping for a response by the beginning of May,” Corriveau concluded.
I asked the town’s director-general Jean-Pierre Roy why the town has not been specific about how it proposes to spend up to $555,000. He said the decision was to keep the renovation details deliberately vague so that the grant application wouldn’t risk disqualification.
Essentially, Tuesday’s failed register writes this administration a blank cheque for $555,000. This is fact, not Jim Duff’s opinion.
Bylaw 687 makes no reference to federal grants, matching funds or what is and isn’t eligible. All it says is that taxpayers are on the hook for the next 20 years. If you want to read it, it’s posted on the Town Hall bulletin board.
Curious taxpayers will find the administration’s to-do list on the town website. They should know this post has no legal status and isn’t binding on the current council, except perhaps ethically. This is the only public document where ‘roof’ is mentioned.
We would like to make the necessary repairs to the building such as replacing the roofing, electrical connections and upgrading the kitchen facilities. Also, since the community centre was designated as a place of refuge for emergency measures on February 25, 2016, some of the building’s mechanical components such as air conditioning, heating, lighting and sanitary installations must be redone. This will allow us to replace old energy-consuming equipment that uses a lot of water with newer installations that consume less, thereby saving us money. In addition, the windows must be changed as traces of water infiltration have been detected and several of them do not lock. Lock mechanisms and door locks must all be changed in order to ensure the safety of the users. In some areas, the floor is quite worn and it is possible to see the underlying concrete. We also want to redo the exterior parking lot and its lighting, build a bike stop for cyclists and set up an access ramp for people with reduced mobility to give them access to the youth centre. It is also planned to expand the kitchen and build small meeting rooms to allow community groups to meet.
Why an umbrella bylaw?
This type of bylaw allows us to make various expenses (plans and specifications, repairs, additions, etc.) without limiting our options. As the Town must act quickly to complete the work before the end of the year and needs some flexibility, the decision was made to proceed with an umbrella bylaw. To carry out this multifaceted project, the Town will have to commission an architectural and engineering firm to evaluate the scope and costs of the work to be done. Only once the estimate has been produced will we be able to make judicious and informed choices regarding the project priorities in order to ensure that we respect the allocated budget.
The town’s post notes the work must be completed by Dec. 31 in order to qualify for federal funding.
Many interpret the results of Tuesday’s register as the end of the process and act as if it’s a victory. In fact it’s neither. It’s public recognition of the need to maintain an important component of Hudson’s public life, yes. But the same hard questioning that marked the process of adopting the bylaw must continue into the evaluation and renovation processes.
Why am I so suspicious? Some years back, I got a call from a former Hudson councillor. He told me how, during the original construction of the Community Centre, the council of that time quietly voted to transfer $150,000 earmarked for lighting and other improvements in St. Thomas Park to the Community Centre, which was running over budget.
I asked him why, after all that time, he was calling me with this. “I thought you should know how it works,” he said.
As I posted last week (Plan B), we know the town already has a $160,000 contingency plan to fund the new roof and kitchen upgrades in the event the grant application is rejected. I assume this is what will happen if there’s suddenly no federal cash for a curling rink roof.
This morning Maître Roy and I spent 45 minutes discussing the difference between fact and opinion (This will be a topic for another post). I will hereafter do my best to separate the two and alert readers before I shift from one to another.
The following is my opinion:
The price of democracy is eternal vigilance. Tuesday’s passage of the loan bylaw doesn’t change that responsibility. If anything, it makes it an imperative.
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Peter Ratcliffe says:
Opinions are formed when a person absorbs facts.
In absence of valid or sufficient facts opinions are not accurate, but mental pot-shots at a conclusion.
There is a stage of the grant that’s not being talked about. Especially with a purposely vague project definition to make sure we’re not disqualified for approval. The only work eligible for the 50% subsidy will those items specifically allowed by the grant program.
A review or an audit will examine our request for reimbursement, which happens only on project completion after we’ve spent all the money. That will likely happen in early 2018 when the department is overloaded with deadline delivered applications for funding. Hudson, specifically the next Council will deal with any items that don’t get funded and are then simply long term debt that might be higher than we expected.
So it’s imperative that all work being done on this by-law be grant eligible or there may be surprises later.
jimduff says:
Cheerleading, optimism and prayer won’t work?
Louise craig says:
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lack of transparency creates the potential for corruption.
politics93 says:
I am discouraged, fed up, and not in a happy place. Citizens are just not listened to and the ones who comment or complain are treated as whiners. Transparency is all an illusion. All I want is a well run town where my taxes are being spent properly where you actually see public security or public works around town. Look around you, there are broken and bent stop signs that have been that way for ages, garbage all over the place including wine and beer bottles on the side of the road, terrible streets (I know the cleaning truck went by to get rid of all the sand but with all those potholes and crevices much is still there). I get the impression people just don’t care. Very sad indeed.
In Bhutan, schoolkids and their teachers head out on Saturday mornings with giant garbage bags to gather trash. Their roads are as bad as Hudson’s but the countryside is free of garbage and the kids have an appreciation for how their communities look.
Rather than complaining about how messy the town looks, why don’t we organize a citizen’s cleanup bee? I’m ready to help organize. I’m sure the Guides, Brownies, Scouts, Cubs and Beavers would chip in. We might even get some kids from the schools.
I think people need encouragement to care. Right now it’s lacking but a show of solidarity would work wonders.
Daren Legault says:
Jim, I pick up the garbage starting a bit east of Rousseau and as far as the train tracks on Mte Lavigne…… every year. There is a lot. I usually do at least 4 large bags every spring. I walk back home, get in my car and drive back over my tracks to pick up the bags, bring them home and put them in my little green garbage bin. EVERY YEAR! Then I do Rousseau to Thompson park. Honestly, it’s a losing battle, and trust me, I have enough work to do on my own property. But the last thing I want is for all of the Sunday drivers and Saturday visitors driving to Finnegans to see this mess! Why does this happen in 2017? Why does not every resident take responsibility for their own 50 ft stretch of road? My conclusion: nobody cares!
briangrubert says:
OK because I and a friend spent the July of 1973 putting the shingles on the Legion roof from up here I might have the detailed picture. You guys are not supposed to stand around yelling at me to jump either.
The Community Center main bldg. roof is metal so I guess that is not being redone = 6500 sq.ft.
The Office Part is Tar and gravel and it probably is tired = 3200 sq.ft.
The social part of the Legion is shingled and barely limping = 4300 sq. ft.
The ice rink roof is in the same state …shot = 8000 sq.ft.
So, I know you’re really excited now . Only 70 % of the building needs redoing but 50% of that isn’t eligible for the grant.
It’s the stickler for detail part of me. They tell me there’s medication…
Thank the lord. someone actually has numbers.
sticklerism can be very debilitating. We once had a mayor who believed Hudson had to bend a little. I’m starting to think he had the cure for sticklerism.
Jamie Nicholls says:
“I asked the town’s director-general Jean-Pierre Roy why the town has not been specific about how it proposes to spend up to $555,000. He said the decision was to keep the renovation details deliberately vague so that the grant application wouldn’t risk disqualification.” I’m at a loss for words. The federal grant is there for specific purposes–so now the town is openly admitting that it was deceptive in its grant application. Jim, when we applied for that trails building grant for SVS, we knew the purpose was to help ski-doo clubs (a source of tourist dollars and big contributor to the economy). We were honest in that grant application and got peanuts as a result. But I feel better then if we had pretended that we were building a ski-doo trail. Its public money, you may disagree with how the government allocates it but you shouldn’t be deceptive in order to get it. This paraphrasing of what Me Roy said sums up a lot for me about the way the town has gone about this.
You’re right but I wonder how many residents would agree to forego the public consultation usually required for loan and zoning bylaws if it helps get the money. If what this administration says is true.
jnicholls08 says:
As for Bhutan, at the heart of their culture is a philosophy that your own individual view is much less important that compassion for others and your society. Mahayana schools of thought would tell us to not act from confused mental states (anxiety, fear, anger, jealousy, desire, depression) also known as kleshas. Their leadership has embraced an idea known as sustainable happiness. This isn’t polyanna stuff-its very hard work. Check it out: https://www.ted.com/talks/tshering_tobgay_this_country_isn_t_just_carbon_neutral_it_s_carbon_negative So just to be contrarian: prayer and optimism do help a little.
The Bhutanese are entrepreneurial, resourceful people who don’t wait for others to do the job. The entire country is on 3G and you’ll find free wifi in many places. Everyone has a smartphone and pays the eqivalent of less than a dollar CDN a month. Their form of Buddhism is big on self-sufficiency and they consume enormous quantities of Druk 1100 beer and the excellent Bhutanese scotch. That’s 11 percent alcohol. Marijuana grows naturally everywhere but nobody smokes it because the royal family says it’s the hallmark of losers. The royals are beloved, mostly because they mingle with their subjects. All this to say it’s not the goody twoshoes country it’s portrayed as.
Jamie, Bhutan believes in Gross National Happiness. The King and Queen live in a fairly modest house. The Bhutanese are encouraged to have their own garden to grow as much food for themselves as possible. Sharing is the norm. No one measures themselves on the size of their house or the type of car they drive. The wealth is shared. But then again, Bhutan believes limiting tourism is the way to avoid their residents from become corrupted by our western ways. Only 4500 tourists are allowed to visit annually. They set a hefty daily tourist fee of $250 US per person a day, at least that is what it was when we visited. You must apply to be allowed in the country, don’t think of extending your stay because you get a visa allowing you in for the prerequested time and you must use an accredited Bhutanese tour operator. No self-serve tourism is allowed. And the country only allows tourism for 6 months of the year. It takes that long afterwards to bring the Bhutanese back to Gross National Happiness Himalayan style. I had talked about going for 25 years,it did not disappoint.
Lost Horizon for only $250 US per day. Truly Shangri-La.
Brian, I believe that depiction was about Tibet.
Ah, I stand humbled and corrected. I thought , mistakenly , it was a state of mind and not entirely geographical.
I’ve always considered myself an optimist, a “glass-is-half-full” kind of person, however, my optimism for this town has been eroded considerably of late. 2013 was bad enough but I really hoped things would improve once there was a change in administration. It hasn’t yet. To say I was disappointed that this by-law went through is an understatement. I didn’t like it because there were too many questions left unanswered and still are. Add to that, learning that the DG left the grant application vague on purpose does not bode well for rules being followed. I remember asking myself how a former DG, with tons of experience running a town, didn’t know a taxable benefit when it was staring her in the face, well, this is a DG who is a lawyer so presumably he knows it’s in the best interest of the town to be forthcoming on grant applications and should have known that a roof is maintenance and wouldn’t be covered. Just had to read the criteria. So, am I skeptical, yes.
I still don’t understand the statement by the town’s grant person that if the ice structure needs to be replaced it wouldn’t be covered, but the town is waiting to hear if there are other “sports” grants that are available. I wish someone would explain to me if the town, as owner of the building, is also responsible for the curling rink and everything that goes in it (pipes, compressors, electricity, generator, etc.) Would it not be the responsibility for the Legion as an organization, to apply? Would it not be payable out of the membership fees? I’m totally confused on this issue. Who is responsible for what? For how long? how many members are actual veterans? Is the town subsidizing cheap beers and dinners at taxpayer’s expense as the town picks up all the other expenses? What expenses is the town actually picking up?
I would like residents to start to feel proud of their town again, Matt and I included. Jim, your suggestion to start a cleaning bee is admirable but I won’t be taking part. For those who know me and have worked with me, know that I am not ungenerous with my time; however, the town administration and the employees we pay through our taxes, should be doing the upkeep. I remember when previous administrations hired someone to go around in the town centre on Mondays after events to clean up. There is no excuse for broken stop signs, no excuse for a “Watch for our Children” sign on Maple which has been down at least 2 years, there is still no barrier for that eyesore of a burned down house on Main on MacCauley hill and never an update of when it will be cleared, there are roads that have actually caved in, take a look at the road in front of James Parry’s house, maybe put some gravel in the hole?. I think if the town administration gives the message that they don’t care for the day-to-day, only achieving their Strategic Plan vision, then the residents won’t either. Nice to have dreams but municipal politics is all about the day-to-day services. Here are a couple of suggestions for the next administration – boost morale with employees by having an employee appreciation day, have another one for volunteers. Previous councils treated their volunteers to a lunch every year or two. Trust me, it’s not for the free lunch, but everyone likes to feel appreciated. Public security patrols the streets, why don’t they jot down things that need fixing, and text public works? Not allowed because of union rules? “Pas ma job” – this is not a movie set if you touch something you are not responsible for, there could be a walk-out until the union guys settle the matter.
lizc47 says:
Just to clarify – the Royal Canadian Legion is a tenant – They are not responsible for the structural integrity of the building including the roof- that falls squarely in the lap of the Town as Landlord.
The Legion sold the land on which the community centre (including the curling rink) sits to the town back in 1994 for one dollar in exchange for being able to remain a tenant in their existing space together with a committment from the town to make improvements to their space (I forget the amount) at the time.
Thanks for correcting that perception. The Legion clubhouse and curling rink roofs are the town’s responsibility. Do you know whether the town has a similar responsibility to subsidize Legion or Manoir Cavagnal tenant parking?
There is insufficient parking at the Manoir. While the town has no legal responsibility to provide additional parking for their residents, when asked we agreed to allocate 4 spaces in front of Treehouse in the public parking lot. With respect to the Legion, there was no clause about parking in the original purchase agreement or subsequent lease.
Thanks Liz, finally, an answer.
I did ask though about the rest of the fixtures, the ice rink structure, compressors, pipes, etc.
The town as far as I know bears no responsibility with respect to maintaining the “curling” equipment in the rink including the ice, compressors, etc.
Doesn’t that arrangement essentially run counter to the Cities and Town’s act article 28.
(1.0.2) Unless otherwise provided, no municipality may acquire or build property mainly for leasing purposes.
Or am I missing something? Or was it grandfathered? As far as I know , article 29. says that the only permitted leaseholders of a town building are a health provider, a school or a child care centre. Did the designation as an emergency shelter somehow get the Legion part into the health designation and exempt from article 28? Was this done in the best interests of the town because these buildings were the best suited as emergency shelters (In my opinion one of the schools would probably be better candidates for emergency shelter during a disaster) or was it done because it provided a loophole to allow the agreement made between the town and the legion?
The main purpose for the town was to acquire a piece of land on which to build a community centre for which we were eligible to receive a federal/provincial infrastructure grant. The legion at the time was struggling financially so it was thought to be a win win situation for both parties.
I am not a member of the Legion , never was. My dad was and was a veteran like a lot of the others of that generation. As Liz says in 1994 the Town acquired the Hudson Royal Canadian Legion and its 70,000 sq. ft. of land for $1. That’s more than an acre and one half of commercial/ multi-family residential land in the center of Hudson. Don’t know what its market value was then but now just the land would have to be worth 1.5 million conservatively. Seems to me the Legion could have kept their land and bldg. to themselves and sold the vacant land where the community center now stands for about $750K in today’s market and I’m guessing they wouldn’t have to put up with a 30 yr. old roof leaking on their heads. Ok , and they’re paying rent , and if someone says , “yah but they’re getting a really good deal” just ask Jim and Louise how easy it is to find tenants for downtown space in Hudson. Again look at the Legion and try to figure out what maintenance the Town done has done there since 1994.
Anyone can join the Legion so its not anywhere close to some private exclusive club. I just don’t see involving the Legion’s name in any of this except to feel they didn’t get the best deal.
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Examples for Bible-based Government
By biblical clues it was once determined that the murder of Abel by his brother Cain occurred in 3875 BCE. Interestingly, the first year of the Jewish calendar was set as beginning in 3760 BCE—or 115 years later. The brief and incomplete list that follows here, taken from “Holy Bible” stories, make it clear that the respect for life was not an especially high priority among God’s favorites.
The Deluge, whipped up by none other than God himself with the sole intention of obliterating the human species, supposedly occurred in 2348 BCE. Oddly, part of the Lord’s instruction to Noah (who escaped being done in) was that Noah and his progeny must, among other listed immoral acts, refrain from committing homicide—the shameless counseling of do as I say, not as I do. Scanning over the following brief highlights from biblical tales, remember that the definition of murder is the unconscionable killing of a human being.
In the time of Abraham (c. 1860 BCE), the alleged progenitor of the Hebrews, the Lord asked Abe to sacrifice his son Isaac. Abe said okay, but then the Lord said that it was only a test and provided a ram for slaughter. Why the all-knowing creator would have to test Abraham in this cruel manner is never explained. What this tale does reveal is that any tradition about not killing handed down from the time of Noah 488 years before was not taken seriously.
By the most commonly accepted calculations, Moses did not receive any commandment against homicide until 1491 BCE—or 369 years after Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of his son, and 2384 years after Abel’s death. It might be said that the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” given to Moses was a case of too little too late. Even with this commandment as counsel, good old Joshua, the God-favored successor to Moses, is proudly presented as freely indulging himself in holocaustic slaughter of countless Canaanites.
Then there is the tale of Jephthah, a blustery Israelite who was called upon by the Israelite elders to head off a threatened Ammonite attack around 1143 BCE. Jephthah, positive of God’s favor, swore that if he won in battle then whatsoever cometh forth out of the doors of my house to meet me…” he would offer it up for a burnt offering to God (II Judges). Well, Jephthah won the battle. His “honor” supposedly demanded the ritual murder of his daughter, for in joy to see his safe return she had rushed out to greet him. God is portrayed as knowing all, so was it Jephthah’s fault or God’s divine indifference that Jeph had to murder his own daughter by fire? Even God seems to have ignored his own edict handed down to Moses only 348 years earlier, for he did nothing to save the girl.
412 years after the Commandment Thou shalt not kill had been handed down, King Saul of Israel indulged himself in a swift war of extermination against the Amalekites in 1079 BCE in which, the boast goes, every man, woman babe and child were “utterly destroyed.” This was bad enough, but then King Saul’s pitiless “prophet,” Samuel, is recorded as having savagely chopped the captured and defenseless Amalekites King Agag into mincemeat with a sword. Samuel also contributed to Israel’s gory glory by then promoting David (1040?-973? BCE) for the throne. And ultimately, 23 years later after the slaughter of Agag, David did succeed Saul as King of Israel.
David is presented in Holy Scripture as a master of deceit, mendacity and bloodshed, and followed the traditional pattern of killing everyone among a conquered people, including women, babes and children. He even had people killed “lest they should tell on us” (1 Samuel 27:11). David’s list of slaughters and atrocities are too many to present here, but his open disregard for the sixth commandment makes it questionable as to why God could ever have considered him a worthy founder of a royal dynasty or to be the protector of the Holy Ark of the Covenant. David is commonly excused under the pretext that he displayed unfailing devotion to Jehovah!
Next we have Elijah, c. 910 BCE, who had the Phenician prophets of Baal put to death to prevent them from muscling in on his hold on the official religion of Israel. The myth goes that after the murder of the Baal priests, rain and dew which God had jealously withheld for three years finally returned. Besides murdering the priests of Baal, Elijah also caused the destruction of two companies of fifty innocent messengers that had been sent to him by King Ahaziah of Israel. There was eager anticipation that this “holy man” was to return to Earth, and this was later incorporated into Christian myth as the spiritual fulfillment in John the Baptist.
The successor of Elijah was Elisha, c. 896 BCE, another typically short-tempered and irascible Israelite “prophet,” who displayed his disregard for the sixth commandment with 42 unruly children on the road to Bethel. The young delinquents allegedly teased him about his bald head. In angry retaliation, holy Elisha is said to have cursed the children in the name of the Lord and immediately two bears appeared and ripped the children to shreds. The weak excuse for this god-assisted murder of forty-two children is that the “prophet” was weary and agitated from his fifteen mile hike from Jericho. Elisha was not weary, however, when he hatched the conspiracy to seize the throne of Israel and elevate Jehu, the last son of Joram, as king.
Jehu, allegedly appointed by God and anointed by murderous Elisha as king of Israel (c. 843? BCE), lost little time in setting out to exterminate his predecessor King Ahab’s seventy children as well as the priests of Baal. How the murder of the priests was accomplished is a mystery, for Elijah had supposedly already done all that. But true to form, here is what chapter 10, verse 30 of 2 Kings says: And the Lord said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. Thus blessed by the Lord, Jehu, without an ounce of scruple, later ordered two or three eunuchs to throw his wife Jezebel out a window to her death.
This brief and far from complete list of God-favored characters from “the good book” have been offered as spiritual inspiration for countless generations. Do they really exemplify the most exalted way of attracting peace, love, justice, mercy or intelligence that is so yearned for in the world? Are these really examples that an advanced nation should follow?
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Rabies shots needed for bat exposure?
Every weekday, a CNNHealth expert doctor answers a viewer question. On Mondays, it's pediatrician Dr. Jennifer Shu.
Question asked by Dan from South Carolina:
During a recent family trip to the mountains, our kids, who were sleeping in the attic, were awakened by a bat flying around the room. We called our doctor, who told us to go to the emergency room, where the kids got the rabies vaccine and immune globulin. Was that really necessary?
Expert answer:
Thanks for your question. In hindsight (such as following a negative rabies test on the animal in question) it often does seem that rabies prevention shots are unnecessary.
However, doing the injections as a precaution is a very reasonable recommendation. That's because rabies infection is almost always fatal without the treatment.
Fortunately, most animals are not infected with rabies, so transmission to humans is rare, affecting just a handful of people every year. Bats are one of the most common animals that transmit rabies in the United States, along with raccoons, skunks, foxes and coyotes.
The rabies virus can be found in all parts of the country except for Hawaii.
If there is concern about an exposure to rabies, prophylaxis consisting of rabies immune globulin (an injection that contains human antibodies against the rabies virus) and rabies vaccine (four injections over the course of two weeks) is recommended.
This treatment should be started as soon as possible after the exposure, ideally within 24 hours.
Bat bites reportedly feel like sharp jabs and may leave tiny marks that look like scratches. Most adults who were awake during the time of a bat bite will know they have been bitten.
However, if a person is uncertain whether a bite or scratch from a bat occurred (such as if a bat was found in the room of a sleeping person, a child, a person with mental disabilities or someone who is impaired by the influence of alcohol or drugs - basically anyone who is unable to give an accurate report about a bite), the rabies prophylaxis regimen is recommended.
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What about ball exposure? ha ha
Obviously, it is too late for you to get the vaccine, because rabies has affected the brain.
mervel
The other option is to capture/kill the suspect bat and have it tested first.
That is the preferred option, and it was mentioned in the first paragraph of the answer.
Testing usually takes time. Also, if the bat was making enough noise to wake someone up, it's usually a sign that it is ill. Taking precautions by getting vaccinated is the safest option.
Bat's make audible and inaudible sounds all the time. 🙂
Pediatric doctor
Did the bat BITE anyone?
That's the issue. The question is regarding children who were sleeping in the room. There is a possibility they were bitten and did not realize it. There was recently a case of a prisoner who was bitten in the process of roadside cleanup and was not aware. While some people overreact and jump the gun in cases of possible exposure, treatment is warranted in cases of uncertainty. It's rabies – better safe than dead.
The same thing happened years ago in my family, but for some reason we did not think of getting vaccinated for rabies. People could wait over 24 hours for an immediate life-threatening trauma at the NYC hospitals then. The long wait in emergency rooms is enough to deter people from getting treatment for important reasons. Nobody was scratched or bitten though. We were on the top floor of an apartment near woods, and a guest opened a window without sliding the screen into place.
Dan, giving the vaccine taken was the wise decision. Rabies is almost 100% fatal. I would not risk the life of my child. I was bitten by a dog when I was a child. Since no rabies had been reported in the county in 25 years, I was not given the vaccine. Luckily the dog did not have rabies.
seattleite09
My wife and I went through a similar incident when my daughter was ~2 years old. I woke up with a bat flying around in our home, while all inside doors were wide open. I caught the bat and called the doctor, who recommended rabies shots for all three of us. We never even questioned the recommendation - why endanger the lives of my loved ones? Except for 2 recorded cases, rabies is always fatal. There's simply too much risk in not having the shots. My wife was 3-months pregnant at the time with our second child. She got the shots anyway.
Also, we had a similar incident. The professionals that we contacted (Fire Department, Poison Control, Family Doctor) urged us to do the same due to the following: not only can a person be infected by a bite or scratch; if a sleeping person has his/her mouth open, and the bat drops a bit of saliva (not too far-fetched if it is infected with rabies)...that makes its way to the person's mouth...well, then you can get rabies. We were lucky to be able to capture the bat for testing, which took a day, and the results were negative. As some have said, "it is rabies; why take chances?"
Be aware, there are places in other parts of the world where rabies is much more common, India for example. I forget the statistics the travel medicine clinic told me a year or two ago, but it was something like over half of all human rabies infections occur in India annually. Because there are so many animals wandering loose in some cities and there tends not to be the laws in place to require innoculations, cats or dogs just running the streets may be infected.
I understand the concern, however was it necessary? Unless the children were actually bitten by a bat, the answer is a resounding no. As a caver, several years ago we would have come into close contact with bats on a regular basis and there was no need for concern as statistically only one bat in a million here on the east coast would test positive for rabies. Now that number has likely changed to 1 in several million since many bat colonies from the southeast to the northeast have been wiped out by White Nose Syndrome. The desire for precaution is understood, but articles like this also easily cast misunderstood animals such as bats in bad light...unless actually bitten or scratched, you would have little to worry about from a bat.
You're absolutely correct, Aaron. Cavers like us are around bats routinely for decades of our lives and don't get rabies shots and don't become infected. Unless the person was actually bitten, there's no danger. And the effect of another article like this is the continued paranoia and vilification of bats in the public which ultimately hurts their WNS decimated numbers.
The issue here is that the bat was found in a room where the children were SLEEPING. Therefore, they didn't know whether or not they'd been bitten. That's why the vaccinations were necessary.
Marshall S Williams
I was given the rabies vaccine series after being bitten by a rabid dog in the the early 1950's. Would the current vaccine have unwanted side effects if I were to have to take it now?
No. The old vaccine was either horse or cow serum based (I can't remember which) but in the mid seventies a human serum based vaccine was developed. The injection series went down from something like 15 shots to around 5 with much less discomfort and less risk of complications.
My son was recently bit by a bat (at least he had bite marks), and there was a bat in the basement where he was. He underwent rabies shots for sure as any doctor will say better safe than sorry. Apparently in our region, there had not been a bat bite since 2004 so they took it very seriously. We have since had our house bat proofed....my son is sixteen and has slept with his light on since the incident...poor kid!
Some of you may remember this. A couple of years ago, a young man from the Texarkana area entered the hospital with an "unknown neurological illness." The apartment complex in which he lived had a problem with bats, although he had not reported being bitten. I remember reading at that time that sometimes you can be bitten by a bat and not even know it. The illness was never officially diagnosed, and when the man was ruled brain dead, his family gave consent to transplant his organs and tissues. As of the time I last heard anything about this story, five more people (recipents), in addition to the young man (donor), had died of rabies, which was, of course, finally diagnosed. There's just too much risk not to get the shots if you think there is any chance that you have been exposed.
Chris MD
The first paragraph gives, I believe, false information. If you have captured the animal and testing can be done quickly (1-2 days) then there is no need to initiate vaccination. Local health departments and Animal Control work hand-in-hand to see that this public heath threat is dealt with responsibly. It is true that current CDC recommendations are to vaccinate if awakened by a bat in the room ........ but only if the bat gets away !! Also my understanding is that most serious cavers, and veternarians and others around wild animals get vaccinated for their own protection.
bats can carry histoplasmosis, rare ocasions yes rabies, there are a lot of myths like they will fly into your hair. when they swoop they are hunting insects on the wing. poor bats are dying from white nose disease.
Weve been taking our dabermon Ailsa on short breaks here in the UK for over 8 years and generally stay in Travelodges: they are cheap, cheerful and pet friendly. You can take up to 2 pets and pay just a320 per pet per stay which is not bad when the accomodation or us humans is as little as a319 per night per room! Weve been all over the uk from Brighton to Edinburgh; Pembrokeshire to Norfolk; Devon; Dorset; Cornwall and Northumbeland. This year we will be heading for Sussex and the Kent Coast and yet again, weve bagged a bargain; a319 per night for 4 nights plus a320 for Ailsa. Cant wait and she will love every minute of it too
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Yes better to be safe. In our situations (we have had a bat problem but it is solved now), the preferred solution we were given was to capture and kill the bat and have the bat tested. Which we did twice, both times negative. If we could not have captured the bat we would have gotten the shot.
Ahhhh, I know this scenario well. My wife, a graduate in zoology, saw our cats chewing on a bat. She knew instantly that something must be wrong with the bat for the cats to have caught it AND for it to be around in the daytime. With gloves we sent it off for testing. It turns out four of our five kids and my wife had handled the cats after they had a field day chewing on the bat's head. We asked our pediatrician, an infectious disease specialist and several physician friends of ours if it would be necessary to get rabies vax considering. All said "yes" to err on the side of caution. 100% fatality at the first sign of symptoms was compelling. So we did it. The bat came back positive for rabies. I don't regret it but I will tell you something that isn't mentioned: It costs $10,000.00 per person. So it cost $50,000.000!! One of these kids isn't going to college. But at least they're alive. 😉
Bats do not carry histoplasmosis. Histo is a fungal disease that grows in guano or bird droppings, especially a problem where there are dry and dusty droppings.
I would not be worried about a bat in your home (or anywhere else) unless it seems to be having trouble flying – which means it is sick or injured. If a bat is flying around inside your home, usually you can just open the windows and it will fly out. Although young bats are fairly curious and are still mastering their flying skills so they might not fly out right away. Here is some good info on what to do if there is a bat in your house: http://www.batcon.org/index.php/bats-a-people/bats-in-buildings.html
The only time I would be worried about an "undetected" bite is if the bat is found in or on your bed. If you roll over on it during your sleep, it will bite in self-defense. But if it is on your bed or the floor, there is a good chance it is sick or injured. A healthy bat in a room will either be flying or roosting at some high place in the room, usually on curtains or some other textured surface.
More info on Bats & Rabies from Bat Conservation International: http://www.batcon.org/index.php/bats-a-people/bats-and-rabies.html
Another thing the doctors won't tell you is how you will react to the vaccinations! I was bit by a rabid cat, while trying to rescue it. tested positive for rabies, 24 shots in the behind for two weeks. Sent my body into a shock as it worked it's way through. Many health problems worked it's way out finally leaving me with no thyroid. Three years of intense pain and medical problems....at least I didn't have to pay for them. Are there no alternatives?
Strains of Rabies?
I've read before that its preferred to bring the animal in for testing, not simply to confirm rabies infection, but to determine the strain of rabies it carries. Is there any truth to this, or is there a universal vaccine?
Most tests don't test for different strains of rabies. That can take too long to help the person. You look for the presence of something called Negri bodies in the brain. Negri bodies are small black areas in brain. They only occur in rabies. Doctors may test for strains after finding Negri bodies, but by then the person exposed to rabies would have already started post-exposure treatment.
Even if the testing is inconclusive, it's still recommended to get treated anyways.
The vaccine and treatment are the same no matter what strain of rabies you are infected with. So yes, there's a universal vaccine. Unfortunately only those in high-risk jobs, like those who work in veterinary medicine, are given the vaccination as a precaution. The rest of us just aren't as likely to get bitten or scratched by unfamiliar animals, so we don't need it. Even if they have been vaccinated before being bitten, people still need to undergo treatment– they just skip some of the steps (like the number of post-vaccinations).
Yes, it's necessary. Bats are notorious for being asymptomatic carriers of rabies. It's just best to err on the side of caution if you're around any wild bat.
It can be helpful to get confirmation that the animal had rabies, but that's not always possible... esp. if you can't even catch the animal or the results were inclusive. Plus testing can take a day in some cases, and there's a better prognosis when you start vaccine and immune-goblin as soon as possible.
Most tests don't test for different strains of rabies anyways, as that will definitely take too long to help the person; you look for the presence of something called Negri bodies in the brain. Negri bodies only occur in rabies.
If I remember correctly, rabies infected patients had to take 24 shots in their stomach, is this correct? This was like 50 years or so ago.
We were exposed to a bat flying in our house about 10 days ago. No one has any bite marks or scratches, but I wonder if we should still get the post-exposure vaccine?
A vicious bat entered my home at night, couldn't fly any more her mouth was open all the time, and kept jump on me several times to bite me and while I was sleeping
the bat bite my upper lip and my thumb and it swell and get infected, but my doctor did not gave me the vaccines, that happened several months ago and I am still alive fighting infection by my self!
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A FLIRTATIOUS French fellow is pouring a sexy shiraz from a pleasingly phallic stem, while explaining the sex muscle of a cow. I am dining in one of Brisbane’s oldest riverside restaurants, revisiting the classy classic that is Cha Cha Char…and my tastebuds are ready to rumba. While Cedric, the restaurant’s General Manager is ensuring I am well libated, it’s the steak here that really does the talking.
Brisbane’s beef baron John Kilroy opened Cha Cha Char 21 years ago after working in country pubs and vowing to “never sell a steak again in my life.” These days you’ll find every steak imaginable on his restaurant from the Wagyu Rump Cap which has been grain fed for 300-plus days; the Rib Fillet Black Onyx Angus aged 30 to 36 months and grain fed for 270-plus days; to the T-Bone Angus Yearling aged 12 to 18 months and grass fed. This is a man who knows his meat. When he’s not in the restaurant, he’s out mustering with mates “for fun”.
Kilroy, as he is known about town, was the first to introduce Wagyu to a sceptical Brisbane dining public who hadn’t yet cottoned on to the idea of marbelling in their beef. Now, he is about to tantalise the city’s taste buds with the introduction of a new cut, the French Blonde D’Aquitaine beef, to his menu. There’s also the new light dishes, tapas if you will, of the Oyster Carpet Bag bao bun with Wagyu striploin, oyster and bernaise sauce; and the Bugs BBQ served in brioche roll filled with Blonde D’Aquitaine steak tartar.
Not content to rest on its laurels, Cha Cha Char will soon transform the private dining room in which we are sitting into a Wagyu bar.
It appears there is not rest for the wicked for this country boy who once couldn’t read and was assisted in gaining his first job by Flo Bjelke-Petersen who helped him secure a role as a Main Roads surveyor…despite Kilroy having no surveying skills.
By his own admission, Kilroy has lost and made millions of dollars over the years, but for him, success all comes back to the customer.
“I can take a piece of meat in this town and make it tender just by the way it is cooked,” he says.
“Owning restaurants is not just how much money you have in the bank. You get to know people.
“I get to travel the world in people’s big boats and jets and planes. You never know who you are going to meet in there.”
Kilroy admits Brisbane palettes have come a long way “everyone knows Wagyu now” and has moved on from the days when calamari was used for fishing bait.
“We didn’t used to eat these things in Australia but people are eating anything now. A lot of this has to do with travel,” he says.
“There is passion in this restaurant. I can put a plate of food in front of you and in 30 seconds I know if you are disappointed or not.
“We’re just dishwashers listening to people. It is a very rewarding business.”
Along George Street, the Queensland capital has just opened its doors on new Indian restaurant Heritij in the new Brisbane Quarter. In this cavernous space, overlooking the Brisbane River towards South Bank, there’s dining for 210 people including private spaces such as The Library, Cellar Room and Passage, each accompanied by their own inspirational quote outside. I am feasting at the Captain’s Table, inspired by the quote “Around my table we make the big decisions, we solve the world’s problems, yet never lose sight of the deck or horizon.” It’s a fitting tribute to a city whose dining scene is on fire.
Outside, on the deck, it’s all breezy, blue cushions and river views, accompanied by a chic bar set up, while inside, it’s plush royal colours…purples, turmerics, navy blues, emerald greens, reminiscent of a Maharaja’s palace. The food here is fit for a king, with the pungent scent of the smoky tandoor wafting through this beautiful, big space, punctuated by voluminous, brick columns. While Michelin-star Chef Mural and his talented team weave their magic with the likes of chicken thigh, Thai basil, mint, rhubarb, zucchini, pineapple and kasundi from the tandoor, he pays homage to his homeland with his curries such as Kashmiri lamb, Goan fish, chicken Makhna, spinach kofta, black lentil dahl and vegetable masala.
“Indian food is incomplete without curries,” Chef Mural says.
“I don’t want everyone to be disappointed if there is no curry served in my restaurant. We used to serve this food in the home.
“Kofta is very close to my heart. My mother used to make this.”
Back over at Cha Cha Char, I ask Kilroy, the self-made man who has lost and made millions over the years, what he would do if it all went belly up.
“I’d go to Europe and buy a little restaurant on the beach,” he says.
“To me, it’s all about the people.”
We’re a bit like that in Brisbane.
The Global Goddess dined as a guest of Cha Cha Char – http://www.chachachar.com.au; and Heritij – https://heritij.com.au
Postcard from The Whitsundays
The SUN is well and truly back in the WhitSUNdays and I am making the most of it, hunting and gathering stories on Queensland’s destination darling.
I will be back next week with a cool new blog on this dazzling destination.
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Romance Is Just Around The Corner
July 6, 2015 July 6, 2015 6 Comments
I AM dining in the Brisbane restaurant which has just been named Best for Romance/First Date 2015 by the Dimmi Awards. The irony of the fact that I am dining with five other women, two of whom are complete strangers, is not lost on me. Story of my life that this is, I am at Auchenflower’s Deer Duck Bistro to see what the duck the fuss is all about. How can a restaurant be romantic? Isn’t it up to the diners? We are here to try the 7-course Chef’s Menu with matching wines and even better, it appears romance is right around the corner from me, with this restaurant in the next inner west suburb to that in which I live.
Owned by Chef Nicholas Cooper, if you love the planet, Deer Duck Bistro sprouts a very romantic ethos: to promote ethical eating by using the freshest, local, sustainable, organic and macrobiotic produce possible. A boxed garden onsite grows heirloom plants and micro herbs harvested just before they hit your plate, and the restaurant supports small, independent growers. Where possible fruit and vegetables are sourced locally from Mount Tamborine, The Darling Downs and South Burnett regions and bread is baked on premise using organic ingredients.
While there’s not too many deer or ducks roaming the streets of Brisbane, you’ll see plenty on the walls of this restaurant which is themed with unusual antiques and is a pleasant departure from the usual bold Queensland colours you see elsewhere around town, particularly on this crisp winter night. In fact, so eclectic are things in this establishment, that even each table setting consists of mismatched cutlery, which evokes that comfortable, familiar feeling of dining at your grandmas. The aim: to deliver modern Australian, European cuisine.
The restaurant also serves a-la-carte dishes and, despite its carnivorous name, is incredibly popular with vegetarians and vegans for whom it caters beautifully, including an individual 7-course degustation for those who don’t eat meat. For consummate carnivores like myself, the menu is a delicious dream. Our 7 courses started with mussels, carrot and dill, which was an unexpectedly tasty combination. Onion, thyme and veal sweetbreads followed before barramundi, shitake and black rice.
Chicken, corn and tarragon formed the basis of the fourth course, followed by beef, pumpkin and onion. While not part of this particular 7-course menu, we had the opportunity to try the duck after which the restaurant takes its name, and I’m delighted to report it, too, was delicious. We finished the savory courses with beef, pumpkin and onion. While my forte as a travel and dating blogger lays more in describing destinations and men, rather than food, I can report that each dish possessed a crunchy texture and a surprise I’d never even imagined…just like most of my dates, although in this case, it’s a most pleasant surprise. I only wish, like the deer heads in this restaurant, I could hang some of the men I’ve met on the wall.
While a refreshing zing, the rockmelon, honey and pistachio would have made a far greater impact served somewhere between the meat dishes as a palate cleanser and seemed slightly strange to serve just before another dessert – the chocolate, pear and hazelnut, which would have worked well straight after the rich, slow-cooked beef dish.
But it’s difficult to fault this restaurant which pairs each course with a diverse and innovative wine list, serving everything from French champagne to start, to high-quality international and Australian drops in between. However the sparkling merlot at the end was an unusual finish and again, I would have ended with something sweeter like a sticky. Apart from the gorgeous main dining room, there’s a private dining room and my favourite of all, a cosy cocktail lounge in which you can partake in pre or post dinner drinks, and even order from a bar menu if the desire to slink into those comfy couches overtakes your need to sit at a table.
Deer Duck Bistro last week won its first coveted Chefs Hat at the Good Food Guide Awards and it’s easy to see why. My advice: make a booking there sooner rather than later, as this is one of the hottest restaurants in Brisbane right now which is courageous enough to not follow the pack with its menu, flavours or décor. As for the romance, partaking in a fabulous feast with three old friends and two new ones may not be conventionally romantic, but you could do a whole lot worse. Bloke or no bloke, what the duck, I’ll be back.
The Global Goddess was a guest of Deer Duck Bistro – http://www.deerduckbistro.com.au
Genius in a Bottle
June 22, 2015 June 22, 2015 2 Comments
MONDAY, bloody Monday and I am in the sort of mood other people normally reserve for dentists and funerals. I despise Monday so much, that if there was an Olympic sport for this kind of thing, I would be the reigning gold champion. With such contempt do I hold the first day of the working week, that I am utterly convinced no one else on this planet could hate it as much as me. Except for my good friend Matthew, who is the silver medallist in this sport. Our email conversations on Monday run along the lines of “Only 51 more weeks until holidays”. But not this Monday. You see yesterday we hatched a plan to escape to Japan, if only for a few hours. Yesterday, we went to Sake Restaurant Brisbane.
For those who have been hiding under a rock, and clearly I am one of these people (in my defence, it’s not like I ever go on a date), Sake opened in November 2010. In true Brisbane style, this riverside establishment not only survived the 2011 floods at its Eagle Street pier location, but has thrived during the past five years, winning a coveted Queensland Good Food Guide Chef’s Hat every year since it opened. And it’s easy to see why.
Apart from the fact Matthew likes to match my Monday complaining (I am the Edamame to his Sapporo), he is also a Japanese aficionado, known to enjoy the food as much as the skiing there and hence, he makes the perfect lunch companion on this occasion. A creative way to experience the menu here is to indulge in the “omokase” which, loosely translated, means “we create the menu for you.” In fact, around half of this restaurant’s guests choose this option, leaving it in the hands of head chef Daisuke Sakai and his team to make magic.
Drawing inspiration from the new winter menu, we were treated to a number of dishes, starting with a scallop tiradito with yuzu lemon and rocotto chili; and spicy tuna rice, tuna sashimi with crispy rice blocks.
A wagyu gyoza with ginger, chives and butter ponzu followed; as did tonkatsu pocket buns with panko crumbed pork belly, spicy miso sauced on a steamed white bun.
Our last two savory courses consisted of grainfed wagyu teriyaki cooked medium rare with sautéed shiitake, buckwheat and yakiniku sauce; and Osaka sushi roll with prawn, sweet ginger, egg sheet wrap with okonomiyaki barbecue sauce, and dancing bonito flakes.
The outstanding flavours and texture of the spicy tuna rice made this dish a clear winner for both of us due to the clever crunchy base. For my money, the salty wagyu teriyaki was a close second, while Matthew enjoyed the tonkatsu pocket buns, describing them as upmarket sliders. The Osaka sushi roll prawn promised much, but fell short due to its overpowering ginger, and had the chef possibly deconstructed this dish, as I ended up doing, the beautifully distinct taste of the egg wrap became evident, as did its other individual elements.
A really nice touch is the wine list, with an Austrian white from near the Austrian/Hungarian border and which tastes somewhere between a Riesling and Chablis, a perfect pairing to this menu. The restaurant has also sourced a rare Japanese white wine – Gris de Koshu – which comes from a Japanese grape, and is also a great drop for this kind of food. As the name suggests, Sake is home to numerous drops of the potent Japanese rice wine with 30 varieties of sake on the list. While Monday is pretty dire in my opinion, I did resist reaching for the sake bottle, instead, admiring the sake barrels on the wall, which I am told are used for traditional opening ceremonies.
Matthew had to rush off for a meeting before dessert arrived, but not before he ranked the experience a 9/10. As someone who hosts business lunches of his own, he found the private space in which we were seated, the varied menu, and the use of local produce such as Hervey Bay scallops, impressive. I was all set to give the restaurant an 8/10 (we both agreed the thumping lounge club music in the background was a distraction), until dessert arrived. Even the name of this dish, on this melancholy Monday, made me smile. And the “nihon nemesis” – a delicate chocolate cake with raspberry, matcha raspberry sorbet and honeycomb, was enough to brighten even the darkest day. With stunning service, fabulous food and such creative cuisine, this restaurant is worthy of a 9/10 and a repeat visit. Just like Monday, I’ll be back.
The Global Goddess was a guest of Sake Restaurant – http://www.sakerestaurant.com.au
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Medical Marijuana Link
US Surgeon General Backs Medical Marijuana
“…The nation’s top doctor on Wednesday suggested an openness to wider use of medical marijuana, saying the drug might offer some medical benefits. “We have some preliminary data showing that for certain medical conditions and symptoms that marijuana can be helpful,” Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told “CBS This Morning.”
http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/231717-surgeon-general-backs-medical-marijuana
US Drug Czar Approves DC Legalization
“…U.S. drug czar Michael Botticelli, though banned from supporting marijuana legalization due to federal law, says that the nation’s capital should be able to implement its own laws using its own funds, even if that does indeed mean legalizing marijuana…”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/06/michael-botticelli-marijuana_n_6633638.html
Justice Department Goes After Marijuana Mafia in Oakland
“…Lawyers for U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag appeared in court Tuesday in an effort to shut down a medical marijuana collective in Oakland, California, despite federal guidance discouraging U.S. prosecutors from going after state-legal cannabis operations…”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/03/harborside-melinda-haag-appeal_n_6608768.html
Marijuana Proven To Be Effective Against Depression
“..Research has suggested that cannabis may be a promising treatment option for a number of different physical and mental health conditions, from post-traumatic stress disorder to chronic pain. A study released this week suggests that depression can be added to that list…”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/06/marijauna-depression_n_6622126.html
Cannabis Advocate: Ohio Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough
“…The leader of an Ohio families’ group that has been campaigning to get medical marijuana for sick children said Thursday a bill introduced this week in the state House does not go far enough to provide relief to the ailing…”
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/02/05/cannabis-advocate-ohio-bill-go-far-enough/22940019/
Santa Ana Lottery
“…Thursday afternoon’s lottery was a result of the city-backed, voter-approved measure that says dispensaries can operate only in two industrial areas…”
http://www.latimes.com/local/orangecounty/la-me-0206-pot-shop-lottery-20150206-story.html
Cypress Hill Rapper Wins Marijuana Lottery
“…. Hip-hop group Cypress Hill gained fame in the 1990s with marijuana-themed songs like “Dr. Greenthumb.” Now one of its members might become a real Dr. Greenthumb after he and 19 other applicants won a city lottery Thursday to put them on a path to legally distribute medical marijuana in Santa Ana….”
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/city-650380-marijuana-lottery.html
800 Plants Seized in Washington
“…Detectives in Washington state busted a massive, illegal marijuana grow-house that was cultivating pot next-door to a day care center, and helping to undercut the state’s legal marijuana market…”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/wash-deputies-find-800-pot-plants-day-care-article-1.2105478
Republicans Must Fold on Marijuana To Stay Relevant
“…those who want to see a Republican in the White House should take note – millennials could be the deciding vote in 2016, and marijuana law reform could be a key issue….”
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/marijuana-legalization-could-unlock-millennial-votes-for-gop-in-2016-steven-moore-1.9912281
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Letters to Santa found behind chimney are 'delivered' a century later
Four long-lost letters to Santa were recently discovered during a renovation of the Beverly Heritage Center in West Virginia.
Santa Claus will be receiving a few extra letters this Christmas after notes, written by children more than a century ago, were discovered at a museum in West Virginia — and got "delivered" earlier this month.
The four long-lost letters, which were written in 1912 and 1913, were found a few years ago during a renovation of the Beverly Heritage Center, the organization revealed online.
The letters "are believed to have accidentally fallen between the chimney wall and the fireplace mantelpiece where they remained for 106 years."
Authored by members of the Woodward family, the center's historians noted that the letters were true to the "spirit of Christmas."
One of the letter's authors, Page Woodward, who was 8 years old on Dec. 25, 1912, according to the center, was selfless in her requests to the jolly man from the North Pole. She asked Santa to bring gifts for everyone but herself — including an air rifle, a Boy Scout book, a sweater and magazines, all for her brother.
LOVE LETTER WRITTEN BY VETERAN IN 1954 DISCOVERED IN GEORGIA WALMART, REUNITED WITH FAMILY
While it was unclear whether she received the gifts on her list, Woodward "got married and made embroidered artwork" when she grew up, according to the center. She died in 1951.
The uncovered letters were delivered to Santa on Dec. 1 by none other than "two local children who great-great grandparents may have played with the original authors."
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The letters are currently on display at the Beverly Heritage Center until the end of December, according to the museum.
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Blackonomics: Teaching our Dollars to Make Sense
by James Clingman
NNPA Columnist
When Donald Trump first spoke about his intentions to run for president and called out Mexicans and Hispanics in general, here’s what happened. Yes, there were protests in the streets by Latinos who felt they had been insulted by Trump, but further action was taken, not by Latinos but by corporations.
According to an article by Sarah Berger, with the International Business Times, “[Macy’s] said they would no longer carry Trump’s menswear collection, which featured shirts, ties and watches.” Further, “Macy’s is not alone: NBCUniversal, Univision, mattress maker Serta and other companies have also cut ties with Trump…The broken deals point to the growing influence of Hispanic consumers in the United States. As the Latino demographic in the U.S. rapidly increases, so does their buying power, and businesses are starting to realize that value.”
Economics raises its head again, doesn’t it? Macy’s was not boycotted; it was not targeted by Latinos in any way. Why did they feel obliged to cut ties with Trump when he dissed Hispanics? A better question is: “Why haven’t we seen companies take any corresponding action on behalf of Black people? Remember the Indianapolis incident earlier this year, when corporations threatened to move their companies out of that city if the law that “discriminated” against gay people was not changed? It took about 24 hours for it to be changed.
John Crawford was killed in a Walmart for holding a BB gun, 12 year-old Tamir Rice was killed in two seconds for holding a toy gun, Eric Garner was choked to death on national and TV after saying “Why do you keep bothering me?” and Sandra Bland was arrested and died three days later because she failed to signal a lane change and was smoking in her own car. Did any corporations make threats against anyone on their behalf?
Macy’s and the others punished Trump without being asked to do so, because they respect the $1.5 billion buying power of Hispanics. That’s it, plain and simple. “But annual Black buying power is $1.2 trillion, Jim; why are we ignored?”
Major corps with whom we spend much of that $1.2 trillion each year have, a “depraved indifference” to our plight, as Bob Law says. They do not respond to our issues in the same way because there is no price to pay for not doing so. We get slapped upside the head by politicians and our big bad NAACP tells us to take a 1,000-mile walk. One of our children gets shot down or beat down and NAN says “Let’s ‘maach’ on Washington.”
A young Black man is killed in a Walmart and our “leaders” rally in front of that store – for a day. Our unemployment is at an all-time high, despite the “great economy” they say we are in, and the National Urban League writes a report each year telling us how bad things are for Black America. Our voting rights are being discarded, our HBCU’s are losing millions because of Parent-Plus Loan changes, we are ignored and taken for granted by both political parties, and Black politicians like John Lewis tell us to vote our way out of our problems.
It’s no wonder we don’t get the same respect and support as other groups. The ways we respond to negative issues allow the mistreatment we get from others. Take the “Black Lives Matter” mantra.
Of course our lives matter and it makes no difference if others have a problem with our saying it. But we have some Black folks who are trying to gain acceptance from others and trying to make others feel comfortable with us by adding to the phrase, “All lives matter,” which is obvious to most people anyway. Saying and acting upon the fact that Black lives matter “less” than all other lives is important, but we must act appropriately upon what we say.
Carlos Santiago, president and chief strategist of Santiago Solutions Group said, “Latino customers represent an opportunity for Macy’s to grow its business model…Macy’s Hispanic base of buyers is significant and growing while the ‘non-Hispanic’ is declining slowly. They (Macy’s) have to protect their growing loyal base just as their competitors like Nordstrom, JC Penney’s, Target and Walmart are. In this race to capture the new growth, a change in public image is worth millions of dollars in goodwill and loyalty.”
The appropriate response to those who transgress against us must be grounded in economics. We spend money at Macy’s, as well as many other corporations. Why have they not spoken and acted on our behalf? As I have written many times, until we are serious about gaining the support of those with whom we do business, they will ignore our plight and take our dollars for granted.
Our economic response must be “Black Dollars Matter!” And we must teach our dollars how to make more sense.
Jim Clingman, founder of the Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce, is the nation’s most prolific writer on economic empowerment for Black people. He can be reached through his website, blackonomics.com. He is the author of Black Dollars Matter: Teach Your Dollars How to Make More Sense, which is available through his website; professionalpublishinghouse.com and Amazon Kindle eBooks.
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The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » I'm a real boy! » » How Many Voices Do You Have? (0 Likes)
Mr. Pitts
David Pitts
I can do three main voices that are different enough from my own to be effective character voices. My dog Frank has a variation of the "goofy" voice, like Mortimer Snerd with a little less bumpkin and a little more breathiness. To me it sounds very doggy. I also do a voice for my hard figure Henry fairly similar to Jerry Mahoney. The third is a gravelly 'monster' voice for my character "The Evil Dr. Sketchy". I can do several accents fairly well, if I need to vary one of these voices to fit another character. I also have some voices I can do in a very limited way, but I find them too inconsistent, difficult to produce on cue, or just hard on my vocal chords, to put them in my regular bag of tricks.
How many distinctive voices do you guys have in your repertoire?
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I find this topic interesting. I've written about this somewhere on these boards. When I am straight acting in character, when I can move my lips, I have a wide range of character voices I can do, including SOME accents. For some reason, however, when I am ventriloquizing, I am limited to about two, maybe three, voices (and no accents): a young boy/girl voice, an old person's voice, and perhaps a passable baby voice. That's it. That's probably why I really only want one strong character.
Thus, I find it disconcerting when a vent has many puppets in his/her act but can only do one or two voices. All the puppets end up sounding the same. I’d rather see a vent do one or two strong characters than having a lot of different looking puppets without distinct voices. Bergen, of course, was a master at character differentiation.
On 2013-08-27 20:03, KeithS wrote:
...That's probably why I really only want one strong character.
I feel the same way about that, voice differentiation is really important to me. I prefer a very small 'stable' of characters myself, with one as sort of the 'star'. And it's largely because a well defined character is the foundation I try to build my comedy and my act upon, and a strong character voice is a big part of that for me. I started with only one, Henry, but Frank the Wonder Dog sort of took over as star. I also have a silent rabbit in the hat puppet character who tends to steal the show. Plus, I gave them all an 'evil nemesis' character, because my two main shows are "The Evil Dr. Sketchy Stole My Library Card" and it's western variation "The Outlaw Doc Sketchy Stole My Squeaky Toy". One's a 'nutty professor' type show, one's a western show like I said, but both are well served by the presence of a funny bad guy, Dr. Sketchy, played by an Axtell MDB (with a drawing that looks strangely like me).
So, I'm really using all my good voices with this little crew. I can vary Henry's voice to be more Brooklyn (most often), or Texas or London (for my occasional 'Dickens Christmas' appearances). I actually ended up, like I said, with more characters than I intended when I started, because it served the act to develop them.
I love the possibilities that come from fully exploring one character, like Bergen did with Charlie for many years before introducing Mortimer. So that was my original intent, but the story that I tell with the act simply required more characters.
Oh right. Sorry I thought you meant the ones in our head
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9 different voices for 9 characters
I can only do one other than my own. I tried really hard to do more to no avail that's why thetes no point for me to have many puppets
TonyB2009
At the moment, one. But I am working on a second.
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Dickens & Dave
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I had four, I say "had" because one was a voice for a goof figure and I no longer own a goof figure. One of the voices I share with a couple figures, but I never use them together.
http://dickensndave.bravehost.com/index.html
"Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest."
I have two figures, actually a figure and a soft puppet, who share basically the same voice, the Mahoney-esque cheeky boy voice I mentioned. I use it for Henry and with some slight variation with my soft puppet boy Ollie. But like you said, Dave, not in the same show.
Bob Baker
Posted: Sep 2, 2013 06:10 am
I have 6 voices I use regularly and am working on two others for new characters I'm going to be using. As has been written extensively elsewhere, there are many aspects of the voice that can be varied to create different sounding ones. The pitch (high or low), speed, dialects and accents, smooth or gravelly, etc. I've also noticed that by "anchoring" the voice in different parts of the oral cavity (back of throat, middle of hard palate, behind teeth), it is possible to get even more variations.
When I was a kid I used to mimic all the cartoon voices I heard on TV, so I think that's how I learned to "do voices." Check out CD's by Pat Fraley if you want to learn to do cartoon voices which you can transfer to your characters.
Posted: Sep 2, 2013 12:43 pm
Bob, could you say again how many voices do you have and how you do it?
No. Thrice suffices.
I sent originally when the Café was down for maintenance. I didn't realize they save stuff and post it later.
joeyvent
Hiya all.
I am new here but wanted to chime in on this. I have a set few voices I can do but what I focus on aside from tone is the personality. I don't want to do lets say 3 voices and they all have the same speech patterns or speed. I really work hard on trying to mix it up so each are single and distinct.
Posted: Dec 2, 2013 05:54 am
I use about 6 voices for about 10 characters... I simply don't use characters with the same voice together in one act...
My main figure Nicolo
Baby and Granny use the same voice...
Monkey and Bum have the same voice...
Chicken, Dolphy and Pacman use the same voice...
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Should I include in the count the voices I hear in my head?
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damien666
I have noticed more than how many voices I can do the number of voices I can no longer do..
Due to age, past illnesses that have affected my vocal chords, etc - I have noticed quite a loss in the amount of range I once had..
for instance - I used to be able to hit the high notes in doing voices.. But these days, my falsetto is non existant.. Anybody else encounter this?
I have certainly had to adapt with the evolution (or 'de-evolution' as the case my be) of my vocal/voice range..
Oh well, as long as I can make something rasp out some kind of joke without moving my lips - I'm still in the club, right?
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It is now two weeks since the European Parliament elections, and the dust has yet to settle. It was a remarkable election in many ways–unprecedented, really. Normally, EP elections are referenda on incumbents; domestic issues outweigh European issues. It would be too much to say that domestic issues took a back seat this time; of course they always matter, or at any rate the “throw the bums out” reflex always counts for something. But this time a very different sentiment is what moved masses of voters, I think, a sentiment that conjoined the usual disgruntlement with a more ominous foreboding that things might be heading in a seriously wrong direction. Europeans, like Americans, have begun to worry about Big Things: Is the postwar order finished, is democracy in decline, have societies become irrevocably polarized?
The result was a big shock to party systems in a number of countries. Leaders disappeared: Andrea Nahles had to resign the SPD leadership in Germany, and, more remarkable still, no one has stepped forward to replace her. A caretaker triumvirate has assumed the leadership.
In Italy, the Five Stars movement has shrunk, while the Democrats, behind Inspector Montalbano’s brother, have made an interesting comeback. Pedro Sanchez has given socialists new hope in Spain.
In France, Les Républicains have been reduced to a shadow of their former selves; Wauquiez is out, Pécresse has struck out on her own, Bertrand waits in the wings, while Larcher putters about trying to pick up the pieces. La France Insoumise is in crisis.
Meanwhile, right-wing mayors are taking their distance from LR, and if not quite joining Macron are at least giving the impression that they might be prepared to supply LREM with its missing grass roots just in time for the municipals 9 months from now. It’s a curious time in France. LREM has essentially become the party of the center right, replacing the Republicans and drawing a large chunk of the Republican vote while shedding some of the ex-PS supporters who voted for Macron in 2017 to the Greens. Macron now settles comfortably into the place in the political spectrum for which he was always destined, the center right, dropping the last pretense of ambidextrousness now that lefties have nowhere else to go. The LREM-RN duo is now the only game in town, the ultimate vindication of Mitterrand’s Machiavellian intuition that the best way to beat the right was by strengthening the far right. The kicker is that the far right has been strengthened by the mass defection of the working class, leaving the left without a backbone. And everything will work out fine if the RN has indeed hit its ceiling at 25-30 percent of the vote, as seems to be the case.
Indeed, across Europe, despite advances by parties variously identified as anti-immigrant, right-wing nationalist, or “populist,” the real news is that these parties revealed their limits in this election. The vast majority of Europeans–close to two-thirds, I would say–have awakened to the danger and said no, even if it means–and apparently it does mean–shattering old party systems in order to move toward a new confrontation, less a distributive conflict than a difference of opinion about how to manage capitalism.
The anti-capitalist parties are dead. In the center ring the contest is between a party of growth essentially committed to the standard litany of supply-side reforms it believes will suffice to muddle through without drastic change to the status quo, and a set of more or less “green” parties committed to replacing the growth incentive with some notion of sustainable development and moderated consumerism. Both the growth and green parties believe that the central problems are transnational in scale and therefore reject the nationalism and closed-border mentality of the tiers minoritaire. Growth vs. Green: this is the new mainstream, with the nationalist xenophobes thus far still reasonably well confined. Growth and Green will have to find some ground for compromise if this configuration is to remain stable (except in France, where the two-round voting system will keep the far right confined, even if a 20-percent dose of proportional is added to the legislative elections).
For those who hoped that Europe’s consecutive crises would lead to the demise of capitalism, the news is not good, pace Wolfgang Streeck. Capitalism actually seems to have fewer enemies these days. It’s not so much that “there is no alternative,” as Thatcher liked to say, as that no one can agree on an acceptable alternative. So the Greens and Growthers will clash about how to dress it up, while the Far Righters will content themselves with arguing over whom to exclude from the fruits.
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Tim Smyth says:
Well, one possibility is a good old fashioned growth vs green battle in France over the merits of nuclear power although I have my doubts that the greens have much hope in hell of turning France anti nuclear especially given the two round voting system. Once forcing out Hulot Macron seems to be moving towards more of a traditional Guallist position on nuclear power and I suspect this will continue especially as his own political base become more Guallist in nature(Hulot’s anti nuclear push was always going to be rejected by the likes of Philippe and Le Maire and they are the ones that were always going to make the decisions not Hulot).
Flamanville has been a financial disaster but one that the “Growthers” will increasingly blame on the end of Messmer plan era of construction during Jospin’s government and basically say the problem with Flamanville was the stoppage of further nuclear construction in the 2000s. On the otherhand once the right was back in power in 2002 they could have immediately started construction in Flamanville grabbing the last of the construction crews finishing up the original “Messmer” series of plants(which were finally fully complete in 2001) instead of waiting until 2007. The truth of the matter is by 2002 France had a huge surplus of nuclear power.
I don’t understand why you write, “For those who hoped that Europe’s consecutive crises would lead to the demise of capitalism, the news is not good, pace Wolfgang Streeck. ” Having just read what your “pace” phrase directs us to, I don’t find Streeck at all optimistic that the end of capitalism is now a possibility. In fact, the subheadline of his piece–“The setbacks for centrist parties in the European elections showed that the EU’s crisis is anything but over. Yet the Left’s lack of strategy and identity has hobbled its ability to provide an alternative.”–makes his pessimism very clear, just as what he goes on to say spells out, I think, why he is pessimistic. Maybe the difference between you and him is that he still hopes (against hope) for the demise of capitalism while you do not?
” Whither Europe”?
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Edit the headline I’m begging you.
Add a wink emoji. Something.
Resolved: my next comment on here will be more in the spirit of things. You’re a tolerant fellow, Art. And widely liked for it. All the best.
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PETA-Approved designer, Purvi Doshi, recently launched a complete collection of vegan Kotpad saris. This week, on National Handloom Day, Purvi Doshi launched a limited edition line of vegan, toxin-free saris inspired by the region of Koraput, India as reported by The New Indian Express.
“This client works towards the upliftment of tribals, and she shared her experiences of interacting with the tribes living in Koraput. She said I should definitely explore the weaves the tribes there create. I was amazed that in such troubled areas, we have such a beautiful craft. So I visited the region, and my travel inspired me to create a complete collection of Kotpad saris,” shares Doshi.
“There are absolutely no chemicals involved in the process of making these saris. And many people believe that these weaves are medicinal, because of the use of madder,” explains Doshi, who believes in hand-crafted, responsible and cruelty-free fashion.
Since founding her label in 1992, Doshi has pushed towards the use of handwoven textiles made with natural and organic dyes. Also known for her compassion for animals, in a recent fashion show, the designer had the models wrapped in plastic in protest to animal confinement in tanks.
The designer recently launched a menswear collection and is expected to release her eighth bridal collection, 8th Vow, by the end of this year.
“We take seven vows with our partners on the wedding day, but we should extend it to an eighth one, which will be a promise to our planet and to every other living being, that we will not harm you,” she says.
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London Market Report
January 10, 2020 / 7:52 AM / 8 days ago
UPDATE 1-UK Stocks-Factors to watch on Jan. 10
(Adds news items, futures)
Jan 10 (Reuters) - Britain’s FTSE 100 index is seen opening 28 points higher at 7,626 on Friday, according to financial bookmakers, with futures up 0.4% ahead of the cash market open.
* JOULES: Fashion retailer Joules Group Plc warned that its 2020 profit would be significantly below market expectations as online retail sales suffered due to a shortage of merchandise during the crucial Christmas period.
* MONDI: Paper packaging company Mondi Plc said that Chief Executive Officer Peter Oswald would step down after nearly three years in the role.
* JD SPORTS: Britain’s biggest sportswear retailer JD Sports said it expects annual headline pretax profit towards the upper end of the current market view, as its gym clothing and premium-branded fashion helped counter the gloomy UK retail sector once again.
* LIDL UK: Lidl GB said its total sales rose 11% in the four weeks to Dec. 29 as the British arm of the German discount supermarket group outshone bigger rivals in what was otherwise a subdued Christmas period.
* B&M: B&M European Value Retail said sales growth slowed in the key Christmas quarter, reflecting a “challenging broader retail market” and a decision not to engage in early discounting activity.
* SUPERDRY: British fashion brand Superdry warned on its full-year profit on Friday after sales during the peak Christmas period fell short of its expectations due to weaker trading on older product.
* RYANAIR: Ryanair, one of the world’s largest airlines, raised its guidance for full-year profit after tax to 950-1,050 million euros on stronger-than-expected performance during the Christmas and New Year travel period.
* SHELL: Royal Dutch Shell Plc is looking to sell its oil refinery in Anacortes, Washington, according to three people familiar with the matter.
* INEOS: A subsidiary of British chemical giant INEOS Group will build a plant with an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a lightweight plastic used in automobiles and electrical appliances, in China.
* ECONOMY: Optimism at major British companies has improved by the largest margin in at least 11 years after Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a sweeping election victory last month, according to a survey from accountants Deloitte.
* JOBS: British employers last month increased their number of new permanent staff for the first time in a year, reflecting a modest rise in optimism after December’s election, a survey of recruiters showed.
* GOLD: Gold prices fell and were set for their worst week in five as easing tensions in the Middle East prompted investors to move back to riskier bets.
* OIL: Oil prices dropped extending days of losses as the threat of war in the Middle East receded and investors switched attention to economic growth prospects and the rise in U.S. crude oil and product inventories.
* London’s main share index advanced on Thursday as chances of a full-blown crisis in the Middle East waned, but mid-caps lagged as SIG and Marks and Spencer fell after warning of lower annual results.
TODAY’S UK PAPERS
> Financial Times
> Other business headlines (Reporting by Shanima A and Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)
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Mergers & Acquisitons - Americas
January 15, 2020 / 11:10 AM / 3 days ago
Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions
(Adds T-Mobile, RAG Stiftung, Toshiba)
Jan 15 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2100 GMT on Wednesday:
** A group of U.S. states suing to block T-Mobile US Inc from merging with Sprint Corp told a federal judge that the deal would violate antitrust laws and raise wireless prices for consumers.
** Germany’s RAG Stiftung has joined a consortium led by private equity firms Advent and Cinven in a bid for Thyssenkrupp’s 15 billion euro ($17 billion) elevator division, two sources familiar with the matter said.
** Toshiba Corp moved a step closer to winning a takeover bid for chip equipment unit NuFlare Technology Inc after receiving backing from a major shareholder.
** Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said it had ended its activities in Africa after closing the sale of a 50% stake in Petrobras Oil & Gas BV (PO&GBV), which holds some Nigerian oil assets.
** Resolute Mining Ltd said it will sell its Ravenswood Gold mine for up to A$300 million ($207 million) to a consortium led by resource-focused private equity firm EMR Capital.
** Australian Vanadium Ltd said it penned a non-binding agreement with a unit of steelmaker HBIS Group Chengsteel that could see the Chinese firm buy vanadium and invest in the Perth-based firm’s flagship project.
** China’s Fosun International Ltd has decided to cut stakes or even divest completely from two financial firms it controls in Brazil, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.
** The Benetton family’s Edizione is in contact with F2i over the infrastructure fund’s interest in taking a stake in Atlantia, the chairman of the holding company was quoted as saying in daily Il Messaggero. (Compiled by Amal S and Shanti S Nair in Bengaluru)
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Tag: Prince Uche Secondus
Lagos PDP: Torn apart by crises
Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been embroiled in a battle of survival. Many factors have ...
Worried by electoral hiccups, PDP set to review conduct of 2019 polls
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed concerns over hiccups in the conduct of the 2019 general ...
APC chieftain, elder brother shot dead in Rivers
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Mr. Mowan Owo-Ete, who is a two-term Chairman of ...
PDP rejects postponement
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Prince Uche Secondus, has rejected the postponement of the general elections by ...
Breaking: PDP rejects postponement of election
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has said that shoddy arrangement for this election ...
APC has bastardised economy, says Atiku
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Sunday in Kano said the country is ...
2019 poll: PDP urges security agencies to be neutral
by Praise Olowe
The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has admonished the nation's security agencies to safeguard ...
Onnoghen: PDP, Atiku, Secondus slam Buhari
by Sunday Oguntola
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), its national chairman Prince Uche Secondus and presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have condemned ...
Secondus alleges plots to arrest Atiku, Obi, Saraki, Dogara
The national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has raised the alarm, alleging plots by the ...
PDP presents Ogun governorship flag to Adebutu
by Justice Ilevbare
The national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Friday in Abuja presented Mr. Ladi Adebutu with the symbolic party ...
PDP chieftains hail Ayade’s industrialisation drive
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman Prince Uche Secondus and former Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, have ...
2019: PDP chair restates doubts over INEC’s neutrality
The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has again expressed lack of confidence in the ...
2019: APC urges political parties to ensure issue-based campaign
by Lekan
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on political parties in the country, particularly the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its ...
Mantu commends Secondus for ‘repackaging PDP’
Dr. Umar Mantu, a House of Representatives aspirant in Plateau, has commended PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, for “repackaging ...
Kogi PDP stakeholders reject offer of automatic ticket for Melaye
The latest round of meeting, this time, between the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders from the Lokoja/Kogi Federal constituency and ...
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Monologue Monday: Asian Goggles by Jenny Yang
September 30, 2019 September 30, 2019 unknownplaywrights
Howdy and welcome back to Monologue Mondays!
As this blog has pointed out (again and again [and again]) Roles writing gigs directing gigs monologues opportunities are hard to come by in American theatre if you’re not super mega white and male.
Fortunately, there are strong, funny monologues written by funny folks like Jenny Yang.
The monologue is about how she was offered “Asian goggles” at a ski resort by someone named Skyler.
Judging from the racism, ski resortiness and name, my money’s on Park City, Utah as the location of said monologue. Park City is as racist a town as any I’ve seen.
Wobbly graffiti from 1916 survives in the old Park City jail. Pretty much the coolest thing that town has to offer.
Speaking of Wobblies, Jenny Yang’s career has gone from badass labor organizer to badass comedian. Highlights include: making videos for Cracked and performing at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Her commentary has been covered by the BBC, New York Times and a bunch of other places. She also wrote for Last Man Standing, but since that was a vehicle for human turd-goblin Tim Allen, I wouldn’t call it a highlight.
8/03: Literally the question nobody asked nor cared about.
9/13: And there’s the answer!!! I’m sure Tim Allen painted lots of IWW graffiti whilst in the hoosegow.
Too bad Ms. Yang can’t get her own sitcom. If you want to know more about her and her accomplishments, please check her site out. The monologue can be found in this wonderful collection.
Asian goggles are more than a monologue – they exist!!!
Now, let’s check out some videos of this monologue, including by the writer herself!
Thank you so much for reading this blog and thanks to Ms. Yang for writing such amazing material.
For another Asian-centric monologue, please check here .
Can you stomach Theatre Horror Stories?
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Theatre Horror Story: Sequels Verboten! (except we just made that up)
[A reader sent this in. A former member of the Dramatists Guild]
i submitted to a script call for plays for young performers. i ended up being one of the ten finalists & when the plays were staged, my piece was voted “audience favorite.” i reached out to several other finalist playwrights & began an email friendship with the playwright whose piece had been awarded “best play.”
the following year, we both submitted again & quite by chance, we both submitted scripts that were sequels/companions to the previous year’s entries. there was nothing in the rules forbidding this. both my friend & i made it through the first round of judging.
then, things fell apart.
apparently, due to problems within the theater company pertaining to my friend’s script (& having nothing to do with my script), it was decided – in the middle of the judging process – that ALL sequels to the previous year’s entries would not be allowed. thanks for changing the rules without any notice while the contest was underway, folks! not only that but i only found out the real reason my play was disqualified when my friend told me – she had been given a heartfelt apology & explanation from the director/playwright running the program. i got bupkis.
Art by Maiyal.
[It’s nice when when theatre companies just make it up as they go merrily along]
naturally, i never submitted to them again but…a few years later, i saw their script call on a playwright site. i posted a warning that entrants should be wary of this group & was promptly flamed by several other playwrights who obviously didn’t want to offend a producer/director. glad they had my back.
[Playwright-on-playwright nutsackery must end. I’ve seen too many examples of this to count. Could be a topic for another blog post]
Thank you for reading. Don’t forget the blog offers other goodies like Unknown Playwrights (living & dead) as well as Monologue Mondays.
If you have a theatre horror story, please send it to the blog. Everyone can remain anonymous.
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This week’s Link Dump is brought to you by Korean posters of Waiting for Godot.
From here.
Newspaper ad 1969.
Yet another.
The most thorough review of a play called Handjob you’ll ever read.
Apparently being a triple threat isn’t enough. I needn’t worry as I’m a – 5 threat.
Intimacy direction is a thing. A thing we just covered, by the way.
Do you need a female director? Look no further.
Non-profit board meeting bingo.
A high school in Utah has their own theatre blog. Start young, folks!
Mickey Mouse theatre in China
Do you want to produce comedy theatre in Philadelphia?
Playwright Sophie Bawr wouldn’t let the Reign of Terror stop her from getting married.
One of my favorite playwrights gets interviewed (a while ago).
Learn about when the traditional (and awesome) Korean art of pansori meets Christianity.
The life and death of Japanese theatre artist Noriyuki Kiguchi.
Japanese theatre awards in 2009
One-act playwriting competition. Hot damn! 550 bucks!
The decline and fall of play submission opportunities.
A reviewer who keeps watching a play she doesn’t like.
The history of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Mamet being Mamet
The road to becoming an intimacy choreographer.
Everything one needs to know about the 2019 Namibian Theatre & Film Awards.
Song Night in Windhoek
Do you need to make that quick costume change?
When student meets community theatre.
Indonesian theatre gets redefined.
When Utah puts on racist turdgoblin theatre
And plays that make fun of Mormons are also racist.
American theatre hasn’t been doing dick to solve its racism problem either.
When theatre blogs go bad.
When German theatre goes goofy.
German theatre is special.
And this week’s adventures in Korean oldies brings us to Jeong Ai Ri/정애리’s 문을 열어 주세요 (Open the Door) from 1980.
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Intimate Theatre: Why?
[This is a new feature – a collaboration between Unknown Playwrights and guest writer Nicole Perry about intimacy choreography/directing.]
As an intimacy director, I get a lot of conversations that start with “What exactly IS intimacy direction?”
This is the definition Intimacy Directors International offers.
Theatrical Intimacy Education says that training in the art “empowers artists with the tools to ethically, efficiently, and effectively stage intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence.”
What exactly is intimacy? Let’s ask Google.
I certainly hope that guy doesn’t need an intimacy director for his relationship with Swahili literature.
For us, stage intimacy isn’t just sex or nudity, it’s personal vulnerability. Intimate moments could happen between grieving siblings, close friends or lovers. One good part about Google’s definition is that it uses the closeness between husband and wife as an example.
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon-Marigolds is ripe for an intimacy director. Here are Arielle Hoffman, Skye Coyne and Laura Turnbull in a Florida production.
Even Ah, Wilderness! (a play featuring Eugene O’Neill’s least dysfunctional and depressing family) could use an intimacy director. Here are Thomas Stagnitta and Christina Liang in a San Francisco production.
Maybe you remember in high school how awkward that kissing scene was in A Midsummer Night’s Dream? It would’ve been nice to have someone take that awkwardness down 1,000 notches. The adult theatre needs this.
If stage combat is choreographed, stage intimacy needs to be choreographed as well. When something is choreographed, it means there is a level of accuracy to be achieved and maintained. Think about how lame unchoreographed fights would look.
The grand-daddy of all intimacy direction needs: A Streetcar Named Desire. Here, a Korean production from 2013.
Here’s an interesting poster for a 2019 Korean production of A Streetcar Named Desire, ironically showing the different intimacies involved in the play. In fact, this poster could use an intimacy director.
Just like with fight choreography, personal safety is a mandate. Similar to dance choreography, in intimacy choreography, a person with training has created movement for the moment that heightens the actors’ performance, that furthers the story, that fulfills the director’s creative vision. As a bonus, choreography is repeatable.
This is what happens when you lack an intimacy choreographer:
All of these elements make for story-telling that is safe for the performers, clear, and consistent. Communication with the audience is part of the goal of any performance, and intimacy choreography makes that possible.
Just like a dance choreographer trains in various genres of dance and fight choreographers train with weapons and hand-to-hand, intimacy choreographers should have training in creating these moments for the stage. The two organizations linked above are doing that. I have been lucky enough to train with both.
The importance of this work transcends everything from youth theatre to ballet companies to professional theatre to ballroom dance competition teams. All of these instances require a performance of authenticity and vulnerability, for the communication of a story to an audience. A performer’s personal safety and professional integrity should never be compromised for that. Nor should the story or the audience suffer because intimate moments weren’t crafted with the same deliberation as the rest of the performance. That is what an intimacy director or intimacy choreographer does.
Intimacy direction isn’t just for creepy old misogynistic plays. In fact this year’s revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune used an intimacy director. Above: Michael Shannon and Audra MacDonald.
This is the first in a series of posts penned by Nicole Perry, a dancer, choreographer, actor, director and intimacy director. We let Bryan Stubbles have some minor input.
Please check out Nicole’s Twitter feed where she often posts about the topic.
And when you’re super bored, please read our Theatre Horror Stories, watch monologues or learn about Unknown Playwrights.
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Monologue Monday: Tillie, Ruth, Beatrice & Janice in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Paul Zindel)
Welcome back to the blog. This week we’re featuring The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the Moon Marigolds – a word salad title if there ever was one.
Here is a plot synopsis: It focuses on three members of the Hunsdorfer family: mother Beatrice and her daughters Tillie and Ruth. The Hunsdorfers live in what used to be Beatrice’s father’s vegetable shop, but the shop has been closed for years. Beatrice married young, a disastrous failed marriage that ended in divorce (later, her husband died by heart attack). Now the Hunsdorfers are scraping by in poverty, with apparently their only source of income being the $50 a week that Beatrice gets for boarding Nanny, a senile old woman. Beatrice is angry and bitter about her fate, hating the whole world, projecting that hate out onto her daughters. Ruth has epilepsy, and at some point in the past had a mental breakdown—a condition that runs in the family, apparently, given her mother’s school nickname of “Betty the Loon”. Younger sister Tillie is a bright high-school student with a talent for science, but her vicious mother, hating everyone who’s better off in life than she is, seeks to crush Tillie’s success.
The play is a very good one, but also very depressing. It has a small cast, all female, with a wide age range. The film version is on Youtube.
The play did quite well. It premiered at Houston’s Alley Theatre in 1964 before premiering Off-Broadway in 1970, where it ran for 819 performances.
It also won all the Obies:
Plus a couple others.
It also won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The most prominent actors in the play were probably Swoosie Kurtz (as Janice and as a replacement Tillie) and Joan Blondell (as a replacement Beatrice). Kurtz would go on to a stellar career on stage, in film and on TV. Blondell had already been super mega famous since the 1930s.
The play debuted on Broadway in 1978 and ran for two weeks. Shelley Winters played Beatrice and Carol Kane played Tillie.
You can read the whole play here.
The play has been revived on Off-Broadway since and is commonly produced around the country. These are stills from the original Off-Broadway run.
Tillie: Today I saw it.
Towards the beginning of the play, Tillie is curious after having observed atoms exploding.
Ruth: She was just like you…
This is when Ruth is trying to do Tillie’s hair.
Janice: I got the cat from the A.S.P.C.A…
Tillie’s sorta rival is Janice, who basically has a cameo talking about a dead cat she used for her experiment…
Janice Vickery-same age as Tillie, competes against Tillie in the school science fair.
The Past: I got the cat from the A.S.P.C.A. immediately after it had been killed by a high-altitude pressure system. That explains why some of the rib bones are missing, because that method sucks the air out of the animal’s lungs and ruptures all the cavities. They say it prevents cruelty to animals but I think it’s horrible. (she laughs) Then I boiled the cat in a sodium hydroxide solution until most of the skin pulled right off, but I had to scrape some of the grizzle off the joints with a knife. You have no idea how difficult it is to get right down to the bones. (gong sounds)
I have to go on to The Present, now—but I did want to tell you how long it took me to put the thing together. I mean, as it is now, it’s extremely useful for the students of anatomy, even with the missing rib bones, and it can be used to show basic anatomical aspects of many, many animals that are in the family as felines. I suppose that’s about the only present uses I can think for it, but it is nice to remember as an accomplishment, and it look good on college applications to show you did something else in school besides dating. (she laughs and gong sounds again)
The Future: the only future plans I have for Tabby—my little brother asked the A.S.P.C.A. what its name was when we went to pick it up and they said it was called Tabby, but I think they were kidding him—(she laughs again) I mean as far as future plans, I’m going to donate it to the science department, of course, and next year, if there’s another Science Fair perhaps I’ll do the same thing with a dog. (third gong) Thank you very much for your attention, and I hope I win!
Tillie: He told me to look at my hand…
Tillie really likes her science teacher (pretty much the only person in the world who cares about her). This seems to be the most common monologue.
Tillie: He told me to look at my hand, for
a part of it came from a star that exploded too long ago to imagine. This part of me was formed from a tongue of fire that screamed through the heavens until there was our sun. And this part of me
this tiny part of me
was on the sun when it itself ex
ploded and whirled in a great
storm until the planets came to be.
And this small part of me was then a whisper of the earth. When there was a life,
perhaps this part of me got lost in a fern that was crushed and covered until it was
coal. And then it was a diamond millions of years later
it must have been a
diamond as beautiful as the star from which it had first come.
Or perhaps this part of me became lost in a terrible beast, or became part of a huge
bird that flew above the primeval swamps.
And hesaid this thing was so small
this part of me was so small it couldn’t be seen
but it was there from the beginning of the world.
And he called this bit of me an atom. And when wrote the word, I fell in love with
What a beautiful word.
Tillie: The seeds were exposed..
Tillie explains the experiment. Now, if you’re really into this play, Tillie is also talking about the abuse her and her sister receive from Beatrice. This is a powerful monologue when you know the context.
Beatrice: Will somebody get that…
The very next line launches into Beatrice’s monomania monologue.
Ruth: Can you believe it?
So this is Ruth getting excited about her sister’s success. Maybe.
Beatrice: Oh, I’ll tell you why…
Beatrice, like many abusive parents, has a weird way of “helping” her children. Here, she’s concerned about gamma rays and her daughter – yet calls like this are also an attempt to smother Tillie’s science passion by alienating the teacher.
Tillie: My experiment has shown…
The final monologue is also the final scene in the play. It offers Tillie’s hope, despite all her obstacles.
And thus we reach the end of our play. But we have trailers!!!
Mexican trailer
Argentine trailer
US trailer
UK trailer
French trailer
Here’s a Canadian high school production.
A Romanian language TV version.
Romanian university theatre version.
Argentine production.
Mexican production
Israeli production
And here are some stills from a French-language Montréal production in the early 70s. You can read that here.
Don’t forget to check out more monologues, theatre horror stories and unknown playwrights.
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Theatre Horror Story: They Cut My Play (and didn’t tell me)!
[This came from a Dramatists Guild member]
A director removed the first ten minutes of one of my plays.
They did it without my permission or my knowledge.
This is what happened, as best I remember it:
I had made travel arrangements to see the one-night-only performance of my play, but because of an emergency, the director had moved the performance up a few days, maybe a week, and I couldn’t make it. But I called in on the phone for the talkback session. The moderator, director, and other people involved talked to me about what worked in the play and what didn’t, and I took notes. It was a good talkback. But through the course of it, I learned that the audience had been generally confused about the play. And then someone (I don’t remember if it was the director, an actor, or someone else) asked if maybe the audience would have understood the story better if the first ten minutes had still been there.
I remember not being angry. I was more disappointed, sad, and surprised. Confused. What had caused this? The draft I had sent the director had still had its first ten minutes. Although I had once experimented with removing those ten minutes (more on that later), I was sure I didn’t have an electronic draft with the first ten minutes removed. Then I learned, though, that it hadn’t been me. In the talkback, the director admitted to cutting the first part of the first scene and to moving other things. The moderator and other people seemed to conclude, and so did I, that these changes had more than likely led to much of the audience’s confusion. Moreover, these changes did not give us a good sense of how the play would have been received in its intended form. Another grim thing someone brought up after the performance was that most of the audience had left the theatre before the talkback, and so for all they knew, the performance they had seen was how the play was “supposed to be.”
Before the talkback, I had been unaware that the play had been altered. I had been absent during rehearsals because of how far away I lived. The director was my friend, however, and our friendship has always been based on mutual respect. We had emailed each other throughout the process, and about two months before the performance we had a meeting in person. In this meeting, I mentioned I wanted to send the director a new draft. I had made a few changes, mostly in the stage directions, and to me these changes were tiny. The director understood that I had the right to make changes, but asked me to please hold back on them because the process was already difficult. The director was a university student at the time, and I remembered college being hectic, with overwhelming work to do on other projects as well as plays. So I decided my changes were minor enough to skip this time, and that I would use them the next time the play was staged (if that ever happened, and so far, it has not). I realize now that if I had stood firm, the director would have had an opportunity to learn how to work with a playwright’s new changes even when it was hard. What does Hamlet say? “I must be cruel only to be kind”? But more than that, I should have been suspicious of the director’s refusal to incorporate my changes. I could have asked the director if they were having other difficulties with the script, because then I might have learned that they planned to move things and cut things. And I would have been able to clarify that they did not have my permission to make changes without me (I have also learned the importance of having a contract, which, because of my inexperience, I didn’t have this time).
Instead, after that meeting, I figured the play they presented would be the previous draft I had given them, without the small changes I had suggested, but still (mostly) the play I intended it to be.
I was never the best student director in the world. I’ve made mistakes, too. One thing I’ve learned from such mistakes is that being a student is no excuse to rearrange a script. You still need permission from the playwright to change things. The playwright makes the changes, and only if the playwright wants to. As a good teacher or professor, you teach your students how to work in communities outside of academia, and in the professional world. So it’s a good idea (I’d go so far as to say essential) to give students experience working with living playwrights. When you work with a living playwright, you learn to communicate with the person who wrote the script, and the play isn’t just your vision, it’s the playwright’s vision. I think my director and I learned from this experience that such communication is vital, and here’s why:
I’m almost certain the audience’s confusion could have been avoided or at least lessened if the director had asked me this question at some point: “What do you think of us cutting the first ten minutes?” Directors want to do all sorts of things, and most of them ask me before they do them, even though I might say no. Sometimes they have a brilliant idea or simply something I would like to try, and I will say yes. I say yes much more than I say no! But if you’re afraid to ask me because you think I’ll say no, and you do the thing I might have said no to, you risk damaging the play, and that can reflect on you as a director. I know people who say that if a play is “bad,” the audience blames the author and not the director, but in reality, I see blame come off on the director, too. Communicate with your playwright, and things will turn out better. If the director who cut the beginning off my play had asked me about cutting it, I could have explained something important: I had already tried a reading of the play with the first ten minutes cut.
That first reading was a year earlier, more or less. Its director (a different director) suggested the play would be much better without the first ten minutes. This director wanted to go “straight to the action.” So I decided to try it. I tore out the first ten minutes (eight pages) of the play half an hour before we did the reading. And it totally bombed. It was a major disappointment.
[So the playwright had already tried out the play minus those ten minutes and it didn’t work]
I could have told the current director about that reading if I had known they were thinking of doing the play without its first ten minutes. But I did not know, because they didn’t tell me. I remember thinking after the talkback and reading over the script again that the play did need to lose most of what was in those first ten minutes, but it needed to keep the things that helped the rest of the play to make sense. If the director had talked to me about it, I could have looked at the script again and seen that it needed cuts, and I would gladly have cut the first ten minutes myself and put the important information somewhere else in the opening scene. I wished I had known!
But we learned. I think the director saw how badly it turned out not to have those first ten minutes, and regretted cutting them. So even though most of the audience probably left thinking the play they had seen was the play I had meant it to be (when it wasn’t) and that’s unfortunate, I think the director (and I!) learned from this experience not to mess around with the script you’re directing. I remember we had a one-on-one talk about it and left the discussion on good terms. There was no reason for me to damage our relationship because of this mistake. I would gladly have this person direct more of my plays.
As for future arrangements with any director, I’ll be sure to have a written contract.
Some horror stories have happy endings.
I’m still working on that play, and it’s still kicking my butt. Do I make it longer? Shorter? What do I move? What about the characters? Should it be a musical?
However it turns out, I hope one day we’ll see it performed as its author intended.
[Hopefully. I’m glad this playwright’s experienced turned out positive eventually. So many don’t]
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Gun Violence Plays (Diana Burbano, Mark Harvey Levine, Eric Jones, John Minigan)
Howdy and welcome back to Unknown Playwrights. We took a break from profiling playwrights for a couple months, but we’re back in full swing now.
This is a very special post profiling plays about gun violence, an American epidemic. If you need a tally, there is always the Gun Violence Archive.
Gun violence in America seems pervasive when compared with the rest of the so-called civilized world. Here are the lowest death-by-firearm rates.
Stats from the ol’ Wiki.
I spent a significant portion of my adult life in one of the countries on that list. The only time I felt unsafe or was threatened by violence was when I ran into other Americans there.
Here are the highest death-by-firearms rates:
Stats here.
The US is smack dab between Panama and Uruguay. It is also ahead of the scariest place I lived in my life. Also notice that the US has way, way more guns than anybody else.
Recent attacks have specifically targeted minorities. The El Paso shooter “targeted Mexicans” but also ended up killing a German. Some shooters target synagogues. Muslims are also a target, though some shooters have killed Christians and Sikhs by mistake.
Something needs to be done, but as long as we have a racist joke personified as president, that might not happen, since he clearly has more important things on his mind.
Seriously, dude. Just shut up.
We will take a look at what American playwrights are doing to take a stand on this topic. We’ll start with Diana Burbano who has written extensively on gun violence.
Salat al-Janazah
The first play from Diana is Salat al-Janazah, a monologue based on the horrific murder of Sabika Sheikh and nine others in a Santa Fe, Texas high school last year. The monologue is brief, so I’ll post the whole thing here:
Miss Sheikh was very active on social media. If you want to see the video she made after getting accepted into the exchange student program, it’s here.
News coverage of her funeral is below.
Here it is with the US flag, via here.
As for the point made by the play, not calling terrorism “terrorism” when it’s done by white people is a thing. Even Rhianna gets it.
Warning: not a made-up graph.
Gun violence is an important issue for Burbano. She has written several other plays and we will explore those.
Death’s Release
Her next play is Death’s Release, in remembrance of Kimberly Vaughn Hart, another victim of the Santa Fe massacre.
Here, the play brings in magical realism.
In the Anglosphere, magical realism seems to be a trope connected to Latin America, though of course not every Latin American work has magical realism and not every work of magical realism comes from Latin America.
Gabriel García Márquez tends to be considered to be the most prominent writer using magical realism.
Anyways, these kids are using magic.
If you hadn’t noticed, the “magic” is working because the kids are “crossing over” as they’re shot – Ana’s just not aware of it yet.
Hint: it wasn’t a wand.
This last line is a great line. Instead of putting the onus on racist killers, it seems to be the victim’s fault they got shot, Ya know, for existing and stuff.
That also ties into the second-to-last line about leaving one’s backpack in the corner. Bulletproof backpacks have become a thing in America, because we’d rather put the onus on the victim instead of the murderer.
Quite literally the 2nd stupidest thing I saw today. The stupidest was the queen suspending the UK parliament, which proves America doesn’t have a lock on stupid.
By the way, here’s a cop explaining that the bulletproof backpack won’t stop a rifle round – despite the fact the recent shootings have all been by automatic rifle.
That’s a painful realization.
And in a way, they have trancscended death by sending a message through. This is a heartfelt and charming play, written in commemoration of a horrible murder.
Not one content to hammer at gun violence through a mere monologue and short play, Diana has written even more.
Rounds Per Second
Rounds Per Second focuses not only on gun violence, but also the different realities people in the US exist in.
“I wasn’t really looking at you.” The Washington Post wrote a whole article about this.
The white woman screwing up a name, just like John Travolta.
Nice comeback there, Prof…
Still, the white professor describes her own murderer as “brilliant.”
Hehe. ALL North Americans.
Thank God for honest characters! The housekeeper lets the professor know the truth. The professor’s entitlement is still showing.
Death. The great equalizer.
Diana Burbano, a Colombian immigrant, is an Equity actor, a playwright and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble.
Written work: Ghosts of Bogota commissioned by Alter Theatre, winner NuVoices, Actors Theatre of Charlotte 2019, Sapience, writer in Center Theatre Group’s writers circle, Policarpa, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Brown Swan lab 2017, Drama League Rough Draft series May 2017, Fabulous Monsters, Steppenwolf’s “The Mix.”,Latinx Play Festival, San Diego Rep 2017, Festival51 2016 winner, about women in Punk Rock, Picture me Rollin’ (featured at the 35th annual William Inge Festival and Inkfest at 2cents.), Silueta, (about the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta), with Tom and Chris Shelton, and the TYA Shakespeare mash-up, Caliban’s Island winner 2017 Headwaters New Play Festival at Creede Repertory.(Published by YouthPLAYS). Libertadoras, Vamping and Linda were written for the 365 Women a Year project and have been performed around the world, with Linda featured in more that 20 festivals over the last year, including Center Theatre Group’s community library series. She is currently writing for Rogue Artists “Señor Plummer’s Final Fiesta. She is also under commission from Alternative Theatre in San Rafael, and is in Center Theatre Group’s L.A. Writers Workshop 2018-2019.
She has been a working actor since leaving the Professional Actors Conservatory in 1991. She originated the roles of Ama de Casa in the Spanish version of Menopause the Musical, Thumb in Imagine, and Holo-1 in the Labors of Hercules. She recently played Ana Guerrero in Jose Cruz Gonzales’ Long Road Today/El Largo Camino de Hoy Dialogue/Dialogos project at South Coast Repertory. TV includes The People vs OJ Simpson, Cold Case, Betas.
She played punk Praetorian guard Viv in the cult movie musical, The Isle of Lesbos
Diana is a member of The Dramatists Guild and The Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights
Our next playwright Mark Harvey Levine has fashioned a three-page play (God Forbid) about those people who dread the day they will ever have to use their guns…while yearning for the chance.
The fantasy begins…
The phrase “orgasmic crescendo” needs to be in some sort of playwriting hall of fame.
The play ends with everyone saying a not-so-reassuring “God forbid” to one another.
Only a Matter of Time
Levine then takes the medium down to its essence, producing a one page play entitled Only a Matter of Time, which you may read in its entirety here:
And that’s what the playwright does best: deliver a knockout punch in as little time as possible.
Mark Harvey Levine has had over 1700 productions of his plays everywhere from Bangalore to Bucharest and from Lima to London. His plays have won over 45 awards and been produced in ten languages. Full evenings of his plays, such as “Didn’t See That Coming” and “A Very Special Holiday Special” have been shown in New York, Amsterdam, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Seoul, Mexico City, and across the US. A Spanish-language movie version of his play “The Kiss” (“El Beso”) premiered at Cannes, showed at the Tribeca film festival, and subsequently aired on HBO and DTV (Japan).
Our next playwright, Eric Christopher Jones tackles the intersection between racism and gun rights in America with Open Carry. Let’s take a look.
Oh, the Alamo!
“Don’t shoot! Hands up!” has been a part of the most recent civil rights movement.
The play sets up the conflict early by having two people standing up for their rights. The white man wants his right to bear arms. Specifically, he wants to be able to carry his weapon in the open. To read more about how open carry laws intersect with racism, check out this article.
Must be.
You can even get audio here.
Tamir Rice was a 12 year old boy killed by Cleveland police while playing with an Airsoft gun.
Alton Sterling was a 37 year old man shot by Baton Rouge police.
John Crawford III was a 22 year-old man shot by police in an Ohio Wal-Mart for simply holding a BB gun he’d picked up while shopping.
Keith Lamont Scott was a 43 year-old man shot by police in North Carolina for just hanging out in his truck.
Trayvon Martin was a 17 year-old shot and killed by a local night watch/vigilante in Florida.
Any guesses as to what race these victims all were?
The only good news is that at the time of writing this, there have been 100 less police shootings this year than the same time last year.
Putin’s original bitch. Pretty nifty. It’s even a woodcut.
Aha, the mighty Raymond has arrived – but still the other characters don’t know his race.
Officer Ray. Sigh.
This play eviscerates the notion that 2nd Amendment advocates aren’t racist a-holes. This is from the Wikipedia page about the Oath Keepers:
For a thorough explanation of the 2nd Amendment’s role in perpetuating racism, check out this article (the first time this blog has ever linked to Teen Vogue).
Eric Jones is a Medford, Massachusetts born, Minnesota & Texas raised artist. Mr. Jones is a graduate of Texas Southern University; B.S. Pharmacy. He has been involved with the Christian theater circuit since 1995 as a writer, actor, director and composer. Writing credits includes: Untapped Potential, Wolf Man Wedding, The Baked Potato Incident, Dreamland, American Skin , Freedom Quilt, Liberators and Fired! The Musical. Currently, Eric won 2nd Runner up for the Screenplay Competition at The Beverly Hills Film Festival 2016 for his screenplay Dreamland. His award winning film he could wrote & produced Dreamland Murders film was selected to the Marche Du Cannes Short Film Showcase 2016 hosted by NWC Cinemas.. Two Musicals got their premiere in 2018. Liberators An American Musical at The Chicago Musical Theatre Festival & Three Crosses at Ensemble Theatre’s Stage Reading Series.. “I would like to thank God, my family, WRIC church and the Houston Theater community.”
Product Reveal
Next up, John Minigan has a very short play about the confluence of the gun rights activism and Christianity in America. Let’s see what “christians NRA” gets us on Google:
It even got us an Israeli site. Despite the whole “turn the other cheek” thing and the whole “don’t kill people” thing in the Bible, there’s a definite connection between Christian (White) Nationalists and boners for guns.
Meet Holly, Christian mother of three. At least it’s not a Confederate flag. (?)
Texas’ resident dipshit Lt. Governor of Texas Dan Patrick even claimed the recent massacres in El Paso and Dayton were “moral failings” [yeah, comitting a mass-murder would qualify as a moral failing. Thanks, Dan] and called for prayer in school. (Dude really said that)
Mr. Minigan’s play Product Reveal takes down this bizarre relationship:
The play, while satiric, is not far off reality. What’s so weird is just the other day, fashion brand Bstroy had their own product reveal. Let’s see what they revealed:
Oh, hoodies based on school massacres with their very own bullet holes. People will love this! (Photo by Michael Kusumadjaja)
Wait, so people DON’T like school massacre hoodies? Who’d a thunk it? (Photo: Michael Kusumadjaja)
Every bit as stupid as the play’s product reveal, we are living in our own surrealistically violent post-modern satire. Sigh.
John Minigan is a 2019-2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing. His plays have been developed with the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Portland Stage Company, New Repertory Theater, the New American Playwrights Project, and the Great Plains Theatre Conference. Queen of Sad Mischance is a 2019 Gold Prize winner of the Clauder Competition and a 2018 O’Neill Finalist. Noir Hamlet—a Boston Globe Critics’ Pick, EDGEMedia Best of Boston Theater 2018 selection, and 2019 Elliot Norton nominee for Outstanding New Script—was produced at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His work has been included in the Best American Short Plays, Best Ten-Minute Short Plays, and New England New Plays anthologies. He is past winner of the Nantucket Short Play Contest, the Rover Dramawerks Competition, the Longwood 0-60 Contest, Seoul Players Contest, and the KNOCK International Short Play Competition. John is a Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Eastern New England. Please visit johnminigan.com.
Our playwrights have been kind enough to answer some questions about their craft. The same questions were posed to each of them. I’ve organized their answers this way to show the diversity of thought amongst people whose goals are similar.
How did you start playwriting?
Burbano: I started writing because good, challenging roles for Latina women could be counted on one hand and I aimed to change that.
Levine: I was at Carnegie-Mellon University as an Acting Major. During my freshman year they announced they were starting up an Undergraduate Playwriting Program. It seemed less crazy than acting. I applied for and got into it. So I got into the CMU Drama Department twice!
Jones: It was 1995, I was volunteering at a youth arts ministry and I was responsible for looking for material. What I read was least to be desired. So I desired to write the play myself. I’ve been writing ever since.
Minigan: I no longer remember the source of the quote, but I agree with it: “A playwright is a poet who got lonely.” I was a math teacher in a private school, writing poetry and a little fiction, and the drama teacher asked if I wanted to help with his program. Seemed like a good idea, and I quickly became much more interested in theater (writing, directing, acting, designing) than teaching math. The collaborative, fluid, and public nature of the work continues inspire me in ways poetry didn’t quite do.
What are your influences?
Burbano: Women’s stories, especially unknown history. Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard, Sarah Ruhl. Octavio Solis, José Cruz Gonzáles
Levine: For short plays, David Ives most definitely. He’s the master of the short play. For playwriting in general, I’d have to say Neil Simon, Tom Stoppard and Alan Ayckbourn.
Jones: I’m a musical theatre fan. I love the songwriting of Pasek/Paul, Stephen Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown & the writing team of Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty. I really love Lynn Ahrens as a lyricist & Librettist. It’s very clever & moving.
Minigan: I’ve been really shaped by my experiences working with students in 31 years running a high school theater program. Theater kids are passionate, clear, committed, and usually awesome. And working with lots of great teachers, writers, directors, and dramaturgs has influenced me (Kevin Coleman, Bridget O’Leary, Miranda Jonte, Dan Burson, and more). In terms of the craft of writing, my influences are pretty eclectic: Paula Vogel, August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, Brecht, Pirandello, Beckett, George S. Kaufman.
What is your most memorable production and why?
Burbano: I loved “Ghosts of Bogota” in staged reading at Actors Theatre of Charlotte. It was vicious and funny and UNSENTIMENTAL! My biggest pet peeve is my work is played too seriously.
Levine: In 2005, I got to go to Curitiba, Brazil to see an entire evening of my plays — in Portuguese! It was an incredible experience.
Jones: I wrote my first musical Freedom Quilt back in 1999. I had the opportunity to have the show workshopped for a young performers showcase at the Ensemble Theatre. What touched me was how they treated me like a Rock Star when I arrived. I’ll never forget that.
Minigan: I think maybe the 2014 NY Fringe Festival production of Breaking the Shakespeare Code because it was such a rush to have my first full-length NYC production be sold-out and well-reviewed, and because it was my first time being produced by Hey Jonte!, a production company I LOVE working with and which I’ve now worked with maybe five times. Also up there was this summer’s Edinburgh Festival production of Noir Hamlet, because I was brought in to be more than the playwright—I was production manager, lighting designer, and on-stage/in-character crew member. It was amazing to feel fully a member of a professional performing company. I don’t often feel that way as the writer.
What is your funniest theatre story?
Levine: I once accidentally sent the same group of short plays to a theater twice. The first time they rejected it, the second time they accepted it. The first time they rejected it because they were a theater that did edgy plays — and these plays were not edgy. By the time I sent it the second time, they were sick of doing edgy plays and wanted to do something fun. My second submission of the plays happened to arrive at just the right moment. Timing is everything.
Jones: I substituted for a role from my musical Liberators because the actor was sick. I accidentally sang the old lyrics of a song that me & my composer insisted we cut out. I totally forgot. Nobody noticed but everyone in the cast was laughing.
Minigan: This summer, while “hawking” my Edinburgh Fringe show on a sidewalk, speaking to any and all passers-by and trying to get them to take a flyer advertising the show, one passer-by yelled at me, “Stop talking to the wall!” It’s one of the biggest laugh lines in the play—clearly the guy had seen the show and found the perfect place to use my line.
What are your writing habits like?
Burbano: I clean the house and write in spurts. I usually only get 2 or 3 pages done a day.
Levine: Terrible. I have no time to write, and have to squeeze it in here and there.
Jones: I Must have four things . A. Coffee, B. Encyclopedia Britannica, C. Thesaurus & D. Show tunes. Lots of Show tunes.
Minigan: I’ve gone from two-month-a-year playwright while I was teaching to full-time playwright since I retired last summer. I write pretty much every day, usually in the morning, for at least two hours, and sometimes return later after clearing my head. I think I work best on paper—either writing new stuff with pen and legal pads or revising in the margins of a printed script. I revise a lot. If it’s not at least draft 15, it can’t be ready.
What advice do you have for new playwrights?
Burbano: As my great mentor José Cruz Gonzélez says, “Dare to suck!”
Levine: Read lots of plays. Go see lots of plays. Have your work read by actors while you sit and listen. Learn how to be objective about your work (easier said then done). And edit out anything you possibly can.
Jones: Keep on writing & keep on making mistakes. Once you learn from those mistakes, keep on writing again until you have a draft script you are proud of.
Minigan: Finish the first draft. Don’t overthink it. No one (other than you) cares if it’s any good. It’ll be easier to make it good later when you’re not having to invent the whole thing.
Who are some other writers you should get more attention?
Burbano: José Cruz Gonzélez, Monica Sanchez, Matthew Paul Olmos, Elizabeth Szekeresh
Levine: Babs Lindsay, Rich Orloff, Alex Dremann and Patrick Gabridge.
Jones: Local Houston writers like Michael Weems, Denise O’Neal, Crystal Rae, Nicholas Garelick, Fernando Dovalina & Donna Latham. Why go to NYC when there is great talent in The Lone Star State?
Minigan: Just off the top of my head: Miranda Jonte is a fierce, clear writer with a unique, smart voice. Emma Goldman-Sherman is brave, passionate, and powerful. Patrick Gabridge’s approach to writing historical pieces that illuminate the present is amazing. Greg Lam’s ability to use sci-fi to write so clearly about who and where we are is also inspiring. And this guy, Bryan Stubbles. Maybe you know him? Incredibly imaginative work — always outside the box.
What are common themes in your work?
Burbano: Feminism, and the normalization (i.e. seeing us as just people) of latinx women.
Levine: Someone once said my plays are about ordinary people in extraordinary situations. I like that.
Jones: My themes always comes back to Perseverance , Redemption & Second Chances. Being a follower of Christ, it’s my duty to present positive stories of how you can mess up but still get back up again. I hope my audiences get the message that you should never give up, even when the chips are down.
Minigan: Almost all of my plays, in one way or another, are about characters who choose to (or are forced to) abandon certainty and move into the unfamiliar. I think I’m focused on getting away from the answers we accept and, instead, deepening the questions we ask.
What is one thing you wished you knew now, that you didn’t know starting out?
Burbano: That you have to be your own fiercest advocate and that NO ONE is going to give you anything just because you have talent.
Levine: Have your work read to you! It’s so important to hear your plays out loud.
Jones: Playwriting is hard!
Minigan: Any success you have is going to take a helluva long time. So find people you love to work with and try to work with them as much as you can. And enjoy that work, on whatever ‘scale’ it happens to be. It’s more meaningful than any accolades. And support new work by your fellow writers. The rising new play tide raises all boats.
What do you have coming up soon?
Burbano: Ghosts of Bogota at Alter Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Charlotte. Hoping to turn that into a rolling world premiere with NNPN.
Levine: I have several works coming up in Asphalt Jungle Shorts, a festival of plays where the audience walks around Kitchener, Ontario, and encounters the plays on the street. And the New Short Play Festival in New York City is doing four of my short plays!
Jones: I have three musicals coming to workshop in 2020 where I wrote lyrics & Book. It’s Three Crosses with Composer Joshua Davis L. I have War Letters with Co-Lyricist & Composer Dan Markosian & Please Come Home for Christmas with Co-Lyricist & Composer Gary Sironen.
Minigan: I’m continuing to try to get a production of Queen of Sad Mischance. It’s had a lot of national and regional recognition – and twelve readings or workshops so far – but nobody’s biting yet. Also pursuing leads on a third and also a fourth production of my comedy Noir Hamlet. Fingers crossed. And I’ve now got four new drafts of full-lengths that need MUCH revision. Lots of writing ahead.
What compelled you to write plays about gun violence?
Burbano: Because it’s the single most important topic in our country. We martyr babies because of the obsession with weapons of death.
Levine: The insane number of mass shootings we have in this country.
Jones: I love watching CNN every morning and I get my daily fill of how the second amendment is being misused and witnessing the constant death toll of our citizens at the hands of Domestic Terrorists.
Minigan: Product Reveal was written in pure anger – sort of giving the middle finger to the folks who conflate religion and gun culture/second amendment and talk about the “God-given” right to carry weapons of war into the grocery store. I’ve written two short pieces about gun violence, this and Velas Votivas, and am in super early stages of researching a piece that looks like it’ll turn into a play about religious cults and gun violence.
What responses have you seen to your gun violence plays?
Burbano: Death’s Defeat has been a powerful reminder to people about how young and innocent the victims are. I’ve not gotten any pushback. Yet.
Levine: I unfortunately have not been able to attend any of the productions of these plays yet. I’d love to see the response.
Jones: I know it makes people think and it gets under your skin a little. But it’s a scratch that needs to be itched because gun violence has been irritating our country since its foundation.
Minigan: I love that one reader on the New Play Exchange called this play “the manifestation of the American contradiction.” That seems completely right. I’ve been moved by the responses folks have had (as readers, actors, and audience members) to Velas Votivas, too – a play that’s part of the #CodeRedPlaywrights project memorializing victims of gun violence.
What advice would you give a playwright who wants to be a catalyst for change?
Burbano: Write with your feelings, anger, righteousness. And don’t be afraid to piss people off.
Levine: Don’t just preach to the choir.We have to reach the people who disagree with us.
Jones: Don’t be afraid to take the responsibility to put others to task when they are not stepping up! Life is too short just to live life trivially. Our words. Our dreams. And our actions must have weight. Just like original thoughts & black lives, they matter too.
Minigan: Be honest and bold in what you write and you will inspire those who agree with you and anger those who don’t. Be sneaky and sly and maybe you’ll get those who don’t agree with you on your side. It’s probably important to do both of those things.
Personally, what role should guns play in America, if any?
Burbano: They should be melted down and turned into sculpture. Owning a gun is something only frightened people do, and I would rather live with joy.
Levine: We should have a few handy in case the British invade again. Other than that…
Jones: I believe that every American should have the right to protect themselves. I come from a family of hunters & fisherman. However, we don’t need assault weapons to do so. The USA needs responsible Gun Reform & background checks for responsible gun ownership. If not, we won’t survive as a Republic.
Minigan: You like the second amendment? Buy a musket.
Hopefully through these writers’ work, you can see how artists can use their voice for advocacy.
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Chris Paul trade analysis following move to the Houston Rockets
Chris Paul, formerly of the Los Angeles Clippers (Wikimedia Commons - wikimedia.org)
The Los Angeles Clippers parted ways with Paul and acquired Lou Williams and Patrick Beverley.
by Shane Kristopher Lambert
June 28, 2017 at 1:00 PM June 28, 2017 at 1:00 PM
There was a major trade in the NBA on Wednesday. The Houston Rockets have gone a long way toward beefing up their hopes of doing more damage in the NBA playoffs. The Rockets have reportedly traded for Chris Paul, the All-Star point guard that most recently played for the Los Angeles Clippers.
League sources told TheVertical.com about the trade. Adrian Wojnarowski wrote that "The Rockets will send the Clippers a package that includes guards Patrick Beverley and Lou Williams, forward Sam Dekker and a 2018 first-round pick." The first-round pick has some qualifications attached to it.
Beverley, Williams, and Dekker to Los Angeles
Beverley will certainly be a downgrade for the Los Angeles Clippers in the point-guard position. His scoring numbers from last season don't reflect his scoring potential as he played alongside James Harden, Houston's clear first option on offense. Beverley averaged 9.5 points per game last season but should do much better than that as a member of the Clippers.
With the trade, Lou Williams will return to Los Angeles. Previously he was a member of the Los Angeles Lakers before being traded to Houston mid-season last year.
He is an effective scorer as he averaged 17.5 points per game last season despite averaging less than 25 minutes per game.
Sam Dekker played his first full season in the NBA during 2016/17 after appearing in just three games in the previous season. He is a young player that might blossom into a starter over the long term. However, at this point in his career he's not a game changer.
With the three pickups, the Clippers certainly didn't get swindled on the deal.
The Clippers' lineup certainly is subject to further change. They have seven players named as free agents on Spotrac's list for 2017 NBA free agents. Those include Blake Griffin, J.J. Redick, and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, players that logged big minutes for their team last season.
Harden and Paul, scoring and assists
For Houston, they will now have one of the NBA's most-effective scorers in James Harden playing alongside one of the league's most-effective passers in Chris Paul.
Paul certainly has some scoring punch as well as he averaged 18.1 points per game last season. But don't be surprised if that scoring average dips a bit playing alongside Harden, a player that eats up a lot of shot opportunities for his team.
Houston also has a ton of money invested in two players. According to Spotrac, Harden will make a base salary of $28,299,399 in 2017/18. Meanwhile, Paul had a base salary of $22,868,828 last season.
The point guard has had numerous injuries in his career so acquiring him is not without risk. The Houston Rockets don't quite have all of their eggs in one basket, but they seem like a team whose record next season has major swing potential: they could be huge when at full health, but injuries to one of their two stars could see them only slightly above average.
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Franklin statue, Washington Square Park, 2009 photo by Wally Gobetz
San Francisco is no stranger to time capsules. One example can be found in Washington Square Park at the base of the Benjamin Franklin statue commissioned by nineteenth-century millionaire and temperance advocate Henry D. Cogswell. The materials placed there in 1879 by Cogswell included personal papers and a sampling of publications that are now housed at the California Historical Society. After the original contents were exhumed in 1979 by then-mayor of San Francisco Dianne Fienstein, new materials replaced them for re-opening in 2079, including a pair of Levi’s jeans, a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a bottle of wine (ironic, given Cogswells temperance stance), and a copy of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City.
Sometimes a time capsule is forgotten and later re-discovered, as had been the case with a copper box filled with coins, photographs, newspaper clippings and other items that had been placed in the walls of San Francisco City Hall in 1913 by then-mayor Jim Rolph and found again in 1997 during renovation work. Selected contents from that collection are exhibited in City Hall’s South Light Court. A new time capsule was placed in City Hall in 2001 by then-mayor Willie Brown, containing a wide range of contents including one of the mayor’s hats, Rice a Roni, a bolt from the Golden Gate Bridge, a piece of the AIDS memorial quilt, a bottle of Anchor Steam beer, menus from the Fairmont and St. Francis hotels, and a video tape from 1997 of the opening of Mayor Rolph’s time capsule of 1913.
Sometimes time capsules themselves contain time capsules, as was discovered in 2001 when the cornerstone of the former Ohabai Shalome synagogue at 1881 Bush Street was opened. Items that had been placed in the cornerstone during the 1895 construction of the building included an earlier time capsule that had been created by a group of San Francisco Jews in 1865. Together, these contents were fashioned into an exhibit at the Contemporary Jewish Museum entitled “Hidden in the Walls”.
I’ve created a Google Map showing the location of time capsules in San Francisco. I imagine there are many that I’ve missed. Do you know of any that don’t appear on the map? Feel free to leave a comment and let me know about them.
For those who are interested, William E. Jarvis has done the only serious history to date of time capsules; and Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia hosts the International Time Capsule Society.
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It begins at Gas Street Basin, in the heart of Birmingham’s shopping and cultural districts, leading out into the green and peaceful Midlands countryside. The canal plunges down through dramatically floodlit archways, office undercrofts and claustrophobic tunnels. It is a truly atmospheric link to the past in the middle of a modern city.
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What’s on UK TV this Christmas? Your 2019 catch-up guide
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Christmas is here – and, put aside the presents, the turkey and the board games, and we all know it’s really about what’s on the telly. Fortunately, the age-old battle for the remote control in the living room is over, as we use catch-up services to keep up-to-date with dramas, festive specials and more.
7 in 10 adults use free catch-up services to watch Christmas TV on-demand, says Ofcom, which means that more people can fit their festive TV viewing around opening presents and carving the turkey. Or, you know, just watching Love Actually with Amazon Prime on repeat.
One thing is for sure: with BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, My5 and All 4, it’s never been easier to stream something you missed the following day for free. So, before you work out when to sit down with your family this holiday – and when to hide in the bathroom and get out your iPad – read on for our highlights of the 2019 UK Christmas TV line-up. Bookmark this page: it will be updated with new highlights and films on TV as they’re confirmed, and links will be added to each programme on VOD, so it’s easy to stay up-to-date without having to take off your pyjamas. Nothing on the schedule you like? Click here for Christmas movies on streaming services and other festive recommendations, or click here for our guide to what movies are on UK TV for free this Christmas.
Charles Dickens’ festive classic gets a bold reinvention with this dark adaptation that sees Guy Pearce play Ebenezer Scrooge, who is haunted by three spirits in the course of one night – including Andy Serkis as the Ghost of Christmas Past. With Stephen Graham also bringing new life to Marley from beyond the grave, and with Nick “The Awakening” Murphy directing from a script by Steven “Peaky Blinders” Knight, this grippingly bleak three-parter is a wintry bedtime story for adults only. (Episode 2 and 3 air nightly until Christmas Eve.)
Watch on BBC iPlayer until: November 2020
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Santa is coming to town with his elves to solve a little girl’s Christmas woes in this new comedy from the team behind The Play That Goes Wrong. Expect slapstick ingenuity aplenty.
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David Walliams and Sian Gibson star in a Sky original comedy that brings a brand-new twist to the classic fairy-tale. What does it mean to live ‘happily ever after’? Cinderella soon discovers that married life with a narcissistic Prince Charming isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and embarks on a journey to save The King (Sir Tom Courtenay) from the clutches of her wicked Stepmother Madame Blackheart (Celia Imrie).
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The opening of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, written by Judith Kerr OBE who sadly passed away earlier this year, will be known well by parents and children across the nation. Channel 4’s new hand-drawn animated special, produced by Lupus Films and HarperCollins, brings to the screen the story of a tea-guzzling tiger, who turns up unannounced and eats and drinks Sophie and mummy out of house, home and bathwater before disappearing into the night.
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It’s been ten years since we last went to Billericay to spend Christmas with the Shipmans and the Wests.
This year we’re off to Wales for the festivities, where Bryn is cooking dinner for 13 people. Understandably he’s tense. Pam would secretly prefer to spend Christmas in Essex as she finds Gwen’s house a bit lacking, but the deal has always been that they alternate every year, and this time it’s the turn of the Wests to host Christmas with everyone under one small roof.
For Gavin and Stacey, parenthood continues to present them with several challenges, their ‘baby’ now being ten. Smithy, too, continues to commit to his fatherly role, making the journey to Barry at weekends and every second Wednesday to see 12 year-old Neil the Baby.
Nessa on the other hand adopts her own brand of Nessa-style mothering, whilst Pam, Mick and Gwen have become the epitome of doting grandparents. On Christmas Eve, Dawn makes a shocking discovery about Pete that jeopardizes their marriage (again) and a visit to the pub that night is an eye opener in more ways than one.
The Snail And The Whale follows the amazing journey of a tiny snail who longs to see the world and manages to hitch a ride on the tail of a huge humpback whale. This half-hour adaptation is a beautiful account of an unlikely friendship, and is voiced by stellar British acting talent, including Rob Brydon as the whale, Sally Hawkins as the snail, Cariad Lloyd as the teacher and Dame Diana Rigg as the narrator.
Written in 2003 by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, creators of the modern classic The Gruffalo, this marks the seventh BBC One adaptation by Magic Light Pictures of a Donaldson/Scheffler children’s book.
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Mimi And The Mountain Dragon is the story about a village that quakes in feature of the mighty Mountain Dragon. One winter, a shy little girl called Mimi finds a baby dragon asleep in her family woodshed. Mimi takes the perilous journey through the blizzard and darkness to return the baby dragon to her mother, whom all the villagers fear.
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At the centre of the storm was 19 year-old Christine Keeler, a young woman whom the powerful, male-dominated establishment sought to silence and exploit, but who refused to play by their rules. This six-part drama takes us behind the headlines to tell a human story about the sexual and cultural politics of one of the most revealing and iconic stories of modern times.
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The Thirteenth Doctor is well and truly back with a bang. As Jodie Whittaker takes charge of the TARDIS once again, the Doctor will be joined once again by her friends Tosin Cole (Ryan), Mandip Gill (Yaz) and Bradley Walsh (Graham). The twelfth season will also welcome a host of famous faces including Stephen Fry, Sir Lenny Henry CBE, Robert Glenister and Goran Višnjić to name just a few.
Watch on BBC iPlayer until: 31st January 2020
The Derry Girls themselves enter the Great British Bake Off tent this New Year for the second of two fesive specials. Noel, Sandi, Prue and Paul will welcome the cast of the hit comedy, with Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Nicola Coughlan, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Dylan Llewellyn and Siobhan McSweeney competing for the Star Baker prize.
Watch on All 4 until: 31st January 2020
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Volunteering Matters has joined more than 80 leading charities across the UK in campaigning for better care through the Care and Support Alliance. The Care and Support Alliance exists to support and represent the millions of adults with care and support needs, due to disability or old age, and their carers.
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The 2019 Tour Championship: FedExCup Meets Silly Season
Category : 2019 FedEx Cup , 2019 Tour Championship , Bobby Jones , Brooks Koepka , East Lake FedEx Cup , FedEx Cup , Golf , Justin Thomas , PGA , PGA Tour
This season Brooks Koepka played 20 events. He won three and finished in the top ten on eight separate occasions. He won the PGA Championship, finished as runner up in the Masters and the US Open. The Open Championship was his worst major; he finished tied for fourth.
Justin Thomas played 19 events. He won once. Thomas did not finish in the top ten in a single major, was outside the top 30 at the Players Championship and skipped the PGA Championship due to injury.
Koepka ranks #1 on the 2019 PGA Tour money list. Thomas holds the eighth slot on the money list. Heading into the 2019 Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club, Justin Thomas currently holds a three-shot lead over Brooks Koepka. The tournament does not start until Thursday.
In an effort to build drama and make the scoreboard easier to read on Sunday afternoon, the PGA Tour complicated everything else related to the Tour Championship and the FedExCup.
First awarded in 2007, the FedExCup was designed to increase attention for PGA Tour golf after the majors ended each season. Players accumulated points throughout the year, then played in four “playoff” events culminating with the top 30 point winners playing in the Tour Championship. The winner of the FedExCup enjoys an extremely large payday; Justin Rose won $10 million in 2018.
Since its inception, two winners were crowned at the Tour Championship, the winner of the tournament and the winner of the FedExCup. The tournament winner was based on strokes taken over 4 days. The Cup Champion decided based points won over the season, with an emphasis on the four playoff events. In eight of the 12 times that the FedExCup has been awarded, the winner of the Tour Championship also was the FedExCup.
Disliking the “confusion” of following both a golf tournament and the winning of points to decide who wins the FedExCup, the PGA Tour brought changes format in 2019. In order to make it easy to see who is winning, the winner of the Tour Championship IS the winner of the FedExCup. 30 players tee off Thursday, August 22 hoping to claim first place and the staggering $15 million prize.
What about the Points?
Instead of having the year-long points leader becoming the FedExCup winner, the Tour Championship is now handicapped. Driving golf purists crazy, the player who has generated the most points is given 10 strokes BEFORE play begins.
That is right, Justin Thomas is already 10 strokes under par; the event hasn’t started yet. Naturally, his 10 strokes have a name, “FedExCup Starting Strokes”. There is a certain irony that this event is played at East Lake in Atlanta, the home of golf purist, the legendary Bobby Jones.
Koepka is in Third!
What isn’t Koepka the leader? Again, to drum up interest in post-major events, the PGA Tour greatly weighted points to winners of two playoff events. Seemingly a good guy, and obviously a great player, Thomas did not play nearly as well as Koepka this year, but he won the BMW Championship last weekend and collected 2000 FedEx Cup points. The BMW had a limited field of 70 players.
By contrast, Koepka won the PGA Championship, finished second at the US Open, T2 at The Masters, and T4 at the Open Championship. For these combined accomplishments, Koepka nabbed a combined 1295 points. Since Koepka ranks third in FedExCup points, he receives 7 starting strokes and begins the 2019 Tour Championship three shots BEHIND Thomas. Players ranked #26-30 do not receive any starter strokes. They enter the competition 10 shots off the lead.
TV or Sports, which comes first?
All major sports need to bend to the realities of TV and the bottom line. Sunday night baseball on ESPN, Thursday night NFL games, US Open tennis matches that end at 2 AM in New York, these are but a few examples. But, changing the scoring to give someone a lead before the start?
What’s next? The Dallas Cowboys start with a 10 point lead over the Falcons because they are more likely to draw viewers next week? Start the New York Yankees with a 4 game lead in the AL East?
That said, 30 of the world’s best golfers will tee it up Thursday at East Lake. While Bobby Jones may have refused golf prize money and remained an amateur, now the money is just too significant. Even at 10 shots back, players are eager to get in the competition for the $15 million first prize. For the player who finishes 30th of 30, there is still $395,000 in prize money. Of course, they accept the silliness of starter strokes and give it a go. Wouldn’t you?
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The first recording band I was in made albums on an all-in-one portable studio with eight tracks of audio on 1/4-inch, analog tape. Having cut my teeth until then on various four-track cassette decks, I found this reel-to-reel, hard-wired hulk with close-to-pro EQ and signal routing to be something like a miracle. Next to other home-recording setups, it was powerful and elegant and seemingly capable of whatever we imagined. It was called the Tascam 388 Studio 8.
I bought my 388 with a timely loan (begging is underrated) from Mom and Dad in 1987. Around that time, the only other 388 I knew of belonged to singer-songwriter Kowtow Popof. We both loved the comprehensive design, the simplicity, the sound quality. Most everybody else was using old 1/2-inch reel-to-reels and converted live mixers, and considered the 388 a sort of gimmicky aberration. Others were still making do with their four-tracks (“I just need to make demos, man”), and considered the 388 prohibitively expensive.
But the 388 was an exceptional machine, at that price ($3,000) or a higher one.
Like all well-designed tools — think of Apple products today — the 388 was intuitive, easy to use, and more capable than the amateur piloting it. In an era when the term “patch bay” sowed nausea in the guts of recordists, the 388 was the first decent-sounding, mass-market machine to eliminate the brambles of external routing between recorder and mixer.
Years later I learned that singer-songwriter Alice Despard had also been using a 388 during that period. East River Pipe had used a 388 to create Shining Hours in a Can and other seminal albums in his Queens apartment. The Black Keys had made their early records on a 388. I began to realize that this versatile, all-in-one multitrack had been operating in the lairs of half the obscure songwriters of the late ’80s and early ’90s. Recently, when I ran into J. Scott Watson, formerly of The Intentions, he mentioned, out of the blue, that he had owned and used a Tascam 388.
Eventually we all moved on to ADATs and hard disks and the greater magic of digital audio workstations. The 388s, many of which by then needed new tape heads, fell to the purists on eBay.
I realize now that the Tascam 388 was emblematic of the burgeoning DIY aesthetic, that it symbolized for some singer-songwriters a proud self-sufficiency. We hated ponying up for commercial studio time. And we thought, before the advent of the independent studio, that there might be a better way.
Turned out there was.
About Mark Doyon
I run Wampus, a creative development agency and label for emerging artists and authors. I make records as Arms of Kismet (and sometimes Waterslide), and wrote the book 'Bonneville Stories.'
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I think I remember when you bought this. You found a great price somewhere and brought it to the attention of the local “We’ll beat any price” guys who implored you to “please don’t tell anybody” about the good price. It’s also possible that you used this device as the very first and very last producer of the Singing Big Guys. Yes, this purchase was historic in the annals of rock and roll history.
Damn, you’re right… but Wurlitzer and LaSalle were gouging. Had to give ’em a comeuppance. I believe we tracked the SBG session on the 388’s precursor, the vaunted Tascam 246 (maybe the greatest cassette ministudio of all time).
Although of an different vintage, I had a similar experience with the Roland VS-880. Two friends of mine at the time were making their albums (BE – Thistupidream & Jump Rope Girls – Eight Track Demos) on this portable little unit, which encouraged me to buy one. Without that, ‘texas’ would not have come to be.
Yeah, I remember drooling over the VS-880 when it came out. It played to my Portastudio sympathies… but it was digital! One of those “brave new world” pieces of gear…
I still use it for instances where I don’t wanna drag my whole ProTools rig. And sometimes I use it as an outboard effects unit, since it’s got some tricks that I haven’t found replicated elsewhere.
Ain’t it the way. Wish I still had my old “Effectron” rack unit, which had flange and chorus sounds now lost to history…
I occasionally pull out my old cheapo foot pedals for effects on recordings that aren’t in the standard packages. My Jon Brion aspirations need only more time for garage sale shopping…
Yes, I still have a TASCAM port-a-studio in my basement…the little 4-track cassette model.
I recorded a lot on that console in walk-in closets in my group houses and an apartment.. You could really experiment and be totally free because there was no one listening except the clothes hangers. I remember being hunched over for hours over that fantastic little machine. It was intuitive. It was beautiful in form and function. It opened me up to the vast world of recording production. It helped me realize what a plastic and sculptural medium my music could become on tape. Yes, I had already recorded in 8 and 16 track recording studios on reel-to-reel with full outboard effects and an engineer, but this was hands-on, homemade stuff. In 1988, Hyaa! recorded an EP worth of material on a 388 with Rob Gillette at the helm. We only recently got to hear those tracks, 20 years later. They sound great! Since MP3s are so compressed, the 1/4 inch reel narrow headroom is not noticeable. My husband, Stuart Chandler, also recorded a masterpiece of an album in the late 80’s on the cassette version…his was a similar Yamaha unit, I think. Both decks lie side-by-side in a closet. We will never part with them. They are old friends.
Wow, is the Hyaa! EP going to see the light of day? Hope so!
I really don’t know…All I have are the crummy MP3 versions.
Damn — ya beat me to it.
I don’t feel that I unduly romanticize my 388 — it earned all of the love that I continue to direct its way. You could close your eyes and still mix an entire record, even knowing that you had external sends and returns pumping away. You could defeat the noise-reduction on a single track so that you could print a time-code onto that track — which I did, over and over. Proving only that I was bereft o’ programming skills, and should never have even tried.
But who needed programming and time code? You could grab five drum mics in, “pre-mix” and print on two tracks for a stereo drum mix, lay down a bass and an electric guitar, and
holy shit, four tracks remain!
Without any reduction mixes (the dreaded bouncing down)!
On 1/4″ tape — no cassette involved!
Or keep kick and snare on separate tracks, record live, and still have room. Without ever grabbing a patch cable.
Just looking at the photos above makes me weak in the knees.
Of course, an adult love affair wouldn’t be possible without acknowledging the imperfections of the object of my affections. Alice is right — an mp3 masks the one problem that the 388 had — headroom. Well, headroom, and upper-frequency recording. And buss faders. And. . . Amongst our weaponry are such. . . .
But let me tell you, the 388’s ass *did* look great in that dress!
As I told you, mister D., I had the heads re-lapped in1998, and it rendered all of my prior recordings unlistenable. But I still have mine, and still use it.
That 388 makes Logic and Pro Tools seem
so cold. I love the young things, of course, but I’ll never forget “The One.”
So true about the headroom — and that skinny li’l 1/4-inch reel could never quite capture all the bass. But as a lab for the aspiring Mad Scientist, peerless!
mistermuleboy
a lab for the aspiring Mad Scientist”
Truer words was never spoke
I wish I’d spent a little more time experimenting, and a little less time trying to recreate what I was hearing come out of professional [but home] studios like Hit and Run and Inner Ear.
I drove out to my storage space and had a moment’s reverie looking at her. And glancing at my Ampex boxes of 7 1/2-inch tapes, waiting to be unearthed. Then I snapped awake, knowing I don’t have enough room for the gear I’m using now, and knowing that once I re-lapped the heads, I had forever ruined the machine.
Waaaaaah
Consider getting your old Ampex tracks dumped (from some other, unrelapped heads) to 24-bit WAVs. I did it after parting with my 388, and it helped douse my sorrows. Now I can remix old songs from the 388 while I’m supposed to be cutting the grass or making a living or anything like that. Great therapy!
Where does one get 388 tapes transferred to 24-bit WAVs? I’m assuming it is very expensive, but would be worth it if i can’t find a “new” 388 with good (w-heads not relapped) so i can remix all my old stuff on DAW. thanks for any help you can give.
I was just reading your post and was curious about the “relapping of the heads on the 388 and that it rendered all of your old recording useless”! Why is that?! I was thinking about getting mine relapped but after reading your post, I am more than a little concerned, because I have loads of old tapes that I want to remix. Any info would be much appreciated.
what Scott said!
Hi, I own a tascam 388 studio 8. How does it compare to ProTools whenever recording an acoustic instrument such as a guitar or piano? I haven’t yet recorded anything on it and I was just curious on how it stands against current recording software.
Late to the game but this was a cool write up on the 388. It still obviously has a huge cult following and rightly so. I’ll listen to a record just because it was recorded on old gear.
I did this one using 2 mics and a 388.
http://www.thecrookedsaws.bandcamp.com
James Cassidy
I recorded an album on my Tascam 388. What I do is record guitars, organs, piano, vocals and drums on eight tracks then transfer them to Sonar where I record bass, backing vocals and whatever else I think the song needs. You can hear some samples here: https://soundcloud.com/the-autumn-stone
What years were the 388 manufactured? I bought a Tascam Porta 1 in 1985. Cost like $600, which was a lot back then! Quality was Ok but not as good as 388 of course.
JUST SCORED!!! Brand new Tascam 388 in a hard travel case, amazing enough…Hasn’t been touched in 20 years, needs new capstan belt, but other than that barely any dust in the thing…i opened it up its a work of art, its really beautiful on the inside…This machine was built 2 years after I was born, a time when Gear and music alike were crafted with precision and care by master craftsmen, instead of fast/food FM culture that I see more today…
Recorded two albums on a 388 in the mid-eighties. Unmatched simplicity and versatility. Normally we’d do six tracks, mixdown to the other two, then add another six. Now that we’re digital I do so miss those buttons and sliders!
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By Sandra Long Weaver, Source: Tennessee Tribune | Victoria Falls Vacation
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Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain
Samuel Negredo
Departamento de Proyectos Periodísticos Facultad de Comunicación, Universidad de Navarra, 31009 Pamplona, Navarra,, ES
Newspaper websites and online only news operations deliver an increasingly varied and comprehensive offer of original audiovisual content. Videos on Spanish websites cover current affairs and niche interests, complementing the reports supplied by news agencies. The spoken word is a primary mode of expression, in the form of dialogues (interviews and debates) and speeches (comments and analyses), but more complex and visually appealing formats have been developed. Publishers face the challenge of organising these packages and programmes to facilitate access and retrieval. This may help to improve user experience, and to maximise long-term consumption and value.
Keywords: online video, multimedia, video journalism, news websites, audiovisual archives
How to Cite: Negredo, S., 2014. Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 3(6), pp.37–48. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc068
1 Introduction: New Providers of Audiovisual News on the Web
Broadcast television organisations face new competition on the web. Online newspapers and digital only news operations are increasing their video output of news and entertainment. This is due to a number of factors. First, technological convergence has made digital video production and online distribution more affordable. Second, newsrooms have been restructured to work with and create online content, achieving what can be defined as ‘business convergence.’ Third, newspapers have trained or hired professionals with audiovisual production skills, which can be qualified as professional convergence. And fourth, they are now engaged in content convergence by producing video content, which is a relatively new kind of media for these organisations.1
Original video production efforts in Spanish online newspapers are predominantly aimed at short features and deal with perennial or distinctive topics, often as part of pre-formatted programmes or series. Meanwhile, footage and packages provided by agencies supply general breaking news coverage, but in the areas where there is less availability such as in local and regional news, production teams step in to supply them.
Terrestrial general interest TV channels need to engage viewers with competitive and varied schedules. This is true as well for video on offer from online newspapers that supplement news and comment videos with discovery and entertainment programmes.
These softer content genres help to broaden the audience reach, and may attract new users to more serious and informative pieces. They are also more suitable for sponsorship than news and easier to produce.
2 Aims and Methodology
The main objective of this study is to test if traditional audiovisual content typologies and taxonomies are still valid for online video content. This has implications on website architecture and on the development of editorial models of original online videos.
As a consequence, there are two secondary aims: to review the options for retrieving original videos on newspaper websites, and to discuss their editorial format. This brings up a question: are complex and cohesive programmes still the norm for the online environment, or do clips that present a single topic through a single genre fit this medium better?
The work presented here is an analysis of original videos produced exclusively by or for online newspapers in Spain, which do not run an offline broadcast operation under the same brand. It therefore excludes the type of content made for broadcast and repurposed for online.
The sample for the quantitative analysis was collected over six alternate weeks in the last three months of 2011. It consists of 522 videos published by four organisations: Elpais.com (n=105) and Elmundo.es (n=161), the two most read news websites in Spain belonging to paid, quality, daily newspapers; Lavanguardia.com (n=193), the most read newspaper website among those edited outside Madrid, and Lainformacion.com (n=63), the most read, online only news operator at the time of the survey.2 More recent examples and developments have been included in some sections for the purpose of qualitative analysis, discussion and illustration.
To complement this work, the architecture and retrieval features of the video sections on six news websites, including the four above, were tracked over four years. The results of this are presented later on.
Operationalization starts by classifying the sample videos, using standardised categories from the European Broadcasting Union Classification Scheme (EBUCore)3 for Content Genre and Editorial Format.
This has allowed me to put all original newspaper videos in context including news and non-news content and to take into account their topics and editorial format. This effort is also useful in determining the nature of the videos: whether they can be labelled as programmes, or whether many of them can be considered segments edited from a longer broadcast television show.
Then, I will look at site architecture and retrieval options, which determine how the user may access and experience the content on offer, using criteria related to topic, format and date, or tools such as categories, archives, playlists and search.
Last but not least, I will analyse briefly the editorial models of the most production-intensive news formats on offer through the years: daily and weekly video news bulletins and news magazines repurposed for the web or produced entirely for this medium.
3 Content Genre: News and Current Affairs Videos Supplemented with Arts, Lifestyle and Other Categories
The Content Genre classification broadly describes the topic of videos according to the main categories in the EBUCore,4 which was adapted for this study, in order to keep a single hierarchical level.5
News or pure information was the most popular topic category on all three sites, but qualitative differences are important. It represented 50% of the videos by El País, many of them being comments and analysis about the news rather than actual reporting; 45% of the videos in La Vanguardia had a very high proportion of local on-site newsgathering, and 31% in El Mundo represented slightly longer features covering events happening in Spain.
Let us now turn to the results of the other categories for each website. In Elpais.com, Sciences (11%), Humanities (10%), the Arts (9%) and Music performances (8%) were the four most popular content genre categories. A reason for this is the existence of niche programmes and special series, as I will discuss in the next section.
Twenty seven per cent of videos on Elmundo.es covered leisure, hobbies, consumer and lifestyle issues, almost reaching the same output as News and factual content. Within this category, users can find a great variety of videos. dealing with consumer technology, food and drinks, fashion, property, interior design, and similar themes. The Arts (9%) were a distant third (e.g. such as the weekly series about paintings, Miradas al fresco), followed by Sciences and Humanities (7% each), and Music (6%).
Title: El Mundo. Miradas al Fresco. Terry O’Neill interview
Description: The Miradas al fresco (Fresco glances) series from El Mundo highlights art exhibits with commentary from painters, photographers and curators. This example is representative of the broad arts and culture coverage offered in video by the newspaper.
Language: Spanish.
As for the rest of original video production on Lavanguardia.com, leisure, hobby, consumer or lifestyle content was also the second most popular category (11%), including videos about travel, food, trends and technology. Economy (9%) made it into the top 3, due to the fact that there was a new video blog on this subject every weekday. Eight per cent of the original videos belonged to the music genre; for instance, Acustik has been showing a live performance every week since June 2010,6 and many interviews with artists were offered during the six observed weeks. Seven per cent of the videos dealt with the rest of the Arts.
4 Editorial Formats in Original Online Video: News Reports, Features and Talks
The editorial format classification reflects the most general categories7 included in the European Broadcasting Union code for labelling the editorial format of programmes.8
In the analysis, individual packages, such as generic news reports and features were classified under the ‘none’ category, in order to distinguish them from news programmes, which would be classified as ‘bulletins.’ As a consequence, the ‘none’ category was the most frequent on the sites with many standalone news reports and features, such Elmundo.es and Lavanguardia.com.
I will argue in the conclusions that this shows that the traditional broadcast classification code is not completely suitable for original online newspaper video, as many pieces of content are single genre and single topic units, instead of the traditional formats comprising several genres and topics to be found in broadcast television practice.
Comment and critique videos were classified under ‘lecture, speech or presentation,’ and any dialogue-based piece was coded as ‘discussion, interview, debate or talk show.’
Many of the original videos on Elpais.com were speech-based at the time of the study. Almost one third (32%) were talks directly to camera, such as La voz de Iñaki. This is a video blog covering politics on weekdays since April 2011, and has been the only original programme on offer on a daily basis, from Monday to Thursday.9
Twenty five per cent of the original videos on El País were classified under the ‘discussion, interview, debate or talk show’ category. The sample comprises of interview-style political analyses and debates, and were recorded in the Guadalajara book fair. Another 25% related to non-programmes: hard news and reportage. Incidentally, 10% of the videos were counted as ‘contest,’ as the site carried the maths challenge El desafío matemático.
Title: El País. Los pedales de la discordia
Description: This 3-minute video covers the launch of a public bike rental scheme in Madrid. The format, a feature with high production values and innovative techniques, is a typical one for the video team at El País. A specialist reporter is involved.
Fifty four per cent of Elmundo.es videos were news reports or longer features and packages; among the latter, the video blog La trinchera was usually updated several times a week and has been doing so for three and a half years. After the study was conducted, during the first semester of 2013, Dossier covered one topic in depth every month.
Twenty four of the videos were conversation led on Elmundo.es; for example, artists and politicians were interviewed in cafés for the series En la barra con… Just 11% of the clips consisted exclusively of talks delivered to camera, as in the video blog Dos minutos en el mundo. It is published on Saturdays and started in 2011. The format has evolved for the sake of visual variety and appeal: the comments are now recorded on location in Madrid instead of inside the newsroom, and is reinforced with agency and file footage.
Elmundo.es also offered several kinds of animation: both political humour cartoons, such as Moncloa Palace and 3D-modelled infographics in its Especiales. Street music performances, short documentaries, and a few magazine and phone-in programmes are also part of El Mundo TV.10
Among the original videos published on Lavanguardia.com during the observed weeks, 53% were standard news reports or short features, linked to daily current affairs coverage. They are archived under the Actualidad or Barcelona sections in the video area of the website. Fifteen of the videos were interviews, for which there is a specific Entrevista channel.
An additional 1% belonged to user participation in the live Q&A programme Chat TV, each monthly episode going on for approximately half an hour. Talks, such as those in video blogs about the economy, made 10% of the original production items.
No less than 11% of Lavanguardia.com videos could be classified as magazine programmes. These productions go beyond standard genres such as reports and interviews, by adding short additional segments or original twists to how the topic is covered. The internal production and multimedia team at Lavanguardia.com has been developing new ideas and formats for programmes since 2007. They are usually published at weekly or monthly intervals, and sometimes they are discontinued or put to rest temporarily, depending on production costs and audience reception. Other programmes, such as the travel show MelarGO, do not follow a fixed publishing schedule.11
Title: La Vanguardia. Històries de Can Fanga. Salve, Barcino!
Description: In this show from La Vanguardia, historian Pere Portabella teaches about the history of Barcelona. This episode, recorded on location, shows the Roman walls in the city using post-production techniques.
Other editorial formats found on Lavanguardia.com videos are music performances (3%) and animation (3%). They used to host custom made cartoons and later went for the increasingly popular genre of animated graphics, and short documentary series, such as the eleven-episode Groenlandia: misión Aurora.
5 Site Architecture: Disjointed Archives and Hard to Retrieve Videos
To maximise the value of original video productions in the medium to long term requires specific information about architecture features and retrieval tools that not all online news sites have yet incorporated into their video sections.
It has just been demonstrated that classifications made for TV are still operational for most original online news and current affairs videos and for the other non-news productions that complement them, even if there are some adjustments to be implemented.
Most publishers use metadata extensively already to manage and search their collections. This resource should also be made available to the public, so that they will be able to retrieve the sequences they are looking for, and not only see the latest uploads.
Wherever possible, to maximise long-term value, the programme pages, sections and collections should be better integrated. Publishers should not have to resort to uploading to platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo to showcase their portfolio of formats and programmes, or rely on these services to make their videos findable, shareable and embeddable. As part of the analysis, the evolution of user-facing videos on the main five newspaper websites in Spain (Elpais.com, Elmundo.es, Lavanguardia.com, 20minutos.es and ABC.es) and that of a pure player (Lainformacion.com) has been observed during a four-year period, tracking the availability of four basic classification and retrieval features. These enable the user to navigate the videos more easily as they are archived by date, search, browsable categories, and playlists for programmes or series.
At the time of writing, none of the six websites offered a calendar-based archive in their video section; El País and La Vanguardia used to do so in mid-2010, but they both discontinued it.
All of them offer specific video search, except for El País, which did away with this feature when a new version of the site went live in February 2012.
Neither El País nor El Mundo provide the option to browse videos by category when their sites were relaunched, even though it was available before.
The option to retrieve other videos from a specific series or programme is only available on Lavanguardia.com and in 20minutos.es. Other sites, such as El País and El Mundo, fall back on custom made packages, blogs or sidebar modules for this basic archival feature, or they just use tags that are not specific to this kind of media.
6 Watching the News Online
6.1 Repurposing Broadcast News for the Web
Video can be considered to be the natural medium for broadcasters to expand their online news presence, but the home pages of the websites for the main television newscasts in Spain replicate the structure of online newspapers; they just display a list of headlines, some of them linking to text stories, and others leading to pages that do feature video. Almost all broadcast news programmes are available to watch online in full, but very few additional options are offered to access the content in a non-linear way or to share parts of it.
However, broadcasters have developed a more dynamic strategy in the business-to-business front: Telecinco was quick to identify a market opportunity and has offered its news videos to other online publishers through the Atlas agency since the mid-2000s. Its main commercial competitor, Antena 3, took the same approach with VNews, which was later sold to an external production company. The largest traditional news agencies in Spain, EFE and Europa Press, also provide news clips for online media, and Reuters videos are available through its partnership with Live!, a Spanish video streaming venture.
Individual reports or fragments of newscasts are uploaded directly, either before of after broadcast. The only adaptation is to add fields such as a title, a description, credits or tags. This is standard practice, but some projects have adapted to producing a headline summary, repurposing content or developing web-native formats.
El informativo en la Red was produced by rolling news channel CNN+. It operated with some difficulties from November 2000 until the channel closed permanently in December 2010.12 Through the years, this online only bulletin was published on Plus.es, an early content-rich portal associated with the satellite platform CNNplus.com, Elpais.com, and Cuatro.com, the online environement of a terrestrial channel. A comprehensive archive is not currently available.
The staff and technical resources used for the bulletin were those of the broadcast network; the difference consisted in the mode of address and transmission. Technology affected the format too: at first, the standard on-screen broadcast graphics were avoided, as low-bandwidth compression made them unreadable. The videos consisted of a welcome message, a typical top-of-the-hour headline summary, and an image-driven story similar to the And finally… segments in standard newscasts, followed by a short farewell.
The Catalan public broadcaster launched TV3minuts in January 2008.13 It offered free-to-access, carefully edited three-minute video summaries of its main shows, including every daily news and current affairs programme.14 That very November, on-demand video service TV3alacarta dropped the freemium15 model it had started with in 2004,16 and it became supported by advertisement only. Therefore, news and current affairs programmes became available on demand, and the summary service was suspended at the end of the year.
Title: TV3-TV3minuts promo
Description: “You now have a 3-minute summary of the most-watched TV3 programmes on your phone, on the website or on podcast.”
Language: Catalan.
Telediario en 4 minutos is one of the most popular and most prominently promoted news video items of public broadcaster RTVE since its online relaunch in summer 2008. The four-minute format is nothing else than the opening summary of the morning, afternoon and evening newscasts. This is similar to the One-minute World News from the BBC, which is just a recording of the headline summary that airs at half past the hour on the BBC World News channel.
And finally, it should be noted that commercial channel laSexta used to upload the newscasts to its website with a playlist feature that enabled users to watch them in full or to jump to specific stories or segments in the running order. The practice was abandoned when the merger with Antena 3 came into practice, as they now share a common player for all programmes.
6.2 Original Daily and Weekly Programmes for Websites
I have just discussed the ways in which television newscasts have been repurposed for on-demand online consumption. In parallel, many websites have developed distinctive and original video news programmes, with varied formats and strategies.
International examples can be found easily: The New York Times launched, diversified and eventually shut down TimesCast, and The Washington Post started up The Fold, but later did away with it as it continued to expand its video offerings.17 Similar experiences from the Spanish market are now presented here.
Coincidentally or not, the first three formats I will discuss are or were presented on screen by a female journalist. The now defunct site ADN.es, which launched in 2007, put together for some time a web-native daily video bulletin. It used to be uploaded in the afternoon, under the title ADNpm.18
In Catalonia, Lavanguardia.com produced Infoweb every Friday from September 2010 to March 2014, showcasing the most popular news and video content on the website, the best user contributions, upcoming productions and live video events, all in just around four minutes.19
Title: La Vanguardia - Infoweb - Farewell to Adolfo Suárez
Description: An edition of the long-running weekly news, participation and cross-promotion show from La Vanguardia, the last one before it was discontinued. Presented by Sílvia Colomé, head of video and multimedia production.
Its direct competitor, Elperiodico.com, continues to offer L’informatiu every afternoon Monday to Friday since April 2012.20 The structure is more conventional, with duration of five minutes.
During the early 2010s, Elmundo.es developed a model in which daily audiovisual analyses were kept for the enhanced digital newsstand edition of the print newspaper. The website posted its own videos on local news, features and lifestyle, and relied mostly on the agencies for hard news footage and sound bites. This started to change in April 2013: LaSemana.zip was launched as a studio based weekly summary, published early on Saturdays, with video recaps and two-way interviews.
Title: El Mundo. La Semana
Description: The weekly summary of the news and other video content from El Mundo, fronted by producer Cristina de Rojas on Saturday mornings. Featuring an infographics explainer from 3.40sec, presented by the editor of the programme, Mario Viciosa.
Elmundo.es added El Mundo en 90” in June 2014. It is a (roughly) 90-second bulletin with a voiceover but no on-screen presentation. It is updated twice daily, at 13.30 and 19.00.21 Text links to every story mentioned in the bulletin are included below the video player.22
A brief digression has to be made here to include La Tuerka, a leftwing political debate with a considerable following, which evolved from a weekly edition on local television to four 90-minute episodes per week since December 2013. The programme was to be streamed live from the newsroom of the news website Público.es, with full archives available online.23 Emerging politician Pablo Iglesias created it and fronted it at first; he later took turns with other presenters, and the team developed the programme further for the season starting in October 2014. They increased format diversity by adding reportage and humour.
A valuable addition to the format of the original online newscast happened in March 2014, when Catalan newspaper site Ara.cat launched a daily (Monday to Thursday) programme, edited and presented by renowned journalist Antoni Bassas. AraBassas was streamed live at 20.00 hours, and was made available on demand right after, in full and split in clips.
Title:Diari Ara. Ara Bassas. Launch promo
Description: “Journalism that will make everything clear for you is back.” With Antoni Bassas.
Daily sections in AraBassas encompassed an editorial opening, a summary read by a female co-presenter, stand-up debriefing interviews from the newsroom, a quick fix of the news in 60 seconds as covered on television, and in-studio and on-location interviews, which were supplemented with sporadic appearances by a range of columnists, and other specialised segments. The running time of this ambitious and appealing daily programme usually ranged between 20 and 30 minutes during the first season, doubling the 12 minutes that were initially advertised.
The format was scaled down and split up in September 2014, allowing for more flexibility. The editorial comment is delivered much earlier, at 10.00 am, and an After Work entertainment segment is uploaded in the afternoon. Only a few of the original sections remain; this allows the newspaper to add video analysis of breaking news, interviews and longer debates during the day, when needed.
This analysis shows that the repertoires of categories that are used to classify units of content in broadcast television according to their content genre and editorial format need to be revised if they are to be applied to online video. The reason is that single genre and single topic units of news content, and standalone segments, coexist with more complex formats and programmes, which comprise several genres and may cover more topics.
From the first quick headline recaps repurposed from television in the 2000s, to current comprehensive original online video selections, what newspapers provide online has come a long way. In the current Spanish market, the great political, geographical and language diversity results in a diverse audience to address.
Users and researchers can now find original online videos reporting local news from the ground up, documentaries knowledge and discovery formats, and newscasts and current affairs programmes that reflect on the events of the day or of the week. Online video is already a platform for debate, offering alternative perspectives, and coverage that does not fit in broadcast television.
Access to this content should not be limited, but enabled and made easier by user-friendly site architecture. The challenge of making this content more findable online and in the long term is still unresolved by some publishers, while others have already addressed these retrieval problems and are working on providing more immersive and ubiquitous experiences that keep users engaged.
Additionally, questions need to be answered about how viewers prefer to experience online content.
Based on the analysis in this article, it can be suggested that within the area of branded and personality-led news formats, there is an evolution towards on-demand and fragmented selections. They minimise format constraints and are designed to combine opinion and entertainment segments delivered at fixed times every day, along with reactive news reports, analysis and discussions. In brief, it can be stated that, as online video news formats evolve, they are not constrained by schedule or time (of broadcast) as with traditional broadcasts. This results in a more efficient and reactive production.
Samuel Negredo holds a PhD in Communication (2013) and an MA in Online Journalism (2011). He has been monitoring original video production for the web by news organisations since 2008. He is Assistant Professor at the Journalism Department of the University of Navarra. He has taken part in two competitive state-funded research projects on convergence and innovation in the Spanish media market, and co-authored the book Integrated Journalism (2009). He has also published articles on user participation in news production and distribution and on forms of interactivity and content presentation in European web documentaries.
1 Infotendencias Group, ‘Media Convergence,’ in: Eugenia Siapera and Andreas Veglis, eds, The Handbook of Global Online Journalism, Wiley, 2012, p. 21–38.↑
2 Videos from Lainformacion.com are not discussed here due to space limitations, the small sample, and because the site ceased original video production when it merged with another company, and has been superseded in the rankings by several other web-native brands. Some of its most remarkable works are La Plaza: la gestación del movimiento 15M and El mal del cerebro, big-scale documentary productions that went live in early 2012, in the months following the data collection for analysis.↑
3 EBU, EBU Core Metadata Set, version 1.5, 04/2014, https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3293v1_5.pdf, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
4 EBU, European Broadcasting Union Classification Scheme: Content Genre, 20 August 2010, http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/cs/web/ebu_ContentGenreCS_Mapping_p.xml.html, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
5 Only an Economy category was added in order to better quantify the content on this topic that was not strictly linked to current affairs. The categories are as follows: 0) news or factual content ; 1) non-fiction; 2) Arts; 3) Humanities; 4) Sciences; 5) human interest; 6) transport and communications; 7) events; 8) media; 9) sports; 10) fiction or drama; 11) amusement, contest or entertainment; 12) music; 130 interactive games; 14) leisure, hobby, consumer or lifestyle; 15) economy or business; 16) other.↑
6 Lavanguardia.com, ‘Tres años de Acustik,’ 18 June 2013, http://www.lavanguardia.com/musica/20130618/54375733409/tres-anos-de-acustik.html, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
7 Interactive television categories were dismissed for this study, as there were no videos in the sample with those features. These are the categories used in the analysis: 0) none; 1) bulletin; 2) magazine; 3) event; 4) documentary; 5) discussion, interview, debate or talk show; 6) lecture, speech or presentation; 7) textual; 8) user participation or phone-in; 9) docusoap; 10) reality; 11) religious; 12) animation; 130 show or contest; 14) comedy; 15) reality show; 16) artistic performance; 17) other.↑
8 EBU, European Broadcasting Union Classification Scheme: Editorial Format Code, 20 August 2010, http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/cs/web/ebu_EditorialFormatCodeCS_Mapping_p.xml.html, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
9 La Voz de Iñaki is led by one of the most respected journalists in Spain, Iñaki Gabilondo, and it is published simultaneously on the websites of newspaper El País and its sister radio network Cadena SER as an audio feed at 9.05 am.↑
10 A few examples of many of the most recent formats by Elmundo.es can be found on their YouTube channel playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/CanalELMUNDOes/playlists, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
11 It is impossible to mention all of them in this article, but they can be found on the left side menu at http://videos.lavanguardia.com/↑
12 El País, ‘ELPAIS.es ofrece dos informativos producidos por CNN+ para Internet,’ 8 October 2001, http://elpais.com/diario/2001/10/08/sociedad/1002492006_850215.html, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
13 TV3.cat, ‘TV3 ha posat en marxa el servei TV3minuts,’ 21 January 2008, http://www.tv3.cat/actualitat/48240/TV3-ha-posat-en-marxa-el-servei-TV3minuts, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
14 An archive is available by searching for TV3minuts in http://www.tv3.cat/videos↑
15 The term freemium describes business models that offer limited access for free – it may be limited in time, quantity or quality – and require a one-off or an ongoing payment for full access.↑
16 TV3.cat, ‘TV3alacarta – Preguntes més freqüents,’ http://www.tv3.cat/3alacarta/faqs.htm, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
17 Dylan Byers, ‘Why live video won’t save the news biz,’ Politico.com, 24 February 2014, http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/live-video-wont-save-news-business-103819.html, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
18 No episodes are currently available online. ADN.es stopped operating as an independent news operation in January 2009, and the publishing company erased most of its online presence, including external sites, after it closed completely in 2011.↑
19 Lavanguardia.com, ‘La Vanguardia.es estrena ’Infoweb’, un nuevo concepto de informativo on line,’ 17 September 2010, http://www.lavanguardia.com/internet/20100917/54005013722/la-vanguardia-es-estrena-infoweb-un-nuevo-concepto-de-informativo-on-line.html, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
20 Elperiodico.com, ‘EL PERIÓDICO estrena hoy un teleinformativo para móvil y web,’ 16 April 2012, http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/sociedad/periodico-estrena-hoy-teleinformativo-para-movil-web-1666444, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014). It was originally titled El informativo, but it switched from Spanish to Catalan soon. Full editions of the newspaper and the website are published in both languages.↑
21 El informativo en la red by CNN+, which is mentioned above, also consisted of two daily editions, which were published at similar times: 13.30 and 19.30 hours.↑
22 As it has been explained, no browsable archives are automatically available for Elmundo.es programmes, so archival content can only be retrieved by search.↑
23 Público.es, ‘PúblicoTV, nuevo cuartel general de ‘La Tuerka’’, 29 November 2013, http://www.publico.es/485682/publicotv-nuevo-cuartel-general-de-la-tuerka, (Retrieved: 1 December 2014).↑
Negredo, S., 2014. Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 3(6), pp.37–48. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc068
Negredo S. Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture. 2014;3(6):37–48. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc068
Negredo, S. (2014). Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 3(6), 37–48. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc068
Negredo S, ‘Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain’ (2014) 3 VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture 37 DOI: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc068
Negredo, Samuel. 2014. “Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain”. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture 3 (6): 37–48. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc068
Negredo, Samuel. “Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain”. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture 3, no. 6 (2014): 37–48. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc068
Negredo, S.. “Newspaper Video Content: Genres and Editorial Formats in Spain”. VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, vol. 3, no. 6, 2014, pp. 37–48. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2014.jethc068
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Current: A Brief History of the Mechanical Watch's Fight Against Magnetism
A Brief History of the Mechanical Watch's Fight Against Magnetism
A look at how watchmaking has countered the threat of magnetism over the years, from using metals like palladium in 1915 to silicon in 2015.
By Nitin Nair
The industry has used everything from soft-iron shields to silicon escapements in their fight.
Magnetism has been the mechanical timekeeping’s nemesis through the years. It is to the mechanical watch, what Prof. Moriarty is to Sherlock Holmes. Though the watch industry has responded to this threat with many innovations through the years, we’ve always been asked this question by readers and budding watch enthusiasts – just how real is the threat of magnetic fields in our daily lives?
Before we set out to answer that questions, let's examine what happens to a mechanical watch when it is exposed to a magnetic field. The simple truth is that certain parts of the escapement like the balance wheel and hairspring get magnetized on such exposure. For example, the concentric circles of the hairspring may bunch together thus leading to friction. This could ultimately affect the escapement’s amplitude and accuracy. In most cases, once the magnetic field is moved away, the watch might start running as normal again but in the case of a particular strong magnetic field, it may stop working altogether.
The earliest attempts at fighting magnetism involved adopting anti-magnetic metals like palladium and nickel alloys like Elinvar in the creation of movements.
In 1915, Vacheron Constantin created an anti-magnetic pocket watch and in 1930, Tissot produced its first amagnetic watches. In both cases, palladium was used in the construction of the escapement.
During World II, the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) were supplied with Pilots watches which had movements encased in a soft iron case (Faraday cage) to withstand the effects of magnetism at high altitudes. Longines supplied the Czech Air Force in the Thirties with watches that had ‘antimagnetique’ markings on the dial.
In 1949, Jaeger-LeCoultre and IWC produced the Mk11 pilots watch for Britain’s RAF pilots. These watches were made to the strictest conditions set by the Ministry of Defence and required that the movement be enclosed in a soft iron case. IWC famously produced the Mk11 from 1949 to the early Eighties.
The Fifties was the ‘tool watch era’ - a clutch of watches celebrated man’s spirit of adventure and exploration. These included Universal Geneve’s Polerouter (initially called the Polarouter) made for the pilots and crew of SAS flights (Scandinavian Air Services) Airlines who flew over the North Pole in an attempt to reduce flying times between Europe and New America.
These watches had to withstand the strong magnetic fields present around the North pole was initially issued only to SAS crew and was designed by a young Gerald Genta.
In 1955, IWC launched the Ingenieur (Ref: 666A), the brand’s first automatic, anti-magnetic watch. The handiwork of IWC’s technical director Albert Pellaton, the watch was supposed to be the civilian, automatic version of the famous Mk11.
It was also famous for featuring the first bi-directional rotor in an automatic movement. Early advertisements of the Ingenier (Engineer in French) claimed that the watch could withstand a magnetism up to 1,000 Oersted (1,000 Gauss). This was at a time when most mechanical watches could withstand magnet fields up to 100 Gauss only.
ISO 764 standard states that a watch to be antimagnetic must resist a magnetic field of 4800 A/m (60 Gauss) and its accuracy must stay within +/- 30s/day
In 1956 Rolex would introduce the Milgaus (Ref: 6541), a watch capable of withstanding a magnetix flux density of 1,000 Gauss and was supplied to scientists at CERN and technicians at power plants. The Milgaus would go on to become the most famous anti-magnetic watch of our times.
Omega launched the Railmaster (ref CK2914) capable of withstanding magnetic fields and produced these watches till 1963 before they were discontinued. Omega did revive the Railmaster a few years ago, but it’s the early models that are collectible now.
In 1958, Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced the Geophysic chronometer to commemorate the International Geophysical Year. The Geophysic featured anti-magnetic protection and was created for engineers and scientists and was capable of withstanding the magnetic fields of the North Pole.
Patek Philippe came to the tool watch party in 1958 as well with its first anti-magnetic wristwatch, the Amagnetic (Ref 3417 in stainless steel) was produced for two years and featured a soft-iron cage and in some case beryllium components to thwart magnetics.
Most modern watches use non-ferrous metals in the escapement so unless they are subject to very high magnetic fields, they should be alright with any magnetic fields they encounter on a regular day.
In 1989, IWC introduced a rare iteration (Ref. 3508) which was tested to withstand magnetic fields up to a strength of 500,000 A/m (6,250 Gauss), the most anti-magnetic watch of its time.
Ulysee Nardin made a significant leap in 2001 when it launched the Freak, the first production wristwatch to use a silicon escape wheel, it was the first time silicon parts were used in a wristwatch. Designed by Ludwig Oechslin, the Freak heralded the use of silicon in watch movements.
Boutique watchmaker Christophe Claret created a stir in the horological world with the introduction of the X-TREM-1, a timepiece that used magnetic fields to display time in 2012. The watch featured two spherical balls enclosed in clear sapphire tubes attached to the caseband of the watch to display the time. The bi-retrograde display of the watch was unique and revolutionary. You can read about the new Christophe Claret X-Trem-1 - Sting HD here.
In 2013, Breguet delivered the first Classique Chronométrie 7727, a high-beat wristwatch with magnets (yes, magnets) holding the balance. Magnets do no harm to the movements because its in-line Swiss lever escapement and double balance springs are made of silicon.
With the introduction of silicon in the moving parts of a watch’s movement, the battle against magnetism received big fillip and in 2013, Omega introduced the Master Co-Axial movement (Calibre 8508) that was capable of withstanding up to 15,000 Gauss. That’s a long way from when watches withstood a 1,000 Gauss in the late Fifties.
The use of silicon and anti-magnetic materials in the movement ensured that the movement did not need a soft-iron cage, so the watches could benefit from having see-through sapphire crystal casebacks. Omega hopes to roll out this technology across all its movements by 2020.
A Calendar of Watch Events in 2018
From SIHH 2018 in Geneva to the important watch exhibitions from around the world.
Amant Côte d'Azur is a Crowfunded Mechanical Watch
The Swedish brand is making its first foray into mechanical watches with a crowfunding campaign at a very reasonable price point.
From SIHH 2017 in Basel to the important watch auctions from around the world.
A Deep Dive into the Fifty Fathoms MILSPEC-1's Past
A diver's watch initially made for the US Navy's combat divers and Seal teams, the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms MILSPEC-1 tribute watch revived this year has an important back story.
Watch Brands See Many Shades of Grey
A report says the unsold inventory from retailers and brands is increasingly finding its way into the grey market.
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Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Played by: Alan Alda
Chief surgeon of the 4077th MASH, he was one of the few people assigned to the unit for the entire run of the show; he lived in what was officially the Bachelor Officer Quarters, but almost always called "The Swamp". Hails from the fictional Crabapple Cove, Maine (Vermont in some early episodes) where his widowed father still lives.
The Ace: Generally considered the best all-around surgeon of the show. Occasionally Charles in later seasons would get the nod for his specialties, and even B.J. would show him up with a technique he didn't know. In one episode, he even conceded that B.J. be the one to perform a tricky surgery as he had the most experience with it (i.e.: reading about it in a medical journal).
Achilles in His Tent: "The Late Captain Pierce"
Actual Pacifist: Hates guns and violence in general. The amount of fights he participates in over eleven seasons can be counted on one hand. He even refused to fire back at North Korean soldiers when he and Col. Potter were pinned down in a ditch. Potter, naturally, calls him out on his bullheadedness in this specific situation, and convinces him to at least just fire into the air to scare them off.
Hawkeye: Look, Colonel, I will treat their wounds, heal their wounds, bind their wounds, but I will not inflict their wounds!
Always a Bigger Fish: B.J. becomes this to Hawkeye, as it becomes apparent that as much of The Trickster Hawkeye thinks he is, B.J. is an even bigger one, albeit in a Beware the Nice Ones way.
Ambiguously Bi: Flirted with every woman who crossed his path, but did the same with quite a few men, as well. It was passed off as a joke in canon, but he's virtually the only male character to do so and he does it so frequently that it cannot possibly be a throwaway joke.
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Increasingly as the series progressed and Alan Alda assumed an ever-larger creative role.
Inverted in the transfer from novel to television; the original author had penned Hawkeye as a patriotic, pro-war, married man, based upon himself and upon seeing the changes, he disowned the movie and series altogether.
Author Filibuster: He's frequently used as a vehicle for these, especially in the later seasons.
Berserk Button: The war - especially the draft - as a whole, as well as harming children and commanding officers who sacrifice soldiers' lives to win.
Beware the Nice and Silly Ones: Hawkeye is a nice guy under all the pranks, but harm children and it doesn't matter if you're in the same army; he'll get you.
Big Brother Mentor: To Radar.
Big Brother Instinct: ...and he does not take it well if anything happens to Radar ("Fallen Idol") or if someone (Frank) mistreats him.
Broken Ace: Had multiple mental breakdowns over the course of the series, and it's generally implied he takes the sufferings of war to heart much more than the other characters.
Hawkeye: I'm here to pull bodies out of a sausage grinder, if possible without going crazy. Period.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: As mentioned on the Main Page, it was pretty much impossible to fire surgeons when the army was in such desperate need of them. Hawkeye knew this. And took advantage of it.
The Casanova: And at one point called out on it by a nurse he hadn't hit on. Because he hadn't hit on her.
Character Development: He grows increasingly more depressed and neurotic as the show progresses and the war begins to take its toll. On the other hand, he also shows his kinder, more compassionate side more often and treats the women he pursues with more respect.
Character Filibuster: He's occasionally prone to these, particularly when his righteous indignation is roused or when he's in the mood to indulge in a bit of Word Salad Philosophy.
Character Tics: He has a frequent, and vaguely disgusting, habit of sniffing his food prior to eating it. B.J. even calls him out on it in one episode.
Chivalrous Pervert: He may be a womanizer but respects the nursing staff professionally, grows to respect and care deeply for Margaret, actually turn down a romance with a girl barely out of her teens in the USO episode (a pet the dog moment), and seems to have been humbled by his encounters with Kelly and Inga. He also won't seduce a nurse he thinks is married (although nurses dating or engaged to someone are still fair game), though it turns out she just wears a ring to fend off attention she doesn't want.
Hawkeye: You're not married? Move over, lieutenant.
Claustrophobia: He suffers from it, as revealed in the "C*A*V*E" episode.
Crying Wolf: Hawkeye's unrepentant reputation for causing trouble and trolling others means he's not always trusted. In "I Hate A Mystery", a series of robberies occur in the 4077, and are found in his tent. Precisely nobody in the camp believes him when he claims to be innocent. To display what his reputation's like, nobody thinks he's stealing out of greed, but believe he's playing some sort of elaborate practical joke.
Deadpan Snarker: A great deal of the time.
Determinator: He will always put caring for his patients over himself and not let anything slow him down be it illness, sleep deprivation, risk of capture, death, his own fears, or an Obstructive Bureaucrat.
Doesn't Like Guns: Or grenades, mines, bombs, anti-aircraft artillery, ammo dumps, tanks, the Korean War, or war in general. Basically he has nothing but hate for anything made specifically to kill another man. He is not hesitant to take this up with top brass or anyone supporting said war.
Hawkeye: (to Frank) I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash-and-carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun.
Drinking on Duty: Frequently.
In "The Consultant", he calls someone else out on it, who then points out that Hawkeye keeps a still in his tent.
In "Fallen Idol" he gets called out on it himself by Radar and by Potter. Potter expresses disbelief that a surgeon of Hawkeye's skill and professionalism would do such a thing.
Dynamic Character: Hawkeye's personality gradually changed as the series went on, until he became almost a completely different person from who he was in the early episodes. He started out as a carefree, energetic, irreverent trickster; by the end, he was a troubled, insecure man prone to depression and brooding, having gone through several emotional breakdowns. While the Doylist explanation for this is simply that the tone of the series as a whole gradually shifted to be more sombre and serious, the progression is also fairly logical from a Watsonian perspective: from the very start it was made clear just how much Hawkeye hates the war, and how constant exposure to it drains him; it simply wore him away, season by season.
On the other hand, he always, always puts the patients first, and no matter what he will not let someone die on his watch if he can avoid it. He never crosses over into Stepford Smiler territory, but he almost always has a good bedside manner no matter how miserable he is.
Fatal Flaw: Pride, like most of the other surgeons. He needs to be good at his job, especially later in the series, if only to justify his being in Korea. A patient developing complications noticeably gets to him.
Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist: Frequently, both when he goes on leave or is just vacationing between OR sessions.
Heroic BSoD: At least five major breakdowns in eleven seasons, each one worse than the last, culminating in the final episode where he's hospitalized after losing it over a smothered infant. He's prone to smaller ones whenever he loses a patient.
Heroic Comedic Sociopath: To some extent, in the early seasons. He was never outright evil by any stretch, but he could certainly play very mean tricks on anyone who got in his way, through the truly cruel ones were reserved for people who had earned it in some way.
Heterosexual Life-Partners:
Best friends and very close with his fellow army doctor Trapper.
After Trapper gets to go home, he bonds with his replacement B.J.
Hypocrite: Frequently drinks on duty and performs surgery while hungover, yet complains about another character doing the same thing.
The Insomniac: Cannot sleep in "Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde".
Ironic Nickname: Hawkeye Does Not Like Guns, but he's nicknamed after a famous fictional sharpshooter from The Last of the Mohicans.
It's All About Me: If Hawkeye has a major flaw, it's this. He's extremely self-centered and only occasionally gets called out on it. He even hijacks giving a eulogy to tell everyone how he feels about them and how they make him feel.
Kick the Morality Pet: When he gets drunk enough in "Fallen Idol" that Winchester has to finish for him and then goes ballistic on Radar, for which he gets called on it by pretty much everybody.
Large Ham: Note this is referring to character moments. A good example appears in "Adam's Ribs", where Hawkeye leads, hammily, a revolt in the mess tent over the lack of variety in the chow line, culminating with him doing what can only be described as pole-dancing .
Legally Dead: The Army mistakenly declares him this in "The Late Captain Pierce".
Lovable Coward: He sometimes affects this persona, usually for comic effect. It's really a front, though; when the chips are down he's capable of great bravery and heroism, and his aversion to combat is more about fear of hurting or killing others (see Actual Pacifist above).
Married to the Job: His first serious relationship ended because his girlfriend could tell that, really, he would always think of the patients first and her second, and she couldn't accept that. She reappears in one episode and, after they attempt to pick things up again, spells it out to him that this is why she left in the first place.
Military Maverick: An extreme version. The only way to make Hawkeye do something military is to point a gun at him or tell him there's a storm on the way.
Military Moonshiner: A rare officer example, and very much NOT a secret. Upon finding out, Colonel Potter made a suggestion or two on how to improve the product. Both Potter and Blake would occasionally come by to have some.
Missing Mom: Although Hawkeye's mother is referenced in a couple very early episodes, his father is eventually established as a widower. Similarly, Hawkeye goes from having a sister in season 1 to being an only child.
Motor Mouth: Occasionally, as when delivering a Character Filibuster. It also tends to crop up whenever he's stressed (or just plain bored), and is pretty clearly a coping mechanism. It's especially severe in "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen", when Hawkeye is confined to a mental ward.
My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction after Radar, who he'd urged to drive to Seoul and find a woman to bed, returns as one of a load of wounded.
New Old Flame: Carlye, his old girlfriend from surgical residency in Boston, who gets assigned to the 4077th as a nurse in "The More I See You".
Obfuscating Insanity: He tries to get Frank to approve him for R&R by employing this in "Bananas, Crackers and Nuts".
Only Known by Their Nickname: His full name is Benjamin Franklin Pierce, but he is always referred to as Hawkeye, a nickname given to him by his father (whose favorite book was The Last of the Mohicans).
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: If he ever salutes you, you have earned it.
Precision F-Strike: In "The Interview". While the offending word is naturally bleeped out, it can clearly be seen on Alda's lips as he speaks.
"I may care about things more than I ever have before, because there's so much more to care about here. On the other hand, I really don't give a shit what happens, 'cause it just doesn't matter anymore."
Not to mention his calling Lt. Park a "son of a bitch" as he's taking his prisoner away for presumed Jack Bauer-style interrogation in "Guerilla My Dreams". This was actually the first (un-bleeped) use of the b-word on U.S. network television.
Not exactly clear which curseword he was going to use, but in "Welcome to Korea" upon being confronted with a Korean man who was using his daughters to check for mines in a field, him asking Radar what the Korean translation of a particular word was blotted out by the explosion of a mine.
Prematurely Grey-Haired: While Alan Alda aged 11 years during the show, from the character's perspective, he grew grey hair in just two years. Considering the setting, it's not surprising.
Pungeon Master: Cracking puns and witticisms is basically what he does, to the point that one late-series episode is his getting into a bet with B.J. to refrain from doing so for 24 hours, something he finds almost physically painful.
Really Gets Around: Less so in the later seaons, but he sleeps with a lot of women.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to B.J.'s Blue. Conversely, Trapper was usually pictured as more impulsive and emotion-driven than Hawkeye.
Refuge in Audacity: Most of his pranks. He even mentions in the episode "The Interview" that he loves doing something crazy just to see the looks in people's eyes when their jaws drop in disbelief.
Sad Clown: He explicitly states in canon that he uses humor to deal with the horrors of war.
Hawkeye: Joking about it is the only way of opening my mouth without screaming.
Sarcasm Failure: Is generally ironic and caustic about most things, but when he taps into his compassionate side (for a friend or a patient) he instantly becomes incredibly serious.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: One of the prime examples of this trope.
Secular Hero: In one episode Father Mulcahy fondly refers to him as "that crazy agnostic".
Sensei for Scoundrels: Is this for Radar in at least one episode, and for more than one guest star in others.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Shows a little of this from time to time. A lot of it in the episode where heavy fighting and many casualties results in double and triple shifts and severe sleep deprivation for the entire company.
Signature Laugh: His hyena-like cackle is always easy to pick out.
Sleeps with Everyone but You: He flirts with just about every nurse in the camp, but he completely ignores resident Fat Girl Nurse Kellye. In the last season premiere "Hey, Look Me Over", she calls him out on this and accuses him of avoiding her on purpose. Later, after secretly watching her, he sees her in a new light, but by then it's too late because she's moved on.
Sleepwalking: He suffers from this (as well as Bad Dreams) in "Hawk's Nightmare".
Stepford Snarker: A classic example, but often crossing into Snark Knight territory as well.
Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Tall, handsome, dark-haired and incredibly snarky.
Temporary Blindness: In "Out of Sight, Out of Mind".
The Trickster: Especially in the early seasons, Hawkeye would often pull complicated tricks (which would often grow more and more complex as the episode went on) to get something out of the Army, his friends, his enemies, or anyone else he happened to come across. Usually he used these for the greater good, trying to make life bearable for those affected by the war, but of course sometimes he'd just do it for entertainment. Later in the series this aspect of Hawkeye somewhat faded: he'd still sometimes play pranks on other characters (and they would play ones on him, as well), but these were usually for fun; the role Hawkeye's schemes played in solving major plot elements was greatly reduced.
Unperson: When Hawkeye is declared dead, an officer from HQ jokingly refers to him as one of these. Hawkeye is not amused, especially for the family of the soldier who really died.
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Not nearly to the same degree as in the novel and film, but while his heart is generally in the right place he's not exactly a stranger to egotism, self-righteousness, sexism, etc.
Yank the Dog's Chain: Gets this in the endings of "Bananas, Crackers and Nuts" and "Adam's Ribs" when incoming wounded ruining his (and Trapper)'s R&R plans and his finally getting his hands on the titular ribs, respectively.
Yiddish as a Second Language: He's been known to employ a Yiddish phrase now and again, though is at a loss for the term for "bedbug" note vonce when doing a crossword puzzle.
You Are in Command Now: Comedic example in "Carry On, Hawkeye"; less so in "Commander Pierce".
You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Charles called him "Hawkeye" once in the series, to break him out of a Heroic BSoD.
Capt. "Trapper" John Francis Xavier McIntyre
Played by: Wayne Rogers
Another surgeon, and the first of Hawkeye's sidekicks in the Swamp. Originally supposed to be equal to Hawkeye, he ended up as more of a sidekick, much to the dismay of the actor. This, combined with issues with Rogers' contract, resulted in Trapper being Put on a Bus (back stateside) after the third season. He was not made an unperson, though—jealousy of him worked into two later B.J. stories. The nickname, as related in the original novel and film, is from an incident in his past, when a woman he was having sex with claimed he had "trapped" her.
The Casanova: Didn't let his status as a married man stop him from chasing nurses as avidly as Hawkeye.
Character Development: He actually did get some, despite his relatively short time on the series. He starts out simple as The Lancer to Hawkeye before showing some shades of his War Is Hell philosophy when he almost kills a North Korean POW as well as getting drunk and punching out Hawkeye when he attempted to get back home to see his family. Some of these developments would later be mirrored by B.J.
Cool Shades: He briefly wears these while hungover in a couple of episodes.
Deadpan Snarker: He's arguably even more of one than Hawkeye, with much of his day-to-day dialogue being delivered in this manner.
Even the Guys Want Him: It was jokingly implied in an early episode that Hawkeye had seen guys taking peeks at him during calisthenics. Trapper didn't take it too well.
Trapper: Which guys are taking peeks at me during calisthenics?
Hawkeye: I'd rather not say, some of them were married.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Hawkeye, albeit sometimes verging on overt Ho Yay.
The Lancer: Was both this and a Foil to Hawkeye.
Put on a Bus: He receives his discharge and returns to the States immediately prior to the start of Season 4.
Put on a Bus to Hell: At least from Hawkeye's point of view. His not leaving a note ( only a goodbye peck on the cheek) clearly upset Hawkeye and has been picked up on by many a fanfic.
Of course, in real life, it was a "Take That!" against actor Wayne Rogers, who had acrimoniously left the show because he was fed up with the fact that Trapper was being treated as a sidekick instead of an equal. In addition, he was also greatly frustrated with a "morals clause" in his contract, which stated he could be suspended or fired if he did anything the producers found objectionable. When Rogers left, in fact, the producers actually sued him for breach of contract, but their case fell apart when it was discovered that Rogers didn't even sign the contract in the first place, due to the clause issue.
Tranquil Fury: Gets a moment of this in "Radar's Report", when he appears to consider murdering a wounded North Korean POW (who'd inadvertently caused the death of one of Trapper's patients while trying to escape from the O.R.) by pulling his IV. Only Hawkeye walking in on him and reminding him that "that's not what we're about" prevents him from following through on it.
Yank the Dog's Chain: "Check-Up" has him believing he's going to be sent home due to a stomach ulcer, and even getting a big going-away party from the camp...only to learn that this isn't the case.
In "Kim" he comes to love (and makes plans to adopt) the titular Korean boy, who's presumed to be an orphan. Then the kid's mother turns up.
Your Cheating Heart: And not sorry about it, although he also seems to genuinely miss his wife and daughters back home.
Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake
Played by: McLean Stevenson
The Mildly Military commanding officer of the 4077th for the show's first three seasons. Almost always seen with a fishing hat (with lures that made any salute attempt risk a Purple Heart), he was from Bloomington, Illinois. He tried his best to keep the camp running, although between Hawkeye, Trapper, Burns, Houlihan, and Radar... well, OK, Radar's goal was to keep the camp running, too.
The Alleged Boss: Generally a Type 1, with some Type 4 mixed in. Sometimes has to be reminded that he's actually Pierce and McIntyre's commanding officer.
Averted in the O.R. scenes, where he is very much in charge. A notable instance comes in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet", when he orders Hawkeye to quit operating on his friend (who's already slipped away) and go help Trapper.
Also averted regarding Klinger's attempts to be considered mentally unstable - no matter what Klinger tried, Henry would always refuse to discharge him.
Amusing Injuries: In several episodes. Among them is him saluting and accidentally skewering himself on his hat's collection of assorted fishhooks, which actually looks rather painful. The most notable situation is when he kept getting injured while somebody tried to kill him and all sorts of calamities followed him in his wake in near-misses with death (you won't find that funny after the finale of Season 3), culminating in the outhouse exploding. Out walks Henry with the toilet seat adorned around his neck.
Henry: ........BOOM.
Ash Face: His decision to thump the Swamp's fireplace chimmney in search of contraband got him pelted and blanketed with soot, causing Hawkeye to collapse into a fit of uncontrollable, hysterical laughter.
Cliché Storm: In-universe; Henry was prone to these.
Henry: All right, people, I'm gonna give it to you straight. Starting right here and now, we're all going to have to put our shoulders to the wheel, our noses to the grindstone. We've got to hunker down and pull together, all for one and one for all.
Trapper: Welcome to the Henry Blake Cliche Festival.
Colonel Badass: Without a doubt, he is NOT one of these, and acknowledges as much himself. Hawkeye once mused privately that he could be arrested for impersonating an officer.
Hawkeye: It's a bit like being on a sinking liner, running to the bridge, and finding out the captain is Daffy Duck.
Deadpan Snarker: He has a very dry and somewhat sarcastic sense of humor that reveals itself during the times when he's not being an incompetent boob.
Drinking on Duty: He's been known to imbibe when alone in his office.
Father to His Men: Or more specifically to Radar, who actually regresses slightly after Henry is gone. He also had this with Hawkeye when Hawkeye's best friend from Crabapple Cove died in the O.R. and Hawkeye couldn't save him.
Hawkeye: *weeping* I haven't cried once since I came to this crummy place. Why am I crying for him? Why not any of these other kids?
Henry: If I had the answer to that, I'd be at the Mayo Clinic. Does this look like the Mayo Clinic to you? All I know is what they taught me in command school. There are certain rules about a war. Rule number one is young men die. And rule number two is doctors can't change rule number one.
First-Name Basis: He's routinely addressed in this manner by Hawkeye and Trapper, though for the most part he doesn't seem to mind.
Genius Ditz: Is a competent doctor, but a chronically indecisive commanding officer.
Happily Married: In spite of his infidelities (see Your Cheating Heart, below), he seems to love and miss his wife.
Home Guard: Army Reservist
Mildly Military: Is usually out of uniform, tends to be lax about discipline, and tolerates an awful lot of guff from his two captains.
Modern Major General: He's an excellent doctor, but what he knows about being a military officer would probably fit in the palm of his hand. With room to spare.
Nice Hat: Until he saluted.
Pointy-Haired Boss: A rare benevolent example. He means well, but he is completely out of his depth in trying to run a MASH unit, and everybody knows it.
Put on a Bus: At the end of Season 3, he gets his discharge orders and heads off to fly home to the States.
Bus Crash/Killed Offscreen: It's revealed that his homebound plane was shot down with no survivors. One of the classic examples of the trope, to the point where it was formerly called "McLeaned" on this very wiki.
Reasonable Authority Figure: For a certain value of reasonable. Occasionally he would simply ignore Hawkeye and Trapper's requests because Majors Burns and Houlihan were giving him so much trouble. Other times he'd go to bat for them, even when unexpected. It caught Hawkeye off guard once.
Hawkeye: [upon hearing Blake stood up to Burns and Houlihan] How dare you do the right thing?
Retirony: Accumulates enough points to be discharged, but dies on the trip home when his plane is shot down.
Ruptured Appendix: He suffers one of these in "The Long John Flap".
The Talk: His periodic sex lectures kind of resemble this, although he does such a bad job that his STD lecture ends with Radar asking him to "give us a talk on VD".
Team Dad: He's a pretty inept administrative figure, but the whole camp loves him for his paternalistic "one of the guys" nature, especially since they know they could have ended up with someone who'd be more militaristic and far worse to bear.
Like Frank Burns, for example. (Who actually does become their commanding officer for an unspecified period of time between Henry's death and Potter's arrival.)
That Came Out Wrong: Is apparently incapable of opening his mouth to an authority figure without either revealing too much information or dropping an Accidental Innuendo.
Would Hit a Girl: Threatens to punch Houlihan right in the mouth in "Local Indigenous Personnel" when she, serving as a mouthpiece for Frank, insults his style of command. This shocks Houlihan and Burns enough to get them to back off.
Your Cheating Heart:
In the first season he has a regular girlfriend in Lt. Scorch, and there are hints of a couple other extramarital dalliances.
The "Henry in Love" episode from season 2 has him falling hard for a much younger woman he met on R&R in Tokyo, to the point where it actually jeopardizes his marriage...at least, until Radar puts things right.
Then in "Life with Father" he experiences the other side of this when he discovers his wife had a fling with an orthodontist in his absence. Although he seems more upset about the fact it was an orthodontist than anything else...
Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan (at one point also Penobscott)
Played by: Loretta Swit
A no-nonsense, by-the-book soldier, and head nurse. Another of the few people who saw the whole show through at the 4077th. The first seasons had her in an illicit relationship with Frank Burns; after meeting Donald Penobscott, she breaks off with him. Later she breaks off with Donald, too, and spends the rest of the show single.
All Women Are Prudes: Invoked, but Averted. Margaret is publically a prim, professional figure, but she's very passionate in private and, in the early series, it wouldn't be inaccurate to call her a slut with standards.
Alliterative Name: Her early nickname ("Hot Lips" Houlihan) sort of achieves this effect.
Battleaxe Nurse: Averted considering that even in her most hardassed period to coworkers in the early years; she is unquestionably professional and caring to the patients.
Birthday Episode: "The Birthday Girls" has her planning a weekend birthday trip away from camp, only to get stranded in the countryside with Klinger after the jeep he's driving her to Seoul in breaks down.
Blonde Republican Sex Kitten: At least in the beginning.
Brainless Beauty: Subverted. In earlier seasons she tended to get rather silly while alone with Frank, but she was always responsible, took her job very seriously, and was presented as intelligent and competent, even when she was treated on the show as a bit of a babe. Both the audience and her former antagonists grew to respect her over the course of the show.
Casual Kink: Hinted at in some of her interactions with Frank, and she is generally the dominant figure. A whip is mentioned in one or two episodes, and is even a present from her fiancee Penobscott early in their relationship.
Catchphrase: In the early seasons, she was frequently heard emitting a plaintive wail of "Oh, Frank!"
Character Development: Moved from being a one-joke, unlikable character to a nuanced, much more sympathetic one.
Covert Pervert: During the early seasons, part of the comedy of Margaret's character is her attempts to hide her extremely sexual nature and antics, only to fool absolutely nobody.
Cruel to Be Kind: She was particularly exacting and harsh to a nurse who was studying to be a doctor, because there were so few female doctors in the Army and damn it, Margaret wasn't going to let her fail.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Goes from a real hardass to a much warmer and more human figure over the series.
Embarrassing Nickname: "Hot Lips", although she seemed to accept it in later seasons.
Fear of Thunder: In the "C*A*V*E" episode she helps Hawkeye deal with his claustrophobia by sharing (and confronting) her own lifelong fear of loud noises.
Friend to All Children: Even during her more meaner years, Margaret always had a soft spot for children regardless of nationalities.
Getting Crap Past the Radar:
Remember, the hot lips aren't the ones on her face.
Margaret: Frank, my lips are hot! Kiss my hot lips!
Hawk, pass us a martini. Heavy on the heavy oils.
Jokes about her ass (a part of her that seemed most noticeable by the males in the cast) seemed incredibly common in the series.
Gung Holier Than Thou: Margaret is very proud of the US Army and her diligence in trying to follow all the rules and regulations, and looks down on the draftees for their less than stellar devotion to what they consider a bunch of silly nonsense. This trait is eased back as part of her "softening up" progress during the series.
Happily Married: Sadly averted with her marriage to Donald Penobscott. It fell apart due to his mistreatment of her and the distance between their postings, but she kept trying to make it work until she found out he was cheating on her.
Hospital Hottie: A lot of the male characters think she's sexy.
Hypocrite: Not as bad as Frank, but still can be quite hypocritical. Even after her character development.
At one point, she got angry at Donald Penobscott for cheating on her, seemingly forgetting that she unrepentingly helped Frank cheat on his wife before he came to the picture. In addition, she would remark on how degenerate and perverted Hawkeye and Trapper are for womanizing with the nurses when she gleefully sleeps with any male high ranking officer who visits.
She often claims that her nurses have no respect for her when she's unfairly harsh to them on multiple occasions (especially when one of their supposed infractions is correcting Frank at the operating table).
Irony: She's quite casual about the fact she's sleeping with a married man for the first four seasons of the show, and often gets angry or upset when she's forced to acknowledge that Frank's never going to divorce his wife for her. She finally dumps Frank to marry Donald, only to learn that he's cheating on her, a fact which contributes to her eventually divorcing him.
Lady Macbeth: She sort of acts like this in the early seasons, pushing Frank and/or teaming with him to go over Henry's head, and on a couple of occasions scheming with him to try and get Henry removed from his command, presumably replaced by Frank.
Military Brat: Her father is a legendary career Army soldier named "Howitzer" Al Houlihan. She spent her childhood moving around.
"When I was a little girl ... I thought a civilian was just someone who was waiting to get his uniform back from the cleaners!"
Moral Myopia: The situation detailed in Irony above; when she finds out about her husband's cheating, the term "Hell hath no fury" might be the best way to describe her reaction. This after she had constantly gotten angry at Frank for mentioning his wife during their own affair.
The Neidermeyer: Albeit to a lesser degree than Frank, but still. Before growing into a more fair authority figure in the later seasons, she was a bossy, brown-nosing shrew of a woman who often abused her power (especially around her nurses) while complaining about how those under her don't respect her. She also wasn't above sleeping around with high ranking officials to get what she wanted.
No Accounting for Taste: Her relationships with Frank and Donald. The former is a snivelling weasel of a man who she knows for a fact is cheating on his wife to be with her. The latter is a lying, miserly, manipulative jerk who is secretly cheating on her all the time. Scully is somewhat better, but she still dumps him because he doesn't respect her enough.
Not So Above It All: She occasionally got in on the jokes the rest of the cast played, and at one point started a pun-off with Hawkeye with "the sulfa's in the living room, between the end tables."
Hawkeye: [stunned] Margaret. You made a joke!
Margaret: I told you I was tired!
Pet the Dog: Had several of these has she started becoming nicer, especially in instances where she learned to be kinder to her nurses. As early as the second season, we saw her maternal instincts coaxed out by the Korean orphan Kim and her budding friendships with Hawkeye and Klinger in "Aid Station."
Had a literal one in one episode where she secretly adopted one of the local strays, feeding it scraps of food from the mess hall when no one was looking. Reveals a much more human side to her when she breaks down in tears at the news that the dog was run over by a truck and killed. This leads to another when she befriends a nurse she had berated earlier for being too emotional with the patients. (Ironically, the nurse in question didn't even bat an eye about the dog, while Margaret barely made it to her tent before she collapsed in tears).
Pom-Pom Girl: Takes on the role of cheerleader for her Battalion during the film's Big Game, even though she knows next to nothing about football.
Really Gets Around: In the early seasons, part of the comedy is the fact that Margaret is blatantly implied to have slept with, or be sleeping with, virtually every Major or higher ranked military official who catches her eye. To say nothing of the ongoing adulterous affair with Frank Burns. This aspect gets toned down as she becomes more human.
Sergeant Rock: What she later becomes after her Character Development.
She's Got Legs: As seen on the rare occasions when she wears a skirt, or shorts, or a short nightgown, or runs out of the shower wearing only a short towel (and, curiously, pantyhose).
Slap-Slap-Kiss: Does this with Frank in "Dear Dad...Three".
Her liaison with Hawkeye in "Comrades in Arms" could be seen as a more figurative version.
Sleeping Their Way to the Top: More than once other staff members make remarks suggesting that Margaret has slept around to help her career. And while it's never shown (or confirmed by "Hot Lips"), it is made clear she has had sexual relations with high ranking officers. However, even in her Hot Lips days it was suggested she only slept with high ranking officers because that's just the kind of men she likes, and that she hasn't used it to her advantage. One might remember who her father is. That said, her relationship with particular generals certainly made it easier to make things difficult for Henry.
The Smurfette Principle: There's quite a few nurses, but she's the sole female character in the core cast.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Specifically noted by Hawkeye in one episode, where he describes Margaret to his father like this: "The major is a paradox. A woman of considerable passion, she is also a stickler for military correctness. I wouldn't mind making a grab for her myself, but I don't know how to do that and salute her at the same time."
Stepford Smiler: Much tougher and gritter than the usual example, but definitely one. Even in an early episode we see her smiling over her younger sister getting married, though it's clear that Margaret is bothered that she, herself, is not even engaged.
Sweater Girl: Especially in the early seasons.
Team Mom: To her nurses, in a way. She's very hard on them but she's also quite protective of them.
Vitriolic Best Buds: To Hawkeye and B.J., with some underlying Belligerent Sexual Tension with the former. She never stops snarking at them, but eventually warms up enough to play practical jokes on them and even tickle-attacks Hawkeye in one episode.
Speaking of sexual tension, there's a fair amount of this between her and Trapper in the early seasons. In "Hot Lips and Empty Arms", (while she's drunk as a skunk,) she wraps her arms around Trapper and tells him her true feelings while they're both in the shower.
The same thing happens in "Check-Up", when everyone thinks Trapper is going home and he's given a farewell party, she makes it very clear that she's always found him attractive.
Wartime Wedding: To Donald Penobscott, at the end of Season 5. It doesn't last.
Well Done, Daughter Girl: Shares a moment like this with her father at the end of the episode "Father's Day." Col. Potter gives her this a couple times, as well.
What Does She See in Him?: Margaret's passionate affection for Frank elicits a lot of puzzlement, In-Universe and out. It's implied it's because he is both as passionately supportive of the military and its regulations as she is (in theory, at least) and a relatively high-ranking military officer (rank being a definite turn-on for her). Later series episodes add the implication she also found Frank's tormented side and passionate displays of affection endearing, if not enough to make up for his many, many personality faults. Or his persistent status as a married man.
Maj. (offscreen, Lt. Col.) Franklin "Frank" Marion "Ferret Face" Burns
Played by: Larry Linville
The camp's second-in-command, and a real Jerkass. The closest anyone came to enjoying his company in the series was Maj. Houlihan, with whom he had an illicit relationship—he has a wife and family back in his home of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Abusive Parents: As he tells Trapper in one episode, "I'm from a very strict family. We weren't allowed to talk at meals. We couldn't even hum. Anybody who hummed got a punch in the throat."
During a phone call with his mother, he comments that his father only pretended to like him, a comment seemingly undisputed by his mother.
Annoying Laugh: A childish, high-pitched giggle, ad-libbed by Linville.
Birthday Episode: Both "For Want of a Boot" and "The Most Unforgettable Characters" have Frank's birthday as a subplot. Oddly enough, the former episode is set in the dead of winter while the latter takes place in June.
For a character like Frank, a birthday in the dead of winter, where most people are freezing cold and miserable, seems quite fitting.
Butt-Monkey: Squarely in the sights of anyone on the show with a rank of Captain.
Can't Hold His Liquor: Played with. He's normally a Teetotaler, and when he does drink he tends to get very drunk indeed. On the other hand, he seems to be able to imbibe without feeling it or reacting to the taste. Possibly he can hold his liquor, and just happens to drink enough to get good and plastered on the rare occasions that he lets his hair down.
Combat Medic: What he thinks he is.
The Neidermeyer: What he actually is. In about every field he was involved in, whether military or medical.
The season one episode "Major Fred C. Dobbs" has Henry Blake refer to him as "a fair, competent general surgeon", implying that Frank was not really a bad doctor but merely an inferior one when compared to Hawkeye and Trapper (and later B.J. and Winchester), but as time went by the writers just went more and more with the all-around bad doctor jokes. Granted, those were ubiquitous from the beginning, and was in fact a defining trait in the book. Henry's anger at Hawkeye and Trapper in that particular episode may have led him to give Frank more credit than he deserved. It could also be possible that he is a skilled surgeon, but his own ego causes him to make mistakes that make him seem worse than he is.
Control Freak: One of his defining traits is his being a stickler for discipline and order, especially military. It made his (fortunately brief) tenure as a base commander absolutely unbearable.
Dark and Troubled Past: His stories about his childhood are genuinely disturbing. Even his actor Larry Linville said there was something very dark and dangerous about Frank.
Delusions of Eloquence: He's sometimes prone to this.
Frank: Leadership is a lonely business. Your Napoleons, your Kaisers, your Atillas the Hun...
Dirty Coward: When he believes he's been captured by North Koreans pretending to be supply soldiers, he immediately tries to surrender and offer them all of the information he knows. Lucky for him, even the enemy couldn't stand him and told him to get out of the jeep and walk back to camp.
Dr. Jerk: He's a doctor, and he's a complete and total asshole. What more need be said?
Dry Crusader: In "Alcoholics Unanimous".
Embarrassing Middle Name: Marion
Embarrassing Nickname: "Ferret Face". Which, as he drunkenly confesses in one episode, was given to him by his own brother.note Truth in Television on that one: the nickname and the origin story for it are based on events in Larry Linville's childhood.
"Needle Nose" is also employed in a couple of episodes.
The Koreans in the area also have a nickname for him, though only heard in one episode:
Kim Chung Quoc: The Major had what we call, here in Korea, a real "fertilizer face".
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He seems to really love his mother. Part of the reason he became a doctor was to please her, and when he's upset over Margaret's engagement, a phone conversation with his mother was just the thing he needed.
Fatal Flaw: Greed. It's implied that he truly does love Margaret, but he's simply too greedy to give up his money by divorcing his wife (who has all the stocks and properties in her name).
Fetish: Frank has a thing for feet.
First-Name Basis: Pretty much every other officer in camp routinely addresses him this way (save for Col. Potter, who's Regular Army enough to call him "Major" or "Burns" despite having no more respect for him than any of the others).
Flanderization: Particularly in the fifth season, which led to Linville leaving the show when his contract expired, as there was no further development possible for Burns. (And the fact that even Linville was starting to hate Frank.) While other characters got better, Frank got worse.
Freudian Excuse: Frank apparently had an absolutely miserable childhood.
The Friend No One Likes: Frank is this to the entire 4077th beyond Margaret. Best seen in "Movie Tonight" when everybody in the main cast sings an ad-libbed lyric to "I Don't Want No More of Army Life" and gets an amused/colorful reaction from the rest of the camp. After remaining oddly silent, suddenly, Frank chimes in long after the singing has stopped and everyone's attention is turned away, hastily belting out a lyric that is more of a thinly-veiled threat to Hawkeye and B.J. out of nowhere after feeling too bashful to speak up, and the whole room goes as dead as a mortuary, while Frank shrinks back into his seat feeling totally small and put out and making it obvious that he knew this was doomed to happen.
Gung Holier Than Thou: Frank is constantly flaunting what a patriotic American he is and his love for the military. At the same time, he's also a total coward who lives in fear of actually getting hurt in the war, and he cheats on his taxes.
Hate Sink: Serves as one of these In-Universe. At one point, Hawkeye attacks a particularly obnoxious Frank whilst claiming that nobody will save him due to Frank being "the ten most hated men in this camp". Something of a Running Gag is that even Margaret, the one person in the camp who actually likes him, will often lose patience and call him out on being a despicable human being. Case in point, after he gets Section 8'ed out of the camp, whilst packing Frank's things, Margaret goes from talking about Frank's sweet, tender side to angrily calling him a fink for stealing her alarm clock.
Henpecked Husband: Implied from conversation and from the home movie of his wedding.
Holier Than Thou: Though not so much as his movie counterpart, and in fact most of his ardor is channeled into patriotism rather than religion.
Hypochondria: Seen any time he's sick or injured. Especially in the episode where the unit had to take precautions due to a hepatitis scare.
Gave himself a Purple Heart because he was caught a shell fragment in his eye. No, not a mortar shell fragment, an egg shell fragment. From opening a hardboiled egg too hard.
Insane Troll Logic: He once put a nurse on report for handing him the instrument he had asked for.
It's All About Me: He never cares that effectiveness and morale plummet whenever he's in command (and it's never his fault anyway according to him), he feels he's where he deserves to be and nothing else matters. This is especially evident when he gets the news that the camp is getting a new commanding officer, which causes him to throw a tantrum and then run away from camp.
Jerkass: Frank Burns is the camp's resident asshole. So much so that he was more of an enemy to the MASH populace than the war was, during the early seasons. The war was down the road, whilst Frank was right next door.
Jerk Ass Woobie: As much of a jerk as he is, you really are inclined to feel a bit sorry for him on occasion, such as during the telephone call scene in "Margaret's Engagement." Most of the time, his suffering at the hands of his tentmates is classic Comedic Sociopathy material. His wedding video increases the Woobiedom, with almost no guests, a bride who doesn't smile, and getting a fly strip stuck to his face while cutting the cake.
Lawful Stupid: When commanding, he discovered that the "M" in "M.A.S.H." stood for "mobile". So he naturally decided to move the entire camp 100 feet down the road... and then, the next day, moved it back. For context, the camp is supposed to move with the front lines, not whenever the commanding officer feels like it.
Frank: The "M" stands for mobile!
Hawkeye: Also for meshuggah'.
Leader Wannabe: He often would covet being the CO, and would thus relish the times when (as 2nd in command) he would be temporarily put into command (his underlings, not so much).
Manchild: Frank often displays appallingly childish behavior for a man his age and in his position. Perhaps the most telling is in Colonel Potter's introductory episode; not only does Frank, upon retreating to Margaret's tent after hearing he's being replaced as Commanding Officer of the 4077, start shouting and flailing his limbs around in a temper tantrum befitting a toddler, he then complains about how the camp will miss him when he's gone and starts holding his breath like a toddler. Soon after, he actually runs away from home like a little kid, something that an incredulous Hawkeye calls Margaret out on.
Some of Frank's more disturbing moments arguably bump him up to Psychopathic Man Child, with his willingness to do stuff like steal a colonel's six-shooter to impress Margaret and then allow Radar to take the blame and potentially be given 15 years in the stockade for it.
Manly Tears: On hearing the news of Henry's death in "Abyssinia, Henry". A rare human moment for the character.
Mean Character, Nice Actor: Larry Linville was, in Real Life, very different from his character.
Larry Hama: Larry Linville was a sweet and charming guy, and one of the most popular people on the set. Quite the opposite of what he played.
Miles Gloriosus: Frank likes to make out that he's a tough soldier who's ready to fight the Red Menace bare-handed, but tends to fold like a tent anytime there's a hint of real danger.
Mistaken for Gay: The episode "The Chosen People" has a scene where Frank is on the phone with another Major from the Civilian Affairs office. After bitching about the slipshod way things are being run at the 4077th, Frank tells the other officer, "You're my kinda fella... Hey, maybe we can get together sometime? I have a feeling that we're very much alike." While we only see/hear Frank's side of the conversation, it's clear from his subsequent, horrified reaction that the guy propositioned him.
And, of course, Hawkeye and Trapper deliberately induce this as part of their scheme to gaslight a visiting colonel in "The Ringbanger".
Momma's Boy: Frank's mother is probably the only one who truly loves him.
Significantly, he keeps a photograph of her next to his cot but none of his wife or kids. (He does mention he's got a picture of his wife in his wallet at one point, but considering that he's on the phone with his wife and trying to stop her from leaving him at the time, it's questionable whether that's actually true.)
My God, What Have I Done?: In the "O.R." episode, after discovering he was trying to remove a kidney from a patient who only had one.note A case of Critical Research Failure on the writers' part, as a man with one kidney would have been medically exempt from military service.Exempt, yes. However, a man who desperately wanted to volunteer could easily have covered this up during the induction medical exams during that era. See, for example, Ron Howard's character Private Wendell. Frank's surgical incompetence is usually Played for Laughs, but in this particular case he seems to be genuinely horrified at what he nearly did... and uncharacteristically grateful to Trapper for pointing it out to him in time.
The Neidermeyer: He's rude, loud, obnoxious, entitled, racist, sexist, homophobic, a stickler for draconian discipline, has no respect for anyone but himself unless he's kissing their ass, and is an incompetent doctor besides. Literally no one in the camp except for Houlihan liked him during his time there, and even she has her limits with him.
Never My Fault: He gives Klinger a hard time for being out of uniform by wearing a red bandana while Klinger is delivering some necessary supplies a nurse asked for. Frank physically holds Klinger back, causes him to drop the supplies, and remarks, "See what you did?!"
He'll often verbally tear into his current nurse for a mistake he made or for something he omitted during surgery. At one point his words even cause Nurse Ginger to cry.
Number Two: And no, that's not a Double Entendre. Okay, not an intentional one.
Only in It for the Money : Why he became a doctor, and why he never divorced his wife despite his affair with Houlihan. It's mentioned pretty frequently that his house and most of his investments are in her name.
Patriotic Fervor: And how.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Along with his other negative qualities, Frank is strongly prejudiced against Koreans (even South Korean allies), calling them "savages" and "heathens", and has little use for foreigners in general. He's also a homophobe.
Put on a Bus: His offscreen crackup and departure at the start of Season 6. After losing it and attacking a general and his wife (mistaking them for Margaret and Donald) while on R&R in Tokyo, he's put under psychiatric observation. Then he's cleared of all charges, promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and assigned to a VA hospital back in the States. Hawkeye and B.J. understandably do not take the news of this well.
Rank Up: promoted to lieutenant colonel after his breakdown over Margaret's marriage to Penobscot. Further, in the original book he'd only been a captain.
Red Scare: Bought into this thoroughly.
Sanity Slippage: Not that he's the sanest character to begin with, but he really doesn't react well to Margaret dumping him and getting engaged to (and eventually marrying) Donald Penobscott.
Small Name, Big Ego: Frank's ego far outstrips his actual capabilities.
Straw Loser: Used to help emphasize his villain status in comparison to Hawkeye et al.
Suspiciously Specific Denial: Frequently, especially with regard to his relationship with Margaret.
That Came Out Wrong: Occasionally, in his conversations with Margaret.
Frank: Oh, Margaret, you're my snug harbor. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have you to sail into.
Throw the Dog a Bone: After having spent the entire fifth season being humiliated and abandoned, he gets promoted and given a plum posting at a stateside VA hospital.
Triage Tyrant: Sent in American soldiers ahead of Korean ones even though the Koreans are in much more critical state. However, this IS Truth in Television, as this was the actual standard triage procedure at genuine MASH units. It's the WAY he went about it, however, that put the "tyrant" in Triage Tyrant.
It should be noted that while this is still standard operating procedure for US Military Medicine, Burns way of doing it was purely out of his distaste for anyone that wasn't an American. The triage priority however only applies when dealing with limited staff, and lots of critical patients. If an American or Allied soldier can wait, then a critical enemy soldier will go ahead of them. This is done for two reasons. 1. It shows how willing we are to treat people, regardless of faction, and 2. It allows Intelligence groups to glean information from them later. Dead men tell no tales after all.
Your Cheating Heart: Cheats on his wife with Margaret Houlihan but never planned to actually divorce her. Also carried on an affair with his receptionist before coming to Korea, which it is implied he intends to renew upon his arrival (he is still in contact with her and making references to the hotel they would meet at in letters).
In yet another Hypocritical Humor example, he's also paranoid that his wife is cheating on him back home, to the point of hiring a detective to follow her... and then worrying that she's fooling around with him, prompting him to hire a second detective to shadow the first one. (An unmade episode reveals that she actually has been having an affair with a Congressman, although the canonicity of this is questionable.)
Cpl. Walter Eugene "Radar" O’Reilly
Played by: Gary Burghoff
The company clerk, and the epitome of Hyper-Competent Sidekicknote To the point where the trope was originally called The Radar on this very wiki.; Steve Jackson has actually used him and his ability to know things 'before the Colonel' as full-blown Psychic Powers in two of the company's roleplaying games. In fact, his nickname derives from announcing incoming helicopters before anyone else can. Early on, he's shown as pretty savvy and worldly, and occasionally even a little bit devious; later, the Ottumwa, Iowa native develops more into the lovably naïve Woobie we all know. Note that we didn't say he stopped being savvy and worldly... whether he simply opted to behave better for the new CO is up to the viewer.
Absentee Actor: Gary Burghoff renegotiated his contract to limit his appearances beginning in the fourth season, so there are actually quite a few episodes that have Radar "away on R&R".
And Starring: Burghoff was billed this way in the season 8 episodes up to and including "Good-Bye, Radar".
The Anticipator: More strongly in the early seasons, but Radar is defined by his ability to anticipate and preemptively prepare just about everything, including the Running Gag of always hearing choppers before anyone else does.
Bearer of Bad News:
Most famously at the end of "Abyssinia, Henry".
"I have a message... Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors."
It also falls to him to inform Trapper he's not going home in "Check-Up", and to tell Hawkeye that Trapper did go home (while Hawk was away on R&R) in "Welcome to Korea".
In "Change of Command" he has to tell Frank Burns that Potter's replacing him as CO, an assignment that fills him with such terror that Hawkeye and B.J. accompany him as backup. (To everyone's surprise, Frank accepts the news with calm professionalism...at least until he's alone with Margaret in her tent.)
In "Dear Sigmund" he composes a letter to the parents of an ambulance driver killed in a crash, which Potter then signs. It's implied that this is something he often does.
It usually falls on him to wake up a sleeping surgeon, typically because all Hell has broken loose (incoming wounded, patient getting worse, etc).
Berserk Button: Don't let him see you mistreat an animal.
Don't talk badly about his teddy bear. Or Iowa. Or his mother.
It's also not such a good idea to shoot the bugle out of his hands during morning assembly.
Making fun of his short stature is also a massive source of annoyance for him.
Big Eater: He is seen quite a few times carrying or devouring a huge tray full of food, and is the only person in camp who never complained about the quality of the food. Hawkeye at one point suggests ending the war by having Radar eat North Korea.
Klinger: How can you eat this slop?
Radar: My mouth is tone-deaf.
Bitter Sweet Ending: Of all the characters whose post-Korean War fates we know about decisively, Radar had the absolute worst luck. When he departs the series in season 8, things seem to be looking up for him; he's finally going home to his mother, and he even meets a cute girl — Missouri native Patty Haven — who is actually shipping back out to his neck of the woods. Then, in season 9, we learn that the farm is really struggling financially, to the extent that Radar has had to take a second job. In the After Show AfterM*A*S*H, we learn that the bad harvest seasons only got worse, and Radar ultimately had to sell the entire farm, especially because he couldn't keep up with the competing government subsidies in his area, forcing them both to leave and his mother move in with his Aunt Lucille. In the failed After Show "W*A*L*T*E*R", we learn that it got even worse from there; he married Patty Haven... but she dumped him and ran off with another man on the honeymoon. Not surprisingly, he was Driven to Suicide! What keeps this from being a full-fledged Downer Ending is that, when he went to the drug store to buy a fatal overdose worth of sleeping pills, he struck up a friendship with the girl working there, Victoria, who snapped him out of it. And then his cousin Wendell Micklejohn got him a new job on the police force in St. Louis, Missouri. So his luck had finally turned itself around.
Broken Pedestal: "Fallen Idol" is all about Radar's disillusionment after learning Hawkeye, who Radar saw as a "Super Surgeon" who could do anything under any kind of pressure, was drunk on duty and had to leave the O.R. mid-operation to throw up, leaving Charles to finish for him. Radar was never told it was because Hawkeye was under tremendous guilt for getting Radar wounded in the first place.
Can't Hold His Liquor: Seeing that he doesn't drink often, he doesn't really have much of a tolerance. He once ended up getting hammered on barely two drinks.
Catchphrase:
"Here they come!" or "Choppers!" when sensing the arrival of incoming wounded preemptively.
And then "Wait for it!" if another character says they don't hear anything.
Prone to saying "Gosh" or "Gee", childish and innocent words that reflect his youthful innocence.
There's also the fact that Radar often parrots what someone is going to say right as they're going to say it, which in itself happens so much it might as well be a catchphrase.
Characterization Marches On: As noted above, he's a lot more sly, devious and worldly in the early seasons, including stealing Colonel Blake's brandy and cigars, but he becomes more childlike and innocent after Colonel Potter joins the cast, losing his taste for smoking and drinking anything other than soft drinks.
Companion Cube: His teddy bear.
Country Mouse: From a small town in Iowa. When interviewed, he initially doesn't see the point in saying hi to his mom because there was only one television set in his town.
Cute, but Cacophonic: Played with. Henry and Potter occasionally have trouble getting the staff to quiet down, only for Radar to instantly shut them all up by bellowing "QUIET!" Other times, he merely has to say it at a normal volume and everyone immediately quiets down.
Deadpan Snarker: Not nearly as often as the doctors, but even more so on the "deadpan" end of the scale. And he was more likely to get away with it because it wasn't expected of him.
Frank: Here's tomorrow's routine. See that it's posted.
Radar: (reading the routine) They're not gonna like this.
Frank: I didn't come here to be liked.
Radar: You certainly came to the right place.
Dreadful Musician: His bugling leaves a lot to be desired. And when he plays the bridal chorus on the piano during Margaret's wedding, he flubs a couple notes and winds up noodling a bit before Mulcahy gets him to stop. However, he can play a mean set of drums... as can Gary Burghoff.
Fainting: On a bus with a wounded Korean woman who goes into labor, Radar practically has a Heroic BSoD.
Flanderization: Grew increasingly more childlike and naive as the show went along. Until Pierce got mad at him for his foolishness, which is where Radar began to snap back and mature in indignant response, before finally outgrowing all this in his departure episode.
Friend to All Living Things:
His menagerie of pets. He even objected to killing a rabbit of his as part of a pregnancy test.
In one episode he tells Col. Blake he's got sixteen cats back home. ("At the draft board they found a furball in my throat.")
In another episode, he saves a lamb from becoming an Easter feast by tricking Henry into giving it a medical discharge.
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Rarely swore; his epithets of choice were mostly limited to "Heck!" and "Aw, jeez!"
To the point that when he actually says "Hell," Hawkeye and B.J. realize he's seriously distressed.
Hates Baths: Rarely showered, much to the merriment of Hawkeye and the other officers.
Height Angst: Radar is periodically embarrassed by or ashamed of his shortness, combined with others teasing him this makes him very angry.
Hiding the Handicap: Meta-example: Gary Burghoff has a congenital deformity of three fingers on his left hand, and would always hide his hand the best he could whenever possible on camera, usually by holding a clipboard or some other item related to Radar being a clerk.
Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Former Trope Namer. Generally the main interaction between the unit and I-Corps. One episode is built entirely around Hawkeye and Trapper John trying to get an incubator, going all the way up to (and disrupting the press conference of) a brigadier general. In the denoument, Radar reveals he just traded for one.
Especially in the early seasons where Colonel Blake was "in charge," Radar pretty much ran the unit and pointed to the lines where Blake needed to sign. (One episode had Blake "jokingly" admitting that Radar actually ran things at a camp assembly. Absolutely nobody laughed.)
Later in the series, Col. Potter plainly and proudly said "Radar really runs the base" to his worried doctors when his departure to an indoc required Burns to be in charge.
In-Series Nickname: Called Radar because of his ability to predict incoming helicopters.
I Need a Freaking Drink: In the form of a Grape Nehi, of course.
Malaproper: Occasionally, along with elements of Buffy Speak and Department of Redundancy Department. However, at other times he can be quite eloquent; witness, for example, his impassioned condemnation of the cost of war on people in the episode "The Interview".
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Radar is called as such because he seems to be psychic, knowing when choppers are coming before they do and completing his superiors sentences when asked to do an order. The show makes it vague at whether Radar is psychic or just has extremely good hearing and knows rules, regulations and what his superiors will tell him by heart. Once, Potter managed to foul it up by giving him an order he didn't expect; Sherman was, to say the very least, pleased.
At one point, he appears to be a telepath....
Hawkeye: [writing home to his father] It's very quiet at the moment, Dad. The only man in sight is Radar O'Reilly, an amazing kid. I've never put much stock in E.S.P. but if it is possible for one person to read another person's mind Radar has that ability, the little fink.
Radar: [walking by that very moment]] Is that a nice thing to say?
In another episode, Potter is composing a letter to his wife (which we hear via voiceover). At one point he tells her that his company clerk is "nice enough, but a little squirrelly". Radar, who's busy tidying up the desk right next to Potter, pauses in his work and glances at him.
In the original novel, he actually is. His girlfriend in the book is too.
Meaningful Name: Called Radar because of his ability to predict... well, just about everything, but approaching choppers in particular.
Misplaced Wildlife: He has a skunk. In Korea. Skunks are mostly New World creatures; the few that aren't (stink badgers) are from Indonesia and the Philippines.
Nerd Glasses: Present and accounted for, Sirs!
Not Himself: In his final episode, the "Good-Bye Radar" two-parter in Season 8, he acts noticeably older — and angrier — than what we're accustomed to. According to co-scripter Ken Levine , this shift in characterization was Gary Burghoff's idea, as was having him appear in most of the episode without a hat, revealing Burghoff's rapidly-receding hairline. (Burghoff had also lost a considerable amount of weight since the previous season, giving Radar much less of a youthful baby-faced look.) The idea was apparently to show that the character had finally left his childhood behind and was ready to leave the bosom of his 4077th "family".
Another possible in-universe reason for the change: his Uncle Ed had just died, and the news hit him very, very hard. It's understandable that Radar would change so dramatically upon learning that one of the people he was closest to and grew up with would not be there when he went back home, a reverse of Henry's unfortunate fate.
The Other Darrin: Alone among the main TV cast, he's an aversion of this, as Gary Burghoff had played him in the movie as well.
Precision F-Strike: From the last person you'd expect. But in the episode where Potter's horse takes sick while he's away, the doctors have trouble taking the animal's ailment seriously until Radar lets loose with the dreaded H-bomb (followed by "H-E-double-toothpicks!") It later happens again with no humorous sentiment attached when he's on the receiving end of one from one high-strung Pierce, who accidentally sent him into the line of fire, feels bad about the fact Radar got wounded on his watch, and then tells him "To hell with all your Iowa naivete, and while we're at it, to hell with YOU!" and stop idolizing him. Radar fires back spectacularly by echoing his statement; "To hell with me?! To hell with YOU!!" Followed by a truly epic comeback where Radar defends his small town upbringing and blasts Pierce for all the rotten things he's spouted.
Put on a Bus: He receives a hardship discharge so he can go home and help run his family's farm after the death of his Uncle Ed in Season 8. He meets Hunnicutt's wife and daughter (offscreen) on his way back home, and later sends the 4077th a letter in Season 10. He also makes an appearance on AfterMASH and even gets a follow-up special all his very own titled W*A*L*T*E*R*.note The latter was actually a pilot for a prospective spinoff show, which got "burned off" after it failed to get picked up.
Rank Up: Gets promoted to Second Lieutenant in one episode, thanks to an administrator owing a poker debt to Hawkeye and B.J. It gets undone at the end of the episode, though.
Reality Ensues: When the 4077th receives a letter from him in Season 10, he makes them think all is going well back at home. It is not. Nobody was prepared for Uncle Ed's sudden death, who was helping the family barely scrape by at the time he died, and the farm is on the verge of collapse. This prompts the 4077th to band together and send Radar a Korean kid who's a brilliant farmer to help pull him and his family out of the hole.
The Scrounger: Part of his effectiveness as a clerk comes from his being good at this. He's better at the paperwork side, however.
Security Blanket: He had a teddy bear (likely to symbolize his childlike innocence) which he was always a little embarrassed about. However, in the episode where he left the cast (where his going-away party was cancelled due to an emergency rush of wounded shipped in and he had to leave without saying goodbye to anyone) he leaves it behind so they can remember him; Hawkeye and the others find it in the last scene. In the final episode, they place it in the time capsule, representing all the soldiers who came there as boys and left as men.
The Short Guy with Glasses: With the "short" part, in particular, being the source of a great many jokes from Hawkeye and others.
Shout-Out: Some people will note that the name "Radar" is a familiar holdover from their childhoods. That's because on Sesame Street, Big Bird named his teddy bear "Radar", the show's obvious send-up to Radar and his own teddy.
Spider-Sense: Always knows when the choppers are in-coming before any annoucement over the PA is made.
In "The Army-Navy Game," he manages to hear incoming artillery shells with a radio blaring right next to him.
He also tends to pick up the phone just before it rings, and in the early seasons had a habit of anticipating Col. Blake's orders before they were even given.
Hawkeye: [to Trapper, as Radar picks up and answers the phone] Did you hear a ring?
The Tonsillitis Episode: He comes down with this in "None Like It Hot".
This had been a minor Running Gag through the series up until that point, with Hawkeye randomly commenting that Radar's tonsils would have to come out eventually.
Cpl. (later Sgt.) Maxwell Q. Klinger
Played by: Jamie Farr
A corpsman forever trying to get out of the Army on a psychiatric discharge, most notably by dressing in women's clothing; he cited a family history of this. Of his family, most are not English-speaking, and most are in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio. And yes, both the Toledo Mud Hens and Tony Packo's are real. (The Mud Hens at one point slaughtered the big-league Detroit Tigers in a pre-season game. It was a rebuilding year.)
Always Someone Better: After Radar goes home, Klinger takes over his job as company clerk. Things don't go so smoothly at first, with Klinger taking a lot of flak for not being able to perform to Radar's high standards. However, Potter later admits that it was wrong to expect Klinger to simply be Radar and not give him a chance to grow into the job.
Klinger eventually becomes a clerk on par with, if not even better than, Radar. He eventually earns a promotion to sergeant.
Becoming the Mask: At one point, he worries about his orientation, given that at one point he's looking at sexy catalog shots... and contemplating how the outfits would look on him. Out of character, fears of this being implied by Farr's dressing in drag on TV every week and the fact that his children were becoming old enough to watch their father on TV in same led to Farr lobbying to get the crossdressing diminished (leading to more focus on zany schemes to prove Klinger's "insantiy") and nearly eliminated as the series wore on.
Breakout Character: Klinger had been intended as a one-time throwaway gag character (meant to reference Lenny Bruce and (apocryphal rumours of) his attempts to get out of World War II dressed as a WAC). Kinger proved so popular with the audience and the cast that they just kept writing him into episodes.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: For all Klinger's discharge schemes, he never does them at the expense of his duties. That in turn explains why his antics are usually tolerated by the commanding officers even while they are never fooled.
Camp Straight: He was originally written this way for his initial appearance (in "Chief Surgeon Who?"), but this was changed at Jamie Farr's behest. Klinger wants the Army to think he's crazy, not gay.
Character Development: From Flat Character, add Hidden Depths. In fact, used to name the antitrope to Flanderization. Klinger started off as the guy bucking for a Section 8, then became the Lebanese jokester from Toledo who comes from a hard luck background. And when Radar departed and he became company clerk in Radar's stead, he also had a nightmare about what it would mean if he actually did run out on his friends at the Mash unit and completely stopped donning drag, deciding to ride out the war like the rest of them.
*Click* Hello: Pulled this on a Chinese POW who tried to assault him using a scalpel.
Klinger: Are you crazy? You wrecked a thirty-nine dollar dress! Your people will pay for this! *Pulls back the lever on his rifle and points the barrel not five inches from the POW's face.*
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Klinger had a bunch of awesome moments, usually coming through when nobody expected he would. This is the guy who walked guard duty in heels and a fur stole...and then one time, used said stole to take down someone who had managed to get his rifle away from him without really hurting the guy. Klinger is the corpsman who hauled litters in heels, set the MASH pole-sitting record in army boots and a nightie, sewed his own wardrobe from scratch, drove halfway across Korea and brought back crates of live crabs and a footlocker full of beach sand for the sake of unit morale, scrounged up everything the unit needed when it needed it most, and concocted endless plans to get himself discharged from the army. Granted, the plans never actually worked, but points for creativity.
Crying Wolf: Because of all the escape and discharge-catching attempts, there are several times in the series when others think Klinger is faking an actual source of trouble. Most notably his emotional distress when his wife sends him a "Dear John" letter and his getting sick from a dose of the antimalarial Primaquine.
Determinator: When it comes to trying to get out of the Army, he is an absolute marvel of perseverance.
Henry: (*pulls out binder of Klinger's forged letters*) Father dying, last year. Mother dying, last year. Mother and father dying. Mother, father, and older sister dying. Mother dying and older sister pregnant. Older sister dying and mother pregnant. Younger sister pregnant and older sister dying. Here's an oldie but a goodie: half of the family dying, other half pregnant. (*puts file down*) Klinger, aren't you ashamed of yourself?
Klinger: Yes, sir. (*beat*) I don't deserve to be in the Army.
In "Souvenirs," he tries to get a Section 8 by sitting on top of a pole in the middle of winter. Potter doesn't buy it, but persuades him to stay up there in order to break the M*A*S*H pole-sitting record. Klinger succeeds after 94 hours and change, and Potter rewards him with a three-day pass to Tokyo.
Averted in "None Like It Hot" when Potter tells Klinger that if he can wear a rubberized bodysuit and a heavy fur coat for 24 hours straight in the heat of a Korean summer, he really is crazy and deserves a Section 8. Klinger ends up folding with just one hour to go.
Charles: That man is the Michelangelo of deviant behavior.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Several times.
After he learns his wife has left him for someone else and wants a divorce, he goes looking for sympathy, but everyone thinks it's another con to get a Section 8. Ripping off part of his dress demonstrates he's not joking around this time.
Had this reaction after getting hassled over not living up to Radar's high standards immediately.
One episode shows him trying to decorate his living area with personal mementos, but Potter chastizes him for it. His quarters are the headquarters for the camp, so Potter demands a more professional look and no mementos at all. Klinger responds that everyone else gets to decorate their living areas with reminders of home and expressions of their identity, so he deserves the same freedom. In the end, they compromise and Klinger is allowed to set up some small items.
Klinger once became seriously ill, but everybody believed that Klinger was faking illness to get out of work. When a Jewish soldier develops symptoms identical to Klinger's, that soldier is believed without question, something that Klinger calls the medical staff on. Its eventually discovered that Klinger had developed hemolysis from taking the antimalarial Primaquine, and his life was in serious danger.note In real-life, Primaquine was discovered to lead to hemolytic anemia in patients with G6PD-deficency—for which people of African, Jewish, and Mediterranean descent are a high-risk group. At the time, only Africans were believed to be at risk for this reaction. This is actually lampshaded by the doctors before making the correct diagnosis, with one of them saying they would think it WAS hemolysis excpet that Klinger was caucasian.
Early Installment Weirdness: In his second appearance, Klinger was portrayed as having a Hair-Trigger Temper, to the point where he plans to threaten Frank Burns with a live grenade as revenge for Frank chiding him in postop (and refusing to allow him to wear a lucky red bandana his mother had given him). The incident was never mentioned again, and Klinger was generally portrayed as good-natured and easygoing from that point on. Well, he does have a Berserk Button when it comes to Sgt. Zale, specifically if Zale insults either his manhood or Toledo. In the fifth season episode "Hepatitis", when Hawkeye comes to check Klinger (who's in the kitchen) to see if he's showing any signs of the disease, Klinger brings up Zale insulting Toledo and starts getting worked up and throwing things around. He apologizes, but then gets worked up again with the same results. It gets to the point where Hawkeye has to pin Klinger against the wall just to keep him from doing it again.
Extreme Omnivore: Invoked in one of his more famous one-off attempts to get a Section 8, where Klinger methodically starts disassembling an Army jeep and ingesting the parts (washing them down with motor oil). Deconstructed in that not only does it fail to work, Klinger has to be operated on to remove the bolts, oil and windscreen wiper rubber that he ended up eating after they cause him severe stomach pain.
Failure Is the Only Option: Almost always, with his efforts to get out of Korea. Only two have a chance to work, and he nixes them. In one, he fakes a form to go home, to desert; after What Have I Done, he rushes to get the form rescinded—just as the brass are ready to approve it. In the other, the war ended. He stayed for his new wife.
Klinger: I Can't Believe I'm Saying This...I'm staying in Korea!
In the Season 2 episode "Radar's Report," Sidney Freedman offers to put his discharge through - if Klinger signs a form stating that he is a transvestite and a homosexual. Klinger balks, especially when Sidney emphasizes that Klinger would have to keep wearing dresses for the rest of his life.
Fashionista: The man takes his cross-dressing seriously, and makes sure to get only stylish, flattering outfits that work together and complement each other. Women often comment approvingly on his sense of style.
Gag Nose: And proud of it. He's been known to make light of it himself too, in one episode saying, "I come from a long line of short-nosed people. One day, my grandfather's camel spit in the eye of the village witch. Ever since then, we've been growing 'em like this!"
Guile Hero: One of the reasons he's a good scrounger is that he knows how to talk to and influence the right people to get what the 4077 needs. He demonstrates it in "Cementing Relationships".
Happily Married: Averted with his first marriage to Laverne Esposito; (presumably) played straight with his second marriage to Soon-Lee.
He's Got Legs
Hidden Depths: Klinger has no real love for the Army, but he always does what is expected him at the camp. He desperately wants out of Korea, but he's not going to endanger a patient because of it. And the whole reason he wants out is because, as he explains to Father Mulcahy in one early episode, "I was brought up to respect life, and that's impossible with all this killing."
Demonstrated with his tireless efforts as an orderly. No matter what scam he was pulling, he never once shirked his responsibilities. Even the time that he tried to convince everyone that he was crazy by acting as though he were home in Toledo, he still assisted in triage (under the guise of helping victims of a traffic accident, but still).
As mentioned above, he called out the officers for believing that he was faking an illness to get out of work. He was obviously very offended that they would think he would shirk his responsibilities.
He furiously shouted at and was on the verge of man handling Colonel Potter when the latter accused him of lying about another serviceman being mentally ill. The soldier in question was in fact disturbed, enough so to present a real danger to the camp.
As evidenced by the fact that he is introduced as a corporal and never gets busted down shows that his superiors consider him to have genuine leadership skills and to be a good NCO, despite his endless attempts to prove them wrong. He later earns a promotion to Sergeant and begins to show a talent for scrounging and finagling that would make Radar proud.
Love at First Sight: Averted oh so hard with Soon-Lee. When they first meet, he is in charge of watching her after she is arrested. Their relationship builds over several episodes.
May–December Romance: It's unclear exactly what ages he and Soon-Lee are in-universe, but in real life Jamie Farr has a good 23 years on Rosalind Chao.
Nice Hat: He has a truly impressive and varied collection of millinery to go along with his dresses and other outfits. And, in later seasons, a Toledo Mud Hens cap.
Obfuscating Insanity: His entire M.O., as he seeks a Section 8 to get out of the Army. In one case, he really milks this trope by pretending his surroundings are Toledo, that he's a mere salesman and that he has no memory of the unit. It almost works, but Potter tricks him in the end.
One episode has him confiding to Sidney Freedman a nagging fear that he might be suffering genuine Sanity Slippage.
This man ate a jeep trying to get a Section 8.
According to Klinger, it runs in the family, as feigning insanity has gotten his other male relatives out of military service. He states in one episode that several of his dresses came from an uncle who used the same ploy to get out of World War 2.
Only Sane Man: At one point B.J. suggests that Klinger may actually be this, precisely because he's the only one actively trying to remove himself from the war.
Promotion to Opening Titles: In season 4.
Rank Up: He gets promoted to Sergeant in season 10.
Real Men Wear Pink: Even after he gives up wearing dresses, he still wears a pink bathrobe.
The Scrounger: He takes over the mantle from Radar along with the clerk's job. Radar may have been better at the paperwork angle but Klinger is the better scrounger.
Surrounded by Idiots: For all his own quirks, he often rolls his eyes at the others' antics. "Dear Uncle Abdul" even caps off with this. When Hawkeye and B.J. interrupt his letter to ask which of them is the funniest in the camp, an annoyed Klinger gladly bursts their bubble. He says they just tell jokes all day and rattles off a list of far funnier things lately: Potter getting him to wear his clothes and sit on Sophie the horse for a supposed self-portrait, seeing Mulcahy writing a song, Winchester's bird hunting triggering a landmine, and Margaret shooting her foot locker in order to get I Corps to finally replace it.
Klinger: [continuing his letter] See, Unc? It's no wonder I never got a Section 8. There's nothing special about me. Everybody here is crazy.
Unlimited Wardrobe: He had a vast number of dresses and costumes.
Wacky Guy: Frequently.
Wartime Wedding: To his childhood sweetheart Laverne Esposito, whom he marries (via radio) in season 3. After she finds another love back in Toledo, she and Klinger divorce in season 6... clearing the way for him to meet and marry Soon-Lee at the end of the final season.
Wholesome Crossdresser: Well, as wholesome as an average U.S. Army corporal can be. Abandoned (along with most of the other Section 8 dodges) once he becomes company clerk.
You Know I'm Black, Right?: When Charles goes off on "swarthy" Italians, Max becomes outraged, telling him that his family is all "swarthy" (being Mediterranean).
1st Lt. (later Capt.) Francis John Patrick Mulcahy
Played by: William Christopher (at least, for the most part)
A Catholic priest, Mulcahy is the 4077th's quietly devout company chaplain — and one of the few characters who managed to get a promotion during the course of the show.
Badass Preacher: Whether it is performing an tracheotomy under enemy fire, asking a frustrated and desperate Klinger to give him a grenade, or disarming a desperate AWOL soldier covering him at point blank range, Father Mulcahy knows no fear when called upon.
Badass Pacifist: In the entire course of the Korean War, he had a total of two violent moments - once where he kicked a stove after giving a What the Hell, Hero? to Hawkeye (and admitted that it was completely out of character for him), and once when punching a patient who had struck him while they were trying to give him medical aid (which he spent the entire episode angsting about). The man coached boxing and never once aimed to hurt anyone.
Beware the Nice Ones: He is one of the show's nicest characters (right alongside Radar), but when he gets angry, he is a force to be reckoned with. He scared the daylights out of a pair of patients (one Turkish, one Greek) who refused to stop fighting in Post-Op by telling them, "Love thy neighbor or I'll punch your lights out!" Best summarized by Sidney Freedman:
Sidney: He's shy, and studious, and yet he has a right hook that could stop a truck.
Cannot Tell a Joke: While he certainly had a sense of humor and wit, if he tried to tell a joke it invariably fell flat, even if he was reading the joke directly from a book.
Can't Hold His Liquor: In "Alcoholics Unanimous", he's ordered by acting commander Frank Burns to deliver a temperance sermon to the entire camp. Suffering an attack of pulpit fright on seeing a larger audience than he's ever spoken to before, he takes "a bracer" to steady his nerves... and you can probably guess the rest.
Deadpan Snarker: On occasion, usually when dispensing a little therapy.
Father Mulcahy: [Trapper, drunk, is sitting at the piano at the O Club] Is something bothering you, Trapper?
Trapper: I'm not Catholic, Father.
Father Mulcahy: Well, all in good time... Which is more that I can say about your piano playing.
Sometimes he just managed to get one in before the doctors.
Klinger: Stray bomb appears out of nowhere. Blows up a shipment of chipped beef. What do you call that?
Father Mulcahy: A gift from heaven.
Determinator: The guy never stops. Helping out around the 4077th, hearing confessions, playing therapist to the wounded and the staff alike, working in his garden, helping out at the local orphanage, and he only ever admits to being tired two or three times in the entire series. Also apparently a theme in his sermons. When he's busy, he typically seems happier, because he's of more use. When virtually the entire 4077th was down with salmonella, he was thrilled.
Colonel Potter: Indomitable. The man is indomitable.
Dreadful Musician: He is pretty good on the piano most of the time, but others...
I've been playing this song for twenty minutes, I can't find the ending!
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Suffers from it more than anyone on the show, to his own chagrin. He's repeatedly passed over for promotion from 1st Lieutenant to Captain, and it irritates him every time it happens. But as a dedicated Good Shepherd, he considers his ambition for rank and status as something of a betrayal of his duty to be a model Christian. Epitomized in the episode "Captains Outrageous" where he goes directly to Col. Potter and angrily demands the promotion.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but the grumpy get promoted!
Good Old Fisticuffs: The man is an amazing boxer. It starts as an Informed Attribute, but later becomes demonstrated in his reluctance to hurt people. This also becomes a plot point in "Dear Sis"; see below.
Good Shepherd: Mulcahy is not a parody priest; he is devoted to his charges and the care of their souls. He extends this even to the Koreans in the vicinity, raising money to help orphanages in the area and ministering to both Korean civilians and Army personnel alike. He is also non-legalistic and ecumenical in his theological outlook (which is slightly ironic for a devout Catholic, and very unusual for the time periods in which the show was both set and shot in), to the point of being fascinated by—and even supportive of—local customs and spiritual beliefs. It seems that to him, what you have faith in isn't nearly so important as that you have faith.
Wondrous is man and mysterious the ways of God. And I would have no one shield my eyes from the glory of His works.
Taken to possibly the fullest extreme in the Season 8 episode "Life Time". B.J. is watching a wounded soldier who is on the verge of death, as that soldier's aorta could save another wounded soldier in the OR (the one around which the episode is centred). After Mulcahy asks if the first soldier has passed on yet, B.J. says they're moving the soldier to Pre-Op so the doctors can take the aorta immediately. Mulcahy starts up a jeep to go check the chopper for more blood (which is needed in the OR), then asks the Lord for the most unusual favor:
Dear God, I've never asked You for this before, and I don't know what You're going to think of me for asking now...but if You're going to take him anyway, please, take him quickly so we can save the other boy.
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: He is a man of the cloth, after all. So you know he's really miffed when, for instance, he tells the camp (in the "Blood Brothers" episode), "You're all a bunch of...stinkers!"
While conducting a bingo game, he runs out of Biblical names starting with G, and says "Gosh" rather than use His name.
The Heart: The man is the camp priest, after all. So, naturally, he does his best to be the most empathic and moral of them all.
Hidden Depths: His attempt at writing a war song is initially treated as a goofy distraction, but he ends up coming up with a very dignified one.
Hot for Preacher: Is subject to this in one episode. Very much to his dismay.
Irish Priest: Well, seems to have a slight lilt in his voice sometimes. And is fond of roller derby.
Jack-of-All-Trades: Mulcahy in general shows an open-mindedness regarding other religions and denominations; as chaplain for any soldier who wants spiritual counseling, he does his best to meet their diverse needs.
The Load: Subverted. In "Dear Sis", he feels like this because he thinks he doesn't make a difference. This was right after he got violent with a patient. After confiding in Hawkeye, Hawkeye raises a toast to him and calls him "too modest, too utterly simple a man to know how much strength he gives us just by the decency of his life among us".
The McCoy: Surprisingly, he tends to be the one bringing up the emotional or "morally right" approach to various crises.
My God, What Have I Done?: In the episode "Dear Sis", an unruly patient in Post-Op slugs Mulcahy; the good Father reacts by hitting the patient right back. Even though the patient did justify the use of force by punching first, Mulcahy feels wracked with guilt afterward, especially after the patient angrily suggests that Mulcahy went to seminary school at a boxing gym. (Turns out, Mulcahy actually taught boxing at the CYO.)
In "Blood Brothers", Mulcahy starts acting like a jerk when he finds out a visiting Cardinal will be there for his weekly sermon and wants everything to be perfect. When he finds out one of the patients in Post-Op has been diagnosed with leukemia (after offering to be a blood donor for a wounded comrade), he breaks down during his sermon and says he feels ashamed that he behaved so selfishly over trivial matters.
Nice Hat: The white Panama hat he frequently wears.
Noodle Incident: He's been to two bachelor parties in his life. One was Donald Penobscott's, and the other was apparently wild and involved a nun jumping out of an angel food cake.
Only Sane Man: An early episode had Hawkeye suggest that Father Mulcahy was the sanest person in the camp.
Rank Up: Gets promoted to Captain in season 8, after numerous complaints about being passed over.
Running Gag: If there is some sort of betting pool among the personnel, Mulcahy will usually win (and donate the money to the orphanage).
Seen It All: Says as much by the end of the series:
I'll miss hearing confession, but after listening to you people for so long, I think I've just about heard it all.
This also works as a stealth Tear Jerker since, by this time, the audience knows what the other characters don't: Mulcahy has lost his hearing.
Soldiers at the Rear: As an Army Chaplain, he is not allowed to fight, and most people understand that. One episode, "Mulcahy's War", is all about him making an unauthorized trip to the front precisely so he can better relate to what the hospital's patients are going through.
The Other Darrin: initially played by George Morgan in the pilot.
There Are No Therapists: This is averted, thanks to him. Both he and Sidney Freedman (an actual therapist) admit that he is more the camp's sounding board and confidant than he is their actual spiritual leader. Mulcahy even notices when Sidney himself needs some counseling. And when he needs one, he usually turns to Hawkeye, of all people. Multiple times throughout the series, he questions his own usefulness amongst the destruction, and notes that the stakes are higher with his line of work.
[to Hawkeye] When you lose a patient, he's out of his misery. When I lose a patient, he's lost his soul.
Capt. B.J. Hunnicutt
Played by: Mike Farrell
A competent surgeon from San Francisco, California. He's introduced as a clean-shaven, nice-guy replacement for Trapper John at the start of the fourth season. As the series goes on, he starts slipping in his sanity (although not quite as far as some); granted, in his very first episode, he has to deal with a farmer using his daughters as minesweepers and roadside surgery. Later he would grow a Seventies Porn Moustache, and start letting out another facet foreshadowed in a Mockumentary episode: a growing anger.
Berserk Button: He's one of the nicest character on the show, but he has his buttons.
Don't question his loyalty to his family. Aside from his rant in "Period of Adjustment", he threatens to "break every bone" in the body of a colonel who insinuated that he fathered a half-Korean child.
He's also very protective of Hawkeye. He frequently stands up for him verbally and once completely lost his cool, threatening to "break the neck" of a soldier who tried to throttle his friend.
Beware the Nice Ones:
Generally, he was the resident Nice Guy family man on the show but when he lost his temper and let his frustration out he could get violent. Namely by getting stinking drunk, smashing the still, and punching Hawkeye in the face. Later, after the confrontation with the soldier who tried to hurt Hawkeye, he turned to Father Mulcahy, who suggested using his speedbag for a bit. B.J. knocked the thing off its mounting with one hit.
B.J.: I...er...I'm sorry, Father.
Mulcahy: Nothing to worry about, my son. beat Maybe you should try needlepoint.
He's also revealed to be an even better, more devious prankster than anyone else in camp.
The Big Guy: Mike Farrell is one seriously tall man (then again, so were Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson and David Ogden Stiers). A Running Gag is his shoe size - according to Sidney in "Dear Sigmund," he wears size fifteen. Most of the time, though, he falls into Gentle Giant territory. He's also the only officer besides Mulcahy to ever be shown voluntarily exercising in any way.
Break the Cutie: Gradually over the show's run. Doesn't quite complete, but he's waved goodbye to Hawkeye with his knuckles at least once.
Character Development: In the earlier episodes, B.J. tends to be idealistic, passionate, but a bit naive whereas Hawkeye was the more cynical of the two. By the end, Hawkeye would frequently be the passionate one trying to enact some kind of change with B.J. acting as the cynical voice of experience restraining him.
Cool Bike: He acquires one in "Blood and Guts" (although it's taken and subsequently wrecked by another character), and a different one in "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen". He's first seen on one in "The Yalu Brick Road," but it was presumably only borrowed long enough to get him and Hawkeye and their accidentally captured Chinese prisoner back to camp.
Fatal Flaw: As with the other surgeons, pride. Hawkeye even mentions that every time one of his patients develops complications, B.J. starts getting worked up.
Happily Married: He adores his wife Peg who is very supportive and loving spouse. They have a daughter named Erin, whom he also adores.
Hidden Depths: Sidney is surprised to find out clean-cut, nice guy B.J. is the prankster in "Dear Sigmund." Also, his darker, angry side peeks out more often as the show goes out.
The Lancer: Hawkeye's best friend.
Meaningful Name: His mother's name is "Bea", his father's name is "Jay".
Morality Chain: Tries to be this for Hawkeye in general, although he sometimes needs a little help too.
Nice Guy: He's just a generally sweet-tempered, easy-going, affable sort of fellow. Makes him an interesting foil to Hawkeye, since the latter is a lot more of a scheming, hysterical, somewhat self-righteous jerk by comparison.
Nice Shoes: Later in the series he started wearing a pair of black Converse All-Star sneakers.
One Head Taller: According to a throwaway line in "The Kids," his wife is only 5'1". Mike Farrell stands at 6'3".
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: "Period of Adjustment" and "Wheelers and Dealers" both involve B.J. sinking into sullen depression and turning on other characters in response to a letter from Peg.
The Prankster: Several episodes revolved around B.J.'s mastery of the prank gambit. It's established early on that this is one of his ways of coping with the stress of war.
Pungeon Master: Not as much as Hawkeye, but he's quick to sling a pun or two when presented with the option.
Real Men Wear Pink: Spent much of the last few seasons wearing a pink shirt whenever he wasn't in the O.R.
Secret Keeper: In the series finale, Father Mulcahy begs him not to inform the others of Mulcahy's hearing loss. He never does.
Spell My Name with an "S": One long-running argument is if his first name is actually spelled "BJ" or "B.J.". Sources like IMDb use "B.J." for consistency based on the spelling in the show's credits.
Tranquil Fury / O.O.C. Is Serious Business: B.J. seldom wears his rage on the outside - when he explodes, look out.
Vitriolic Best Buds: His relationship with Hawkeye occasionally crosses into this, especially in the later seasons.
What Have I Done:
As a result of a Sadistic Choice in a late episode.
When he cheats on his wife, he deeply regrets it.
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Hawkeye spends an entire episode trying to find out what "B.J." stands for. It turns out that's his actual name, given by his parents: Bea and Jay.
Your Cheating Heart: Cheats on his wife with a nurse jilted by her husband. Unlike Trapper and Blake and Frank, he feels genuinely awful about it. Is tempted in a later season by a reporter, but resists temptation.
Col. Sherman Tecumseh Potter
Played by: Harry Morgan
The 4077th's commander following Blake's departure. A Regular Army officer and veteran of two previous wars. His eventual hometown is Hannibal, Missouri, where his wife still lives and yet again waits for her husband to come back from war. 1/4 Cherokee as well ... and onetime member of The Cavalry. He even gets a horse, Sophie, during the series.
Awesome Mc Coolname
Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: In his introductory episode. It may have been deliberate, establishing his authority before he settled into the role of Reasonable Authority Figure.
Badass Pacifist: He admits he can't hit the side of a barn with the army-issue sidearm he carries, but his voice is enough to scare his men into submission.
Berserk Button:
Cruelty to horses, or even borrowing Sophie without asking. Deliberately used by B.J. and Winchester to get rid of an unwanted companion. In one episode, distressed by the recent death of an old army buddy, he goes on a minor rant about he hates the fact that the main source of meat for South Koreans is horseflesh, which he finds barbaric.
Only two people ever got away with taking Sophie without permission: Klinger (who was in the midst of an Heroic BSoD after he thought he had reenlisted in the army) and an old Korean cavalry soldier who was just wanting one last ride before he died. Both times, they were forgiven immediately.
Never, ever put soldiers in danger for your own glory. He shuts down two of his old war buddies that get wounded because they took a line command in the name of promotion or glory - both times, it cost him their friendship. For that matter, he on one occasion got tough with a soldier who wanted to transfer to EOD to impress a couple of jerks in his unit.
If you value your safety, don't hurt anyone under his command, physically or emotionally. Even if you're related to them.
Col. Potter: [to Margaret's father] You're so busy being "Howitzer Al" Houlihan, you couldn't even tell your own daughter you love her?
Do NOT attempt suicide on his watch.
Bizarre Taste in Food: He likes raisin cookies, the ones with the stale raisins.
Also, Fig Newtons and scotch. He even tells Hawkeye they're better when you dunk them.
Colonel Badass: Potter served in the cavalry World War I, after which he earned a medical degree and served as a surgeon in both World War II and Korea. He is immensely proud of his Good Conduct Medal with gold clasp, which only an enlisted soldier is eligible for; identifying him as an Army mustang—an enlisted man who became an officer (even though it wasn't available when he was an enlisted man).
Cool Old Guy
Establishing Character Moment: Minutes after he arrived in camp, Klinger presented himself in a dress and rattled off a dozen reasons he should be discharged. Potter utterly deflated him and ordered him to dress in uniform.
Later, after an episode of Hawkeye worrying this regular army man will be a far harsher taskmaster than Henry, Potter gets drunk with the gang and reveals he was just like Hawkeye in World War II. In fact, his Purple Heart injuries were actually from his still blowing up.
Fan Boy: of The Western in general and the novels of Zane Grey in particular.
A Father to His Men: He's a caring leader.
Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Played with. He wasn't above dropping a "damn" or "jackass", but he had a long list of alternative phrases for a particular curse: Buffalo-cookies, horse-hockey, bushwah, cattle-chips, road-apples, mule-fritters, etc.
Happily Married: He loves his wife who must be understanding and supportive. They have grown-up children and form a happy family.
Heroic BSoD: In "Pressure Points," he loses his confidence because Hawkeye had to operate on one of his patients while he was away. During a briefing about phosphorous-tipped bullets, Potter loses control and howls about when they're going to "stop this stupid war!" He has a slightly lesser case during the episode "Point of View" where he forgot to call his wife on their anniversary. In over forty years of marriage he had never failed to give her a call, no matter where he was.
Medal of Dishonor: The Purple Heart he won for being wounded in Guam. After all, it's not like he could turn it down and explain that the shrapnel came from his illicit still...
Military Moonshiner: When stationed in Guam during World War II he had a still. He's experienced enough in moonshining that he gives Hawkeye some tips on how to improve his still.
Potter: When I was on Guam, I had a still. One night it blew up! [leans close to the boys] That's how I got my Purple Heart.
Old Soldier: It plays a part in one episode when he finds out that the last of his old squad has passed away.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: About once per season toward the end of the show's run, there'd be an episode in which the usually even-tempered Potter would take a sharp left turn into Grumpy Old Man territory, usually brought on by some personal or marital crisis.
Papa Wolf: He fills in as a father to Radar, but the "Wolf" part comes in when Margaret's distant father comes to visit. When he sees her father's lack of tangible approval and Margaret's need for his respect, he absolutely lays into the man. And when someone in the 4077 is sending reports to I-Corps about how non-regulation the camp is, the pain in his voice when he tells Hawkeye and B.J. about this is heartbreaking. He's absolutely livid when he finds out his son-in-law had an affair on a business trip.
Reasonable Authority Figure:
He's career Army like Houlihan, and rather more authoritative and no-nonsense than his predecessor Blake, but still capable of relaxing certain regulations when needed. Including, with morale plummeting and a pair of corpsmen tasked to Kill It with Fire on some infected uniforms going overboard, giving in and instructing the camp to build "one regulation bon-type fire" as a way to blow off steam. Potter might be Regular Army, but he was enough of a Cool Old Guy that Hawkeye and B.J. saluted him in the final show.note Hawkeye only ever saluted to one other person in the show: Radar.
Team Dad: Takes Henry's place as this, but puts his own spin on it. Potter is a lot more professional than Blake was, but he still manages to be empathic and caring to his men as well as an effecient commander.
Up Through the Ranks: He started as an enlisted man in World War I.note He lied about his age to fight as well - he was 15 at the time... though in a later episode he states his age as 62, putting his birthdate in 1889 or 1890 and making him 27 at the time of the US entrance to WWI. By the time of the Korean War he's a colonel and surgeon.
While You Were in Diapers: How Potter tells Flagg off when the latter questions the former's patriotism.
You Know I'm Black, Right?: He's one-quarter Cherokee, and takes offense to Burns complaining about operating on a North Korean and phrasing it as Hawkeye getting cowboys and he Indians.
You Look Familiar: Harry Morgan had previously played Major General Bartford Steele in the Season 3 episode "The General Flipped at Dawn".
Your Cheating Heart: He admits to his unfaithful son-in-law that he was once unfaithful to his wife, and while she never found out, he knew and it was a worse punishment. However, while in Korea, he's never really tempted, and when Radar was worried he was going to have an affair with a visiting officer, he replied he just wanted to spend time with someone his own age for once, and it was strictly platonic. He was also in love with Doris Day, but she never knew about it.
Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III
Played by: David Ogden Stiers
A (very) proud thoracic surgeon and pediatrician from Boston, he was initially stationed in Tokyo. Once Frank was Put on a Bus, the 4077th put in a call for a fourth surgeon. The call was taken by a colonel who Winchester was thoroughly trouncing at cribbage. One ill-timed boast later, and welcome to Uijeongbu.
Actually Pretty Funny: He'll occasionally chuckle at one of Hawkeye's or B.J.'s jabs.
Badass Boast: In his first episode, he gives one of these to Potter after learning he has to remain at the 4077th:
Charles: But, know this: You can cut me off from the civilized world, you can incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates, you can torture me with your thrice-daily swill, but you cannot break the spirit of a Winchester. My voice shall be heard from this wilderness, and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer. [*smirk*]
Bald of Awesome: He's a jerk and bald, but his Pet the Dog moments and awesome medical skills make him pretty cool.
Berserk Button: Don't make fun of stutterers. Chiefly because his dearest sister has a strong one. It's notable that she's completely unconcerned and unselfconscious about it in her audio letter. Also, as a Harvard grad, he does not like being mistaken for a Yalie. To a lesser degree, don't be gauche with food and drink. He seemed physically pained when Klinger thought cognac should be chased with beer and needed to be put in the fridge so it wouldn't spoil. He also took it personally when some black marketeers (who had just ripped him off at gunpoint and stolen his clothes and his jeep) were drinking red wine with stuffed capon. Finally, when Hawkeye was trying to get his goat, the only insult that really bothered him was "Your parents voted for FDR — four times!"
Also, never, ever, ask him to slander another person to save your skin. It'll take a bit for the button to fully depress, but when it does, you'll get a dose of righteous fury.
Blue Blood: He comes from a distinguished old-money family from Boston, basically the American version of the aristocracy.
Break the Haughty: Hawkeye and B.J. constantly tried to do this, but Hawkeye admitted he never was successful when writing his will:
"To Charles Emerson Winchester, though we may have wounded your pride, you never lost your dignity. I therefore bequeath to you the most dignified thing I own: my bathrobe. Purple is the color of royalty."
However, what did finally break him was the death of the Chinese musicians he'd been teaching to play Mozart in the final episode. After learning of it, he suffered a Heroic BSoD and smashed the record of the piece he tried to teach them. Later in the episode, he told the camp during his farewell speech, "For me, music has always been a refuge from this miserable experience... now it will always be a reminder."
Can't Hold His Liquor: One episode involves him coming back from a medical conference after becoming completely smashed at a party due to spiked punch and quickly becoming the life of it. (When asked how much he had, he grudgingly replies, "Two, three... bowls.")
Catchphrase: "Gentlemen." Used as his final line in the final episode.
Extended into a My Friends... and Zoidberg gag a few times with Radar:
"Gentlemen... and Corporal."
Compressed Vice: He becomes addicted to amphetamines in "Dr. Winchester and Mr. Hyde".
Death Seeker: He once discovered two bullet holes in his cap, angled in such a way as to show that if he hadn't tripped the moment the shooter fired, he'd have died. He becomes obsessed with trying to find out what death is like, interrogating soldiers who were resuscitated and joining front line aid stations to be in the line of fire.
Dr. Jerk: Jerk with a Heart of Gold type. That said, he had a reputation to maintain. At one point, he agreed to take Hawkeye's OD duty, so Hawkeye could get some leave, on one condition - that Hawkeye never told anybody that Winchester had done something nice. Mostly because then everyone would start asking him for favors. Overjoyed Hawkeye swears he'll never call him anything but completely rotten.
Dreadful Musician: Ironically enough, he appears to be one of these, based on his French horn playing in "The Smell of Music".
Later discussed with a patient whose civilian career was as a classical pianist, but suffered nerve damage to one of his hands in combat. Charles convinces him to continue his career, noting that he has a gift Charles could only dream of.
Charles: I could play the notes, but I could never make the music.
Establishing Character Moment: Several in "Fade Out, Fade In", most notably his Badass Boast to Potter (see above) and turning the tables on Hawkeye in The Tag.
Also his surgical skills. He's overwhelmed by the frenzied pace of "meatball" surgery, and can't adapt readily ("I do one thing at at a time, I do it very well, and then I move on"). But when a soldier comes in needing an operation the other surgeons have barely heard of before, Winchester steps up and carries it off flawlessly. Later in the series, he chastises a substitute doctor for being too slow, having adapted to "meatball" surgery himself, showing he adapted to the pace.
Everyone Has Standards: He's pompous, arrogant, classist and a bit of a Social Darwinist, but he's disgusted by a bigoted major who assigns black men in his outfit to more dangerous duties. Also, he's just as desperate if not more so than everyone else to get out of Korea, but he refuses to take the opportunity to leave if it means wrecking Margaret's career in the process, and he rips up a prospective news article about him that could have gotten him transferred because the article wasn't accurate.
Family Honor: He takes a great deal of pride, not to say excessive pride, in being a Winchester. In "Bottle Fatigue" he's outraged that his sister Honoria would besmirch the family name by getting engaged to... an Italian.
First-Name Basis: He doesn't mind if his immediate subordinates call him "Charles", so long as they do not use "Charlie" or "Chuck". (Oddly enough, Hawkeye and B.J. usually respected this request.)
Hahvahd Yahd In My Cah: Has a rather noticeable Boston accent.
Happy Place: Listening to classical music is his mental escape from the war... until the finale, when tragic circumstances turn it into a reminder.
Heroic BSoD:
"The Life You Save" has him suffering one of these after discovering he was nearly killed by a sniper.
And, of course, his reaction to the death of the Chinese musicians in the finale.
Hidden Depths: His love of music, yet saddened by his inability to play musical instruments. He also has a very well hidden generous side, is respectful to those who earn his respect, loyal, and can be surprisingly compassionate when he thinks nobody will notice.
Insufferable Genius: Winchester is a great surgeon... the problem is that he knows this all too well, and acts accordingly.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
One Christmas Episode is the shining example — throughout the episode, everyone thinks of Winchester as a creep because when the 4077th hosted a group of Korean orphans with a potluck dinner, Winchester's contribution was a meagre tin of smoked oysters. However, Winchester had anonymously donated a large amount of hand-poured gourmet chocolate to the same orphanage a day previously. Winchester argues vehemently with the orphanage owner when he finds out that the chocolate was not given to the children but instead sold to the black market. He calms down when the owner explains why he did it — the chocolate would have made the children momentarily happy, but the sale generated enough money to buy enough staple foods for the orphanage for a month.
Charles: And what, pray tell, is the catch of the day?
Klinger: Oh, just one catch, Major. The source of this Christmas dinner must remain anonymous. It's an old family tradition.
He passes up the chance to get the one thing he wants most - a transfer out of the unit and back to Tokyo - because it would involve destroying Margaret's career.
Charles: As painful as this is for me to say, I must nevertheless unequivocally state...that...[whimper] Colonel Baldwin is lying through his teeth. He offered to have me reassigned to Tokyo if I would bear false witness against Major Houlihan. [turns to Baldwin] I've groveled! I have endured your insufferable cribbage playing. I have kissed your brass. But I will not — even for a return to that pearl of the Orient, Tokyo — lie to protect you while destroying a friend's career!
In another episode, he dresses down an Engineer Captain who's been mercilessly making fun of a private with a severe stutter, going so far as to threaten the captain's service record to get him to stop. Winchester then goes out of his way to befriend the private to help him get over his self-consciousness.
In the episode "Sons and Bowlers", he commiserates with Hawkeye over Hawk's dad going into surgery, and is visibly overjoyed when he hears that it turned out well.
Lonely Rich Kid / Parental Neglect: Hinted at. In one episode he admits to Hawkeye that he and his father have never been that close emotionally, while in another he tells Sidney Freedman that "I had my fill of psychiatrists by the age of nine".
Charles: [to Hawkeye] My father's a good man. He always wanted the best for me. But, where I have a father... you have a dad.
Neat Freak: Although the "Pressure Points" episode has him deliberately becoming The Pig-Pen as revenge against Hawkeye and B.J.'s slovenly housekeeping.
Not So Above It All: He's just as capable of pranking as Hawkeye and B.J. are. In his first appearance, he even turns the tables on them with a snake-in-the-cot prank. He even would collude with pretty much the entire camp to help teach Hawkeye a lesson in one episode.
In one episode he admits to enjoying Tom and Jerry cartoons, as well as The Three Stooges.
In another, he finds himself giggling at the awful jokes a member of a visiting USO unit makes. He insists to Hawkeye (who didn't find the jokes funny at all) that they're not funny.
Hawkeye: Then why are you laughing?
Charles: [chuckling a little more] I don't know!
Possibly his Ur-Example was pretending to help the paranoid Colonel Flagg investigate a supposed security leak at the camp...all the while setting Flagg up to embarass himself by accusing not only Colonel Potter, but the Mayor and the Chief of Police of Uijeongbu.
Charles: [chuckling]
Hawkeye: Charles, you didn't have anything to do with this, did you?
Charles: Who, me? Course not. Wouldn't dirty my hands. Unless, of course, [begins to crack up] I could get a good laugh out of it. [loses it completely]
On a subtler level, Charles complained about having to do "meatball surgery" instead of being able to take his time as he would in a stateside operating theater. Later in the series, he admonishes a younger, visiting doctor that he can't take it slow operating on patients.
Number Two: The camp's executive officer after Burns' departure.
Officer and a Gentleman: Sometimes the gentleman would cause the jerkass behavior; sometimes it would be used to crack the jerkass shell.
Odd Friendship: Over the character's tenure, he and Klinger went from mutual disdain to something like respect.
Old-School Chivalry: In one episode, he does not want to talk to Radar's elderly mother, angrily protesting when asked to. However, when he does so, he quickly switches to his polite, gentlemanly, and proper tone as he speaks to her.
Out-of-Character Moment: Screwing over Korean peasants by buying scrip for a tenth of its value in "Change Day". This is nothing like blue blood, old money Charles, who later anonymously donates candies to an orphanage. It feels more like something Frank or Klinger might do. In fact, it almost plays like (and may in fact have been) a leftover Frank script that had the names changed.
Same with the sequence early in Charles' appearances that had him giving a sedative to a wounded man without checking the label first to see if the technician gave him the right stuff. As it turned out, she hadn't, and the fellow almost died. Charles' excuse was the lack of light bulbs in post-op, but he hadn't even bothered to take the bottle over to where he could read it beforehand. He's also whiny and blame-shifting about it afterwards, which Hawkeye calls him on. This is completely unlike Charles, who'd already been shown to follow proper medical protocol even if it slowed things down, and may have been a rewritten Frank story.
Pet the Dog: Frequently. Almost every few episodes. See Jerk with a Heart of Gold above.
Reasonable Authority Figure: In another contrast to Burns, he's usually one of these when acting as C.O. in Potter's absence, letting the staff go about their usual business without interference. Well, save for appointing Klinger as his personal valet.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: He tries to employ this on occasion, though never to any avail.
In "Fade Out, Fade In", when he protests to Col. Potter about being permanently assigned to the 4077:
Charles: Sir, my father knows Harry Truman. He doesn't like him, but he knows him.
Potter: [sarcastically] Fine. You have Dad call Harry, then have Harry call me, and then we'll work something out.
In "The Winchester Tapes", as he records a taped message to his parents:
Charles: Father, you must know someone influential who can get me out of here. Talk to Senator Griswold. After all, you paid good money for him.
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Frequently. Hawkeye impersonates him on the phone in one episode and resorts to using made-up words.
Smart People Know Latin: Invoked and amusingly subverted. In "Snappier Judgment", Winchester defends Klinger at a court-martial for allegedly stealing a camera. At one point during the proceedings he objects on the grounds of "unum piliolae, acidus salicilicus tres in diem, post cibum"... which, as the presiding officer points out, translates to "aspirin three times a day".
This is actually sort of justified, since this was exactly the way medical schools taught prescription dispensation for decades. It's a very legitimate and smart way of knowing some Latin, just not judicial Latin, and Charles was unfortunate enough to run into someone else who knew it.
Smart People Play Chess: Occasionally seen playing chess against himself to pass his long periods of boredom in-between heavy casualties. He played it against Hawkeye and B.J. as well, usually winning without much difficulty.
Smug Snake: Occasionally, whenever the writers wanted to emphasize his jerkass tendencies.
Sophisticated as Hell: At the end of "The Winchester Tapes":
Charles: [recording a taped letter for his parents] Mother and Dad, I will put this as eloquently and succinctly as possible... [stopping to pour tea, only to find B.J. has stuffed a rubber chicken into his teapot] Get me the HELL out of here!
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Subverted in his first episode; everyone who encounters his Dr. Jerk side assumes that he's the new Frank Burns, until they see him operate and realise that he really is just that good.
Throughout his first season, he kind of dances around it, Depending on the Writer. Some episodes were clearly written with Frank in mind, making Charles greedy and conniving and trying to set him into the same role as Frank, making him a very slow surgeon instead of a bad surgeon and setting up a romance with Houlihan. This was quickly abandoned.
Unsportsmanlike Gloating: What got him assigned to the 4077th. His cribbage partner Colonel Baldwin was in the middle of fielding a personnel request from Potter but was interrupted by Charles pointing out there'd been an error in the math: Baldwin didn't owe Charles $672.11, he owes him $672.17.
What the Hell, Hero?: "Comrades in Arms" gets him in big trouble when Klinger finally manages to get through to a general that can send someone out to find Pierce and Houlihan, who are both trapped behind enemy lines during a North Korean offensive. Winchester tries to take advantage of it to get a transfer out while Klinger runs to get Potter, then ends up hanging up in a fit of pique when the general refuses to transfer him to Tokyo. When B.J. and Potter find out they are not pleased, especially when they'd been waiting nearly an entire day to get through to that general.
Wine Is Classy: It was bad enough that the Korean black market crooks double crossed him and Father Mulcahy, robbed them of their goods (including the wine and gourmet food Winchester donated), their jeep, Winchester's uniform and polar suit — leaving him in only his long underwear — and refused to turn over the much-needed pentothal they came for; what really disgusted him about them was seeing them drink the red wine with stuffed capons!note Since you're obviously supposed to pair white wine with poultry.
Capt. Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones
Played by: Timothy Brown
Originally introduced in the novel and movie as a ringer for an interunit football game, he vanished about midway through the show's first season, ostensibly after the network learned that there weren't any black surgeons in the theatre.
Adaptation Distillation: A special case. When the first season episodes were recut for syndication to allow more time for commercials, most of Spearchucker's scenes were excised. If you've only seen the early episodes in their trimmed form, you will be surprised at how large his part is in the uncut originals.
Aluminum Christmas Trees: There were, in fact, black surgeons in Korea. Jones was based on a surgeon who left a month before Richard Hooker arrived at the 8063.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Disappears without comment part-way through season one.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: his nickname is technically a racist slur against black people, but was lampshaded in the original movie by him saying he earned it by competing in the javelin throw in college.
Nice Hat: A bright orange floppy model.
Token Minority Couple: At least one episode has him dating Nurse Ginger, who - you guessed it - is also black.
You Look Familiar: Timothy Brown had previously played Corporal Judson in the original movie.
Capt. "Ugly" John Black
Played by: John Orchard
Another novel/movie character seen in the show's first season, Ugly John was an anesthesiologist hailing from Australia.
Adaptational Attractiveness: Inverted. The book describes him as attractive, whereas on the show he's... well, ugly ◊.
Adaptational Nationality: Ugly John was American in the novel and film.
Badass Mustache
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Disappears inbetween Seasons 1 and 2.
Fake Nationality: John Orchard was an Englishman.
Nice Hat: His Australian bush hat.
You Look Familiar: John Orchard later turned up in the Season 8 episode "Captains Outrageous", as the bribe-taking MP Muldoon.
Pvt. Igor Straminsky
Played by: Jeff Maxwell (usually; Peter Riegert replaced Maxwell in two sixth season episodes)
The long-suffering mess hall and kitchen staffer, who tends to cope the bulk of the camp's disgust-fuelled abuse over the lousy quality of their rations.
Butt-Monkey: Whenever people are upset about the food, they always take it out on him. After putting up with it for so long, he finally calls them out in "Morale Victory".
Camp Cook/Lethal Chef: Although technically, he merely serves the awful food rather than cooking it. (The actual cook, a Sgt. Pernelli, was mostly unseen but did appear in a few later-season episodes.)
The Ditz: He's frequently portrayed as a mild version of this. Most notably, in one episode revolving around the celebrations of a year spent in Korea, he takes the ears of corn lovingly grown by Father Mulcahy and creams them, affrontedly suggesting that next time he'll just roast them on the cob (which is what Mulcahey and the others had wanted in the first place) when he sees the Irish priest's angry disbelief.
Dumb, but Diligent: He's not gonna win any medals for intelligence, but Igor is competent and hard-working enough that no one complains about him (they just complain about everything else his job entails).
Never My Fault: He takes out his frustrations at not getting promoted on Hawkeye (one of the members of the promotion committee) despite the fact that he was unfit for promotion as shown during his oral exam when he couldn't answer basic Army questions that even a civilian would know.
Sudden Name Change: In the "Bug Out" episode he's addressed as "Sowkowitz" by Hawkeye and B.J.
In one episode, Frank demands his name. The actor accidentally gave his real last name of Maxwell and Larry Linville decided to Throw It In! and kept going.
Staff Sgt. Zelmo Zale
Played by: Johnny Haymer
One of the minor sergeants who were part of the 4077's staff, originating from New York. Officially, he was rostered as the unit's supply sergeant. Appeared rarely, mostly notable for his bickering with Klinger and his hot temper.
Alliterative Name: Zelmo Zale.
Arch-Enemy: He and Klinger had a long-running feud.
Brooklyn Rage: Very much a hot-blooded New Yorker.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After his last appearance (which comes in Radar's farewell episode, coincidentally enough) he vanishes without explanation.
Gadgeteer Genius: Claims to be one, but his invention ends up failing spectacularly and injuring Hawkeye.
Your Cheating Heart: In one episode we learn that he's keeping a Korean "moose" on the side. Not that that keeps him from going nuts when he learns his wife has been unfaithful as well.
Staff Sgt. Luther Rizzo
Played by: G.W. Bailey
The unit's motor pool sergeant. A lazy, unambitious, sluggard from Louisiana who joined the Army because he thought it was a perfectly good skive. As he puts it, where else but the Army can you be a bum and actually get paid for it?
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Downplayed. He seems to be asleep whenever he's on duty, drunk or gambling whenever he's not, but the motor pool is always ready to go. He's also a pretty good teacher as all of the students who take his remedial driving course pass the written exam with high scores on the first try (except Col. Potter, who slept through most of it).
Loan Shark: He puts the bite on Winchester (at 100% interest per day) in "That Darn Kid".
Sleepyhead: Uses his assignment in the motor pool as an excuse to spend the day sleeping underneath the Jeeps that he's ostensibly repairing.
Rizzo: Could you hold it down? There are people trying to work—Oh my gosh, it's night. Could you hold it down? There are people trying to sleep.
Simple-Minded Wisdom: Not very bright, but he does show moments of wisdom like when he gives Klinger advice about how to handle army life.
Southern Fried Sergeant
Lt. Kealani Kellye
Played by: Kellye Nakahara
The most prominent recurring nurse character, a Japanese-Hawaiian (or, in "Life Time," a Chinese-Hawaiian).
A Day in the Limelight: "Hey, Look Me Over", the last season premiere, centers around her. Her actress was well-liked among the cast, so Alan Alda surprised her with the episode.
Alliterative Name: Kealani Kellye
Ascended Extra: Originally a background character, Kellye began to get more exposure and dialogue in the show's later years, culminating in a well-regarded A Day in the Limelight episode.
The Danza: "Kellye" is Kealani's last name, but the first name of her actress, Kellye Nakahara.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: This was the point of her A Day in the Limelight episode ("Hey, Look Me Over"), showing Hawkeye being a Jerkass to her (through seeing right through her and ignoring her) just because she doesn't measure up to Hawkeye's standards of beauty.
On the other hand, she's been seen with Radar and a number of other guys, so it kind of fell flat, although her beef may have been because she seemed to be the only nurse that Hawkeye hadn't tried to sleep with.
Girlish Pigtails: Her favored hairstyle.
Sudden Name Change: AND HOW! As an extra, she was called "Nurse Able" or "Nurse Baker", which were the placeholder names for any generic nurses in the scripts (she shared the names with the other regular background nurses, as it was apparently assigned to whichever nurse had a line in the particular episode). As her character started to expand, she was assigned differing names — one episode she was Nurse Yamato, in another, she was Nurse Nakahara, before the writers finally settled on "Kealani Kellye".
Maj. Sidney Freedman
Played by: Allan Arbus
A psychiatrist assigned to the 121st EVAC Hospital in Seoul, he frequently visits the 4077 to assist on difficult cases... and to get in on the occasional poker game.
Ambiguously Jewish: During an episode where a soldier thinks he is Jesus, this exchange takes place:
B.J.: Come to see your savior?
Sidney: Mine? No. Yours?
B.J.: Who knows?
A Day in the Limelight:
"Dear Sigmund" is narrated by him as a "letter" to Freud.
"War of Nerves" also gives him considerable focus.
Book-Ends: In his first appearance on the show, he exits the scene by telling the doctors, "Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice. Pull down your pants, and slide on the ice." In the series finale, after deeming Hawkeye mentally fit, and knowing this will probably be the last time he sees everyone in the 4077th, he deliberately invokes this by once again exiting with that line.
Deadpan Snarker: Not all the time, but when he's in the mood he can more than hold his own with Hawkeye and company. For instance, on being confronted with Klinger in his first appearance, he loses it a little:
"You got me up here to ask about him? About that?... All the way from Seoul, to ask me what? Whether he needs a girdle under that? Whether his seams are straight?"
Despair Event Horizon: In "War of Nerves", when it turns out one of Sidney's patients commited suicide. Father Mulcahy notes they're Not So Different.
Sidney: When Pierce and Hunnicutt lose one, he's out of his misery. When I lose one, I've lost a mind.
Mulcahy: When I lose one, I've lost a soul.
Guest-Star Party Member: Occasionally joins the team to assist them with healing troubled patients, including one shift in the O.R. actually performing surgery.
Hero of Another Story: He's very much like Hawkeye in terms of morals and ethics, just one from a different field of medicine and from a different unit.
Layman's Terms: Freedman states that in his personal diagnosis of Flagg, he's "spooky".
Meaningful Echo: As he's bidding farewell in the final episode, he repeats a line he'd used in Season 3's "O.R." when he first appeared. Alan Alda noted in the reunion special that he personally selected this line as Sidney's departing line because it was the one that resonated best.
"You know, I told you people something a long time ago, and it's just as pertinent today as it was then. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice: Pull down your pants and slide on the ice."
My Nayme Is: As Hawkeye explains to Col. Flagg in one episode, Sidney's surname is spelled "with two 'E's, as in 'freedom'".
Not So Different: Admits on more than one occassion that his work is very similar to the "meatball surgery" the regulars do - fix the damage as best you can without worrying about neatness or long-term issues, then move on to the next case. He treats folks to help get them out of immediate danger (such as using hypnosis on an Asian-American soldier to channel his Death Seeker tendencies into a more harmless physical tic), but says many of his patients will need much more help than he can provide them in the short-term.
Not That Kind of Doctor: Technically, he is, although he's very hesitant to help with surgery in "O.R." when the camp is having a crisis, saying he hasn't done any sort of surgery since medical school. He's still able to help by taking the less serious cases.(Some fans have wondered about this over the years, but as a psychiatrist, Sidney actually is an M.D.; he attended medical school and would have trained at least basic surgery before deciding on a specialty. Psychologist's are the ones who have Ph.D's, not medical degrees.)
Only Sane Man: Occasionally.
Open Heart Dentistry: In "O.R." he has to lend a hand in surgery due to the 4077 overflowing with casualties. He helps out with simpler procedures and closing patients up and notes that it's been a very long time since he actually used these skills.
The Shrink: Awesome variety. Psychology Today once lauded him as the "best TV shrink ever ".
Sudden Name Change: Freedman's first name is given as "Milton" in his initial appearance. (Perhaps the change was made so viewers wouldn't confuse him with the economist Milton Friedman?)
There Are No Therapists: Thanks to him, averted. Though he mentions at least once that he could use a therapist sometimes. He has his own breakdown prior to "Dear Sigmund," due to the workload and losing cases due to the strain the war was putting on his patients.
Took a Level in Kindness: In his first appearance, Sidney enjoys trolling Klinger and is somewhat apathetic. In later appearances, he's generally a friendly, compassionate guy to everyone and hopes that someday Klinger can get out on his own terms.
Lt. Col. (later Col.) Sam Flagg
Played by: Edward Winter
A psychopathic governmental intelligence agent (read: spy) who occasionally blows through the 4077, always on the look-out for Communist subversives and so paranoidly overzealous that the doctors took a delight in leading him headlong into disasters of his own making.
CIA Evil, FBI Good: Although he keeps it a little fuzzy who he works for in his first appearance, the writers eventually settled on him being CIA.
Cloud Cuckoolander: Hard to believe otherwise. Likely his defense against the Red Scare. He's so secretive that by his own word even he doesn't know the truth, keeping himself in a state of total confusion.
Flanderization: His goofier antics showed up later in the series.
Gung Holier Than Thou: The Trope Namer.
Harmless Villain: He's more dangerous to himself than anyone else, and when Potter took charge he made it fairly clear that he tolerated Flagg's shenanigans because in the end he wasn't likely to do any actual damage to the unit or the patients.
Incredibly Obvious Tail: He is a master of this.
Iron Butt-Monkey: Flagg has been known to injure himself on purpose simply to make his charade convincing. Hawkeye lampshades this in an episode while referring to a previous one, saying "If we had more guys like you, we'd have less guys like you."
Shown to a triumphant degree in one of his earliest appearances, where he wrecks the VIP Tent and himself, both on purpose to make it look like a soldier he'd let go escaped violently. It gets so absurd that at the climax of the scene, we see Flagg judging the best angle of attack before rushing headfirst into a cabinet!
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: It's implied that he uses this when given the opportunity.
Actually shown (and out of character for Flagg, played chillingly straight) in one episode, where he tries to interrogate a recovering North Korean by bending his IV line, saying "You give me what I need, and I'll give you what you need." Radar, of all people, stops him, exclaiming "You can't just go around threatening people's blood!"
Jerkass: He's an aggressively domineering, demeaning, arrogant boor of a man.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Although, he used to be competent and a Reasonable Authority Figure post-Flanderization. He was also far more laid back and even participated in the camp poker game.
Master of Disguise: He likes to think he is this, and gets really upset whenever anyone sees through his disguise. Still doesn't keep the others from mocking his attempts, however.
Charles: Oh Colonel Flagg. Sorry, I didn't recognize you without your garbage can. Don't you have a dark one for evening?
Potter: Nice suit. Your clown outfit in the cleaners?
Noodle Incident: Anything he mentions usually is one of these. Apparently he was a showgirl in Vegas at the Sands for six weeks. And he's going to need that cover of Louise Kline next week in Tokyo. The MP crew that shows up in his last appearance apparently are familiar with him hunting for spies where there aren't any.
Patriotic Fervor: He even manages to outdo Frank Burns in the jingoism department.
Spy Speak: Part of his comedic act was constantly using this. He sent a telegram to his superiors - at a P.O. Box in Tijuana.
"Mary had a little lamb. My dog has fleas. Mairzy doats and dozy doats and I'll be home for Christmas. Your loving son, Queen Victoria."
Stealth Hi/Bye: He thinks he's good at this but always fails miserably.
Hawkeye: The "wind" just broke his leg!
Sudden Name Change: Edward Winter first appeared in Season 2's "Deal Me Out" as a CID man named Captain Halloran. It's Fanon that the character is really Flagg using one of his many aliases.
In Season 4's "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?", Flagg encounters Sidney Freedman, telling him, "We played poker once." This further supports the theory that Flagg and Halloran are one and the same, since the latter had indeed played poker with Sidney in "Deal Me Out".
Too Kinky to Torture: Hard to tell if it's an actual fetish, but Flagg seems extremely willing to do physical violence to himself at the slightest prompting. Over the course of the show, he purposely crashed a helicopter, broke his own arm (twice!), and bashed his head into a wooden cabinet—all in the line of duty, of course. He also mentioned that he trained himself not to laugh by poking himself with a cattleprod while watching shorts from The Three Stooges. Another intelligence officer mentioned that Flagg once drove his jeep into a wall and set himself on fire.
Hawkeye: If we had more men like you, we'd have less men like you.
You Look Familiar: Edward Winter appeared in the Season 2 episode "Deal Me Out" as Captain Halloran from the CID. Since he's a spy, Captain Halloran could have easily been Flagg in disguise; it's never confirmed, but it is lampshaded in Season 4's "Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler?":
Col. Flagg: (to Sidney Freeman): I'm Colonel Flagg, we played poker together once.
Played by: Shizuko Hoshi (Season 3), Frances Fong (Seasons 5-6), Eileen Saki (Seasons 7-10)
The owner of a small bar situated just outside the 4077, she provided a refuge for many of its personnel away from the routine of the camp.
Lt. Col. Donald Penobscott
Margaret with Donald 1 and 2. Neither lasted long.
Played by: Beeson Carroll (Season 5), Mike Henry (Season 6)
An officer from a wealthy family whom Margaret meets and falls in love with whilst on leave; the relationship is so sincere that they are eventually married, something that causes Frank Burn to have a mental breakdown. Unfortunately for Major Houlihan, the Lt. Colonel is an adulterous tightass who tries to dominate her and steals her paychecks whilst sleeping around behind her back, an abuse that eventually pushes her to the extent of divorcing him.
Blue Blood: Apparently. Which doesn't stop him from being a tightfisted cheapo.
Big Ol' Unibrow: Hawkeye indicated that he had one, but it wasn't there in his two appearances (For that matter neither was the tattoo on his bicep that Margaret had mentioned.).
Financial Abuse: His system with Margaret is she sends him every paycheck and in return, he sends her an allowance of thirty dollars a week (Adjusted for inflation, equal to $263.16 up to $291.26 depending on what year of the war you're adjusting for), ostensibly so they can buy their dream house after the war's over. When there's a goof up with the pay, and Margaret appeals to him for a week's advance, he refuses to give her a penny. By the way, he and his family are supposed to be rich.
The Ghost: For nearly all of Season 5 until his appearance in "Margaret's Marriage".
The Scrooge: Margaret calls him "conservative." Everyone else calls him cheap.
Your Cheating Heart: Though it destroys Margaret when she finds out, she decides to give him another chance. She doesn't file for divorce until she finds out Donald has requested a transfer without bothering to tell her.
Capt. Sam Pak
Played by: Pat Morita
Deadpan Snarker: His mouth was even faster than Hawkeye's.
Special Guest: He only appeared in two Season 2 episodes.
Surprisingly Good English: Given he's supposed to be a South Korean officer.
Yiddish as a Second Language: Mostly a case of Throw It In! as Pat Morita would pepper his lines with Yiddish.
Capt. Calvin Spalding
Played by: Loudon Wainwright III
A singing, guitar-playing surgeon who appears in three Season 3 episodes.
Deadpan Snarker: In "Big Mac", he sings Henry and Frank the special ditty he's composed for Gen. MacArthur's imminent visit to the 4077th, and it's a masterpiece of smart-assedry.
Well, it's not Corregidor, you know, it's only Korea
It's a lousy little war, but we'd still love to see ya
And I'm sure we can scrounge up a beach
And you can splash in and give us a speech
With your corncob pipe and your five gold stars.
Greek Chorus: He kind of serves as this.
Shout-Out: His name clearly derives from Groucho's character in the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers.
Sgt. (later Pvt.) Jack Scully
Played by: Joshua Bryant
A front-line infantryman who turns up a few times as a potential suitor for Margaret.
Politically Incorrect Hero: Scully is a decent enough guy for the most part, but in his third and final appearance he's revealed to have severely retrograde (if not uncommon for The '50s) notions about gender roles, which is what finally leads Margaret to break things off with him.
Rank Up: Inverted in his third and last appearance, when he's been busted down to a private for punching an officer.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: In his first appearance (in "A Night at Rosie's") he's AWOL from the front line, explaining that he "decided to go away for a little rest" after an especially intense battle.
Sudden Name Change: His first name is "Jerry" in his first appearance and "Jack" in the other two.
The camp PA announcer
Voiced by: Several different actors, most frequently Todd Susman or Sal Viscuso
Catchphrase: "Attention, all personnel..."
Deadpan Snarker: Frequently.
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: He sometimes will even break the fourth wall during the credits.
No Name Given: Not once are we given his name or rank.
Not So Above It All: Even he once got involved in a prank at B.J.'s expense... quickly apologizing once B.J. realized what happened, of course.
The Voice: Nor do we ever see him, although both Todd Susman and Sal Viscuso had onscreen appearances as different characters.
Capt. Jonathan Tuttle
The non-existent "star" of a single early-series episode; Captain Jonathan Tuttle is most unique for the fact that Hawkeye and Trapper manage to make everyone believe he exists, when he never did. Extrapolated from an imaginary friend Hawkeye would use to try and get out of trouble when he was little, Capt. Tuttle was used by Hawkeye as a way to secretly milk an extra Captain's salary from the army and donate to local needy Korean civilians. When an investigation got under way, Hawkeye and Trapper had to fool the whole camp into believing he genuinely existed - and then that he had been killed off before he could actually be met face to face.
The Ace: "The best damn OD we ever had", according to Col. Blake.
All Germans Are Nazis: Played with. A jealous Frank (before becoming Tuttle's new best friend) thinks Tuttle is a Nazi (despite being from Michigan) for having gone to a German medical school.
Character as Himself: Is billed this way.
Crazy-Prepared: How he died jumping out of a helicopter with everything a surgeon needs... except his parachute.
Druid: Reformed. ("They're allowed to pray at bushes.")
Heroic Sacrifice: Hawkeye claims he jumped out of a plane to conduct field surgery, but forgot his parachute.
Imaginary Friend: Tuttle was originally one of these this in Hawkeye's childhood.
Hawkeye: If anybody said, "Who knocked over the garbage?" I said, "Tuttle." They said, "Who broke that window?" "Tuttle." "Who wet the bed?"
Trapper: "Tuttle!"
Hawkeye: He had no control at all.
Trapper: So, when you got drafted...
Hawkeye: He got drafted.
Trapper: Just in case you wet your cot.
Hawkeye: Precisely.
Invented Individual: Hawkeye and Trapper do this so they can help Korean civilians.
Mr. Fanservice: Hard to say for sure, considering the above trope, but his physical description — 180 pounds, 6'4", auburn hair, hazel eyes — certainly gets Margaret interested.
Trapper: [As Hawkeye rattles off the description he's writing down] Hawkeye, I think I'm in love.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Hawkeye describes him as such during his eulogy, especially in his actions to donate 14 months worth of pay and his GI insurance to the orphanage.
Maj. Murdock
Captain Tuttle's replacement.
Invented Individual: Only this time invented by Trapper.
Replacement Goldfish
What Happened to the Mouse?: He's never brought up again after being created for the one-shot gag at the end of the episode. And, unlike Tuttle, he doesn't even get his name in the credits!
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Rapid Reaction to the 49ers' 51-13 win over the Panthers
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Rapid Reaction to the 49ers’ 51-13 win over the Panthers
Matt Andruscavage
By Matt Andruscavage @mtascavage
Oct 27, 2019 at 6:49 PM • 0
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1) Starting to Believe Nick Bosa Could Be Defensive Player of the Year
Nick Bosa continues to live up to the hype and is dominating offensive tackles.
Bosa finished with 4 tackles, 3 sacks and a gorgeous interception that almost turned into a pick six.
He consistently pressures the quarterback and makes plays. The scary part is, he's just getting started.
2) The Run Game Hasn't Missed a Beat
The 49ers ran for 232 yards and five scores against a very stout Carolina defense. What gets overlooked is that this production is happening without both starting offensive tackles and Kyle Juszczyk, the all-important starting fullback.
The scheme is certainly part of it, as we all saw on the Deebo Samuel touchdown. (If you missed the game, you really need to see the highlights. This play design was stunning.)
The truth is, tackles Justin Skule and Daniel Brunskill have stepped up in a way few thought possible. The 49ers have also done a great job at utilizing backup tight end Ross Dwelley at both the tight end position and also as a fullback.
The offensive line as a whole (and George Kittle) has been superb thus far at clearing lanes for Tevin Coleman, Matt Breida, and Raheem Mostert.
3) Emmanuel Sanders Made an Impact
The stat sheet isn't overly impressive, but Emmanuel Sanders came up big today. He caught four passes for 25 yards and a touchdown. Two of those catches went for first downs and he scored the opening touchdown.
The opening touchdown really set the tone and showed that the offense wasn't going to settle for field goals.
The Sanders pickup is as big of a pickup as anyone else they added this year.
4) The Defense is Elite and Can Carry the Team Far
Carolina came into the game on a four-game winning streak, a quarterback who hadn't lost a game or thrown an interception, and it was coming off a bye. It didn't matter, largely because the 49ers have an elite defense.
The 49ers completely dismantled the offense of the Panthers and finished the day with seven sacks, three interceptions, and held them to 230 yards. Carolina was only able to convert two out of 13 on third down and got stopped both times it went for it on fourth down.
Teams have only been able to score a total of 23 points the last four games and haven't been able to do much of anything. This defense will be a problem for anyone and can truly carry this team. Fortunately, the offense will continue to get better, making this a complete team.
5) Extra Points
- Tevin Coleman showed why the team wanted him. He finished with 115 rushing yards and four total touchdowns. His 48 yard scamper before the half made the game feel like a rout.
- It wasn't all Nick Bosa. Arik Armstead finished with 2 sacks, while D.J. Jones and Ronald Blair also had one apiece.
- Emmanuel Moseley had a big interception that set up the touchdown that put San Francisco up 21-3. He has filled in nicely for Ahkello Witherspoon.
- Richard Sherman continues to show that he is all the way back with his third interception on the year.
- Robbie Gould was perfect on the day with a field goal and made all his extra points. The only failed extra point was a snap mishandled by Mitch Wishnowsky and turned into an incomplete pass.
- The last time the 49ers scored 50 points was on December 7, 2003 against the Cardinals. They also put up 50 points against Atlanta in 1994 when they had their throwback jerseys on.
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Casual Informal Review-The Mule
Written By: Jesus E Soltero
PROMPT: Film Review Competition 2019
Casual informal review: The Mule (The 2018 one)
Narrator: The Mule (2018) with Clint east wood is a remake of the 2014 film, also called The Mule starring Hugo Weaving, this is just the testament of how Hollywood is running out of ideas, and how anything would be reboot or remake despite how recent the movie is…
Editor: *Whispers*
Narrator: it’s not a remake? So, is it a reboot?
Narrator: What how? But they are both called “The Mule”, wouldn’t that be confusing if two separate films just shared the same name, that be like if another film was named “The Avengers” not made from Marvel.
Narrator: There’s a British spy T.V. show called “The Avengers”?!! whatever, I’m reviewing the 2018 Mule since it’s the only one I watched.
The Film stars Clint Eastwood, an ancient and magnificent movie star who is such a historic artifact of the western film era, that he could star in the next Jurassic world movie as the dinosaur (even the cartel call him dinosaur). He plays his alter ego, Earl Stone, a man who hugely ignores his family’s life such as their anniversary, birthdays, etc. ultimately not being there due to work or his own selfish indulgences, to the point that his own wife and daughter wouldn’t go to his granddaughter own Wedding if he was present(oof). At 90, jobless Earl is evicted from his home but gains the opportunity to work as a delivery driver on delivering a mysterious package (spoilers: cocaine) to certain locations, as he becomes a mule (he doesn’t turn into the animal, unfortunately.) for the cartel.
Meanwhile, Luis (Michael Pena) and Goliath guy (Laurence fishburne) from ant-man with Jackson Maine from a star is born (Bradley cooper) become DEA agents. (Unemployment drastically decreased as open positions and promotions immediately happened after the Thanos snap, but then again half of employment was also snapped off.) Their characters are investigating the cartel and its successful mule under the codename called TaTa who is surprise, Earl Jones. Earl is slowly and unknowingly being descended by these DEA agents while he is threatened to follow the Cartels strict rules and schedule if he doesn't want to make his maker sooner than planned.(Maker being his dead mother, and by extension his dad. thats what meeting your maker is, right?)
The film directed, produced and starring Clint Eastwood isn’t very action packed (though wouldn’t be surprised that Clint would be pulling a tom cruise, and do his own stunts.) It’s a character drama based on a true story of a 90-year-old mule. The movie in concept is interesting but just remains at its own steady, slow, pace, like Earl's driving. It isn’t exhilarating, not because of action, but because the movie doesn’t challenge its message of family vs. work, or integration of more character development on Earl. I mean he isn’t bland or one dimensional, he loves gardening, has a sassy, sarcastic, mouth,(which lends to the films humor), has traveled around most states, and tries to be a lovely, altruistic person with others,(he even tries bonding with the cartel), and still has his prevalent flaw of not being present for his family.
But still, that flaw is not thoroughly explored of why he is willing to forsake his family, and his transition into becoming a needed present family figure seems rushed as not many significant events that should show him slowly becoming more integrated into his family life (I can only name four times within the film, that he tries to attend a family event, but they lack any meaning since they don't highlight Earls possible changing nature, or show Earl persistence and trend of actually attending all family matters, or how this man is changing for the better with Earl trying to ask for forgiveness and to make up for his past sins).
In the conclusion of the film, Earl makes a mind boggling decision(which I will not reveal in the review) that I think comes as a unnecessary consequence. While that said decision would seems noble at first, he indirectly forsakes being in the company of his family, in what will be his last living days, (not Clint Eastwood though, he still has some centuries left) which in my opinion undermines the film's message of family vs. duty, where Earl decides only for his own honor. I just wish that the film developed the old man’s relationship more with his family, there should be a bigger struggle to reconnecting with them, and more emphasis should have been placed of why he was so initially willing to not be there for them, and why he did that decision that cost him his (its a spoiler, so don't read between the line if you haven't seen it, FIRIEIEIDIOIM) at the end of the film.
As of now, the movie is pretty decent, not good or great, but not even horrible, bad, or even mediocre. It does have entertainment value, with nice cinematography, Audio, Editing, etc. while its actors especially Clint Eastwood breathe life to their characters, which is enough to warrant a sitting for the film(unless you watch films standing) but it isn’t a movie that thought provokes the audience or would stick with the viewer in the long term. Even with all that said, I would recommend to watch the film, (even if it does execute its message weakly), of an elder mule delivering drugs while he has to choose on what he should prioritize in his late stages of life, as he drives his worn, old truck (or the shiny new truck) on the road. 6.5/10
(You know, now I'm interested in seeing that 2014 Mule movie, with Hugo weaving. Who knows, I could make another review on another Mule movie.)
January 23, 2019 - 2:47pm (Now Viewing)
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Base Lodging
Is there base lodging, if not, where do I stay?
While the 146th Airlift Wing does not have its own base lodging there are two nearby bases that can offer lodging for TDY, stays at the base, or even for leisure. The Navy Gateway Inn Port Hueneme and Point Mugu offer both TDY and leisure housing for military members.
While both these locations offer lodging for members, if there are any questions regarding where you need to stay and are a member of the 146th, don't forget to contact Billeting at 805-986-7829.
How can I contact military personnel?
The Air Force World Wide Locator offered by the Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) handles official and unofficial requests to locate Air Force Personnel. Official requests are defined as requests received from any government agency and the Department of Defense (DoD). All other requests are considered unofficial in nature.
The Air Force World Wide Locator only has location information on individuals who are currently receiving compensation from the USAF (Active Duty, Guard, Reserve, Retired, and Civil Service Personnel). If the individual has separated from the Air Force, no information is available. To obtain or find out more information about the service, you can contact AFPC at:
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If you need to contact a military member for emergency purposes, call your local Red Cross chapter, click on "Your local Red Cross" and enter your zip code.
I have questions about the Air National Guard or the National Guard Bureau. How do I get answers?
National Guard Almanac (30th Ed, 2004), Copies can be purchased for $8.50 + $3.50 shipping. Contact: UNIFORMED SERVICES ALMANAC, INC., P.O. Box 4144-Z, Falls Church, VA 22044-0144. Phone: 703-532-1631.
I would like to sell a product/service to the Air National Guard?
Under the Federal Acquisition Regulations, any contracting opportunities/projects the National Guard undertakes are solicited via normal contracting procedures, including approval from the Acquisition Planning Board.
To find out about contracting opportunities with the National Guard, log on to the Commerce Business Daily website. All solicitations on behalf of the Guard can be found on that site.
What are my benefits as a National Guardsman?
For information on the benefits of being an Air Guardsman, visit the Air Reserve Personnel Center website.
How do I request an Honor Guard?
How do I request an Honor Guard at an event?
The 146th Airlift Wing is ready to support community events involving presentations of the American flag. To request an Honor Guard at a community event, please contact Technical Sgt. Luis Morales Talento at 805-986-7937.
To request honor guard support at a military funeral, contact the Travis Air Force Base Elite Honor Guard at 707-424-5872.
How do I join the 146 AW Honor Guard?
The 146th Airlift Wing is always accepting applications for honor guard members. To find out more information, contact Technical Sgt. Luis Morales Talento at 805-986-7937.
How do I obtain an ID Card?
DEERS/RAPIDS ID Card center:
100 Mulcahey Dr., Bldg 100
Channel Islands, Ca
Mon-Fri: 0900-1500
UTA: 0900-1500
ID Card FAQs:
- DEERS: Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System
- RAPIDS: Real-time Automated Personnel Identification System
- CAC: Common Access Card (used to log on securely to DoD networks, systems, and Web sites; access Public Key infrastructure (PKI)-compliant systems; encrypt and electronically "sign" emails and documents)
- For new enlistments and/or re-enlistments requires a copy of their DD Form 4 contract
- Civilian contractor requires a copy of their contract renewal
- Recently married requires a Marriage license, spouses Social Security card and birth certificate
- Divorced requires a divorce decree.
- Recently had a baby requires their Social Security card and birth
certificate.
- Children ages 10 to 21 receive an ID Card, up to age 23 if their a full-time student.
- Promoted requires a Promotion Order.
- ID cards can only be renewed if within 30 days of their expiration date.
- Please call and make an appointment.
Joining the Air National Guard
How do I find out what will be expected of me at basic training?
For information on basic military training, visit the U.S. Air Force Basic Training web page.
How do I join the Air National Guard?
The first step in joining the Air National Guard is to talk to a Recruiter. You can do that through the Air National Guard web siteor call them at 1-800-ToGoANG (1-800-864-6264). You can also chat with a recruiter live by clicking on the "Chat" button.
How do I talk with an Online Recruiting Chat Operator?
The Air National Guard's recruitment web site features Online Chat Operators who can assist you with any questions you may have for ANG. ANG chat operators are available Monday thru Thursday, 11:00am-10:00pm EST and Friday 8:00am-5:00pm EST. Click on "Chat" in the menu options to access.
How can I obtain copies of my military records?
Individual military departments, including the Air Force, do not maintain files or records pertaining to individuals no longer on active duty. When an individual is separated from military service (because of retirement, discharge from active duty or death), his/her Field Personnel File (containing all military and health records) is forwarded for storage to the National Personnel Records Center (Military). The Records Center is under the jurisdiction of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the United States Government.
An individual's complete service record is available to the former service member or, if deceased, to his/her next of kin (parents, spouse or children). Limited information (such as dates of service, awards, and training) is available to anyone. Not available to the general public is information which would invade an individual's privacy; for example, medical records, Social Security number or present address.
If requesting the records of a relative, a requester should mention the relationship to the former member (brother, uncle, or other). There is no charge for this service to former service members or their next of kin. For others, a nominal fee is charged for research and reproduction costs. Files at the Records Center are maintained as historical records only and are not updated to reflect current data on the former service member. The address for the National Personnel Records Center is:
National Personnel Records Center
9700 Page Blvd
St. Louis MO 63132
Phone: 314-801-0800 or 1-866-272-6272 (1-86-NARA-NARA) For individuals compiling family histories, NARA provides assistance to those interested in genealogy. NARA normally charges a nominal fee for research and reproduction costs. Their address is:
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
8th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
All complaints regarding noise should be referred to the 146th Airlift Wing's Public Affairs at 805-986-7420 or contact Base Operations at 805-986-7577.
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Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Are Delaying Their Proper Wedding: Here’s Why
Katrina Nattress
Nicholas Hunt, Getty Images for NYFW: The Shows
Yes, Justin BIeber and Hailey Baldwin secretly tied the knot at a New York City courthouse in September, so yes, they are technically already married, but that doesn't mean the couple doesn't want to plan a proper wedding.
Both evangelical christians, TMZ reported in October that the pop star and model plan to have a church wedding because they won't truly feel "official" until they say their vows under the eyes of God.
The young lovebirds were hoping to celebrate their union this month, but a source told E! News that's no longer the case.
"They have a wedding planner and were hoping to make a January date work. They can't wait to celebrate with family and friends and have a big party. But, January is here and they are still working out details and planning," the source explained.
The two "aren't going to rush it and want to make sure that its everything they want it to be," the source added. "They've tossed around different ideas for where to do it and they are still going back and forth. They've met with their pastor numerous times to discuss the religious ceremony and figure out exactly what they want."
But fear not, fans, Biebs and Baldwin are still very much happy and in love. The delay is just a matter of timing.
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Source: Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin Are Delaying Their Proper Wedding: Here’s Why
Filed Under: Hailey Baldwin, Justin Bieber
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