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First Year Healthy by Michael DeForge is out today!
The latest book from DeForge published by Drawn and Quarterly is out today! First Year Healthy has the cutest salmon pink cover ever, and is the size of a children's book. This time, the colour palette used by DeForge is delicate, even caressing. The colours combined with the textured cover made me want to "cuddle" with the book. It was love at first sight!
But don't let the appearance fool you... DeForge's wintery tale is sordid, and as dark as it can be!
First Year Healthy is the story of a young woman, reintegrating into her village after being released from a mental hospital. A cold winter sets the tone of this Christmas-themed graphic novel.
Watch out! Where one may expect to find a warm and vibrant atmosphere, one rather encounters silence, death and a general numbness of feelings.
DeForge's little pink treasure is also a perfect match to Montreal's weather right now! It's hard to describe how excited I was to read his new book. I adore his work and his previous book Ant Colony was also part of my Top 10 books of 2014.
DeForge’s work is very unique and highly stylized. The first pages of the book are tapestry-like and their depiction of intricate flora are one of many examples. I was charmed by the odd-ball juxtaposition of beige poop, purple leaves, algae and dandelions.
While reading First Year Healthy, one realizes the pink cover isn’t tainted with innocence, but rather evokes flesh and alludes to murder. It also reminds me of a central but speechless character in the story, the Turk’s baby. The child, is always portrayed naked, and seems even more vulnerable, surrounded by snow, ice and craziness.
DeForge creates weird poetic images by combining mesmerizing visuals with a narrative that is bleak and discomforting.
In First Year Healthy, the main protagonist is romantically involved with a Turk she meet at the fish market. But is there really love?
The couple distracts itself by measuring the speed at which sperm freezes on the snow and has sex between lunch breaks.
The Turk is always referred to by his nationality. By doing so, his girlfriend underlines repeatedly his outsiderness and his fragile social status as an illegal immigrant. Not only do the characters not have names, but the link that ties them to each other appears to be tenuous and devoid of emotions.
The Canadian wintery tale reaches its dramatic apex on Christmas Eve. As the story unfolds, one may be vaguely reminded of the nativity story. However, this time, it is way more creepy. Brrrrr!
DeForge’s book is also reminiscent of some of the visual characteristics of videogame design, especially Mario Bros’ flatness, simple geometry and clean lines. At times, a vertical cross-section shows different stratums and gives a feeling of vertical depth. In fact, DeForge does not only depict the ground but also the layers of worms and dirt that lie beneath.
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‘Poets,’ writes Carol Ann Duffy in this weekend’s Guardian Review, ‘are ultimately celebrators, of life and of poetry itself.’ And Seamus Heaney, in ‘Poet’s Chair’ (1996) has described poetry as ‘a ploughshare that turns time / Up and over …’
Every autumn for the past eight years I’ve come to Sèvres to work with teachers on the teaching of literature. Recently, we have focused a lot of our attention on teaching poetry and poets – especially on the challenge of teaching poetry in English to groups of mainly Francophone students in France.
Last year my theme was ‘The Singer and the Song’. This time I wanted to concentrate on the way poems celebrate life and poetry itself by speaking to each other, as well as to us their readers, across time and cultures and languages.
My first C.U.P. commission, twenty years ago, was to edit a poetry anthology. At a time when anthologies had alarming titles such as Touched With Fire or Dragonsteeth, I called mine The Calling of Kindred. The title was borrowed from a poem by the Welsh poet Ruth Bidgood, and I described in the Preface how it pointed to the central idea underlying my anthology. Echoes of distance and connection between poems explain my selection in The Calling of Kindred. I call this the conversation of poetry.
At Sèvres, I began with a poem by Seamus Heaney, possibly his shortest:
The dotted line my father’s ashplant made
On Sandymount Strand
Is something else the tide won’t wash away. (1996)
Sandymount Strand is a location familiar to readers of James Joyce’s Ulysses:
Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot.
Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells ...
Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand …?
A signature and a man walking into eternity are exactly what Heaney's miniature poem – two formal iambic lines separated by the place name – are about. The dots join up in the poet’s mind to form a signature, signed not on but by the dotted line. This signature becomes ‘something else’ of his now-dead father’s to add to other memories time and tide will not erase.
Nevertheless, the poem is called ‘The Strand’. Though this seems less specific than the Dublin seaside suburb (where Yeats was born, incidentally: earlier footsteps on this same beach), it’s an important signpost, pointing the reader in another direction entirely:
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washèd it away;
Again, I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide and made my pains his prey.
Heaney is calling up these lines from the poem by Edmund Spenser. To reach back to them, the ploughshare turns over 400 years of poetry. Earlier at Sèvres, we had been discussing students’ (and teachers?) reluctance to engage with pre-twentieth century poetry. So this reference back to the 16th century was not only important in the context of ‘The Strand’: it offered (I suggested) an ideal opportunity to investigate the form and function of the Elizabethan sonnet.
It’s easy enough to identify the familiar ABAB rhyme scheme of the opening quatrain, but this is no standard Shakespearean sonnet: the next quatrain breaks back into the previous one, BCBC.
Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be be wipèd out likewise.
The ebb and return of the waves is also echoed in the internal rhymes and repetitions of the octave: name and came appear twice (and name will become an end rhyme in the sestet); also again, pains, vain (twice, punningly).
Not so (quod I); let baser things devise
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame;
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name:
Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.
There’s nothing novel about a poet claiming his poem will immortalize his girl friend – or boy friend (cf. ‘Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?’). Still, the idea of their love living forever in heaven, ready to renew life on earth after the end of the world, is surely just piling conceit (hubris) upon conceit (poetic wit). This isn’t my favourite poem, but it’s a good one to introduce to students.
Back to Heaney. In a later session I proposed that one of his greatest services to literature had been his championing the importance of translation and of other poets unfamiliar to an Anglocentric readership: the Greek George Seferis, for instance, and the Pole Czeslaw Milosz. Heaney himself is a distinguished translator, of Latin (especially Virgil) but also of Anglo-Saxon and – in Human Chain, his most recent collection – of early Irish poetry. Translation, too, is part of the conversation of poetry. More than anyone else, Heaney has convinced me Robert Frost was wrong: poetry is not what gets lost in translation.
Given that my teachers were teaching students all more or less fluent in English and French, I suggested we put this to the test. I took another three lines of Heaney’s (from ‘Digging’) –
Beneath my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests,
Snug as a gun
– and invited translations. Here are three:
Entre mon indexe et mon pouce
Le stylo, trapu,
Se niche comme une arme. (Kaye)
Dort la grosse plume:
Un fusil dans son fourreau. (Garry)
Entre mon doigt et mon pouce
Se blottit mon stylo,
Calé comme un fusil. (Emmanuelle)
My own attempt had cost me an hour of effort the previous night, and was laughably inept. Each of these, by contrast, sends the reader back to Heaney’s original words with renewed attention. That’s the value of this exercise: you need to be a good listener, and a good reader, to tune into the conversation of poetry.
[Photos: (i)‘Le pavilion de Lulli’ in the grounds of the Centre International d’Etudes Pédagogiques (CIEP), Sèvres, France (ii) Teachers during the two-day session at CIEP. Photographs © the author.
‘Poet’s Chair’ and ‘The Strand’ are in Heaney’s collection The Spirit Level, Faber and Faber (1996). ‘Digging’ is from Death of a Naturalist (1966).
Quiller-Couch: Cornwall, Cambridge and English
Close reading: war memorials
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SUNNA, the debut album from Cory Hanson‘s new project White Horses In Technicolor Everywhere (W-H-I-T-E) presents artful pop melodies and experimental space sounds, not combined, but as one, in the vein of Panda Bear or Dan Deacon. It’s like an expansive platform of sound falling from space
and entering the stratosphere, where it burns and bends and twists and melts to
reform as airy melodies and a beautiful voice, gravitational beat’s and oceanic
fluidity.
The songs shift seamlessly from earthly musical conventions to floating spacial sounds, always culminating to present the experience of breaching the stratosphere in both directions. The result is an ethereal yet grounded album, something to listen to in both caverns and cars.
SUNNA, was released as a limited edition of 300 on three 7″ vinyl’s, and also as a CD.
A Artist Info
WHITE is the solo stage name of Cory Thomas Hanson, an experimental pop musician and visual artist based in Los Angeles. White began in 2008 as a summer-away-from-art-school recording project. Utilizing cheap electronics, loop pedals, and torrented music software: Hanson shaped a sound that was more based in textural soundscapes, and hypno-rhythmic drones than traditional melodies and songwriting.
For Hanson, the name “White” draws from concept rather than convention. Signifying a primordial “white plane, consistent, endless, with no horizon” for which all content is either added or subtracted upon. Hanson chose the name based on an attraction to intensity, the transcendent, like an insect drawn to white light.
WHITE‘s first two records, “Sunna“(2009) and “Twin Tigers” (2011) were released while Hanson was still attending Cal Arts. Once graduated, Hanson travelled extensively, touring solo and in friend’s bands Mikal Cronin and Pangea.
He toured the West Coast and played shows in Mexico, SXSW, and NYC. Then toured Europe with the Mikal Cronin band in the summer. It was during this time that he began writing and recording his third album, titled “III“.
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Britain will take troops out of Iraq regardless of US, says PM
"The recent agreement of the American government to supply sophisticated arms to the Saudis is a massive, massive – did I mention massive? – defeat for Israel, and return to form of the American Establishment." - permanent link
Severed Heads in Malaya - Jenny Eclair's Voyage of Discovery
INDONESIA: Military role in Papua challenged
Parents of Diana driver 'were told he wasn't drunk'
UN inspectors visit key Iran site
Britain's prime minister becomes patron of Zionist agency
"He knew something was wrong with the official 9/11 story when his army handlers took his squad into a room just in time to watch the buildings collapse. With his demolitions experience, he immediately knew those towers could not have fallen like that without explosives." - National Writer's Syndicate
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Tam McGraw
Glasgow 'crime boss', Tam 'The Licensee' McGraw, has died 'of a heart attack' in Glasgow.
McGraw owned security companies, taxi firms, pubs, and a property portfolio in Scotland, Ireland and Spain worth 'at least £10m'. McGraw's empire is said to be worth £30 million in total. (In Scotland it has been estimated that 47% of individuals are earning under £10,000 per year.)
Allegedly, McGraw's main income came from the sale of heroin and cocaine. It has been claimed that McGraw was backed by corrupt police officers, who passed on confiscated drugs which McGraw then sold on the streets. - Gangster reign of The Licensee brought to end by heart attack / GANGSTER NO1 IS DEAD'
After one failed robbery, McGraw was arrested while trying to flee on foot. Charges were dropped and he was released the following morning. (According to the Mail on Sunday, 29 January 2006, only 3% of crimes in Scotland result in convictions.)
One of the McGraw family businesses, the Caravel pub, was suddenly bulldozed after the police learnt that it had played a role in the deaths of Joe "Bananas" Hanlon and Bobby Glover. The demolition prevented a planned forensic investigation. - An inglorious end to the shadowy life of a feared gangland criminal
Reg McKay, in The Daily Record, 29 August 2005, reported that a street brawl between police left people scrutinising the cosy relationship between the Licensee (McGraw) and 'his police officer pals.'
"One of the Serious Crime Squad grabbed McGraw and tried to take him away from his Scottish Crime Squad captors. Tug of war was on. Then one man threw a punch and bedlam broke out with police wrestling, kicking and butting each other as McGraw stood in the middle of the battle totally ignored.
"Locals gathered for the best entertainment they'd had in years. Duelling rozzers. One or two joined in, taking the chance of a free swipe at a copper. Eventually peace was restored and the two police outfits went into confab. Whatever was said, the handcuffs were unlocked and Thomas McGraw walked back to his flat, a free man once again."
The Daily Record wrote: "Local uniforms and CID could often be found sitting in the McGraws' home drinking tea and smoking.
"When McGraw bought The Caravel pub, certain well-known detectives were in regularly, drinking heavily and never putting their hand in their pockets. It was too cosy."
McGraw was a friend of loyalist (Northern Irish protestant) terror chief Johhny 'Mad Dog' Adair. 'Both men were deeply involved in the drug trade between Scotland and Ulster (Northern ireland)' ( McGRAW: PETTY THIEF TO A £30M FORTUNE HOW DRUG-DEALING )
According to the Daily record: "Deals between crime boss Tam McGraw and the IRA saw a unit of republican heavies travel to Glasgow at The Licensee's expense to protect him... (summer of 2002) when hitmen were said to be lining up an assassination attempt." Daily Record - Scottish News - PART TWO OF A DAILY RECORD SPECIAL ...
A rival to McGraw was Arther Thompson. Former 'Glasgow godfather' Thompson reportedly was selling guns to the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force). "He got caught, and decided to turn grass for MI5. They then told him he could pretty much start the drugs trade in Glasgow." - Donal MacIntyre - erutufonnofuture
Rod “Popeye” McLean was 'a ruthless killer and international drug baron'. Reportedly, McLean worked for the British security services - MI5 and MI6. - Ecosse: My killer uncle
Who was McGraw really working for?
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Palestinians working for the CIA
In Gaza, for over 10 years, the Palestinian organisation Fatah ran an intelligence network.
That network had been set up with the help of the CIA.
Hamas is now in control in Gaza.
Hamas say they have now uncovered remarkable intelligence information from three locations linked to Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan. Reportedly, Dahlan has been an important CIA ally in Gaza since at least 1996. (Hamas Victory Brings Secrets)
Hamas alleges it has discovered videos used in a sexual-blackmail operation run by friends of the CIA inside Fatah's security services.
Hamas reports that it has discovered detailed evidence of Fatah-controlled spy operations carried out in Arab and Muslim countries (such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) for the benefit of the U.S. and other foreign governments.
Hamas claims that Fatah intelligence agents worked with Israeli intelligence to target Islamist leaders for assassination.
How Israel can be defeated without violence
Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust
Tradecraft
"Does she (Dame Stella Rimington, former director-general of MI5) think the Russian secret service killed former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko? 'If the Russians did, their tradecraft has deteriorated remarkably from what I knew...'" - 'I thought it was all amusing'
State Terror: "In Green's analysis, the Iberian inquisitions were tools of the state, not of the church, but in the long run the state was weakened by their excesses. Their stifling effect on intellectual enquiry fuelled the decline of the Spanish and Portuguese empires...
"The Inquisitions were fuelled by corruption and malice, and many inquisitors were sexually predatory. The downfall of Archbishop Carranza of Toledo at the hands of Inquisitor-General Fernando Valdes was set in motion by Valdes's jealousy at Carranza's appointment..." - FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - NON-FICTION: Lend me your fears
Street brawl videos, with a Pepsi ad on the side
YouTube - Bring YoungTubersUnited AND Jesari Back
Tycoon ‘set up private brothel’
"There is no way the global economy is about to collapse. It sounds trite, but the fundamentals really are strong. The world's leading economies are all displaying high levels of profitability and solid growth, with quite low inflation." - I share your pain, but we'll all gain in the end
"The footage shows soldiers fighting the Taliban in a field of opium poppies. One admits he wants to throw a grenade into 'their beloved' plants, but says he would get 'the telling-off of a lifetime'. - Watch dramatic film that reveals British troops are told to leave Afghan opium crops untouched
Most vote machines lose test to hackers
Australia's Howard defends Indonesia terror warning, despite no evidence of plot
US to sell 20 billion dollars of arms to Saudis, Gulf states
Fascism - Scientists breed world’s first mentally ill mouse
How MI5 had me kidnapped and thrown into CIA's Dark Prison
Revealed: MI5 role in torture flight
aangirfan: Abu Qatada and Bisher al-Rawi worked for MI5
Britain will continue to stand side by side with US, says Brown
aangirfan: Payroll
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How might the Palestinians achieve the setting up of a viable state, without the use of violence?
Here are some points to ponder:
1. Israel's defence industry has done well as a result of 9/11 and other acts of allegedly 'fake' terror. ( Vigorous but vulnerable ). So the Palestinians and their friends should avoid getting involved as patsies in false flag activities. Palestinians, and their friends, should learn to ignore the agents provocateurs within their ranks.
2. Acts of violence by Palestinians must be avoided, as they tend to be counter productive. Israel wants to portray the Palestinians as mad Moslems, so that Israel will continue to get the sympathy of the American public. The Palestinians should realise that the leaders who advocate violence may be working, wittingly or unwittingly, for the Israelis.
3. Israel relies heavily on its young, educated, multilingual technicians. Friends of the Palestinians should try to lure these people away to safe, well paid jobs outside Israel. Friends of the Palestinians should try to ensure that there is a boycott of the products of the Israeli tech industry.
4. Productivity in Israel's traditional industries is falling; Israel is becoming less competitive. ( Vigorous but vulnerable ). Palestinians can patiently wait while Israel weakens.
5. In Israel, the % of families below the poverty line has gone up from 17% in 1998 to 20% in 2007, while the proportion of poor children has risen from 23% to 35%. Some poor Jews might decide to leave Israel.
6. Israel relies on foreign workers to do much of the hard, low-paid work. The Palestinians and their friends need to try to politely persuade these workers to stay away from Israel.
7. Israel's Jewish population is around 5 million; the Israeli Arab population is just over 1 million. The total number of Palestinians (living in Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, and elsewhere) is well over 9 million. The growth rate of the Israeli Arab population is 2.5%, while the growth rate of the Israeli Jewish population is 1.4%. The growth rate of the Israeli Arab population is slowing down (from 3.3% in 1999 to 2.5% in 2006). The Israeli Arab population needs to produce more children.
8. Israel receives billions of dollars from the USA each year. Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. That is more than $5,700 per American. (Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to US csmonitor.com). The Palestinians and their friends should make more effort to persuade the USA to stop giving money to Israel. That means the Palestinians have to present a truly civilised image and not be provoked into stupid acts of violence.
9. Reportedly, the Israeli security services have made it their policy to create divisions among the Palestinians. Reportedly, many Palestinian organisations have been infiltrated. It would benefit the Palestinians if they became more united, by learning to ignore the extremists who may well be secretly working for Israel.
10. The Palestinians need to improve their levels of education, so that they are not so easily tricked and exploited.
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy signed a raft of partnership deals with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Wednesday covering a range of issues including cooperation on atomic development... Libya has the world's 8th largest proven oil reserves and has ambitious plans to expand production by 2012 from 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd) to 3 million bpd. With Europe dominating trade with Libya, the EU is expected to foster a series of partnership agreements with Tripoli in coming months that would cement the role of member states in the Libyan oil and gas sector..." - Unseemly scramble for Libyan oil
A preliminary deal has been signed that could see South Korean nuclear technology employed in Indonesia for the first two of four potential reactors. Indonesia strengthens South Korean connection
Australians unlikely to trust terror law now
"The UK’s largest visa and immigration company, www.globalvisas.com, is fundamentally challenging Gordon Brown’s anti-terrorist strategy, branding it as 'inconvenient, highly questionable and not thought through in the slightest'". - Use of Biometrics to Deter Terrorism Slammed by UK's Largest Visa
Online Disinfo Agents and Trolls -http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/july2007/280707fightback.htm
New Evidence Clearly Indicates Pat Tillman Was Executed
Oil, Algeria, Africa and fake terror
Map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Petroleum_regions_-_West_Africa_map-fr.svg
Russian oil producer LUKoil and gas group Gazprom will gain access to Algeria's oil and gas reserves. - Russian companies gain access to Algerian oil and gas under ...
Algeria is to buy $7.5bn (£4.3bn) worth of Russian weapons and combat planes
BBC NEWS Africa Algeria in Russian weapons deal
The French energy giant GDF could land a contract with Algerian petrol company Sonatrach. - Algeria: a strengthening of Islamic terrorism and internal ...
Is the USA using fake terror as an excuse to have troops in Africa to control its oil? The USA helps to pay and arm the Trans-Saharan Counter-Terrorism Partnership (TSCTP) which is meant to fight 'Islamic terrorism' in Algeria, Morocco,Tunisia, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal in the Sahel region and West Africa.
"The presence of American troops in the area is meant for patrolling the area and intervening in extreme cases, with 'surgical operations' being used to dismantle al-Qaida training bases. Hence Algeria's anti-terrorism campaign relies heavily on tightened relations with Washington, as it would hardly be in the condition of facing danger on its own account." - Algeria: a strengthening of Islamic terrorism and internal ...
Child Abuse : One child recalls being beaten whilst blindfolded. He was then forced into stress positions for ten hours in cold weather. He was then asked to sign papers and when he refused his interrogator smashed his head against a desk. One 15-year-old said that he was sexually abused and beaten repeatedly in sensitive areas of his body. - www.imemc.org/article/49612
Abuse : "In addition to being the moneylenders, they (Jews) controlled the liquor business and owned the drinking establishments, the gambling dens, and the brothels...
"During the 19th and early 20th centuries the Jewish trade in White slaves from these lands expanded enormously... The Jews recruited peasant girls in Polish and Russian villages, usually under false pretenses, and transported them to brothels in Turkey, Egypt, and other parts of the Middle East; to Vienna, Budapest, and other major cities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire; and as far away as New York, New Orleans, and Buenos Aires.
"This Jewish trade in Slavic women naturally caused a great deal of hatred against the Jews by the Slavs, and this hatred broke out in pogroms and other popular actions against the Jews over and over again." - Jews and the White Slave Trade -- Free Speech, February 1998
During the American Civil War Major General Ulysses S. Grant issued this order:
The Jews, as a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department and also department orders, are hereby expelled …within twenty-four hours from the receipt of this order. - From Antisemitism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
aangirfan: Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, the Marconi ...
Blair minister Margaret Hodge; Margaret Oppenheimer; child abuse in Islington
Fascism?
Photo from: http://www.alv.org.au/experiments/experiments.php
Fascist New Labour?
News - Cambridge monkey experiments inquiry
Public 'misled over animal test suffering'
"The initial result showed no votes for the SNP. An SNP candidate stopped the returning officer on the way to announce the result and managed to argue him into re-examining the data." http://scot-land.blogspot.com/
The tempo of Mugabe's overthrow quickens - African Brown / Millibandwagon shows it's hand
Courtney Coventry and the Met's magical Mystery Tour
Iraq - A US Diplomatic lesson - Soft Cop / Tough Cop
Just a Coincidence? Four of Jessica Lynch's Rescuers Have Died Mysteriously
CIA destabilisation? - Red Mosque suicide attack kills 13 in Pakistan
Iraq and al-Qaeda
The following letter was not published in The Economist Economist.com on 28 July 2007.
Sir - Your leader on Iraq (America and Iraq Plan, don't panic Economist.com) underlines how electoral politics is affecting sound judgment of where the interests of the United States and the West truly lie.
We must clear away the mist shrouding the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. It was not about al-Qaeda then and it is not about al-Qaeda now.
We were in Iraq in the 1920s to control the oil. We are in Iraq now to control the oil; and to make money for the military-industrial complex; and to help Israel.
Avraham Osama Smith MP
House of Commons Select Committee on Defence, London
Lockerbie, Shin Bet, MI5, the CIA, Iran and Wikipedia
Photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:800px-Tel_Aviv_Beachs.jpg
What links Lockerbie, Shin Bet, the CIA, MI5 and Wikipedia?
On 26 July, 2007, Ludwig Braeckeleer, at ohmynews.com, ( Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services ) wrote:
"I had learned from a recently released U.S. National Archives file that Shin Bet, the Israeli Security Agency, had infiltrated the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) and helped the Entebbe hijackers (Israeli commandos rescued the hostages in Uganda in 1976), so I wanted to learn more about the link between the PFLP and the PFLP-GC.
"I also wanted to learn more about allegations made by David Colvin, the first secretary of the British Embassy in Paris, concerning the rather bizarre collaboration between the PFLP and the Shin Bet."
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command (PFLP-GC), based in Syria, has been accused of having some link to the Lockerbie bomb (1988).
It has been alleged that Marwan Khreesat of the PFLP-GC made the bomb which brought down PanAm 103 over Lockerbie.
On 26 October 1988 Khreesat was arrested and one of his bombs seized. Then Khreesat was mysteriously released. [1009] Former CIA agent Oswald Le Winter stated, "…pressure had come from Bonn… from the U.S. Embassy in Bonn… to release Khreesat." [1010]
Reportedly, Khreesat worked for U.S. intelligence. [1011] (http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt_08.htm)
Ludwig Braeckeleer writes: (Wikipedia and the Intelligence Services)
"I consulted the article on the Entebbe Operation on Wikipedia, where I knew the story had been noted. To my surprise, I found that all references to the alleged collaboration between the PFLP and the Shin Bet had been suppressed. Moreover, it is no longer possible to edit the page.
Braekeleer wonders to what extent Wikipedia and the media in general are controlled by the CIA and its friends.
Braekeler reminds us of the CIA's influence over the media back in 1953 when the CIA and its friends overthrew Iran's Prime Minister Mossadegh. Braeckeler quotes from a copy of the CIA's secret history of the coup :
Agents from the CIA and SIS (the American and British intelligence services) 'directed a campaign of bombings by Iranians posing as members of the Communist Party, and planted articles and editorial cartoons in newspapers.'
'The CIA was apparently able to use contacts at the Associated Press to put on the newswire a statement from Tehran about royal decrees that the CIA itself had written...
'The Iran desk of the State Department was able to place a CIA study in Newsweek, using the normal channel of desk officer to journalist. The article was one of several planted press reports that, when reprinted in Tehran, fed the war of nerves against Iran's prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh'
Braekeler wonders about the extent of control over Wikipedia by the security services.
Braekeler speculates about 'Slim Virgin' an administrator at Wikipedia.
Reportedly, Slim Virgin has been revealed as Linda Mack, who worked with Pierre Salinger (senator and investigative journalist) in his Lockerbie investigation.
Reportedly, Linda Mack seemed to try to point the investigation in the direction of Qaddafi and Libya.
Reportedly, Salinger came to believe that Linda Mack worked for MI5.
How Truth Slips Down the Memory Hole
At antiwar.com , John Pilger wrote:
"While Alan Johnston was being held, I was asked by the BBC World Service if I would say a few words of support for him. I readily agreed, and suggested I also mention the thousands of Palestinians abducted and held hostage. The answer was a polite no; and all the other hostages remained in the memory hole...
"It is 80 years since Edward Bernays, the father of public relations, predicted a pervasive 'invisible government' of corporate spin, suppression and silence as the true ruling power...
"When the BBC radio reporter Andrew Gilligan reported the truth, he was pilloried and sacked along with the BBC's director general, while Blair, the proven liar, was protected by the liberal wing of the media and given a standing ovation in parliament...
"PR Week estimated that the amount of 'PR-generated material' in the media is "50 per cent in a broadsheet newspaper in every section apart from sport...
"Huge corporations such as Hill & Knowlton... 'sold' the slaughter known as the first Gulf war, and the Sawyer Miller Group... sold hated, pro-Washington regimes in Colombia and Bolivia and ...(its) operatives included Mark Malloch Brown...
"Hundreds of millions of dollars go to corporations spinning the carnage in Iraq as a sectarian war and covering up the truth: that an atrocious invasion is pinned down by a successful resistance while the oil is looted."
In his Guardian article, 26 July 2007, Labour peer Anthony Giddens writes "At the outer edge of possibility, terrorist groups could acquire nuclear capability. We must mobilise against such risks, and have to strike a new balance between liberty and security to do so."
Giddens does not mention Operation Gladio, Operation Northwoods or the Jubilee Plot. The Jubilee Plot, you will recall, was a British government false flag operation, using patsies, to discredit certain opponents. There are people in Britain who believe that the Lockerbie Bomb incident was the work of elements of the security services of the USA, who were trying to cover up a drug smuggling operation. If most of the terror events are the work of the security services, then we may need some fresh thinking on security matters. - Liberty in the balance
Anthony Giddens is the author of Over to You, Mr Brown: How Labour Can Win Again. Giddens's "third way" political approach was Bill Clinton's and Tony Blair's guiding political idea. - giddensa@parliament.uk
Australian government launches unprecedented attacks on lawyers as Haneef case falls apart
Robert Newmans History of Oil-- 2 of 5
Royal Dutch Shell and the struggle for Iraqi oil
Sri Lankan government celebrates "victory" after army seizes the East
BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Malaysia cracks down on bloggers
The London bombing trial: How much did the security services know?
The following is fiction.
John - So who is on the list for possible honours?
Mary - P. may get a peerage, and that football chap's to get a knighthood. Joseph Goebbels is also down for a gong. Theres' an old lady in Braunau am Inn due for an OBE. And some old bloke in Sedgefield deserves an MBE.
John - Eva Braun?
Mary - She'll become a Dame.
John - The editor of Der Stuermer?
Mary - A peerage.
John - Security services?
Mary - Reinhard Gehlen to get the Order of Merit.
John - Industrialists?
Mary - Fritz Thyssen deserves something. Meyer Lansky's being left out.
Who got honours in Harold Wilson's final honours list?
The Times wrote, in May 1976:
"One reads the roll of honour: Delfont, Grade, Kagan, Rayne, Weidenfeld, Goldsmith, Hanson, Miller, Sternberg.... Are they his friends?"
Sir Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hoch) was at one time the Labour Party's biggest backer. Reportedly, Maxwell 'looted pension funds'. He is buried in a place of honour in Israel.
Who are Tony Blair's backers and friends?
The majority seem to be Jewish millionaires: Lord Levy, Blair's fundraiser-in-chief and leading friend of Israel; Lord Bernstein; Sir Emmanuel Kaye.... etc.
Reportedly Blair's accountant is, or was, Michael Goldstein of Blick Rothenberg.
Bombed from the air by the British, the French, the Italians...
In 1911 the Italians bombed Libyan civilians from the air.
In 1912 the French began bombing Moroccan civilians from the air.
In 1913 the Spanish began bombing Moroccan villagers from the air. They later used poison gas.
In 1915 the British began the aerial bombardment of Pathan villages on India’s North-West Frontier.
In 1919 the British bombed Afghan civilians from the air.
In 1919 the British planes bombed Dacca.
In the 1920s the British were bombing Iraqi villagers from the air.
And so it goes on. Over 90 years of terrorist activity by western countries.
Source: http://www.brushtail.com.au/july_04_on/bombing_arabs_history.html
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
Galloway thrown out of Parliament Part 7 of 7
"Did Saddam Hussein really use industrial shredders to kill his enemies? ...Ann Clwyd, Labour MP for Cynon Valley and chair of Indict... wrote of the shredder in the Times on 18 March... One ... person who talked about a shredder was Kenneth Joseph, an American... Private Eye suggested that Joseph’s story was ‘a propaganda fabrication by right-wingers associated with the Revd Moon’s Unification Church’." - The Spectator.co.uk
"Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that '400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves' is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered." http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1263901,00.html
aangirfan: Saddam worked for the CIA
The whirr of War - Bombing Iran.. this time it's for real
BBC: Bush's Grandfather Planned Fascist Coup In America - http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/july2007/240707fascistcoup.htm
Click here to listen to the BBC Radio 4 investigation.
Sharp rise in Israelis seeking German citizenship
Israel's "right" to exist
Australian scientists cast doubt on story of Treblinka
CNN Censors #1 Youtube
Saddam agreed to leave Iraq before the invasion
CNN (CNN.com - UAE official: Hussein was open to exile - Nov 2, 2005) reported:
"Days before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam Hussein agreed in principle to accept an offer of exile from the United Arab Emirates... a UAE government senior official told CNN.
"The reported offer came before an emergency Arab League meeting in Egypt in discussions between UAE officials and a Hussein aide...
"The Hussein aide, Abed Hmoud, is now in jail in Iraq.
"The UAE official's account was repeated by another source who attended the Arab League summit and, separately, by a senior UAE government official...
"News of the reported offer from the UAE emerged... during an interview broadcast by the Arab network Al-Arabiya with Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahayan, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, one of the United Arab Emirates.
"The offer was spearheaded by his father, then-UAE President Sheikh Zayed Ben Sultan Al Nahayan, who died November 3.
'"During those days, the circumstances we worked under needed a very swift decision, an immediate response,' the crown prince said in a documentary broadcast by the network.
'"We had secured the approval of the main players, everyone who was involved, and the man concerned -- Saddam Hussein -- in 24 hours,' he said. 'So we came to the summit to lay down all the facts at the conference table. There would have been results if the issues were brought up but, again, this is all part of the past right now.'
"...CNN reported in March 2003 that an exile plan for Hussein appeared to be gaining support among his Persian Gulf neighbors and that during the Arab League meeting the UAE president had submitted a proposal calling for Hussein to surrender power within 14 days and leave Iraq under the temporary control of the Arab League."
CNN's Caroline Faraj and Brian Todd contributed to this story.
CNN.com - UAE official: Hussein was open to exile - Nov 2, 2005
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Benazir Bhutto, photographed at Chandini Restaurant, Newark, CA on 9/28/04, by iFaqeer - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto
Whitaker Chambers - Gay Spy
"Doctors who examined Baha Mousa, a 24-year-old Basra hotel worker who was kicked and beaten to death in British custody in 2003, have been reported to the General Medical Council. The move follows allegations that army doctors who treated the detainees colluded in a cover-up by misdiagnosing and failing to properly document the extent of prisoners' injuries." - UK Army doctors in Baha Mousa case 'colluded in cover-up'
Libya frees HIV medics
Iraqis blame U.S. depleted uranium for surge in cancer
Halliburton Income More Than Doubles
The plot to bring back Benazir
Bhutto's husband faces drugs trial
Wanted notice for Benazir Bhutto
Former Pakistani PM guilty of money laundering
Courtney Coventry and Cash for Honours
Below is part of "The Statement Emailed to Police by Courtney Coventry." http://www.courtneycoventry.com/statement.html
"My name is Courtney Coventry. I met with Lord Levy over possible donations to the party...
"Lord Levy grabbed my husbands arm and pulled us over to one side saying to Mr. Blair that he had to discuss something with us. Lord Levy then asked my husband to confirm an amount he would donate and how grateful 'Tony' would be. My husband said that we were not ready to give a commitment to a figure but we would consider it over the course of the next few days. Lord Levy then proceeded to push further and said that given the right amount he mentioned 500,000 pounds and 300,000 pounds he would make sure 'Tony' would have John put on the honors list. We were more than a little taken aback but before we could fully register what had been said Lord Levy called Mr. Blair over and said that we were going to make a substantial donation to the party and then added that he was sure we could arrange an honour for services to the party. Mr. Blair looking a little embarrassed nodded and smiled...
"We arrived at the House of Lords and met Lord Levy who took us on a guided tour...
"Lord Levy discussed again, how grateful the party would be for our support and said he had discussed honours and that my husband would be placed on the honours list as a result of a substantial donation or loan as he called it when he tried to press us for a higher amount than the hundred thousand we had said we were considering. Levy said why didn’t we loan the labour party 300,000 then at a later date we could convert this to a donation and that he was certain we could afford this. As I knew nothing about the way in which your honours system works I asked... Lord Levy how he would arrange to have John put on the honours list. He said the government makes the recommendations and 'He would make sure Tony dealt with it.'...
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Giuliani has connection with accused priest
"I contacted the police a several months ago to make them aware of discussions that took place with Lord Levy during which Lord Levy attempted to entice a donation then loan by way of saying should we do this an honour would be arranged." - http://www.courtneycoventry.com/index.html
"Polonium signs were found not only in places Lugovoi and Kovtun visited in London, but in different places where the two Russian businessmen had not been... The British version presumes that Polonium -210 was administered to Litvinenko in tea Lugovoi offered to Litvinenko on November 1, but both Lugovoi and Kovtun ordered the same tea for themselves." - Russia views British version of Litvinenko's case as "vulnerable"
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To all the morons who say Palestine never existed
Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to US
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Photo of Malta by Maximilian Bühn http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Street_in_Valetta%2C_Malta.jpeg
"Kafeel Ahmed, who suffered 90 per cent burns after driving a blazing Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow airport on 30 June, also linked to the two unexploded car bombs in central London the previous day, was in frequent contact with Malta in the months leading up to the series of foiled terrorist attacks according to Indian police." - Illegal immigrants from Malta checked for terrorism links
"A documentary broadcast August 25 (1998) by German public television presents compelling evidence that some of the main suspects in the 1986 Berlin disco bombing, the event that provided the pretext for a US air assault on Libya, worked for American and Israeli intelligence. Musbah Eter was running an international business in Malta, which, according to Frontal, served as a cover for extensive intelligence operations on behalf of the CIA." - German TV exposes CIA, Mossad links to 1986 Berlin disco bombing
"At Mr Megrahi's 2001 trial at Camp Zeist in Holland, three Scottish judges accepted evidence that the bomb was originally placed aboard a plane in Malta and transferred to a Pan Am 'feeder' flight at Frankfurt." - Libyan granted new appeal over Lockerbie conviction Special ...
Reportedly, Knights of Malta include: William Casey - CIA Director, John McCone - CIA Director, William Colby - CIA Director, William Donovan - OSS Director. - Political Friendster Connection - CIA connected to Knights of Malta
In Indonesia it's the liberal-moderate-Moslem-anti-feudal majority versus the Cia-military-Oligarch-Islamist alliance? The Oligarchs are using Islamism to keep the feudal system in place?- Religiosity, Not Radicalism Is New Wave in Indonesia
"U.S. corporations like Coca-Cola, Chiquita, Drummond and Occidental Oil hire paramilitaries to target trade unionists in order to kill union organizing and negotiating efforts. This corporate-death squad link has come under increasing scrutiny recently. Since 2002, the Colombian Action Network has been leading a boycott of Coca-Cola products for Coca-Cola’s collusion with death squads and the murders of eight trade unionists. Campuses across the country have been ending their contracts with ‘Killer Coke.’ This spring, Chiquita pled guilty to arming and funding paramilitaries in Colombia." - Fight Back! - June 2007 - Drummond Corporation and Colombia's ...
"It is submitted that the Lockerbie case demonstrates just how necessary it is, if public confidence is to be maintained, for the Scottish Executive to institute a high-powered independent investigation into all three aspects - investigation, prosecution and adjudication - of the Scottish criminal justice system, as has already been called for by, among others, Dr Jim Swire, Tam Dalyell and Professor Hans Koechler, the UN observer at the Lockerbie trial." - Robert Black, QC, FRSE, Professor Emeritus of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh. - The fairy story of the Crown's independence
Dawood's kin set to return to India
Planned Coup in USA
A planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen: "The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini..." - The Whitehouse coup
"(There was an) alliance of German chemical giant, I.G. Farben, the second largest holder of stock in Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, with U.S. intelligence... By the mid-1920s, the Dulles brothers ...structured an interlocking directorate of American and German banks... Right up to 1942, the consortium of Standard Oil and Texaco was still shipping Saudi oil to Germany... Prescott Bush (was) a director of the Union Banking Corporation in New York, which from 1924 through 1942 acted as the American private bank for the Nazi steel trust headed by Fritz Thyssen, Hitler's earliest and largest financier... Riding on the coattails of Brown Brothers Harriman, the Rockefeller brothers, and the Dulles brothers, whose interests they had served on various boards, neither Prescott Bush nor George Herbert Walker were ever held personally or politically accountable for their roles in financing and directing Nazi-controlled enterprises." MG Levey: The History of Dirty-Tricks (Part III)
Business Plot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wall Street's Fascist Plot to Seize the White House
The White House Putsch
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power Special ...
Enron Style
Giuliani: U.S. should focus more on Pakistan
aangirfan: CIA to topple Pakistan's President Musharraf?
How Will They Destroy Ron Paul?
UK and Private Finance Initiatives (private companies providing public services): "A large section of this country's biggest single piece of infrastructure is being run by the administrator Ernst and Young. Rest assured, dear taxpayers, the accounting firm's meter will be running for months to come. As well as that bill, the public is now in line to meet Metronet's £2 billion cost over-run. And its £2.6 billion debt...
"Since 1997, excluding the Tube PPP, the Treasury has signed 700 other PFI contracts for public infrastructure and services worth around £65 billion. The long-term cost to taxpayers? A cool £166 billion... Mr Brown has become addicted to PFI, which has allowed him to rack up multi-billion pound liabilities, mostly hidden from the national accounts. This is Enron-style financial management in the taxpayers' name." - Does 'Enron' ring any bells, Mr Brown?
Riots reinforce Bahrain rulers' fears
Britain losing Afghan 'hearts and minds'
Soldiers are being killed in Afghanistan, argues Craig Murray, to protect heroin crops
"Erdogan... recently asked Washington to explain how US arms get into the hands of the insurgents. It is unclear, he said pointedly, whether the arms fall into the PKK's hands via Iraqis or if the US supplies the PKK directly." - TURKEY'S FAULT LINES
The BBC has suffered another credibility blow after admitting that it made up a Newsnight survey suggesting that most of Britain and Scotland's leading businesses were not in favour of independence. - BBC apologises in row over 'mistake' in SNP survey
Do you trust the BBC? ( http://www.sundayherald.com/)
Yes - 32.4%
No - 67.6%
Ministers blamed for flood defence failures
"Our ill-trained youth will kick Britain out of the elite..." - Liam Halligan
"The Sunday Times has... discovered that there was a... key piece of evidence – a diary kept by Evans that allegedly details a series of meetings at the House of Lords in 2004 with Lord Levy, Blair’s chief fundraiser, to discuss a peerage. One well-placed Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) source said the diary was 'dynamite' and provided 'spectacular' evidence of an alleged 'agreement' for Evans to be ennobled in return for a £1m loan." - No 10 honours plot: four new names
Robert Fisk: No wonder the bloggers are winning
Groups Slam World Bank's Support for Massive Indonesian Plantation ...
Barack Obama’s foreign policy agenda is virtually identical to that of the Bush administration, including his approach to the “war on terrorism”. Obama has promised a robust US military-intelligence presence in Iraq and the Middle East to “root out Al-Qaeda”.... Mitt Romney promises to “combat radical Islam” with a war agenda identical to Obama’s (which is identical to Bush-Cheney’s). Romney’s provocative speech at the Herzliya Conference speaks for itself. -Washington's Consensus Al Qaeda Deception by Larry Chin
Beggars Belief
Nike Indonesia Demonstration
"One year into the Zeist trial, the prosecutors were told for the first time that the evidence had been fabricated by a former Libyan agent who had become a CIA asset in 1988. Internal CIA cables show that the agency was well aware since 1988 that the man was a fabricator. The Zeist trial constitutes the only case in history where internal CIA documents were used in a foreign court. As a rule, the Scottish Prosecution Authorities have a duty to investigate the credibility of their witnesses before they issue an arrest warrant. In the Megrahi's case, they did not. As they blindly trusted their U.S. partners, they failed to perform one of their most basic obligations.Instead of admitting the fact, they tried to cover it up, thus violating Scottish Criminal Law, which requires the prosecution to provide the defense with any significant information susceptible to help their cause." - Lockerbie: Evidence Fabricated by CIA
"The SNP MP ... suggested the police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) may have succumbed to political pressure. 'It simply beggars belief that the police and the CPS both believe no charges should be brought,' he said. 'If this is the case, the next few weeks will be extremely interesting, with assistant commissioner Mr Yates having promised the public administration committee that all the evidence assembled will be made public if required.' - SNP: Lack of charges 'beggars belief'
"Most interesting now will be how the other Blairite boot-lickers and sycophants will respond. Back in February, both the Scum and Martin Kettle ran similar articles demanding that Yates either put up or shut up." - Sticking the boot in.
Military Preparing for Martial Law
"Damascus has also warmed to Turkey, Israel's ally in the region, and this is somewhat unsettling news for Tehran, which looks to Syria as a counterbalance to the Israel-Turkey nexus. France, under the new pro-American President Nicolas Sarkozy, has wasted little time before trying its hands at an active Syria policy. From the vantage point of Tehran, the net result of all the external influences on Syria may indeed be a considerable mellowing or an incremental 'soft decoupling' of its relations with Syria."Iran-Syria alliance on uncertain ground
"Israel on Friday denounced an alliance between Iran and Syria that it said cast doubts on Syrian peace intentions, following a visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Damascus. 'The fact that the Damascus regime chose Ahmadinejad as a partner in a strategic alliance raises serious doubt on recent statements from Syria on its intentions for peace,' foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev told AFP." - Israel slams Iran-Syria alliance
President of the Christian Action League, 74, Is Arrested after Paying Hooker with Checks
Britain's 'radioactive' tourist resorts?
Video of the former UN observer, Jan Muhren, describing how he witnessed Israel provoking its Arab neighbors in the run-up to the six-day-war.
Mr. Villaraigosa is the national co-chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
LA Mayor Allegations
UK Criminal Justice System R.I.P.? - No charges in honours inquiry
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald, is a former legal colleague of Cherie Blair and was knighted in the New Year's Honours.
Assistant Commissioner John Yates led the honours inquiry. He also led the investigation into Princess Diana's former butler, Paul Burrell, which collapsed in court.
Police corruption in UK 'at Third World levels'
"Although the parliamentary inquiry revealed that David Lloyd George, Herbert Samuel, and Sir Rufus Isaacs had profited directly from the policies of the government, it was decided the men had not been guilty of corruption."- aangirfan: Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, the Marconi ...
Blair forced Goldsmith to drop BAE charges
"Offer of Lords seat to rebel Welsh MP authorised by Blair"
Sleazy Labour's £2m raid on council tax funds
Jowell finances furore heats up
UK Conservatives: R.I.P. - Double byelection win for Brown
Al-Qaida's man in Iraq unveiled as fictional character
Africa's drugs gateway to Europe
"A former British Army mole in the IRA has claimed that MI5 arranged a weapons-buying trip to America in which he obtained detonators, later used by terrorists to murder soldiers and police officers." - MI5 'helped IRA buy bomb parts in US' - Times Online
U.S. threatens action in Pakistan
When terrorist attacks and wargames coincide
John Pilger ~ War By Other Means [1/3]
One million assaults in first year of Labour's 24-hour licensing
"On July 7th the Los Angeles Times reported that back in 1991 Mr Thompson accepted a lobbying job that required him to help persuade the first Bush White House to allow family-planning clinics that receive federal funds to offer advice on abortions. Team Thompson denies the story. However, the lobbying group's minutes support it, potentially branding the candidate a liar as well as unsound on abortion. Not a great start for a man who is not yet formally in the race." - Presidential candidates Hitting the buffers Economist.com
After President Bush commuted Libby's sentence Thompson released a statement: "I am very happy for Scooter Libby," Thompson said. "I know that this is a great relief to him, his wife and children. This will allow a good American, who has done a lot for his country, to resume his life." Political Leaders Express Outrage, Support for 'Scooter' Libby's Commuted Sentence
On June 29, 2002, Thompson married Republican consultant Jeri Kehn.
Thompson has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), a form of cancer.
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Summary Report for UIUC AAUP Policy Committee on January 22, 2007
Present: Abbas Aminmnasour, Geneva Belford, Lynn Belford, Clyde Forrest, Bettina Francis, Michael Grossman, Harry Hilton, Walter McMahon, Cary Nelson, John Prussing, Arthur Robinson, Robert Spitze, Leslie Struble, Donald Uchtmann, H. F. Williamson
(1) Review of the minutes for December 11, 2006; the President’s Report for Fall, 2007; and the Summary Reports for Fall Policy Committee Meetings. These documents were approved. The President’s Report will be circulated to those chapter members on our email list. The summary reports will be posted on the Chapter’s web site.
(2) Preparation for Meeting with Provost Katehi. Uchtmann discussed our meeting with the Provost in conjunction with the February 12, 2007 meeting of the Policy Committee. This meeting will start at 11 a.m. The Provost will be asked to join us for lunch if her schedule permits. Possible topics for our discussion included (a) the role of faculty governance particularly in light of the Global Campus Initiative/Partnership negotiations and (b) promotion and tenure procedures at the UIUC.
(3) Global Campus Initiative/Partnership (GCI/GCP). The discussion continued with emphasis on the changes in the program and its title which occurred at the January 8, 2007 retreat on this program. The topics covered included:
(a) A report by Ucthmann and Francis on the meeting that they and Burton had with President White on December 15.
(b) A report by Aminmansour on the January 8 all-day summit meeting at which about thirty faculty and students met with President White and Chet Gardner.
(c) A description of the content of the new proposal presented by White and Gardner which included dropping the LLC structure; assurance of quality control through faculty involvement in course development, department control over courses and the faculty preparing them, and the use of the normal approval process for new courses; the role of the departments in who teaches the courses; and the procedures for sharing revenues and funding course development.;
(d) Discussion of the importance of having processes in place to be sure that the program as implemented will follow the guidelines established at this time. It was urged that the guidelines be established in writing with procedures for monitoring the program.
(e) Discussion of the reaction of the Board of Trustees to the report on the GCP at their January meeting.
(f) The next steps in this process including the plans of the University Senates Conference to discuss the GCP at its January 26 meeting. A major next step will be determining the role of and membership on the GCP Academic Council and its relation to the Senates. Ucthmann asked that Aminmansour, Grossman, and Burton continue to be an informal subcommittee monitoring these developments and determining what role the AAUP should play. He noted that the improvements that have been made are a tribute to the leaders of the Senate who have played such an important role in these negotiations
(4) Revision of Chapter By-Laws. There was a discussion of the latest revision of the revised by-laws which covered the role of Associate Members and the selection of the Policy Committee members. It was agreed that procedures for handling communications would be covered in a set of guidelines which might be cited in the by-laws.
(5) Chapter Web Site: Nelson reported that the design of the site is almost complete. He noted that we will be the first “advocacy” chapter to have its own web site and hopes that others follow our example. Items he is planning to add to the site include information on lobbying; cases in the news where the AAUP played a role in defending faculty rights at the UIUC; and our role in such issues as faculty rehiring and the development of the GCI. It was suggested that he include a history of the chapter with particular emphasis on our role in establishment of the current governance structure on the campus. Uchtmann thanked Nelson for the outstanding job he has done.
(6) Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee Reports. Robinson reported briefly on the two cases he is handling. He has talked with a member of the Provost’s staff about our concerns.
(7) National Office. Nelson reported that there has been significant progress in improving the membership and financial services at the national office. Erne Benjamin has been hired on a “part-time” basis to run the national office and is doing an excellent job.
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Charlotte Brontё’s acclaimed novel, Jane Eyre, was first marketed as an autobiography. The story, told from the point of view of a poor orphan girl, takes on a narrative similar to that of a fairytale. In this way, a reader may find difficulty in believing this novel to be a work of nonfiction. Charlotte Brontё employs aspects of both Christianity and fantasy in her novel not to discourage her readers from believing its validity but rather to emphasize how even poor orphan girls like Jane have forces of good guiding them. Jane Eyre is fictional, yet the hardships she ...
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Uncovering Shakespeare's Sisters In Special Collections And College Archives, Musselman Library, Suzanne J. Flynn, Lauren J. Browning, Madison G. Harvey, Hannah C. Lindert, Emma J. Poff, Cameron N. D'Amica, Teagan Lewis, Merlyn Maldonado Lopez, Audrey J. Nikolich, Mariah L. Beck, Phoebe M. Doscher, Chloe Dougherty, Hana Huskic, Samantha L. Burr, Elizabeth F. D'Arcangelo, Logan Shippee
Foreword by Professor Suzanne J. Flynn
I have taught the first-year seminar, Shakespeare’s Sisters, several times, and over the years I have brought the seminar’s students to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. There, the wonderful librarians have treated the students to a special exhibit of early women’s manuscripts and first editions, beginning with letters written by Elizabeth I and proceeding through important works by seventeen and eighteenth-century women authors such as Aemelia Lanyer, Anne Finch, Aphra Behn, and Mary Wollstonecraft. This year I worked with Carolyn Sautter, the Director of Special Collections and College ...
Jane Eyre And Education, Cameron N. D'Amica Oct 2018
Jane Eyre And Education, Cameron N. D'Amica
Charlotte Brontë created the first female Bildungsroman in the English language when she wrote Jane Eyre in the mid-nineteenth century. Brontë’s novel explores the development of a young girl through her educational experiences. The main character, Jane Eyre, receives a formal education as a young orphan and eventually becomes both a teacher and a governess. Jane’s life never strays far from formal education, regardless of whether she is teaching or being taught. In each of Jane’s experiences, she learns invaluable lessons, both in and out of the classroom environment. Jane excels in the sphere of formal education ...
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In this paper, I examine Hardy’s treatment of female sexuality as mediated by art in two short stories: “The Fiddler of the Reels” and “An Imaginative Woman.” Given Hardy’s role as an artist, his noted compassion for women, and his interest in Victorian attitudes toward sexuality, my analysis of these topics in his short stories is particularly relevant. Hardy’s investment in class issues is also pertinent, as I consider how Hardy uses his heroines’ relationships with art to underline the distinct disadvantages of lower-class women. While Ella, the middle-class heroine of “An Imaginative Woman,” uses poetry to ...
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Critics of C.S. Lewis argue that his misogyny is present in his portrayal of female characters. While Lewis himself was self-contradictory in his attitudes towards women, his depictions of female characters in The Chronicles of Narnia are both realistic and progressive. Both the male and female characters throughout the series demonstrate individual strengths and weaknesses that are not dependent on their gender. The criticism against Lewis focuses on his treatment of Susan, especially regarding her being the only child not to return to Narnia at the end of the series. Unlike what the critics argue, however, Susan is not ...
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“An Analysis of Isabella Bird’s and Margaret Fountaine’s Renovation of Self through Travel & Travel Writing” tracks three interdependent facets of identity that become apparent in the travel literature of Victorian ladies Isabella Lucy Bird and Margaret Fountaine. These facets are:
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In his Century Cycle of plays, August Wilson tells ten distinct stories of families in or linked to the Hill District, an African American community in Pittsburgh; one play taking place in each decade of the twentieth century. Through these plays, Wilson's audience sees the Hill District and America evolve, while prejudice, oppression, and poverty remain constant. Many scholars argue that sexism provides a fourth common factor, asserting that Wilson portrays the female characters in the male-fantasized, stereotypical roles of the Mammy or the Jezebel figure, rather as realistic, empowered, and complex women. However, close examination of the women ...
“To Say Nothing”: Variations On The Theme Of Silence In Selected Works By Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, Sandra Cisneros, And María Luisa Bombal, Hannah M. Frantz Jan 2012
“To Say Nothing”: Variations On The Theme Of Silence In Selected Works By Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz, Sandra Cisneros, And María Luisa Bombal, Hannah M. Frantz
This paper explores the various ways in which Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s La Respuesta, Sandra Cisneros’s “Woman Hollering Creek,” and María Luisa Bombal’s “The Tree” address the theme of silence. It interrogates how the female characters in each of these works are silenced as well as their responses to that oppression. Meaning is subjective, so writing is a safe outlet for the oppressed. These works each identify an oppressor, either a husband or the male dominated church, as well as an oppressed individual, who is the female lead. In La Respuesta, the Catholic church, and ...
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Village forests go through midlife crisis
Nepal's community forestry movement is threatened by corruption and greed
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SEE SAW: Workers saw timber harvested from the Sundari Community Forest in Nawalparasi, mid-June. More and more community forest user groups are felling valuable trees.
Political fluidity and a breakdown in the rule of law has led to rampant logging nationwide and is threatening to undermine Nepal's internationally recognised community forestry program.
Trees are being felled by logging groups that enjoy political patronage and protection from district forest officers (DFOs). Community forestry user groups, on the other hand, have been colluding with timber poachers and corrupt local officials to harvest trees.
Illegal logging is now so rampant and blatant that Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal summoned the Minister of Forests and Soil Conservation, Deepak Bohara, and asked for clarification. The ministry then recalled DFOs from two districts, but no one has been charged. "Elections for membership of community forestry user groups are now more hotly contested than VDC elections ever were," says Raju Ranjan of the Deusathala Community Forestry User Group in Nawalparasi.
Nearly 30 years after the state began to hand over Nepal's forests to local communities for protection and management, the program appears to be a victim of its own success. The adult trees that the villagers nurtured have become so valuable that unscrupulous village elders have been tempted by the timber mafia to plunder woodlands.
The destruction is most visible in the Tarai, but even forests in the midhills that have road connections are being denuded. In Dadeldhura contractors, with the help of district forest officials and users, are trying to get large tracts of national forests handed over to the communities so they can sell the trees. "When the regulators and protectors of forests are hand-in-glove in destroying the forests, who can stop them?" asks Resham Bahadur Dangi, joint secretary at the Ministry of Forests. He is a helpless witness to the rife corruption in the appointment of DFOs by his ministry.
History has shown that Nepal's forests have always suffered during periods of political transition. The current weak state and the breakdown in the rule of law have allowed a nationwide network of timber mafias to flourish. Since timber harvesting is allowed inside community forests, they have become a vulnerable target.
In community forests across Nawalparasi, community forestry user groups pay up to Rs 60,000 to government rangers to get amendments to their by-laws approved. There is also corruption in getting felling permits from forestry officials. "We have no option but to comply with the demands of the range post office, or they will not give us permits," says Krishna Prasad Aryal, who heads the Deusathala Community Forestry User Group.
Richer user groups, however, have found ways to bribe officials to fell more timber than their permits allow them. Nawalparasi DFO Shahirat Prasad Thakur is among 16 officials who are being investigated by the CIAA for graft.
The biggest challenge facing community forestry at the moment is internal governance, says Popular Gentle of Care Nepal.
"The government has been trying to undermine the community forestry movement because it wants to control timber resources."
- Apsara Chapagain, FECOFUN Chairperson
In many VDCs, the earnings from tree feeling can run into hundreds of thousands of rupees a year. The money is supposed to be used for local development, but locals say very little of it actually benefits the poorest in the villages.
The Community Forestry Guidelines of 2009 require villages to set aside 35 per cent of revenue for the poor, marginalised and Dalits, and also require half the members of user groups to be women. Very few of the community forests in Nawalparasi, or even in the rest of the country, have fulfilled this quota. Community mobiliser Bhumisara Phal says it is nearly impossible to get the powerful people in the village to agree to the provisions. "The few women and Dalits who are elected to user groups have no role but to work for the influential members," she says.
Surbit Sthapit of HImalayan Community Development Forum says that there is policy level corruption in the community forests. "The user groups set the price of the timber at as low as Rs 10 in their operational plans when they are being sold in the market for Rs 800 to Rs 1200. Legally, they are not at fault but this is a kind of hidden corruption."
The newly-elected head of the Federation of Community Forestry Users in Nepal (FECOFUN), Apsara Chapagain, is aware of the problems her member communities face, but blames the government for trying to smear the community forestry movement.
"It may be true that user groups have been infiltrated by unscrupulous persons, but by and large community forestry is a successful model," she says. "The government has a vested interest in proving that it is not."
* Total forest cover: 25.4 per cent
* Annual deforestation rate (2000-2005): 1.4 per cent
* Between 2000-2005, Nepal lost about 2,640 sq km of forest
(Source: FAO, 2005)
A formerly barren riverbank in Nawalparasi has become a jungle through the care of the Sitaram Community Forest User Group.
There are still some community forests that have resisted logging. Sitaram Community Forest in Nawalparasi, which is completely run by women, is an example. With years of nurturing, they have turned a barren river bank into a dense forest. But they are content with felling old tress and collecting fallen branches, even if their yearly income is far less than the neighbouring user groups that harvest timber.
"We planted these trees with our own hands. We will not fell them for money," says Sita Thapa, head of a user group that relies more on non-timber produce like fodder grass and amriso (broom grass) farming for income.
In Shree Kumarwarti Adarsha Buffer Zone Community Forest at Pithauli, growing forest cover has provided safe habitat for the wildlife of Chitwan National Park. Despite frequent attacks from the animals, the users are committed to conserving the forest. "We are building electric fences to ward off animals at night. But the forests will not be destroyed," says Indra Bhusal, head of the user committee.
Community forestry has never been as successful in the Tarai as in the hills of Nepal because of commercial logging and the pressure on land.
"In the hills, forests are needed for subsistence but the Tarai has more of an industrial demand," says Resham Bahadur Dangi, joint secretary at the Ministry of Forests.
Forest ownership is also not as well defined in the Tarai as in the hills. The high prices for Tarai hardwoods meant that the state was reluctant to transfer ownership of forests to local communities. The government's alternative for the Tarai is the concept of 'collaborative forests', which involves traditional users and greater state control.
But community forestry advocates are not happy with this model. "This will create rifts between traditional users and recent migrants in the Tarai," says FECOFUN's Mohammad Kar Khan.Not just Tarai, even hill districts like Kaski and Ilam have fallen prey to timber trade.
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Philippine Fishermen, Hazardous Compressor Diving...
Tue, 18/12/2012 - 5:05am
Every so often in the lifetime of a photographer, something comes along that is so truly awesome to shoot.
Welcome to the crazy, dangerous world of Philippine compressor diving.
Breathing through just a thin plastic air hose connected to a rusty air compressor on the boat above them, these fishermen dive down deep to 20m, 30m, sometimes 40m. Known in Tagalog as 'Pa-aling', this stripped down method of diving completely does away with regulators, spare regulators and mouthpieces.
Often exploited by their employers, workers suffer harsh work conditions, low pay, and non-existent safety standards. Injuries, and death are common.
The most usual cause of death is from decompression illness, or DCI.
Otherwise known as 'the bends', this arises when a diver ascends too fast.
Herding the skipjack tuna in the net, 'Pa-aling' is recognized as one of the most dangerous methods of fishing.
More than 200 nautical miles from land, and far from any decompression chambers or hospitals, these fishermen often stay at sea for months at a time.
For those who don't die, limb paralysis and migraines are common.
If something goes wrong with the hoses, such as a kink, leak or break, it's curtains.
Obviously the rusty compressor must never be allowed to break down or run out of gas.
Not withstanding the human rights and labour rights violations inherent in 'Pa-aling diving, this lethal way of fishing is a major contributor to the tuna overfishing crisis in the Philippines. Purse seine fishing boats from the southern city of General Santos are now fishing further afield. They fish in international waters now, as the seas around the Philippines are already overfished. And because this all takes place in on the 'high seas', i.e. no man's land, there's nothing anybody, government, or organization can do.
To gather these images I was spent a month on a boat with Greenpeace who are advocating a network of marine reserves to be established in four high seas pockets of international waters, and for these zones to be declared off-limits to fishing. The more I see of this kind of thing, the more it reinforces my belief that business interests are unfortunately winning the battle for the control of our lives and our natural environment.
ALEX HOFFORD : HONG KONG CHINA PALAU PHILIPPINES COMPRESSOR DIVING PHOTOGRAPHER
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MXOLISI SITHOLE WINS START (article first published : 2006-07-11)
NIVEA and the KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts Gallery are hosting an exciting exhibition featuring 20 of KZN’s most talented, undiscovered artists.
Now in its second year, Beiersdorf’s START. The NIVEA Art Award 2006 is a collaboration that seeks to create a platform for development in the field of visual art in KZN. This year, 20 finalists were selected from a pool of entries and these artists were then commissioned to produce the works that are now on display at the KZNSA Gallery.
At the exhibition opening, the three winners were announced. Taking the top accolade was Mxolisi Sithole (20) of Umlazi, who won R20,000 cash and a three-week solo exhibition in the soon to be opened NIVEA Gallery at KZNSA. Second place went to Sicelo Ziqubu (31) of Newcastle, who took home R10,000. In third place was Mfanukhona Dladla (46) of Vryheid.
Although the financial injection is important, it is the process that is most beneficial to artists. The commissioned artists worked closely with the judges and were required to submit three progress reports before submitting their final artwork. The judges were available to the artists throughout their process of creation so as to give guidance when required. This year’s panel of judges comprised Sfiso KaMkame, Storm Janse van Rensburg, Julia Meintjes, Anthea Martin, Gabi Nkosi and Nathi Gumede.
The other talented finalists were Niall Bingham, David Buchler, Mbongeni Buthelezi, Adrienne D'Aeth, Russell Stark, Thulani Mbokazi, S'bonelo Kunene, Lalelani Mbhele, Joseph Manana, Anet Norval, Witty Nyide, Liezel Prins, Abednego Shandu, Selbourne Shangase, Lolette Smith, Liz Speight and Mfundo Xaba.
Beiersdorf’s START. The NIVEA Art Award 2006 runs until July 16 at the KZNSA Gallery.
This project is fully funded by Beiersdorf under the expert guidance of judges Anthea Martin and Storm Janse van Rensburg, as well as KZNSA Curator, Nathi Gumede.
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Chargers QB Philip Rivers still has no intention of relocating to Los Angeles
It takes Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers 160-minutes round trip to commute from his San Diego home to the team’s practice facilities in Orange County, but he doesn’t have any plans to relocate closer to the franchise any time soon.
In fact, Rivers told the San Diego Union-Tribune that commuting this season “went great.” The decision to stay in San Diego stems from wanting to keep his family life the same as he finds ways to balance his professional life.
“That’s the plan,” Rivers said. “It went better than expected. There were no hiccups. There’s no drawback to not doing it again as of today.”
Rivers, who has eight children ranging from age 2 to a high school freshman, joined the Chargers in 2004 when the team was in San Diego.
The Spanos family moved the team to the Los Angeles area in July, but Rivers has learned to make the most of his commute. After 13 years in San Diego, the Rivers family wasn’t ready to uproot its life just because the team moved.
The quarterback has a driver so that he can do NFL homework in the back of a $200,000 luxury SUV that most would only dream of.
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— San Diego Union-Tribune (@sdut) September 5, 2017
“My two biggest things were my family time and my preparation and what I owe this football team,” Rivers said earlier this season. “I was not going to sacrifice either of them in any big proportion.
“I can look at all the pluses and minuses and say, ‘OK. This does it.’ This allows me to get home in the 6 to 7 hour, which is when I got home the last 11 years, and it allows me to watch all or more of the film I watched before.”
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What's the penalty for trying to cast spells without mana?
April 19, 2010, 07:09 #1
I've read that mages used to have spell called Globe of Invulnerability, which got removed from the game because it made mages invincible. As I though it sounded like a nice spell I came up with an idea on how to balance it.
How about making it cost more mana than a Mage can have? I don't know the exact penalties for casting spells without mana, but I've heard that doing so can cause permanent damage on your stats and make your @ pass out.
If players would risk fainting from casting the spell, they wouldn't do it during a battle. But players who like to gamble could still do it before. In other words, the Mage would cast Globe of Invulnerability on dlvl 99, and if everything goes well he or she would be invincible during the first part of the battle. But the mage passes out from casting, there would be a small risk of a wandering monster sneaking up on him/her while (s)he's unconcious. Getting stats ruined forever wouldn't be fun either and like all those self-buff spells in Angband the duration of GoI would be random.
Another spell idea I came up with was the ability to cast Aquirement or *Aquirement* at the cost of more mana than a player can have. Wouldn't it be possible to balance that too so that some gambling-minded players would use it for extra excitement while those who like to play it safe never would use it?
I understand that the developers have much more important things to balance/code/etc than to listen to ideas from the forum, but to me it doesn't matter that much. I think it's fun to just discuss! So what do you say, would it be possible to balance Globe of Invulnerability or Aquirement/*Aquirement* by giving them unaffordable mana costs?
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When you try to cast a spell but lack the mana, the failure rate of the spell is increased by 5% for each missing mana point (up to the standard max 50% failure rate before taking into account stunning and amnesia). Also, if you fail, the following happens:
* You are paralyzed, ignoring free action, for 1 game turn plus 5 for each missing mana point.
* At 50% odds, your CON is reduced (at a further 25% odds, permanently -- so, 1/8th chance of a permanent CON reduction)
That's it. This is all taken from cmd5.c, by the way.
If you want to introduce a spell that intentionally costs more mana than you can have, then you should also tweak the rules for mana overexertion. They currently assume that you're desperate anyway and thus don't overly penalize you (beyond paralyzing you in a situation where you badly needed to cast a spell, anyway). Making GoI work this way makes some sense, since you have to cast it shortly before going into combat, so if you fail, there's a good chance you'll get ambushed. But I don't see this remotely working for Acquirement et al. In general, spells that give the player items are broken or useless, depending on the items in question. We already see this with branding spells.
Originally Posted by Derakon
It wouldn't make that much sense to put an aquirement spell in the game, I was just toying with the idea to challenge myself by trying to come up with a way to balance it.
But do you think it would be possible to re-introduce Globe of Invulnerability this way? Or do you think it's an hopeless task to find the right balance between everyone thinking it's not worth the risk and it being a no-brainer choice to activate GoI before the last battles in the game?
fyonn
Originally Posted by Nemesis
as someone used GoI against Morgoth, it was a great spell, but IIRC, it only lasted 6+d8 turns or something similar, so I had to cast it several times during the fight. I pretty much had to be able to see Morgoth to cast it, otherwise I was wasting much of the value of an expensive spell to cast (70-ish mana?)
thus casting it with a serious risk of paralysis would be an invitation to death.
Also, a spell that you only cast for one baddie seems a bit odd.
PS. GoI was seriously unbalancing.. that's what made it cool!
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Originally Posted by fyonn
If GoI was to be reintroduced, I imagine that players would cast it dlvl 99, and that it would last a bit longer. I guess it wouldn't be impossible to use it in other important battles as well. For example, you could detect the Tarrasque, dig a tunnel so that you are right next to him, with only one grid of wall between you. If you succeed in casting the spell, you only need to cast Stone to Mud one time before you can engage the Tarrasqe. And since you've dug a complex tunnel, it's not that likely that someone will kill you while you're paralyzed, unless that someone kan walk through or tear down walls. You could also use Glyph of Warding to protect yourself. The real the risk with using the spell would be that you could permanently lose one of those invaluable CON points, while the risk of getting paralyzed would mostly work to hinder players from re-casting the spell while in combat.
The paralysis and CON drain happen if you are successful at casting the spell as well. You have to be really desperate to try. Under the system proposed, even if successfully cast, the GoI would probably wear off before your character is able to move again.
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feature discussion - halve mage damage mana PowerDiver Vanilla 48 December 31, 2009 04:58
Suggestion : Make exp penalty hurt (but not too much ;-) PaulBlay Vanilla 14 April 7, 2009 04:24
On less used spells bebo Vanilla 8 February 4, 2009 23:21
Morgoth's Mana Storm awldune Vanilla 5 November 22, 2008 04:15
question about armor imposed mana points penalty tg122 Vanilla 4 December 17, 2007 18:17
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Indiana History Bulletin, volume 21, number 1, January 1944 -- Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual Indiana history conference
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Mrs. Sylvan S. Mouser: John K. Graham papers, secured in part from other descendants.
John H. Newlin: manuscript account book, Nathan Newlin and John Newlin, Ohio and Indiana, 1797-1840.
Mrs. Vera Reese Tranter, Franklin: manuscript account book, John Reese, 1810.
EARLY WATER-POWER MILLS
Denzil Doggett, Indianapolis, Chairman
The committee has not been active this year, but a number of items have been added to its collection of material on Indiana's old mills. Mrs. Grace S. Marks, Salem, sent in material on the Organ Spring and the Thomas Voyles mills of Washington County. H. S. K. Bartholomew turned in information about the Myers mill of Elkhart County. Mrs. A. E. Werkhoff, Darlington, presented photographs of the Franklin mill, Montgomery County, showing its condition before and after purchase and repair by the Werkhoffs in 1939; an article in the Lafayette Journal and Courier told of this mill. Two photographs of the exterior of the Beck mill, Washington County, were the gift of Delbert Kay, Milwaukee. Other additions were a postcard showing the "Ruins of old Elliott mill, Richmond, Ind.," and newspaper clippings on the Thompson mill, at Edinburg, the death of Merritt Beck, of Washington County, Elkhorn mill, Wayne County, and the Hawkins mill, Richmond.
PIONEER CEMETERIES AND CHURCHES
Harry O. Garman, Indianapolis, Chairman
Although gasoline rationing and other circumstances have greatly hampered the work of recording cemetery inscriptions, the members of the committee have been able to complete and send to the Genealogy Room in the State Library during 1943 inscriptions from fifty-five pioneer cemeteries located in thirteen different counties of the state. The size of the cemeteries vary from those containing only two or three markers to the Crown Hill Cemetery at Centerville with one hundred and eighteen pages of inscriptions covering one section. The total number of pages sent in was four hundred and thirty-one.
Title Indiana History Bulletin, volume 21, number 1, January 1944 -- Proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual Indiana history conference
Description Publication of the Indiana Historical Bureau reporting on activities that promote state and local history. Issued January 1944.
Creator Indiana Historical Bureau
Contributors Cordier, Andrew W. (Andrew Wellington), 1901-1975; Hull, J. Dan (John Daniel) 1900-; Rauch, John G. (John George), 1890-1975 ; Ohleyer, F. A.; Coleman, Christopher Bush, 1875-1944; Burns, Lee, 1872-1957; Lilly, Josiah Kirby, 1893-1966; Robbins, Roy M. (Roy Marvin); Polley, Frederick, 1875-1957; Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976; Riker, Dorothy Lois, 1904-; Ewbank, Louis B. (Louis Blasdel), 1864- ; Goodwin, John Pemberton, 1880-1972; Simons, Richard; Fesler, James W.; Dunn, Caroline; Doggett, Denzil; Garman, Harry O.; Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977; Gronert, Theodore Gregory; Ashby, W. Hurley; Wright, John S.; Wright, Quincy, 1890-1970;
Subject Indiana--History--Periodicals; Indiana History Conference; Soviet Union--History--1917-1936.; Soviet Union--History--1939-1945.; Cultural lag; Surveys.; Education--History.; Genealogy.; Genealogical libraries; Indiana Historical Society. Annual Meeting; Folklore--Study and teaching.; Indiana University, Bloomington. Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Wayne County (Ind.); Warrick County (Ind.); Archival materials.; Acquisitions (Libraries)--Bibliography.; Steamboats; Waterways--Indiana; International agencies.; Conflict management.
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Volume information Part of bound volume labeled on spine: Indiana History Bulletin, Jan. 1944-Dec. 1944
Title IHBv21n01p058
transcription Mrs. Sylvan S. Mouser: John K. Graham papers, secured in part from other descendants. John H. Newlin: manuscript account book, Nathan Newlin and John Newlin, Ohio and Indiana, 1797-1840. Mrs. Vera Reese Tranter, Franklin: manuscript account book, John Reese, 1810. EARLY WATER-POWER MILLS Denzil Doggett, Indianapolis, Chairman The committee has not been active this year, but a number of items have been added to its collection of material on Indiana's old mills. Mrs. Grace S. Marks, Salem, sent in material on the Organ Spring and the Thomas Voyles mills of Washington County. H. S. K. Bartholomew turned in information about the Myers mill of Elkhart County. Mrs. A. E. Werkhoff, Darlington, presented photographs of the Franklin mill, Montgomery County, showing its condition before and after purchase and repair by the Werkhoffs in 1939; an article in the Lafayette Journal and Courier told of this mill. Two photographs of the exterior of the Beck mill, Washington County, were the gift of Delbert Kay, Milwaukee. Other additions were a postcard showing the "Ruins of old Elliott mill, Richmond, Ind.," and newspaper clippings on the Thompson mill, at Edinburg, the death of Merritt Beck, of Washington County, Elkhorn mill, Wayne County, and the Hawkins mill, Richmond. PIONEER CEMETERIES AND CHURCHES Harry O. Garman, Indianapolis, Chairman Although gasoline rationing and other circumstances have greatly hampered the work of recording cemetery inscriptions, the members of the committee have been able to complete and send to the Genealogy Room in the State Library during 1943 inscriptions from fifty-five pioneer cemeteries located in thirteen different counties of the state. The size of the cemeteries vary from those containing only two or three markers to the Crown Hill Cemetery at Centerville with one hundred and eighteen pages of inscriptions covering one section. The total number of pages sent in was four hundred and thirty-one.
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Cofek lauds MPs' position on interest rates caps law
Published: Friday, April 13, 2018
Created: Friday, April 13, 2018
CBK Governor Dr Patrick Njoroge and Treasury Secretary Mr Henry Rotich at a past event.
The Consumers Federation of Kenya (Cofek) welcomes the decision by the Finance Committee of the National Assembly to reject Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) proposal to scrap the law capping interest rates.
The House Committee's position vindicates our view and that of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK)
As we have stated, time without number, we do not support long term price controls. But where governance and regulatory discipline has dipped, such as the case with Kenya’s banking and financial services sector, price controls are inevitable.
When His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta hesistantly assented to the Bill on August 24, 2016 he observed that while it was a painful decision, he had to accept realities of public outcry. He pledged that the effect of the legislation would be monitored over time.
Instead of CBK offering factual insights and demonstrating the purported failure of the law, the CBK Governor Dr Patrick Njoroge has taken to a non-persuasive blanket condemnation of the law before and after assent.
He has declined requests to meet with consumer representatives while he regularly consults the bankers lobby. That he is an embodiment of skewed regulatory failure is a matter within the public domain.
It for this reason that we agree with MPs that Dr Njoroge has fallen to the IMF policy capture. CBK must do more homework to persuade consumers, accountants under ICPAK and MPs that his call to scrap the caps is genuine. He has also little to instil sector discipline and stemming huge government appetite for domestic borrowing
The banks liquidity ratios are far from showing any danger signs. As a result of other hidden and escalated ones, some banks seem to be performing even better under the rate caps regime than before.
The cliché excuse of reduced credit access to the low income earners is a choreographed cartel-like initiative that has been rehearsed to make the Banking Act (Amendment) 2016 look bad.
We appeal to the media to equally allow the voice of consumers to be heard on this matter. Thank you.
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Whitwell, Stuart
Booklist;9/15/94, Vol. 91 Issue 2, p100
Reviews the book `The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages,' by Harold Bloom.
Bloom in love with books. Tucker, Ken // Entertainment Weekly;10/21/94, Issue 245, p58
The Western Canon (Book Review). Sadlier, Darlene J. // Luso-Brazilian Review;1997, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p146
The battle of the books. Silver, Daniel J. // Commentary;Dec94, Vol. 98 Issue 6, p60
Reviews the book `The Western Canon: The Books and the School of the Ages,' by Harold Bloom.
Canon fire. Gillespie, Nick // Reason;Jun95, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p55
Literary supplement: The great books of the west. Heptonstall, Geoffrey // Contemporary Review;Jun96, Vol. 268 Issue 1565, p331
The canonical critic. Good, Graham // Canadian Literature;Winter96, Issue 151, p152
In praise of dead white genius. Pierce, Peter // Bulletin with Newsweek;3/28/95, Vol. 116 Issue 5963, p104
Reviews the book `The Western Canon,' by Harold Bloom.
The Western Canon. Schenk, Leslie // World Literature Today;Spring96, Vol. 70 Issue 2, p325
Focuses on the book `The Western Canon,' by Harold Bloom. Disasters to befall Western letters; Bases of literature and civilization; Misconceptions about Japanese poems.
Canons in front of them. Clausen, Christopher // New Leader;12/19/95, Vol. 77 Issue 12, p18
It's naughty! Haughty! It's anti-multi-culti! Gates, David // Newsweek;10/10/1994, Vol. 124 Issue 15, p73
Reviews the book `The Western Canon,' by Harold Bloom, 64, who is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale and Berg Professor English at New York University. INSETS: So you're on a desert island... (book excerpts);Bloom and doom (interview), by Ken Shulman.
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Home Increase A. Lapham Papers, 1825-1930 August 1863, p. 45
Box 24: Canadian Weather Reports, Published, 1870-1871
August 1863, p. 45
Title Box 24: Canadian Weather Reports, Published, 1870-1871
Document Title Box 24: Canadian Weather Reports, Published, 1870-1871
Folder Description This box contains numerous meteorological reports, the vast majority of which come from the Magnetical Observatory in Toronto, Canada. The first few objects are meteorological reports on a yearly basis. The last object is a stack of loose leaf pages which make up a monthly meteorological register from 1860 to 1874.
Subject data & lists; institutions & associations; law & legislation; weather & climate; rain; meteorology; wind
Date 1859; 1860; 1861; 1862; 1863; 1864; 1865; 1866; 1867; 1868; 1869; 1870; 1871; 1872; 1873; 1874
Source Increase A. Lapham Papers, 1825-1930 (Wis Mss DB, Canadian Weather Reports, Published, 1870-1871, Box 24); WIHV95-A24
Digital Identifier Lapham(WisMssDB)B24F1-000
Title August 1863, p. 45
Document Title Monthly Meteorological Register, at the Provincial Magnetical Observatory, Toronto, Canada West, Page 45
State Toronto
Place Canada
Month August
Source Increase A. Lapham Papers, 1825-1930 (Wis Mss DB, Canadian Weather Reports, Published, 1870-1871, Box 24)
Second Report of the Meteorological Office of the Dominion of Canada
Third Report of the Meteorological Office of the Dominion of Canada for the Fiscal Year Ended 30th June, 1873
Mean Meteorological Results at Toronto, for the Year 1859 and General Meteorological Register for the Year 1859
- Mean Meteorological Results at Toronto, for the Year 1859 and General Meteorological Register for the Year 1859
Mean Meteorological Results at Toronto, for the Year 1861
General Meteorological Register for the Year 1865
On the Changes of Barometric Pressure, and Pressure of Vapor that Accompany Different Winds, at Toronto, From Observations in the Seven Years, 1860-1866 Inclusive
Meteorological Summary for November, 1869, Derived from the Records of the Magnetic Observatory, Toronto
- Meteorological Summary for November, 1869, Derived from the Records of the Magnetic Observatory, Toronto
Summary of Rain and Melted Snow for the Summer and Autumn Quarters of 1871, from Observations at 74 Stations in Canada, Compiled at the Magnetic Observatory, Toronto
- Summary of Rain and Melted Snow for the Summer and Autumn Quarters of 1871, from Observations at 74 Stations in Canada, Compiled at the Magnetic Observatory, Toronto
Summary of Rain and Melted Snow for the Winter Quarter of 1870-1871, from Observations at 41 Stations in Canada, Compiled at the Magnetic Observatory, Toronto
- Summary of Rain and Melted Snow for the Winter Quarter of 1870-1871, from Observations at 41 Stations in Canada, Compiled at the Magnetic Observatory, Toronto
Monthly Meteorological Register, at the Provincial Magnetical Observatory, Toronto, Canada West
- January 1860, p. 1
- February 1860, p. 2
- March 1860, p. 3
- April 1860, p. 4
- May 1860, p. 5
- June 1860, p. 6
- July 1860, p. 7
- August 1860, p. 8
- September 1860, p. 9
- October 1860, p. 10
- November 1860, p. 11
- December 1860, p. 12
- January 1861, p. 13
- St. Martin, Isle Jesus, Canada East, January 1861, p. 14
- February 1861, p. 15
- March 1861, p. 16
- April 1861, p. 17
- May 1861, p. 18
- June 1861, p. 19
- July 1861, p. 20
- August 1861, p. 21
- September 1861, p. 22
- March1862, p. 28
- March 1868, p. 100
- April 1868, p. 101
- May 1868, p. 102
- June 1868, p. 103
- July 1868, p. 104
- August 1868, p. 105
- September 1868, p. 106
- October 1868, p. 107
- November 1868, p. 108
- December 1868, p. 109
- Notes Relative to Meteorological Reports for January 1869, p. 110
- January 1869, p. 111
- February 1869, p. 112
- March1873, p. 161
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This is my contribution to this month’s #LetsLunch, a monthly virtual potluck on Twitter. This month’s theme is “munchies, ” to toast the release of The Marijuana Chronicles, an anthology featuring a story by Cheryl Tan, one of the founders of #LetsLunch. Here’s a recipe that will hit the spot when you’ve got the munchies– vibrantly flavored with smoky spice, heat, umami and a touch of sweetness.
I am a huge fan of Sam Sifton, of The New York Times, and love how he brings a lively story with every recipe he presents. So I was excited when I saw his recent recipe for Trinidadian Chinese Chicken (“East Meets West Indies”). His depiction of Trinidad is reminiscent of VS Naipaul‘s writing:
“The dish pays faint, mongrelized homage to the Chinese indentured servants who came to Trinidad in the 19th century to cut cane and harvest cacao when the British abolished African slavery but still needed chattel to do their work. The Chinese cooked their own food when they weren’t slaving. All Trinidad — not just Caribs and Africans but also, as in Derek Walcott’s description of the population, “the chained Cromwellian convict and the Sephardic Jew, the Chinese grocer and the Lebanese merchant selling cloth samples on his bicycle” — savored the result. Each group eventually made the cooking its collective own.”
My husband, whose grandfather came from Canton not as an indentured servant but who was, indeed, a Chinese grocer, was excited to see Trinidadian Chinese food, a lesser known cuisine in the US, featured in the NY Times. But he steupsed— a Trini expression for sucking the teeth to express disdain– at the sauce Sifton made for the chicken:
“The addition of a Scotch-bonnet sauce (choose your own, but make sure it is fruity in its fire, with a rich aftertaste) to the funky salinity of a commercial Chinese oyster sauce is revelatory, a culinary mash-up of the very first order. Slathered on the crisp chicken, it becomes visible poetry, a joyous product of survival under hard odds.”
“What kind of sauce is that? It sounds like he just mixed together a little bit of this, a little bit of that, ” is how my husband put it. “You don’t do that in Trinidad.”
Still, I had to try. I don’t actually remember eating this chicken with my in-laws, despite their being the-real-deal Chinese Trinidadians. The result? PHENOMENAL. Even my previously skeptical husband devoured it. He said the chicken was like what his mother used to make. And he admitted that the sauce, while not authentic, was surprisingly tasty.
Sam Sifton’s Trini-Chinese Chicken
Recipe from the New York Times Magazine March 31, 2013
8 to 10 chicken thighs, legs and wings, about 2 1/2 to 3 pounds total
2 tablespoons five-spice powder
1 2-inch knob ginger root, peeled and minced
1/2 cup neutral oil, like canola or grapeseed
1/2 cup oyster sauce
1 to 3 tablespoons Scotch-bonnet-pepper sauce, ideally Matouk’s Soca, to taste
1/4 cup chopped scallions, for garnish.
1. In a large, nonreactive bowl, toss the chicken with five-spice powder, then with the juice of 2 of the limes, the soy sauce and the ginger. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes and up to 6 hours.
2. Heat oils in a large skillet over medium-high heat. There should be at least 1/4 inch of oil in the pan. When the oil is hot, remove chicken from marinade, allowing excess marinade to drip back into the bowl, and fry, in batches if necessary to not crowd the pan, turning the pieces frequently, until well browned and cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, make the dipping sauce. Combine oyster sauce, a tablespoon of the Scotch-bonnet-pepper sauce and the juice of the remaining lime and stir to combine. Adjust seasonings with more hot sauce, lime juice and freshly ground black pepper to taste.
4. Garnish with scallions and serve with white or fried rice, with a drizzle of the sauce over each piece of chicken and the remaining sauce on the side.
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Source: spiceboxtravels.com
Crispy Chinese Lemon Chicken recipe
Chinese BBQ Chicken recipe
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Calendar Kids
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Dec 18 | Wed | 10:30 pm | $20 Event is Over
First-time parenthood can feel overwhelming—we're here to help! 92Y Parenting Center director Sally Tannen welcomes new moms, dads, and babies to gather for weekly meet-ups full of sharing, advice, and the support every new parent needs. Wednesdays, 10:30 am-12 pm, $20, payable in advance online or at the door with a credit card. Come when you can! Registration not required. Bring your baby and join Sally Tannen, director of 92Y's Parenting Center, for a weekly get-together where parents share, get tips, and make new friends. You'll have the opportunity to get feedback on all your parenting questions from one of New York City's leading experts in parenting and early childhood. Gatherings focus on topics relevant to you and your family—sleep and your new baby, traveling with an infant, managing finances, and much more. See individual sessions for upcoming topics.
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Cannes 1995: Jury Awards
First off, I want to thank everybody who followed this feature, and for making the five of us feel that we weren't shouting into a total void, or throwing a party to which we hadn't invited anybody else. Comment sections were pretty quiet, but murmurs over Twitter and elsewhere indicated there was an audience for our nuttiness. We hope you'll dig up some of these films if you haven't already, whether to share or challenge our enthusiasm, or to mirror or refute our distaste or indifference. As for "we" and "us," I couldn't possibly be more grateful to Ivan, Tim, Alex, and Amir for cramming so many movies into a month and producing such thoughtful and zippy reflections on them, at a time when all five of us had plenty else going on. I woke up every morning excited for what they'd have to say, and they never disappointed. You can use the "Cannes 1995" label at the bottom of this post or head over here to remind yourself of all their pearls of wisdom.
Tim and I were the last two people to leave the hotel room; we also kept the craziest schedules, heading out earliest and coming latest, to see the most sidebar entries. Over our final breakfast in our beachfront hotel (yes this is all made up what of it this was our best shot at a mental vacation shhhh) we swapped cocktail serviettes with our Top 10s on them.
Nick's: 1) Safe, 2) Underground, 3) Georgia, 4) Nasty Love, 5) L'Enfant noir, 6) The White Balloon, 7) Good Men, Good Women, 8) The Arsonist, 9) The Neon Bible, 10) Ed Wood
Tim's: 1) Dead Man, 2) Safe, 3) Ed Wood, 4) Underground, 5) Hello Cinema, 6) Good Men, Good Women, 7) Lisbon Story, 8) The Arsonist, 9) Nasty Love, 10) Georgia
That lets you know where at least two of us started as we entered deep sequester with our fellow jurors. As for determining prize-winners among all five of us, I would say there was pretty speedy agreement about many of these choices, even though at least half of them involved some haggling—whether about levels of achievement within each category or about distribution of prizes across the slate. The closest calls had to do with the Palme vs. the Grand Jury Prize, which probably divides a lot of juries, and with the exact criteria for the Jury Prize, which I'm not sure we're giving to our third-place film, but certainly to a film that impressed us from multiple angles and didn't seem to come out on top in any one area. So let that be a lesson to you kids out there making assumptions about what Jury Prizes, or any Cannes prize, or any juried film award, necessarily implies about the conversation behind it.
I'll be announcing our selections over my Twitter feed over the next couple of hours, and will later group all the news here. Meanwhile, we'd love to hear your choices or other Cannes '95-related thoughts in the Comments section ... and stay tuned for one more Roundtable still to come (following this one and this one, both of which taught me a lot), plus some late-breaking discussions with film scholars and other experts who can unpack some of our recent viewing from more specialized perspectives. So, the awards aren't the end, but the beginning of the end. And they are...
Labels: Blog Buddies, Cannes, Cannes 95, Critics Prizes
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Cannes 1995: Day 12: May 28
The Quick and the Dead, USA, dir. Sam Raimi
Many people need no help appreciating Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man. If you're me and can't help feeling agnostic, recuperating more admiration for Jarmusch's affected earnestness and genuine idiosyncrasy is a lot easier after seeing a revisionist Western as flat and plodding as Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead Or Sharon Stone's The Quick and the Dead (she also produced), or whoever's The Quick and the Dead. Even the mid-90s' reigning Goldilocks can't save the movie from being too much or too little at all times. The narrative disarray is total—as evidenced by a major flashback tucked into the last ten minutes, which, incidentally, unfolds a scene the audience has already worked out—but even disarray is more interesting than the utter stasis of so many shots where Stone or Russell Crowe or Gene Hackman just stares at people, or the brute momentum of the shootout scenes where the same same same thing happens as the field of contestants winnows down to an utterly foreordained foursome. Raimi's attempts to wake himself aren't any more interesting than the impressions of Raimi asleep at the wheel. But rather than keep laying on Cannes's closing night film, I'm inclined to put pressure on the oft-invoked phrase "revisionist Western," because the John Ford retrospective that unfolded throughout the festival—25 features in ten days—shows that even peak-period Westerns by figures as major as Ford were "revisionist" as often as not. Few have been as austere in their outlook, albeit frequently purple in their prose, as The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. This 1962 James Stewart/John Wayne vehicle, which could not possibly be more cannily cast, challenges and complicates so many myths of the frontier, the ballot box, the law, the state, and the gun that you're hard-pressed to find any Western trope that survives intact. I wish I'd had time for more of the Ford films, but boy was I glad to have saved them up so that I didn't finish on Raimi's folly, and I could take in a rounder, wider, bitterer scale of revision than the simple notion of a girl with a gun.
Labels: 1930s, 1960s, Cannes, Cannes 95, Classics, Gene Hackman, John Ford, Leonardo DiCaprio, Masterpieces, Russell Crowe, Sharon Stone, Stinkers
Dead Man, USA, dir. Jim Jarmusch
Two Hugh Grant movies played the last three days at Cannes, in sync with a carefully timed visit from His Floppy-Hairedness, Marquess of Stutter. That may have been the big news at the time, whereas now The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Jesus This Title Is Long is the most patently dated element of the final full day of programming. All three of the other films listed below, despite slipping in at the eleventh hour, have had much more lasting impacts. La Haine caught on quickly, of course, sending shockwaves through French film culture and public discourse. 20th-anniversary pieces have popped up in many major European papers this spring. Dead Man wafted in and out on the final day with remarkably little fanfare, just as Jarmusch's delicious Only Lovers Left Alive did two years ago; I'm pretty reconciled to Just Not Getting Dead Man, but I see completely why so many cinephiles are impassioned about it. Despite its stiffing by the jury and, evidently, by the programmers—way more than La Haine, it's the sort of movie that works by osmosis, and needs time to unwrap its ideas—I'd wager that it now boasts the highest critical stature of any of the Palme competitors from this good-to-middling vintage. My favorite film and happiest discovery among these three was the Burkinabe ensemble dramedy Haramuya, which nimbly alights on multiple storylines among young and old, male and female, in modern-day Ouagadougou. Today it is most celebrated by African cinema devotées for its rare attention to urban teens in a contemporary setting. I'd have had a hard time seeing it without my university connections, but keep an eye out for that title. It was the second movie I watched of the 53 I screened over the six weeks for this feature, and it's easily in the top two or three of those I'm most eager to check out again.
Labels: African Cinema, Blog Buddies, Cannes, Cannes 95, France, Hugh Grant, Jim Jarmusch, Johnny Depp, UK, Vincent Cassel, Westerns
Underground, Serbia/France/Germany, dir. Emir Kusturica
A very sad anecdote in Citizen Cannes, the memoir by longtime festival director Gilles Jacob, finds Serbian film director Emir Kusturica spotting Francis Ford Coppola in the airport after the 1996 festival, where Coppola presided over the jury. Kusturica is over the moon to meet one of his filmmaking idols, and also to share in their very rare status as two of only three men (at that time) to have scooped two Palmes d'or. He approaches Coppola, fawns over him, attempts to establish fellow feeling. Coppola has never seen his movies, and indeed has no idea who he is. Kusturica keeps throwing him lifelines, establishing his credentials as a globally renowned cineaste, while humbly expressing his feelings of inferiority in present company. Coppola just can't get interested, and never figures out who he's talking to. Jacob offers the story as an emblem of American ignorance, retaining absolutely no idea of what cinema means or who produces it outside of Hollywood's confines. And indeed, you'd love to live in the world where a movie as ambitious, as outsized, as risky and huge as Underground endowed its maker with worldwide renown . . . to fellow luminaries in his field, at the very least. Kusturica has his complexities, to be sure, as both an artist and, from what I understand, as a person, but to Coppola he may as well have been Edward D. Wood, Jr.
At least Jeanne Moreau's jury showed greater appreciation for Underground. Indeed, it's hard to imagine a better day for a Cannes competition than this one: two emblematic works by two figures prominent enough to later lead their own juries. In virtues and even in what I'd call their flaws, Underground and Ed Wood both seem to embody every hope their eccentric auteurs could have harbored for them, and both of them function, implicitly or explicitly, as valentines to a form that keeps thriving, even amid the devastations of land and people, even amid the merry assaults of the utterly talentless ...
Labels: Best Supporting Actor, Blog Buddies, Cannes, Cannes 95, Emir Kusturica, European Cinema, International, Johnny Depp, Masterpieces, Palme d'or, Tim Burton
Cannes 1995: Day 9: May 25
The Convent, Portugal, dir. Manoel de Oliveira
This third-to-last day of the Competition is a riddle to me, even more so than whatever syndrome is or isn't making King George III mad, or why Benoît does any of the things he does in Don't Forget You're Going to Die, or wtf is happening in the crypt or the church or the cave or the woods or the beach or the first reel or the second reel or the third reel in The Convent. Just when the Palme race started to heat up with much more exciting contenders than we'd seen in the early days of the festival, Day 9 feels larded with puzzling, truncated, or frankly mediocre work, in and out of the Main Competition. The things that make Beauvois's and de Oliveira's films frustrating to watch admittedly make them more interesting as time passes. Either might have been served by an earlier berth in the schedule, an idea we'll revisit when we land on Dead Man on the final day. Most of the sidebar stuff could just as easily not have played at all, but I have to say, after so many unsatisfying narratives and inchoate statements, it was sure was fun watching Antonio Banderas fire away at bad guys with weaponized guitar case.
Labels: Action Films, Best Actor, Blog Buddies, Cannes, Cannes 95, France, Hugh Grant, International, Israel, Manoel de Oliveira, Michael Moore, Portugal, Salma Hayek, UK
Ulysses' Gaze, Greece, dir. Theo Angelopoulos
Fewer films than usual on offer today: Critics' Week had ended, and many of the Quinzaine and Un Certain Regard titles proved elusive. But what remains is a full meal. Some might even say over-full. I imagine critics arrive to every Cannes with certain days in the schedule circled in boldfaced marker, and this would have been one of them. Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze, which finds the legendary Greek auteur pondering the evisceration of the Balkans and the evanescence of film, and Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad, with its visually and narratively operatic story of gangsterism and bitter redemption, had figured instantly on everyone's list of likely plays for the Palme d'or. By "everyone," I include the filmmakers. Neither was renowned for hiding his light under a bushel, but even by those standards, they pull out all the technical and rhetorical stops in these projects. I don't doubt their sincere commitment to their visions, but I also sense they can smell the velvet in the trophy case. Neither of these statement-pieces went home empty-handed, even if Angelopoulos' famous hissy-fit upon winning the runner-up prize suggested otherwise, but nor did they unite critical opinion or endear themselves uniformly to audiences. I found plenty to chew on in both, but oscillated like so many others between awe and skepticism. If anything, I was more galvanized by a one-hour Malaysian adaptation of William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" that slipped into Un Certain Regard to less acclaim than it deserved. You could watch it three times in the span it takes to screen Ulysses' Gaze, though that's not an automatic point for or against either of them. Good things come in big and small packages.
Labels: Adaptations, Blog Buddies, Cannes, Cannes 95, China, Greece, Harvey Keitel, International, Southeast Asia, Theo Angelopoulos, William Faulkner, Zhang Yimou
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Nasty Love, Italy, dir. Mario Martone
It is on to-day, honey. The hits keep getting bigger! Four of the Competition titles from the last 48 hours have handily eclipsed the rest of the field, but today's discoveries are invigorating in a different way than yesterday's because they were so much less heralded. Mario Martone, highly regarded in Italy but barely known outside of it—he's competed for the Golden Lion four times, and swept the Donatello awards a few years back with his prestige literary adaptation We Believed—wowed me more or less from out of nowhere with the directorial verve of Nasty Love, simultaneously steely and luscious, sexy and sad. Many of the most conspicuous directorial signatures of Cannes '95 have been high-handed or humorless; Martone figures out how to impress and entertain at once. No slight on sobriety, though, when it's done with the odd, immaculate mannerism of Terence Davies's The Neon Bible, though I'm suspicious I may have responded better to this one than at least a couple of my peers. All that, plus L'enfant noir is an uncommonly beautiful West African coming-of-age tale, and Safe is one of the definitive movies of the decade. Hard to swing a better day at a festival than this.
Labels: African Cinema, Black Cinema, Blog Buddies, Cannes, Cannes 95, Gena Rowlands, International, Italy, Julianne Moore, Masterpieces, Queer Cinema, Safe, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes
Land and Freedom, UK, dir. Ken Loach
And now we're finally talking. Ken Loach and Hou Hsiao-hsien serve up the meatiest, chewiest Palme contenders so far, and without pushing too far outside their stylistic comfort zones, they make some of the most forceful work in either of their filmographies. Regrettable, maybe, that Kids stole a lot of the media attention, but in the context of Cannes, it proved something less of a sensation than its makers and distributors might have hoped. Meanwhile, Chris Newby premiered some British cinema as dissimilar as you could imagine to Land and Freedom, except perhaps in its ethic of unanticipated affinities and identifications across difference, and Iranian master Mohsen Makhmalbaf furnished one of the most austere but committed of several films overtly commemorating the 100th anniversary of the medium...
Labels: Cannes, Cannes 95, China, Iran, Ken Loach, Larry Clark, Political Cinema, Queer Cinema, UK
Carrington, UK, dir. Christopher Hampton
What's going on? It would be a significant overstatement to say Cannes 1995 wasn't giving us anything to enjoy or admire in its first 100 hours. Sharaku and Angels and Insects have real lingering power, The City of Lost Children at least offers grand spectacle, and the programming in Directors' Fortnight and Un Certain Regard picked up some of the Main Competition's slack. Carrington might be the high-water mark of the Competition thus far. One week later, the jury certainly held that view; give or take Sharaku, I'm inclined to agree with them. But as much as I've always liked Hampton's movie, it's a surprising apex, one-third of the way into the world's most auspicious film festival. Plenty of worthy rental choices below, but also a couple of indifferent doodles and must-avoids.
Updated: For even richer thoughts on many of the films listed below, head over to the first Jury Roundtable, where we all go into more detail about our reactions.
Labels: Biopics, Cannes, Cannes 95, Emma Thompson, International, Middle Eastern Cinema, Stinkers, UK, Women Directors
Jefferson in Paris, USA, dir. James Ivory
The Main Competition continued to languish on the festival's fourth day; none of this section's first seven titles earned any bouquets from the jury by the end of the fortnight. Happily, things were still percolating in the other selections, where Nicole Kidman and Gus Van Sant turned their very different careers around on the same project. Other faces lighting up screens were as fresh as Liv Tyler's and as familiar as Alec Guinness's...
Labels: Cannes, Cannes 95, Gus Van Sant, International, Katrin Cartlidge, Merchant Ivory, Nick Nolte, Nicole Kidman, Wim Wenders
Beyond Rangoon, UK/USA, dir. John Boorman
1995 boasted the largest roster of Competition titles in recent Cannes history—which is all the more surprising given that some of these entries, like Angels and Insects, would have played equally well in the sidebars, and others, like Beyond Rangoon, could have been skipped altogether. But if the Palme contenders hadn't yet yielded much excitement, the sidebars were starting to pop with buzzy titles, hailing from Tinseltown and Tehran...
Labels: Adaptations, Cannes, Cannes 95, Diane Keaton, India, International, Iran, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Arquette, Stinkers, UK
Sharaku, Japan, dir. Masahiro Shinoda
The Main Competition offerings today were determinedly more esoteric than the opening-night film. Souleymane Cissé's Waati was the only one of 24 Palme contenders that eluded me entirely, MIA even from this box-set of that renowned Malian director's work. I did locate the day's other Main Competition title via the website SamuraiDVD, even though it isn't a samurai film. (Technicalities.) Still, even once it's in your hand, Sharaku is such a tough nut to crack that U.S. distribution never happened. That doesn't mean I was unseduced...
Labels: Biopics, Black Cinema, Blog Buddies, Cannes, Cannes 95, Japan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Queer Cinema
The City of Lost Children, France, dirs. Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro
Welcome to the first day of the rest of your lives, and also to the first day of the second coming of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival! As I've been telling you for weeks now, and as Twitter has been hearing at regular intervals, I and a distinguished entourage are embracing our practical and financial inabilities to attend the currently-unfolding Cannes Film Festival by calling on all streaming services, private DVD collections, campus holdings, Interlibrary Loan offices, brick-and-mortar rental shops, and international mail-order retailers to throw what we consider a very inspired birthday party for many, many films that screened on the Croisette 20 years ago this week. I personally have already seen upwards of 40 titles, from 18 countries, with about a dozen still to go and more nations to represent. Having searched through every open door for these movies—many of which I hadn't seen in two decades, most of which I'd never seen at all, and several of which are by directors I'd never heard of before—I'm having the time of my life.
Each day of the festival, I'll post an entry that collects my thoughts on the films that bowed on the Croisette that day in 1995. I'll also include links to essays, capsules, tweets, or Letterboxd entries by my cohorts. I hope you'll enjoy following these posts, and that you'll consider playing along, and either posting or linking your impressions in the Comments. I've provided a day-by-day itinerary of the films up for discussion, to help you know what's coming. (I pulled the dates and even the screening times from an old issue of Le Monde; after today, my already-written Twitter reviews will be timed with maximal nerdiness to appear at the moment each day when the curtain rose on the film in question.)
Occasionally, you'll also be treated to more in-depth conversations between me and some scholar, writer, or friend (often all three!) who has particular expertise in a given film or the story or region it depicts. I'll also post a few mid-festival roundtables among my closest collaborators, as we hash out our impressions, concluding with our own jury awards for the Best of the Fest.
Today's easy, since as per usual, only one film was programmed on opening day...
Labels: Blog Buddies, Cannes, Cannes 95, France, International
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Cannes 1995: Meet the Jury
My friends and I review the titles in high, brassy style.
The 48th Cannes Film Festival opened on May 17, 1995, with the gala premiere of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro's The City of Lost Children. My own 20th-anniversary return to that year's lineups will also begin on May 17, which is two weeks from tonight. No time like the present, then, to introduce you to the game, rambunctious, movie-mad colleagues who will be jumping with me into the time machine and leveling judgments at films I either half-remember or never saw at all. Though we're unquestionably as chic as last year's congress, we've humbly elected to let our work speak for itself rather than rely on our collective beauty to entice you into this imminent, unfolding feature.
Ivan Albertson is well-known to any Chicago filmgoer: if he isn't tearing your ticket, he's probably sitting with you in the audience, or may even have programmed the especially delicious and hard-to-find titles you're about to enjoy. Ivan sees more movies than anyone I know, maintaining both a high bar and a wide-ranging taste; he is intimidating both in his expectations and his generosity, and it's never clear in advance when or how fully we'll agree. You can keep up with his thoughts during or after Cannes on Letterboxd. He also called the Siskel staff behind my back and had them do this as a kicky surprise before the screening we recently attended of Good Men, Good Women, so I worship him even more than before.
Tim Brayton of Antagony and Ecstasy is, as many of you know, a confoundingly prolific and engaging writer of long-form movie reviews. His work arcs across current releases, pet genres and traditions (from Disney fables to slasher films), and month-by-month obsessions (from Tarkovksy to Tyler Perry). He is a recent festival juror, a Film Experience regular, and ...Tim, can I spoil your other big news? Tim agrees not to judge me for buying a DVD of The Descendants, which I loathed, just because it got Oscar nominations, and I agree not to perform an intervention when he goes to see, e.g., Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 because he think it's snobby when critics disdain to see what folks are out there paying to watch. He's also amidst a fundraising drive you should consider donating to.
Alex Heeney (Twitter) is two of my favorite types of cinephile: the kind based in Toronto, and the kind who does something totally different during the day. She's a Stanford Ph.D. candidate in Industrial Engineering, with an emphasis on confronting structural quandaries related to food waste and climate change. Raise your hand if you're doing that much to better the world... Hmmm? Nobody? Alongside all this, Alex manages to review film, theater, and music at her website The Seventh Row, which, like Tim's, leaves me agog at both the scale and caliber of commentary. She'll also be in actual Cannes while slumming around our faux one. Citizen of the world, that one.
Amir Soltani (Twitter) co-hosts and co-edits the podcast Hello Cinema with Tina Hassannia, which you should really start listening to if you already know a lot about Iranian film, or if you know a little but wish you knew more, or if you don't know anything and recognize that this is a failing on your part. (Sorry: tough love. And for real, why are you denying yourself?) Amir, like Alex, is based in Toronto and is paid to do something completely different than reviewing movies, and I hope he's really good at that other thing, because he's great at reviewing movies. A regular presence at The Film Experience, he organizes all our internal polls, which is more like herding cats than you'd guess.
Ed.: The fabulous foursome above turned out to be my accomplices. As the personal king of biting off more than I can usually chew, I expected some attrition. Even though they had to bow out of the time machine just before we closed the hatch, you should still be following these folks if you don't already! —
Guy Lodge (Twitter) wears nattier cardigans, cooks more titillating tarts, and maintains finer facial-hair grooming than any other film critic on the net, in addition to soliciting more revealing and genial conversation from Andie MacDowell than you have, or I have. He writes mostly for Variety now with a side-gig at The Guardian and a distinguished past we all recall with deep yearning at HitFix, née In Contention. Though I tend to require a tighter CV than that for contributors to this site, I've decided on this one occasion to let it pass. (No picking on Guy if his packed spring itinerary of real-world reviewing means he has to bow out.)
Angelo Muredda (Twitter) is another dapper Torontonian, or perhaps I should say another chic Torontoist. I first started reading his work at Film Freak Central, where the hits just don't stop coming. Those guys just know the game. Every game. You're reading them all, right? Angelo's movie writing shows up lots of other places, and he has a better batting average of funny tweets than almost anyone in this racket. He's also getting ever-closer to that Ph.D. in Canadian literature, and is thus a man after my own heart, proving that academics aren't all immured in library stacks (which, by the way, there's nothing wrong with), speaking only to each other (which, I'd wager, there is).
Tim Robey (Twitter) remains the film critic I'd want to be if I had a) stuck with a long-ago aspiration to write movie reviews for a major daily paper, b) actually gotten such a gig, and c) proved to be sublimely good at it, week after week. He makes shrewder points than I do in sentences shorter than I can manage. I don't know why I keep evoking myself. I think I enjoy being in sentences with him. He's my annual roommate at TIFF, where he sometimes asks me to vet his drafts, even though all I ever do is cut very severe bangs and say, "You've done it, Robey. You've cracked it wide open." Like Alex and Guy, Tim will be offering real-time dispatches from this year's Croisette, so any energy he expends here I extra-appreciate.
Sarah Turner has survived what nobody else on this list has even attempted, i.e., taking one of my classes. She was consistently brilliant talking and writing in academic registers about gender, sexual, and racial politics in contemporary sci-fi features and is just as consistently brilliant writing to a mass audience about everything the Pop Insomniacs can throw at her, including pieces I especially liked about Dear White People and Mr. Turner (no relation), and all the weekly reviews of Mad Men I can't read yet because I've only ever seen 1.5 episodes. Those are all rich, chewy texts, but when you can whip up interesting thoughts about Mike Epps' AOL series, you've arguably shown your chops even more. I don't know who's out there trying to hire young, interesting, eclectic writers, but I didn't plead for her to participate and offer her this platform for my health, okay? Managing editors? Talent scouts?
I hope you're all as excited as I am for what this crew has to say about the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, from the best and brightest to Beyond Rangoon. (Honestly, is that even a spoiler?) Keep checking back.
Oh, and what's that? I have a whole other jury assembled of research specialists and published film writers with targeted insights to drop about specific titles along the way? I've offered you Iron Man, Thor, the Black Widow, Hawkeye, Captain America, and all the others above (you can work out who's who...), and that's only half the tally of Cannes Avengers I've got working on the case? What??? [/Teaser]
He seriously set this whole thing up and I didn't even know.
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January 17, 2018 Robert Payne Leave a comment
I recently returned to Nicaragua to welcome 2018 and take advantage of the world-class waves, constant offshore winds, and diverse landscape and culture. Again, I was not disappointed. I would keep my mouth shut it if it were not for the fact that Nicaragua is now regularly featured on travel sites like the New York Times. Gringos are not the only ones carving it in to the next Costa Rica. Nicaraguan investors know what kind of assets they have at their disposal.
Nicaragua has in fact been exploited since the Spanish arrived in 1522. The usual pillaging and plundering, along with the circulation of small pox, did a number on the Chorotega. Nevertheless, the contributions of the Spanish are still appreciated today. Granada is a charming colonial city reflecting the Spanish-Moorish architecture of the time. They also constructed the San Pablo Fort to protect Granada from pirates in 1789, and it can still be visited via boat.
Later on in the 1800s a dubious character from Nashville, Tennessee by the name of William Walker did significant damage on his filibustering campaigns in Central America. Not only did he burn Granada to the ground, but he also poisoned the wells with dead bodies that spread Cholera and killed some 10,000 Nicaraguans and Costa Ricans. Walker eventually paid for his actions when he found himself in front of a firing squad in Honduras.
Fortunately, Granada has time and again picked itself up and rebuilt. Before the Panama canal was constructed this was the shortest distance from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Cornelius Vanderbilt would steam up the San Juan River in to Lago de Nicaragua, and then make the short transport over to San Juan del Sur area on the coast of the Pacific. This route pumped money in to Granada and helped it to recover.
A few things you must do in Granada:
Visit the San Francisco Convent to see the statuaries that have been excavated from Zapatera and Ometepe. A couple of these guys are in the Smithsonian, but you can see 30 of them all together in the same room. Each one represents the leader of the time, so they all have their own personalities. This is a highly informative account of their origins.
Check out Mi Museo where there are many artifacts from Pre-Columbian times. It also helped me to understand where the Chorotega came from and when.
Take a boat tour out to Las Isletas. These islands are a result of a massive explosion from Mombacho. Lots of wildlife, and you get to see the San Pablo Fort.
Visit Volcan Masaya at night to see lava pouring from the crater. You definitely want to get there early to avoid waiting in line, but it is worth it.
Tour the coffee plantation on Mombacho and then hike out to the stunning views of Granada and Lago de Nicaragua.
If you still have time then head over to Pueblo Blancos to see local artisans at work. You will save yourself some money, for the shops around Granada certainly mark their prices up.
There are a couple of reasons why Nicaragua is safer than say El Salvador, Colombia, or Honduras. After the Nicaraguan Revolution, the country created a democratic police state in that each community would have at least one dedicated police officer that everyone knew. A bad apple arises, and they deal with the issue quickly. Second, drugs from Colombia and elsewhere go up the Caribbean side, so there are no cartels in the Pacific region.
Still, I wouldn’t drive at night. But during the day I generally went wherever I wanted. In the dry season you can get a way with a 2-wheel drive vehicle. But if the price is not much different then go with 4-wheel. I did end up using it along the coast to drive a section of road that terminated on beach front. It also gave me more confidence on dirt roads with potholes and stream crossings. In short, you are not limited and instead prepared for anything.
I’d tell you more about the surf breaks, but I just can’t do it. You’ll find it somewhere else. 😉
But I will tell you that I look forward to returning soon.
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It’s simply amazing how quickly technology advances through the years. One hundred years ago, a phone was a wooden box with a cone-shaped receiver that connected you to an operator. Most people didn’t even have electricity back then, and cars were built with what now resemble bicycle tires.
The technology of pokies has progressed just as rapidly, taking poker machines from mechanical, bar-top devices, to filling the vast floor space of land-based casinos, and eventually right into our very owns homes.
One hundred years ago, there were only a limited number of casinos in the world. By the 1800’s, there were a few spotting the map in Europe and North America. The first legal casino in Australia was Wrest Point, established in 1976. Even Las Vegas didn’t see its first casino built until 1906.
Early Pokies Technology
Oddly enough, that was around the same time Charles Fey, a mechanic from San Francisco, built the first genuine poker machine – or slot machine as they call them in the US. First introduced in 1895, it didn’t consist of much.
It had a large metal casing, a small coin hopper and a few gear-driven drums that spun around when the lever was pulled, randomly revealing three symbols painted onto the reels – diamond, heart, spade, horseshoe, star and, the game’s namesake, a cracked Liberty Bell.
This machine represented the first practical pokies technology, as it was able to automatically pay out a prize to the winner.
A multitude of manufacturers went to work copying Fey’s design. Some, like Mills Novelty Co., even copied the name for the most part, releasing titles like Mills Liberty Bell and Operator Bell.
Since casinos weren’t big at the time, these cash-awarding machines showed up in bars and brothels more than anything. Other companies designed them to pay out with non-cash prizes, like chewing gum, so they could be placed in a wider variety of retail locations without violating any ‘gambling’ laws.
More Reels & Symbols = Bigger Jackpots
As the years went by, manufacturers started installing additional symbols on the reels in order to offer high jackpot prizes. A machine with just 3 reels and 10 symbols per reel had only 1,000 possible combinations. They paid out often, and couldn’t award very high prizes as a result.
The number of symbols on each reel eventually rose to 22, but still, the combinations were just over 10,000.
That piece to the pokies technology puzzle was solved in the 1980’s, after computerization came along (more on that in a moment). With microprocessors and electronically controlled reels, they came up with the idea to weight specific, low-paying symbols.
Even though a player only one of each symbols as the reels made their rotation, some symbols were actually able to land in more than one position on the reel. This decreased the odds of a jackpot win enough to introduce bigger, 5-, 6- and even 7-figure payouts. These virtual reels gave them 256 positions on the reels, jumping the odds of a jackpot win to 1 in 16.8 million.
Electromechanical Technology in Pokies
With more and more casinos popping up, poker machine makers wanted to design them to work more independently. The first fully electromechanical pokies technology was introduced by Bally’s in 1963. These were the first machines with ‘bottomless’ hoppers, and were able to pay up to 500 coins automatically, without requiring an attendant.
Computerized Upgrades
Using microprocessors to control the reels gave manufacturers all the control they needed. These computer chips allowed the games to essentially monitor themselves, delivering higher and more frequent payouts when the hopper was full, and lower, less frequent payouts when it was near empty.
This was achieved by having a microprocessor that monitored the abundance of coins in the payout hopper, and one that controlled the reels that landed on the drums. Thus the machine could force the drums to show non/low-paying reels when there weren’t enough coins available to payout a larger amount.
‘Video Slots’ Take Over
By the 1970’s, most households had a television set. Color TVs had just come out, and video screen technology was huge. Integrating that concept into pokies technology was inevitable.
The first ‘video slot’ was developed by Fortune Coin Co in 1976, using a 19” (44cm) Sony Trinitron to display virtual reels. Twenty years later, in 1996, WMS Industries produced the first ‘second screen’ bonus, thanks to video slot capabilities.
RNGs & Ticket In/Out Systems
Introducing a Random Number Generator (RNG), combined with Ticket-In/Ticket-Out payment systems, revolutionized the technology of pokies as we know it.
RNGs are programmed to tell a poker machine exactly what percentage of winnings it should pay out, compared to what its takes in. That result could take years to match the exact payout ratio, but it will happen.
The probability of a player winning on any given spin became, for the first time, entirely unpredictable – not by the player, the casino, or the game’s manufacturer. And because it’s truly random, a machine could pay the jackpot 3 times in a week, or only 1 time in a few years. Either way, the casino is guaranteed to make its money over time.
Installing ticket systems gave casinos even more flexibility. Instead of having machines pay out actual coins, they could produce a ticket that players exchange for money at the cashier.
Internet Brings Pokies Into The Home
Last but not least, the internet brought us online pokies. In the late 1990’s, anyone with a computer could log on, deposit cash and play pokies for real money. Now, pokies technology follows us wherever we go, with online pokies available on every major smartphone and tablet. They use the exact same, computerized pokies technology found in today’s video slots.
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Coburg Locksmith Human Keys New Service For Coburg Area
Human Key releases information on how its new Coburg Locksmith Service service will change things in the Domestic Locksmith Services space for the better. Further information can be found at https://www.humankey.com.au/coburg-mobile-locksmiths/
Coburg North, Australia - December 7, 2019 /PressCable/ —
Earlier today, Human Key announced the launch of its new Mobile Locksmith Service service for the Coburg area, set to go live 12/12/2019. For anyone with even a passing interest in the world of Domestic Locksmith Services, this new development will be worth paying attention to, as it’s set to give the competition a run for their money.
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Michael continues… “Where the competitors all do the same old thing, Human Key will do it better. By always following up with all customers to ensure their needs are addressed & solutions are tailored to their needs. Ultimately this is going to be a huge benefit to the customers because everything is taken care of for them.
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Currently, there are no substitutes to the outstanding services offered by Human Key’s Mobile Locksmith Service, a quick read over all the reviews from many past clients demonstrates how Human Key stays ahead of the competition. Their service is better because they care about reputation, the only way the reputation will improve, is by taking care of the customers & responding to all their needs.. This alone is predicted to make Human Keys Mobile Locksmith Service service more popular with customers in the Domestic Locksmith Services space, quickly.
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Name: Michael Read
Organization: Human Key Coburg
Address: 104 Gaffney St, Coburg North, Victoria 3058, Australia
Website: https://www.humankey.com.au/coburg-mobile-locksmiths/
Source: PressCable
Release ID: 88938142
Student shot at Texas high school; suspect still at large
BELLAIRE, Texas — A student was shot Tuesday at a high school in Texas and a suspect remained at large, local officials said. Emergency crews were seen performing CPR as the student was carried on a stretcher to an ambulance outside Bellaire High School, KPRC-TV reports. There were conflicting media reports about whether the shooting happened inside or outside the school. The city, a suburb south west of Houston, confirmed on Twitter that there was a shooting and said the suspect is still at large. It advised resident to avoid the area around the school or remain in their homes....
Dem senator says he has 51 votes to restrain Trump on Iran
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Trump warns of sanctions if Iraq tries to expel U.S. troops
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Kentucky AG asks FBI to probe former Gov. Bevin's pardons
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kentucky's new Republican attorney general has asked the FBI to investigate a flurry of pardons by former Gov. Matt Bevin. The pardons have drawn criticism from both sides of the political aisle after media reports highlighted some that went to convicts who had wealthy or politically connected families. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron wrote in a letter Monday that he has sent a formal request to the FBI to “investigate this matter.” “I believe the pardon power should be used sparingly and only after great deliberation with due concern for public safety,” Cameron wrote in the letter...
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